The Story Of Greasy Lake

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As young adolescents, we tend to think being "bad" was cool. It was cool to act rebellious and act out of the norm. As the story begins, the narrator declares to the reader, there was a time "when it was good to be bad" (p.77, 1). The young men in the story see themselves as tough characters, "We were all dangerous characters then. We wore torn-up leather ...

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The Discipline Of Comparative Literature

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Comparative Literature as a discipline implies transcending the frontiers of single languages and national literatures. For a comparatist, any literature is basically a literature which has to be studied with reference to other literatures, generally on a bilingual/ multilingual basis. The multilingual consciousness, which has often been distinguished from a polyglot situation, is characterized by the paradoxical desire to be one and yet remain many. Here we ...

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Olive Senior Is A Feminist: Discuss

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According to the Web definition, a feminist is the view, articulated in the 19th century, that women are inherently equal to men and deserve equal rights and opportunities. Olive Senior was born in a time when women in Jamaica were beginning to be empowered. Empowered, in the sense that they were more than house wives and teachers. Olive Senior in an interview stated that, "………..I think basically ...

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Macbeth's Ambition Lead To His Demise

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In Shakespeare's play Macbeth, one could argue that Macbeth is motivated to commit his evil acts by three possible forces. The main force is Macbeth's ambition, he tries to be and do too much by killing and betraying his friends and his king, which later in the play leads to his downfall and even death. Other possible forces are the three witches, who gave Macbeth the idea ...

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A Feminist Criticism Of 'Proof'

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"Proof" is a play by David Auburn, modern American play -writer. The play was produced for the first time at May 2000. Five years later Auburn adapted the play for the screen, and the movie "Proof" starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins, and Jake Gyllenhaal was also produced. This research is focused on the play but some references on the movie can be helpful also. The objective of ...

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Uncle Toms Cabin And American Romanticism

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In Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe emphasizes that the effects of slavery are just as tragic for the slave as they are for the slave-holder. American Romanticism was a time period of inner exploration as well as outward exploration in society and also how it is run. Harriet Beecher Stowe the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin explored the conflicts within society regarding slavery. Uncle Tom's Cabin ...

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The Betrayal Of Childhood Innocence

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In this novel, I feel that one of the major themes is the loss of innocence and Leo is the character to whom the loss and betrayal of innocence, especially childhood innocence is referred to. I feel that "innocence" should be defines as the state of being sinless or unacquainted with evil and "betrayal" as the act of breeching trust and disclosing information to seduce. This I ...

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Themes, Styles and Techniques of O.Henry

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Themes, Styles and Techniques of O.Henry William Sidney Porter was born Thursday evening at Nine o’clock, September 11, 1862. He was born a few miles south of Greensboro, North Carolina, in Centre Community on Polecat Creek. (Arnett 1) His father, Algernon Sidney Porter, was a physician. When William was three, his mother died, and he was raised by his grandmother. William was a good reader, but at ...

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The Tempest Presents The Theme Of Power

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William Shakespeare's "The Tempest" is one of Shakespeare's later plays, estimated to have been written in 1610, it is a play largely focussed on the theme of power. Power manifests itself in "The Tempest" in many different ways, including the exploration of the power of love, the universal desire for power amongst men, the power of a master over his slave, and the power of magic and ...

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The Goblin Market Analysis

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Goblin market is a poem that revolve around two young ladies-Laura and Lizzie who struggle with everyday temptation and sins. With Laura falling into temptation of sin we see Lizzie saving her sister from dearth by placing her own life just like Jesus Christ did. In fact, the poem uses feminine approach to show Satan the biblical themes. According to Silvia Shurbutt on Rossetti's "consciousness attempt to ...

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The American Dream in The Great Gatsby

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The American dream is a term used to refry to the core elements of what Americans view as core values in life such as wealth, a good job and a life with value. The dream is basically about what many, if not all Americans live to achieve all their lives. John Fitzgerald s the great gabby kills the American dream it is the story of a man ...

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Short Stories Of D H Lawrence

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The short stories of D. H. Lawrence are many and varied; he wrote them throughout of his working life and the complete edition fill three volumes. In many of his works, Lawrence uses identical situations, plots, images, and themes, often reflecting the journey of the author's life. It could be described as four distinct stages he went through. The first may be indicated as the Nottingham or ...

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Childrens Needs And Violence Against Children

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„I do not believe in a child world… I believe that child should be taught from the very first that the whole world is his world, that adult and child should share one world…" Pearl S. Buck The aim of the following thesis is to present the image of a child in Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist. On the strength of this novel, the author will attempt ...

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Examining The Fate Of Macbeth Plays

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The idea of fate is recalled numerous times within Shakespeare's play "Macbeth". Fate was first introduced whenever Macbeth and Banquo came upon the three witches. The Witches predicted Macbeth's future, "All hail, Macbeth! That shalt be king hereafter."(1, iii, 50). Here Macbeth is told he would be Thane of Cawdor, he would become king, and that Banquo's children would succeed him on the throne. However these were ...

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The Ambiguity Of My Papas Waltz

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Although it is important to first read a poem as the poet intended it to be read, one must also consider the hidden, deeper meaning of a poem. On one hand, by reading a poem with the poet's intended meaning one can utilize poetic devices to enhance the meaning of the poem. On the other hand, by searching for other, profound meanings of the poem, one can ...

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Portrayal Of Women In Shakespearean Plays

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Many adolescent females enrolled in the grade 12, university English course could well be discouraged by the representation of women displayed in the assigned literature. It is quite a culture shock as in past English courses, there has always been strong, powerful female characters analyzed, such as Harper Lee's, Scout and Calpurnia; William Shakespeare's, Portia, Lady Macbeth, and Juliet; and Charles Dickens, Estella. However, both of the ...

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The Use Of Realism In Short Stories

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J.P Stern defined realism as being: 'no more, and no less, than an undertaking to look all the relevant facts in the face'. [1] Literary realism is a trend that began in nineteenth century French literature. Realist authors such as Flaubert, Maupassant and Emile Zola depicted contemporary life and society, including everyday common duties in their stories. These writers sought to represent life without any type of exaggeration and ...

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Symbolism And Narrative Voice

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This extended essay aims to challenge the categorization of the female protagonists in Alice Walkers The Color Purple and Nawal El Saadawis Woman at Point Zero as "repressed" by examining the question "How is symbolism and narrative voice used by the authors to demonstrate each woman's struggle with marginalization?" The scope of this essay encompasses two works which endeavor to empower women as it depicts their overcoming ...

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Analyzing The Tragic Hero In Shakespeare's Othello

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Since the writing of Shakespeare's play in the 1600's there has been a great deal of controversy over the character of Othello. Critics have debated the extent to which he can be deemed a "tragic hero". Bradley and Leavis; two critics of "Othello", both have strong, yet largely differing views on Othello and how far he can be viewed as a true tragic hero. Bradley argues that ...

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Thomas Hardy's Style Of Poetry

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In this paper we are going to study Thomas Hardy´s life including some of his works. Then we are going to include an overview of the twenty century in the most important and influential events in Hardy´s work. Later, we will continue studying his style in poetry, prose and drama. After that, we will introduce an analysis of three important poems and finally we will give conclusion ...

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Powerful Women In The Sweet Hereafter

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In connection with The Sweet Hereafter, one interpretation is that women play a central role in the story. Only two women survive the accident this fact connects them throughout the story. They are the ones who restore peace in the small community that lost fourteen of its children in a bus accident. The relationship between these two central female characters is investigated with regards to the source ...

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Kate Chopin's: The Story Of An Hour

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Initially, the character of Mrs. Mallard seems to be presented as an old woman "afflicted with a heart trouble" (442). However, it is revealed that Mrs. Mallard is young with "a fair, calm face whose lines bespoke of repression" (442). With this revelation, Chopin's theme of repression becomes evident, and suddenly it is easier to notice just how carefully Chopin structures "The Story of an Hour" to ...

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Literary Criticism About Harry Potter

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The books about Harry Potter were written in England by J. Rowling and were published during the period from the 30th of June 1997 till the 21st of July 2007. The genre of the series is Fantasy, Mystery and Thriller. The books tell about the adventures of a boy Harry Potter and his friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley; all of them are the pupils at Hogwarts ...

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Holes By Louis Sachar: Character Analysis

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Introduction 'Hole' is a novel written by Louis Sachar and has already won Newbery Medal. The plot of the novel is about the life of multiple characters and a leading character with whom the whole story of the novel is linked. Story is written in main two parts referring as flashback and current or present situation. Characters in the Story The major characters in the novel are ...

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The Story Of And Hour And Eveline

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For the present-day society, the equality between men and women is very common and popular theory, for example, Secondary School Place Allocation System. The High Court of Hong Kong ruled, on 22 June 2001, that all three gender-based elements in the Secondary School places Allocation (SSPA) System challenged by the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) as being discriminatory are unlawful. "Since the 1978 SSPA system has been the ...

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The Struggles Of Growing Up In Poverty

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In the short story Marigolds by Eugenia Collier, a girl named Elizabeth and her family struggle through living in the time of the Great Depression. Elizabeth is an African American girl that is on the threshold of womanhood. Elizabeth's family is very poor and is forced to live in a shantytown. Elizabeth and her family have to live through the struggle of poverty, poignant and meaningful arguments ...

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The War Poetry Of Wilfred Owen

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The First World War poetry of Wilfred Owen provides an exhaustive and poignant account of the atrocities he witnessed between the Allies and the Germans from 1914 to 1918. Although the style and structure of his poems vary considerably throughout his body of work, the two elements of physical and psychological torment suffered by the soldiers in the war. He is quoted here describing his work: The ...

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A Summary Of A Country Doctor

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This story is about a country doctor who experiences so many hardships in a time no one in his village is willing to help him in any manner. In the book, A Country Doctor, by Franz Kafka, the doctor experienced so many challenges, all of which came at an impulse. They all happened with little expectation of the doctor's knowledge. As if that was not enough every ...

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James Baldwins Story Sonnys Blues

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The setting of the story starts off in the shoes of a commuter in the city of Harlem. The commuter, who is essentially the unnamed narrator of the story, after a long loss of contact with his younger brother, reads about him in the public media; within newspapers, on the subway, and on his way to work. He reads about his younger brother being convicted of a ...

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Elizabeth Short, The Black Dahlia

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Elizabeth Short or to many known as The Black Dahlia was born on July 29, 1924 in Boston, Massachusetts. She moved to Santa Barbara at the age of 21, where she was arrested on September 23, 1943 for underage drinking. The six months before her death Short moved to southern California Hollywood to become an actress. During that time, she lived in several hotels, rooming houses, private ...

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Selfless sacrifice an entity few possess

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In Sophocles' legendary play, Oedipus Rex, and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis, both embody the common theme of sacrifice. In Oedipus Rex, Sophocles uses sacrifice as a key theme, in which the main character gives up his kingdom for the sake of the people. Similarly, in The Metamorphosis, the main character sacrifices his own life for the good of his family. Both works use the motif of sacrifice ...

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The Social Norms Of Wuthering Heights

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When I speak of the social norms and conventions of the 19th century, it must first be stated what these norms and conventions actually entail. In the 19th century, more specifically in the Victorian era social norms were something every person must try to live up to, to keep their reputation and respect of their peers intact. In the Victorian era life was very different for women ...

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Fate And Free Will, Macbeth

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Shakespeare's tragedy, Macbeth, is a play that transcends time due to its timeless and universal themes. The themes presented in this play are just as relevant to modern audiences as they would have been to contemporary Elizabethan audiences. The play has been able to maintain its textual integrity, withstanding the fact that it is now performed out of its original context to remain a successful play for ...

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Analysing The Pardoner In 'Canterbury Tales'

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The Pardoner in the Canterbury Tales is hypocritical, gluttenous, vindictive, and spiteful towards others; he is morally and spiritually corrupt in the extreme. He does, however, tell a tale that, as he promises it shall be in the section that precedes his prologue, a valid sermon against avarice and greed. When Harry Bailey speaks at the end of the Pardoner's Tale, he does not reject the tale ...

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Relationships Between Literature And History

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The novel which will be discussed in this essay is Cien Años de Soledad, by Gabriel García Márquez. One of most important factors in this very successful book is the relationship between literature and history, as stated in the essay question. This topic is so predominant because it involves the writer's political concerns regarding his country, and the country in which the book was firstly released; Columbia. ...

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Ernest Hemmingway's 'Old Man And The Sea'

23 Mar 2015 02 May 2017

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Pride is something many people misinterpret often. What one person sees as prideful can be of someone else's views. Some believe that pride is something that should be taken lightly, while others may live their life fully on pride. Humility is also a topic often not fully understood. Morale decisions are viewed differently by different people, making it impossible to know the true meaning of being humble. ...

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The Tyger By The Author William Blake

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The poem is more about the creator of the tyger than it is about the tyger. In contemplating the terrible ferocity and awe-inspiring symmetry of the tyger, the speaker is at a loss to explain how the same God who made the meek, innocent lamb could create a horrifying creature such as the tyger. This essay will provide a detailed analysis of William Blake's "The Tyger" paying ...

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Machiavellianism In Marlowe's Doctor Faustus

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Introduction Niccolò Machiavelli was born in Florence on 3rd May 1469 to parents who were of the old Florentine nobility. When he was young, Florence flourished under the rule of Lorenzo de' Medici. However, after the reign of the Medici collapsed in 1494, Florence gained freedom under the government of a Republic and Machiavelli started working officially in the public service as an 'Italian statesman and political ...

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An Inspector Calls Essay

23 Mar 2015 02 May 2017

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Priestley writes his didactic play in 1944/45 when the war was coming to an inevitable end. As he sets his play in 1912, he adds to the realism as he had first hand experience of the brutality of the war. This was also when the social divide of the two classes was at its peak. The purpose of this play is for Priestley to attack his contemporary ...

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The Sin In The Scarlet Letter

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The Scarlet Letter was immediately successful, and still is today, because it addresses divine and ethical issues from a unique American standpoint. In 1850, adultery was a tremendously sensitive subject, but because Hawthorne had the support of the New England literary establishment, it was accepted easily into the sphere of suitable reading. The Scarlet Letter represents the pinnacle of Hawthorne's literary genius. It remains significant for its ...

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Season Of Migration To North

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Mustafas point of view is introduced in Chapter two, where Salih uses the prolepsis and analepsis devices to allow Mustafas first person narration of his story to be told to the unnamed narrator. Salih's control of time is shown through Mustafa flashing forward, "'Thirty years. The willow trees …" (2003, p.36) and backward in time "'I remember that in the train …" (2003, p.24), which allows the ...

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Chronicle Of A Death Foretold Extract Analysis

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The treatment and lives of women in the Colombian town and the time period of the 1950's, makes the reader aware of the harsh reality of the suffering women. The reader can only sympathise with society's treatment of women; however, feel resentment towards the way in which women were 'reared to get married.' The way in which the Vicario sisters were brought up is shocking to the ...

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Heather Whitestone, A Deaf Miss America

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Heather Whitestone is an admirable woman. She is the first Miss America with a disability. Whitestone was born in April of 1973 in Dothan, Alabama. She is admirable for being strong and dedicated throughout her life. Heather Whitestone was a hard working, determined, and deaf Miss America, who did not let anything stand in the way of her goals. Her mother always supported her even through the ...

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Sister Carrie From The Perspective Of Naturalism

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At the beginning, it's of importance to define what naturalism is. As a matter of fact, that's a troublesome question, for there are various opinions and consistent debates about it. In my paper, I tend to define naturalism as a special creative current of thought which emerged in 1890s and came to a dominant position in 1900s in Europe and America. It originated in France in 1850s, ...

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An Ideal Husband, By Oscar Wilde

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To give the devil his work is fiction Wilde brilliantly uses the opportunity to authors comments (remarks), which gives explanations to the text of a dramatic work, containing a description of the situation, the exterior of the actors, the behavior of the characters in the play and some other information. From them we get the information and impressions, which are unlikely to have been able to get ...

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Theories Of The Picturesque And The Sublime

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Joseph Mallord Turner and John Constable are the two acclaimed giants of English landscape. They were both influential exponents of Romanticism, an artistic movement that emphasized an emotional response to nature. According the Romantic school of thought, experiences could be divided in three ways: into the Beautiful, the Picturesque, and the Sublime. In a Romantic sense, the Beautiful was an example of natural perfection, a thing or ...

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Defining Evil In 1984 And Heart Of Darkness

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Evil, exactly what is Evil? Evil as I see it is an abstract concept that is commonly defined by our own moral values. Evil exists within each person in one degree or another as a slightly varying variation on one basic definition: that evil is anything or anyone that could be deemed "wicked", "tending to harm", "unpleasant" or "particularly villainous" (from Oxford Dictionary). Evil is a relative ...

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Deconstructive Concept Of Death: John Donnes Poems

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John Donne was born as a Catholic in 1572, at a time when England was full of anti-Catholic feelings and the Catholic was annoyed by secret polices of Elizabeth queen. His religious took away many opportunities from him and "his point of view," according to Norton Anthology of English Literature, "was always that of an insecure outsider."(P.586) He lost his father suddenly at the age of four ...

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Coping As A Stepmom

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As far back as I can remember, the one thing I always wanted to be was a mom. I had dreams of being the perfect mother, giving and showing love and affection to my children and having them give that same kind of unconditional love back to me. Unfortunately, that was not meant to be. It seems God had something else in store for me, something that ...

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Dramatic Irony In The Age Of Innocence

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Dramatic irony occurs when the reader is aware of past or future events that make it easy to recognize the contradiction in a character's speech or actions. This essay will explore how and to what effect the literary technique of dramatic irony has been used in portraying the main issue of discord between characters and their respective societies in the novels The Age of Innocence and The ...

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Types Of Speech Acts In Harry Potter

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Communication is the most important thing on the planet earth, no human being can deny it and be separated from this means in any way, because without communication we cannot convey what we want to say, even the animals use some kind of communicative channels to express their feelings. A lot depends on how we communicate , communication gains the best results only when it is expressed ...

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The study of racism in literature

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In the tragic novel, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, Pecola Breedlove, an eleven-year-old black girl is a victim of racial, dislike herself and rape by her father which results in pregnancy. Pecola grows up in an abusive and unloving family. She longs to disappear from the face of the Earth to rid her of her problems. Writers often highlight the values of a culture or a ...

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Looking At The Use Of Fear In Literature

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A man with an IQ equivalent to Einstein's takes part in a study. He is told to answer one question correctly, but if he is wrong then he will be subjected to painful shocks that increase in intensity for every incorrect answer. The question: 1 + 1= 3, true or false? The man is gobsmacked by the simplicity if that question, so he answers confidently false, 1+1=2. ...

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Good Country People By Flannery O Connor

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Writing of explicitly named Good Country People, short story author Flannery O'Connor ironically molds a depiction of the contradictory nature of a cliche-ridden Southern society. The "good country people" O'Connor speaks of are Mrs. Hopewell, her daughter Hulga Hopewell, servant Mrs. Freeman, and bible salesman Manly Pointer, each character representative of a unique means for trying to reconcile the conflicting expectations of life in the American South. ...

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The Dream Of The Rood

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The Old English poem The Dream of the Rood is an early Christian poem written in alliterative verse describing a dream vision. Fragments of the poem were found carved in the runic alphabet on the Ruthwell Cross - an Anglo-Saxon monument dating from the 8th century which is situated in present day Scotland. The poem was written in a structure which was a popular convention in medieval ...

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The Tragic Dilemma Of Hamlet

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When your faith is destroyed, how can you tolerate the failure or error? How can you confront yourself, forgive all the past mistakes, and rebuild tolerance and faith? Is it better to pardon or to revenge; to live or to die? From William Shakespeare's Hamlet, the play gives its own answer. Hamlet's tragic life started from knowing his father died and his dearly mother Gertrude has married ...

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The Visit Chronicle Of A Death Foretold

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To what extent does religion play a role in 'The Visit' and 'Chronicle of a death foretold' 'This is what I found out about religion: it gives you courage to make the decisions you must make in a crisis, and then the confidence to leave the result to a higher power. Only by trust in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose.' Sociological studies reveal that ...

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Judgment In The Catcher In The Rye

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In The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger makes a point of showing multiple motifs of sex and judgment. Through the main character Holden, Salinger says that sex is a sacred thing, but also something of the adult world. It is 'corrupted' according to Holden. Salinger shows that sex hurts innocent people, mostly children. We also see that Holden judges a persons' character immediately, he "reads a ...

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Moral Corruption And Deception

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The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, showed the lack of innocence in the people of the 1920's and how it was replaced by deceit and adultery. The moral emptiness and corruption from the novel revolves around Tom, Daisy and Myrtle due to how they use deception and how that corrupts them. The three cheat on their partners intentionally. From the start of the novel, Tom ...

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Depth Of Revelation And Parkers Back

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O'Connor further develops the theme by using literary device such as symbolism. Symbols help to explain the moral of the story using visual stimulation instead of just using words. The Characters O.E. Parker and Mrs. Turpin both hold their view how their flaws and the role religious effect their lives. These symbols also present the individual conflicts which already show in the story. In "Revelation" Flannery O'Connor ...

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The Use Of Simile In Poetry

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Have you ever found yourself saying, "Those are two words I never thought would go together!" In everyday speech, people may draw comparisons between unlike things for effect. For example, the sentence "My dog is like a bear, but he is really a lamb." creates the image of a huge dog that looks fierce, but he is also very gentle. In this example, two figures of speech ...

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Hamlet's Qualities When Confronted With Moral Dilemmas

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Before examining Hamlet's qualities when confronted with a moral dilemma or dilemmas, I believe we should have a common understanding as to what strength and a 'moral dilemma(s)' mean. Collins Canadian English Dictionary & Thesaurus defines 'strength' as "the ability to withstand or exert great force, stress or pressure" and I accept that. The definition of a dilemma, however, is not so clear. The most common definition ...

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Analysis: 'Sweat' By Zora Neale Hurston

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In the short story "Sweat," written by Zora Neale Hurston, Sykes, one of the main characters in the story, seems as though he gets easily upset with his wife Delia. Sykes takes his anger out on Delia by cheating on her, beating her, and making fun of her biggest fear, which is snakes. Even though Sykes' behavior should not be condoned, he may have a psychological problem ...

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The Allegorical Vice Character Of Iago

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Morality plays typically contain a central character, a protagonist who represents an aspect of humanity with supporting characters that are personifications of good and evil. This alignment of characters provides the play's audience with moral guidance. Othello symbolizes the human soul placed between the demonic Iago and the angelic Desdemona. Both of these characters demand his love and his loyalty and his fate is torn between them. ...

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Rhetorical Analysis of a Music Video

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Rhetorical Analysis of a Music VideoThe subject of marriage equality has been, and still is a controversial topic in today's modern society. On October 10th, 2014, same-sex marriage was legalized when a United States District Court Judge decided, in the case of General Synod of the United Church of Christ v. Cooper, that the ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional. Since then, the number of states where ...

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How Greek Mythology Influences Contemporary Times

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Classical mythology represents the beliefs, the religion, and the culture of an antique society. It is part of the archaic period of the ancient Greeks. Greek mythology seems to be excessively remote from our modern era; however, it is still applicable to our current times. In fact, many famous movies or fiction stories of today are an update of myths or tales of Greek mythology. The very ...

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Role Of Men And Women In 'The Piano Lesson'

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There is a huge difference between the role of men and women in the play by August Wilson, The Piano Lesson. There is a clear conflict between the two major characters, the siblings, Boy Willie and Berniece, who struggle over a piano that is their family heritage. Their diverse reaction toward the piano demonstrates the dissimilar role of men and women in resisting the history of their ...

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Madness In Womens Texts: Insanity And Patriarchy

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Feminist critique of the hegemony of the male-dominated society has established the figure of the madwoman as a central concept of feminist theory and literature. In such gynocritical model, the behaviour of the madwoman stands as a subversive reaction against the subjugation she faces. This subversive role of the madwoman has been centripetal to the feminine doctrine. The image of the madwoman parodies the intellectual incapacity women ...

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The Religious Symbols: The Good And Bad

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The story of "Sweat" by Zora Neale Hurston is filled with many moral and religious symbols. This story is about an everyday Black, woman in the South and how she keeps to her faith in God to see her through the hell she endures dealing with an abusive husband. Throughout this story there are several religious symbols that show how Delia and Sykes are two people on ...

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Absurdity Of Existence Illustrated In Dumb Waiter

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'There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false'. I believe that these assertions still make sense and do still apply to the exploration of reality through art. So as a writer I stand by them but as ...

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The fantasy world of The Hobbit

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The fantasy world is the perfect setting for a hobbit in search of adventure. J.R.R Tolkien has written a modern classic that uses intricate details to take readers to a fantasy world. The Hobbit is the epitome of the best fantasy novels. Through supernatural characters, great battle and mystical setting, which are the conventions of the fantasy genre, Tolkien has achieved his purpose of creating a new ...

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Examining The Realism In American Literature

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In the eighteenth century, the literary style of romanticism concentrated on the examination of feelings, emotions, and imaginations. After the Civil War and with the coming Industrial Revolution, change in America was inevitable. They had a tremendous effect on the social and economic aspects, as well as the literary. Just as people moved from rural to urban cities and from agriculture to factory, the characters and plots ...

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Relationship Between Plot Structure And Character Development

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As character development is an essential part in novels, it turns out to be interesting to discuss the essence of the topic. The essay mentions about how the characters develop at different stages in the two novels, 'The House of the Spirits' and 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' and how does this help subsequently, in the development of their plot structure. A good link with respect to ...

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Light As A Breeze Analyzed

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An analysis of Leonard Cohen's lyrical poem "Light as the Breeze" leads the reader towards the idea of many religious and literary traditions. In particular, the poem combines images of spiritual devotion and sexual passion, leading to the portrayal of the feminine as divine. The subject may or may not believe that the beloved is a goddess, but his devotion to her is comparable to the experience ...

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A Study On The Holocaust Survivors

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The holocaust was a horrible time for the Jews. Hitler took control over all Jews making them work and killing them. There were not many Jews who survived this nightmare. Each survivor's story is remarkable because they all endured so much pain in different ways and situations. The Holocaust survivors display bravery, hope, and determination in the mist of horror. Jeannine Burk is a Holocaust survivor, she ...

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The Story Of The Roman Fever

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To start this analyzation of "Roman Fever" by Edith Wharton, one must consider the setting of the story. Taking place in Rome in the early 1930's the story is about two acquaintances who have known each other for an extended period of time. The two ladies, Grace Ansley and Alida Slade, each have a daughter, Barbara and Jenny respectively. The setting of Rome is important because of ...

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The Film Adaptation Strangers On A Train

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Patricia Highsmith's by Strangers on a Train (1950) and Alfred Hitchcock's film adaptation of the work immerse the audience into the noir thriller's cunning sphere of crime, a world where the impression of dread and unease is bolstered through the theme of the divided self and the uncanny form of the double, or doppelganger. Highsmith's Strangers on a Train offers a psychological exploration of Guy Haines and ...

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Shylock: The Villain And Victim

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In "The Merchant of Venice", Shakespeare portrays Shylock as a paradoxical character since he is a selfish, heartless, and money-grubbing stereotypical Jew of the time who experiences persecution by the Venetian citizens. Although Shylock is represented as a cruel and unusual monster there is reasoning to his malice due to the circumstances he's been dealt with by living in an anti-Semitism community. The passage, "I have possessed ...

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Through The Tunnel: A Short Story

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However, the story can also be seen as a symbol for this young boys journey from childhood to adolescence or early manhood and Lessing does this very successfully by using effective language to convey the setting and the boy's state of mind. In the first paragraph we are introduced to this use of symbolism by 'the young English boy stopped at a turning of the path'. There ...

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One Is Not Born A Woman

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A single, short expression that poses the central feminist question about sex difference is the following: Mamas baby, papas maybe. Biology has granted women a right to genetic parenthood that no man is privileged to share. However, this expression is subject to inversion in the text, The Color Purple, which I have chosen to discuss in the light of womanism rather than feminism because the former is ...

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Examining The Adaptations Of Film Novels

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When approaching a film adaptation of a novel, it is important to consider the various differences between the two mediums. Adaptations are mostly criticised on the basis of the film's fidelity to the original events of the novel "references are constantly made to what is 'left out' or 'changed, instead of what is there.", because more than often a "three hundred page novel is made into a ...

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Theatre Of The Absurd In The Caretaker

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'The Theatre of the Absurd' is a term coined by the theatre critic and scholar Martin Esslin for the work of many dramatists, mainly written in the 1950s and 1960s. The concept absurd originally means that something is out of harmony, for instance, in the music, whereas in everyday speech it merely means that something is ridiculous. However, according to Eugene Ionesco, 'the Absurd' refers to something ...

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Kite Runner Analysis: The Concept Of Betrayal

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The Kite Runner is a story about the life of Amir, the narrator who is living in the US, and how his childhood years in Afghanistan shaped his life.  As a child, his father tells him that a child who cannot stand up for himself grows into a man who does not stand for anything. His history continues to affect his life for the rest of the ...

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Portrayal Of War In Dulce Et Decorum Est

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Throughout history, many poets have expressed their feelings towards war and battles. Two poems that express these feelings are Dulce et decorum est by Wilfred Owen and Charge of the light brigade By Alfred lord Tennyson. Wilfred Owen expresses the danger of war whilst Alfred lord Tennyson discusses how 'Glorious' it is to die for your country. The main themes in both poems is war and terror. ...

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Poetry A Reflection On Life

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As Cohen suggests poetry like your deeds is what remains of life, suggesting a final immortality for those penned in verse. Poetry is a powerful literary genre that endeavours to showcase emotions through words to provoke thought and reflection on life itself. Throughout history poets have created wonderful works of "ash" for audiences around the globe. A poet's cultural background, social upbringing and philosophy will affect the ...

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The Themes In Odour Of Chrysanthemums

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Odour of Chrysanthemums, by D. H. Lawrence, once again is full of themes and motifs. One could study this text and come up with many different interpretations. In this story Elizabeth seems to have a distorted view of realty. Just as the darkness has obscured her vision, so Elizabeth's anger has distorted her perception of her husband and she has failed to recognize the reality of his ...

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Book Report About The Little Bee

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The beach in Nigeria is the place that Andrew and Sarah first met Little Bee and her sister. It is where Andrew refused to cut off his finger and where Sarah cut her own finger instead to save Little Bee's life. The beach is important because it is where the action happened that changed the characters' lives. After the incident on the beach Andrew completely changed because ...

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Racial Self Loathing The Bluest Eye, Analysis

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Morrison in the book "The bluest eye" also brings out the theme of racial self loathing through Pecola because the novel indicates that once the father raped her twice she hates herself and believes that the main motive behind her father's inhuman act was her ugliness. she always wondering why she is this ugly as it is brought out in the novel, "Long hours she sat looking ...

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Analytical Essay The Alchemist And The Little Prince

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Throughout journeys we meet many people who affect our lives. The authors use plot to show their idea. "I saw a most extraordinary small person." (4) In the "Little Prince", the pilot meets the little prince, and Little Prince meets all sorts of people: the king, the clown, the businessman, and most of all the fox. The fox teaches the Little Prince about taming, and gives the ...

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Heartbreaking Hunger In Angela's Ashes

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Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt is a heartbreaking memoir novel in which the family suffers from poverty and hunger. The lives of McCourt's family are being darkened by the father, Malachy, who is responsible for what his family is going through. Frank, the oldest son takes over adults responsibly to help the family since he is dissatisfied from his father and when he is old enough he ...

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Childrens Books Are Thus Inevitably Didactic

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Peter Hunt's claim in his essay, Instruction and Delight, is that all children's books are unavoidably didactic to some extent, since all authors have their own motives when writing a book. Hunt argues that children's literature is a power struggle, between the adult writers and the child readers; and since most parents, teachers etc. will monitor what children are reading, it is ultimately the adults who are ...

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The True Mocking Bird Boo Radley

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In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee tells a story of Scout Finch and her older brother, Jem, in the 1930's Alabama. In the beginning Scout, starts out as a very undeveloped child not knowing the prejudice times nearby, as the story progress she gains awareness of these times. Arthur "Boo" Radley remains an outsider who never sets foot outside his house. However he stands for a ...

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A Timeless Work Of Art

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Universal has many associations as to what it means, generally concluded to mean that it can be commonly used, with vast potentials and a capability to satisfy many different occurrences. As so, when reading a work of art, whether it be a poem, novel or short story, the author will try to capture the reader in as many ways as possible to ensure that the point is ...

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Michael Ondaatje's 'Coming Through Slaughter'

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Michael Ondaatje, the first Canadian writer to win the prestigious Booker Prize in 1992, is celebrated as a contemporary literary treasure. In his works he attempts a re-evaluation of history by focusing on relations between the margins and the centre, the personal and the public. As such his works readily lend themselves to post-modern and post-colonial approaches to literature. In addition, Ondaatje's distinctive appeal is that of ...

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A Short Story 'The Red Convertible'

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"The Red Convertible" is a short story, written by Louise Erdrich. This story is about the brotherhood between Lyman Lamartine and his older brother Henry. The narrator considers himself as Lyman to tell their story. A lot of things happen during the time since they buy the car together. Throughout the story, Lyman tells the history of their relationship and the differences of Henry before and after ...

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Emily Dickinson's Poem: Cannot Live With You

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Emily Dickinson was one of the most famous American poetry writers in history. She was born in Amherst, Massachusetts on December 10, 1830, and is the middle child of three siblings. Emily Dickinson was born into a middle class family and was well educated. Her father, Edward Dickinson was a lawyer, a town official, and a treasurer of Amherst College. They had a house in the town ...

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Sydney Carton: From Zero To Hero

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Charles Dickens extraordinaire revolutionist novel A Tale of Two Cities portrays an excellent character of Sydney Carton whom develops dynamically throughout the novel. Carton overshadows Charles Darnay who is the true lead character by being the actual centre of attention within the plots. Aside that, Dickens characterizes Carton as the pivotal figure in his novel, not because of his heroic suicide at the end but merely because ...

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The Great Gatsby: A Critical Analysis

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In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gastby, Fitzgerald uses vivid descriptions and applies his knowledge of literary devices. He uses a variety of devices to symbolize something much more intricate. He uses imagery to describe things so precisely that the picture appears in your head as though you are dreaming, and in which you are living in your dreams. An extraordinary amount of settings are used from ...

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Nostalgia And Indo Nostalgia: A Theory

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The elusive word Nostalgiais formed from the two Greek roots: nostos return home and algia pain. The Oxford English Dictionary 1998 defines nostalgia as A form of melancholia caused by prolonged absence from ones home or country; severe homesickness. The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998:41) defines Homesick as "Experiencing a longing for one's home during a period of absence from it," and nostalgia as "A sentimental ...

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First World War poetry

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The First World War poetry of Wilfred Owen provide a comprehensive and emotional account of the violence he himself witnessed during his time served in WWI with the Manchester Regiment from 1914 to 1918. Owen wanted to express the reality, horror and futility of war. Although the imagery and form of his poems vary considerably throughout his poems, there are two main elements of his poetry in ...

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