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Candide Calls for Cultivating Our Gardens
Candide Calls for Cultivating Our Gardens Cari Gilkison, French Literature 1996 Candide takes us through a very violent and pessimistic world only to show us that there is indeed hope. While Pangloss introduces us to thinking that all is for … Continue reading
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Tagged 1996, Candide, Candide Calls for Cultivating Our Gardens, Cari Gilkison, Chains, Change the World, Cundegonde, Earthquake, Eldorado, Existence, Faults, French Literature in Translation, Garden of Eden, gauntlet, Greed, hope, Illusions, Lust, Mary Joyce, Optimism, OSU, Pangloss, Purpose, Question Things, Shipwreck, Trauma, Triumph, Utopia, Voltaire, Weathering the storm, Westphalia
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Madame de Cleves and Morality
Madame de Cleves and Morality Cari Gilkison, French Literature 1996 During the period when The Princess de Cleves was set and especially the time it was written, the French were particularly hypocritical. The society in which Madame de Cleves … Continue reading
Greed Is Nurtured In The Grandet Family
Greed Is Nurtured In The Grandet Family Cari Gilkison, French Literature 1996 The world of the Grandet family is one full of greed. Why is this? Because is a trait that is nurtured by one’s environment and not innate … Continue reading
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Tagged 1996, Aggressive, assertive, Cari Gilkison, Charles, Controlling, Eugénie Grandet, Eugenie, French Literature in Translation, Greed, Honoré de Balzac, Influence, Love, mankind, Mary Joyce, Money, Nanon, Nature, nurture, Paris, Passive, selfishness, Wealth
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Aimless Ambition in The Red and The Black
Aimless Ambition in The Red and The Black Cari Gilkison, French Literature 1996 Julien wants to get away from the lower class that he despises. He is driven by ambition to rise above his place in life. What Julien doesn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Literature/Pop Culture, Politics/Economics
Tagged 1996, Aimless Ambition, Cari Gilkison, Cerebal Love, Class, Duchess, Failures, French Literature in Translation, Happiness, Julien, la Mole, Love, Lust, Martyr, Mary Joyce, Master, Mme de Renal, Money, OSU, Paris, Power, Pregnancy, Redmption, Rural, Status, Stendhal, The Red and the Black, Wealth
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Sartre Says Religion Isn’t Responsibilty
Sartre Says Religion Isn’t Responsibility Cari Gilkison, French Literature 1996 Sartre fills his plays with many moral lessons for us. He has much to say on life, love, responsibility and the existential dilemma we all face. One very important … Continue reading
Posted in Literature/Pop Culture, Religion, Science/Philosophy
Tagged 1996, Acceptance, Blame, Caril Gilkison, Choices, Crutch, Electra, Escape, Existentialism, Fred, French Literature in Translation, Lizzie, Mary Joyce, No Exit and other Plays, Orestes, OSU, regret, Religion, Responsibility, Sartre, Scapegoat, The Flies, The Respectful Prostitute, Zeus
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