Essays on Book Reports

... example of resurrection is when Dr. Manette grows confidence in himself and becomes the leader of the group. Dr. Manette triumphs over his past life and has a sort of rebirth. The best example of resurrection in the entire book, is also partly ironic in that Sydney Carton must die for this resurrection to take place, when he is executed on the guillotine in Paris. However, his death is not in the book as Dicken's idea of poetic justice, as in the case of the villains, but rather as a divine reward. This is displayed when Carton decides to sacrifice himself by dying on the guillotine instead of Darnay, with "I am the Resurrection and t ...

... established order: "he bred dad feeling" (42). Another instance is when Heathcliff realizes that his one love, Catherine, has fallen in love with Edgar. He shows love of the past by pointing out to her how little time she has spent with him compared to the time she spends with Edgar. After Catherine's death, both Heathcliff and Edgar wish her back even if they must return to fighting each other for her love. The Romantics had a love of the past, because it is stable and predictable: all possible scenarios have already happened. Mr. Earnshaw's act of taking care of Heathcliff contains many aspects of Romanticism. A key tenet in this act is Mr. Earnsha ...

... people to order, artificially fertilizing a mother's eggs to create babies that grow in bottles. They are not born, but decanted. Everyone belongs to one of five classes, from the Alphas, the most intelligent, to the Epsilons, morons bred to do the dirty jobs that nobody else wants to do. The lower classes are multiplied by a budding process that can create up to 96 identical clones and produce over 15,000 brothers and sisters from a single ovary. All the babies are conditioned, physically and chemically in the bottle, and psychologically after birth, to make them happy citizens of the society with both a liking and an aptitude for the work they will do. One ...

... received from her in the earlier part of her childhood. The c limax of the story involved her choice to leave Rochester was based on her own self-love; Jane Eyre had no family or friends to influence the decision to flee from comfort. Instead, Jane disciplined and developed herself in the course of the novel. Setting changes varied vastly from section to section, but McFadden-Gerber noted the constant stability of Jane's character the exemplified fortified morals made by her own constant and stagnant conscience. Margaret McFadden-Gerber claims that Jane has little mental mobility, though she is self-reliant as well as strong willed. There appears to be a ...

... 19 years of age has increased by 30 percent from the years 1980 to 1990. In my opinion David Burns brings up a valid issue in addressing the pertinence of depression as it pertains to peoples tendencies of committing a suicide; other academics have agreed with the same findings. However these academics have not specifically stated that depression is the only risk factor of committing a suicide. They did not even suggest that depression is the heighest weighted risk factor in committing a suicide. The impression the reader gets after reading the introductory paragraph of the Feeling Good book is that severe depression will inevitably result in suicide unless it ...

... seems to be fulfilled, but causes consequences that his mind cannot handle. Macbeth’s desire to gain wealth and status completely overpowers him. Macbeth becomes more ambitious as his wife and the witches make him question himself and his desires. Lady Macbeth is the biggest encouragement to his ambition, since she uses her husband’s trust to change her own future. In Act I, Scene iii, the witches and their prophecies influence Macbeth’s ambition as he begins to consider murdering Duncan, “ If good, why do I yield to that suggestion/ whose horrid image doth unfix my hair/ and make my seated heart knock at my ribs,/ against the use of nature ...

... the earth. The fourth rider on a "sickly yellow-green" horse "like a dead person" sums up the work of the other three i.e. kill by sword, famine and plaque, and by the wild beast of the earth. Hades follows close behind this rider because he always follows death. I believe that one day this will happen. It seems like its happening already since there are a lot of wars, a lot of poor countries that don't have the luxury like the richer counties and there are a lot of men slaying one another. If this was to happen right now there would be nothing for me to do. I wouldn’t be able to hide so then I would just buy some guns and protect myself.There were some prophe ...

... people of the town, whether it be the town as a whole or a specific place. For example, Starkfield was a dreary town, "buried under snow, silent and incommunicative as the characters (Nevius 136)." Even Ethan’s farmhouse was symbolic of himself. The "L" of the farmhouse was like that of his own body, shrunken and weak (Nevius 136). Ethan himself represented Wharton’s idea of a honorable man in the nineteenth century. He has admirable qualities, such as integrity, ambition, and wisdom (Magill 531). It is his sense of morals and responsibility that continuously prevents him from leaving Zeena and joining Mattie to a better life for himself (Nevius 132). He ...

... "in a change from the family's jealously regarding itself as an isolated and self-important clan to its envisioning itself as part of one vast family." Most begin like Tom, "jus' puttin' one foot in front of the other" (Chapter 16). Uncle John lives in the past, harboring guilt over his wife's death. Al lives for girls and cars. Pa is so broken at the loss of his farm that for much of the novel he allows all decisions to be made by Ma. Ma, at the novel's beginning, has only one passion: to keep the "fambly" together. Ruthie torments her brother and exhibits childish ways almost until the end of the book. Even Casy, when the novel opens, is adrift. He' ...

... same in the rest of the world at that time "give or take a few small details". It was a good book but some times took a few cycles of reading through to get the part you were looking for. The role of men and women of the sixteenth century are defined in this book, a few of these examples are. On page nineteen were a man refers to the way that married and unmarried girls should not stroll by the river or ride up the hill in a carriage, but how they should stay home and raise the children. It also refers to how men often rented out their wives for money. On page sixty three it tells of how a man let his wife take over the family business for six months, and when ...