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- 14551: Pride and Prejudice: Elizabeth Bennet
- ... Austen 156) A person who never comes to the point of saying "I never knew myself"(Austen 156) doesn't have self-knowledge, and "if we don't know ourselves, we won't know the world, the reality, and what we cannot surely know, we fabricate, we assume, and we misjudge"(Tanner 125). She also realizes that people cannot be judged based solely on appearance, and that character evaluations must also ...
- 14552: Pride and Prejudice
- ... act of prejudice. He refuses to dance with her on account of her not being "handsome enough to tempt me." After being described throughout the chapter as being "the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world" because he would not socialise ("he danced only once with Mrs Hurst and once with Miss Bingley, declined being introduced to any other lady, and spent the rest of the evening walking about the room ...
- 14553: Summary of Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" With Background About Steinbeck
- ... Steinbeck made into a popular play in 1937. It is a tragic story about a physically powerful man, but mentally retarded farm worker and his best friend and protector. I found this information in The World Book Encyclopedia So-Sz.
- 14554: My Antonia: A Review
- ... What is the purpose of having the story told by Jim Burden thirty years later? From that perspective he can present with great clarity and tenderness the highlights of his memories. A man of the world, he is reinvestigating his values. Jim Burden sets down everything the name of Antonia brings back to him. Antonia represents to him the most fundamental, traditional way to lead one's life, including the virtues ...
- 14555: Plato And Love --
- ... All life depends on the uninterrupted functioning of natural systems that ensure the supply of energy and nutrients, so ecological responsibility among all people is necessary for the survival, security, equity, and dignity of the world s communities (Botkin/Keller). For example, wetlands are one of the most threatened ecosystems due to increasing human populations. They are not the most hospitable, due to its smell, insects and other factors. Increasing human ...
- 14556: Lord of the Flies: Simon, the Christ Figure
- ... the rock, leapt on to the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore. There were no words, and no movement but the tearing of teeth and claws. (152- -153) As Christ died for the sins of the world, so Simon dies for the sake of the rest of the children. As they believe it is the beast that is dying, the image of the beast is destroyed, and the children are given relief ...
- 14557: Vonnegut's Portrayal of Society in Breakfast of Champions
- ... their couch, watching television in their homely suburban cottage, daydreaming of a new car or perhaps the soon-to-arrive mini-mall that will make everyone's life easier and solve the problems of the world. The scenes of ecological and human destruction shown through the experiences and journeys of Kilgore Trout and Dwayne Hoover provide a bleak outlook on the philosophical landscape of America ("Crunch" 106). Vonnegut's novel addresses ...
- 14558: Jim's Role in Huckleberry Finn
- ... last I struck the time I saved him by telling the men we had small-pox aboard, and he was so grateful, and said I was the best friend old Jim ever had in the world, and the only one he's got now" This shows how much both of them mature over the course of this book, and how close they become to each other, to the point where they ...
- 14559: Jane Eyre, The Feminist Tract"
- ... viewed as inferior, she ultimately ends life happy and free. (Bronte 455) John, on the other hand, spends his adult life in debt and in jail. He dies by his own hand and leaves this world much the inferior of Jane. Her monumental "gradations of glory" begin while Jane is at Lowood. At times is was an "irksome struggle" for Jane as she was forced to yield to the overbearing Mr ...
- 14560: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Themes Related to Society Today
- ... noteworthy. This book was not written to besmirch the blacks of any rights or defame their character. This book was written to prove a point about the racial tension in the South before the Civil War. Therefore, Twain had no intention of being racist. In fact the message Twain is sending is anything but racist. Today, racism has nearly disappeared from our lives. There are still many individual racists but for ...
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