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Term Papers on Book Reports
1984
Number of words: 614 - Number of pages: 3.... entire population watches. The main character is Winston, who works for the Ministry of Truth, which is an ironic name since it makes up what the people are to believe. Winston has thoughts all the time against the party but luckily has never been caught by the thought police. He keeps on seeing some woman and eventually they meet and he finds out her name is Julia. She also hates the party and they keep on meeting, even though it is against the policy of the party for two people to have sexual relations. They break the rule however and end up having sex out .....
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Claudius And Hamlet
Number of words: 680 - Number of pages: 3.... is precisely what occupies him for most of the second scene.
It is practical concerns, Claudius argues, that have forced him to become king. There is of course the threat of Fortinbras who, thinking Denmark to be vulnerable "by our late dear brother's death" has been demanding "the surrender of those lands/Lost by his father" (I, ii, 23-24). In a gesture of contemptuous superiority, Claudius simply declares "So much for him" (I, ii, 25). That crisis is over.
The fact is Claudius is in control. He has already acknowledged the moral awkwardness of marrying hi .....
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Abuse Of Power Within A Clockwork Orange
Number of words: 1314 - Number of pages: 5.... better him, he loses his love for music in which he
exclaims, "And all the time the music got more and more gromky, like it
was all a deliberate torture, O my brothers . . . then I jumped"(131).
The music that represents his freedom to choose is now gone. He is left
without any reason to live. When he realizes that he is no longer a man
because of his absence of choice, Alex decides to end his life. The author
illustrates through Alex's violent actions, how they represent his abuse of
power through his freedom of choice. Alex consistently chooses evil as a .....
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Gatsby's Pursuit Of The American Dream
Number of words: 538 - Number of pages: 2.... would be just across the bay (83)," and throws extravagant parties, hoping by chance she might show up at one of them. He, himself, does not attend his parties but watches them from a distance. When this dream doesn't happen, he asks around casually if anyone knows her. Soon he meets Nick Carraway, a cousin of Daisy, who agrees to set up a meeting, "He wants to know...if you'll invite Daisy to your house some afternoon and then let him come over (83)." Gatsby's personal dream symbolizes the larger American Dream where all have the opportunity to get what they .....
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Animal Farm: Communism Through The Eyes Of George Orwell
Number of words: 2473 - Number of pages: 9.... small number of people
started to follow Communism in northern Great Britain when it started in
Russia). George Orwell's writing was affected greatly by his personal
beliefs about Socialism, Communism, Fascism, and Totalitarianism, and by
the revolts, wars, and revolutions going on in Europe and Russia at the
time of his writings.
George Orwell was a Socialist2 himself, and he despised Russian
Communism3, and what it stood for. Orwell shows this hatred towards
Communist Russia in a letter he wrote to Victor Gollancz saying, "For quite
fifteen years I .....
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The Awakening: Casting Shadows
Number of words: 869 - Number of pages: 4.... in serving
their husbands and taking care of the children. There were no other
options within the restrictive boundaries of marriage, and divorce was
never an alternative. Women's lives were austere and self enrichment or
self gratification were often times cast aside relative to the more mundane
tasks of daily life. Most women accepted this but Edna did not. She
figured that life was more than constantly doing for someone else. She
wanted time for herself in order to figure out who she was. Some may see
this as selfish but everyone is entitled to “me” tim .....
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The Chosen: Chaim Potok's Look Into Human Nature
Number of words: 440 - Number of pages: 2.... with him.
With the exception of Talmud discussions and Danny's baseball team idea, Danny
and his father never speak. This situation causes Danny a great deal of
emotional pain, a pain which he is unable to comprehend his father's reasons for
inflicting. His father feared, and with reason, that if something were not done,
Danny would never find his soul. After many years, Danny finally understands,
and accepts the reasons for his father's silence, and is in many ways grateful
for its success.
History is rich with individual, and broad examples of Potok's .....
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Rand's "Anthem"
Number of words: 583 - Number of pages: 3.... and they did not
avert their eyes. Only their eyes grew wider, and there was triumph in their
eyes, and it was not triumph over us, but over things we could not guess."
Later, Liberty follows Equality into the forest, and the first sign of
forbidden love is shown when "we bent to raise the Golden One to their feet, but
when we touched them, it was as if madness had stricken us. We seized their
body and we pressed our lips to theirs."
Equality is excited with the joy of learning when he finishes his work of
building a light bulb. "WE MADE IT. WE CREATED I .....
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