Not So Gracious "[S]he was simple since she could not be adorned; but she was unhappy as though kept out of her own class;" (Guy De Maupassant‚ 1). As beautiful as she was‚ she was still not pleased. This sentiment from The Necklace” by Guy De Maupassant proves that he believes women can be ungrateful and materialistic. This is shown through the character Madame Loisel with. In “The Necklace” by Guy De Maupassant‚ Madame Loisel should have been appreciative about her life and belongings‚ she instead
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supporting. The Thernardiers‚ although choosing to be degrading‚ are still considered degraded by poverty. Monsieur Thernardier was a greedy and selfish man‚ but was this way because how poverty-stricken he was. One example of this is how he would make Fantine keep paying more and more money by threatening that he would kick Fantine’s daughter out of the house and stop caring for her. Monsieur Thernardier was not able to choose if he was rich or poor but he could choose how he would deal with it‚ and
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The Letter of Father Jacques Bigot‚ respecting the mission of the Abnaquis at St. Missel de Sillery The Letter of Father Jacques Bigot‚ respecting the mission of the Abnaquis at St. Missel de Sillery (June 24th‚ 1681) from The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents Vol. LXII was written to relate recent events at the mission to Bigot’s recently departed predecessor Jacques Vaultier. Bigot mentions several positive changes in the seven months after Vaultier’s departure‚ notably‚ an increase in the
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The phrase‚ ’Man is born free‚ and everywhere he is in chains’ was written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Rousseau wrote the famed words in his most important published work‚ ’A Social Contract.’ This work is one of the most important in Western political philosophy. Jean-Jacques Rousseau‚ in his dramatic opening lines to his immensely powerful treatise "The Social Contract‚" wrote that man was naturally good but becomes corrupted by the pernicious influence of human society and institutions. He preached
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JACQUES DESSALINES The first was the father of Maréchal de Camp Monsieur Raymond Dessalines‚ created 1st Baron de Louis Dessalines on 8 April 1811‚ aide-de-camp to King Henry I‚ Privy Councilor‚ Secretary-General of the Ministry of War between 1811 and 1820 and Member of the Royal Chamber of Public Instruction between 1818 and 1820‚ who received the degree of Knight of the Order of St. The second was the father of Maréchal de Camp Monsieur Dessalines‚ created 1st Baron de Joseph Dessalines in 1816
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Javert became suspicious of Monsieur Madeline when he lifts a cart of a man‚ and is justified in his suspicions. Javert said‚ "Monsieur Mayor six weeks ago after that scene about that girl‚ i was enraged and denounced you" The remarkable feat of strength that Madeline preformed caught Javert’s attention. Javert associated the strength with that of a convict and became suspicious. "I believed it‚ for a long while i had had suspicions." Javert’s suspicions are justified because it was indeed Madeline
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“One is not born‚ but becomes a woman. No biological‚ psychological‚ or economic fate determines the figure that the human female presents in society: it is civilization as a whole that produces this creature‚ intermediate between male and eunuch‚ which is described as feminine.” - Simone de Beauvoir‚ The Second Sex (1952)‚ p. 249. Feminine Subjectivity: From Possibility to Reality During the past forty years‚ theories of subjectivity were common in art and social science discourses. All
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Love in War War can seem like an all-consuming force of hate‚ death‚ and misery to the soldiers and citizens who must fight war’s wrath. However‚ to survive one must transcend the unspeakable horrors from the fighting. The French women of World War II who survived the war exemplify this transcendence. Left under the control of the Nazi occupation‚ these women had to protect their family and their morals. Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale addresses the topic of surviving war through the perspectives
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reference to what literary critics and the like would refer to as the "tragic hero". The tragic hero‚ as defined by Camus‚ is a character in a story‚ play‚ or novel that is forever doomed to an undesirable fate. In The Stranger‚ the story’s protagonist Monsieur Meursault would be defined as a "tragic hero". He is eventually doomed to a most horrible fate‚ he feels no hope for himself or his survival‚ and he accepts what he has to do with no question. As a result of the murder that Meursault committed
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The sun beams down‚ its smoldering rays spread to all they can reach. In the distance there stands a man‚ Monsieur Meursault‚ his hand in his pocket clenching the trigger of a gun. He stands there‚ watching another man along the beach‚ the Arab‚ anticipating him to make a move. And at the sight of seeing the Arab move‚ Meursault raises the gun and shoots -- hesitates a moment more then‚ fires four more shots at the now still body. Most people when trying to understand why things happen‚ ask the
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