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#7 in cold blood irrational thoughts

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  • Capote’s meticulous research—he had even befriended the murderers, Dick Hickock and Perry Smith, for five years before their execution in 1965—resulted in a literary landmark.
  • Connor P on 22 Mar 12
     
    This quote shows the relationship that had developed between Capote and the murderers. Thus this leads to his in depth analysis of them and the understanding of their irrationality
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#6 in cold blood isolaton

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  • Capote became especially close to Smith, whose lonely childhood, physical self-consciousness, and artistic aspirations resonated with the writer.
  • Connor P on 22 Mar 12
     
    This shows that Capote was able to interact and understand the truth of Perrys isolation and irrationality. He shows this in his writing through proof of his bad parents and neglectful childhood
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#5 in cold blood isolaton friendship

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  • Hickock is extroverted, resourceful, and “manly.” “Dick’s literalness,” the reader is told, “his pragmatic approach to every subject,
  • was the primary reason Perry had been attracted to him, for it made Dick seem, compared to himself, so authentically tough, invulnerable, ‘totally masculine.’”
  • Connor P on 22 Mar 12
     
    This shows the fact that Dick is using Perry and he does not truly care about him. Thus he is neglected in his mid adult life which leads to his murder sprees
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#4 in cold blood parenting neglect

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  • As a child, Perry was shunted from one orphanage to another, neglected by an alcoholic mother and a father who drifted in search of gold.
  • Connor P on 21 Mar 12
     
    This quote shows the neglection in perrys life. It also shows how he did not have any role models to set his thoughts straight
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#3 in cold blood irrational thoughts parenting

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  • His romantic escapism (he dreams of diving for treasure but cannot swim, imagines himself a famous tap dancer but has hopelessly maimed legs) becomes comprehensible in the light of his homeless, brutalized background, more bizarre than any fiction; his undoing is elaborately plausible.
  • Connor P on 21 Mar 12
     
    This quote shows the irrationality of perrys thoughts for they do not make sense as he hopes to dive for treasure but cannot swim. This also goes into the effects of his childhood.
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#2 in cold blood parenting irrational thoughts

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  • Readers learn of Perry’s fantasies of being “Perry O’Parsons,” a singer in the limelight at a Las Vegas showplace. Readers are told of his dreams in which he is swallowed by a huge snake, rescued at the last moment by a big yellow bird, a Christ figure, that wafts him to heaven.
  • Connor P on 21 Mar 12
     
    This here shows Perry's irrational thoughts as stemmed by his parents neglection. His odd dreams help the reader understand the effects of the poor parenting in his life.
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  • After his parents separated, Smith lived with an alcoholic mother who became a prostitute; a brother and sister who committed suicide
  • and a father whose fanciful dreams kept Smith moving from place to place, unable to continue his education past the third grade.
  • In his twenties, Smith has a falling out with his father. They had built a hunting lodge in Alaska, a venture which quickly failed, and after a Page 183  |  Top of Article violent episode where each tried to kill the other, they parted ways.
  • Connor P on 21 Mar 12
     
    This shows the troubles that Perry has in his early childhood. It also shows the isolation he faces and the poor parenting and lack of support. This motivates him to go on a life of crime
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#7 as i lay dying isolaton cash symbolism

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  • The scattering and arduous retrieval of Cash's tools from the river, like Cash's broken leg, signals the deskilling and isolation that the family will suffer as they leave the countryside.
  • Connor P on 01 Mar 12
     
    Again the individual isolation is seen at one of the two "climaxes" of the novel. Cash shows it here through the destruction of his tools, it shows the family chemistry cannot be fixed
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#6 as i lay dying isolaton cash darl

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  • With Cash, Darl believes that he shares a close affinity, as though he and Cash truly were one person. Addie's narration partially explains this curious affiliation, for she has lumped the boys together and disowned them both:
  • Connor P on 01 Mar 12
     
    This here shows the specfic isolation of Cash and Darl. Addie disowns them as she lumps them into the pre-Jewel children, and this isolation has different effects on both boys
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#5 as i lay dying isolaton selfishness

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  • The burial march to Jefferson tests this family's mettle, repeatedly forcing them to place the common good above their individual concerns. Darl's incarceration, as we have seen, is an instance of the Bundren family's protecting itself by means of sacrificing one of its own individual members
  • Connor P on 01 Mar 12
     
    This refers to the selfish motives of the characters that isolate them on the journey to Jefferson. Because everyone is focused on their goals, no one seems to care about Addie and her burial
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#4 as i lay dying isolaton structure

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  • against the chapters as discrete units and against the isolation of individual consciousnesses that the chapter breaks reflect--in order to illuminate larger coherences born of the characters' multiple voices, but utterly inassimilable to them and unavailable to the characters themselves.
  • Connor P on 01 Mar 12
     
    This source is interesting as it comments that Faulkner uses the choppy breaking up of narrators to show the isolation of the family. as no member has consequtive chapters nor are the chapters intertwining view points
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#3 as i lay dying isolaton selfishness family disunity

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  • A strong irony is at work in most of the monologues in the novel, revealing Anse and his children with their individual dreams and preoccupations, some of them utterly selfish,
  • A whole range of emotions colors the monologues and hence the novel as a whole, from anger and hatred and fear to loyalty and reverence.
  • Connor P on 01 Mar 12
     
    This is the theme of selfishness and hostility within the family. Both of these Gothic elements imployed by Faulker lead to the ultimate theme of isolation
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#2 as i lay dying isolaton gothic elements

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  • he uses Gothic imagery and atmosphere in particular to highlight this idea. Gothicism is also used in Faulkner's work to emphasize
  • distorted religious views, the clash between those with power and those without, the isolation of the individual, humans' powerlessness in an indifferent universe, the moral decay of the community, the burden of history, the horrors of humans' treatment of each other, and the problem of evil.
  • Connor P on 01 Mar 12
     
    This shows how Faulkner uses his Gothic elements to highlight his specific themes such as isolation. this is the main theme in As I Lay Dying, as it leads the the struggles in the family and their destruction
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#1 as i lay dying isolaton alienation

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  • As a result of their communication problems, members of the Bundren family live alienated from each other—whether willfully (like Addie or Jewel), unknowingly (like Anse, Cash, Dewey Dell, or Vardaman), or painfully (like Darl).
  • This alienation extends to neighbors, who misinterpret or simply cannot fathom the family's actions.
  • Connor P on 01 Mar 12
     
    This shows the isolation and alienation in the characters live. As isolation spawns alienation, this main theme reflects the families ability to communicate together and interact
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#7 frankenstein isolaton responsibility

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  • The society in which Frankenstein and Walton alike opt for the isolation of individual pursuits over the socializing impulses of human interaction proves to be the real agent in redefining the parameters of creative activity.
  • Acts are replaced by words, activity by passivity, responsibility by the irresponsibly ambivalent, and individuality by abstraction. The person is dissolved.
  • Connor P on 16 Feb 12
     
    This source shows how related the character of Victor and Walton in the themes of isolation. It also taks about their irresponsibilty and the chaos of their lives. Thus their structures are paralle
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#6 frankenstein isolaton doppelganger

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  • Victor and the creature are “doubles” (or mirrors) of each other because they are both struck with the inability to successfully communicate with society. This theme demonstrates the balance of the conscious and unconscious aspects of human behavior.
  • Connor P on 16 Feb 12
     
    This source shows the doppelganger between the monster and Victor as they are doubles of each other. One of their connections is the fact that both are isolated and cannot communicate with society. This leads to the theme of isolation.
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#5 frankenstein sanity vs insanity chaos vs order

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  • It shares also the sense of crossing lines or boundaries and of otherworldliness. The enormous popularity of the Gothic novel had actually passed by 1816, but the genre, with its emphasis on darkness, madness, the supernatural, and strange passions, has never been fully dead.
  • Connor P on 16 Feb 12
     
    This talks about the theme of sanity vs insanity and chaos vs order. The gothic elements helps make the novel dark and chaotic in which Victor must define because of his responsibility. The helpful gothic elements of madness and darkenss help further these themes
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#4 frankenstein isolaton true monster

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  • The bounds that Frankenstein transgresses are those of obedience to community. He makes himself a monster in two senses. The price is death not only for himself but for his family and potentially all humanity.
  • Connor P on 16 Feb 12
     
    This source shows that irony that Shelley creates in which no one truly knows who the monster is. Through the behavior of Victor, he leads the reader to question wether or not he is the monster. This also shows the isolation of his life.
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frankenstein #3 responsibility chaos vs order

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  • while Shelley's Gothic in Frankenstein (1818) urges personal integrity and social responsibility in an age of scientific progress, and represents the anxiety produced by the disruption of the traditional, known natural world order.
  • Connor P on 16 Feb 12
     
    This source discusses the theme of responsiility in the novel as Victor is responsibile for the monster life. It also talks about the theme of chaos vs order as the creation of a new life form disturbs the order of the world. Thus Victor must make order out of the choatic world and accpet the responsibillity of his actions
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frankenstein #2 doppelganger foil

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  • Many commentators have viewed the monster as Dr. Frankenstein's double, an example of the doppelgänger archetype. In a similar vein, critics have discussed Dr. Frankenstein and the monster as embodying Sigmund Freud's theory of id and ego.
  • Connor P on 16 Feb 12
     
    This source references to the comparison between Victor and the monster. Thus the two are doppelgangers while they are also each others foils. They cannot survive without being near each other, and while they share many traits, one has the traits that the other lacks.
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