During the discussion, several articles were presented to the class. The subjects brought to light were the Russian economy during the 1850s, serfdom, and the question of whether Turgenev was obsolete or not. The articles on the Russian economy explained the state of transition the Russian economy...
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Community in Light in August Most scholars view community as one of the most important themes in Faulkner’s novel, Light in August. Faulkner’s story is based on the community of Jefferson, Mississippi. The characters that Faulkner focuses on are mostly isolated from the community. Instead of...
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The truth that lies behind fantasies The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton is a book that gave the word "love" many other meanings, such as impossible, meaningless and incomplete. There were many unbearable obstacles that Countess Ellen Olenska, one of the main characters, had to face because of...
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Is Shylock portrayed as a villain or victim? In our lessons we have been studying one of Shakespeare's plays The Merchant of Venice. This is one of Shakespeare’s most famous romantic comedies, written in 1596. The bases of this play lies on dealing with a dispute between shylock, a wealthy Jew...
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"The Chrysanthemums is about a strong, young woman, Elisa Allen, who is disappointed with her life because the lack of admiration she gets from her husband and the absence of children she could have bore. It shows how women are ignored in a patriarchal society; not that they are just thrown out...
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Andrew Allen Mrs. Billings English IV 9 August 2012 “Oh, I Believe In Yesterday” Everybody has a past. Some may have a wonderful past full of fun events and great deeds, and some may have a terrible past that haunts them every day of their life. Either way, everybody has an eventful history that...
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To analyze the attitudes towards the women question and the most useful starting point would be to look at the representation of the liberated woman, Yevdoxia Kukshina, which can be contrasted with the representation of Bazarov’s mother or Nikolai Kirsanov’s wife, the women ideals of...
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?Evil is a word that has many diverse meanings, representations, and perspectives across the globe. Many different societies have their own ways of describing “evil” depending on the culture and religion. Something that is regarded as evil in one society can be viewed as good in another. In...
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CHARACTER ANALYSIS Newland Archer As the protagonist of the novel, Newland Archer's point of view governs its narration. He is said to be a dilettante at the beginning of the novel, someone who amateurishly enjoys the pleasurable and delicate sensations that are the luxury of the members of the...
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CourseworkHelp : The Differences between Venice & Belmont In the play “The Merchant of Venice” by William Shakespeare the settings could not be more adverse, they are set in the most opposite atmospheres. One of the settings is named “Belmont”, this is Portia’s house…. the hero of the play. Whilst...
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Today, any person who studies dramatic monologue cannot bypass Robert Browning, an important figure shifting the transition from romanticism to modernism in English literature. Although he was highly regarded in the current academia, he was definitely a poet who lived ahead of his time. Despite...
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In All The Kings Men, Jack, finds for his dissertation to get his PhD, he writes on his great uncle, Cass Mastern. Cass Mastern was a poor when he was born, but his brother, becoming rich from cotton plantations, came back and supported Cass financially. By the suggestion from Jefferson Davis, he...
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Junli Wang Introduction to Literature, Josh Beach Date: 2012-7-18 An analysis of Fathers and Sons and Russian society in 19th century Russian society drastically changing in 19th century due to the “abolishment of the serfdom’’. In the middle of the 19th century Alexander II came to power and he...
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“Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.” — — “Memory believes before knowing remembers.[Light in August]” — Page 139 — “Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.” — — “Dear God, let me be damned a little longer, a...
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It is evident that Newland Archer goes through a series of events that define his personality and from which we can deduct the truth. Archer finds redemption in his sons, love and pity coming from May. The biggest constant motif of The Age of Innocence is mortality and immortality. When Wharton...
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The Merchant of Venice Ever been in a situation where you do not know whether to be fair or bend the rules a bit? In The Merchant of Venice, mercy and justice are the continuing predominant themes. Situations occur, that doing the just act does not seem to be correct or the right thing to do...
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I can identify with the way Australian culture changed through migration, as it has had a profound effect on Australia as a whole. It is the dream of every migrant; to live a worry-free life in a new country, however this can be a tough road littered with obstacles. Peter Skrzynecki is a renowned...
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Passage 1: In this first passage the author describes the scenic views of the rolling countryside as he and Willie Stark drive to Mason City for some quick press photos at Willies old house. The author spends a great deal of time in this passage detailing the landscape and introducing figures. The...
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“We sit in the mud, my friend, and reach for the stars.” — — “Whereas I think: I'm lying here in a haystack... The tiny space I occupy is so infinitesimal in comparison with the rest of space, which I don't occupy and which has no relation to me. And the period of time in which I'm fated to live...
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JOHN N. DUVALL THE UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS I first encountered the writing of Cleanth Brooks twenty years ago in a sophomore English class. The class exemplified New Critical pedagogy, both in what we read (Shakespeare, Donne, Frost, Faulkner) and how we read (close analysis of the text with no...
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A deeper understanding of relationships and identity emerges from pursuing the connections between Persuasion and Age of Innocence. Compare how these texts explore relationships and identity. Persuasion (Jane Austen 1815) and Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese 1993) has thoroughly explored...
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The Merchant of Venice (1596) is one of Shakespeare’s most outstanding comedies. For the past more than 400 years, it has been paid close attention to and also highly praised. Many people, such as literature critics, historians, and the scholars who study religion, have keen interest in it not...
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“A Mercy,” by Toni Morrison takes place around the forming of the United States of America when slavery weren't just defined from race. Around this time slavery was getting popular and had finally hit the U. S. with storm. A major theme in this story is the stereotypes of women. One stereotype...
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In the novel, All the King’s Men written by Robert Penn Warren, Jack Burden and Willie Stark are paired as the two main characters. All the King’s Men is a unique novel because both Jack Burden and Willie Stark are considered dynamic characters, with each of them undergoing a...
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In Ivan Turgenev's novel, 'Fathers and Sons,' there are many contrasting ideas, people, and places; between Pavel and Bazarov, Madame Odintsov's liberal views versus Bazarov's nihilistic views, the older generation versus the new one. The two places, however, that I think...
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Gentleman Brown and Brierly are two notable characters in the novel Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad. Lord Jim is about the story of Jim and his struggle to be recognized as a successful man. He failed at first but when he did find success, it was cut short, proving that his past would haunt him forever...
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January 5th 2011 The Death Of Innocence Characterization is a description of qualities or peculiarities. In “The Age of Innocence” Edith Wharton uses characterization over plot to emphasize the ways in which a death of innocence is taking place in society. Throughout the novel, various characters...
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Shylock in "The Merchant of Venice" Summary: In "The Merchant of Venice" by William Shakespeare, Shylock is always portrayed as the villain of the play. However, a study of his strengths and weaknesses reveals how hard it is to tell whether he is a villain or a victim. 'The Merchant of Venice'...
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The inner peace of recognizing our place in our universe has been one of the concerns of our existence. To obtain harmony between what we think, do and project, it should be striven by all. A tool that has served as the human being internalize these goals and at some point feel that we are near...
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“The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if...
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“In the end, you are exactly--what you are. Put on a wig with a million curls, put the highest heeled boots on your feet, yet you remain in the end just what you are.” -Mephistopheles (Goethe 1829) In analyzing whether Faust, in Goethe’s First Part of Faust was a villain or a hero, it would be...
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Joseph Conrad's novel Lord Jim tells the story of the young dreamer Jim, who at a young age had a promising future and dreamt with life in the ocean. Sea stories are a current theme on Conrad's work, as he passed part of his youth in the sea. However, the importance of the sea in his career does...
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A diatribe on the vicious yet serene society of her childhood, Edith Wharton's Age of Innocence proffers an attack against the boa constrictor ways of late 1800s New York City0. May's ability to keep things as they are 1, Newland's desire to escape2, and Ellen's escape3 exhibit three different...
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TWO MAJOR THEMES IN MERCHANT OF VENICE A major theme in the Merchant of Venice is mercy. Mercy depicts a large part of this play, mercy is one of themes that ends it. In the courtroom scene of Act 4, scene 1, both the Duke and Portia present mercy as a better alternative to the pursuit of either...
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Family is important, and many people would do anything for them. In the exploration of race and ethnicity in the melting pot, the importance of family is the central theme between the works of Amy Tan’s “Alien Relative” and Richard Rodriguez’s "Aria. " Both families in Tan’s and Rodriguez’s...
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Introduction Much of Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People (1882) might be traced to the following point of origin: the hurt, the distress and disgust he felt at the hostile reception given in 1881 by the Norwegian public and critics to Ghosts. Within a year of this bitterly resented...
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Goethe in Faust and Shelley in Frankenstein: Still the Wretched Fools They Were Before Jeremy Burlingame Goethe in Faust and Shelley in Frankenstein, wrap their stories around two men whose mental and physical actions parallel one another. Both stories deal with characters, who strive to be the...
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Lord Jim’s better half The reader encounters no sign of a woman role in the beginning and middle part of Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim. It is not until its last chapters that the reader can see a woman figure. Perhaps, the reason for late appearance of a woman in the novel is due to Conrad’s unique...
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LITERATURE PRESENTATION 6 CHAPTER 13 1. How is the description of the ‘sad, almost monosyllabic scene of parting’ in paragraph 3 and 4 significant? Who are we reminded of when the narrator details the actress’s costume? Actor’s description: Is said to have romantic good looks Similar to: Newland...
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Ashley Tam Ms. Parker ENG2DB – 01 December 17, 2010 Injustice: Power Gone Wrong All communities run successfully with qualities of fairness and equality. The well-being of the citizens depends on the support and guidance they receive from those with power and influence in their society. When the...
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Liturgical drama was a very big deal back in the Late Middle Ages. Its popularity grew within the churches of England, Germany, Spain and even the Netherlands. This idea sprouted in the late 10th century and stuck around for quite some time and quickly flourished during the 12th and 13th centuries...
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An Enemy of the People Dr. Thomas Stockmann was a determined and caring man who was passionate when it came to his beliefs. However, Stockmann was also an idealist who was rather naive when it came to reality. As the Medical Advisor of the baths, he wanted to expose the truth of the hazards that...
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In the play "Faust" by Johann Goethe, Gretchen's character envelops extreme aspects of Virgin Mary and of Eve. Mary acts as the symbol of the mother of mankind, the pure woman who makes men's salvation possible. She has no evil in her at all. In contrast, Eve is the archetypal figure of the fallen...
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In an assessment of happy endings, the British Novelist Fay Weldon observes that, “The writers, I do believe, who get the best and most lasting response from the readers are the writers who offer a happy ending through moral development. By a happy ending, I do not mean mere fortunate events – a...
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The Age of Innocence: Self, Society, Relationships, and Such Edith Wharton, in her novel The Age of Innocence, addresses the relationships between self, others, and society in Old New York. In order to fully understand the purpose of this novel, one must contextualize these fictional relations to...
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The Merchant of Venice is a comedy written by Shakespeare, but it is arguable that it can also be called a tragedy. A dictionary meaning of a tragedy is, “a drama or similar work, in which the main character is brought to ruin or otherwise suffers the extreme consequences of some tragic flaw or...
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The story “Shiloh” was written by Bobbie Ann Mason. Shiloh, Tennessee is where a civil war battle had happened. It is now a big tourist attraction with monuments, a cabin with bullet holes, and a short film about the civil war and Shiloh. When you read the title, it makes you think that is what...
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A compelling book should consist of an array of complex ideas and leave the reader with a sense of satisfaction. That book must only regretfully leave the hands of its reader and enthusiastically return. An Enemy of the People written by Henrik Ibsen and published by Oxford University Press...
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The legend of Faust was a legend that occurred in the 1500's in Europe. Over time, as the story was told and passed on through generations, many different ideas on what happened were brought up, but the main idea of the story is the same in most cases. One of the most interesting things about this...
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Lord Jim is a wonderful, compelling novel by Joesph Conrad detailing the life of Jim as told by Marrow. The primary element used by Conrad in this novel is his uses of internal conflict within his characters. These conflictions shape his characters and makes the complex. Conrad's writing style of...
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