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As the Enlightenment continued to impact Europe and the surrounding areas, people began to think independently, which lead to women’s desires for more rights. However, in Voltaire’s Candide, the place of women in society is subjugated to the home. Likewise, they are favored for their beauty and not wit. By examining Cunégonde and the Old…

As Siddhartha indulges in sense pleasure the inner voice, which has been strong during his Samana life, diminishes gradually. He is in fact moving away from the Self. Hence his inner voice becomes inaudible. Dramatically, properties and possessions which he considers to be vices and follies trapped him. He becomes a non-vegetarian and drank wine….

An inscription in the Temple of Apollo at Delphi said “Nothing to Excess.” In today’s society moderation is essential to having a positive life. Charles Dickens in his novel A Tale of Two Cities makes a social comment on the effects of excess in a society. One of Dickens’ characters in A Tale of Two…

As the species with the highest intelligence on earth, there is hardly any reason why we compare human’s life to animals’, especially those of women’s, who gave birth to all. However, in the story of a dystopia, the Handmaid’s Tale, even though the handmaids are valued greatly, they are still frequently linked to containers, utensils…

A number of critics and historians have traced the complex portrait of masculine performance in Georgian and Regency era England, following shifting understandings of masculinity at the turn of the nineteenth century. Karen Harvey, for example, focuses on the various forms of masculinity emerging from roughly the end of the seventeenth century to the start…

Rudolfo Anaya, the author of Bless Me, Ultima, was born on October 30, 1937 in Pastura, Mexico, but moved shortly after he was born. For about the first 14 years of his life he lived in a small town called Santa Rosa. In 1952 him and his family moved to Albuquerque where he was introduced…

Over the years both books The Handmaid’s Tale and 1984 have been attacked for many different reasons. Let’s start with how they dehumanize the citizens by ripping them of their individuality and taking away their ability to learn things on their own so that the citizens won’t overpower the government. They are caged in their…

Mitch purpose for writing this book was to help pay for his old professor, Morrie Schwartz, medical bills. Morrie’s wife was not financially stable to pay for all the expenses. Another example is to help teach people what love and compassion means, and that is love and compassion is the key to a person’s satisfaction….

In Octavia Butler’s Kindred, Dana’s time-traveling ability complicates the reader’s ability to empathize with trauma. Due to the uncontrolled time traveling that places Dana’s body in scenarios that degrade her body. During the 1800’s, Dana’s body was being treated as an object rather than in the 1900’s where it was treated as a human. In…

Each character had their own way of seeing themselves as ugly. Mrs. Breedlove just kind of dealt with it and moved on with her life, Sammy adjusted his behavior to it and use it strategically, and Pecola hid behind her ugliness. Their relationship never really works, but it fills their psychological needs because they are…