... outcome. Factors of humanity, such as friendships, sense of character, conflicts and brotherhood, play an important part in making the war. The friendship between Confederate General Lewis Armistead and Union General Winfield Scott Hancock has an effect on their fighting. Garnett’s sense of honor effects his psychological outlook on the battle and how he is to fight. The Chamberlains are two brothers in the Twentieth Maine of the Union Army. Both men are constantly looking out and worrying about the other. The men of the Second Maine are men who have a conflict with the government that turns them off to the war. All these factors show that Amer ...
... Candide can only think if he has a companion. Voltaire is thus saying that all the nobles are really idiots and says they are only smart because they have philosophers. This is typically Enlightenment, because nobles, are stupid and must have philosophers to make them Enlightened. For example L’Hospital’s a French Noble had in his “possession” mathematicians that developed new ways of taking limits (a Calculus idea). Yet in today's society we call this way “L’Hospital’s Rule,” not Bernoulli’s rule who is the one who “invented” it (Stewart 310). Candide is consistently being brainwashed by reason (Pangloss) saying that we live in “the best ...
... the myth that the Klan was formed to “save the South” from Scalawags, Carpetbaggers and Negroes. This was the view held widely throughout the South and took root more so as it was romantically depicted in Southern writers publications and the ground breaking movie “The Birth of a Nation”. Kennedy noted that the Klan was actually the handiwork of the rich Southern plantation holders, who wanted to keep the black labor force under chains similar to those of slavery. Also, Kennedy noted that the few things written about the KKK were editorials rather than exposes. He felt the need for not just words but for legal evidence against ...
... be a strong man, perhaps more so than he was before. As we first meet Author Dimmesdale, he was a “…young clergy man... His eloquence and religious fervor has already given the earnest of high eminence in he profession.” (p. 62. 3rd paragraph)* The people loved and respected him. He was thought to be “…a godly pastor,”(p. 48) of Hester. But the people do not know his secret. They do not know the dark sin that he holds in the deep recesses of his heart. This causes him much pain. “It is inconceivable, the agony whit which this public veneration tortured him! It was his genuine impulse to adore the truth, and to reck ...
... a comment on this subject, as his portrayal of Macbeth’s gradual deterioration clearly leads to the reader’s understanding of the dangers of illusion. In fact, even before the appearance of the main character, the prevalence of this theme can already be noticed in the first scene, through the obscure and deranging apparition of the three witches. In effect, the three “Weird Sisters” are the generators of Macbeth’s illusions, and it can already be seen that the source of these predictions cannot be entrusted. More specifically, we first see the witches preparing “to meet Macbeth” in the midst of a stormy weather. This am ...
... were being held on the subject, writers declared cyberpunk dead, yet the stuff kept being published and it continues to be published today by writers like K. W. Jeter and Rudy Rucker. Perhaps the best and most representative anthology of cyberpunk writers is Mirrorshades., edited by Sterling, the genre's most outspoken advocate. But cyberpunk's status as the revolutionary vanguard was almost immediately challenged. Its narrative techniques, many critics pointed out, were positively reactionary compared to the experimentalism of mid-60s "new wave" SF. One of the main sources of its vision was William S. Burroughs' quasi-SF novels like Nova Express, (1964), and ...
... mouse. Then he gave me that "guilt trip" and started saying that he could go live and the woods and he would be fine without me. Yes, Lennie was a very smart person. As I look back to those events leading up to Lennie's death I kind of think that it's my fault that he's dead. Not just because I'm the one that killed him but because I should have watched him more closely. I should not have left him in the barn with Curley's wife. I think that they started talking and somehow Curley's wife had him touch her hair. As you know Lennie likes soft things so he kept touching it. She started to panic when he wouldn't let go so she struggled and screamed. Lennie go ...
... tkinson, an open- minded, kind woman, and Miss Stephanie Crawford, the renown gossip of the town. The second class in Maycomb County included the blue collar , white workers, primarily farmers who struggled to make ends meet. The Cunninghams, Dolphus Raymond, and the mysterious Radley family represented this group. The third class of Ma ycomb County were the " white trash". The Ewells, who lived at the dump, and relied on welfare for survival, were members of this group. It is important to note that the difference between the second and third class was not a financial one. Both w ere "poor". The difference, however, was in the way they in ...
... lost world. Many times there were cases of large unknown animals at Costa Rica, but no one found out what they actually were or where they had come from. A rich scientist named Dr. Richard Levine performed research on some of these animals and found some clues which led him to the lost island. He set out on a test expedition with his colleague to find out exactly if he was on the right island. He missed his boat back home to the states. So, he called his friend, Dr. Thorne with his satellite phone and left a message asking him to come down to the island and get on with the expedition. Dr. Thorne, Ian Malcolm, Dr. Sarah Harding , and two kids that sneaked in ...
... manners; in the company of warriors the most courageous, in the company of ladies the gentlest of men, and in a righteous cause implacable…" Launcelot is the model knight for the code of chivalry. Whether through his prowess in battle or his largesse that everyone admired, he ceaselessly fulfilled each aspect of the code. Throughout the book, he exhibits both honor and loyalty to King Arthur and all his fellow knights. Courtly love is another part of the code of Chivalry. Courtly love is love often between one man and another man's wife. By having an affair with King Arthur's wife, although still abiding by the code of chivalry, his loyalty was put into quest ...
