does do some
orchestrating ofas a puppet, although Dimmesdale's own torture in that situation is remaining
clueless as to the nature from which the torture is derived.
His own
torture that he cast upon himself with no help from Chillingworth came from Dimmesdale's own
preaching. He loved...
When Scrooge wakes
up on Christmas morning, he is feeling rejuvenated and his character is completely reformed. We
see evidence of this through his activities on the day, beginning with his purchase of a
prize-winning turkey which he sends directly to the home of his employee, Bob
Cratchit.
Next, Scrooge meets on the street with one of the men who visited
his office in Stave One to request a charitable donation for the poor. Unlike the first time,
Scrooge offers the man an undisclosed amount towards his fund. It is clearly a lot of money as
the man is extremely pleased with the offer:
"Lord
bless me!" cried the gentleman, as if his breath were gone. "My dear Scrooge, are you
serious?"
After this, Scrooge attends Church and
then wanders the street, patting children on the head, talking to beggars and generally taking
pleasure in life. He then walks to the house of his nephew, Fred, and has dinner with the
family. Fred is pleasantly surprised by his uncle's unexpected appearance after he so vehemently
refused his offer in Stave One. Again, this is strong evidence of the strength of Scrooge's
transformation.
From Fred's, Scrooge pays a visit to his employee, Bob.
Scrooge pretends to be angry with him and acts as though he might fire Bob. But, in fact,
Scrooge offers Bob a pay rise, much to the Cratchit family's delight.
Finally, the reader learns that Scrooge keeps the promises he has made to the charity
collector and to Bob Cratchit and his family:
Scrooge was
better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more.
Good question,
because it is important to keep in mind that all wars are collaborative efforts. So, first of
all women did all the things that men did, who went off to war. For example, they worked in the
fields in the farms and took care of daily life (whatever had to be done). They also helped more
directly by driving ambulances, serving as medical persons, and working in other non-combatant
positions. They also helped by knitting things for the men, and doing whatever was needed for
the war campaign.
The term
"post-impressionism" covers a wide variety of different artistic styles. On a banal
level, they are all post-impressionist in that they come after the movement known as
impressionism, associated with the work of artists such as Monet. Impressionism sought to depict
certain features of the objective world, albeit in a new and radically different way.
Impressionists sought to capture the fleeting moments they observed in the natural world around
them, using vivid colors and textures to achieve their intended effects.
Post-impressionists, on the other hand, were more concerned with...
In
, the Brotherhood is the name of the secret organization whose role is to
bring down the Party. In Part Two, Chapter Eight, whenandare at 's
apartment, the reader gets a sense of how the Brotherhood fulfills this role. Its members
murder, cheat, forge, and betray their country. In order to keep its membership and activities
secret, the Brotherhood keeps no records or membership lists.
In Part Three
of 1984, however, it becomes clear that the Brotherhood (and its head,
Emmanuel Goldstein) do not exist. This has an important effect on the Brotherhood's role:
instead of being a protest group, the Brotherhood is used by the Party to
highlight those who secretly wish to rebel. Once the Party knows
the identities of these people, it imprisons and tortures them until they relent, as we see in
the cases of Winston and Julia.
According to the speaker
of the poem,died because "the winged seraphs of Heaven / Coveted" the "love that
was more than love" felt by the speaker and Annabel Lee for one another (lines 9, 11-12).
This is particularly interesting, I think, because we typically conceive of angels as being pure
and virtuous. However, the speaker presents himself and Annabel as the innocent ones, saying,
"I was a child and she was a child," and
presents angels as covetous and really rather vicious (line 7). By suggesting that the angels
purposely sent a wind from a cloud to chill Annabel, killing her, in order to separate the
lovers, whose beautiful love they envied, the speaker paints these angels as rather cruel. They
weren't "half so happy in Heaven" as the speaker and Annabel were on earth, and so the
speaker...
The
Freedmen's Bureau was established during the Civil War by the United States government to deal
with the challenges faced by the hundreds of thousands of former slaves in the South. It was
really unprecedented at the federal level. Freedmen's Bureau workers, who included former Union
soldiers, Northern teachers, lawyers, and many others, attempted to help freed people in a
number of ways. They set up schools, hospitals, and even, in some cases, houses for
African-Americans (and some poor whites) dislocated by the war. They helped freedmen negotiate
labor and sharecropping contracts with white landowners, and tried to ensure that former slaves
received fair prices on land purchases. The Bureau also attempted to help black men and women
find their families, many of which had been separated by sale or by the war itself. There had
never been a relief organization like the Freedmen's Bureau at the federal level, and many
argued that it exceeded the constitutional authority of Congress. President Andrew Johnson
vetoed it in 1868, and a Republican-dominated Congress overrode his veto. Eventually the Bureau
died out, and it was no longer existent in 1872.
Its long-term legacy is
complex. On the one hand, the Bureau failed to promote the kinds of structural economic reforms
(i.e. confiscation of plantations and distribution of lands to former slaves) that the South's
newly freed people desperately needed. The Bureau operated on the assumption that black men, as
free laborers, would be best suited as farm workers, often on the same lands, and for the same
people, they had served before the war. But the Freedmen's Bureau also set up many schools and
universities that would be centers of African-American culture even during the depths of Jim
Crow. It helped thousands of people who otherwise might have starved in the wake of the war. And
it demonstrated, if only temporarily, that the federal government bore some obligation to the
people it had freed by destroying the Confederacy.
