What is heroism? Heroism is typically described with qualities such as courage, bravery, fortitude, unselfishness, or someone who has achieved some fantastic goal or status, or even someone who has accomplished a great task. Heroism consists of always striving to do what is right, rather than what...
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Caleb “Cal” Trask is one of Adam Trask’s twin sons, Aron and Cal Trask, born from Adam’s former wife, Cathy, Cal is probably the most complex person in John Steinbeck’s novel East of Eden. Cal was from birth more of the devilish than his brother Aron, and took after...
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Love True love is emotion and passion. True love is when two individuals see each other and never want to leave each other. True love is a feeling of love every time one sees or even thinks of his or her soul mate. I do not believe true love was ever reached in this novel with any of the characters...
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The Use of Color in Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis The book Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi is, interestingly, al illustrated in black-and-white portraits with additional splashes of gray. Although there are many critics about Satrapi’s use of this style, it eventually compels towards her story’s...
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Despite the name and approach of the novel, Sula consist of three main protagonists: Shadrack, Sula/Nel and the black people who live in the community of Medallion. All three protagonists are bind together to form a center focus (Reddy 3). Reading Sula, readers may apply that the novel is based on...
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The Cask of Amontillado is a short story on the macabre genre focusing on the use of ‘dark’ themes such as revenge, murder, and death. Narrated in the first-person view, the story is told in the perspective of the murderer, Montresor as he exacts cold revenge upon Fortunato, a fellow nobleman, at...
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The Little Prince The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery is a children’s novella written as much for adults as it is for children. The simplistic nature of the book can easily be misconstrued as a typical children’s story, however, the themes and morals of this story are designed to help...
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People usually think a grotesque is a person who has bad background, who people hate and has Most of stories in Winesburg, Ohio which is written by Sherwood Anderson talk about how grotesque people in the 19th century were. And most of people at that time thought that being a grotesque was horrible...
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This fragment is part of A Room of One’s Own, a book by Virginia Woolf that reunites and recreates the contents of a series of lectures she delivered in Cambridge in 1928. The author was invited to talk about the topic “Women and Novel”; however, she made use of her innovative...
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The novel Anna Karenina, written by Leo Tolstoy in 1873, explores the debilitating effects societal pressures can have within relationships, confining the freedom of the individual. The storyline follows two main protagonists, both of which strive to find meaning in their relationships despite...
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Voltaire’s Candide contains many meanings that are still relevant in the present day because people today haven’t changed they way they. Voltaire used Candide’s travels and experiences to communicate his own views and opinions. In Candide, Voltaire expresses his ideas about war...
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Throughout Steinbeck's books there are many themes. Not all of his themes occurred were recurring, but of the ones that were they often had a large impact on the writings. From the battle between good and evil to the acts of brotherhood, all of them had an effect. In the largest book of...
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Heart of Darkness Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad is a fictional novel with an overflow of symbolism. Throughout the entire novel Conrad uses a plethora of simple colors, objects, and places in order to clarify very complex meanings. By doing this, Conrad is able to lure the reader...
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Film Review: The Grapes of Wrath The film The Grapes of Wrath, directed by John Ford, pragmatically depicts the conditions, both cultural and economic, during the Great Depression. The film specifically focuses on the "Dust Bowl" in the 1930s. The main focus of The Grapes of Wrath is the journey...
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Matthew Majewski Mrs. Loudis English IV October 29, 2012 Little Prince Essay God’s will, a moral imperative and a fresh outlook, drove Antoine De Saint-Exupery to the stars and back for answers to his own questions. Even though we don’t see much influence in Saint-Exupery’s work what we do see is...
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Zora Neal Hurston’s novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, follows its protagonist Janie on both emotional and physical journeys and through three marriages. The story is set in the south, in primarily black towns, with no mention of white people until the last chapter. This dichotomy between black...
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Trapped in your mind In his collection of short stories, Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson explores the lives of the characters living in a closed society of a small town. It is a society that struggles to overcome loneliness and isolation. In the stories “Mother” and “Adventure”, the author...
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Let me start off by saying that I thoroughly enjoy satires; it is the genre I appreciate most for its employment of wit and militant irony. Upon delving into Candide by Voltaire I was lured in by its display of ridiculously brutal situations that dramatized the many evils of human experience. I...
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The movie and the book Like Water for Chocolate are both well written. I enjoyed the book because it had a different layout than the other books we have read thus far. The film was an asset to see because it followed the book so well that it gave you more ideas about things that you might not have...
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In the novel Sula, Morrison portrays a correlation between the two main characters Sula and Nel. In the novel, Nel is seen as normal compared to Sula, who is seen as abnormal. When the novel begins, these two characters were young, but when the novel ends, these two characters were old. Despite...
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Poe's The Cask of Amontillado: Themes UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO PARANA Curitiba, 8 de outubro de 1996 Curso: Letras - Ingles / Noturno Disciplina: Literatura Norte Americana I Aluno: Anderson Jose Nogueira TASK: To write a summary theme of Poe's "The Cask Of Amontillado" One of the main themes of...
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1. 07 The Scarlet Letter and Anne Bradstreet Part I: Short Answer 1. Anne Bradstreet uses birds as a metaphor for her children. She goes on to say, “Four Cocks were there, and Hens the rest. ” This means that four were boys and the others were girls. She also says, “Till at the last they felt...
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Anthem by Ayn Rand In the novel Anthem by Ayn Rand there are many themes. These themes include love, desire, equality, freedom, and individuality. Most of these themes are all shown by the majority of the characters in the book, especially Equality 7-2521. One can see that the themes of love and...
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Poverty is an important theme in John Steinbeck’s Cannery Row. Set in the 1920s during the Great Depression, poverty is an overarching aspect of life in the down-and-out community of Cannery Row. A backdrop for the book, Cannery Row is a place where poverty affects everyone and everything...
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James Bryce once said, “The worth of a book is to be measured by what you carry away from it. ” Any good piece of literature should both challenge and enrich you, and John Steinbeck’s East of Eden is no exception. More than a mundane reiteration of a biblical tale, East of Eden explores the...
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Poe's, The Cask of Amontillado is a story about fear and revenge. The story begins with Montressor's vow of revenge, foreshadowing future actions. "The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as best I could; but when he ventured upon insult vowed revenge... " Montressor had to be sure not to...
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Lee Hyeon Ju Ms. Sarah Jane ELSEO November 23, 2012 The little prince The little prince has symbolism, it reminds people about meaning of life. Anthoine de Saint Exupery uses symbolism to teach the reader. Firstly, the king symbolizes how power is useless. The fox symbolizes love and the desert...
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Cannery Row By John Steinbeck In Cannery Row, John Steinbeck describes the unholy community of 1920s Monterey, California. Cannery Row is a street that depends on canning sardines. It is where all the outcasts of society reside. Steinbeck himself, in the first sentence of the book, describes...
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In John Steinbeck’s novel, East of Eden, the deprivation of a sound conscience is a theme that is associated with Cathy Ames, and afflicts the people around her. The author uses foreshadowing to portray the future of Cathy and her multiple victims. By doing so, the author builds onto the...
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'They were dying slowly-it was clear. They were not enemies, they were not criminals, they were nothing earthly now, nothing but black shadows of disease and starvation, lying confused in the greenish gloom'. (page 14 para. 3, line 1). The quote is coming from Marlow, upon arriving at the...
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Anything not taken in moderation can be damaging. In one of Edgar Allen Poe's best-known tales of horror, "The Cask of Amontillado," he suggests that pride can be a very dangerous thing, when one is overwhelmed with it. Through the use of foreshadowing, irony, and symbolism, Poe presents a...
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The Grapes Of WrathName:_____________________________ Regents / Honors English 11Period:____ Date:___________________ The Grapes of Wrath WPA Project 2008 As you have been learning in U. S. History and in background research of To Kill a Mockingbird, the Great Depression was a time when the...
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Most people believe that there exists at least one person in the world who matches their personality exactly. Others believe that for every person there is an exact opposite or an evil twin so to speak. In the case of Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale, they fall somewhere in between these two...
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Wuthering Heights: Summary Emily Bronte was born in Thorton, Yorkshire, in 1918. Wuthering Heights was Bronte's only book; however, she died in 1848 and never knew of the book's success. It is said by many to be the finest novel in the English language. Just before she dies, Catherine Earnshaw...
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Today women have achieved the same rights as men. However, the needs of women are usually quite different. In this article, we want to provide you with the analysis of the novel “Madame Bovary,” which is the fatal crash of dreams and reality. Everyday reality is far from ideal, but...
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At first, it may seem that The Scarlet Letter has nothing to do with feminism and the fight for equal rights between males and females. The book was written in 1850 when the society was dominated by men who completely overruled women. No one could even think of such a thing as gender equality. The...
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The 20th century has given the literary world a completely new genre – a dystopian novel. The main purpose of this genre is to envisage the ruthlessness of technological progress subdued by the government. Eric Arthur Blake, an English writer and journalist more famous under his pseudonym...
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It is not easy to compare or choose one of the two world-known anti-utopias. It is possible to allocate for an indefinitely long time common elements that emphasize the similarities of works. There are an anti-utopia, decadence, gloomy mood, hardening of the soul, the crisis of morality, struggle...
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Eric Arthur Blair, a writer, and publicist, was born on June 25, 1903, known throughout the world under the pseudonym George Orwell. His novels “Animal Farm” and "1984" are the most striking works written in the genre of anti-utopia, whose flowering dates back to the 20th...
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When it comes to symbolism, 1984 is treasurer full of symbols, allusions, and hints. But what is symbolism in the first place? This is a literary device which is used to hide a meaningful abstract idea behind an object, person, or a place. Implicit or explicit, symbols convey additional messages...
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According to Orwell, there is nothing and nothing more terrible than the total lack of freedom/ “1984” is a cult novel of the English writer George Orwell, who became the canon of the genre of anti-utopia. Here you can find the fear, despair and struggle against the system, which...
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These two novels, 1984 and Brave New World, seems pretty similar from the first glance but, in fact, they demonstrate two opposite types of mass manipulation. Written with different aims, both of them reveal in what way people are deceived and used by their authority without even realizing. They...
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Perhaps the most legendary dystopian novel of the previous century, 1984 is a masterful attempt to enlighten the readers about the dangers any totalitarian ideology hides within itself. George Orwell wrote his literary masterpiece after one of the most devastating massacres in history &ndash...
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According to George Orwell, the freedom of speech is an essential element that should be granted by any authorities. When people are deprived of the possibility to express their thoughts in whatever form they want, then consider that there is no freedom of speech at all. The same goes for...
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Why do we need the laugh? What role does it play in people’s lives? The question can cause bewilderment. After all, the laugh is when it’s just ridiculous and no one thinks about what the role it plays. But laugh can be different, and the writer knows in advance what kind of laughter...
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“Catch 22” of Joseph Heller is a charming, extremely witty and utterly heartbreaking novel, which will support you in realizing the infinite absurdity of this world. Why do we need satire in literature? Satire in literature puffs and exaggerates human vices to such an extent that they...
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The dilemma about the intrinsical meaning of the story about the Prince of Denmark is a perturbing issue of discussion. Question about whether Hamlet feels affection to Ophelia is still not answered because the author uses various evasive situations when readers get more and more confused. Those...
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In any discussion concerning roles of male and female in the “Odyssey,” it seems natural to concentrate mainly on the evidence having to do with the situation on Ithaka, both because Ithaka is the most complex and the most fully described society in the Odyssey. All the women met...
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“Great Gatsby” is one of the most popular novels famous all over the world. It becomes very widespread because of combination themes that disturb people of different centuries. It violates the theme of love, relationship, parents, old and new money, and in this article we want to show...
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The man was always interested in everything mystical. Horrible, fantastic texts are mentioned in the early folklore of different countries, but only partially. Perhaps this is due to a small degree of study of the surrounding world. Everything unknown, all the unusual scares the person, but...
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