This student owes a great deal of intellectual debt to Louise Cowans thanks in great part to the theoretical criticism the author expressed in her introduction to The Comic Terrain. An example of the brilliance of her critical theory is found in an extended quotation from the work’s introduction...
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The Turn of the Screw by Henry James is one of those few works that still have its readers talking about its meaning till this day. Did James do this on purpose or was there something more within the context that no reader has yet to pin point the true meaning of the work? The ambiguity of both...
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1. When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.?. . ...
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Have You Eaten Yet? : Swift's Final Solution As a lately favored eighteenth century essay, Jonathan Swift's "Proposal" has been canonized as a satirical model of wit. As will be discussed shortly, Swift's essay is often seen as an allegory for England's oppression of Ireland. Swift...
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‘The Turn of the Screw is essentially an ambivalent text. Its narrative prompts divergent, even opposite readings, but does not reconcile them. What happens remains irrevocably uncertain’ James uses the prologue to the novel to introduce the themes with in this novella but more importantly he...
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Les Miserables Published 1862 I| | INTRODUCTION| When Victor Hugo's novel Les Miserables first came out in 1862, people in Paris and elsewhere lined up to buy it. Although critics were less receptive, the novel was an instant popular success. The French word “miserables” means both poor wretches...
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Akshay RamaswamyEnglish 10. Ms. Schwarz Where The Red Fern Grows Chapter One 1. The narrator is an old man who is about 50 to 60 years old. He took care of the dog, which shows he is compassionate. He lives in Snake River Valley, Idaho. 2. The old dog makes the man remember the two dogs he had...
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The sexual codes of the Protestant monogamous marriage were the touchstones of Victorian morality. An unshakable faith in the social convention and legal institution of marriage as a source of morality, informs a wide spectrum of discursive articulations in nineteenth century Britain. Sexual...
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In his drama, The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams uses symbolism in order to develop multi-faceted characters and to display the recurring themes of the play. These various symbols appear throughout the entire piece, and they are usually disguised as objects or imagery. They allow the reader...
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Dehumanization The novel The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane forcefully depicts an epic adventure though war where the men fight for their lives. These men are subject to a scene which scars and destroys the human consciousness. The result of the war and its bloody landscape causes men to...
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Page One The theme of this book is the importance of love and compassion, and social injustice. Three genres that affect the theme in Les Miserables are: Historical Research, Literary Analysis and Creative Element. The historical research gave you knowledge of the author, and what was going on...
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Thesis Statement: Crane’s use of imagery, impressionism, and realism presents a startling picture of war that in effect makes the story an example of anti-war literature. I. Introduction II. Imagery III. Impressionism IV. Realism V. Conclusion “The Red Badge of Courage”: An Anti-War Novel...
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Symbolism is a powerful tool used by people every day to force people to look past the obvious and find the deeper meaning. Symbolism is used by authors, musicians, priests, and many others. James Joyce, a well-known Irish author, uses symbolism repeatedly throughout his collection of short...
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Animal Farm: Communism Through The Eyes of George Orwell Throughout history, writers have written about many different subjects based on their personal experiences. George Orwell was the pen name of Eric Blair. He is one of the most famous political satirists of the twentieth century. He was born...
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"THE GLASS MENAGERIE" Steven E. Milburn Jr. Milburn 1 "THE GLASS MENAGERIE": Ingredients of a Tragic drama and a Modern Tragic Heroine Tennessee Williams wrote and created the play, "The Glass Menagerie," with the concept of tragedy in mind. Random House's denotative meaning of the word tragedy is...
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Growing up during the naturalism and realism literary movements, and experiencing combat in Cuba and Greece first hand influenced Stephen Crane's outlook in his novel The Red Badge of Courage that no matter what it takes, all living things will do whatever they can to save themselves, and that the...
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The novel Animal Farm by George Orwell was a very interesting, complex, and informing novel. In the novel, George Orwell uses farm animals to portray people of power and the common people during the Russian Revolution. The novel starts off with Major explaining to all the animals in the farm how...
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Arcinas 1 Angela Arcinas Mrs. Mortenson English II Honors, Period 7 21 December 2010 What is Stephen Crane’s view on Religion and how does he exhibit this in The Red Badge of Courage? Religion is a large component of the lives of millions of people across the globe. People utilize religion as a...
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American gothic literature of the late nineteenth century can generally be characterized by its interest in Psychology. Rather than incorporate the supernatural or science fiction, which is the foci in other Gothic works at the time, authors such as Edgar Allen Poe and Charlotte Perkins Gilman use...
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The Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper was born on September 15, 1789 and by the time of his death; he was considered the “national novelist” of America. In his novel, The Last of the Mohicans, we have a classic story set in the 1700's. During this time, the French and Indian War is raging...
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"The Yellow Wallpaper" Many intellectual artists, who are widely acclaimed for their literary work, live in a world characterized by "progressive insanity" (Gilman 20). Charlotte Perkins Gilman was one such individual. A writer during the early 20th century, Gilman suffered from bouts of deep...
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In the year of 1952, John Steinbeck published the novel that "I have been practicing for all my life" (McCarthy, p.117), East of Eden. He decided to hold nothing back from the reader and scrutinize the very aspect of human nature using the Biblical stories of Adam and Eve, and Cain and Abel as a...
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In the play, The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, appearance versus reality is one of the main themes. Each main character lives in their own fantasy world, where they forget about reality, and it reflects on their appearance. While they do not belong in society, they have very different...
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The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An Analysis of the Formation of Identity "You have seen how a man was made a slave; you will now see how a slave was made a man. " ? Frederick Douglass The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave details the progression of a...
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Outline Thesis statement: the interpretation of the content of the three dreams and the analysis of the function of them in Wide Sargasso Sea. I. Introduction The three dreams of Antoinette, the heroine in Wide Sargasso Sea, serve as a significant role throughout the novel. This essay aims at...
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WHEN PIGS FLY!!! Throughout the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, participants of the pilgrimage tell stories to entertain one another. These stories, while amusing, tend to have an underlying message, one being the Franklin’s Tale. The Franklin’s Tale is the most moral tale that...
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In the novel The Remains of the Day there is a recurring theme of dignity and respect. There is the dignity of Stevens and the people that he meets along the way on his journey across the English countryside. He also comes to the realization that his former lord may not have been the man he...
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A LITTLE PRINCESS The most interesting book I read recently is "A Little Princess". Little Princess is called Sara Crewe; she is a student at Miss Minchin's fancy boarding school. When her rich father dies; she's left without a penny . Now Sara lives in the attic and works for crusts of bread...
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In the beginning of Life of Pi, the author opens up with a detailed description of the sloth, the different types, the speed, and the wittiness. It survives by being slow and because of its slowness; it allows algae to grow on its body that acts like a camouflage with the surrounding moss and...
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The story of the Joad family in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath is fictional but the circumstances that shape their story are based on real-life happenings during the 1930’s. The Joad family experienced the harsh realities of the Dust Bowl migration brought about by the Great Depression and...
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Dean K. Myers THL 357 Research Project 2,421 words Persepolis and the Iranian Revolution Persepolis was made in 2007. The film is based on the graphic novel of the same name. Persepolis is directed by Marjane Satrapi. The story is derived from her own personal experiences growing up during the...
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Literary Analysis of East of Eden The Author and His/ Her Times: The author of East of Eden is John Steinbeck. Steinbeck was born in Salinas California, one of the settings in East of Eden. His mother, a former school teacher, and helped him build his passion for reading and the written word. He...
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In The Heart of Darkness, Marlow learns firsthand the consequences, cruelty, commerce, and corruption of color consciousness in European colonialism. The mercantilism and capitalism which were gaining currency in Europe officially spread throughout the world by the colonialism. This focus on...
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“Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.” — Page 194 — “You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.” — —...
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Satire of the Knight in prologue and Knight's Tale Satire. Satire is a biting literary tool, one that Geoffery Chaucer used liberally when he wrote his Canterbury Tales. Webster's New World Dictionary says that satire is "the use of ridicule, sarcasm, etc. to attack vices, follies, etc. " Using...
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Hands By Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) A Study Guide cummings@cummingsstudyguides. net Cummings Guides Home.. |.. Contact This Site Type of Work, Setting, Characters, Tone Point of View, flashback, Plot Summary, Climax Theme, Today's Biddlebaums, Figures of Speech, Study Questions Writing...
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Joseph Conrad once wrote, “the individual consciousness was destined to be in total contradiction to its physical and moral environment” (Watt 78); the validity of his statement is reflected in the physiological and psychological changes that the characters in both his Heart of...
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Themes in The Grapes of Wrath The Joads are on their way to California. The land which seems to be a heaven with great work, little white houses, and many acres of land. But the Joads soon find out that California may not be the paradise they dreamed of. Their journey to California will be full of...
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The Cask of Amontillado By: Edgar Allan Poe 1)How cohesive and organized is his writing? Edgar Allan Poe writes with a unique grotesque inventive style. Poe also includes a superb plot construction which hooks the reader at the very start because he sets up a situation which the fills the reader...
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“Love is like a wind stirring the grass beneath trees on a black night,' he had said. 'You must not try to make love definite. It is the divine accident of life. If you try to be definite and sure about it and to live beneath the trees, where soft night winds blow, the long hot day of...
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In the forward of Zora Neale Hurston’s novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, Mary Helen Washington refers to the “…uncritical depiction of violence toward women”. Zora Neale Hurston expresses this ‘uncritical’ violence toward women because in the beginning of this century such violence was...
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“THE DEAD AMONGST THE LIVING” IN HAMLET AND FRANKENSTEIN William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet and Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein are challenging literary works that both have the same theme about the dead amongst the living. Both protagonists Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein...
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William Golding’s Lord of the Flies repeatedly contrasts with the morality-driven views of the controversial philosopher Frederick Nietzsche. Golding’s allegorical novel tells the story of a group of young boys who remain stranded on an island and left to their own instincts. Golding...
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Q: How does Shakespeare uses Imagery to show the development of theme and characters in King Lear and Hamlet? Ans: Shakespeare who was popular for his tragedies created two masterpieces which were quite different in plots but carried almost the same themes. They were two popular plays which...
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Phillips 1 Sarah Phillips Ms. Moriconi AP English Language and Composition June 10, 2014 The Parallel Journeys of Families The infamous playwright, William Shakespeare’s, King Lear relays the story of a tragic hero and his family while paralleling it to the sub-plot within the tragedy. The story...
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While at first sight Voltaire’s satirical masterpiece Candide and Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein have little in common, a closer analysis reveals a pattern of correspondences between the two works. The main idea that animates the philosophical satire, Candide, is also found in the mythological...
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While at first sight Voltaire’s satirical masterpiece Candide and Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein have little in common, a closer analysis reveals a pattern of correspondences between the two works. The main idea that animates the philosophical satire, Candide, is also found in the mythological...
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I. The pursuit of knowledge is at the heart of Frankenstein. In the letters at the beginning of the novel, Robert Walton had been writing to his sister of how he longs to travel the seas and attempts to surpass previous human explorations by endeavoring to reach the North Pole. Due to his pursuit...
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The tragedies of Hamlet and King Lear display characters that are afflicted with madness. While for some of them, this madness is self-imposed, for others the mental challenges are real. During the Elizabethan era—the time in which William Shakespeare wrote these plays—more than one idea...
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“THE DEAD AMONGST THE LIVING” IN HAMLET AND FRANKENSTEIN William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet and Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein are challenging literary works that both have the same theme about the dead amongst the living. Both protagonists Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein endure hard times after...
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