It was the best of times… It was the worst of times… It was the age of wisdom…It was the age of foolishness. Those are the evocative opening statements of Charles Dickens’ classic novel, “A Tale of Two Cities,” aptly describing the milieu of the French Revolution: chaotic and yet inspiring...
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Bartleby, the Scrivener During a period of depression and eye problems from 1853-56, Melelville published a series of stories. Melville exploits Bartleby's infamous remark "I would prefer not to" to reflect his protesting attitude toward his meaningless job. Secondly, Melville gives attention to...
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Concepts of Forgiveness, Faith, and the Redemptive Value of Suffering with regard to Cry, the Beloved Country By: Alan Paton Through Paton’s use of faith and forgiveness in Cry, the Beloved Country he demonstrates the concept of redemptive value through Kumalo’s suffering and...
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far from the madding crowd FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD – Themes and Messages Fate as a Theme Fate and coincidence are frequently used in the plot. • Bathsheba arrives just in time to save Gabriel suffocating in his lambing hut, and he in turn happens to arrive in Weatherbury in time to save...
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is a literary work by Harriet Ann Jacobs. She starts it with an autobiography that narrates her painful ordeals. The autobiography is meant to help in the abolition of slave trade. Jacobs has used Linda Brent as the main character to help in narrating her...
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Macbeth is considered one of the greatest and shortest tragedies that William Shakespeare has ever written. Similar to his tragic heroes like Othello and Hamlet, Macbeth was initially portrayed as a courageous hero who had defeated the kingdom’s enemy. However, in this story, Macbeth and his wife...
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Looking For Alaska Book Report – Eulogy Hello everyone. I would like to thank you all for coming to honor our friend, Alaska Young. I am Miles Halter, known to most as Pudge. I transferred to Culver Creek Boarding School from Florida to ‘seek a Great Perhaps’, to leave behind the insignificant...
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Romeo and Juliet: Medicines Used In The renaissance Romeo and Juliet both killed themselves with poison, although it was not synthetic drugs. The poison had to be as powerful, some scholars believe that it was hemlock that sealed the fate of the two start crossed love, other are skeptical, but we...
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The Aeneid and the Glory of Rome Between 43 and 32 BC Rome was split up through the second triumvirate upon the death of Caesar. The triumvirate was a way to split the military and political power because the senate feared that they would once again fall under a dictatorship, which is the ultimate...
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The Crucible: John Proctor A character is an elaborate blend of emotions and characteristics. Even though the character's emotions are significant because they make an individual feel for the character may it be sympathy or anger. The characteristics are very also important because they make the...
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The views and beliefs of societies are often portrayed in the literature, art, and cinema of a certain era. The epic poems, The Iliad and Odyssey, give scholars and historians an idea how the Ancient Greek lived their everyday lives. By reading the two "novels," the reader is able to experience...
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"The Old Man and the Sea" The Old Man and the Sea is a heroic tale of a man’s strength pitted against forces that he can’t control. It is a tale about an old Cuban fisherman and his three-day battle with a giant Marlin. Through the use of three prominent themes: friendship, bravery...
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Camus' "The Stranger": Choice and Individual Freedom Are Integral Components of Human Nature Camus's The Stranger is a grim profession that choice and individual freedom are integral components of human nature, and the commitment and responsibility that accompany these elements are ultimately the...
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TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE Mitch Ablom Tuesdays with Morrie is a short narrative dealing with the last few months of an amazing man's life, Morrie Schwartz. Mitch Ablom, the author, has written this novel documenting his experience of spending every Tuesday, during his last few months, with Morrie. It...
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A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess portrays the problem between order in society and the freedom of individuals. The novel represents the universal values and dangers of all societies due to this fundamental conflict of choice and individualism. The freedom of individuals must be limited in...
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Madeleine L’Engle’s “A Wrinkle in Time” ranks with the best known classic children’s stories. Perhaps a “Lewis Carroll Shelf Award” and a runner-up position in the “Hans Christian Andersen Award” would prove this claim. However, all the...
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Bartleby, the Scrivener is one of the first stories of corporate discontent. Bartleby is a man that not only deals with his discontent but his isolation as well. Herman Melville has transformed the character of Bartleby as a man that is obviously a freak that appears to be a very lonely man and is...
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Sarah Forsyth’s Slave Girl Reviewed Many people do not see slavery as a current issue of concern. However, “Globally, the International Labor Organization estimates that about 20. 9 million people are trafficked and that 22% of them are victims of forced sexual exploitation”(Alcindor). Readers are...
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Hardy was aware of the gender bias inherent in Victorian society and culture, the expectations that limited women’s opportunities. He explores the restricted and disempowered status of women through the experiences of Bathsheba Everdene. Although a perfectly capable, educated and head strong...
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Moral Values By Fidel Franco On this book the tail is about a girl that suffers as being a slave and the worst part is that she didn't even know she has a slave. Linda Brent saw a lot of things while being with Dr. Flint, there for she came to a conclusion that...
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William Shakespeare is regarded by many as one, if not the greatest writer of all time. It is interesting to note that his success is due to his tragedies. “Hamlet” and “Macbeth” are two of his best known work. Both titles deal with the tragedy of aristocratic people. Though, it appears that...
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Looking For Alaska by John Green. This book is divided into two sections, Before and After. Summary Before. “Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were ‘’I go to seek a Great Perhaps. ’’ That’s why I’m going. So I don’t have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps. ”...
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Romeo and Juliet: Night - Rejoice or Rebel? Night can be seen in two contrasting ways. The first can be summarized as a time for celebration and love. The second, and most commonly associated with night, is a time of darkness and horror. Two shining examples of the different emotions and reactions...
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Heroism and Bereavement Vergil’s Aeneid is an epic that illustrates the determination that displays heroism amongst an individual, and furthermore, how this perception of heroism is shifted throughout the play. An example of this modification in Vergil’s perception of heroism was presented in Book...
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The Crucible: Reverend John Hale - A Dynamic Character In literature, there are different types of characters. There are the types of characters that change during the story and some that don't, dynamic and static. There is also how the character is described in the story. They might be flat...
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Paris: Magnificent Hero or Spoiled Child? Homer uses tone, imagery, epithets, and similes to describe Paris' character. Outwardly, Paris is a brave person, but inwardly, he is full of doubts and fears. He is like a stallion that has been pampered too much, a child who is allowed to get everything...
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From What Simple Things Come Why is it that everything in life has to have a conflict? Whether it is good or bad, something has to trigger it. In The Old Man in the Sea, a character, named Santiago, fell into a conflict of inadequate proportions. He went out into the sea, searching to find...
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Albert Camus' The Stranger: Meursault Is Aloof, Detached, and Unemotional In The Stranger, Albert Camus portrays Meursault, the book's narrator and main character, as aloof, detached, and unemotional. He does not think much about events or their consequences, nor does he express much feeling in...
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Term Paper-Tuesdays With Morrie Many people learn many things in many different ways. Most learn in school or church, some learn in asking questions, but I believe the best lessons are taught from a good friend. Tuesdays With Morrie is a true story of the remarkable lessons taught by a dying...
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'A Clockworck Orange' by Anthony Burges, is a novel that relates a terrible daydream of England in a future time where bands of adolescent hooligans ignore the main rules of living together in society, and every night take control of the town. The novel describes the different violent acts...
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Meg Murry - The book's heroine and protagonist, a homely, awkward, but loving high school student who is sent on an adventure through time and space with her brother and her friend Calvin to rescue her father from the evil force that is attempting to take over the universe. Meg's greatest faults...
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In Bartleby the Scrivener, a lawyer on Wall Street who is in need of additional copyists hires a man named Bartleby, who is quiet, reserved, and mysterious. After a few days of doing an extraordinary job of copying, Bartleby is asked to compare a copy sheet, to which he replies, "I would prefer...
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Kumalo is a man who has lost everything to Johannesburg. His sister, his brother, and his son have all left and he has no contact with them. When he is called there because of his sisters mental state and well being he is thrown into a completely different world. When the letter was delivered to...
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Long considered one of England's foremost nineteenth-century novelists, Hardy established his reputation with the publication of Far from the Madding Crowd in 1874. It was the first of his so-called “Wessex novels,” set in a fictitious English county closely resembling Hardy's...
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Life of a Slave Girl Outline I. Introduction: A. Background to piece of literature a. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl b. This was written by Harriet Jacobs under the false name Linda Brent. It was one of the first slave narratives written by a woman and took an interesting view on slavery...
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We often get to hear stories about people who want to achieve power, especially if it’s just at arms length. Many of these people are consumed by greed and the need for security. Sometimes, they also become irrational and harsh, that they do things impulsively without thinking about the...
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Looking for Alaska by John Green Looking for Alaska is one of the best books that I have read all year. I choose this book for my banned book project because of a recommendation of a friend, Rachel Mansfield, and was glad I did. Before I even read the book I had to see why, when, and where it was...
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Romeo and Juliet Journal Act I: Hi. I am Roberto Montague, Romeo's cousin. This is the first of five entries to this journal. Many things happened today. Some of these things are that Sampson and Gregory were talking, and then Abram and Balthasar entered the room. After Abram started to quarrel...
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The Alchemist is a famous writing issued for the first time in Greece in 1988 and is the most well- known creation of famous writer Paulo Coelho. It is a symbolical writing which wants the reader pursues his dreams. (Stewart 2007) Issued in original in 1988, The Alchemist was converted into 56...
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Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible develops characters that portray problems with their identities. This inner struggle is clearly seen in the main character John Proctor. He is the man Miller has chosen to struggle with “the dilemma of men, fallible, subject to pride, but forced to...
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Throughout The Iliad, the heroic characters make decisions based on a definite set of principles, which are referred to as the "code of honor. " The heroic code that Homer presents to the reader is an underlying cause for many of the events that take place, but many of the characters have...
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The Journey from Illusion to Disillusion in Hemingway's Old Man and The Sea In our world today we are constantly bombarded with messages of illusion and falsity, however the states in which people travel through their lives differ. Some people are suspended in a state of illusion for all...
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In Albert Camus’ “The Stranger” the “story of an ordinary man who gets drawn into a senseless murder” is told. Taking place in Algeria this man, Meursault, is constantly in a climate of extreme warmth, as are all the inhabitants therein. The sun, the source of light...
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Love Always Wins A review on Tuesdays with Morrie It is a small book, it is a big book; it tells a sad story, it tells a joyous story; it discusses death, it discusses life. Tuesdays with Morrie, an easy book to read, but indicates profound meanings. Morrie, the hero of the book, has a lethal...
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'The question is whether such a technique can really make a man good. Goodness comes from within, 6655321. Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man' (Burgess, 83). The priest would later say that Alex ceases to be a wrongdoer and a creature capable of...
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Madeleine L'Engle a French author uses a creative mixture of science and fairy tale magic for building the story line in her book A Wrinkle in Time. From beginning to end Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin go through adventure after adventure bursting with animated fairy-tale characteristics...
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Bartleby the Scrivener, a Deeply Symbolic Work "Bartleby the Scrivener," is one of the most complicated stories Melville has ever written, perhaps by any American writer of that period. It id a deep and symbolic work, its make you think of every little detail differently. It makes you realize that...
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In the book "Cry, the Beloved Country" by Alan Paton, a white priest comforts the main character, Stephen Kumalo, who falls into a great despair by the actions of his family members. The priest advises Kumalo that sorrow dominates over fear because sorrow enriches and flourishes the person...
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?chapter 1: "She simply observed herself as a fair product of Nature in the feminine kind. " – The girl that Gabriel is watching from a distance seems very vain as she looks at herself in the mirror and blushes at herself. "Let the young woman pass,” - says Oak after giving his to pence to the...
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In this essay ill write about slavery times. In the 1800 slave were of all ages. Harriet Jacobs was a young girl and was a slave. I will explain What was life like for Harriet Jacobs as a young slave girl in the south? How did Dr. Flint, his wife, and Harriet's mother influence her life? And last...
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