... his sins openly and in their entirety. Instead, he allows his parishioners to lift him in their esteem by confessing, in all humility, that he is a sinner: "The minister well knew--subtle but remorseful hypocrite that he was!--the light in which his vague confession would be viewed." (127) They love him all the more for his honest and humble character, and this is Arthur's intent. Even as he plans to run away with Hester four days after their meeting in the forest, he comforts himself with the knowledge that he will give his sermon on predestination on the third day, and thus will leave his community with fond memories of his final exhortation. Arthur's fla ...
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... was thought to have been after myself, hence the name Jane. But, that was not necessarily correct. The fact is that many of my character’s traits and personalities come from people I am aquatinted or related to in my personal life. My focus in P&P is merely limited to my circle of friends and family. There is much character development in the story. The activities that took place in P&P also took place in the late 18th and early 19th century among the middle and upper classes. Very silly and boring indeed. Marrying well was very important at the time. Some paid the consequences just to have the luxuries of being married rich. So, I took notice and decided, ...
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... expert. He did things like button his shirt from the bottom up, instead of top to bottom because the process has a three second gap. He would even lather his face with two brushes and then try to shave with two razors. The idea with the two razors didn't work quite as well as some of his other objectives. For instance, he was angrier at the fact that it took him two minutes to put a bandage on his neck then the slash he gave himself while shaving with two hands! No matter what the situation was, Mr. Gilbreth always pushed to work harder and have the family retaliate with the same amount of effort. Every so many months, he would stop into the children's school ...
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... had read about these ideas in books, but instead of viewing these concepts as fantasy, she viewed them as reality, and later in life, acted as if that was the normal thing to do. Anything different, anything that deviated from her current life appealed to Emma. What was new was romantic, exciting, bold, and adventurous. She perceived Charles to be a character from one of her books when she met him. He was fairly attractive, but most of all, he was a doctor! He was a man of power to the meager peasant that Emma was. To Emma, this was a man who could give her romance. He could satisfy all of her fantasies. When Emma realized Charles was just an ordinary man ...
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... loving somebody else was difficult for her. It is hard for a person to love if they've never been loved. Frank wanted to take her away from her terrible life. He knew Eveline was miserable. Eveline wanted to leave Dublin and marry Frank but something stopped her. The fear of leaving the younger children and having a new life scared her. she would have boarded that ship and never returned to Dublin. At that point in time women had obligations to their families. They were the homemakers who cooked, cleaned, and made sure the children were cared f ...
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... complete opposite. In the Utopia people aren’t born anymore, they are grown. Another difference between the two worlds is in the Reservation people are still born the “old fashion way.” In the Brave New World everyone is young and pretty their whole lives thanks to chemicals and conditioning. It’s the complete opposite in the savage reservation. As seen by the old man, it’s shown that people in the Reservation age normally, loose their teeth, and get wrinkles. The reservation represents more of an old, more class time period whereas the Utopia is perhaps not to distant future gone wrong. In both societies, both of them still are imper ...
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... passed away to the cause of leukemia. As a result of Stradlater’s criticism on the subject, Holden destroys the composition saying, “All right, give it back to me, then,’ I said. I went over and pulled it right out of his goddam hand. Then I tore it up.”(Salinger 41) Holden admires Allie, and his baseball glove, and is forced to protect his honor. Next Holden is upset, and worried about Jane’s date with Stradlater. He fears that Stradlater is determined to steal Jane’s innocence. He explains, “If you knew Stradlater, you’d have been worried, too. I’d double-dated with the bastard a couple of times, and ...
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... likely that Mme. Defarge would attempt this limb. Mme. Defarge's behavior appears to be secretive. Because there are strangers in the taver, Mme. Defarge warns her husband with gentle coughs and raises her eyebrows to get his attention. Mme. Defarge said nothing...but coughed just one grain of cough. This, in combination with lifting her darkly defined eyebrows suggesting to her husband that it would do him well to look around the shop.(pg. 28). The reader, at this point, becomes aware of the same secrecy between the Defarges but is unsure why. Charles Dickens certainly used the wine shop to install an element of secrecy in the novel. He shows that certain indiv ...
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... was aware of where it was going and what was going to happen next, and then to stop the way it did was unfair. Now, I've read enough essays while deciding which would be the topic for my class presentation that I know many people see that the unfairness of life and the insignificance of our free will are apparently the most important themes in the book, but I don't agree. I also don't agree that it is a war story or a love story. Exactly what it is, though, is not clear to me. Can't art exist without being anything? "There isn't always an explanation for everything." War and love are obviously important themes in the book, and the relationship between the two is ex ...
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... are found anywhere. In fact, it is a “crime” to own a book in Montag’s world. Books are often compared to as birds throughout Fahrenheit 451. “A book lit like a white pigeon in his hands. In the dim wavering light, a page hung open and it was like a snowy feather….The men above were hurling shovelsfull of magazines into the dusty air. They fell like slaughtered birds.” (page 37) In Montag’s view, the burning books were seen as dying, hopeless birds. Somehow, Montag saw the books as a sign of happiness and freedom. He realizes the light in books, and he even pities them for being burnt without mercy. Flaming pages of books seemed to be ike flapping wings reachi ...
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