The belief of valuing a humanâs life may be inherent and unequivocal by most people. Nevertheless, there are people in the world that do not acknowledge the importance of oneâs life and choose to be careless over the fact and proceed to take advantage of anyone, regardless of the consequences. These types of people were either taught not to value humanity at birth or elect to treat others as objects or use them as pawns to further their own personal...
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In combining realistic and imaginative elements to tell a moving and dreamlike story, The Scarlet Letter is an example of the romance genre. In fact, the novel`s original title was The Scarlet Letter: A Romance. While today we think of romances as love stories, and The Scarlet Letter does contain love scenes between its two protagonists, the term romance as Hawthorne uses it refers to a work of fiction that does not adhere strictly to reality. In the preface of...
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Gulliver’s Travels, or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships is a 1726 prose satire by the Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirizing both human nature and the ‘travelers’ tales’ literary subgenre. It is Swift’s first-rate recounted full-length work, and a classic of English literature. Swift claimed that he wrote Gulliver’s Travels ‘to vex the world as a replacement than divert it....
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The 1st Amendment to the Constitution of the United States expresses that âCongress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.â This led to lengthy quarrels as to the length at which citizens can sufficiently critique their civic leaders. Members of the press, the...
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Both of these poems explore the aspect of murder and the motivations behind it, however they have distinct ideas at the heart of the poems which make them all unique. My inceptive reaction of âThe Laboratoryâ, was pure horror and devastation. I found it hard to believe that a human could plan in such a cold and calculating way, yet I also found this intriguing. âNot that I bid you spare her the pain! Let her death be felt and...
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Poems by William Blake Primarily, Blake intends to expose the cruelty of life and society as well as the consequences of the Christians’ beliefs regarding suffering and hardship. The Chimney Sweeper begins by informing readers that the speaker was quite young when a tragic event occurred by stating, â When my mother died I was very youngâ (Blake Songs of Innocence). Even though the poem does not reveal what killed the boy’s mother, it alludes that her death somehow influenced...
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John Steinbeckâs The Grapes of Wrath (1939) is a novel that explores and highlights the modern gender roles of his generation, it is also one which portrays Steinbeck’s modernized ideology towards the traditional patriarchal system during a time of great change. The proletarian novelist displayed his ability to perfectly portray the hardships faced during his experience of The Great Depression, allowing his readers to experience it through the eyes of his detailed and vivid Characters. During the depression there was...
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They create blockbusters âIt was a dazzling, cool day in April, and the timepiece stood striking thirteen’, they bring metaphors ‘Whole world is a stage and all the guys and girls are simply playersâ, they frame sarcasm and irony âCool, breezy and raining? I like Dutch climate!â. In all of these cases, it is clear-cut that they are not actually presenting the truth, rather just a closely relatable idea. Often there are huge dissimilarity between the occurrence and narration. However,...
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Ernest Hemmingway famously declared in 1935, âAll modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.â One major aspect that makes it a contender for the âGreat American Novelâ is how the topic of race is presented within the story. The story follows a boy by the name of Huck Finn as he helps Jim, a runaway slave, to escape along the Mississippi River. Today, Americans have grown comfortable with racism resting just beneath the surface...
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TV shows like John Stewart, the Daily Show brings attention to how effective the use of satire in The Daily Show is and the positive political effect it has on people. Some people might define political satire as something you gain entertainment, some also might define it as something used with subversive intent, where political speech and dissent are forbidden by the government. TV shows like the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, the Colbert Report, and Saturday night live are...
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Paradise lost as an epic poem: John Milton is one of England’s greatest poets. His âParadise Lostâ is one of the best epics in the English language. Here the poet preserves the ancient tradition of heroic writing. In fact, an epic is a long narrative poem that contains a beautiful action, a great hero and a beautiful style. At Miltonâs Paradise Lost one can find all three. An epic is a long narrative poem with a high and high title...
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In Ozymandias and London shows us that nature is the most powerful thing and that humans can not control it. The statue in Ozymandias shows the importance of human power and how we as humans thing we can dominate nature. This can be portrayed in the quote ânear them, on the sand half sunk, a shattered visage liesâ. Sibilance is used in this section because is shows that we can almost imagine the sight of the statue sinking and it...
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Percy Bysshe Shelley represents throughout the entirety of the poem that eventually power won’t amount to anything and will be forgotten or to have no importance. All that remains of the statue are two âvastâ stone legs standing upright and a head half-buried in sand, along with a boastful inscription describing the ruler as the âking of kingsâ whose mighty achievements invoke awe and despair in all who behold them. The inscription stands in ironic contrast to the decrepit reality...
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The epic Of Mice and Men was first delivered in February 1937 and tells the story of the companions George and Lennie, who are transient specialists in California during the Great Depression. George is Lennie’s overseer as Lennie is intellectually debilitated. At the start of the novel, they show up at a farm near Soledad in California where they find a new line of work kicking grain. They stay in a bunkhouse for certain different specialists on the farm and...
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Hedda Gabler is a purely modern text and a modern tragedy. Because Hedda cannot distinguish between the ego-inflating show gestures and the tragic death that sublimates the ego to realize the value of life. Expanded and reborn. Her helplessness, unaware of the difference between soap operas and tragedy, explains the gap between Hedda’s presumptive view of her suicide and our assessment of its importance. The demonic and ironic Ibsen has superficially resembled the end of a traditional tragedy. Hedda, who...
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Part II of this story is changing like how Don Quixoteâs fantasy is changing, and it is turning a part as the story goes on. Reality is rising up in his imaginative world, and he starts to doubt his views. He is beginning to see the reality around him, and in one point he sees inns as inns not castles; also, he realizes that the peasant girl to whom he is falling is a normal peasant girl not the princess...
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Satire is a technique employed by writers to expose and criticize the foolishness and corruption of an individual or a society, by using humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule. A writer in a satire uses fictional characters, which stand for real people, to expose and condemn their corruption. A writer may point a satire toward a person, a country, or even the entire world. Usually, satire is a comical piece of writing which makes fun of an individual or a society,...
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Criticism Of the Novel Whereas A Farewell to Arms describes Hemingway heroâs sense of alienation with his illusion of becoming the saviour of mankind and his acute consciousness of death, the central concern of The Sun Also Rises is the heroâs subsequent struggle to get over the depression of his alienation and learn to live in a world that âkills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartiallyâ[7 ]. Many critics have regarded the novel as...
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In Daniel Keyesâ novel Flowers for Algernon, Charlie, a 32-year-old intellectually disabled man, undergoes a newly researched surgical procedure that turns him into a genius. Being intellectually disabled means having severe limitations when it comes to mental and cognitive capabilities. Many with this disability have an incredibly troublesome time adjusting to life, and generally, have IQs equal to or less than 70 (Berger 1). Charlieâs IQ of 68 meant that his mental age was younger than his physical age, which...
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Howes describes the self as âa construct of the mind, an hypothesis of being, socially formed even as it can be quickly turned against the very social formations that have brought it into birthâ. By exploring literary narrative thinking, which emphasises the structure of events in terms of a humanâs feelings and thoughts, a dual landscape is created by allowing for the contrast of the selfâs stream of consciousness against societyâs grouping and categorizing of the individual. In Selvonâs novel...
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Abstract Misuse of power and authority is a very dangerous dilemma of mankind. The class system is the main reason behind this uneven distribution of power among upper and lower class. As Karl Marx divides it into two classes, first one is upper class which is called the Bourgeoisie and second class Is The proletariat. This paper is an attempt to explore the connection between crime and power in the subcontinent. This paper explores debut novels of Mohsin Hamid and...
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Oppressions in Ginu Kamani`s âThe Smellâ âThe Smellâ is a short story that gives the readers the point of view of a young Indian girl, known as Rani, who lives in a household that practices vegetarianism and witnesses a tradition of an arranged marriage that occurs in her family. Ginu Kamani, the author, wrote the story based on her experience living in both Bombay and the States which allow her to explore the differences in cultures and traditions between the...
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In the novels Mathilda, by Mary Shelley and The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison; both writers convey ideas around the effects of traumatic events caused by deep desires. In Mathilda, the majority of trauma faced is based around the incestuous love and desire Mathildaâs father feels for her which ultimately leads to his suicide and Mathildaâs lonely death. However, in The Bluest Eye, Morrison examines trauma faced by black people in America. She focuses on societies impacts on the way...
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Truman Capote is one of the most famous and controversial writers in contemporary American literature. He was a flamboyant character, cultivating eccentricity and a certain taste for scandal, as you can guess from this self-portrait: ‘I am a alcoholic. I am a drug addict. I am a homosexual. I am a genius.â In turn adulated and criticized, he was one of the most controversial figures of his time. He entered literature at the age of nineteen with his novels, but...
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Relative clauses found in the novel entitled The Pearl by Steinbeck in 1947. This analysis based on the theory of Generative Transformation via Chomsky in his book. Syntactic Structure (1971) and supported through Bradford in his e-book Transformational Syntax: A Student Guide to Chomsky’s Extended Theory (1988). The findings of this learn about show that there are three outstanding patterns of the relative clause and clause structure Relative is an embedded clause that is modified through a noun in a...
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All of the readings in module three are examples of poetry and romanticism. Each poem has great meaning. I am going to compare William Blakeâs works â Songs of Innocenceâ and âSongs of Experienceâ. These writings are very similar but yet different at the same time. In the works under âSongs of Innocence,â there is a sadder tone than in the poems under âSongs of Experience. Under âSongs of Experience it is more of a happier tone. They both tell...
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Death states, âDid they deserve any better, these people? How many had actively persecuted others, high on the scent of Hitler’s gaze, repeating his sentences, his paragraphs, his opus?â (Markus Zusak p. 375-76) 1942, was a year known for being the beginning to an unfortunate end. Although some survived the horrific war known as, World War Two, effects rendered and impacted much more than their social lives. Around this time, the Nazis movement took place in Germany and Adolf Hitler,...
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The short story âA Perfect Day for Bananafishâ written by J. D. Salinger, depicts how Salinger views World War ll, reflecting it in his story through the eyes of main the character Seymour Glass. The story highlights Seymourâs attitude and behavior after being affected by the war, which showcases his suppression and anxiety towards society through the psychoanalytic lens. The theme of isolation is prevalent throughout the story and Salinger achieves this through the effective use of language. To begin...
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Both stories âYoung Goodman Brownâ and âWhere Are You Going Where Have You Been,â include protagonists that communicate with forces of evil in their normal lives. A few may believe that the evilness comes from within the characters themselves, but others may believe comes from within the Devil himself. The evil figure in âWhere Are You Going, Where Have You Beenâ is way more dangerous than the protagonist in âYoung Goodman Brownâ because the Devilâs presence is more evil, dangerous,...
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Composed as a literary novel that narrates through a legend of redemption and inscribed in the context of Ancient Troy is âRansomâ by David Malouf, which unravels how changes come to the reception of individuals in worlds. Such can also be said of the film âInvictusâ, the two texts applaud the power of a changed perception as well as its impact on an individual, an institution, and a country. In addition, Malouf and Eastwoodâs intention also coincides with the fact...
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