Les miserables by Victor Hugo and A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hossieni both have tragic themes. Les miserables is a story set during 1815 in Digne, France about the struggles and quest for freedom of a convicted man by the name of Jean-Valijean. During the course of the story, his...
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The play Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare consists of many themes which grow out of the ? game of love'. The two main themes consist of perception and deception. Through the plot complications, character development and dramatic techniques these themes can be explored. In the play...
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“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.” — — “That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.” — Page 229 — “It is so hard to...
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In many novels, the idea of time is handled in different ways to keep the story at a smooth pace. Kurt Vonnegut, the author of Slaughterhouse-Five, uses time as a way to give the reader an idea of what his main character’s life was like and what he had gone through throughout his life. Vonnegut’s...
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Describe at least ONE character or individual you enjoyed reading about in the text(s). Explain why the character(s) or individual(s) helped you understand an idea in the text(s). History and especially World War Two is a testament to the duality of human nature. Jeffery Kluger in an article for...
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The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is an extremely shocking novel in that even it weren’t true the events in the story would still be shocking, but the fact that it is true makes it that much more disturbing. In the book Jeannette is on more than one occasion, a victim of sexual abuse. Although...
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It’s simple; everyone wants to find love, their soul mate. The short story, “The Lady with the Pet Dog” by Anton Chekhov, describes the trials and tribulations people put themselves through to find true love. The two main characters, Gurov and Anna, are trapped in loveless marriages, secretly...
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Comparative Analysis of the Tell Tale Heart and the Raven Edgar Allen Poe was the author of several daunting works of literature. Two examples of Edgar Allen Poe's literature are "The Tell Tale Heart" and "The Raven. " If we compare these two works, one a short story and the other a poem, we will...
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Summary: A young governess who is in charge of two orphaned children called Miles and Flora at the country house of Bly narrates the story. She has gained the post through the children's uncle to whom she feels attraction and under the terms that she take all responsibility for Miles, Flora and...
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Leadership Uncovered Richard Adams' story "Watership Down" tells a tale of the strain of a small warren of rabbits and the transformation of the main character Hazel. Hazel undergoes many changes throughout this story, some good and some bad. He became the leader of the rabbits once they left...
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In A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, Shakespeare explores the theme of love through character and plot development, usage of literary devices as well as usage of socio-historical context. He follows literary traditions, but also develops his own style. Shakespeare introduces...
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In this novel, the main character, Frank McCourt himself, has struggles trying to grow up in the society of Ireland. This is a first hand experience of his problems as a young boy. He is seen to be a smart, streetwise boy. He starts of looking at his problems and wanting a way out. He sees his...
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1984 Vs. Brave New World Imagine a world in which people are produced in factories, a world lost of all freedom and individuality, a world where people are exiled or “disappear” for breaking the mold. Both 1984 by George Orwell and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World are startling...
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The Victorian men and women conveyed in Bram Stoker's Dracula are pure and virtuous members of the upper and middle class. However, hiding behind this composed and civilized conception of England lies a dark and turbulent underbelly. This underbelly is the lumpenproletariat, whom Karl Marx defined...
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Hard Times: Struggle of Fact vs Imagination and Struggle Between Two Classes Charles Dickens' novel, Hard Times, is a story of two struggles--the struggle of fact versus imagination and the struggle between two classes. It takes place in Coketown, and industrial-age English city. The novel is...
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"It is precisely of him that I wished to speak. Dispose of me as you please; but help me first to carry him home. I only ask that of you. " Upon examination of Les Miserables, it is clearly evident that the elements of Forgiveness, Self ? Sacrifice, and Courage are only a few of the main themes...
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Much Ado About Nothing The main love themes in the play, Much Ado About Nothing, can be considered as based on "The Game Of Love. " Two themes in the plot are examples of this and they are: the situation where Don Pedro, Claudio and Leonardo are speaking loudly of a love possessed by Beatrice for...
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John Green’s Paper Towns is a coming-of-age story that follows the lives of two childhood friends, the reserved Quentin Jacobsen and the legendary Margo Roth Spiegelman. Quentin says that every human being is graced with one miracle in their lifetime. His miracle is living next door to Margo Roth...
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To most people today, aliens are seen as creatures made up in a short story of a Goosebumps novel in order to scare young children. To others, aliens are real and out there, living far off on another planet. What if they were real? What if there were aliens out there who knew more about earth then...
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I. Introduction Writers are always in question as to whether their writings relate to their personal experiences or just an accidental similarity in their fiction, and as to whether they are inside the soul or mind of the narrators in the story or plain fiction writers outside the narration. In...
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In the book The Glass Castle, there is a huge power of the idea of the “American Dream”: to become educated, wealthy, and ultimately happy. Almost throughout the entire book there are references or ideas that pertain to the goal of wealth or happiness coming eventually. It appears as soon as Rex...
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“Same Story, Two Perspectives” The two stories of "The Lady with the Pet Dog," by Anton Chekhov and Joyce Carol Oates are extremely similar in plot. They are both about a love affair between two married people and each couple discovering true love. However, these stories are completely different...
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“The Raven” and “Annabel Lee” Edgar Allen Poe known as a poet and critic but most famous as the first master of the short-story form, especially tales of the mysterious and macabre. The literary merits of Poe's writings have been debated since his death, but his works have remained popular and...
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An Unrequited Love In "The Turn of the Screw" by Henry James, the main character, the governess, is so deluded and lonely that she will do anything necessary to reduce these horrifying feelings and not feel them. She decides that the way to do that is to possibly find love and instead she seems to...
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Watership Down: Governmental Systems In the novel Watership Down, there are many types of communities, and with those communities comes a different type of government. All three of these governments vary from each other, in how they are set up and how they are ran. Each of the governments in the...
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The Comparison of A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Taming of the Shrew, and the Work of William Shakespeare Between the years of 1588 and 1613, Shakespeare wrote 38 plays. His dramatic work is commonly studied in four categories: comedies, histories, tragedies, and romances. Although we commonly...
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Frank McCourt is a young Irish boy who faced tragedies throughout his life. Being the common American mistake what most would call a bastard, born out of marriage. His life begins with trouble, with parents that are both Irish. His mother Angela from the Limerick of Ireland, and his father Malachy...
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Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World in the 1930s. He made many future predictions and many or most of them have already come true but not to the extent that he writes about. The society in Brave New World is significannot ly different to the present one, and to the society in Huxley's time. Aldous...
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Amanda R. Wright Religion 101 12/12/04 Prof. Nichols Final Paper Many people are familiar with the novel Dracula, by Bram Stoker. It is typically referred to as a horror story sure to give a good scare. However, Bram Stoker was not merely out to give his Victorian audience a thrill ride. Many...
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The shortest of Dickens' novels, Hard Times, was also, until quite recently, the least regarded of them. The comedy is savagely and scornfully sardonic, to the virtual exclusion of the humour - that delighted apprehension of and rejoicing in idiosyncrasy and absurdity for their own sakes, which...
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In Les Miserables, Victor Hugo portrays human nature in a neutral state. Humans are born with neither good nor bad instincts, but rather society affects our actions and thoughts. Hugo portrays the neutral state of mind through Jean Valjean and Cosette. The two extremes of good and evil are...
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"Much ado" essay The play "Much Ado About Nothing" is not about nothing. It shows themes in the areas of deception and love. The play is also streaked with metaphors brining in the taming of wild animals. These ideas make proving themes and issues and easy and convincing argument. The plot of the...
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Quentin Jacobsen and Margo Roth Spiegelman are next door neighbors and have been friends since childhood. Quentin describes Margo as “the most fantastically gorgeous creature that God had ever created (4). ” Quentin is both the novel’s narrator and protagonist, and recounts a time when he and...
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The Humor of Slaughterhouse-Five Slaughterhouse-Five has a dark sense of humor that accentuates Vonnegut’s nihilistic view of the human condition. The humor in Slaughterhouse-Five is uniquely dark, twisted, and overly ironic. So it goes. Throughout the novel, Vonnegut would go out of his way to...
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Balbuena, Glaiza T. January 23, 2009 BCT 3-F Anna Karenina and Brothers Karamazov Discussion Using Moral Approach In Anna Karenina and Brothers Karamazov novel, Anna cheated her husband the same with Dimitri who fell in love to Grushenka while he is engaged to Katerina. As we can remember, Dimitri...
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The Power to Overcome Sid Udayan January 10, 2012 ENG4U1 Ms. Skakic It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities. This is evident in Jeannette Walls’ memoir, The Glass Castle, which reiterates the story of Jeannette who is raised within a family...
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Anton Chekhov’s, The Lady with the Pet Dog, is a short story about an adulterous man, Dmitry Gurov, who falls in love with a miserable married woman, Anna Sergeyevna. The two find each other in their times of loneliness and quickly become involved in an affair. They soon have to say goodbye when...
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The Raven "The Raven" is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in January 1845. It is often noted for its musicality, stylized language, andsupernatural atmosphere. It tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught lover, tracing the man's slow descent...
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The True Villian On the surface, Henry James’, “Turn of the Screw” has all of the qualities of an innocent old-fashioned ghost story, but underneath there is much more. The use of ambiguity appears frequently throughout the novel and the reader is left to decide a lot on their own; Are the ghosts...
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WATERSHIP DOWN by RICHARD ADAMS (1972) PART I The Journey 1. The Notice Board CHORUS: Why do you cry out thus, unless at some vision of horror? CASSANDRA: The house reeks of death and dripping blood. CHORUS: How so? 'Tis but the odor of the altar sacrifice. CASSANDRA: The stench is like a breath...
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The play, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare, is about four lovers and their "dreamlike" adventure through a fairy ruled forest. There are many different characters in this play and they each play their own individual role in how the play is performed and read. Three main...
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An estimated 1. 02 billion people in the world go hungry. Ireland during the mid 1900s had tremendous amounts of poverty across the country. This poverty level increases hunger as well. When put into the hands of life and death one may be torn between what they believe is right and what...
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The characters in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World represent certain political and social ideas. Huxley used what he saw in the world in which he lived to form his book. From what he saw, he imagined that life was heading in a direction of a utopian government control. Huxley did not imagine...
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Vlad the Impaler, a. k. a. Vlad III, Dracula, Drakulya, or Tepes, was born in late 1431, in the citadel of Sighisoara, Transylvania, the son of Vlad II or Dracul, a military governor, appointed by Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund. Vlad Dracul was also a knight in the Order of the Dragon, a secret...
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.Hard Times In the novel Hard Times, by Charles Dickens, we can immediately see the problems that occurred in England around the times period of the mid 18oo's. Dickens shows us how the class system works and what the economy was then and what it would shape out to be. This novel is split into...
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Les Miserables is an epic tale of hope, empathy, sympathy, redemption and hate set in post-revolutionary France. Written by acclaimed author Victor Hugo, Les Miserables follows the transformation of its two main characters from criminal to honest man and from dedicated reactionary to compassionate...
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Much Ado About Nothing By William Shakespeare at The Ritz Theatre Company 1)There is “much ado” and plenty more laughter when you see Much Ado About Nothing. 2)Much Ado About Nothing is a story about two very different pairs of lovers. The main plot revolves around the obstacles to join Claudio...
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Quentin is a senior at Winter Park High School in Orlando, FL. He has woken up late on Wednesday morning, and his mother has to drive him to school instead of him catching a ride with his friends. She talks to him about prom and school on the ride over, though Quentin does not believe in prom...
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Failure to take responsibility for one's actions is universally seen as a self-inflicted wound with fateful consequences. However in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five, the very nature of social responsibility and free will is challenged. The Tralfamadorians, an alien race from a distant planet...
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In Dostoevsky’s novel “The Brothers Karamazov” Dostoevsky deals with numerous aspects of life. More importantly, the novel allows a glimpse into the mind of man and its response to the influence of good and evil in the form of death. The characters dismiss the reality of death in some way, and...
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