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The Yellow Wallpaper: Male Oppression
Number of words: 1129 - Number of pages: 5.... and their opinions were merely laughed at. One part of the house that could be misinterpreted in this story is the window in the nursery. In most cases, a window symbolizes a view of hope. In this story though, the window has bars on it, symbolizing imprisonment or oppression.
An additional symbol of the narrator’s oppression is her husband, John. He is considered to be “a physician of high standing” (p.630). This along with the fact that he is her husband makes any opposition from the narrator seemingly impossible. To make matters worse, John treats the narrator not as his wife .....
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The Mysterious Stranger: Dependence On Others
Number of words: 733 - Number of pages: 3.... Sense is "the faculty which enables us to distinguish good from evil," however Eseldorf's citizens only know what is religiously virtuous so this is how they define Moral Sense. The people think that their freewill is what separates them from the "beasts" but they do not have enough understanding of reality outside their village to utilize their freewill. All the decisions they make are based on their belief of God's will for them and are not really their own.
Satan's visit demonstrates to the people the effects of Moral Sense on their community. By interacting with different citizens lik .....
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Invisible Man
Number of words: 378 - Number of pages: 2.... stand for to white people. The coin bank made the narrator angry, because it was symbolic of blacks, being slaves to white people, and how some white people though of black people as entertainment, and were not actually people but where just animals. 4. I believe that the narrator was unnamed for two reasons. One being that most of the novel was a flash back to things that had happened and he was explaining about himself, and we didn't need to know his name since we knew so much about him. Secondly because of the title of the book Invisible being mysterious, and to follow that the auth .....
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Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man: Vocation Sequence
Number of words: 456 - Number of pages: 2.... him christian doctrine and urged him to lead a good life and...led
him back to grace once he fell short of Gods glory. Stephens first calling,
to become a priest, has appeal, but his epiphany lets him know that his
true calling, instead, deals with finally knowing the solitude that he
always faced. Stephen considers the many aspects of his priestly vocation:
great power, sinless innocence, and the pious constraint on his freedom.
By the end of this sequence, Stephen realizes that his soul longs for
freedom from social or religious orders.
At this point, realizing his true calling p .....
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SOLO Report
Number of words: 886 - Number of pages: 4.... book goes into a story of the life of the man Mikali. His
mother and father had been killed at sea, and the only people he had left
were his nanny and his aunt. The book gives an accurate description of his
life and times before his incredible hobby.
After the book describes Mikali's background, which itself is filled
with death, the book goes into the current life of Mikali and how he got to
where he is. Mikali discovered his great talent in music at a very early
age. His grand-father, who is the only blood relative he has left, is
committed to his grand-son. He gives his son the .....
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Character Analysis: Catherine Morland
Number of words: 783 - Number of pages: 3.... is not one to hold her child to something they do not like, so she allows Catherine to quit. The day that Catherine left her music teacher was "the happiest day of her life" . It is not that Catherine despises music, she just does not prefer the lessons. She does, however, enjoy drawing, although it does not rank the highest of her fancies. Her supply of paper is not plentiful, so she draws on "any other odd pieces of paper" that she can get her hands on. She is taught lessons by each of her parents, but she gets out of both whenever she can. Though her qualities are not near ladylike, Cat .....
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Grapes Of Wrath: An Undaunted Journey
Number of words: 467 - Number of pages: 2.... chapters.
In chapter three, Steinbeck emaculatly describes the long tedious
journey of a land turtle across a desolate highway. From the onset of his
journey, the turtle encounters many set backs. All along the way he is
hindered by ants, hills, and oak seeds under his shell. The turtles
determination to reach his destination is most apparent when a truck driven
by a young man swerves to hit the turtle. The turtle's shell was clipped
and he went flying off the highway, but stop the turtle did not. He
struggled back to his belly and kept driving toward his goal, just as the
Joads k .....
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Chekhov’s “The Bet”: Metamorphosis Of The Lawyer
Number of words: 552 - Number of pages: 3.... will not be able to stay in a solitary confinement for 5 years. The lawyer demonstrates his impulsiveness when he replies, “I’ll take the bet, but I would stay not 5 but 15 years”(160). The lawyer does not even reason about what he has just committed to. Furthermore, he raises the stakes of the proposal as a result of his confidence in winning the bet.
Although he begins his confinement secure that he will be victorious, the lawyer gradually becomes very despondent over the course of his imprisonment. During his confinement, the lawyer is not able to interact with other people. He is .....
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Franny And Zooey: Childhood
Number of words: 646 - Number of pages: 3.... to having the rest of his or her life ruined, such as being
emotionally scarred.
I believe this happened in Franny and Zooey's case as children. They came
from a relatively large family, consisting of two parents and seven
siblings. The Glass children had a radio talk show called the "Wise Child"
when they were younger. Such pressures put upon the children resulted in
which Zooey calls "The Wise Child complexes". He believes that they never
really left the air. He believes that instead of carrying a normal
conversation, he expound on everything and ;therefore, is not able to keep
his mout .....
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Wuthering Heights: Romanticism
Number of words: 3230 - Number of pages: 12.... Edgar. He shows love of the past by pointing out to her how little
time she has spent with him compared to the time she spends with Edgar.
After Catherine's death, both Heathcliff and Edgar wish her back even if
they must return to fighting each other for her love. The Romantics had a
love of the past, because it is stable and predictable: all possible
scenarios have already happened.
Mr. Earnshaw's act of taking care of Heathcliff contains many
aspects of Romanticism. A key tenet in this act is Mr. Earnshaw's will to
enter into the mind of a child. Mr. Earnshaw tries to do this .....
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