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Essays 1951 - 1980
their reactions. For example, Josiah Bounderby is the mill-owner and principal villain in Hard Times. Bounderby is so unremittin...
father, for she is dependent upon him economically, and for whatever social status she hopes to realistically acquire. In his lit...
the student was prosecuted to the fullest extent of their laws. The others left the country quietly. This seems to be a frequent t...
demonstrations and anti-Vietnam War protests. Majoring in political science at St. Paul, Minnesotas Macalester College, writing a...
to Elizabeth Bennett and Maria Lucas, who have been staying with him and his wife for six weeks. Mrs. Collins is Elizabeths sister...
that specified that a concern for ones own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rationa...
to the community, a clear case of moral ambiguity wherein Sula and her family felt they had a right and that their behavior was, o...
were signified by it" (1323). He then goes into great narrative detail to describe the letter to emphasize its significance: "The...
the novel as it pertains to Phoebus. Phoebus is a military man and Esmerelda is quite taken with him. She feels he is a real man a...
"device" through which he tells not only the story of the battle, but the story of Spartan life as well. Pressfield structures the...
atmosphere of oppression and dread that is remarkable in literature. But 1984 seems to go beyond the panopticon, which seems almos...
to investigate if the residents of a bioship are being brainwashed. (The term "padawan" is the Jedi term for "apprentice.") Obi-Wa...
frees him from this indignity and travesty of life by smothering him with a pillow and then escapes from the asylum (One Flew, 199...
successes in Roman Holiday, for which she won an Academy Award, and Sabrina. This was exactly why Audrey Hepburn was perfect for ...
overall philosophical tone of the work. Whatever the reasons, the James Whale 1931 film is meant to frighten audiences, and it wor...
The pot fell and broke in the sand. He heard Ikemefuna cry, My father, they have killed me! as he ran towards him. Dazed with fear...
these memories will be. He learns that the memories are of a different time, when people loved and laughed and suffered, something...
is very short, "sexuality seems still to be a strongbox hiding the mystery of a womans I" (Kundera 200). So, because he is truly f...
can be trusted; it is the ultimate in paranoid societies. By keeping its citizens fearful and mistrustful of each other, the gover...
Bradbury insists that its not. Instead, he sees television as the thing that will eventually kill books, and that is what hes warn...
main point of the journeys) can be summarized as follows: Huckleberry Finn and his friend Jim, an escaped slave, start down the Mi...
or "Do you have home room all year?" Kaufman throws the reader in at the deep end by not using quotation marks, or telling us whos...
the table that are unfamiliar to him, and he begins reading the poetry of Swinburne, "forgetful of where he was, his face glowing"...
man with a dreadful face. Its center was red and empty; blood streamed from it into his mouth and beard ... both shoulders dripped...
blank slate for the imaginings of those around him, particularly Hana. Myth "crosses international boundaries and offers apparentl...
arrived there; there are hundreds of sources describing these groups. The study of American history is fascinating, since it revea...
the novel, the term city is used interchangeably with the term citizen to reinforce this unity: "Our city, my city... Without a ci...
abrogated his personal responsibility on two levels. First, he has given up his responsibility to educate, nurture and care for th...
time which has caused him to think of himself as incredibly special: "In this world John, who was, his father said, ugly, who was ...
age: "To her son these words conveyed an extraordinary joy, as if it were settled, the expedition were bound to take place, and th...