The essential component to any tragedy, Greek or Shakespearean, is a protagonist with a fatal flaw. In Greek tragedy this is called hamartia. This Latin term translates directly into the word “flaw” but is usually used to describe an excess of a personality trait - virtue or vice (Cave 68). The...
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Journal 1: setting Most authors give small details throughout the novel of where and when a story takes place, and the reader must piece the bits together. As I lay dying is no exception and like any other book gives many examples of setting. First off you can tell that the story takes place many...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Characters Cassie Logan Cassie is the first-person narrator of the story. Cassie is an intelligent, outspoken, and self-confident nine year old girl, even when those qualities threaten to get her in trouble for speaking her mind in a white-dominated world. She is...
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“First, it is a commentary on the American Dream. Herb Clutter has made a wonderful life for himself--his daughter, after all, bakes apple pies. But Herb Clutter's American idyll is abruptly and arbitrarily shattered by two petty criminals. The American dream is fragile, and it only functions if...
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Chapter 1: The Sound of the Shell 1. How do the boys end up on the island? They are in some kind of plane crash, though the details are not all clear. 2. Who is “the voice” referred to on page 7? What does the voice represent? Piggy is “the voice” and represents the voice of reason 3. How does the...
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The Aeneid, a poem written before the era of Christ and Christianity, has been argued to be a precursor to the values of Christianity, much as the Old Testament is a precursor to the New Testament. While the Aeneid does not explicitly lay out these values, scholars have interpreted the text...
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The Elizabethan age was a curious admixture of rationalism and superstition, religious dogmatism and scientific exploration, an increased fervor for the literary arts and a zest for sea-bound ventures seeking new horizons. Shakespeare responded to the pulse of his Elizabethan audience by...
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According to Goethe, "We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe. " Despite the hyperbolic nature of Goethe's statement, it holds some truth. Because of this element of truth, society looks to psychoanalysis as an important...
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Santiago, an old fisherman, has gone eighty-four days without catching a fish. For the first forty days, a boy named Manolin had fished with him, but Manolin's parents, who call Santiago salao, or "the worst form of unlucky," forced Manolin to leave him in order to work in a more prosperous boat...
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THE ALCHEMIST BY PAULO COELHO BOOK ANALYSIS (CRITICAL PAPER) THE ALCHEMIST BY PAULO COELHO I. INTRODUCTION The Alchemist is one of the most popular novels that became known in the past twenty years made by Paulo Coelho. It is a story about the searching of happiness and destiny which is called...
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COMPARISON OF "RAGTIME", "THE STRANGER" AND "ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD" Option One: Character Discussion Compared to Ragtime or Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, I wasn’t really drawn into their world as much as I was with The Stranger. It’s not that Ragtime was more compelling than The...
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Aeschylus- Agamemnon Characters- The Watchman Clytaemnestra The Herald Agamemnon Cassandra Aegisthus The Chorus 1). The Watchman: ?The watchman sets the time and place for the play (Agamemnon's palace in Argos, the house of Atreus); he describes the many miserable nights he has spent on the...
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What does the the narrator mean by Ah Bartleby! Ah humanity Bartleby the Scrivener can be described as a commentary on the irreducible irrational in human existence. One example of Bartleby’s absurdity is his deliberate choice to face the blank wall. Instead of facing his desk out in the open...
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Plot Summary Young "Wart" is the adopted son of a minor nobleman when he meets Merlyn, a kindly magician, who takes him on many adventures, turning him into several different animals and teaching him skills, both mental and physical. Wart is very happy and learns to treat people with respect and...
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rP os t 4381 DECEMBER 14, 2011 DAVID A. GARVIN SUNRU YONG Introduction op yo Bergerac Systems: The Challenge of Backward Integration In July 2010, Ian Wyckoff, CEO of Bergerac Systems, scribbled a few notes about his latest meeting with a group of veterinarians. These were his customers, and they...
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In this excerpt, Cochran disagrees with the body of criticism which finds The Sun Also Rises overtly cynical, focusing instead on the circularity of the human condition. Emphasis in the considerable body of criticism in print on The Sun Also Rises rests with the cynicism and world-weariness to be...
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Major Characters Ponyboy Curtis - The novel's fourteen-year-old narrator and protagonist, and the youngest of the greasers. Ponyboy's literary interests and academic accomplishments set him apart from the rest of his gang. Because his parents have died in a car accident, Ponyboy lives with his...
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“There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing. ” The above is a quote by Oscar Wilde, author of The Importance of Being Earnest, which is a social satire regarding society and upper class attitudes...
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Twelfth Night – Shakespeare in Performance by VSS 11/21/08 Twelfth Night is a Shakespearian comedy about mistaken identity, gender confusion, love and suffering it causes and the foolishness of ambition. I will be comparing Shakepeare’s text from Bevington’s “The Complete Works of Shakespeare”, to...
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alis CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Background of the Study: Moral truths are applied to human existence everywhere and at all times. This is what the researchers believe in. In relation to this, a passage from ‘On Literature and Ethics’ by Eskin, Michael, says: “The distinctive ethical force of...
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Katy Lu WR150 J7 Professor Kent Love in Modern Novel Paper three Final draft Apr. 17, 2012 The Sun also rises: A Continuously Reversed Cosine Tragedy In Gunther Schomigalle’s “How people go to hell: Pessimism, Tragedy, and Affinity to Schopenhauer in The Sun Also Rises”, he mentions, “I believe...
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Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens Download free eBooks of classic literature, books and novels at Planet eBook. Subscribe to our free eBooks blog and email newsletter. CHAPTER I TREATS OF THE PLACE WHERE OLIVER TWIST WAS BORN AND OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES ATTENDING HIS BIRTH A ong other public buildings...
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You’re back with 2Night FM, Australia’s number one hit station. Today we will be asking Amara Khan from BGHS to run, our weekly segment ‘Education Today’. This installment is dedicated to the Year 11 Preliminary Course students biting their nails and pulling their hair out struggling to grasp the...
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How and why are selected canonical texts re-written by female authors? Answer with close reference to Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre and Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea. The Sargasso Sea is a relatively still sea, lying within the south-west zone of the North Atlantic Ocean, at the centre...
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In Jane Austen’s novel, Mansfield Park, the characterization of the four illustrated families, the Prices, the Crawfords, the Bertrams, and the Rushworths, is used to depict the wide differences which evolved between social classes in nineteenth century England. Jane Austen introduces the main...
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Joseph Tafoya Elizabeth Carroll Eng 1100C 3/06/13 Mansfield Park Midterm Paper The opening chapter, in which the three Ward sisters marry men in different social categories, fixes social class as Mansfield Park's primary theme. This is hardly surprising, since Jane Austen uses this theme in many...
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; This thesis will mainly focus on Christianity in Uncle Tom’s Cabin and attempt to analyze various characters, such as Uncle Tom, little Eva, and some pious, ideal Christian believers to reveal the Christianity in this novel. It is well known that western literature is based on two pillars--the...
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When Upton Sinclair wrote this book, he stirred not only the hearts but also the guts of many readers. Some say it induced nausea along with emotions; notwithstanding the sensation it caused with its unique theme and portrayal. The author himself had lived a life of abject poverty and had written...
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Great Expectations Notes Chapter 1 Setting: early in the 1800s; Churchyard in tiny village east of London Joe Gargey and her husband in the Marshes. His parents died Pip- Phillip Pirrap- main character- 7 years old- Lives w/ sister Mrs. when he was younger One time while...
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Adolescence in the Bell Jar and Catcher in the Rye Adolescence in the Bell Jar and Catcher in the Rye Adolescence is the period between puberty and adulthood. Every teenager experience this moment in life differently some sail through happily to carry on with a peaceful life where as others are...
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In the annals of American literature, Edgar Allan Poe is known for writing about the macabre and terrifying side of life. The ideas of Poe are echoed in every horror movie, every scary novel, and often every walk into a dark alley where mysterious and lurking things reside. And while some literary...
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<center><b>The World of Laws, Crime and Punishment in Great Expectations</b></center> <br>Great Expectations criticises the Victorian judicial and penal system. Through the novel, Charles Dickens displays his point of view of criminality and punishment. This is shown...
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In the world of economic competition that we live in today, many thrive and many are left to dig through trashcans. It has been a constant struggle throughout the modern history of society. One widely prescribed example of this struggle is Upton Sinclair's groundbreaking novel, The Jungle. The...
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Chapter 1 The chapter begins with German soldiers at rest after fourteen days of fierce battle on the Western Front. A double ration of food has been prepared so the soldiers are eating their fill. Paul Baumer, the protagonist and narrator of the novel, watches in amazement as his friends, Tjaden...
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Estella Havisham: Most readers are appalled at the cold-hearted and cruel ways of Estella, but any criticism directed at her is largely undeserved. She was simply raised in a controlled environment where she was, in essence, brainwashed by Miss Havisham. Nonetheless, her demeanor might lead one to...
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The art of deception The art of deception many times changes the current conditions or plays a significant role in the end result of literary works. In Othello and The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus shows how deception changes the identity of individuals and the outcome of certain events. There...
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Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and Henry James' The Turn Of the Screw are key examples of the way in which gothic texts use and adapt the conventions of the genre. These changes occur due to the author's own personal context and values. The inexorable link between text, context and...
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Contents 1Introduction 2Walden 2. 1 Thoreau? s search for the inner soul 2. 1. 1 The three identities and their expressions 2. 1. 2 Being different 2. 2 Progress 2. 2. 1 The Railroad 2. 2. 2 Being awake 3 Identity Work today 3. 1 Miethling 3. 1. 1 "Getreue Rebellen" 3. 1. 2 Patchwork Identity 3...
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Doctor Faustus is the most famous play of Christopher Marlowe and this play alone has perhaps made that his name will be mortal in the history of English literature and English drama. This play shows that he was of high skilled as a playwright and he could write very good drama. It is a tragedy of...
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Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway A Reflection of the author’s Life “In people’s eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge, in the bellow and the uproar, the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging, brass bands, barrel organs, in the triumph and the jingle and the...
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One of the most important themes of ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ and, by virtue of it being a derivative text, of ‘The Hours,’ is that of mental health. The ways issues of mental health are presented are, almost universally, sympathetic and, in the case of the former, empathetic. The strongest symbols of this...
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MISSIONARY WORK The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver, is a novel that is being narrated through the eyes of four daughters, and their mother, who have all been dragged to the Republic of Congo during the 1960’s. The reason behind these five young ladies sudden move to the Republic of Congo...
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AT A CERTAIN season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house. I have thus surveyed the country on every side within a dozen miles of where I live. In imagination I have bought all the farms in succession, for all were to be bought, and I knew their price...
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An Irish bishop was forced by Jonathan Swift to say that Gulliver's Travels, 'was full of improbable lies, and for his part he hardly believed a word of it. ' (Brady 1) In a way the bishop was correct as six-inch people, giants, immortal humans, intelligent horses, and deformed...
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It's the little things in life that count An analysis of the representation of the daily life in Our Town * Table of Contents 1Introduction3 2Biographical Background4 3Our Town5 3. 1General5 3. 2Theme5 3. 3Publication5 4Analysis6 4. 1Act 16 4. 2Act 27 4. 3Act 38 5Conclusion10 6Bibliography12 6...
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Friend or Foe In the book, A Man For All Seasons by Robert Bolt there are a few people that can’t be trusted by Sir Thomas More, the main character in the book. Richard Rich is definitely one of those men who can’t be trusted and along with Thomas Cromwell the two destroy More’s life slowly but...
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The Bluest Eye by Tony Morrison Summary and Analysis of prologue and Autumn The Bluest Eye opens with two short untitled and unnumbered sections. The first section is a version of the classic Dick and Jane stories found in grade school reading primers. There is a pretty house, Mother, Father, Dick...
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Roman Catholics and Buddhism both don’t like violence (war) but believe in peace. Roman Catholics must not love violence instead; they must promote peace whenever possible. They were once taught that pacifists were the enemies of humankind and that war was just a responsibility if it was a ‘just...
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Discussion questions: 1. In the novel “Mrs. Dalloway” both Clarissa and Septimus repeat a line from Shakespeare, what is the line and what is its importance to the characters? 2. In “Mrs. Dalloway” Septimus is created as Clarissa’s double, why do you think Woolf did this? 3. How are Clarissa and...
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War and Peace in Mindanao Murray Smith In December 2006 I had the chance to visit the island of Mindanao in the Southern Philippines. Mindanao and the surrounding islands rarely make the headlines except when some Western tourists are kidnapped. But Mindanao has been the scene of an ongoing...
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