.... how they lived with this quote . "A huge black rat squealed and leaped at Bigger's trouser-leg and snagged it in his teeth, hanging on." This showed how broke they were by showing that there were giant rats living with them and how it had no fear of them . Richard Wright did not just not just want to show the con sides to Capitalism, he also wanted to prove the Capitalism has its good sides to it also . For instance, Richard Wright purposely placed the Daltons in a spectacular house and made them very rich and famous . Another trademark of Capitalism, the up .....

.... said, “I wanted to talk to you…she said”(Bradbury 19). The toaster in the Montag;s house, it did all the work. “Toast popped out of the silver toaster, was seized by a spidery metal hand that drenched it with melted butter. Mildred watched the toast delieered to her plate.” (Bradbury 18). The mechanical hound in the firehouse worked as a sercurity system only better. It was a device of terror, a machine whose perverse similarity to a trained killer-dog. It was improves by a refined technology that allows it to inexorably track down and capture criminals b .....

.... books. Montag's wife Mildred on the other hand prefers not to have to think, but rather to allow others to think for her to simply say "yes I agree." Mildred is the epitome of laziness. The most complex of all the characters is the fire chief Beatty. Beatty is a man who once was educated but has now turned his back on education and works to destroy it. Beatty knows what is in books but chooses not to care, not to do anything but help the destruction of books. The loss of the characters freedom to read and to think was not an act that was forced on the peo .....

.... relayed by his father, much to the chagrin of the younger Dedalus. Later in the novel, Stephen loses even more respect for his father as the familys' debts continue to grow and they are forced to move. Once, when the two males travel to sell of the family estate, Simon returns to his former school and converses with his former classmates. Stephen is upset to hear of his father's wild behavior as a youth, and of his flirtatious nature. He begins to rebel against his strict upbringing, striking back at his familys' traditional values and way of life. Religio .....

.... nor shall we ever see/ that face of hers again. Therefore be gone/ without our grace, our love, our benison." (Shakespeare 1, 1. 262-265) Lear's blindness also caused him to banish Kent, one of his most loyal followers. Kent tried to stand up to Lear in Cordelia's honor, but Lear would not listen to what Kent was trying to tell him. To Kent's opposition; "This hideous rashness, answer my life, my judgement,/ Thy youngest daughter does not love thee least;" ( 1,1. 150-151) Lear responded with, "Kent on thy life, no more." ( 1, 1, 154) "Out of my sight!" ( .....

.... and argument between an old white man and a black man. The black man wouldn’t let the white man talk so they almost got into a fight. Another example of the differences is the disrespect that occurred at the wrong times. In the 1957 version, ever though they were an all-white jury, they still treated each other with disrespect. If one wanted to discuss something the other didn’t want to because that one was so stubborn to change his vote. He stood alone. He didn’t want to change his vote for a thing he always thought he knew everything. In the 1997 versio .....

.... be free of no misery if he share my house Or sit at my hearth and I have knowledge of it. On myself may it fall, as I have called it down! -Oedipus from Oedipus Rex When Oedipus pronounces this sentence he has already unwittingly judged himself, and to the excitement of the crowd foreshadowed later events to come. This statement, is a classic example of verbal irony. In it Oedipus thinking that he is directing his pronouncement upon some bandit, or conspirator, in all actuality he is truly condemning himself. Further examples of irony include his sp .....

.... from the bottom up, instead of top to bottom because the process has a three second gap. He would even lather his face with two brushes and then try to shave with two razors. The idea with the two razors didn't work quite as well as some of his other objectives. For instance, he was angrier at the fact that it took him two minutes to put a bandage on his neck then the slash he gave himself while shaving with two hands! No matter what the situation was, Mr. Gilbreth always pushed to work harder and have the family retaliate with the same amount of effort. Every s .....