... a backbone. "The cannibals some of those ignorant millions, are almost totally characterized by restraint." They outnumber the whites "thirty to five" and could easily fill their starving bellies. Marlow "would have as soon expected restraint from a hyena prowling amongst the corpses of a battlefield." The cannibals action is "one of those human secrets that baffle probability." This helps Marlow keep his restraint, for if the natives can possess this quality Marlow feels he certainly can. Kurtz is the essence of the lack of restraint Marlow sees everywhere. Kurtz has "kicked himself loose from the earth." "He owes no allegiance to anything except those an ...
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... a normal every day man. We see his kind a thousand times a day in the business district of any city. This is exactly what he is trying to escape. His entire world is factory produced. All he is in society is a consumer. And he is losing it. He is suffering from real bad insomnia. He goes to the doctor who's only reply is "Nobody has ever died from insomnia. If you want to see real pain go to Trinity Episcopal church Thursday nights." So he did. There at in the basement there is a support group for sufferers of brain parasites. After the meeting he finds himself feeling better. He can sleep again. Soon he is going to not only the brain parasites group but others as w ...
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... he would prefer, to be beaten thirty-six times by the whole regiment, or to receive twelve bullets in his brain.” That is just one of the many predicaments in which our main character becomes involved in. Another such incident occurs in chapter fifteen when Candide is faced with his true love’s brother. In this scene the brother is outraged that Candide has expressed his love toward his sister due to his unworthiness, and this is the outcome: “…at the same time he stuck him across the face with the flat of his sword, Candide instantly drew his own sword and plunged it to the hilt in the Jesuit baron’s belly” Candide takes these encounters and allows them to educ ...
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... trying to raise twelve kids on a teacher's salary. Watching his kids fight made him depressed and lost. The violence that he saw between his kids made him feel like a savage. Brille is a political prisoner in the area of Span One, which has nine other prisoners just like Brille. Brille is not physically intimidating. He wears glasses and has "a hollowed-out chest and comic knobbly knees" (Head 427). Brille needed to release these suppressed feelings. He did this by turning the Warder in. This gave him a sense of control and relief from the years of suppressed feelings of depression and confusion. He wanted to see Warder Hannetjie to suffer from his mist ...
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... In my desk are notations of accounts and safe-deposit boxes. I sold the place in Sacramento for a very good price" (233). Upon hearing this news, Cathy knows that her act of being daughterly has worked and she will inherit a lot of money. Being financially secure is important to both of them and they think it is the only way for them to enjoy the pleasures of life. Adam Trask is also a strong believer that money is the only way for one to live a life of luxury. When inheriting the money form his father, Cyrus, Adam is anxious to spend the money to build a better life for his brother and himself. While his brother is skeptical, Adam decides tha ...
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... things.... What do you do with love like that?.... People are different, Mel. Sure, sometimes he may have acted crazy. Okay. But he loved me. In his own way maybe, but he loved me.” (pp 110-111) To the reader, it seems hard to believe that there could be love in a relationship where one partner physically abuses the other. However, in Terri’s case, both Terri and her ex-husband felt that they were in love. This coincides with the author’s theme that early on in a relationship, people have misconceptions about their love. Later on, Mel describes his former relationship in which he believed to have found love, but now realizes that the love ...
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... relaxes while Sydney works long hard hours to prepare the defense materials for the following days. Carton does most of Stryvers work, he is a man of great talent but lacks the character traits that would make those talents work to his own advantage instead of others that he helps. He always use to be satisfied with faling into his rank and never did anything to attempt to change his life. He further destroys himself with drinking and although he is not satisfied with his life now, he feels that he cannot do anything to change it. Sydney’s love for Lucie Manette changed him greatly in a positive way. One day when Sydney visited the Manette residence he called on ...
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... Barrett Browning was certainly not the only one who saw this as problem. Two other women of this time that spoke out against the “miseducation” of women were Frances Power Cobbe who wrote Life of Frances Power Cobbe as Told by Herself, and Harriet Martineau who wrote What Women Are Educated For. Their views support what Barrett Browning communicates in Aurora Leigh with additional insights into the reality of the Victorian education of women. The main focus of the instruction of young women in the Victorian era, which they referred to as an education, was on making these women into “Ornaments of Society” (Damrosch 1604). This meant that women were to adorn ...
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... my sight, though, not remove him from my voice." The quotation describes how the narrator secludes Bartleby from society. Even his window, usually a form of escape, results in Bartleby being trapped behind another wall, thus reinforcing his total isolation. The irony lies in the fact that the narrator, while trying to isolate Bartleby, becomes affected by it, so much so that he appears almost human. Instead of dismissing him on the spot for refusing to copy, proofread or leave the premises, he tries to find other employment for him, and even considers inviting him to live in his residence as his guest. The narrator develops before our eyes into a caring person, v ...
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... land for farming. I also was intrigued with how True Son spoke of his mother the Earth, his uncle the Moon, and his brother-in-law the Wind. In today's society we seem to concentrate on technology, while such oneness with nature is almost non- existent. As an author, Conrad Richter appears to be a skilled writer. I found numerous strengths and only two weaknesses. One strength was his use of strong visual images. "What he hungered for most was the sight of an Indian face again-his father's, deep red, shaped like a hawk's, used to riding the wind, always above the earth, letting nothing small or of the village disturb him-his mother's, fresh and brown yet inde ...
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