Madrilejos, Robert T. English Literature II – 2 AB/BSE LiteratureProf. A. S. Tugbo Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen Summary The book opens when Mr. Henry Dashwoods dies and leave his wealth to his first wife’s son, John, and leaving nothing to his second wife and his three daughters, Elinor...
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From a young age Charles Dodgson’s fondness for writing was already made apparent. He had made several contributions to some national publications in England as well as to two local publications in Oxford (Karoline 31). It was in one of his contributions to the latter where he used the pseudonym...
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Jane Eyre, a novel about an English woman's struggles told through the writing of Charlotte Bronte, has filled its audience with thoughts of hope, love, and deception for many years. These thoughts surround people, not just women, everyday, as if an endless cycle from birth to death. As men and...
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Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austin was a moralistic novel depicting the two main forms of attitudes at that time; the neo -classics and the romantics. The period in which it was written, nineteenth century England, was laden with social etiquette and customs imposed on people of that time; and...
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<i>I saw a creature, naked, bestial, <br>Who, squatting upon the ground, <br>Held his heart in his hands, <br>And ate of it. <br>I said, "Is it good friend? " <br>"It is bitter-bitter," he answered; <br>"But I like it <br>Because it is bitter...
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Toni Morrison’s novels are, to a great extent, susceptible to an archetypal interpretation. Thus, Beloved has been considered, by the critical opinion, as having its roots in the myth of Medea which forms the subject of Euripides’ ancient tragedy. The story told by Morrison’s novel is the...
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Buddha The word Buddha means "enlightened one. " It is used today as a title to the one who has given us more religious beliefs than almost any other human who lived in this world. However, he was not given this name at birth; he had to earn it for himself by undergoing long, hard hours of...
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Joy Luck Club Plot The eight main characters of the movie all had to contend with different types of conflicts, some such as Waverly's Mother had to endure a type of social conflict from the 1st wife and other concubines, the unjust discrimination of the husband's family, while other characters...
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Introduction Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy is an ironic and bitter attack on society values. Rigid expectations of faithful support for externally imposed moral norms repeatedly frustrate and eventually destroy both the central characters - Jude and the woman he is in love with, Sue. The novel...
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The novel Jude the Obscure, by Thomas Hardy, was first published unabridged in 1896. It narrates the doomed existence of the protagonist, Jude, from the moment he is still a boy at Marygreen and is inspired by a rural schoolmaster to think of a university education, to the moment in which he dies...
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The Joy Luck Club The movie The Joy Luck Club offers so many excellent examples of the conflicts, misunderstandings, and issues that can arise during intercultural communications, even when those involved are aware of many of the differences. Two concepts that I found particularly interesting and...
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Arthur Miller is recognized as an important and influential playwright, not to mention essayist and novelist. Although he has had plenty of luck in his writing career, his fame is the product of his ingenious ability to control what he wants his readers to picture or feel. As one of his...
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Features in JUDE THE OBSCURE by Thomas Hardy In the recent novel of Hardy, Jude the Obscure, the characters are in an everlasting illusion about truth and their language is not only a transparent means of communication but a kind of obstacle to perceive each other's meaning. On the other hand, by...
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The Bean Trees Essay My Rebirth By: Deaths Maiden Where there were once tears of sorrow, They are no more, Body and soul, I seek potency within. Shrouded in darkness, I now find the light, I must be vigilant as there is always darkness that lingers. I take a walk down the corridors of time, Over...
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Go Tell it on the Mountain is a novel about the lives of a black family in New York, 1935. Written by the dynamic James Baldwin in 1953, the novel reflects the lives of African Americans in the first half of the twentieth century, coupled with the role the of the Christian Church. Baldwin’s...
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Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin and its Impact on the 18th Century’s Anti-Slavery Years Celestine Best During the 1800’s, anti-slavery writings and articles were not very popular in the Deep South. It was also a time when women needed to stay in their domestic roles as wives and mothers...
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Siddhartha had always considered love inessential in his life because he categorized it as a worldly sensation that the common people simply experience. The wisdom and knowledge of the love differs greatly and both play a large role in Siddhartha's quest for finding the Atman. Siddhartha...
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The purpose of human life is an unanswerable question. It seems impossible to find an answer because we don't know where to begin looking or whom to ask. Existence, to us, seems to be something imposed upon us by an unknown force. There is no apparent meaning to it, and yet we suffer as a result...
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Wonderland Confectionaries is a well – developed chain of restaurants that is willing to invest large sums of money into a theme park, based on the model of their competitor and surrogate company, Alice Limited. Given the facts, I will now try to establish whether the management’s decision to...
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Herman Hesse’s Demian is a novel about search for meaning and transformation. Emil Sinclair, the protagonist of the novel, goes through multiple internal and external transformations, which change his personality and vision of reality. The novel has two modes of narration. External events...
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Research Paper: The Bell Jar, By: Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar is a work of fiction that spans a six month time period in the life of the protagonist and narrator, Esther Greenwood. The novel tells of Esther’s battle against her oppressive surroundings and her ever building madness...
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The Jungle: Critical Analysis The Jungle is a novel that focuses its story on a family of immigrants who came to America looking for a better life. It was written by muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair, who went into Chicago and the stockyards to investigate what life was like for the people who...
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“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” This famous line clearly explains the varying perspectives that people have when it comes to the idea of beauty. Beauty is subjective as an individual might believe that something or someone is beautiful while another person might have the exact opposite...
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Herman Melville’s masterpiece, Moby Dick, is a profound, philosophical meditation on life centered on the symbolic hunt for the white whale. The divine connotations of the whale are evident. In Melville’s works, nature is transparent enough to allow a glimpse of the metaphysical reality beyond it...
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The famous novel and a movie entitled, “All Quiet on the Western Front” was written by Erich Maria Remarque with the inspiration and embedded storyline environment from World War I. The film brought by Remarque is a perfect demonstration of anti-war campaign from the World War I...
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The Philippines is known to have been through a lot of corruption especially during the Marcos era. Tyranny was prevalent. Absolute power, whether is a king, president or a protector is not only alien to our idea of "democratic decision" but without fail, gets to be arbitrary despotic and corrupt...
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Sept. 10, 2011 Black Like Me (Second Edition) By John Howard Griffin 1960 In the late 1950’s John Griffin, a white journalist and specialist on race issues from Texas, made the decision to experience the racial south as a black man in order to help him more understand the suicide rates. John...
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African- American folklore is arguably the basis for most African- American literature. In a country where as late as the 1860's there were laws prohibiting the teaching of slaves, it was necessary for the oral tradition to carry the values the group considered significant. Transition by the word...
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The Pilgrim’s Progress By John Bunyan 20 April 2010 Format: MLA Style The Pilgrims Progress, composed in 1678 by John Bunyan, is said to have originally graced John in a dream. As a Preacher and English writer, Bunyan comprised this during the time in which he was imprisoned for preaching the word...
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"If Othello didn't begin as a play about race, history has made it one. ; The Venetian society that Othello is set in is representative of the writers context. The attitudes and values that Shakespeare reveals through the text are those same attitudes and values of Elizabethan society in...
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Enri Duka A. P. United States History Ms. Bellemare, Ms. Loughlin, Mr. Marko 08/09/2012 Analyzation of “Black Like Me” Catastrophic events are a part of life just like the air that people breathe. Most of these catastrophes occur as a result of nature’s causes such as earthquakes, tornadoes...
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In the play A Man For All Seasons, the main character is Sir Thomas More. Sir Thomas is the Chancellor of England and a very religious man. Once, during a conversation with Wolsey (Chancellor at the time) about the King needing a son, Wolsey asks if Sir Thomas would like to govern the whole...
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Reading Notes| Comments and Questions| They were apparently friends one minute then then something would come up and one would get slashed up with a knife (pg. 8)| I think of it as having your whole family against you when you have important decisions to make. If they, who are always supposed to...
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“The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien is a short story base on the lives of a group of soldiers during the later years of the war in Vietnam. In this story, O’Brien examines the burdens of the soldiers and the effects that these burdens can have on man in life-threatening situations. The author...
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Horses and cowboys have, in many ways, changed the history of the West. “Horses are inextricably linked to the mythic cowboy within the national symbolic. More so even than the cow or the gun, the horse defines the cowboy’s status as sacred, special, and uniquely American&rdquo...
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Individuality in characterization is what drives the story of a novel and many authors use this technique to their advantage. In The Poisonwood Bible, Kingsolver uses multiple points of view to reveal theme through characterization. The theme she conveys is the individuality present in one's...
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The Greek philosopher Plato regards poets and poetry as dangerous for the young. This is because they can stir emotions that young people are unable to control. Given their highly impressionable nature, the youth are indeed susceptible to brainwashing and misinformation. A poet that glorifies war...
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In the fourteenth century, chivalry was in decline due to drastic social and economic changes. Although feudalism-along with chivalry-would eventually fall for other reasons, including a decrease in cheap human resources due to a drop in population caused by plague epidemics and the emergence of a...
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“War is hell, but that’s not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead. ” (80) This...
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Philosophical and Political Background Swift has at least two aims in Gulliver's Travels besides merely telling a good adventure story. Behind the disguise of his narrative, he is satirizing the pettiness of human nature in general and attacking the Whigs in particular. By emphasizing the six-inch...
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Mr. Henry moves into Claudia and Frieda's house. One day, the girls come home and when they walk in Mr. Henry greets them. He flatters them by telling them they look just like Greta Garbo and Ginger Rogers, two white American female actresses. These two actresses represented American society's...
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Introduction and Overview Women are not passive creatures of gods and men. The seduction of Eve and Natasha Rostov is not happenstance of fate. Even amidst the backdrop of historical change such as war or within the biblical scope of the Fall, they are the actors of their lives and charters of...
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How far would you agree that the central concern of the novel is the conflict between traditional and modern values? Virginia Woolf uses her novel Mrs. Dalloway to express the idea of the conflict between traditional and modern values of the time. Throughout the novel we see the almost tug-of-war...
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William Shakespeare is perhaps best known for being the father of plays. Of all playwrights, none can compare to Shakespeare’s style, creativity, and wit. A great example would be Hamlet which could perhaps be viewed as the best of all his plays. The lines of the play have been remembered in the...
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From a very early age, people are told that they have free will. This means that they have the complete freedom to make their own choices. The idea of free will empowers human beings because it makes them believe that they can be anyone they choose to be and that they have the capability to...
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King Lear: Sense of Renewal Throughout Shakespeare's King Lear, there is a sense of renewal, or as L. C. Knights puts it, "affirmation in spite of everything," in the play. These affirmative actions are vividly seen throughout the play that is highly infused with evil, immorality and perverted...
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Intro People always greatly and negatively impact each other, though they believe it to be for the greater good. In the 1950’s European and American imperialism tore asunder what tranquility there was in the Congo. These countries may have not been aware of their influence at the time, but the...
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The Time Traveller - The Time Traveller's name is never given. Apparently the narrator wants to protect his identity. The Time Traveller is an inventor. He likes to speculate on the future and the underlying structures of what he observes. His house is in Richmond, a suburb of London. The...
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The writer of these words was enchanted by darkness... thrilled by death. What sort of person would spend their whole life linking hands with Death and her counterparts? Quite possibly a literary genius by the name of Edgar Allan Poe. Famous for romanticizing the darker, more Gothic side of life, E...
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In Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut explains his experience of the World War II bombing of Dresden, Germany. Vonnegut's creative antiwar novel shows the audience the hardships of the life of a soldier through his writing technique. Slaughterhouse Five is written circularly, and time travel is...
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