Discuss the various ways the confidant or confidante functions in one of the following works. In the play, A Streetcar named Desire, Tennessee Williams depicts a conflict through his main character, Blanche Dubois. Blanche has a problem in believing that she is in a fantasy world. In this play one...
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To The Lighthouse Assignment Texts often explore the ways characters are in conflict with themselves, others or society. Discuss this idea with close reference to Woolf’s To The Lighthouse. Texts often explore different forms of conflict - within a character or between characters, between a...
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English Coursework - A Christmas Carol Question: How does the personality of Ebenezer Scrooge develop during the novel “A Christmas Carol”? In this essay I am going to distinguish the personality changes of Ebenezer Scrooge in the novel, “A Christmas Carol”; who was once a miserly, lonely...
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Crime and Punishment By: Your Name Date Professor Fyodor Dostoevsky in his fictional novel Crime and Punishment, written in 1866, explores redemption through suffering and the inner thoughts of a "criminal" by providing insight into a young man named Raskolnikov's mind before and after the murder...
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The long argument about the disparity between the rich and the poor—its roots and consequences—often leave the audience contemplating on whether the rich is really responsible for the plight of the poor. Time and again, the Marxist claim that the rich are the ones who make the poor poorer, makes...
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The first thing that must be made clear about Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island is that it is a romance. And therefore the image of the pirate that it paints remains largely fictional, and many of the details will not seem to comply with scholarly evidence of what the typical pirate was...
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Treasure Island Rob Johnson May, 2012 About the Author Robert Louis Stevenson Stevenson was born on the 13th of November in the year 1850 in Edinburgh, Scotland and died December 3rd, 1894 in Vailima, Samoa. Stevenson was of Scottish descent and was the only child of Thomas Stevenson. At age six...
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Compare and contrast the depiction of fatherhoods in Little Women and Treasure Island. When discussing fatherhood in relation to both novels, we see that in both, the father is either primarily absent or irrelevant to the plot. The element of fatherhood comes from the characters designed to...
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A Clockwork Orange "Eat this sweetish segment or spit it out. You are free. " -Anthony Burgess Anthony Burgess has been heralded as one of the greatest literary geniuses of the twentieth century. Although Burgess has over thirty works of published literature, his most famous is A Clockwork Orange...
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Majority of the ancient Greeks have cared deeply about the acquisition of knowledge and its continuous pursuit. Despite the fact that the truth was often a terrifying idea to fathom, they still saw it as something having critical virtue. The theater was an instrument or one way in which the...
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In the novel Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers, Lieutenant Carroll, the first leader the soldiers have in the novel, said, “’My father used to call soldiers angel warriors, because usually they get boys to fight wars. Most of you aren’t old enough to vote yet’” (44). The extremity of the youth of...
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Dagny Taggart The novel's protagonist and a buisness woman and engineer who is the backbone of Taggart Transcontinental. As James Taggart's little sister, she is often belittled but gains respect and she hurdles all obstacles that come to face her family's company which includes taking...
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Far From the Madding Crowd narrates the story of the love of three men, Gabriel Oak, Farmer Boldwood and Sergeant Troy, for the same woman Bathsheba Everdene. Bathsheba Everdene has vast dominance over two men in particular, Farmer Oak and Farmer Boldwood. Bathsheba entails several schemes in...
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Fate is the essential idea of The Aeneid, but more importantly, the underlying force throughout the text. Fate cannot be changed; it is the set of events with the inevitable result. Virgil uses the idea of fate to narrate and advance through his epic poem, but perhaps also to illustrate that the...
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The gods in The Aeneid are as much a part of the story as any of the mortal characters whom they try to manipulate. The God's in the epic have very distinct characteristics, and their alliances and conflicts within Aeneas' story do much to drive the actions of the mortals, and thus ultimately the...
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Connor Rethman Mrs. Franscell English 3 AP/Dual 2 Dec. 2011 Nonfiction on a New Level Crime and glimpses into the heads of criminal masterminds has always been something that fascinates people. Although crime is a terrible thing, the complexity and intricacy of it is something that people love to...
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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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A Draft of the Term Paper Of Destiny, Dreams and Life Journeys Submitted by: Raian B. Razal IV- Narra I. INTRODUCTION At a certain point of our lives we may realize: "What is the purpose of our life? " Then, we remember our dreams in our life, our aspirations, and the things we have wanted to be...
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A Clockwork Orange: The Feelingless and Affectless Man, Living In a Mechanical Society In today's society the value of one's being has been abused. No longer do we foster the idea of nurturing our young, rather society has become detached from showing and sharing emotion. Becoming a society...
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Black American author Ralph Ellison became famous for his novel the Invisible Man. It reveals problems that the people of color have experienced in their search for responsibility, dignity, and equality in America (Ellison, 1995). It tells the story of a naïve Southern black American seeking for...
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Old Man and The Sea - Rough Draft Human beings need to live in a group where everyone respects them and treats them equally. No human being can live alone isolated from other people because one hand can not clap by itself. In The Old Man and The Sea, the author uses setting, character and...
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How is ‘The Crucible’ appropriately titled? The word ‘crucible’ is used by Arthur Miller in his play as a metaphor. The first definition of the word crucible is: a melting pot especially for metals. In the play this is first acknowledged during the first act, as we...
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The Alchemist "A Fable About Following Your Dreams. " By Paulo Coelho The Alchemist I. Life of the Author Paulo Coelho was born on 1947, Brazilian writer, best known for mystical fables told in simple yet symbolic language. He has received wide popular acclaim both in Brazil and internationally...
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Bartleby’s Isolation and the Wall Introduction: “Bartleby the Scrivener, A Story of Wall Street” is a short story by Herman Melville in which the narrator, a lawyer who runs a firm on Wall Street, tells the story of a rebellious scrivener who worked for him named Bartleby. One day, Bartleby simply...
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"Who the hell am I? " (Ellison 386) This question puzzled the invisible man, the unidentified, anonymous narrator of Ralph Ellison's acclaimed novel Invisible Man. Throughout the story, the narrator embarks on a mental and physical journey to seek what the narrator believes is "true identity," a...
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THE IMPORTANCE OF HONOR AND GLORY IN THE ILIAD Honor and glory are central to the Greek character. Since heroes are the essence of the society from which they come, Greek heroes live their lives according to honor and glory, in all their varied forms. Honor and glory trigger an epic war that takes...
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The Lost of Self "One generation passeth away, the passage from Ecclesiates began, and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth forever. The sun also ariseh? "(Baker 122). A Biblical reference forms the title of a novel by Ernest Hemingway during the 1920s, portraying the lives of the...
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Twelfth Night "Twelfth Night is a comedy of light and shade. Its characters are not unreservedly happy and the events are not unreservedly humorous. " Discuss. As a comedy, Twelfth Night is obviously intending to not only entertain its audience but also point out problems in society. It is...
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Introduction Bergerac System is a company that produces diagnostic instruments for animal care. In July 2010, Ian Wyckoff, CEO of Bergerac System, got feedback from a group of veterinarians. The feedback reminded him that Bob McCarthy, the director of Bergerac’s Planning Department, had provided...
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In “The Awakening” Kate Chopin intends to illustrate the functions of Creole life. Adele Ratignolle and Edna Pontellier share diverse visions concerning the position of women in Creole society. Adele believes that women should be acquiescent to their husbands and perform their maternal job. She...
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Born on approximately April 23, 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, William Shakespeare is considered by many to have been the greatest writer the English language has ever known. His literary legacy included 37 plays, 154 sonnets, and five major poems. Among his many plays is the notable...
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Flowers for Algernon is a novel written by Daniel Keyes and first published in 1966. It was originally a short story and, in the year 2000, was adapted into a film of the same name. There are no direct references to the time period in which the story takes place, but it’s safe to assume that...
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Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens is one of the most widely recognized and beloved stories of all time. The popularity of the novel and its author has made the book a frequent subject of literary criticism. Although the work has received mainly praise, some critics attack the novel. Since its...
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In researching the ideas and themes behind Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, I stumbled upon numerous questions and underlying themes which I plan to dissect thoroughly in the following body of this paper treating each question individually and in an abstract manner. The questions I...
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Introduction Within the pages of A Farewell to Arms, modernist work of the 1920s, Hemingway often blurs the lines between the romantic narrative pattern and the ironic one. Critics argue over the specifics of each case: Do his heroes change and grow? Do they stagnate? Do they fail? Are they...
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Daisy Miller, A Study can be examined as the story of initiation of Daisy, one of its main characters. To demonstrate this conception, we will consider Marcus Mordecai’s, Joseph Campbell’s and W. R. B. Lewis’ works as well as examples from the nouvelle itself. Marcus Mordecai states, ‘the most...
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Alexander Jack Papetsas AP Senior English Assignment: James’ use of Ambiguity in Daisy Miller and theme Ambiguity Conveys Theme in James’ Daisy Miller In the novella, Daisy Miller by Henry James, the complexities of social conventions, gender stereotyping and conformity are exposed through the...
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Ernest Hemingway’s novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls, is a story about Robert Jordan, an American professor, who travels to Spain to fight with the Spanish guerrillas. Jordan’s western prejudices against gypsies and his romantic ideals are transformed by the guerillas he meets especially...
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"It should not be possible to read nineteenth-century British literature, without remembering that imperialism, understood as England's social mission, was a crucial part of the cultural representation of England to the English." (Spivak, 1985) The Victorian novel functions as an imperative...
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[pic] How does Dickens create sympathy for the character of Oliver in the first four chapters of Oliver twist? Oliver Twist is the second novel Charles Dickens wrote and one of his darkest dealing with burglary, kidnapping, abuse, prostitution and murder. Charles Dickens first introduced his novel...
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Kate Chopin's "The Awakening", is a story about Edna Pontellier. A nineteenth century women looking for her self and discovering new and magnificent qualities in herself and the people she meets during her summer vacation with her husband and children on Grand Isle. This work was considered highly...
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The Divine Comedy: Inferno Dante Alighieri Major Characters • Dante Alighieri o Thirty-five years old at the beginning of the journey ( half of man’s biblical life span “threescore and ten years” (Psalm 90:10) o Lost his way on “the true path” of life ( sin has obstructed his path to God o...
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Women in the Early Nineteenth Century vs. Women in The Awakening There are many different types of women portrayed in The Awakening. The goal of this paper is to compare and contrast the women in the book to the women during the turn of the nineteenth century and the society's reaction to the novel...
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I have showed up for weapons draw late. As a result of my actions I am serving my punishment in the form of this RBI. In the United States Military, tardiness is unacceptable. I could write a bunch of excuses on why I was late but the fact of the matter is, there is no excuse. In life and...
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Being initially developed as a “ghost-story”, Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” included numerous issues varying from author’s interpretations of the scientific and social theories to the description of general culture of the time. The story of Frankenstein was told by means of letters, and in the...
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Introduction In James Joyce's Ulysses readers encounter Stephen Dedalus's search for identity - a search which will be present through the entire narrative. At the heart of Ulysses is Stephen's relationship with his mother. Stephen describes both the real mother who reared him and is now dead and...
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English 12A Unit I: Part Two “Focus on Literary Forms: The Epic” from Beowulf, translated by Burton Raffel Name_________________________________________________ Date____________________ Vocabulary Builder Word List (p. 38) loathsome massive purge reparation solace writhing A. DIRECTIONS: For each...
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Test: Would Elizabeth Bennet or Emma Bovary considered heroes? Pride and Prejudice and Madame Bovary, two books written in the nineteenth century shared by two of the stars most famous and controversial as well as common themes and motifs that are easily contrasted or opposed. With the first...
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Introduction Critic Moira Davison Reynolds describes Uncle Tom's Cabin as "skillfully and artistically constructed propaganda that contributed mightily to massive reform" (ix). As such, its author, Harriet Beecher Stowe has been placed among the greatest Americans that ever lived and at one time...
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For hundreds of years, writers have used religion as a principle issue and point of discussion in their novels. Hawthorne expressed his views in The Scarlet Letter, Garcia Marquez did the same in One Hundred Years of Solitude and in other writings, and even Ernest Hemingway used his writing to...
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