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Teddy As A Christ Figure
628 wordsIn "Teddy" by J. D. Salinger, Teddy is illustrated as a Christ figure. Many aspects of his life are similar to those of Jesus. Salinger created in Teddy a mirror-image of the real Christ. From a very young age, Teddy displays a profound understanding of the universe and life itself, exhibited by his deep conclusions about everyday life. For example, when he is watching the floating orange peels out of the ships porthole, he says "Its interesting that I know about them being there. If I hadnt see...
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Religion In One Flew Over The Nest
1,060 wordsAs he [Jesus] landed he saw a great throng, and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a Shepherd. (Mark 6: 34) Jesus entrance is much like R. P. Mc Murphys entrance onto the ward in Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. Much like Jesus, Mc Murphy saw the people on this psychiatric ward as metaphorical sheep, leaderless and subject to the cunning fox, in the form of Head Nurse Ratched. In this novel, told from the point of view of a deaf and dumb mute, Kesey illust...
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Religion In One Flew Over The Nest
1,077 words... convinces Chief that he was actually getting bigger. By creating parallels between Mc Murphy and Jesus, Kesey transforms Mc Murphy from a simple man trying to help others, to a righteous man who helps people as much as he can. Like Jesus, Mc Murphy is not altogether an eager messiah, as is Jesus case in the Garden of Gethsemane, Mc Murphy doubts his ability to keep helping people while at the same time, sacrificing himself. While saving the ward from the evil ways of Nurse Rather, Mc Murphy ...
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Mc Murphy Lone Ranger
1,454 words2613547 October 17, 2005 Thesis Paper Mc Murphys Downfall This novel is narrated by Chief Broom, the son of an Indian chief, who pretends to be a deaf mute as a protection against a society which denies his dignity as a human being. Many of his comments on conditions in the hospital ward and in society, while are not literally true, are accurate metaphors for the social regimentation against which the novel protests. The action of the novel begins with the arrival of Randle Patrick Mc Murphy, a ...
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Jim Casey Depression Era
572 wordsIn the novel, The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck brings to the reader a variety of diverse and greatly significant characters. However, the majority of each characters individuality happens to lie within what they symbolize in the microcosm of the Joads family and their acquaintances, which itself stands for the entire migrant population of the Great Depression era. One such character is that of Jim Casey, a former preacher and long-time friend of the Joads. In this story, Casey represents a la...
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Evil Forces Evil Nature
1,098 words... it is only the last-minute intervention of Gandalf which saves Frodo. The enhanced powers of perception that Frodo has when he wears the Ring is the essence of temptation put forth by the evil forces at work. Frodo is obviously tempted to use the Ring for his own prosperity, for the power of perception is very great with the Ring. At this time, he is unable to see the danger of the Ring that is ever-growing. This section of the trilogy is one of the most important of all, and it is a turning...
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Mc Murphy Murphy
1,193 wordsKen Kesey? s use of symbolism in One Flew Over the Cuckoo? s Nest transforms the novel and the hospital within the novel a microcosm of society, a battle between the sane and insane, the conformist and the non-conformist. Randle Mc Murphy? s arrival influenced the lives of almost every person, whether patient or employee. Whether or not his motives and actions were moral or good-hearted is difficult to conclude, however. On one hand, he undoubtedly saved the patients from losing their souls, so ...
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Jesus Christ John Coffey
617 wordsThe Green Mile Set on Death Row in a Southern prison in 1935, The Green Mile is the remarkable story of the cell blocks head guard, who develops an emotional, and unusual relationship with one inmate who possesses a magical gift that is both mysterious and miraculous. This inmate is John Coffey, who beyond his simple naive nature possess a supernatural gift. This gift is what introduces the correlation between Coffey and Jesus Christ. The easiest similarity to find between the two characters is ...
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Jim Casey Jesus Christ
729 wordsThe Grapes of Wrath written by John Steinbeck is the story of the experiences of the Joad family from the time of their eviction from a farm near Sallisaw, Oklahoma to their first winter in California. In the novel, Steinbeck brings to the reader a variety of diverse and greatly significant characters. One such character is that of Jim Casey, a former preacher and long-time friend of the Joad's. In this story, Casey represents a latter-day Christ figure who brings religious stability to migrant ...
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Lord Of The Flies Ralph And Piggy
891 wordsSimon s Interview, its Significance The interview Simon has with the pig s head establishes the identity of the beast and foreshadows future events. The identity of the beast is very important in the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding. The beast reveals evil and the evil within man. Simon s interview with the pig s head clearly illustrates foreshadowing of major events and the Ying and Yang shows the balance between good and evil that is exposed. Simon s interview with the pig s head is ...
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Christ Died Thesis Statement
1,196 wordsLord of the Flies The role of the prophet changes with the society in which he lives. In modern society, a prophet is a visionary, telling people what they can become; in Biblical times, a prophet was the voice of God, telling his people what they had to become to fulfill their covenant with God. In William Golding's Lord of the Flies, the prophet is a peaceful lad, Simon. He alone saw that the jungle, which represented freedom and the lack of civilization, was not to be feared but to be underst...
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Struggle Between Good Evil Nature
4,600 wordsSymbolism of the Ring Symbolism of the Ring: The Embodiment of Evil " One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the Darkness bind them" (1 LotR II, 2 The Council of Elrond) One of the masters of British Literature, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien has the unique ability to create a fantasy world in which exists a nearly endless supply of parallelisms to reality. By mastering his own world and his own language and becoming one with his fantasy, Tolkien...
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