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- 1491: Frederick Douglass
- ... be horrified that slave families were regularly torn apart for no apparent reason. Northerners would be upset by this because the family was the basis for their close-knit communities. Multiple generations and extended families lived together or within close proximity to each other. It would be unimaginable to the readers that a society existed that took children away from their mothers without a reason. Anyone who was part of such ...
- 1492: Frankenstein
- ... created is human. I will say that it is. The creature has the same feelings that all other humans do: love, sadness, anger, hatred, and so on. When talking of the family that the creature lived beside in the woods he says: "…when they were unhappy, I felt depressed; when they rejoiced, I sympathized in their joys" (968). Just because the creature is able to distinguish between these emotions and ...
- 1493: Frankenstein
- ... seeking of glory is a pursuit of ego driven males which, if left unchecked, deserves the fate of Prometheus. Shelley tells the story of three men who deal with Prometheanism in three ways. Innocent Clerval lived a happy, fulfilled, albeit brief life. Victor, refusing to repent until his last breath, and unable to pursue the monster, is ‘chained’ to his bed with only his memories to persecute him. And Walton ...
- 1494: For Whom The Bell Tolls
- ... was absolutely the most heartbreaking, gut-wrenching thing I have ever read. I was as close to tears as I had ever been. The sympathy one feels for the fascists at this point is short lived though when, in chapter 11, the reader learns of the slaughter of Joaquin's (part of Pablo's band of guerrillas) family. It serves to acquaint the reader with the cruel practices of the fascists ...
- 1495: For Whom The Bell Tolls
- ... was absolutely the most heartbreaking, gut-wrenching thing I have ever read. I was as close to tears as I had ever been. The sympathy one feels for the fascists at this point is short lived though when, in chapter 11, the reader learns of the slaughter of Joaquin's (part of Pablo's band of guerrillas) family. It serves to acquaint the reader with the cruel practices of the fascists ...
- 1496: Fahrenheit 451 & Brave New World
- ... discovers more about himself as well. He is able to see more clearly the things that had always set him on edge: the promiscuity, the domination of the government and the lifelessness in which he lived. (Allen) John, often referred to as "the Savage" because he was able to leave the reservation with Marx to go to London to live with him, also has a hard time adjusting to the drastic ...
- 1497: Fahrenheit 451 - Symbolism
- ... in the novel (115). Fire is a consequential symbol in the story. Thirdly, the Mechanical Hound is a meaningful symbol. The narrator describes the hound as follows, "the Mechanical Hound slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live…it was like a great bee come home from some field where the honey is full of poison wildness, of insanity and nightmare, its body crammed with that overrich nectar, and ...
- 1498: Exiles
- ... suggest you keep it.' Wonderful! Like tearing up the ration books" (652). This showed that the author was astounded by the way her mom was hard working. These passages also conceive that the author has lived her life with her mother's hard-working attitude. She has grown from the past of her mother's. What also can be seen is the emotion of her mother and her perception of hard ...
- 1499: Exile And Pain In Three Elegiac Poems
- ... was no reason for a man like this to start a family, and he knew that. He would never have the chance to see them because he would always be at sea. Unknowingly this man lived a life of exile, exile from land and all it's wonders. Although these poems tell different stories, they all contain the main themes exile and pain. After reading each of these poems, it is ...
- 1500: Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
- ... from Ethan's wife. Of all the characters in this novel, Mattie is the most tragic. She was so energetic and full of life that she wanted to free Ethan from this terrible society he lived in. She suggested suicide as a means of escape for the two of them. When the attempt failed, she became paralyzed. She is now stuck in the cold, colorless, world of Starkfield. The setting of ...
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