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- 4621: Victorian Literature
- ... to attend school, and reformed the civil service. In Ireland, the Church of Ireland was separated from the government, and the land system was reformed. In spite of the prosperity of the Victorian Age, workers lived in terrible poverty. Benjamin Disraeli, one of the period's outstanding prime ministers, described England as two nations, one rich and one poor. During the second half of the 1800's, new scientific theories seemed ...
- 4622: War And Peace
- ... becomes more caring and it is obvious that he will continue on this course until the end. The climax of Natasha’s life occurs when Andrei dies. It makes her reconsider the way she has lived her life, maturing her further from her state of mind as a seventeen year-old. The climax for Andrei occurs when he is mortally wounded while attempting to protect Moscow from Napoleon’s forces. This ...
- 4623: Wuthering Heights - Setting
- ... Earnshaw went to Liverpool to conduct some business, found a parentless gypsy boy wandering the streets, brought him home and "christened hum Heathcliff." (WH-p.52) However, Heathcliff's happiness at Wuthering Heights was short lived and "died in childhood" (WH-p.52) as a result of the abuse he had received form his step sibling. As children, Catherine and Heathcliff were passionately close: "It was the greatest punishment ever invent ...
- 4624: War And Peace By Leo Tolstoy
- ... to appreciate basic things that they never even thought of before, such as food, peace, and love. Depicting the Rostov family, who were also wealthy nobles, but were not in the czar’s circle and lived in rural parts of Russia, Tolstoy showed a typical Russian family who were devoted to their country and Russian traditions. All of Tolstoy’s sympathy is on their side and he presents them in a ...
- 4625: With Malice Toward None By Ste
- ... and the author of eight other books, including The Fires of Jubilee and To Purge This Land with Blood. His task in this biography was to perpetuate Lincoln as he was in the days he lived. His purpose of this biography was to bring the past into the present for us and his students. The Life of Abraham Lincoln Although other states such as Indiana lay claim to his birth, most ...
- 4626: Young Goodman Brown
- ... that is spiritually and emotionally dissociated." (Easterly 341) This scene is an example of how Goodman Brown chose to follow his head rather than his heart. Had Brown followed his heart, he may have still lived a good life. If he followed with his heart, he would have been able to sympathize with the community's weaknesses, but instead, he listened to his head and excommunicated himself from the community because ...
- 4627: THE STORY OF AN HOUR
- ... whose writing manifests her life experiences. She was not happy with the principles of the time, because women had fewer rights, and they were not considered equal to men. Afraid of segregation from society, people lived in a hypocritical world full of lies; moreover, Kate Chopin was not afraid of segregation, and used her writing as a weapon against oppression of the soul. Marriage was an oppressor to Chopin, she had ...
- 4628: Oedipus The King And Things Fa
- ... for woman, it could also mean a mean who had taken no tiltle. And so Okonkwo was ruled by one passion--to hate everything that his father Unoka and had loved" (Achebe 13). Okonkwo basically lived by the phrase, act first and think it thought later. Unfortunately, almost every time that Okonkwo lets loose his violent temper in his manly way, he brings trouble upon himself, as well as those around ...
- 4629: Of Mice And Men
- ... him out of his true love and loyalty towards George. When they arrive at the ranch where they will be working the first person that they meet is an older gentleman named Candy. Candy has lived a long and hard life on the ranch and has nothing to show for it. During his time on the ranch he has lost his hand, grown old, and feels that he has become worthless ...
- 4630: Nine Stories
- ... relate to, Esme^s friendship gives him the comfort and security to keep his faculties intact. In these cases war is what causes alienation, as it distances people from the world they^ve known and lived in before. With no one to understand and comfort them, one has little to keep themselves happy and sane. Isolation leads to depression and suicide, which is why someone who can help keeps reality close ...
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