... Tom’s Cabin reached immediate success. Many publishing companies from around the world published her novel in 20 different languages. Stowe found herself speaking around the world, especially in England. A play blossomed from the novel, which also was successful. Stowe did not stop writing after Uncle Tom’s Cabin, but her other novels never had quite the impact of Uncle Tom’s Cabin . The novel Lady Byron Vindicated almost buried Stowe because many critics believed that Stowe’s purpose of this novel was to trash a good name. Poganuc People, a story about a Yankee Town, is another Stowe novel that still carries merit today. B. Uncle TomR ...
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... all the babies she gave birth to, only one survived, made the impression of her not being the perfect parent. Mary Shelley was none other but the mother of death itself, which influenced her novel. “Frankenstein is indeed a birth myth , but one in which the parent who brought death into the world, and all our woe, is not a woman but a man who pushed the masculine prerogative past the limits of nature , creating life not through the female body, but in a laboratory” (220, Kate Ellis). In the novel, Shelley turned her ideas around, creating Victor, who, desperate after the loss of his own mother, goes out to find the secret to life, and in a way, to steal ...
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... characters in the world about him and in the world books and brought them eternally alive through his own creative powers. He presented his characters in the jumble and haphazardy of life, with a mild apology for his neglect of rank. All was to seem fortuitous, and yet all the ranks and vocations, the trades and the professions were there.(Rowland 248) Many believe that the church created these social structures to maintain control, so it is no wonder the clergy occupied the first class. The church maintained this control by being deeply imbedded in the structures of society and government. There were two types of clergy in the fourteenth century; the secular cler ...
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... is very similar. Both men are on trial and are sentenced to death because of flaws in the judicial systems. The specifics about each trial and the different flaws are entirely different, however. The purpose of the plot in The Trial is to show the downfalls of a judicial system that is run without the public’s knowledge or input. Kafka wants the reader see the flaws in their judicial system and to become actively involved in the judicial reforms. He wants the reader to see that these flaws should not just be brushed off as mere inconveniences. He uses K. to show the life-altering (and in K.’s case, life-ending) effects that judicial flaws can have on the public. Hi ...
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... by anyone." At Compeysons desertion her anger and sorrow became extreme and she threw herself and Satis House into perpetual mourning and a monument to her broken heart, shutting the world out and herself from the world. Her only concession is in her adoption of Estella. Miss Haversham has ulterior motives in adopting Estella, this is not a loving action on her part, but a calculated manoeuvre to turn the child into a haughty, heartless instrument of revenge against men. Estella is encouraged to practice her disdain on Pip and to break his heart. Paradoxically, Miss Havershams greatest sin, is against herself. By hardening her heart she loses her generou ...
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... a thing but dirt on this God's green globe except what's under water, and that's dirt too. It's dirt makes the grass grow. A diamond ain't a thing in the world but a piece of dirt that got awful hot. God-a-Mighty picked up a handful of dirt and blew on it and made you and me and George Washington and mankind blessed in faculty and apprehension. It all depends on what you do with the dirt."1 In this case, Stark is referring to the past as dirt - something to be used in many ways. The way he chooses to use it of course is as blackmail; "Then he would lean suddenly forward, at the man, and say, not slow and easy now, `God damn you, do you know what I can do to you?' ...
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... Similarly, the king orders Cromwell, his assistant, to apply pressure by finding a reason to kill More, to force him out of the way. All of these pressures from the king lead to a moral dilemma that More has to face, but he chooses to stick to his morals. King Henry applies pressure on More to support the divorce through Meg. While More is in jail for failing to take an oath supporting the divorce, Meg tries to convince him to take the oath, and she says, "Say the words of the oath and in your heart think otherwise," (page 81). More responded to this by saying, "What is an oath then but words we say to god?" (page 81). Meg is applying direct pressure on More ...
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... to those of the other female characters of the book. While the other female characters lack depth into how their religion and culture affect them, Safie's religion and Arabian culture sculpt her into a subject with feminist qualities juxtaposed against her fulfillment of European domestic ideology. Many theorists, such as Benveniste who said, "Consciousness of self [or subjectivity] is only possible if it is experienced by contrast," argue that one's subjectivity can only exist in their relation to the Other(85). The subject's relation this "Other" depends on which aspect is being examined. For example, when dealing with gender, it would be the relationship betw ...
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... people to gain friends. Unfortunately some of his anticipations were not met. The main characters in the novel include Charlie, Alice, Algernon, and Fay, a character who did not make much of an appearance, but in my eyes believed, that she played a very important part in Charlie's involvement in trying to sort out his past and figure out his present and future plans. Charlie is a mentally retarded person who has impressing people and gaining friends as one of his top priorities. He then hears of an experiment which could possibly make him smart. He makes himself subject to this human experiment with the hopes of gaining knowledge in a sole purpose of ...
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... Darcy because she hears bad thing about him and how he is rude to everyone. George Wickham told her Darcy cheated him out of his inheritance. She believes him because she holds so much hate for Darcy. Later she learns that George lied to her. But before she found out, they almost fall in love. Mr. Bennet has no son, so his estate will be given to his closest male relative. The closest relative is his cousin, Mr. Collins. He is an arrogant clergyman. He asks Elizabeth to marry him but she refuses. He ends up marrying Elizabeth’s friend Charlotte Lucas. She married him not for love, but so she will have a safe and secure life. Elizabeth goes and sees ...
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