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“ROSALIND He’s fall’n in love with your foulness. (to SILVIUS) And 70 she’ll fall in love with my anger. If it be so, as fast as she answers thee with frowning looks, I’ll sauce her with bitter words. (to PHOEBE) Why look you so upon me?”
― SparkNotes, As You Like It: No Fear Shakespeare Side-by-Side Plain English

“Part of the greater importance of the novella owes to its treatment of Animal Farm not as an isolated entity but as part of a network of farms—an analogue to the international political arena. Orwell thus comments on Soviet Russia and the global circumstances in which it arose. But the tactics that we see the pigs utilizing here—the overworking of the laboring class, the justification of luxuries indulged in by the ruling class, the spreading of propaganda to cover up government failure or ineffectiveness—evoke strategies implemented not only by communist Russia but also by governments throughout the world needing to oppress their people in order to consolidate their power.”
― SparkNotes, Animal Farm

“God intends each individual to choose his own moral destiny rather than be constrained by the legacy of his parents.”
― SparkNotes, East of Eden

“Political subversion depends on a subversion of logic and language”
― SparkNotes, Animal Farm

“people naturally seek knowledge of that which is their true goal and happiness, that is, the vision of God.”
― SparkNotes, Thomas Aquinas

“earth, and time.”
― SparkNotes, The Shipping News

“The animals win easily when they rebel against Mr. Jones, and as a result they make the mistake of thinking they have overcome political power itself. In reality they have only overcome one of the forms that political power can take.”
― SparkNotes, Animal Farm

“Narrative style contains built-in ideology that effects what is reported and how it is reported”
― SparkNotes, Ulysses

“The pigs—and Napoleon in particular—come to embody political power in three ways. First, they claim more and more of the farms’ resources for themselves. They start by stealing milk and apples, then eventually sell animal products to buy human luxuries like whisky. Second, the pigs become more violent, introducing the dog police force and ordering executions. Third, the pigs claim the power to determine what truth is. Squealer changes the Commandments of Animalism and the story of the Battle of the Cowshed. Meanwhile, the animals slowly come to realize that their lives are no better than they were before the Rebellion.”
― SparkNotes, Animal Farm

“if man only has the opportunity to try one path, to make one decision, there is no point of comparison and hence no meaning but instead an unbearable weightlessness. No decision can be considered informed or moral if we cannot compare paths.”
― SparkNotes, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“In cases where two characters are referred to by the exact same name (for instance, Aureliano Segundo’s son is also known as “José Arcadio”), we have added a roman numeral to the character’s name for the sake of clarity, even though that roman numeral does not appear in García Márquez’s book: the second”
― SparkNotes, 100 Years of Solitude

“all men by nature desire to know,”
― SparkNotes, Thomas Aquinas

“It is perhaps more accurate to view the hallucinations of “Circe” as emanating not out of the subconscious of individual characters but out of the subconscious of the novel itself.”
― SparkNotes, Ulysses

“Things Fall Apart is set in the 1890s”
― SparkNotes, Things Fall Apart

“all political parties are anti-individualistic and would deny her privacy.”
― SparkNotes, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“In saying that something ought to be desired, I am assuming that the world ought to be a certain way. Further, I only feel the world ought to be a certain way if it is not entirely that way already: if there was no such thing as murder it would not make sense for me to say that people should not commit murder. Thus, having values implies that we feel the world ought to be different from the way it is.”
― SparkNotes, The Myth of Sisyphus

“The pigs, echoing another tactic of the victorious governments after World War II, use the heroism of individuals from the lower classes to reinforce the patriotism of the demoralized survivors. Orwell crafts particularly keen descriptions of the patriotic celebrations and rituals after the animals’ war with Mr. Frederick’s men. He subtly implies that while such ceremonies have the apparent function of bestowing the glory of the state upon the individual, they truly serve the opposite goal: to transfer the nobility of individual sacrifices onto the state.”
― SparkNotes, Animal Farm

“considers the “theological virtues,” such as faith, hope, charity, prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance, and the gifts of grace,”
― SparkNotes, Thomas Aquinas

“Within Animal Farm’s allegory of Soviet Communism, Foxwood represents the United Kingdom, and Mr. Pilkington represents the British ruling class. Animal Farm therefore suggests that Britain is an old-fashioned country, badly run by self-serving aristocrats. This criticism of Britain’s rulers deepens when Mr. Pilkington eats dinner with the pigs in the novella’s final chapter. Mr. Pilkington congratulates Napoleon on his cruel efficiency. He jokes: “If you have your lower animals to contend with […] we have our lower classes!” (Chapter 10). This moment crystallizes the novella’s argument that Soviet totalitarianism and British capitalism are essentially the same: cruel and exploitative.”
― SparkNotes, Animal Farm

“Tereza is heavy emotionally and cannot cope with the lightness around her, and is driven nearly to insanity.”
― SparkNotes, The Unbearable Lightness of Being