... O'Brien knows the real truth of things as shown by his torturing of Winston. He tells Winston that if the Party tells the people that 2+2=5, then it does. He also instructs Winston that if the Party informs its members that 2+2=3 or 4 or all at the same time, then it is so. Although this true reality is available to Inner Party members, they too do not have the freedom of thought or individuality... they are only just aware of its existence. Only the outside reader is able to think and understand the true nature of the reality established by the Party. In Animal Farm, Orwell unveiled that reality is a simple mental state that can be easily manip ...
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... had stolen from Zeus. From Prometheus's actions he suffered for the rest of eternity. When Victor Frankenstein made his being, he made a choice to "animate lifeless clay and body-parts", to become a being. The choice he made would haunt him for the rest of his life. When Zeus finds out that Prometheus has stolen his fire, he took Prometheus to a top of a mountain and chains him to the mountain. Every day an eagle comes down and rips him open and eats his insides. During the night Prometheus would recover during the night. After Victor Frankenstein created his being, he called it pure evil, but in reality, Victor made his being evil. When Prometheus opens the ...
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... is his appearance. He didn't seem to care what people really thought about him or the way he was dressed, and remained very calm and relaxed, maybe even carefree, most of the time he was in court. This also gives Sydney Carton an immature appearance in the novel. At the beginning of the story and a large part of the novel, Sydney Carton is shown to be a very arrogant, frustrated man with a drinking problem. Several times in the novel he indulged in his drinking to the point of becoming drunk or close to it. Many times that he is seen, he is drinking wine or has a flask of liquor in his hand. This may keep him calm or help him to remain composed in the ...
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... can be used to display societies affect on people. Society doesn't kill her, but the ignorance of people does. Society can't kill a person, but it can influence the actions of its people. She is held accountable for a murder she didn't commit. Judgment is passed on her prematurely. I'll admit there was evidence against Justine, and we have the advantage of knowing that she didn't do it. Justine was not exactly a pillar of the community, so some reasonable evidence and the fact that human behavior tends to view people that are in the lower-class as being guilty of something, was all that was needed. The ideology of a being a monster is different the n l ...
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... goal of making money, but also make it possible for the manager to develop operational rules for running his plant. These measurements are: throughput, inventory, and operational expense, and everything that the manager manages in his plant is covered by them. Still, the manager must do much thinking and research in order to figure out just how to express his goal in terms of these measurement. In addition to expressing the goal, the manager is troubled by whether employees, robots, and machinery actuall need to be running at all times. At first glance many managers seem to think that an idle worker is an unproductive worker, but Goldratt shows us that in reality ...
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... of the Reeve, he then describes the Reeve’s occupation. A reeve by definition is a minor official or superintendent on an estate, generally an intermediary between a lord and his serfs. His job included being responsible and accountable for all his master’s accounts and animals, as shown in this excerpt from The Canterbury Tales: “His swin, his hors, his stoor, and his pultrye was hoolly in the Reeves governinge, and by his covenant yaf the reckeninge, sin that his lord was twenty-yeer of age (600-603).” This excerpt shows the Reeve controlling what happens with his master’s property and taking care of his financial situation because ...
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... asks if he can tag along in the adventure if he pays his share. Another man on the ranch, Slim, gives Lennie a puppy to play with but Lennie, feebleminded and sweet attempts to love even the gentlest of creatures, but, as he only has a childlike understanding of his enormous strength, the results are often tragic. Curly is the boss's son, and sensing Lennie's simple mind, he attempts to intimidate and antagonize him not anticipating his strength. He hits Lennie because he thinks Lennie is teasing him. Lennie tries to resist fighting as long as he can but after suffering many blows to the face from Curly, he grabs Curly's hand and squeezes it so hard it breaks every ...
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... While at the orphanage, Oliver from Oliver Twist also experienced a great amount of abuse. For example, while suffering from starvation and malnutrition for a long period of time, Oliver was chosen by the other boys at the orphanage to request more gruel at dinner one night. After making this simple request, "the master (at the orphanage) aimed a blow at Oliver's head with the ladle; pinioned him in his arms; and shrieked aloud for the beadle."3 The whole beginning of Oliver Twist's story was created from memories which related to Charles Dickens' childhood in a blacking factory ( which was overshadowed by the Marshalsea Prison ).4 While working in the b ...
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... without warning - pouf!" Then he poisons Coyotito and tells Kino he will return in an hour. When the doctor returns he gives Coyotito the anecdote and then asks when he will get paid. The next show of greed comes from the dealer that Kino was going to sell the pearl to. The dealer tells Kino that his pearl is large and clumsy, and that no one would buy it. Then he offers Kino one thousand pesos, but Kino knows that the pearl is worth fifty thousand pesos. When Kino doesn't agree to sell the pearl for a thousand pesos the dealer tells his servant to go find three other dealers. When the other dealers get there, two of them say that they wouldn't give Kino an ...
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... the topic of kissing was brought up. Mark wanted to know why public sighs of affection were so rare in China. Mark said the only time he had seen two Chinese people kissing was when a mother kissed her infant child. Children any older than five should not be kissed. The students explained that showing affection was just not done, it wasn't normal. At the end of class one student stayed, he confessed that he still kissed his children. Every night after they have gone to sleep he sneaks into their room to kiss them. The student could not admit to the entire class that he was different. Not only did Mark meet plenty of people who were concerned with loosing face, bu ...
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