This theme is very much reflected by the books" setting, plot structure and characterization, we all have the potential to be evil because evil exists within all of us. ... Civility, in essence, provides the basic structure for good. Through laws, structure, and general order, goodness then, for the most part will be the end product. ... (Wilde 107) Dorian's lifestyle can be paralleled to the Congo in that it is similarly used to represent the absence of restraint and order. ...

• Word Count: 1170
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

A regression took place, predominantly to an earlier, anal level of the organization of drives and drive-monitoring forces and structures. ... There was a parallel alteration in representations of intimate objects and the possibilities of interaction with them. ... However, I wish to stress two things: 1) this is not the only way intrapsychic structures are altered; and 2) in Mr. ... For my purposes, the theory of the ego (both as an abstraction for structure and as "self") and its object relations, and the theory of drives, selectively became the figure of the Gestalt. The other points of vie...

• Word Count: 1675
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It would be wrong to say that Golding did not use the Freudian mind structure as a basis for this novel, as the similarities among the 3 parts and Jack, Ralph, and Piggy are uncanny; the names of the characters and names of Freudian counterparts could probably be used interchangeably. The Id's lack of rational or emotional values is directly paralleled to Jack's unnecessary hunting, murders, and destruction. ...

• Word Count: 736
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Both philosophers put forth well-structured arguments with examples that seem to prove their case. ... He proved this by paralleling a "just man" with that of a "just society"; wisdom, the mind or to rule and make decisions, courage, the heart, enforces the decisions, and temperance, the body, the people who follow the rules. ...

• Word Count: 1528
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

According to Locke, God patiently succumbed to a different structure than what most people may have imagined. ... While Locke and Tocqueville may contend that the will of men parallels the will of God, Marx asserts that those who do not recognize the "truth" about history and society are being deluded by their false consciousness, the ideas and attitudes which are due to their economic position: the capitalist mode of production naturally prevents those who benefit from it from consciously acknowledging the truth about their society. ...

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

The beginning chapter sets up the problems of the entire novel with great efficiency. It tells us what is going on at present with Obi's trial and backtracks to the past in order to reveal what kind of man Obi is: an educated man, a young man who is Nigerian but who has studied in England. Most sign...

• Word Count: 7844
• Approx Pages: 31
• Grade Level: High School

Cushing Scott states that, Miller has argued for (the) historical truth (of the play), pointed to its contemporary parallels, and defined its transhistorical subject as a social process that includes, but also transcends, the Salem witchcraft trials a the anticommunist investigations of the 1950's (128). ... The sense of an evolving general situation, so well achieved by tight structure in The Crucible... is larg y gone (Heilman 151). ...

• Word Count: 11015
• Approx Pages: 44
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School