In the search for truth different perspectives develop allowing for people to perceive things in a new light like never before. Personal justifications to each situation transform an objective approach to truth into a subjective one, and when truth is subjective it may also be deceptive. We all have our own truths, and when they encounter one another they create...
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In the article written by Catherine Lavender, a popular saying about women in the late 1800’s was “She does what she can, but she is conscious of her inferiority and therefore grateful for support” (Lavender 3). In “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspel was written in 1917 based in Dickson County, where the characters Mr. Hale, Mr. Peters,...
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The story of a soldier who devises and carries out an elaborate plan that will become his general’s undoing is one possible way of summarizing William Shakespeare’s “Othello”. Throughout the play, Iago moves the characters as though they were chess pieces - he utilizes their individual goals, and interests as a means of getting them to carry out his plan....
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Introduction to Atticus Finch's Parenting and Role Model Qualities Referring to the classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird, readers will see Atticus Finch as no ordinary man. He acts as not only a role model to his children Scout and Jem Finch but to the Maycomb community itself. He is shown as a good father and role model, many times...
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Humans are said to be born with a moral compass telling them what is wrong and right, if not soceity does a good job instilling their views of what is good or bad into people. In Othello, written by William Shakespear and performed by Mixed Magic Theatre, the character Iago seems to be easily placed in the group of a...
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“A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell and “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Gilman both have plots of very different natures. In “The Yellow Wallpaper”, a mentally disturbed woman is taken into an isolated house to recover. In “A Jury of Her Peers”, a woman is blamed for killing her husband. However, one common message that the stories share...
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When analysing Madam Bovary as a character, it is important investigate all facets. This will not only ensure a greater understanding of her actions, but will give a more informed decision for the extent to which Emma deserves sympathy. Gustave Flaubert uses Madame Bovary to express women's obsession with the bourgeois life in nineteenth-century France, as well as give insight...
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Nothing is the same, not even identical twins. Everyone should be individual and think for themselves, regardless of the outcome. In Fahrenheit 451, and “All Summer in a Day,” Ray Bradbury develops a strong perspective about human nature. Bradbury develops this perspective through figurative language and dialogue, which are intended to make the reader consider the harsh actions society takes...
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The characters in Rip Van Winkle and Young Goodman Brown composed separately by Washington Irving and Nathaniel Hawthorne leave their individual networks and come back with fundamentally alternate points of view (of their present lives) that change their frames of mind and lifestyle in the staying of their lives. The two stories are set in early American towns, Young Goodman...
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Apart from bringing the world an enviable amount of novels, theatrical plays, puritan and native literary pieces, 19th-century American literature has provided authors such as Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne. These masters of the macabre use similar characters, setting, and narration in their writing in order to build up a sense of impending doom. Even today numerous readers enjoy,...
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The most intriguing part of a Greek tragedy is the involvement of a tragic hero, which consistently draws in a greater group of spectators and excites their feelings. A tragic hero is an honorable or imperial character whose pain is brought about by his own misinterpretation, and his experience consistently makes the audience feel dread and sympathy. Medea is a...
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Margaret J. Wheatley, once said, “Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole.” Reading this makes me think of all the different things we can find different in each other’s lives. In the poem “My Papa’s Waltz,” by Theodore Roethke, the tone...
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In Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, he illustrates the realistic struggle of a woman’s life in the mid-eighteen hundreds when Bourgeois women lived restricted lives. The heroine Emma Bovary rebels against the traditional behaviour of a woman, by portraying herself as the opposite. Through various masculine modes, specifically, her display of male fashion, Flaubert develops this concept. Her contrasting views of...
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The narrative Chronicle of a death foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez outlines the events surrounding Santiago Nasar’s murder. He is the man who allegedly took Angela Vicario’s virginity. Bayardo San, Angela’s husband to discover that she was not a virgin on their wedding night, and takes her back to her house. Disgusted by the shame brought into their family, Pablo...
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Villains in literature play an important role in plot development. While villains initiate actions, they simultaneously illuminate the good qualities of heroes in the play. William Shakespeare’s play Othello is no exception. In Othello, Iago is a complex character that plays a major role in determining the events and fate of several characters in the play. He manages to deceive...
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Through the utilization of the repetition of honour, the situational irony of love, and the stereotypes of gender roles in society—that men are dominant while women are seen as weak and submissive—Marquéz unveils the global issue of gender inequality and it’s correlation with honour in a society (the machismo and marianismo roles of men and women respectively and its connection...
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William Shakespeare is deemed to be the greatest dramatist of all time. As Ben Jonson, one of his closest friends once said, “Shakespeare is not of an age but for all time”. Many of his plays continue to be studied in our modern era and are a staple to any English curriculum. He has many famous plays that have been...
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Ray Bradbury wrote many short story’s, most of them take place in the future and have similar themes such as time travel or companionship. One of the themes that stood out the most is Technological innovation. “The Pedestrian”, “there will come soft rains” and “Harrison Bergeron” all relate to this theme. Technology can be good in some ways but it...
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Would you ever think that Southern Americans would write stories based on morality in the early 1900s? Probably not based on the fact that slavery was abolished only a few years earlier. Authors, William Faulkner and Flannery O’ Connor were far from exceptions to this. In the short story “Barn Burning” written in 1939, author William Faulkner shows that discerning...
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In the late 1700's and early 1800's, literature began to show it was changing thanks to the newly formed democracy in America. As is the case with any young government, many different people wanted to turn the country into their own and make sure that the country worked under their democratical ideals. Washington Irving, was a native New Yorker who...
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What would one do if they suddenly found themselves on a strange island inhabited by people six inches tall? Would one rule them, or simply submit to them? This is the exact situation that Lemuel Gulliver in the novel 'Gulliver's Travels' finds himself in. In part one of this novel, the difference between having physical power and moral power is...
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Gulliver’s Travels is a book written by Jonathan Swift with an intriguing plot filled with characters that complement one another. This novel begins with the main character, Lemuel Gulliver, being described as an English surgeon. After his business failed, he decides to travel the seas on a voyage. Lemuel’s first journey begins after his ship wrecks and he wakes up...
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Who is Atticus Finch? Atticus is one of if not the best man in Maycomb, he is also a lawyer and a father who acts in a very gentleman way even in the most nerve-wracking situations a person could be in. And in the types of situations that he finds himself in during the novel he really shows that he...
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Imagine living and surrounded by false people. Every word becomes nonsense and true identity is lost. All you witness is shallow people and their aspiration are petty and they only focus on their appearance. The thought of mortality never crosses their minds which blinds them to see that their lifestyle is false. So, that doesn’t seem like a good community...
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Ernest Hemingway occupies a towering place among the twentieth century post-war writers. The alienation in this century was the direct result of World War I that caused an all-pervasive destruction material, spiritual and moral. The Sun Also Rises exposes powerfully the theme of alienation in a very faithful manner. It is an authentic account of the sense of aimlessness; nihilism,...
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Ernest Hemingway‟s first novel, The Sun Also Rises, published in 1926 is one of his best novels. The novel is widely regarded as the definitive account of the epoch that followed World War I. The Sun Also Rises tells the story of a group of expatriates mired in postwar disillusionment and despair. The story centers on the narrator, Jake Barnes...
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The concept and belief of honour within Columbian society within the novella is a critical focal point in the decision making, actions and motives of the characters. So entrenched is this belief that nobody questions the actions taken to preserve one's honour as it is regarded as such an important moral trait that one must hold dear. In this patriarchal...
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In Gothic literature, novels use a wide range of themes that center around gothic elements. Beginning in the early eighteenth century, these elements began a new genre that incorporated the ideas of the supernatural, horror, and dark events and sceneries. Horace Walpole’s novel The Castle of Ontranto is regarded as the beginning of Gothic literature. His novel set the standards...
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Krakauer made his intentions clear at the start in the author’s notes by declaring that “I won’t claim to be an impartial biographer.” He also said that he will be adding in his own narrative from his youth in hopes that it will shed some light on what kind of things influence McCandless to pursue his journey, where he traveled,...
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The inspiration of this novel was a trip made to Spain in 1925. The characters are based on real people, friends very close to Hemingway’s, and some of the situation that happened are based on real experience. Hemingway explores themes such as love and death, the power of nature and the concept of masculinity. The Old Man and The Sea...
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