... His ideals were shattered, his genitals left on a battlefield in Europe with his ability to be subjective and involve himself emotionally with the world around him. His life (as viewed in his narrative) is simply moving from one place to the next, with no deep thought about the people he meets. Merely a simple statement of the facts. Objectivity as a whole depends upon distancing a person from the events and simply watching with a clinical disattachment as Jake did. And as Jake is the narrator of The Sun Also Rises, this creates a definite lack of caring in the reader for the events that effect those outside of Jake’s circle. Just as when a tragedy is ...
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... her wedding gift he is buying her a house with forty thousand dollars cash. He claims that she has never had an unhappy day in her life. Though this is unrealistic, he proudly boasts about how his money is to thank for this. Another thought from Mr. Cassidy is that money does not buy happiness, but it buys off unhappiness. His interaction with Marion was brief but very vital to the next turn of events. Mr. Cassidy asked Marion point blank if she was unhappy. Her reply “not inordinately” shows that she is not completely happy with her life(Hitchcock). The major source of her unhappiness is the fact that she can not marry her beloved Sam until he ...
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... back to the Self in the end. He wonders if he came nearer to his goal. Govinda, one day said that he wanted to go and listen to the Buddha's teachings with . Buddha had a lot of names like Gotama, the Illustrious one, the Sakyamuni, and he was rumored that he was perfect. agrees with Govinda so they started on a journey to hear the Buddha's teaching. After they heard the Buddha's teachings, Govinda becomes his follower, but doesn't. and Govinda said goodbye to each other. learned that even from the perfect one, the teachings wouldn't teach him, so he decides to be taught by nobody. He realizes that he was trying to lose the Self because he was afraid of it. Fro ...
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... greatly admired, and the hasty remarriage of his mother to his uncle. Hamlet thinks his father was an "excellent king," who loved his mother so much "that he may might not beteem the winds of heaven/ Visit her face to roughly" (I, ii, 140-141). However, his mother mourned for "a little month" and then she married a man who was "no more like [his] father/ Than [he] to Hercules" (I, ii, 153-152). These extraordinary events cause him to launch into a state of melancholy and depression in which he desires "that this too too solid flesh would melt" (I, ii, 129). In this melancholy, Hamlet loses becomes disenchanted with life, and to him the world seems "weary, stale, fl ...
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... broke Pip’s heart and drove him to yearn so much to be a gentleman. He dreaded the word “common”. It was not good enough for his girl, Estella. He had what Dickens called “great expectations”. Pip’s expectations of are what finally bring him to realize the importance and value of true goodness. He is brought to London where he was to become a gentleman. But he only finds that life there was even more unsatisfying. He grows deeper in debt, and starts loosing friends because he felt he was better than them. When he visited Pip was actually embarrassed by him, one of the few people who loved him most and cared for him so much when he was a child, and Pip jus ...
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... to even his alleged motives through which he shows his ambivalence of nature. His goodness of nature is not pure but simply good in appearence to the other characters. The reader sees the true evil of Iago and how he fools the other characters into believing he is an honorable man. His false displays begin with him and Roderego informing Brabantio of Desedemona's marriage to Othello, a Moor. The reader knows from the conversation between Iago and Roderego in Act I scene 1 that the two men are upset that Iago is not Lieutenant and Roderego cannot have Desedemona and they are acting out of Malice and retaliation. But, to Brabantio, their acts appear to be out ...
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... Paris and Mary Warren not to say anything. "Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you... And you know I can do it... I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down." She fell in love with John Proctor after their affair, her morals and her whole life began to fall apart. She started to be overcome with her feelings of love, and her passion for John was enormous. After she was denied these things she could no longer control herself, and her whole reason for living became to get back John. This s ...
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... will of God must prevail" (Master-pieces 497). O'Connor portrays two varieties of sinners who possess either excessive pride or aggressive evil traits. The price of redemption is high. O'Connor violently shocks her characters, illuminates their shortcomings, and prepares them for redemption as seen in: "A Good Man is Hard to Find," "Revelation," "The River," and "The Lame Shall Enter First." Walters reasons, "The instruction of pride through lessons of humility is, in each story, the means by which the soul is prepared for its necessary illumination by the Holy Spirit" (73). The grandmother in "A Good Man is Hard to Find" and Rudy Turpin in "Revelation" is eac ...
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... cries not because of the tragedy, but because it is expected of her. Many responses come from already learned behavior. People react the way they are taught. Mrs. Mallard was a devoted wife; she certainly learned from her mother how married women behave. She sits in her room, “merely letting impressions of the outer and inner worlds wash over her” (Papke 132), trying to make sense of all the emotions that are suddenly falling on her. First, she is afraid of this new feeling of freedom, something different that she never experienced before. She is frightened because she was not born to be independent and “it is not of her true womanhood world; it reaches to her fr ...
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... don’t you say it. Don’t you dare" (Capote 60). Her love for her friend does not allow her to realize that Nancy is really dead. She is so overwhelmed with the circumstances that she cannot attend school until a couple of days after the funeral (94). Mr. Ewalt clearly states, "Susan never has got over it. Never will, ask me" (60). This fact is clear to the reader when in the last section of the book, Al Dewey finds Susan by the graves and she says, "I’m really happy. . . Nancy and I planned to go to college together. We were going to be roommates. I think about it sometimes. Suddenly, when I’m very happy, I think of all the plans we made" (349). Although s ...
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