... himself through emotions. To further our understanding of Budd’s likeness to a “ noble savage” Melville states with a allusion to the bible that because of his lack of worldly knowledge he has not yet taken a bite out of the “ questionable apple of knowledge”. Here he compares Budd to Adam and Eve before they were coaxed by the serpent to take a bite of the apple of knowledge. It is in this way that Melville gives the reader the implication that Billy Budd is being used to represent goodness of the nature of man. To represent the evil in the theme “ good versus evil”, Melville introduces the reader to John Claggart. In this novella John Claggart shows to have un ...
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... insane way to act. I would want the world to know of my great accomplishment. I believe this made Gene crazy. That is was so easy for Finney to decide to break the swim record and not really care. Personally this was hard for me to understand. I think this concept requires and older persons maturity to understand. Jumping off a tree into the river once is an adventure, continually attempting this act is crazy. Finney was in control of this situation. Gene hated this ritual. He continued to do it because Finney said so. It seems that Gene disliked the fact that Finney had this control over him. Could this possibly be the reason that Gene shook the branch that day? No ...
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... manners; in the company of warriors the most courageous, in the company of ladies the gentlest of men, and in a righteous cause implacable…" Launcelot is the model knight for the code of chivalry. Whether through his prowess in battle or his largesse that everyone admired, he ceaselessly fulfilled each aspect of the code. Throughout the book, he exhibits both honor and loyalty to King Arthur and all his fellow knights. Courtly love is another part of the code of Chivalry. Courtly love is love often between one man and another man's wife. By having an affair with King Arthur's wife, although still abiding by the code of chivalry, his loyalty was put into questio ...
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... watch so that he would have money to buy her combs for her hair. They both sacrificed themselves for gifts for each other. On the other hand, in "The Necklace", the main character, a middle class woman named Madame Loisel is selfish, greedy, and an uncaring woman. Although she is beautiful, she only cares about money. In the story, she and her husband are invited to a party. She has her husband spend the 400 francs he has saved for a gun, on a dress she wants to wear to the ball. She also wants something beautiful to go with her dress, so she borrows a gorgeous necklace from a friend. Madame Loisel was the hit of the party. At the end of the night, she discovered ...
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... bent / She bettered those of Ypres and of Ghent. /… Bold was her face, handsome, and red in hue. / A worthy woman all her life…(31)" These passages depict a woman who has a normal physical appearance and who is good at making clothes, a typical female ability. The general prologue does not show the strong willed, intelligent, independent woman that the Wife of Bath is. The Wife of Bath only reveals this in her own prologue. Chaucer does not go into much detail about the Wife of Bath because he only reveals what he sees. The Wife of Bath Contrary to this, Chaucer brings to life the Squire by his description of the Squires physical appearance and details about th ...
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... behaviors would have to be learned Once he was finished and brought the creature to life, he asked himself why he even thought of creating such a horrible looking creature. He rejects the creature and is completely disturbed by the sight of it. This disturbance leads him to a restless night and which he is haunted by the image of his creation. The next day, Victor sees his friend Henry Clerval and when he brings Henry back to his apartment, he discovers that the creature has disappeared. At this moment, Victor falls into a sickness that leaves him weak for a few months with Henry to aid him. When Victor first thought of the creature, he had good intention ...
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... in. Nobody like him had ever been in the ward before. He came in singing and laughing, something that no one had heard in a long time. He walked around the room shaking hands, introducing himself to everyone, even the chronics. He taught the acutes how to play cards and he taught them to gamble. His very first bet though was that he could get the best of nurse Ratched within the week, and he did. She wasn't going to back down though. To try and stop all the gambling going on she rationed the cigarettes, so they no longer had anything to bet, but that never stopped them, they used money instead. The patients admired McMurphy because no one had ever stood up ...
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... Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, the government and the church are interchangeable. The government is what used to be called the church, they have come together to become one unit of power. The power of a modern day government with all the knowledge and weapons combined with the fanaticism of a medieval based church create a dictatorship like none other. The novel deals with the treatment of children harshly for a society which views children as their last hope, their most valuable commodity. Children are taken away from their homes to be given to the privileged, and women are forced to give birth to babies they can not keep. The society of Gilead takes the vie ...
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... but her mother, escaped through the open window, and stood on the upper step, looking like a wild tropical bird of rich plumage ready to take flight into the upper air.”(Hawthorne, 111) In the first passage Hawthorne uses nature to describe Hester’s sin and the second passage uses nature to describe Pearl’s appearance as wild and magical. The forest becomes Hawthorne‘s tool to describe the interlude between Dimmesdale and Hester. The long passage describes the actions between Hester and Dimmesdale in one of their most woeful times. The passage is often referred to as one with a sexual nature, though this is not clear in Hawthorne’s words. Hawthorne’s words can ac ...
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... books and attending press interviews. Throughout these hard times, one can read this book and find out the characteristics of the author, how he saw the light bulb, and the truth that he wanted people to understand. Mr. Griffin was a middle age white man who lived with his wife and children. He was not oriented to his family. He decided to pass his own society to the black society. Although this decision might help most of the African Americans, he had to sacrifice his gathering time with his family. “She offered, as her part of the project, her willingness to lead, with our three children, the unsatisfactory family life of a household deprived of ...
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