Lucas Wick Professor Michael Miller Argument and Persuasion in Humanities 12 March 2015 Working Girl’s Negative Outlook of Marxist Theory Working Girl‚ directed by Mike Nichol‚ recalls a rags-to-riches story in a modern society where the class divisions are precisely sharp. Set in the 1980s‚ the film provides a historical situation of inequitable distribution: this inequity sways all the characters’ behavior. Though Tess McGill and Jack Trainer spark up a romance‚ it is Tess’ acquisitiveness
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generations of brothers. In each generation‚ one of the Trask brothers is moral and good while the other brother behaves
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not only them‚ but also the world around them. Firstly‚ when characters are put into difficult situations‚ they use land as an output for their overwhelming emotions. To begin‚ these emotions certainly lead to a negative mental outcome. Once Adam Trask from East of Eden is focused on creatinghis idea of his perfect garden‚ he looses sight of everything that is happening around him. He is oblivious to the fact that his brother is begging him to stay‚ and has no recollection that his wife does not
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Abel‚ Abel did not have any children and the humanity continued with Cain. He left Eden‚ he settled down in a land called Nod‚ which was East of Eden‚ where he met his wife‚ who gave him his first son Enoch. Although in the first generation of the Trasks‚ it is Abel-like character‚ Adam who goes to California with pregnant Cathy and their two twins are later born‚ there is from a beginning a strong reason to doubt whether the twins are actually Adam’s. Cathy as we know slept with both of brothers
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doing was affecting other people. Also if he were to of realized that they were not objects for his control. Only after this was established could the country of changed for the better and it could become what we know of it as now. This compares to Trask due to the fact that the Hawaiians history when written by
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Chinese-English person living in California. Eventually he has a positive influence on many of the characters‚ and is ultimately a conduit for many of the themes portrayed in East of Eden. Lee is first introduced when the newlyweds‚ Adam and Cathy Trask‚ travel to Salinas and move into the old Sanchez
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I was at a friend’s house and witnessed that she had an unhealthy relationship with her husband. She texted him‚ “what is it? “‚ to hear what was wrong with him when he attended the funeral. He responded with‚ “you are so inconsiderate and rude! “. After my friend read the message‚ she was disappointed and furious. She rushed out of the room and threw away some of her husband’s items because he always responded rude to her when they text. This relationship is unhealthy because the internal trigger
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Literary Analysis of East of Eden The Author and His/ Her Times: The author of East of Eden is John Steinbeck. Steinbeck was born in Salinas California‚ one of the settings in East of Eden. His mother‚ a former school teacher‚ and helped him build his passion for reading and the written word. He speaks of her and her family in his book. They play a vital role in the progression of the book. Many of Steinbeck’s novels could be classified as social novels. His novels usually deal with economic problems
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landscape‚ Samuel Hamilton‚ who represents supreme goodness‚ and Cathy Ames Trask‚ the most evil character in the novel. From the first chapter‚ the author outlines the central structure of good and evil in the form of the symbolic landscape of the Salinas Valley in California. The narrator learns to tell east with its "good" sunlit Gabilan Mountains from the western‚ dark‚ and foreboding "bad" Santa Lucias Mountains. Adam Trask navigates through life in the Salinas Valley wavering between good (light)
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and the brothel in town at the same time. Good comes from evil is the third relationship. Cathy making Adam appear all the more pure shows this relation. The last relationship is that both terms are relative (Fonterose‚ Joseph. p.3381). Caleb Trask is illustrated as being a man more evil than others are. This innate wickedness varies from the immoral values of other characters such as Charles or Cathy-Kate. The wickedness is attributed to Caleb’s ability to choose between good and evil
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