“Araby” by James Joyce is a short story whose basic external story is easy to follow. However, typical of Joyce, it is actually deeply layered allegorical story, with autobiographical themes and references to medieval, religious, and classic references. Though when the story is read for the first time it appears to simply be a commonplace tale of a boy’s first obsessive love for a woman he barely knows, many of the details of the narrative locate it in a much...
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Introduction “You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile.” Said Chuck Palahniuk in novel fight club 1996. Fight club is a 200 page novel which revolves around a young men who struggling with insomnia. Here Chuck Palahniuk, through words would have portrayed the formation of a new personality by the protagonist to escape his mind prison that rages war between...
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Regarding the protagonist, I would definitely say that rather than portraying free will, he is completely under nature’s thumb, meaning that his every move is predetermined, destined if you will. Throughout the story, as mentioned earlier, determinism of the man’s fate is portrayed through nature’s indifference, which she shows mercilessly in different ways. For example, in the end, he desperately tries to start a fire and warm himself up, but no matter what he does or how hard he tries,...
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Joseph Heller's novel “Catch 22” is a story that follows Yossarian, a bombardier stationed on the island Pianosa, by the Italian coast in the Mediterranean. His goal being to finally be discharged from combat. While following Yossarain’s plight we are shown details through Heller’s different literary devices. Usage of symbolism, tone, and writing style are prominent features in his text, which enables him to mimic human interaction while critiquing society. His writing style, however, is what sets his story apart....
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Heroes come in several ways, however, characteristics such as boldness, honor, and devotion, return as subjects all through the identity of a legend. The characters of Beowulf and Sir Gawain, each speak to an adaptation of a legend, however, each comes across quite in an unexpected way in their own account. A hero can be described to genuinely succeed if he remains steady to his respectable values when put in any circumstance that crosses his way. These two stories are...
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George Eliot, a 19th-century Victorian novelist, did not end her stories at marriage like other novelists of the time but added development and depth between individuals and their relationships through the use of thematic symbols such as money. Money appears in Middlemarch in several controversial and complicated situations which include greed, debt, wills, inheritances, stealing, and characters on the opposite end who reject money as a paramount necessity. It is through personal ideals and beliefs regarding money and the way...
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“It is a truth universally acknowledged that” ‘Pride and prejudice’ is the most influential romance novel of our time. Jane Austen opens literature to a whole new technique of writing and critique. A conventionally romantic novel usually focuses on the relationship between physically attractive man and woman. The hero and heroine usually meet early in the story and fall in love at first sight. The two lovers may, more often than not, have to overcome obstacles in order to be...
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The overall purpose of the Canterbury Tales is to show the story of the thirty pilgrims who travel to Canterbury, who are derived from different parts of society. They tell stories to one another to help pass time on the way. Although very famous, these tales were never finished nor revised. Originally written in Middle English during the Medieval times, the Canterbury Tales have been rewritten into the modern English language. The tales were one of the first major literature...
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Some people with strong guilt often have to live with that guilt their whole lives live. In the novel “The Things They Carried” Tim O’Brien shows before a war, after a war, or even during a war that guilt is something that can be carried forever, which can be seen through characters like Tim O’Brien, Mark Fossie, and Jimmy Cross. The first example of Guilt is one of the main characters, Tim O'Brien. Tim O’Brien started to show guilt before...
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While reading The Canterbury Tales, it’s hard to not think about what made the author, Geoffrey Chaucer, write these various numbers of comical stories. Each story has an incredibly different theme to it and Chaucer never finished writing all of the stories like he had planned. After doing research, these stories seem to be strongly influenced by the implementation of status labels. What was once a simple time without many labels quickly turned to a complex way of life where...
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This book is about a teenager named Charlie who is about to start his first day of high school after dealing with the suicide of his only and closest friend. To deal with the anxiety, Charlie begins to write letters to a stranger his heard is nice and can trust. He meets two friends named Patrick and Sam who later become his best friends. Throughout his high school year, he has been taken under the wing of a great senior...
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The novel Tuesdays with Morrie, by Mitch Albom, and the film Collateral Beauty (2016), directed by David Frankel, explore themes of life lessons, death and acceptance, yet are presented to an audience differently to portray a message beneath those themes. Tuesdays with Morrie, a non-fiction biography, follows Professor Morrie Schwartz and his journey with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS disease). Albom, the narrator of the story, reflects on Morrie Schwartz’ classes in college. He realises he did not fulfil his promise...
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“The Things They Carried” is a collection of linked short stories by American novelist Tim O’Brien, about a platoon of American soldiers fighting on the ground in the Vietnam War. As the stories describe O’Brien’s memories, the female character's roles in the novel depict important messages. Martha shows love and denial; Mary Anne Bell plays the loss of innocence, a sense of coming of age, and lastly Linda, memory, and death. All women play a part in piecing the novel...
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Initially Charlie was intellectually disabled. He was happy but always wanted to be smarter. Charlie Gordon changed in some aspect, but not as a person. Doctor Nemur had come up with the idea of performing a brain surgery on a patient to make them smarter, this was only after it was proved that it was successful on a small white mouse called Algernon. They performed the brain surgery on Charlie to make him smarter. He never retained any of the...
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In Frankenstein, Victor visualizes science as a mystery to be an inquest, includes the secrets discovered. His entire deliberation with creating like is concealed in secrecy, and his obsession to destroy the creature is a secret until Walton hears his story. But Victor continues his secrecy in guilt. The creature is forced into desolation because of its different appearance. Whereas Walton serves as a final confessor for both, their mysterious relation became immortal in letters of Walton. It shows idealized...
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Chaos Theory is a branch of mathematics studying dynamic systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions. This theory can be applied to life and more specifically, the two lives of Wes Moore. The nonlinear progression from the starting point of a cycle can create a nearly unpredictable result. The two Wes’s lives can be analogized as a pendulum, with disparities in the starting point causing a huge chain reaction of difference. Working backward, we can theorize what exactly sets...
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Introduction: Setting as a Symbol in "The Awakening" The novel of The Awakening (1899) by author Kate Chopin presents a journey of physical, spiritual and sexual transformation of the protagonist, Edna Pontellier, a middle-class mother and wife in Louisianan society during the late 19th-century. The novel is set in three divergent, distinctive spaces physically represented as an island, linking the mainland of New Orleans and the ocean. New Orleans functions to marginalise Edna as she inhabits the patriarchally controlled society...
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The Elizabethan and Victorian eras marked a plethora of changes throughout England, both stabilizing the previously turbulent political field, and initiating periods of prosperity. That shift allowed for new artistic endeavors and cultural refinement and posed questions regarding the established values and conventions in society. Particularly, the Elizabethan era, or, as it has been dubbed, “England's Golden Age”, and the apogee of England’s Renaissance, provided a catalyst for English Theater, and the royal patronage of the arts allowed for the...
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Through describing a life changing journey experienced by protagonist Charlie Marlow in the Congo River, Joseph Conrad successfully exposes the loathsome evil and savage horror within the center of European colonialism. In the novel Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad challenges a dominant view by exposing the metaphorical “darkness” placed within the hearts of European colonialists. Portraying the European colonialists as “blind light bearers” who claims to bring civilization and education to the African Natives, yet are blind of their actions,...
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The differences between “Cinderella” stories are caused by the particular historical context of when they were produced. First, a very blatant variation between the Grimm version and the Perrault version is the fate the step sisters suffer at the end of the stories. In the former’s version, “for their wickedness and falsehood, they were punished with blindness as long as they lived.” (Grimm) while in the latter’s version “[Cinderella] forgave them with all her heart, and wanted them always to...
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Introduction to Aesthetic Principles in "The Picture of Dorian Gray" Oscar Wilde was at grips with his novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray. Republished twice, the Victorian novel emphasizes a society full of dandies of the end of the nineteenth century. The main character is Dorian Gray who is obsessed by a painting which captures his beauty fading because of his departure from morality/ art. Influences of John Ruskin and Walter Pater on Wilde's Aestheticism Oscar Wilde put in this...
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Things Fall Apart, written by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, was written in 1958. The novel’s plot revolves around the clan of Umofia, a culmination of nine villages on the lower Niger in Africa. The clan is quite powerful, populated, advanced, and skilled at war. Okonkwo, the main character, is praised among the Umofians. He is the son of his effeminate father, Unoka, and strives throughout the book to model the opposite character traits. He is driven, brave, violent at times,...
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Mark Haddon effectively immerses readers in a new world of experience and insight through the viewpoint of a person with implied autism. He showcases this through the individual’s behavioural problems displayed and the challenges faced whilst raising a child with these conditions. Also, Haddon displays this through the enlightenment of the apprehension towards change that a person with this disorder may exhibit. In the novel ‘The curious incident of the dog in the night-time’ (the curious incident) Christopher, who is...
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Madness can be defined as a severely disordered state of the mind usually caused by a mental disorder. Madness can arise in people who endure traumatic experiences and stress and cannot find a way to control their behaviour. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, whether or not Hamlet is truly mad is controversial. Hamlet is in an extremely fragile mental state after the death of his father and the recent marriage of his mother and Claudius. Hamlet’s confrontation with the ghost triggers his...
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“Hard Times” is a novel written by Charles Dickens in 1854, taking place in a small town called Coketown. In this novel, we learn about many characters, but two stick out to the readers the uttermost, Thomas Gradgrind and Louisa. Gradgrind is brought into the novel as a schoolteacher. “Mr. Gradgrind is a successful ‘businessman’”. He makes a full turnaround in the novel as his view on life and how he does things turn around. Even in the beginning, he...
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The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author Herbert George Wells and published in 1897 and Prester John is an adventure novel written by John Buchan in 1910. H. G. Wells was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and many others. John Buchan is a Scottish novelist who began his political and diplomatic careers in southern Africa which made him start writing career. He often wrote...
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The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a timeless classic in feminist literature because it features many crucial themes that deal with issues women of that time and often times even today face such as the importance of self-expression, mental illness being misunderstood or even ignored, and the danger that gender roles pose to women’s self-identity. Gilman accomplishes this by criticizing the traditional gender roles that were imposed on women in the late nineteenth century, which is when the...
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In the U.S.A. there are many people impacted on normalized societal stereotypes. It’s hard to be a person impacted by societal stereotypes. Can you imagine being impacted? But one of the most missed treated people is Hispanics. Hispanics normalized societal stereotypes impact their experiences due to white culture. White culture impacted Hispanic’s experiences because of the color of their skin, applying for jobs, and little income. The color of Hispanic's skin impacted their experiences because they get don’t get the...
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Speaking about “Desiree's Baby” by Kate Chopin, Desiree is a gentle, kind, and a loving person. In this story, she is unknown about her husband, Armand, went from being “The proudest father in the parish” to having a unusual, a very unpleasant change in her husband’s actions, which she afraid to ask him about. In addition to this, there are still some people in this society where people were measured by racial purity. More importantly, love need to supplant any...
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Tim O'Brein's The Things They Carried, is an assortment of short stories that retell the experiences of the men of the Vietnam War's Alpha Company. O'Brien's understanding as an infantryman from 1968 to 1970 has given him an insider's viewpoint to the war, and it is this point of view that the creator shares through the character he makes. Many soldiers are afraid to die or to see someone close to them die, because they will show guilt and fear...
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