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At the beginning of the novel, Scrooge is portrayed as a hardhearted man and very unsociable. He struggles to connect with others but out of his own choice. Scrooge is shown as selfish and as someone who doesn't care for others at the start of the novel with Marley's funeral. He shows little sympathy and only cares about the money...
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In the novella A Christmas Carol, Dickens uses each of the ghosts to guide Scrooge to change his attitudes and behavior differently. Marley instills fear in Scrooge, the Ghost of Christmas Past makes him remorseful, the Ghost of Christmas Present shows Scrooge the wider consequences of greed and the Ghost of Christmas Future shows Scrooge the individual and personal consequences....
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In this essay, I will be discussing how Dickens presents Scrooge as a reformed man. This is influenced by a clear combination of Scrooge's willingness to make the most of his transient life, as well as his desire for warmth in his once cold heart. Therefore it can be argued that Dickens uses the caricature of Scrooge as a manner...
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The amount of shallowness a man can be is sometimes absurd. The novel, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald tells a story about a fictional cast of characters living in a town separated by West Egg and East Egg in Long Island. One of the characters in the novel is Tom Buchana who lives in East Egg. Tom is...
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Tragic heroes are characters of nobility; they are held in a higher status but suffer a reversal of fortune through their own flaws. Even the most noblemen can succumb to their flaws and suffer the consequences, as illustrated in 'King Lear'. King Lear’s tragic flaw is his blindness, which eventually leads to his own demise. In Act 1, Lear ineffectively...
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The feeling of loneliness is an inevitable part of life, one of which many people struggle with. “People who are lonely often crave human contact, but their state of mind makes it more difficult to form connections with other people” (Cherry). The feeling of loneliness is hard to overcome, those who have the willpower will eventually make it out of...
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The American Dream is spoken about in the Declaration of Independence: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. In the novel Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, the American Dream is shown as dead and unreachable. One of the characters in the novel is Crooks’ and his dream is to have full rights and to be equal to anyone who...
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Many of the characters in Of Mice and Men appear to be “lonely” to an extent, although, the theme of loneliness is extremely noticeable in Crooks, Candy, and Curley's wife. These three characters all can be related together because they are all similar in that they are the same type of lonely, a physical lonely. Objective loneliness refers to the...
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Piggy In William Golding’s novel The Lord of the Flies, Golding utilizes Piggy to portray how rationalization and order can be underspoken by savagery. Throughout the novel, Piggy is the only character who consistently exhibits thoughtfulness and logic even though the other boys gradually lose their civility. In a group meeting in which the boys discuss the organization of the...
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The dystopian book Brave New World interprets the idea of freedom and social control in a society where the government shows freedom to people but when in reality controls their rights without their acknowledgment. Bernard Marx, who is an Alpha male, fails to fit in with his society because of his test-tube mistake which causes him to be short in...
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Many works of literature include a character with unusual origins to provide contrast to societal norms and to introduce complex relationships involving clashing morals and values. In his novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley depicts John the Savage as an outsider because of his unusual upbringing and his headstrong morals in both the Savage Reservation and the World State society....

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