Although Morrison attempts to provide a more complete understanding of the sexual abuse that female slaves were subjected to, she also uses the trope of silence to indicate the impossibility of fully disclosing and voicing such a traumatic event. In Beloved Ella, a former slave, refers to her sexual abuse at the hands of white males as the ‘lowest yet,’...
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Dickens explicitly criticizes the issues of poverty in Victorian society in this excerpt. For this, he utilizes the characters of Ignorance and Wants as allegories, depicting them as victims of severe deprivation, emphasizing the challenges faced by the poor and the situations under which they lived. Dickens uses the characters of Indifference and tries to show the viewers' ignorance of...
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The Road Not Taken by Frost, this title implies the loss risk of human life. The Road that the speaker didn't take, is quite something within the textual content of the literary composition, this title hints that the literary composition is regarding lost chance, complexities of decisions, no longer in reality deciding on the path it is modern-day and new....
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In the short story Shirley Jackson, she wants to show the banalization of violence illustrated by a macabre and at the same time banal ritual. The story takes place in a small village, on a clear morning, June 27th, where the whole city, but not only it, chooses its members by chance, who must be sacrificed by stoning. This ritual...
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Soraya, the chosen character to be analyzed and illustrated, always supported Amir’s decisions as his wife throughout the narrative by acclaimed author Khaled Hosseini, “The Kite Runner”.This document will demonstrate how this woman played an essential role in the life of Amir. After Amir fled with his father from Afghanistan they found refuge in San Francisco, California, where Amir grew...
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In the Myth of Sisyphus, Camus argues that “one must imagine Sisyphus happy” (123), who is condemned by the gods to repeatedly roll a boulder up and down a hill for eternity. Camus uses the Greek legend as a metaphor for the individual’s continuous struggle against the absurdity of life. According to Camus, one must accept the absurdity and in...
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Walt Whitman’s quote, within the title of this essay, is in essence a look into the self and how the self is multidimensional. The two novels that I have been studying and will be exploring throughout this essay - Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway and Toni Morrison’s ‘Beloved’ - also explore the concept of the multitudinal self (although not influenced by...
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At the beginning of the 20th century, European countries suffered a great loss of their population and wealth as well as the breakdown of the government and economy for years. The book All Quiet on the Western Front, written by Erich Maria Remarque is a collection of tragic stories of the German soldiers who faced the harsh battle fronts and...
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According to Naidoo Mervyn, author of “80% of Victims Know Their Killers” IOL November 16, 2014. 80% of murders are committed by someone that the victim knows personally. In the gothic writings, “The Raven” and “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe. In “The Tell-Tale Heart” a “sane” man kills his elderly housemate because his eye scared him. In another...
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Amir is full of regret after everything that happened to Hassan. However, Baba was very proud of Amir for winning the kite tournament. Unfortunately, Amir's guilt over Hassan made it impossible to enjoy his father’s pride over him. The event was haunting him and preventing him from enjoying his win to the fullest. On page 86, when everyone is sleeping...
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When you hear the term 'blood', what comes to mind? Body, violence, life, or death are just some of the words that we think of about blood. The novel, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is set before the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Two boys, Amir and Hassan, grew up as childhood friends, but their fates are known to be...
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In the novel, All Quiet on the Western Fronts, by Erich Maria Remarque, Paul, a German soldier, is drafted into the war and witnesses many traumatic instances of war. Throughout the book, Remarque demonstrates the mental trauma and emotional stress involved in warfare that Paul experiences to convey the significant impact of war on the mental stability of soldiers. Remarque...
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The Lottery is an every year event where a person in the town is picked indiscriminately to be stoned by method for hello/her partners and family individuals. Eminently, the air made by method for Jackson in the introduction of the sureness and the standard of the activity of lottery inside the town is entirely persuading that, this activity used to...
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You must be wondering why I placed these statements on the board. Well thinking about power and morality, isn’t morality, decisions that would lead to the happiness of someone? Doesn’t have to be you. And power is what helps you make that decision or attain that happiness. Because if you look at all the morality examples, isn’t it essentially the...
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Orwell’s’ Animal Farm examines the insidious ways in which public officials can abuse their power, examined through severe corruption throughout Animal Farm. From the rebellion onward, the pigs of Animal Farm use violence and threats to gain control over the animals. As well as the attack dogs keeping the animals in line, physical intimidation doesn’t prevent some of the animals...
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The speaker in Robert Frost's 'The Road Not Taken' offers the reader insight into human nature with every line of poetry. While, Frost had not in the beginning meant for this to be an inspirational poem, line by line, the speaker is encouraging each reader to seek out his or her private path in the trip of life. Romanticizing the...
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Toni Morrison’s critical approach, described in Playing in the Dark, often involves the scrutiny of the binary and the denaturalization of those racial binaries. In her novel Beloved, the racial binary is accompanied by the idea of family, where the dominant group can achieve the ideal family while the subordinate group cannot. As a form of othering, the white patriarchal...
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The novels Eva Luna authored by Isabel Allende and Beloved by Toni Morrison have both shown great character development, through the overcoming challenges they went through. In both literary works, the main characters struggle with “love”. Sethe in Beloved is an independent woman who made her way through life on her own, due to severe troubles with slavery, which took...
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When people think about winter they may think about snow and the cold temperatures. Normally they do not think about the harsh consequences that can come with being in the winter wilderness. However, in Jack London’s “To Build a Fire”, those harsh consequences are brought to life as the main character has to deal with them. London’s style of writing...
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The word lottery implies a fortunate outcome: the lottery will result in a winner who will receive a treasure or money. “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson contradicts the positive connotation of a lottery: in the story, the villagers participate in an annual tradition by having a lottery to choose a winner, someone they sacrifice to ensure a plentiful harvest for...
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In life everybody goes through trials and tribulations; however, its apart of life. as an example means that the way the character inThe Kite Runner felt towards his servant caused all the commotion within the story. The Author Khaled Hosseini used an excellent deal of emotional charm with the connection not solely with the boys however but with the daddy...
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Beloved shows the reader that people will forever be haunted by harsh times in their lives, specifically slavery. Although Beloved was not the reason slavery was so horrific for Sethe, her murder happened because of the trauma slavery caused. Beloved haunts Sethe and doesn’t allow her to move on from her past. Paul D’s tin can represents his heart, forcing...
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Joseph Sciuto once declared, “Humanity, the earth with its streams and gardens, animals, and innocence are the real victims of war.” The war affects all manners of life, especially the innocent ones, by corrupting and transmogrifying them into a dehumanized, soulless body with a complete lack of their original character. In his semi-autobiographical novel, All Quiet on the Western Front...
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In A Christmas Carol Dickens uses the theme of poverty for the Cratchit family to show how most poor lives lived, on the other hand, the rich lived happily in Victorian Society. In A Christmas Carol stave 1 Scrooge does not lots of what the Cratchits are going through by shows his ignorance to Bob by asking for a day...
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Erich Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front is a profound proclamation against war, highlighting its significance in the annihilating impacts on humans. The people of war gave hints of romanticized ideas of being in the front throughout the story for its benefits of obtaining rations of food, and that the conditions were “... excellent”(Remarque, 167). The novel portrays the...
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A comparative analysis of Erich Maria Remarque’s “All Quiet on the Western Front (Western Front),1928” and John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath (Grapes), 1939” provokes the audience to reconsider their understanding of morality. Set during WWI, Remarque explores the demoralizing corruptions of war by mirroring his personal experiences at the Western Front. Steinbeck’s Grapes, set during the 1930 American Dust...
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“War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families” (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr). During World War I many people joined the war to have money to provide for their family, not knowing what they were getting themselves into. The “Lost Generation” was what people called those who grew up during...
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In the story “The Lottery” written by Shirley Jackson, uses the typical feminist stereotype in her story. With using a character named Tessi and having Bill Hutcheson as the male lead. This is a common thing in Jackson's books where the female character has more of the spotlight than other characters in the story. It is said by Carpenter that...
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The senselessness of war affects even the best of people and turns them into people you wouldn't be able to recognize. In the novel, All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, the main character Paul Baumer gets sent to fight in the German war where they did not have the best fighting technology. This led to many...
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“One day they leave Omelas and walk ahead into the darkness, towards a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness and they do not come back”. ‘The Ones Who Walk Away from the Omelas’ by Ursula Le Guin is a short story about a dystopian society where they sacrifice the freedom of a child...
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