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- 6151: Jane Eyre And Foreshadowing
- ... Grey and Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Their only brother Patrick did not write except for their personal manuscripts. The children lived a hard life which created all four childrens urge to elaborate their imaginary world. Some assumed pen names because it was a risk to write at any social status if you were a woman. If they had written using a womans name it would have been seen as ... was published in 1847. In England some major issues were the industrialization of factories and railroads as well as child labor, disease and money. English power was equal to Americas power after the second world war. Yet Jane Eyre is not about all that. Jane Eyre is a novel about love, about a girl growing up and her social constraints. Why is Jane Eyre still such a popular novel, even ...
- 6152: 1984 9
- ... and very frightening. May be telescreens do not exist but V-chips and Pentium III computers are very much alive. Even though we live in modern times how do we know who is insane? The world is flat and the planets revolve around Earth were once sane statements. Finally do we control ourselves in this Democratic country or are we just puppets dancing to the high and powerful affluent members of ... definitely be looked at by the thought police. To keep people occupied there are hate speeches in order to show your love to Big Brother and Hate to the opposing country that Oceania is at war with. Everyone has a job and they are many organizations to belong to like the junior anti-sex league. Surveillance is a frightening thing. If you knew that everywhere you turned you were being recorded ... Goldstein is really somewhat of an unknown as well. The novel 1984 opened the minds of many people in the 1940 s. More importantly, is that even today 1984 still allows us to view the world with Winston s eyes. It shows us how many things we do on a daily basis for no other reason then that s what we are supposed to do. The ideas of the book ...
- 6153: 1984 10
- 1984 The novel 1984 is a futuristic portrayal of the world in the year 1984. The main characters Winston and Julia fall in love with each other but are caught and purified of all their wrong doings. In the end they betray each other because of ... existence is by bringing life and death to non-existent people. One such instance is the creation of Comrade Ogilvy. Winston creates this man with the intention of pure fantasy. He makes Comrade Olgilvy a war hero and a patriot that dies in battle but in all fact this man never existed. The final way the party controls the lives of the people is through a process called vaporization. Vaporization is ... by Desensitization. Desensitization is an effect brought on to people by the party which causes the loss of senses to one s self. One such instance occurs in the novel when Winston is explaining a war film he had just seen. He explains that in this one particular movie, one scene involves a ship full of refugees being bombed somewhere in the Mediterranean. Another scene occurs when a woman and ...
- 6154: The Rift Wars
- THE RIFT WARS Long before humans came to this part of the world, dwarves and elves made their homes in Caspia. Neither group bothered the other because they did not desire the lands of the other. After a time, however, their racial incompatibility began to wear on them ... Often, the younger, more hotheaded dwarves and elves disobeyed the orders of their elders. Members of each race began to stage guerilla raids on the other. Finally, the elves and dwarves declared an all-out war. The elves, armed with powerful magic, reduced the fortresses of the dwarves to rubble. Their skilled archers also decimated the dwarven offense in the forest. Defeat for the dwarven army seemed certain, but the dwarves ... goblins that remained alive fled into the Burning Hills, hid in the deepest holes they could find, and the orcs left Caspia altogether. Now the dwarves and elves, their populations equally ravaged, withdrew from the war-torn plains and went deep into the mountains and forests to heal their wounds. In time, the dwarves made a new home in the Farolas Hills while the elves moved to the southern portion ...
- 6155: The Owls Are Not What They See
- ... fulfill her desires of power and money. This is very reminiscent of how women in society, especially in the workforce, are treated differently from men. Women not only still have trouble advancing in the business world, but are generally paid less then men. This may stem from the men in the workforce not taking women seriously enough as to listen to their ideas. Twin Peaks reinforces this fact by Catherine always ... that the Bookhouse Boys and their fathers have fought for generations is woman herself. The owl, emblem of what lies hidden in the woods, is the bird of Athena, the female goddess of wisdom The war waged against the timeless evil lurking in the Northwest woods is entrusted to masculine fraternities: The Bookhouse Boys, the Sheriff and his deputies, and in Major Brigg s case, the army (Desmet 103). The message ... are imposed to the audience in real life. Twin Peaks feeds the audience ideas that women are weak, incompetent, evil, insufficient, and often objects of a male dominated society. The audience is sucked into the world of Twin Peaks and therefore will take a similar stance on what is feminine and masculine in society. David Lynch said in 1989, I couldn t care less about changing the conventions of mainstream ...
- 6156: The Concept Of Justice In The
- The Odyssey is a Greek word meaning the tale of Odysseus. Odysseus, the King of Ithaca; husband of Penelope; father of Telemachus; and son of Laertes was not able to return home after the war he was once in: the Trojan War. Stuck on an island, he is presumed dead. In his absence, suitors for his wife ruin his house with lavish feasts. This epic poem, by Homer, describes how Odysseus, with the help of the gods ... island. They went to Aeolus and asked for help. However Aeolus was very mad for the crew s carelessness and demanded that Odysseus and his crew leave the island: Get off this island instantly! The world holds no one more damnable than you, and it is not right for me entertain and equip a man detested by the blessed gods. Your returning like this shows that they detest you. Get ...
- 6157: To Judge A Book By Its Cover
- ... to tumble. Both, the Library Bill of Rights and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights were adopted in late 1948. Since then, masses of objectionable material have come to rest on library shelves. The post war movement of World War II raised a lot of questions concerning censorship after the book burning in Nuremberg square. With widespread fear of communism surrounding Americans, barriers were needed to thwart the possibility of communistic ideology. Also during ...
- 6158: The Devils Of Loudun, By Aldou
- ... a scientific career. His brother Julian went on to become an eminent zoologist, while he recovered enough of his sight to study English at Balliol College in Oxford. He was unfit for service during the war, and spent his post-Oxford years visiting and working for lady Ottoline Morrell, the famous Grande-dame of literary circles and patroness of the arts. He met a great many literary figures at this time ... The Burning Wheel , are characterised by a reliance on French symbolism and a growing interest in mysticism and the inner spirit . Altogether he published over fifty complete works, the most enduringly popular being Brave New World , a satire on the domination of science and state control, and The Doors Of Perception , an essay on his first encounter with mescalin. By 1919 he had met his first wife, Maria, and they spent ... it as vertical self-transcendence i.e. the gradual or instantaneous shedding of the outer layers of the psyche, until one may perceive things untouched or infinite. This was what Blake meant by seeing the world in a grain of sand . It is exactly what the Buddha meant when, in reply to the question "what is the ultimate reality ?", he simply pointed at a flower, or what Jesus meant when ...
- 6159: The Old Man And The Sea- From
- ... hard when it is meager and austere, yet so easy for those who are strong, and have everything. Why should God be so misunderstanding to put such a person of lesser means in this cruel world? To be of last assistance to Santiago, would be the turtles. He loved green turtles and hawk-bills with their elegance and speed and their great value and he had a friendly contempt for the huge, stupid loggerheads, yellow in their armour-plating, strange in their lovemaking, and happily eating Portuguese men-of-war with their eyes shut (36-7) He was sorry for them all, even the great trunk backs that were as long as the skiff and weighed a ton. Most people are heartless about turtles because ... great conflict. What helped Santiago with his conflicts, were the fish, the birds and the turtles. What Santiago s heritage left behind, was a legacy of a man who had all the time in the world, who caught his biggest dream, and because of life s little conflicts, no matter of the help he had, lost it.
- 6160: The Farming Of The Bones
- ... is the patriach of the household Amabelle lives in. Born in Spain to a comfortable family, he has somehow landed in the Caribbean, having fought "for colonies with Los Estados Unidos" in the Spanish-American War of 1898. Now, he sits every night by his radio listening to bulletins from Spain about the Civil War raging there. And Amabelle can sympathize with him. She says, "Like me, Papi had been displaced from his native land; he felt himself the orphaned child of a now orphaned people. Perhaps this was why ... Amabelle... Sad and powerful, The Farming of Bones is a beautifully written book. Edwidge Danticat has an effortless style that seems as natural as a flowing stream. Her simple but sensuous language brings her tropical world to life; one can feel the heat, see the luxuriant colors, taste the spicy foods. The tone of her narrator remains level throughout, and this understated directness, even in the face of brutality and ...
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