During the democracy of Athens, the male citizens held all the power while women enjoyed little civil liberties and rights. Gender roles consisted of the man being the breadwinner, while the women were supposed to stay home and raise the children. A common gender role for the women were also to please their husband whenever the men desired. The play...
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Agatha Christie, English writer, once said, “Very few of us are what we seem”. Many people do not seem as they portray. People can take the lead in a rough situation and still be the one who made the situation rough. And Then There Were None, is a murder mystery novel written by Agatha Christie where ten strangers are invited...
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Although everyone in society is equal, not all are being treated equally as society abuses minority groups because of their differences. Discrimination is the unequal treatment of humans with the same or equivalent value based on gender, race, sex, class, religion, and/or ethnicity which causes one to feel isolated. In Forgiveness written by Mark Sakamoto and Flowers For Algernon written...
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Brave new world is a book written by Aldous Huxley in 1932. The story is about a future world in which everything is done to make life more beautiful and try to make a perfect world. The majority of the population agrees with this way of life but some people don't like the way this society works. So we are...
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''Feelings like shame and guilt are given to us for a purpose. They're there to let us know when we've done something that is damaging and is wrong and we need to take steps to remedy it. The reason we have fear is so that we can judge situations and make appropriate responses. So if you take that function away...
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“A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty is a suspenseful short story of a poor, elderly African American grandmother who annually made a dangerous and grueling trek from her home far away from the town of Natchez, Mississippi to the doctor’s office in town and back again to her remote home. She made this journey every year to pick up medicine...
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In recent times, the stories of civil wars and ethnic conflicts in Africa have shocked the world. In particular, children felt the blunt side of the war as the conflicts have led to separation from their parents. The book, A Long Way Gone; Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah gives the reader insight into the effect and nature...
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The infamous novel, A Christmas Carol is a widely read book that was set during the Victorian era and sold about 6,000 copies; this novel shows the jubilance and warmth of Christmas time but additionally brings attention to the upsetting reality that people faced during the Victorian era. This novel is about an affluent and nescient man named Ebenezer Scrooge,...
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The novel A Christmas Carol was written by Charles Dickens it describes the story of a mean-spirited and selfish old man Ebenezer Scrooge. Scrooge is afflicted by the Spirit of his former friend Jacob Marley and the Ghost of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come. He is also shown the errors of his ways by the three Ghost of...
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Morals are standards people are given by tradition of what is right and what is unacceptable. Great Expectations is a fictional novel that chronicles a young boy named Pip becoming a man to not only gain wealth and a higher social standing but also a partner. As a boy Pip lives with his sister and her husband, and is a...
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In 1942, during World War II, Anne Frank’s older sister Margot Frank was told to report to a ‘labor camp’ by the Nazis. Her parents, Otto and Edith Frank sensed that this was not about work and immediately went into hiding to protect her. They hid in an annex of Otto Frank’s company building and requested for his colleagues to...
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Born into slavery aroound 1818, Frederick Douglass stands as an influential leader of abolitionists, amongst other major titles. He remains as one of the most important figures in America’s struggle for civil rights and racial equality. Douglass spoke out against oppression throughout America and abroad, and his struggle for freedom, self-discovery, and identity. In his well renowned autobiography, “Narrative of...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby published in 1925 explores the setting of the 1920’s to comment and reflect upon his context. He does this by critiquing his era through the ideas of unfulfillment and superficial values caused by the American dream. He reviews the Jazz Age through his portrayal of celebrations after World War I, the industrial developments...
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In numerous cultures, there is an ideal beauty that most people attempt to acquire. However, imagine a scenario in which beauty were impossible to grasp and there were nothing one could do to be ‘beautiful’. In the novel the Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison recounts the story of a powerless girl struggling to prosper against the stereotypes and racism she is...
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Toni Morrison’s novels normally have 2 common themes of heritage and the past effects which are clearly represented in her novels Song of Solomon and Beloved. In these novels, if evaluated closely one can see the effects of the supernatural elements throughout the story. These supernatural effects allow for the characters to develope and gives them the ability to move...
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Introduction This section reports the data gathered from the writing survey of the insightful works previously done on War of the Worlds from alternate points of view. The goal of this section is to set the foundation and setting for the discoveries from next parts. This part gives the scope of new thoughts and builds up a literature gap for...
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Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein explores the main protagonist scientist Victor Frankenstein who creates a monster from the limbs of the dead but abandons his hideous creation which causes The Creature to seek revenge. Frankenstein reflects key conventions of Gothic fiction by appealing intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually to the readers. These key conventions of Gothic fiction are conveyed through a fascination...
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Edgar Allen Poe’s writing style is known to be grotesque and slightly barbaric. He utilizes multiple things to establish his own unique style of writing, and his works often are credited as being the start of the detective fiction genre. In some of his works like “The Raven”, “The Tell-Tale Heart”, and “A Dream Within a Dream”, you can tell...
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Bartleby the Scrivener, written by Herman Melville explores the harsh reality of mentally unstable people in environments that are not conducive to their well-being. Bartleby shows what happens when someone with mental health issues has gone through a negative experience and then is forced into another because one cannot live without working. The story is set in a law office...
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Bigotry is that the belief that a specific race is superior or inferior to another, that a person’s social and ethical traits are preset by his or her inborn biological characteristics. Racial separatism is that the belief, normally supported racism, that different races should remain unintegrated and aside from each other. Bigotry was an enormous deal within the twentieth century...
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African-American characters play critical roles in the work of William Faulkner. Not only do they often play irreplaceable roles in the narrative — as in the cases of Dilsey Gibson in The Sound and the Fury and Lucas Beauchamp in Intruder in the Dust — but how they are treated in the works also often serve as measures of both...
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The Outsiders is a bildungsroman novel, written by S.E. Hinton when she was a teenager. Although it was written in the ’70s, the themes of loyalty, isolation, and identity explored throughout the novel are still pertinent to teenagers today. In The Outsiders, loyalty is a recurrent theme and a point of pride, honor, and principle for the greasers. Hinton displays...
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The story “A Hunger Artist” talks about a man who was a professional hunger artist and was really dedicated to his profession. He believed that fasting is not such a difficult task and decided to embark on a forty days fasting journey to prove that to the world. The character according to the description of the writer would be in...
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Personality is built throughout someone’s childhood and a tragic event can cause it to change form. Whatever environment that a child is exposed to can influence how they begin to act, whether it be a good or bad change, they usually pick up their behavior from their guardians. In Erich Fromm’s, Sigmund Freud’s Mission (1959), there is an idea about...
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Particular events in a person’s life can shape who they are as a person and their irrational decisions later on in life. In the novel Ethan Frome, author Edith Wardon takes the reader on a journey through the development of each character. When a married-man named Ethan Fromegets tangled up in an affair with his wife’s cousin and caretaker, his...
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“Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed...It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality.” (Wright, PAGE 45). Native Son (1939) is a novel written by the American author Richard Wright. It tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, a black youth living in utter poverty in a poor...
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Bigger Thomas is African-American from Chicago who is convicetd of the rape and murder of a white women. Bigger Thomas is also a man who lives in poverty and is uneducated. It’s the 1930’s in Chicago and a family of four is living in a cramped apartment on the south side in a neighborhood known as “The Black Belt”. Bigger’s...
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Is it fair for a reader to make assumptions correlating and dissecting two great works together, because they are both classified as epics? Paradise Lost and Beowulf, written by John Milton and an unknown author respectively, fall into this category. Beowulf, the oldest surviving poem of the English language, and Paradise Lost written in the 1600’s, have centuries separating their...
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Daisy Miller’ is a story of a young American lady, whose name is Daisy Miller, and her family members who are vacationing in Europe. Daisy is in a new world and is trying to find a way to learn and adapt to her new surroundings. She is trying to intergrate with the high class society but due to her lifestyle’s...
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Introduction The Alchemist is a fiction novel written by a Brazilian author, Paulo Coelho. This novel is based around the story of a shepherd boy who dreams about a treasure and sets on a journey to find it. The book’s main idea is to find one’s destiny. This is fantasy book and involves supernatural incidents. The protagonist is out on...
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