In light of an understanding of Conrad's use of irony we can began to look for a vision of Conrad's morality. ... So far The Secret Agent has provided us with one vision of a black-and-white morality, yet it is a morality unavailable to the adult human being. ... The Professor's morality, if it can be called that, seems to be heavily influenced by the Nietzschean master-slave relationship, which The Professor interprets to necessitate complete destruction of the weak for the survival of the strong. ... My superiority is evident" (Conrad: p93) The Professor has intellectualised ...

• Word Count: 1949
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

At eleven, his father records his son being taught by a "maestro of abacus" and a year later was learning Latin from a priest in the Chancery (Masters, 50). ... When he discovered meaningful ways of becoming more of a power ruler, he wrote in great detail what qualities an effective ruler must have under their principalities, and how past historical events amplify qualities into man's morality. ... Niccolo began with history but morality is an even bigger issue that plays an important part in the life of a ruler. ... Machiavelli identifies the importance of history and man'...

• Word Count: 1926
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Huckleberry Finn fits this criterion by demonstrating Huck's moral journey of breaking away from society's morality towards discovering his own. ... In his mindset, the only place that African Americans belong is strictly under the harsh hand of a white master, solely existing for the purpose of following commands. ... Huck believes whites are of a higher moral standard, demonstrating that his comment regarding Jim compliments Jim's morality, rather than acting as a way to establish white supremacy. ... Huck grapples with his loyalty to Jim and the morality of society that ha...

• Word Count: 2046
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The subjective will for the good, conscience, self-consciousness, while the will remains the master of itself, lays a firm foundation for opposition, but they also are catalysts which force one through the dialectical movement. In morality, the individual will reflects inward towards itself in order that it may become aware of itself (p75 105). ... Hegel's description of processes within morality by the subjective will such as the particular will's, willing of the universal. ... How can morality and particular subjective individuality ever solve this dilemma? ... It is not e...

• Word Count: 1805
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Granted that we can develop allegiance to a set of values derived from the morality of the task, are they sufficient for recognizing and accepting the values implied by the task of morality? Morality is not a matter of mere behavior, it is a matter of feeling too. Character is defined not only by the traits derived from mastering a task or problem but by qualities that reveal attentiveness to, and consideration for the feelings, needs, and rights of other people. ... Dewey allows that in order to transition from what we have called the morality of the task to the task of morality, one...

• Word Count: 1928
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Kennith Stampp, said throughout his paper that slaves were, in some cases, content with their lives because those who were born into slavery had no way of knowing the morality or ethics behind their position due to only knowing slavery from their first breath. ... Also, Stampp gave insight to potential reasoning by supporters of slavery in that they argued due to the kindness the masters showed the slaves, the slaves were cheerful and content with their servitude. ... He demonstrates his uniqueness through his approach of giving a variety of perspectives and by his in-depth analysis and sociol...

• Word Count: 1397
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

His opinions on morality and justice changed the society he lived in and continue to have strong influence on our society today. ... In his works, The Hedonistic Calculus, Bentham claims that nature "has placed mankind under two sovereign masters, pleasure and pain" (Gill, 2000). ... Overall, Bentham's theories on the morality of law and law itself are very solid. ...

• Word Count: 1436
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Egypt, though subordinated to the Christian and biblical traditions on issues of religion and morality, was clearly placed as the source of all 'Gentile' or secular wisdom. ... Ma'at is also viewed in philosophy, perfection of knowledge, morality of truth and justice and the metaphysical. ...

• Word Count: 1943
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Although the "Great Master Kong was not recognized vastly during his life, it was his followers who publicized his teachings through a book known as The Analects. Living in the late period of the Zhou Dynasty during chaos and internal hostilities led Confucius to try to benefit the world by creating and spreading his beliefs of integrity and morality. ... The philosophy of Confucius was considered of great importance to the people of Traditional China for its high standard of morality. ...

• Word Count: 1560
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Although the "Great Master Kong" was not recognised vastly during his life, it was his followers who publicised his teachings through a book known as The Analects. Living in the late period of the Zhou Dynasty during chaos and internal hostilities led Confucius to try to benefit the world by creating and spreading his beliefs of integrity and morality. ... The philosophy of Confucius was considered of great importance to the people of Traditional China for its high standard of morality. ...

• Word Count: 1680
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Samuel Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a poem in which an "ancient mariner" accosts one of three men on their way to a wedding, and recounts a tale of his voyage to him. In the tale, the mariner kills an albatross and, by this crime, is subject to a slew of punishments which come in t...

• Word Count: 1986
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Henry Knox wanted to destroy the Cherokee tribes in order to gain land for the United States, although he questions the morality of whether to acquire the Cherokee land, his conclusion forebodes the appropriation. ... Jackson is explaining that subjects should not have to negotiate a treaty, and that taking the land should be a right of the master (U.S), upon his subjects (Cherokee Indians). ...

• Word Count: 1417
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Henry Knox wanted to destroy the Cherokee tribes in order to gain land for the United States, although he questions the morality of whether to acquire the Cherokee land, his conclusion forebodes the appropriation. ... Jackson is explaining that subjects should not have to negotiate a treaty, and that taking the land should be a right of the master (U.S), upon his slave (Cherokee Indians). ...

• Word Count: 1395
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

By being masters of themselves and proprietors of their own actions and labor, men had in themselves a great foundation of property and independence. ... By virtue of recognizing these God-given rights and laws of nature, through exercising dominion over oneself with regard to the rights of others, societies would benefit greatly in sustaining civility and morality. ... Just as Locke asserted we are born into natural law(s) or as Tocqueville claimed that democracy would unavoidably harvest civility and morality, Marx claimed that the resolution of the problems of capitalism were alrea...

• Word Count: 2003
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Poetry of the period seemed to have exhausted its civic and moral spirit, peculiar to the works of the great masters of the past like Shakespeare, Milton and Byron. ... It also marked a distinctive break with the bourgeois morality of the Victorian Age, rejecting 19th-century optimism and presenting a profoundly pessimistic picture of a culture in disarray. ... The publication won Eliot an international reputation of incontestable master of verse-making. ...

• Word Count: 1915
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Societal Rehabilitation Fyodor Dostoyevsky's work in Crime and Punishment can be cited as largely autobiographical. Although the author never committed anything like the atrocious murders depicted in the novel, the nihilistic traits of his protagonist, Raskolnikov, closely resemble his own i...

• Word Count: 1580
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

After all, "our passions belong to Folly" (Radice, electronic version) and "A man, led by his passions [is] like a beast, he is but the worst of slaves, inasmuch as he gives himself up willingly to so many and such detestable masters" (Radice, electronic version). ... However, his opinions are a significant view the role of personal ethics and morality in a society, and should be treated with great regard....

• Word Count: 1530
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Her disconnected adolescence and the questionable morality of her actions as an adult provided source for many novels she wrote, rousing contempt from some of her contemporaries and praise from others. ... Benson the music master who gave the children weekly half-hour lessons in singing and reading music"(11) Mellor states. ...

• Word Count: 1927
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Explore the role of colonialism and 'the other' in Jane Eyre, with particular reference to the characters of Bertha and St. John By 1847, when Jane Eyre was first published, slavery had been abolished for nearly 14 years, and yet themes of racism, colonialism and slavery are prevalent thro...

• Word Count: 2218
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Not only is her morality called into question, the spectatorship will naturally not be positive in the relationship to her character. ... Eve and Phyllis are not allowed to be masters of their own destinies "Phyllis's pregnancy happens because Harry and Eve ultimately cannot repair their marriage. ...

• Word Count: 1886
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

However, people still put the interested in money and power more than morality: "African who refused to work for the Belgian was routinely beaten to death. ... Especially in the West Africa, "despite worldwide condemnation of slaver, and laws against it, as many as eight million Africans died from overwork or were slaughter by their master in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries" (Off 71). ...

• Word Count: 2438
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Orsino's final command that Viola should become her "master's mistress," shows the male dominance over the female sex. ... Shakespeare is using the audience's responses to present the illogical defining characteristics of a respected man, which depend not on morality, or even position in society, but on power, control and intelligence. ...

• Word Count: 2131
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate