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To Kill a Mocking Bird
... strong beliefs that blacks were inferior and that the world would be better without them. So anywhere that ... beliefs. But in the book , To Kill a Mocking Bird , this would have been impossible because most of the jury members held very strong beliefs that ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
Satire in Candide
... beliefs of Enlightenment thinkers, most notable Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz . Pangloss, Candide's philosophical teacher, preaches the belief that ... belief that everything is for the best "in this best of all possible worlds" (12). This echoes the beliefs ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Mending wall- Robert Frost. How has he represented ideas about identity and the world?
... we do not need the wall", we, the observer recognise Frosts' belief that the wall is an unnecessary barrier between the two farmers. ... a year, Frost was able to learn about his own beliefs and that of his neighbours. Through the symbolic image of the 'wall ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
Leo Tolstoy and the Romantic Era
... a cruel, faceless, bureaucratic tyranny" (6). It was because of that belief that after Tolstoy's death in 1910, outbursts broke out over ... in his ancestral estate of Yasnaya Polyana (Bloom 13). The belief that there was such a secret paved the way for his ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors
Comparing The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne to The Other by de Beauvoir
... females. Hawthorne wrote, "She assured them, too, of her firm belief, that, as some brighter period, when the world should have ... , but the impact of that change on others would be more pronounced had a male acted that belief out. Furthermore, both authors ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The philosophy of Thoreau as potrayed in "Walden"--two main quotes the depict the central idea of his philosophy and trancedentalism and specific details to back it up. Includes a bibliography.
... , the only way to attain real freedom. He maintains the belief that the simplification of one's lifestyle does not hinder our pleasures ... of the true meaning of life is based upon his belief of swaying away from our deceptive society of "progress", relying ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Evans & Cheevers "Cruel Sufferings" Felltham's "Of Puritans" Discusses representations of spirituality, religion and religious difference.
... The beliefs that these women had were rigid, but they regard it as a privledge, not a hardship. The fact that they condemned ... is interesting to me that these women, who must have experienced persecution on English soil for their beliefs, would venture to ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Jim Casy: An Unlikely American Transcendentalist
... a just man upon Earth that doeth good, and sinneth not". This thought is resounded in Casy's belief that "there ain't a sin ... that possession cuts man off from each other and ruins any chance of unity. Casy's new identity is a manifestation of his belief that ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Education of Jefferson: Character Analysis of Jefferson in A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines
... his inherent belief that he is better than the white man. Its just more or less of a coincidence that Jefferson's ... only beliefs were that he is inferior, he was created to serve White men, and that he is animal. Holding convictions like that, ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Critical Interpretations of Othello - Racism and Feminism.
... that women weren't expected to express individual opinions or ideas, thus only goes to show the past belief that women were inferior to men and that ... as a symbolic representation of racial prejudice and beliefs that existed in the original context of Othello ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare
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