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Book Rev Of Salem Possessed
635 wordsBoyer, Paul, and Stephen Nissenbaum. Salem Possessed. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1974. When one hears the word Salem, many unpleasant images are conjured in that persons mind. One may think of the misplaced fervor of the Puritans, one may call to mind the lack of justice in the trials, or one may even be appalled by the tragic deaths of nineteen individuals and the imprisonment of hundreds of others. However, instead of focusing on just the unpleasant images of the witch...
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Number Of People Human Beings
609 wordsAny culture that takes just what it needs form the surroundings and leaves the rest is called a leaver culture. These people are very nomadic, such as the pygmies in the Forest People. Leavers move to an area that they fell they can live off the surroundings for awhile without using everything up. A few such leaver cultures have tried some forms of agriculture, though not the same way as the taker cultures have. The people of the leaver culture believe that they will only use what is necessary t...
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Don Quixote The Influence Of Traits An Antihero
506 wordsDON QUIXOTE: THE INFLUENCE OF THE TRAITS OF AN ANTIHERO A hero is a man of great strength and courage admired for his exploits, qualities and achievements; he is thought of as an ideal or a role model. The character Don Quixote is an antihero because of the traits he exemplifies, including an inability learn from his mistakes, cowardice, and incompetence. For example, he does not learn from adverse experience when his homemade cardboard helmet visor falls apart. In addition, when villagers attac...
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Beginning Of The Story Story The Reader
731 wordsMany authors use mood shifts in their stories to leave a greater impact on the reader and make it easier to understand. The particular state of mind or feelings of a person is ones mood. Various aspects of ones surroundings can alter a mood. A story often creates a specific mood or even causes a number of different moods to arise in a short period of time. Shirley Jacksons short story, "The Lottery" does just that, by forcing different moods to surface in various sections of the story. The peace...
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Silas Marner The Rural Life
429 wordsThe life that could be lived in a village at 1861, which was so near of the time of the Industrial Revolution, is a simple life. People at that time were simple minded, and care most about their work. They do not understand much of their religion, as it is exemplified in the novel. We could see that when Mrs. Winthrop talks about that she does not understand much of what she hears or read on Sunday services, still she believes since her heart in relief to what it said. When Henry Austen analyses...
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Oppression Of Imperialism In Heart Darkness
1,679 wordsIt was the evident duty of civilized nations to confer the benefits of civilization (Christianity, education, law and order, trade) on those benighted heathen with their barbaric ways - Lord Salisbury (Heart of Darkness) The oppression of imperialism has reached into personal lives and society for centuries. Two instances of how oppression through imperialism has affected a nation as well as the individuals involved are Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bi...
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Burial Practices 90 Percent
695 wordsYou think you have a case of the flu coming on. Nothing a few good nights' rest won't cure, you think. The next morning, your head throbs. Your skin aches. You feel feverish, and your chest hurts. You can't get out of bed. In the new few days, your fever skyrockets. You are disoriented and delirious. You throw up and notice the vomit is laced with blood. Next, you feel a liquid trickle out of your ears. With horror, you realize that it's more blood. Soon blood is seeping from your nose, gums, an...
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Cask Of Amontillado Poe The Cask
612 wordsThe Evil and Whimsical Passive Sides of Human Nature Topic Choice: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" and The Lottery by Shirley Jackson Literary element: Theme It is difficult to compare "The Cask of Amontillado" and The Lottery, as they were written by different authors in different styles. However, both of them have one thing in common these stories describe the evil and whimsical passive sides of human nature. It seems, both stories were written by the authors in their difficult tim...
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Greenwich Village Avant Garde
1,678 words... was used as background. This created very interesting effect, when actors lines were not being associated with their personalities. One of plays character was a poem, which used to refer to itself as purely metaphysical idea, entitled with consciousness: I am the poem of this place and moment, I am a pause amid the seas of motion, I have no body I am Proteus, I flicker like a candle off and on (Goodman). While watching the play, viewers were being required to apply their own ideas to plays m...
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Red Riding Hood Fairy Tale
1,316 wordsLittle Girls and Wolves The ravening wolf theme is reflected in the Russian tale Peter and the Wolf, and The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids, but the theme is as old as Jonah and the Whale. Miss Mulocks pseudonym of Dinah Crack, 19 th century female novelist, author of the Little Lame Prince, published an anthology of childrens fairy tales in 1853. Miss Mulock's version of Little Red Riding Hood with illustrations by Gustave Dore is quoted here. The tale is a contrast between the safe village and ...
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Rest Of The Poem Sylvia Plath
1,115 wordsThe poem Daddy by Sylvia Plath concludes with the symbolic scene of the speaker killing her vampire father. On an obvious level this represents Plath's struggle to deal with the haunting influence of her own father who died when she was a little Although what stands out on first reading Daddy is the Nazi imagery, it is interesting to note that the father is not called a Nazi in the first half of the poem. In stanza one he is a... black shoe / In which [she has] lived like a foot (2 - 3) which is...
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Desire For Revenge Unable To Cope
2,626 wordsVictor Frankenstein had a wonderful life as a child. He was loving and cared deeply for his family. At the age of thirteen the works of Cornelius Agrippa fascinated him. His father called it ´ sad trash´ , which only fuelled his curiosity and enthusiasm the fatal impulse that led to my ruin. ´ His thirst for knowledge of science continued for two years until he witnessed the total destruction of a tree in a thunderstorm. The explanation of electricity shattered all of his ideas...
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Gimpel Fool People
499 wordsSinger s Gimpel the Fool is written in first person point of view, and the narrator, Gimpel, is the main character in the story. In the opening paragraph in the story Singer shows how reliable of a narrator that Gimpel is. Gimpel shares many of the nicknames he has had given to him in school, including imbecile, donkey, flax-head, dope, glum, ninny, and fool. He then says that he was considered a fool because he was easily taken in. He gave an example of one of the situations that earned him tha...
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Kino Is Attacked Kino And Juana Pearl
718 wordsKino, a poor Indian fisherman, lives on the Gulf of California with his wife Juana and son Coyotito. Their simple hut is made of brush, and the couple sleeps on mats thrown on the dirt floor, while Coyotito sleeps in a hanging box. Like others in their poor village, they depend on nature for survival. As The Pearl begins, dawn is breaking. Kino watches the sun rise and listens to the sounds of the morning. But within moments, a dangerous situation develops. A poisonous scorpion stings Coyotito, ...
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World War Ii Women And Children
1,943 wordsJerzy Kosinski? s The Painted Bird is a tragedy narrated by a young boy with dark hair and eyes who is abandoned in eastern Poland, at the outbreak of World War II. He travels from village to village throughout the war years, occasionally protected, but more often terrifically abused by the local inhabitants, due to their ignorance, superstition, and fear of recourse from the Nazis. ? He seeks asylum in huts and farms and, everywhere he is exposed to murder, rape, sadism, sodomy, incest, and the...
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Tessie Hutchinson Lottery Quot
557 wordsSlips of Fate In the short story " The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson, the author uses irony to expand on a theme of traditions that continue although they are ludicrous and barbaric. " Like a lamb to slaughter" comes to mind for both the characters in this story and the reader. The characters are honoring a tradition that is handed down to them from former generations. The reader is led through the seemingly normal and quaint little village, and is taken on a ride of ironic hor...
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Time Of Year Time Of Day
1,121 wordsIrony of Setting in The Lottery Irony of The Setting in The Lottery The setting set forth by Shirley Jackson in the beginning of The Lottery creates a mood of peacefulness and tranquillity. This setting also creates an image in the mind of the reader, the image of a typical town on a normal summer day. Furthermore, Shirley Jackson uses the setting in The Lottery to foreshadow an ironic ending. First, Shirley Jackson begins The Lottery by establishing the setting. To begin, she tells the reader w...
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Biological And Psychological Quot
506 wordsMalinowski studied the Trobrianders of New Guinea between 1914 - 1918. He rejected the idea of? remaining apart from their daily lives, and instead chose to carry out the participant observation method. He closely observed the activities going on around him and listened carefully to anecdotes, local gossip etc, so that he would be able to provide much fuller accounts of Trobriand life than if he had relied on formal questioning. He was impressed with the fact that the customs, ideas, artefacts a...
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Live His Life Robert Jordan
1,473 wordsErnest Hemmingway uses his characters to invoke a variety of thoughts and ideas in the readers mind. Each characters action defines their individual personalities and belief systems. The main focus of For Whom the Bell Tolls center upon the life of Robert Jordan, a military explosives specialist, whose sole purpose in the Spanish Revolution is the demolition of strategic bridges, trains, and various other targets. His interactions with various characters help to define his personality and belief...
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Stoned To Death Tessie Hutchinson
924 wordsHuman Nature Shirley Jackson? s short story " The Lottery" depicts a seemingly average village with average citizens. The citizens of this village participate in an annual lottery in which the winner will be stoned to death. It is believed that the death of the winner will bring heartier crops to the village. Jackson introduces the lottery as a tradition that has been performed and will be done for many years to come. Jackson also stresses the importance of human nature, which is that ...
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