|
Term Papers on Book Reports
Gatsbys Dream
Number of words: 1327 - Number of pages: 5.... with swindlers like Meyer Wolfshime, "the man who fixed the World Series back in 1919."(78) Secondly, he is dishonest, because he tells lies about himself. "I am the son of some wealthy people in the middle-west-all dead now. I was brought up in America but educated at Oxford because all my ancestors have been educated there for many years. It is a family tradition."(69) Lastly, he spends his money like pouring water. He held expensive parties, owns a huge mansion, a Rolls Royce, two motor boats, aquaplanes, a swimming pool (ironically that he has never use .....
|
The Scarlet Letter: Misconstrued Identity Of Hester Prynne
Number of words: 348 - Number of pages: 2.... see that Hester is
actually angry at the hypocrisy of her Puritan neighbors to the point where
she does not openly display her anger but in a rather sarcastic manner. In
chapter forteen Chillingworth urges Hester to remove the A. She there
replies by saying, ‘'Were I worthy of it, it would fall away of its own
nature or transformed into something of a different puport. Hester is
saying this her old cynical husband, clearly not her best frinend. For the
safety of herself and Pearl; she must cooperateand act remorseful among the
townspeople and to keep at pe .....
|
George Orwell Wrote 1984 As A Political Statement Against Totalitarianism
Number of words: 2930 - Number of pages: 11.... how he uses this in 1984. George Orwell is famous for two major novels which attack totalitarianism. The first is Animal Farm, a satire describing the leaders of the Soviet Union as animals on a farm. The second novel is 1984, a story of dictators who are in complete control of a large part of the world after the Allies lost in World War II. The government in this novel gives no freedoms to its citizens. They live in fear because they are afraid of having bad thoughts about the government of Oceania, a crime punishable by death. This is the gem in Orwell's .....
|
The Scarlet Letter: Hester's Isolation And Alienation
Number of words: 708 - Number of pages: 3.... she committed the sin
with. Having a heart blinded by love Hester choose to stay in the town and
wear the scarlet letter “A” instead of revealing the other adulterer. She
faced society only to protect and be close to the man she still loved. The
“impulsive and passionate nature” (54), which to Hester seemed pure and
natural had to be faced under humiliation alone, without the partner of sin.
It seemed as though she was paying not only her own consequence, but that
of her lovers as well. Saying so herself while standing on the scaffold “I
might face his ag .....
|
Tragedy Of Macbeth From Macbet
Number of words: 1001 - Number of pages: 4.... to hide the "disgraceful self" of Macbeth. Clothing imagery is also used throughout the play in order to create a that devilish tone in the play "If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, without my stir. (I,iii,141-143) hides Macbeth's true intentions towards the king and he feelings on what the witches said.
The play is also filled with many references to the night or darkness which would have been used to further explain to Shakespeare's audiences the mood of deception and that cold tone, considering the fact that the audiences would have been .....
|
Carver’s Characters
Number of words: 1358 - Number of pages: 5.... everything. "We thought we could do it all," he said in one interview, "We were poor but we thought that if we kept working, if we did the right things, the right things would happen" (Gentry 123). Somewhere in the middle of this life he realized, very much like one of his characters, that things would not change.
What Carver deals with in almost all of his stories is the daily responsibilities of life weighing down on one's shoulders. "Almost all the characters in my stories come to the point where they realize that compromise, giving in, plays a major ro .....
|
Sweetness And Power
Number of words: 599 - Number of pages: 3.... the division of labor by age, gender, and condition into crews, shifts and ‘gangs,’ together with the stress upon punctuality and discipline, are features associated more with industry than agriculture – at least in the sixteenth century” (Mintz 47). Plantations required a “combination farmer-manufacturer”. Workers on plantations worked assiduously with a definite sense of time. They worked continuous shifts, resting only form Saturday to Monday morning. Mintz goes on to explain that “as the production of sugar became significant economically, so that it could .....
|
|
|