Long Day’s Journey into Night essay In Eugene O’Neill’s play A Long Day’s Journey into Night, the main protagonist, Mary Tyrone, functions as an instrument of suffering of others. Her sons Jamie and Edmund both suffer internal tragedies that could easily be blamed on her. Like her sons, her...
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Northanger Abbey is Jane Austen’s direct comment on the gothic novel. By creating the characters in this novel “types” instead of well-rounded characters, she makes them serve as representative of characters in gothic novels. Austen also explicitly comments on the gothic novel by references to the...
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PYGMALION 1. Significance of Title: The significance of the title, ”Pygmalion” is in Greek mythology, The town Cyprus Pygmalion was a king who deeply fell in love with the statue of Aphrodite. Pygmalion had pictured nothing but beauty in his mind. He worked many countless days and nights in search...
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born on November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri. He is better known by his pen name “Mark Twain”, which is a nautical term which means two fathoms deep. As a child he learned to smoke and led a gang, leaving school at age 12 to become an apprentice at a printing shop...
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In the book The Color Purple, by Alice Walker, Tashi is convinced that she doesn't want to go to America because no one will like her. Tashi has her doubts but Adam convinces her to come. I am not here to analyze the motives of the character's decision to go/not go to America, rather I will...
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Dystopian Societies The government in Huxley's Brave New World and Atwood's Handmaid's Tale, both use different methods of obtaining control over people, but are both similar in the fact that These novels prove that there is no freedom in dystrophic societies when the government controls...
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“If you ain't scared… you ain't human.” — Page 45 — “You are the hucksterism shuck faced shuck in the world!” — — “Shouldn't someone give a pep talk or something?" Minho asked, pulling Thomas's attention away from Alby."Go ahead," Newt replied.Minho nodded and faced the crowd. "Be careful," he...
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The Song of Roland: Insight Into Another World Historians have now been able to date the first manuscripts of The Song of Roland as far back as the 11th century CE (1060 CE)- to be more specific, 1130 CE. However, some historians have dated the poem itself back to 1060 CE, but the most widely...
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Certain uncanny resemblances between Tom Robinson and Boo Radley's lives exist in Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird. Often large groups of people misunderstand certain unusual individuals. Sometimes they stereotype the person; other times, they simply do not bother to find out the truth. When...
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In considering the question of what aspects of today’s world relate most to the fictional, dystopian world presented in George Orwell’s 1984, it might be easier to ask what aspects of today’s world – particularly in the United States, once a beacon of hope for the world – doesn’t it resemble...
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The novel A Separate Peace focuses mainly around a 17 year old named Gene Forrester and his psychological development. The story is set in a boys boarding school in USA during World War II. There are four main boys in the novel and they all undergo major character changes through the story. One of...
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The representations and interplay of types of power: In Shakespeare's famous play Antony and Cleopatra, the powerful are portrayed including their personalities, their reactions to other powerful figures and the interplay of these powers as the characters interact. Antony's Power: Shakespeare uses...
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Sarah Winter Silver 1 World Literature 4/27/09 Angela Vicario is responsible for the murder of Santiago Nasar. Although it was her twin brothers that committed the actual crime, the reasons behind their murder come directly from their beautiful sister Angela. While it wasn’t Angela who directly...
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The tale of forbidden love binds itself within many famous works of literature in order to provoke the human mind into situations similar to those of Adam and Eve of the Bible. The “forbidden fruit” plays an important role in the books of Ethan Frome and Jane Eyre in the form of...
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In King Henry V, King Henry is a man of Christian values and a solid foundation of moral principles. Through careful analysis of the entire play, one is able to confirm that he conducts himself with royal bearing. King Henry is 'no tyrant but a Christian king' who is 'a true lover of...
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Vandana Ashtakala Mrs. Clay Grade 11 Honors English, Period 3 September 20, 2011 Lost in Fog Shrouded under the foggy presence of lies and denial, one can live a misleading life. People are forced to operate under a facade until they are forced to reflect upon their fake life. This may result in...
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Evil Villains in Northanger Abbey In Jane Austen's, Northanger Abbey, John Thorpe and General Tilney are portrayed as unpleasant villains. Villains are defined as, "a wicked or evil person; a scoundrel" (The American Heritage Dictionary http://www. dictionary. com/search? q=VILLAIN). Austen...
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“Pygmalion”, by George Bernard Shaw, is a modern metamorphosis of the story Pygmalion, legendary sculptor and king of Cyprus, who fell in love with his own statue of Aphrodite. At his prayer, Aphrodite brought the statue to life as Galatea. In his own play, Shaw reveals a twist in the Greek myth...
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“All modern American Literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.. ” claimed Ernest Hemingway, a American author and journalist. This quote represents the idea and perception of Huckleberry Finn as a defining moment in American Literature, a time when a new culture was...
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Alice Walker states that ? The Colour Purple' remains for her the "theological work examining the journey from the religious back to the spiritual". How successful is she in revealing her purpose to the reader? ;br; ;br;In the preface to ? the Colour Purple' Walker identifies her religious...
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Question 1: Written language is not neutral. Explore this idea making reference to your experience of written language. Written language can only be neutral if it has a non biased with preconceived values/beliefs, and the author or the narrator must not favour any side of the conflicts at hand...
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The Maze Runner is a young adult novel set in a post-apocalyptic world. The story begins in a dark metal elevator, where a teenage boy awakens with no real memories other than the fact that his name is Thomas. When the elevator stops and the doors open, Thomas finds himself surrounded by teenage...
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Imagine living in a turbulent world, where people lived their day to day lives praying that they would see the next sunrise. That was life for villagers that lived during the times of the ancient Greeks and Romans, as well as during the medieval period when Germanic tribes ruled Europe. To help...
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While examining the term, "the end of innocence", Scout's viewpoint on Boo throughout the novel can be an indication of Scout's own "end of innocence. " <br> <br>Scout opens the novel with a naive viewpoint on both the world and Boo Radley. At the start of the novel, Scout interprets a...
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I have come to a point in life that many people have not. I have made a firm decision to recommit myself to pursuing my dreams. While there are those who believe that with an ounce of luck and a ton of persistence anything can be accomplished, I believe that there is no reason to expend so much...
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Every person feels rivalry or competition towards others at some point in their lives. This rivalry greatly affects our ability to understand others, and this eventually results in paranoia and hostility. It is a part of human nature, that people coldly drive ahead for their gain alone. Man's...
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Power play is featured in human experience at all levels, from the public world of politics to the private world of personal relationships. Textual portrayal of power as a complex social force, has intoxicated the human disposition encapsulating the composers vision of power play being destructive...
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The importance of progressing mankind’s collective values and morals can be seen from the novel Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Throughout the story, people are interviewed, and different versions of the state of weather arise. Each response differentiates depending on the...
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In Edith Wharton’s novel Ethan Frome, setting is an important element. The setting greatly influences the characters, transportation, and activities. The setting takes place in a small town called “Starkfield”. Starkfield is a town that is just like its name, it is boring, barren...
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Shakespeare’s King Henry V is a man who is extraordinarily gifted in the area of speech. With his use of words, he can inspire his soldiers, persuade anyone, and frighten his enemies. In Shakespeare’s Henry V, there are specifically two speeches that are most well known even to this day...
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Long Day’s Journey Into Night: Forgiveness Old pains cannot be forgotten. In order to forget, one must first forgive and for the Tyrone’s, this is a very difficult thing to do. Forgiveness is one of, if not the most important theme in Long Day’s Journey into Night. This is very apparent in Edmund...
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The Female bildungsroman Like other Jane Austen novels, such as Emma or Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey's primary trajectory is the development of the main female character. Even though Catherine Morland is not a typical female Bildungsroman, her realizations in who she is and who she is...
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Excerpt from Robinson Crusoe But now I began to exercise myself with new thoughts: I daily read the word of God, and applied all the comforts of it to my present state. One morning, being very sad, I opened the Bible upon these words, “I will never, never leave thee, nor forsake thee.” Immediately...
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In the book Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Aunt Polly is a minor character but her role is very important. She is Tom Sawyer’s aunt and also his guardian. Aunt Polly is a sharp woman who tries to keep Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn out of trouble. She is a character that is fearsome...
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In Alice Walker's The Color Purple, the format of Celie's narratives show great similarities with the slave narratives that were collected in the 1930's. Celie shows resmeblances in the way the slaves talked about their situation. They were very timid about raising their voices. Celie, as many...
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Margaret Atwood’s, The Handmaid’s Tale, portrays men and women in a society with very rigid gender roles which give its citizens no chance of social mobility. Within this society there is no individual choice, because the women’s rankings and duties are decided upon according to where they reside...
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A boy finds himself in a dark metal elevator with the sounds of chains and pulleys around him. The smell of burnt oil, combined with the motion of the elevator, nauseates him. He has no recollection of how he came to be in the elevator, but knows that his name is Thomas. In fact, his name is the...
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CHARLEMAGNE IN THE SONG OF ROLAND The textbook displays Charlemagne as an astounding and great military leader but examines a few of his flaws as well. The Song of Roland creates the image of Charlemagne that is an extraordinary, legendary leader. They both tell about what great things he...
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As people grow in life, they mature and change. In the novel , To Kill a Mockingbird ,by Harper Lee, Scout, the main character, matures as the book continues. Slowly but surely, Scout learns to control her explosive temper, to refrain from fistfights, and to respect Calpurnia, their maid, and to...
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One of the fundamental liberties that is enshrined in the Constitution of almost every government in the world is the right to privacy. People are given the right to be safe in their houses and persons against warrantless searches and seizures. This is an almost absolute right that can only be...
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In the book A Separate Peace by John Knowles, one of the main themes is the effects of realism, idealism, and isolationism on Brinker, Phineas, and Gene. Though not everyone can be described using one of these approaches to life, the approaches completely conform to these characters to create one...
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Antony and Cleopatra Essay Question: How is power play illustrated in the behaviour of Antony and Cleopatra and Antony and Caesar in Shakespeare’s ‘Antony and Cleopatra’? In your answer make close reference to the text. (600-800 words) The strength of the powerplay used in Shakespeare’s play...
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez is the author of the very intriguing novel Chronicle of a Death Foretold. The chronicle “is very strange and brilliantly conceived,” and “ a sort of metaphysical murder mystery in which the detective, Garcia Marquez himself, reconstructs events associated...
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Ethan Frome Title Uncontrollable elements, affect one’s decisions. Naturalists believe human behavior is controlled by social and economic conditions, environmental forces, and internal stresses surrounded amongst one’s self. Edith Wharton’s novel Ethan Frome, is the epitome of Naturalistic belief...
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Henry V – William Shakespeare There can be little doubt that Shakespeare intended to present his protagonist in “Henry V” as the popular hero-king. His efforts are mainly concentrated on the portraiture of this “star of England”, King Henry, whom he deliberately chose out of the page of history as...
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?‘She’ll be nothing but a ghost haunting the past by this time’ (Edmund, Act 4, p82) In Long Day’s Journey into Night, how far and in what ways is the past presented as destructive? Edmund’s poignant quote that encapsulates the character of Mary Tyrone shows evidence of one of the play’s main...
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Themes of Northanger Abbey In Spacks essay, she discusses the fact that Northanger Abbey parodies the romantic Gothic novels of that time. She also argues about the generational conflict, and the characters use of imagination to promote their growth and maturity. She states that the growth takes...
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Fiction, for countless centuries fictional literary works have never failed to entice and engage readers with its ability to rouse their wildest imaginations. But more often than not, several elements fictional literary pieces such as characters, themes, plot, conflict, and story reflect a certain...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Short Form 1. Basic Details: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain. Given the name Samuel Langhorne Clemens at birth, Twain was born in Florida, Missouri on November 30, 1835, though he grew up in Hannibal, Missouri. Twain died of a heart attack on...
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The meaning of Beauty and The Color Purple "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not" -Ralph Waldo Emerson As stated by Emerson, beauty cannot be found unless carried within one's self first. In the novel by Alice Walker, "The Color Purple"...
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