The Sound and the Fury Quotes
“…I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only…
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As I Lay Dying 9
May 10, 2010 013 Child Relations In the book “As I lay Dying” by William Faulkner the character that is dying name is Addie Bundren, the mother of five children. She was also the wife of no good Anse Bundren. Anse is lazy, selfish, no good farmer, who can hardly be called a farmer because he does…
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Critical Analysis for The House On Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
People may perceive that a home and a house is the same, but by reading the novel deeply, readers would come to realize that the interpretation of a home in the novel is different from the interpretation of a house to Esperanza. The protagonist name is Esperanza, she was young hen the novel…
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde has evolved into one of the most acclaimed pieces of literature in modern American society. One aspect of a continual spark of interest with the novel is motion pictures. Various directors through the years have interpreted the book through…
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As I Lay Dying Studyguide
As I lay Dying Summary and Studyguide, William FaulknerQuestions for Study 1. Which are the most intelligent and sympathetic voices in the novel? With whom do you most and least identify? Is Faulkner controlling your closeness to some characters and not others? How is this done, given the…
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Lord of the Flies
Interesting/ Valuable Quotes Page 39: “They suffered untold terrors in the dark and huddled together for comfort. ” This sentence caught my concentration when reading chapter four. It shows that without people they know and love around they are satisfied with strangers. These are little kids who…
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Fate and Destiny in the Aeneid
Destiny, the Gods, and Fate in the Aeneid Playwright Lucius Annaeus Seneca said that “Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant,” (Beautiful Quotes) and perhaps nowhere is this idea better illustrated than in Virgil’s epic poem The Aeneid. Fate drives the course of events throughout…
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Themes of Treasure Island
Fortune and Greed As an iconic pirate adventure novel, Stevenson’s Treasure Island accommodates greed as the major driving force for the “bad guys” – the pirates. They all, starting from Captain Flint and up to John Silver and his crew are ready to risk their lives multiple time because of greed…
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Atlas Shrugged Themes
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand is truly a revolutionary work. It is based on her memories of poverty, repression, and tyranny experienced in the USSR. The ideology of communism trampled on universal human values, replacing them with the principles of gregariousness and collectivism. That is why it was…
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Far from the Madding Crowd Essay
Far from the Madding Crowd’ the main female role, Bathsheba Everdene, is pursued by three suitors, each of whom is very different from the others. These three men are Farmer William Boldwood, owner of the farm adjacent to Bathsheba’s, Gabriel Oak, bankrupt farmer who becomes…
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Lord of the Flies
Destruction The novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding definitely represents Golding’s fear of the thin veneer of civilization in the modern world and how it is bound to crumble at any time. In Golding’s novel, the boys who are stuck on the island resort to savagery after many grueling months…
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Act I Analysis: a Dolls House
Act I Analysis: Act I, in the tradition of the well made play in which the first act serves as an exposition, the second an event, and the third an unraveling (though Ibsen diverges from the traditional third act by presenting not an unraveling, but a discussion), establishes the tensions that…
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Bartleby The Scrivener Summary
“Bartleby, the Scrivener” “Bartleby, The Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street” by Herman Melville is the tale of a young scrivener who rather than be remembered by his boss for his impeccable work and outstanding attitude is not forgotten because of his apathy towards life and the mysterious…
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The Sun Also Rises
“The Sun Also Rises” was published in 1926 and immediately it became a bestseller and made its author famous. It is considered among Hemingway’s best novel. This novel has its origin in Hemingway’s personal life. “A Farewell To Arms” depicts the experience of an ambulance driver in the First World…
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The Sun Also Rises: Hemingway’s Depiction of the Traditional Hero
Prevalent among many of Ernest Hemingway’s novels is the concept popularly known as the “Hemingway hero”, an ideal character readily accepted by American readers as a “man’s man”. In The Sun Also Rises, four different men are compared and contrasted as they engage in some form of relationship with…
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Chaos and Order in Twelfth Night
The only reference to Twelfth Night during Shakespeare’s own lifetime is to a performance on February 2, 1602. A law student named John Manningham wrote in his diary about a feast he attended at the Middle Temple in London where he was a law student and where “we had a play called Twelfth Night; Or…
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The Analysis and Comparison of the Themes of “Beowulf”, “The Odyssey” and Other Related Epics
An epic is best described by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary as a long narrative poem in elevated style recounting the deeds of a legendary or historical hero. Epics like “Beowulf” and “The Odyssey” are perfect examples of this definition; they are each centered on the deeds and triumphs of their…
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin – the Slave Trade
Few books can truly be said to have altered the course of history, and even fewer can be said to have started an entire war. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, was one novel to do both. Abraham Lincoln said to Harriet Beecher Stowe upon meeting her, “So this is the little lady…
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Angela’s Ashes, Jane Eyre, Lord of the Flies – Suffering Is an Essenti
;b;? Suffering is an essential element of childhood experiences; without it a child could not learn and grow’ Does literature you study support this statement? ;/b; ;br; ;br;? Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it’. This literal and realistic statement…
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Women in Hamlet and Death of a Salesman
In both Hamlet and Death of a Salesman it is the fates and problems of the central male figures that necessarily dominate our attention in the theatre. But the role of the women in both tragedies is central to their subject matter, themes, and narrative development. T.S.Eliot summarized Hamlet as…
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Comparative Analysis of Dante’s Inferno and Purgatorio
The Divine Comedy (The Inferno and Purgatorio, in this matter) without Virgil would be like coffee without cream. Without Virgil, Dante would never have completed his journey. Without reason, Dante would never have the courage to go through his redemption. We meet Virgil in the Inferno just when…
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The Pearl
Assignment 1 ” Money is the root of all evil”. To what extend is this one of the themes of the novel you studied. The Pearl by John Steinbeck – The theme of Greed Nurain Ariff This theme emerges the moment the people of La Paz get to know about Kino’s pearl and we begin to see changes in the…
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Commentary of Jude the Obscure
Commentaire – Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy described the novel in his preface as dramatizing “a deadly war between flesh and spirit”. This quasi reference to St Paul’s conception of human dualism goes far towards explaining the nature of Jude’s tragedy. This dualism appears also in…
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Medea
Medea While not everyone will immediately admit it, revenge is sweet. Something from within seems to deem the concept of getting even acceptable, maybe even necessary. While this holds true in many cases, sometimes revenge can be taken to an evil extreme. In Medea, a play written by Euripides, a…
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One Hundred Years of Solitude a Novel Lost in Time
One Hundred Years of Solitude A novel Lost In Time Zahra Toshani University of Guilan Faculty of Literature and Human Sciences Dr. Barkat PhD. Winter 2011 Table of contents Introduction 1 I. Notion of time and being in Heidegger 2 Existential travel 2 Massacre: existence or nonexistence 5 End of…
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The Opening Scenes of Othello, King Lear and Macbeth
Introduction Thesis Statement The influences of feminine powers from the Shakespearean plays, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth, portrayed during the opening scenes have affected the courses of male instincts and literary arguments throughout the play. In this study, the emphasis is given to the…
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My Perception of William Shakespeare’s Othello
My Perception of William Shakespeare’s Othello Othello, by William Shakespeare, is perhaps not as exciting as a ravishingly sexy poster of Laurence Fishburne and Irene Jacob. Yet, with its intoxicating mix of love, sexual passion and the deadly power of jealousy, Shakespeare has created an erotic…
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Ap English- the Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Josel Wong Mr. Wear AP Language and Composition 5 November 2009 The Jungle Questions Part I 1. The wedding between Jurgis and Ona is an epitome of the various problems in Packingtown. The way the saloon keeper took advantage of the couple is representative of the dishonesty and thievery from the…
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Killer Angels: Book Review
The Killer Angels The Battle of Gettysburg brought the dueling North and South together to the small town of Gettysburg and on the threshold of splitting the Union. Gettysburg was as close as the United States got to Armageddon and The Killer Angels gives the full day-to-day account of the battle…
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Marital Images in Moby Dick
Marital Images in Moby-Dick Authors use symbolic elements in their writings to communicate a deeper thought or feeling in their message. In Moby-Dick, Herman Melville uses several symbols to illustrate the loving relationship, or “marriage” between Ishmael and Queequeg, such as the bedding of the…
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Moby Dick Analysis
Literary Analysis Moby Dick by Herman Melville Introduction The narrator in the beginning, Ishmael, announces his intent of becoming a whaler, and thus the story begins. Ishmael signs on to the Pequod under Captain Ahab, to hunt the legendary white whale, Moby Dick. After leaving the port in…
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The Things They Carried Essay
Tim O’Brien, an author and avid reader, grew up near the borders of Iowa and South Dakota in Worthington, Minnesota, a typical small town in Midwestern America. He was born on October 1, 1946, making Tim a member of the post-World War II baby boomer generation. As a scrappy 18 year old…
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Analysis of Sir Gawain
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight contains many themes. Some of these themes are more obvious than others. Love, lust, loyalty, deceit, trust, courage, virtue, and righteousness are most of the themes within the poem. There are some more that are hidden within the concepts of the ideas that the poem…
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A Man for All Seasons
A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS!!! Quotes Bold –> indicates more important quotes ACT ONE “But every man has his price” – Richard Rich (page 2) “The friendship of Sir Thomas More. Or should I say acquaintance? ” – Richard Rich (page 3) “A man should go where he wont be tempted” – More (page 4) “Good…
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Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels and Orwell’s 1984
Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels and George Orwell’s 1984, two of English literature’s most important and pervasive political criticisms, have helped to mold world opinion by offering new viewpoints and attitudes, yet these two novels differ in their means of conveying their satire of human…
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All the Pretty Horses
Page #| Definition of Term| Example from Text | Implication/Impact| 6| Setting: the time and place of the action of a literary, dramatic, or cinematic work| “…but the warriors would ride on in that in that darkness they’d become, rattling past with their stone-age tools of war in default of all…
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A Study of Shakespeare’s Source for Hamlet based on the Historae Danicae of Saxo
Grammaticus The problems related to the origin and sources of Hamlet are no less contentious and inconclusive than the philosophical, moral and structural problems traditionally associated with the play. The present day iconic status of Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ often obscures the…
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The Opening Scenes of Othello, King Lear and Macbeth
Introduction Thesis Statement The influences of feminine powers from the Shakespearean plays, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth, portrayed during the opening scenes have affected the courses of male instincts and literary arguments throughout the play. In this study, the emphasis is given to the…
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Slaughterhouse-Five and Beloved
The modern human attitude is largely framed by the philosophy of science, in America. According to this philosophy the world is governed by the fixed laws of physics, through which humans find intellectual enlightenment. In this world of science, knowledge is power, and this power renders humans…
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Critical Analysis
Mandy Conway Mrs. Guynes English 12 16 March 2000 A Critical Analysis of ;A Midsummer Night’s Dream; William Shakespeare, born in 1594, is one of the greatest writers in literature. He dies in 1616 after completing many sonnets and plays. One of which is ;A Midsummer Night’s Dream. ; They say that…
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Slaughterhouse Industry
TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Industry Study Project Description A. Basic Project Information B. Project Location C. Project Rationale D. Alternative E. Description of Project Phases F. Baseline Environment Condition G. Impact Assessment and Mitigation H. Environment Management Plan I. Proposal…
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Broken Rites in Hamlet
Introduction In order to understand the role of the rites in Hamlet, one must conceptualize the ritual. The rites in Hamlet concern mainly marriage, mourning and funeral. It is crucial to distinguish their specific nature to detect how they participate in the tragedy. Arnold van Gennep identified…
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Turn of the Screw
Summary: A young governess who is in charge of two orphaned children called Miles and Flora at the country house of Bly narrates the story. She has gained the post through the children’s uncle to whom she feels attraction and under the terms that she take all responsibility for Miles, Flora and…
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Vlad the Impaler, the True Dracula
Vlad the Impaler, a. k. a. Vlad III, Dracula, Drakulya, or Tepes, was born in late 1431, in the citadel of Sighisoara, Transylvania, the son of Vlad II or Dracul, a military governor, appointed by Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund. Vlad Dracul was also a knight in the Order of the Dragon, a secret…
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Much Ado About Nothing Themes, Symbols and Mortifs
AThe Ideal of Social Grace The characters’ dense, colorful manner of speaking represents the ideal that Renaissance courtiers strove for in their social interactions. The play’s language is heavily laden with metaphor and ornamented by rhetoric. Benedick, Claudio, and Don Pedro all produce the…
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Slaughterhouse 5
In the novel Slaughterhouse-Five or the Children’s Crusade by Kurt Vonnegut, the story of Billy Pilgrim is used to explore various themes about life and war. Vonnegut’s tragic war experiences in Dresden led him to write on the horrors and tragedies of war. Vonnegut’s connection with Billy and the…
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Paradise Lost: Milton’s Approach to Lust, Sex, and Violence
Paradise Lost: Milton’s Approach To Lust, Sex, and Violence There is no reason to apply modern theories to Milton if we do not care whether Milton remains alive. However, if we wish him to be more than a historical artifact, we must do more than just study him against the background of his time…
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Why Is Bram Stoker’s Dracula Popular?
Bram Stoker’s Dracula is one of the most adaptated and greatest horror books of English literature. It was first published in 1897 and became a successful book after the film adaptations. At first Bram Stoker used The Undead as a title but after his research he used Dracula. Dracula is an…
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Marriage and Divorce in “Hard Times”
The victorian era in England gave birth to the first real industrial society the world had ever seen. With the rise of industry came large cities, an expanded working class population and the rapid rise of imperialism. Although England was progressing towards a more powerful place in the world…
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Paradise Lost: Satan Hero or Villain?
Satan: Epic Hero or Villain? John Milton wrote one of the greatest epic poems of all time when he wrote Paradise Lost in 1667. The book tells about man’s creation and fall while detailing characters and the plot beyond what the Bible taught. One of these characters is Satan, which is one of the…
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