... the most from. On the ship, the Rights-of-Man, Billy is a cynosure among his shipmates; a leader, not by authority, but by example. All the members of the crew look up to him and love him. He is “strength and beauty. Tales of his prowess [are] recited. Ashore he [is] the champion, afloat the spokesman; on every suitable occasion always foremost”(9). Despite his popularity among the crew and his hardworking attitude, Billy is transferred to another British ship, the Indomitable. And while he is accepted for his looks and happy personality, “…hardly here [is] he that cynosure he had previously been among those minor ship’s companies of the merchant marine”(14). It ...
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... the story. The main character's life, as well as her husband's, takes a dramatic turn and the author describes the physical and emotional changes in great detail. The story's title does not signify the theme however, the theme of the story is reiterated throughout the story. "She had no dresses, no jewels, nothing. And she loved nothing but that; she felt made for that. She would so have liked to please, to be envied, to be charming, to be sought after"(900). Mme. Loisel was envious of her friend and anyone else who had more than what she had. She felt that she deserved these things. The plot grows completely out of the personalities of the c ...
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... deep within his mind. He does this by visiting the house where the majority of these memories take place. While touring through the house he remembers all the ways that Mari resembled the goddess of Diana. During the period that Joop was married to Mari, she portrayed herself in a few ways as being Diana. She did this by giving the name of "Worshipping Diana to the act of Joop kissing her. Her skin was white except for one violet-colored bruise just under her right collarbone; it never disappeared entirely during the hunting season and came from the kick of her hefty weapons. It pleased her that he liked to kiss this particular spot. She called ...
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... over a little girl with absolutely no remorse whatsoever. This story included Endfield's description of Hyde which was quite disturbing. "He must be deformed somewhere, he gives a strong feeling of deformity, although I couldn't specify the point"(Stevenson,8-9). There is no pinpoint of what Endfield saw that was so disturbing but it was something about him that did not seem to be right. When Mr. Utterson himself came across meeting Mr. Hyde in person, he understood what his friend had told him. At first Hyde would not let Utterson see his face, but when he saw it he got a sense beyond words. "He must be deformed Somewhere; he gives strong feeling of deformi ...
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... of what used to be life. Gray speaks out against the way this person was treated in society which is symbolic of how people are being treated as a whole and the hollowness and shallowness of people in the world. Now the person is dead, there is no other help that you could give him. "Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere" was how the man lived, and although his soul was a true one, he was still a marked man, and now he is only marked with a stone that protrudes from the ground known as The Epitaph. God is a part of life which gray dispises. He goes against the idea of a belief in one immortal being who rules over people and casts judgments and leaves s ...
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... depicts the 1900's southern social climate in a manner that is not only satirical, but psychoanalytically intuitive. In it, Huck, as he is commonly known, runs away with a slave named Jim. As they travel along the Mississippi river, in the southern region of the United States, they undergo many extraordinary adventures. Analysis One of the most predominant themes in this novel is that of deception. Deception, in one form or another, is used with an avid consistency throughout the story. Two personifications of deception were the characters, King and Duke. They were "entrepreneurs" of deception (which is a polite way of saying hustlers). Samuel Clemens writ ...
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... take a good look at me and see with her own eyes that some 'Aryan' woman was not to be swept in by the Nazis." (Gies, p. 41, 1987). The main source of background to the author's viewpoint is her own story. In order to further discuss her main points and views, a summary of her story must be given. The book began with a brief history of the childhood of Miep Gies. She was born in Vienna, Austria in 1909, where she lived with her parents until the age eleven year. She was then sent to Amsterdam by a program in the aid of undernourished and sick children and was to be adopted by a Dutch family. She became used to the Dutch way of life ...
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... describes things and events in the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901), conveyed connotations of "prudish," "repressed," and "old fashioned." Although such associations have some basis in fact, they do not adequately indicate the nature of this complex, paradoxical age that was a second English Renaissance. In science and technology, the Victorians invented the modern idea of invention -- the notion that one can create solutions to problems, that man can create new means of bettering himself and his environment. In religion, the Victorians experienced a great age of doubt, the first that called into question institutional Christianity on such a large scale. ...
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... are seen clearly in his letters. Walton explains that he “desires the company of a man who could sympathise with me”(Shelley 4). When Walton rescues Victor Frankenstein, his hopes of a new friendship become reality. He writes to his sister that his “affection for my guest increases every day” and his guest “excites at once my admiration and my pity to an astonishing degree”(Shelley 11). With Walton’s change in attitude, it is clear that he has a need to be close to others and that his isolation causes him great emotional pain and loneliness. Frankenstein, like Walton, isolated himself from family and friends. Frankenstein spent years learning sciences and st ...
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... and later proposes to her. After they arrive at Manderley, the newly Mrs. De Winter is unwelcome by the servants and is especially disliked by Mrs. Danvers. While spending much time at the house, Mrs. De Winter discovers information about the former Mrs. De Winter, Rebecca. All along, the young lady understands that everything she does is compared to Rebecca. She becomes furious and fed up with all the reactions she receives and is convinced by Mrs. Danvers to kill herself. Close to suicide, Mrs. De Winters confronts her husband. After a long conversation about Rebecca, he admits that Rebecca spirit is haunting them and keeping them from becoming c ...
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