Category: Literature
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1984 Essays – Page 2 | Just Great DataBase
1984 and Brave New World Thesis Statement After going through both the pieces of literature, it transpires that both differences and similarities exist between Brave New World and 1984. They are both prophetic novels, they were both written in turbulent times, both suffering changes that could lapse the future of the world… 1 235 words…
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A Lesson Before Dying Study Guide
A Lesson Before Dying Study Guide Author: Ernest J. Gaines Original title: A Lesson Before Dying Characters: Grant Wiggins , Jefferson , Tante Lou, Miss Emma Glenn, Henri Pichot, Vivian Baptiste, Deputy Paul Bonin, Reverend Moses Ambrose, Edna Guidry, Matthew Antoine “A Lesson Before Dying” is a fictional novel written by Ernest Gaines. The book was nominated…
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JACK: I will be back in a The Importance of Being Earnest
JACK: I will be back in a few moments, dear Canon. Gwendolen! Wait here for me! GWENDOLEN: If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. Quote Analysis This quote belongs to Gwendolen, she says it to her beloved Jack Worthing in Act 3 Scene 3 of the play…
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Brave New World Essays
Brave New World: the Perfect World? Brave New World: The Perfect World? Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World presents a portrait of a society which is superficially a perfect world. At first inspection, it seems perfect in many ways: it is carefree, problem free and depression free. All aspects of the population are controlled: number… 627…
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No Exit Summary
“No Exit” perfectly defines the existentialist philosophy that Sartre later shaped and developed. But this philosophy is presented in the form that is easily accepted by the audience: in the form of a stage play. Filled with memorable parts and comic relief, this play is easy to perform both for professional and amateur theater groups.…
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Anthem Study Guide
Anthem Study Guide Author: Ayn Rand Original title: Anthem Characters: Equality 7-2521, The Golden One, The Transgressor of the Unspeakable Word, International 4-8818, Collective 0-0009 Published: Published December 1st 1999 by NAL (first published May 1938) ISBN 0452281253 (ISBN13: 9780452281257) Ayn Rand has been a witness to the most tumultuous times of the Russian history…
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Eros
Eros is Antony’s friend and attendant. He is the one who shares news about the Lepidus’ arrest to Mark Antony. Eros tells this information to Enobarbus as well. This attendant leads Cleopatra to his beloved Antony. He does this because of the belief that she will comfort him after the defeat at Actium. When Antony…
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Ulysses Quotes – Page 2 | Just Great DataBase
I resent violence or intolerance in any shape or form. It never reaches anything or stops anything. A revolution must come on the due installments plans. It’s a patent absurdity on the face of it to hate people because they live round the corner and speak a different vernacular, so to speak. Ulysses 16 Yes,…
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Something Wicked This Way Comes Essays
‘Something Wicked This Way Comes’ The movie “Something Wicked This Way Comes” is an adaptation of Bradbury’s novel which illustrates a fundamental aspect of human behavior which might otherwise be explained only in a work of great complexity. The movie vividly portrays a battle between good and evil through the eyes of children… 1 123…
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Caliban
A piteous creature, deformed slave of Prospero, Caliban is an offspring of witch Sycorax, possibly from her “romantic involvement” with the Devil himself. In fact, he is the only native inhabitant of the island and spent there alone something like twelve years since his mother’s death. At first, his relations with Prospero were mutually useful:…