When people undertake a mission, there are many dangerous and unpredictable risks. Goals are statements in people’s lives and what they want to achieve. For example, Annie Johnson established a store to support her children while starting with nothing. Ernesto Galarza came to America to try and learn English. Cap accepted the risk of traveling down a long and dangerous...
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Comedy is one of the oldest sorts of drama. Comedy highlights that human beings are ridiculous and can not change. Comedies, therefore, regularly confirm our view of the world. Comedy dates again to the technology of silent film in 1895 when it first started to be established in television programs. With the absence of dialogue speech, it was once very...
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In all aspects of life, the past is different from the present. Whether that be the way we talk, the way we dress, the way we travel, or the way we learn, it can be agreed upon by everyone that things have changed. The way we interpret things has changed as well. When studying the tragic play that is Oedipus...
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Between Agamemnon by Aeschylus, Hippolytus by Euripides, and Oedipus the King by Sophocles, the latter is one of the best plays that I enjoy the most. The author of this story pars the excellence of Greek tragedy the most and this piece is the summit of playwrights. The play narrates about King Oedipus of Thebes who notices that he killed...
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The Things They Carried By Tim O’Brien: Quotations The Things They Carried “The things they carried were largely determined by necessities” (O’Brien 2). “They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried” (O’Brien 7). “They carried their own lives. The pressures were enormous” (O’Brien 15). “They carried...
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Look in the mirror and what do you see? What identifies you as a person? Is there an underlying truth about your identity that you are unconscious of? Who do you let influence your appearance and beliefs? The truth is, every external and internal factor in our lives can make up who we are, they only can control us if...
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Many people have questioned the importance and production of dystopian novels, along with the overall reality and impact it has on today’s society. However to grasp the true importance of dystopian novels, one must know what the term dystopian means. Most people refer to dystopias as a utopia gone wrong, a utopia is an imagined place or society in which...
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Dystopian Literature's function stems from the fear that a utopic change can cause a dystopian future. Novels such as Orwell’s “1984” and Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” present this concern over the present of their novel’s time but also for the present of modern readers. Both Atwood and Orwell reflect the conditions of their time in their creations of totalitarian governments....
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The story is about the Usher family and it arises by the narrator visits his childhood friend who needs his help as he is sick. He describes the house as ancient and broken down and there lived Roderick and Madeline who seem to be mad. Madeline gets ill and doctors answer with no cure for this disease soon Roderick tells...
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There are 13 elements of European Gothic. Elements of European Gothic are important in a gothic novel because authors can explore supernatural thoughts and ideas through narration. Two famous stories of the gothic genre are “The Fall of The House of Usher '' by Edgar Allan Poe and “The Castle of Otranto” by Horace Walpole. One of the elements of...
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Many people know that one person who might be very secretive, and we at least once went to their house, in which their parents never let us leave that one room. It's not that they chose to be secretive but instead, they grew up around a secretive family. This is very similar to Roderick Usher and how many never went...
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What is Life? There is no clear-cut definition for it. Many people have their definition of what life is and the majority think that happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence, and death is the complete opposite of it because it brings pain and fear. While death is inevitable but...
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In one of Maya Angelou’s books, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, the personal struggles of an African American child and woman are brought to life through poetic works. Angelou’s writing sheds glaring light on themes of feminine power, beauty, and perseverance, raising the African American Woman to a pedestal that demands respect and adoration. Throughout Angelou’s life, she...
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Emily Jane Bronte was a British narrator and poet. She was born on 30 July 1818 and died on 19 December 1848. Emily is known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights published in 1847 in London under her alias Ellis Bell. Her novel is a classic of English literature. Emily's character is mysterious and isolated. In addition, she has no...
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We live in a society where we have the freedom to voice our opinions and have control of our own lives. If that was one day taken away from us by a superior power the people would revolt against an inhumane leadership. In the dystopian futures of the films The Matrix and The Hunger Games, several scenes portray the oppression...
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On November 15, 1959, in the humble community of Holcomb, Kansas, four individuals from the Clutter family were viciously murdered. This famous novel was written by American Novelist Truman Capote. The main characters in the novel are Perry Smith, Dick Hickock and the Clutter family. The Clutters were pure, loving people, although there is some naivety in their purity. The...
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The Hunger Games movie is a love story about a lady from a district known to be poor who volunteered to replace her sister in the Hunger Games in which the participants had to fight to death in the capital city of a country. Every year in the North American ruins, the twelve districts are forced by the evil country’s...
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Karl Marx, a German philosopher, believed in two dividing classes in a capitalistic society: the proletariat and the bourgeoisie. He emphasized that the bourgeoisie is the ruling class or oppressors and the proletariats are the working class or the oppressed. To maintain this power structure, they exploit the working class to maintain revenue. The novel, The Hunger Games, takes place...
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John Keats was an amazing romantic poet throughout the 17th century, he wrote many incredible poems. He died at the age of 23. John Keats uses theme and metaphor to create a unique and engaging style. In Bright Star, Would I Were Steadfast as Though Art, Keats expresses themes of don’t isolate yourself, love, and enjoy natures beauty. He says,...
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Wuthering Heights is a novel written by Emily Brontë and published in 1847. It tells the story of what had been happening at the Wuthering Heights manor but through a servant's experience called Nelly Dean. This servant says what she knows and what she saw in the past to Mr Lockwood, a man who wants to rent the place. The...
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Victorian literature was dominated by female writers; the Brontë sisters. The three of them, Charlotte, Emily, and Agnes made a name for themselves with several novels of their own, debuting with many unique traits. Despite the others’ popularity, Wuthering Heights, Emily’s novel about a post-gothic heart-wrenching drama stood out the most. Because of its complicated composition, Emily Brontë succeeded in...
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A continuous theme in Dracula is marriage and the gaining of status following it, starting with letters between Mina and Lucy. Their correspondence takes the reader back to the novel’s starting moment, giving us another angle into the lives of these characters, then tangled together with the main Gothic storyline through the plot’s development (McCrea 254). But even before these...
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For what reason did the Hunger Games begin? The amusements began to stimulate and remind the general population who was in charge, that is the Capitol. The Hunger Games is a yearly occasion in which one kid and one young lady aged 12– 18 from every one of the twelve districts encompassing the Capitol are chosen by lottery to contend...
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It could suggest that the past is not ‘dead’, due to its emphasis and depth of portrayal, as well as its common reoccurrence throughout both texts. Ishiguro and Williams both use their first-person narratives to explore themes and central character depictions, by creating a retrospective, backward-looking tone, reflecting the strong emotional attachment characters have to their past. ‘Never Let Me...
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The play Antigone is a great example of Greek tragedy which can be directly related to today’s life and provides valuable lessons. Although the play is named after Antigone, I believe that Kreon is the character who delivers the largest emotional response to the audience. This is due to both Kreon’s and Antigone’s stubbornness. Also, Kreon is a more dynamic...
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In Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Fall of The House of Usher”, the character Madeline is subjected to sexist treatment by her brother, Roderick as well as his friend, who is the unnamed narrator. As Madeline falls ill, the men fear her because she does not embody feminine qualities. She is not spoken to by the men, but portrayed...
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A dystopia is a futuristic society, usually fictional, that is unpleasant and terrifying. the characteristics of a dystopian society are the use of propaganda to control, a person or concept worshipped by the citizens, the restriction of independent thought, information, and freedom, Citizens under constant surveillance, and dehumanization, and the citizen's fear of the outside world. The novel The Hunger Games...
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Katniss and Peeta have to work even harder to overcome the bias against them and win the hearts of the sponsors and the crowd. Being as poor as they are comes with some benefits and some disadvantages. They have been underfed most of their lives which means they are skinny and weak compared to the other tributes. Living in District...
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Kazuo Ishiguro’s “Never Let Me Go” is an enthralling dystopian story whose appalling end contains an underwhelming surprise. When we discover, along with the narrator and other characters, the reality of the society they live in, we may or may not be surprised, depending on how carefully we have been reading the story and keeping track of details such as...
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Our cloned future. Has the arrival of a new science era created ethical anxiety about cloning? What is Fear? Is it an emotion; thought or perhaps an illusion? This week's ‘New Scientist’ will explore the value of human life, or rather, a cloned human life by examining two different texts. Kazuo Ishiguro’s “Never Let Me Go” and Michael Bay’s “The...
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