The book starts out by describing Oceania under a dictator. ... While walking in the hallway at work Winston receives a note from a beautiful woman that reads, I love you. ... Winston gets a black book from the brotherhood about over throwing the government and everything he needs, and reads some of it aloud to Julia and they both fall asleep. ... After he is freed he knows that he will be killed soon because he was told so. ... The whole point of the book was to show what the future could have held for the people at the time the author was writing it. ...

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He decided almost at once to go back to the States and to get going on his book. ... At the same time, he was trying to think of ideas for his new book. ... For the next month or so, although Robert was struggling to get his book going, he began spending some time with this crowd. ... Robert was now pounding away at his new book which seemed to flow easier every day. ...

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Booker T. ... Proof of this materialist thought comes from the book "The Great Gatsby- by F. ... The main character in the book, Jay Gatsby, was affluent, but it was all part of a dream, a dream that never expires, a dream that stayed with Gatsby till his dying day. ... He notes every little detail about Daisy, even the little green light on at the end of her dock. ... He was clutching at some last hope and I couldn't bear to shake him free-(155). ...

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Free-spending or Parsimonious The next attribute of a Machiavellian prince is whether the free-spending prince or the parsimonious, tightfisted prince makes for a better ruler. Machiavelli contends that while the free-spending prince makes himself popular only with the few who benefit from it, the tightfisted ruler wins the popularity of his subjects because he does not increase their taxation. ... Essentially, the only people benefiting from a prince's free-spending on monuments were the architects, engineers, and the artists whereas the common people carried the increasing financial bu...

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For example, note that Francesca is the only female in hell who has a speaking part. ... As Galahalt was the go-between for the two ill-fated lovers, with Paolo and Francesca, Dante gives this function to the book and its author. ... She is seen placing blame for her demise not upon her own weakness, but upon a book and its "subversive" author. ... Prior to Laura's death, Petrarch was simply unable to free himself of the "splendid abyss" (Bernardo 67) in which he had become trapped due to his love of Laura. ...

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The word appears three times in Troilus and Criseyde, once in the above instance, and twice in Book III (Tatlock 294). ... It is interesting to note that the other two instances of the word "falsen- are associated with Troilus and how he will not falsen Criseyde. ... This is a clear reference to Dante, as he also calls upon the Holy Trinity in Canto 14 of the book of Paradise: "The One and Two and Three that there is King, And lives for ever Three and Two and One, By naught contained, containing everything- (28-30). ...

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After she is laid to rest in the family's crypt, the Friar and Romeo will secretly retrieve her, and she will be free to live with Romeo, away from their parents' feuding. ... After first kissing Juliet, she tells him "you kiss by th' book,"" meaning that he kisses according to the rules, and implying that while proficient, his kissing lacks originality (I.v.107). In reference to Rosaline, it seems, Romeo loves by the book. ...

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• Grade Level: High School