... is treated so cruelly that he makes his way to far off London, instead of returning to his workhouse. Not knowing where to go, he is "rescued" by the Artful Dodger, who tells him "I knows a respectable old gentleman as lives there wot'll give you lodging for nothink." (51). The "respectable old gentleman" is none other than Fagin, a crafty, old, shriveled scoundrel who enriches himself by teaching outcast boys how to steal. It's unsettling to witness the calculated manipulation of the trusting and impressionable Oliver into the world of petty crime. And, it isn't only Fagin who spreads evil among the cast-off waifs of London. There is someone viler, someone eve ...
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... 629). The characters in “Ashputtle” written by Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm and in “Cinderella” written by Charles Perrault also depict the girl as helpless, unable to rescue herself. Despite the girl’s beauty she was forced to lay among the ashes in her own home. She is depicted as a helpless child who simply waits to be rescued and suggests that, as many other fictitious heroines, she wishes to be accepted. She humbly assumes the role of the victim and does chores that lessen her true qualities. This is where Cinderella fails compared to a woman of today. Very few women of the 90’s would patiently wait for a prince charming to fall into their lap. They are ...
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... this exchange between Wright and her husband is evident in her use of personal pronouns: "…you and I have known it well"; "…your arm…"; "…my breast…". The second intended audience is every woman and every man, as an expression of something from every woman to every man. The title Woman To Man makes the poem universal, more than just a poem from Judith Wright to her husband. There are no names given to the woman and the man within the world of the poem. The experience of 'the Woman' becomes the experience of 'every woman'. The third audience for this text is the literati – the world of literature. Judith Wright is a well-known Aust ...
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... beliefs were worth fighting and dying for because why should you have to be oppressed be a king that would take your things and rule you cruelly. Without their own king Scotland would just be a meaningless province that is guarded by soldiers at all times. Why should you live in constant fear when you can have freedom and live in relative peace and you don't have to worry about what you say or do about the English because they have no rule there? The consequences for all of Wallace's actions led to the deaths of many people, but it also led to freedom. The negatives of the war were starvation, torture, and deaths of your friends and companions. They all fough ...
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... Arthur personally and he has never seen him, stories are made up about his appearance and various other things children have heard about him. Boo wasn’t crazy, he was just high strung at times, it was alright to shut him up, Mr. Radley conceded (ch.1, pg.15) This quotation shows that his dad is saying he is not a crazy freak. If anyone would know, it would be his dad. In this way, Arthur Radley reflects the mocking bird by not coming out of his house, so he is misunderstood. The second person who reflects the mocking bird is Tom Robinson. Who prejudice is because he is black. In our courts, when it’s a white manR ...
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... Allegory..." symbolizes man's struggle to reach understanding and enlightenment. First of all, Plato believed that one could only learn through dialectic reasoning and open-mindedness. Humans had to travel from where there are images and objects of sense to the lucid or invisible realm of reasoning and understanding. "" symbolizes this journey and how it would look to those still in a lower place. Plato is saying that humans are all prisoners and that the world is our cave. The things which we perceive as real are actually just shadows on a wall. Just as the escaped prisoner ascends into the light of the sun, we accumulate knowledge and ascend into the light of true ...
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... he never would have imagined. The harsh conditions that the boys competing in the battle royal must face are phenomenal. At first the boys are ushered into a room where a nude woman is dancing. The white men yell at the boys for looking and not looking at the woman. It is as if they are showing them all of the good things being white can bring, and then saying that they aren’t good enough for it since they were black. Next the boys must compete in the battle royal. Blindly the boys savagely beat one another. This is symbolic of the African Americans’ fight for equality. It represents the struggle they endured, to be accepted as equals with our society’s w ...
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... have killed yourself last week.” The waiter treats him like an obstacle as if he is slowing down his life. The second waiter introduced is a middle-aged man. He does not say much, but it seems as though that this is because he does not want to get in a fight with the younger waiter. All he does is ask the young waiter questions, as if the middle-aged waiter was sort of stuck in a catch twenty-two. The middle aged man felt for the old man but could not express his feelings to the younger waiter. Lastly, there is the old waiter. He is some where around the age of the old man that sat at the table. He definitely feels for the man at the table because he knows wha ...
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... these films just do it for the money, or the simple fame of achieving a blockbuster movie once again. We find this with the writer of The Faculty, which wrote I Know What You Did Last Summer and its sequels. These are so formulated that it is easy for those that analyze and look at movies as a work of art and not just merely a “Saturday night date place.” These scriptwriters seem to stray away from their original concept of creative writing and have conformed to the Hollywood pressures of fitting a script standard that has been set. Look at an independent thinkers like Quentin Tarantino. He is a revolutionary writer that has radically changed the ...
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... for their religion and government. They let the missionaries change their ways. That was also referred to in the poem. The poem stated that things fall apart when the center cannot hold. At the bottom of page 176, Obierika quoted that the white man has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart. I think that Achebe is trying to give William Butler Yeats some type of recognition because in the beginning of the book, Achebe included a stanza from the poem. "The blood-dimmed tide is loosened, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned" First of all, I think this means that once the white mission ...
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