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and speak the truth; without the ability to stand against wrongdoing, people remain pawns of a contemptible political system run b...

same time he undercuts Gatsby by telling readers that he made his money illegally; he was a bootlegger (he sold illegal whiskey du...

In seven pages these female protagonists from Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre are contrasted and co...

is helpful to look at the traditional roots of Native American and Latino cultures. Traditionally, the women of Native American c...

love but rather sees it as simply a different option he is being offered in terms of continuing to love her and be devoted to her....

are very important elements in a romantic novel. There is also the woman who loves Frankenstein without question. She is, of cou...

to be "shockingly revolutionary" (Sorensen 12). This feature of his work is considered today to be related to be a reflection of...

lure or seduce Louise away from her husband. Mrs. Sparsit seems to truly enjoy herself in this job, envisioning the staircase of s...

the protagonists "descent into madness and misanthropy" (Stallcup 87). As Stallcup observes, this is "hardly a likely candidate fo...

so pervades The Great Gatsby that Fitzgeralds true achievement was to appropriate American legend."1 The book gives us both romanc...

moved out of reach. His journeys across the surface of England are overwhelmed by the difficultly of achieving pastoral consolatio...

one down. It is a story of hope in a world where there is hunger and darkness. It is an uplifting book because Oliver goes through...

about the characters thoughts and motivations. So we are going to read the story and see what happened through Nicks eyes, which m...

away. He stands as a man of a higher social class who has integrity. His mother, however, represents all that is bad in the upper ...

the original house, which is far better suited for raising the children (MacLean et al, 2002). Protection under British and...

of ever-growing interest. So, with great perseverance and untiring industry, he prospered" (Dickens NA). We are then presented ...

therefore, is a nonentity in all ways that do not pertain to business (Adrian, 1984). Dickens uses the interior of his home to con...

of one of the children we hear about that is constantly abused as a child, but seems to understand what responsibility is, what lo...

a time of many contrasts. While many history books prefer to remember it as a time of self-help, entrepreneurial spirit, laissez-...

of money. Gradgrind is mortified, his familys reputation is destroyed and he realizes (though it has come at great cost) that his ...

We also had to write a lot of compositions. There was a lot of attention to grammar, spelling and composition, but sometimes it s...

had a daughter who loved him"; however, Maggie received no such indications either from her father" or from Tom--the two idols of ...

a good daughter, nothing seems to change and life seems without hope." This person would likely not understand that the sufferi...

linked to societal ideas of the early eighteenth century as to what constituted a "proper" middle class English life. This is evid...

the ideals of Dickenss time, in which Victorian societal values were to be accepted as the best values ever to come into existence...

basis for Nicks disillusionment with the decadence of east coast American society (Fitzgerald 3). Gatsbys pursuit of the American ...

persona, observing early in the narrative, "He was very reluctant to take precedence of so many respected members of the family, b...

them" (Trbic, 2005). At the same time there was a very powerful visual style that was insistence on losing the "polite look of his...

Oedipus. He learned that his predecessor and his wifes late husband, King Laius, had been murdered, Oedipus contends that it shou...

As such he makes a very good narrator. He also cares about people, which also makes him a reliable narrator. This is good because ...