Comparatively, the death of her mother for Celie in 'The Color Purple' by Alice Walker is void of any sort of emotional attachment. ... The linear structure of the passage's narration enables us to see more starkly the contrasting reactions to death from various characters, building up to Heathcliff's spiteful curse and refusal to let Cathy be at peace without him. ... This borderline morbid admittance once again demonstrates the depravity of Bronte's characters psyches, but also from 'Divine rest' the reader can infer Bronte's belief in some form of a...

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It had a black canal in it and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye. (30) Associating Coketown with "the painted face of a savage" implies that the growing urbanization is in reality the opposite of what it claims to be; rather than modern and civilized, it is harsh and barbaric. ... As the one voice of the town, the public inscriptions, should serve as a representation of the society as a whole; Dickens harshly and bitterly depicts these notices as void of any feeling or emotion, lacking any character or softness: "All the public inscriptions in the town were painted alike, in se...

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