The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway is a novel set in the 1920s and it is a story about a group of American expatriates and their bohemian life in Paris during the prohibition era. The main character is a young man named Jake Barnes and he surrounds himself with characters like his close friends Bill Gorton and Robert Cohn,...
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The genre of satire has served as a useful tool throughout history, in literature and the general arts, to indirectly bring attention to the shortcomings of humanity and more often the government as well as to effect political or social change, or to prevent it. It is certainly traditionally a passive aggressive tool, but is actually manipulated as an almost...
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The Outsiders directed by Francis Ford Coppola, and written by S.E. Hinton depicts the social rivalry between the high school cliques âGreasersâ and âSocs.â The Greasers are the lower class, the poor kids from the wrong side of town or mostly know by the designated delinquents. The Socs, short for Socialites, are the rich kids from the south side of...
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Charlotte BrontĂŤ and Daphne Du Maurier represent society and class systems within both Rebecca and Jane Eyre. BrontĂŤ gives us insight into a society overwhelmed by the patriarchal class structure and skillfully unravels the bildungsroman of Jane Eyre, who started as an orphan but quickly intermingled with stereotypical female roles within the 19th century. On the contrary, Du Maurier explores...
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âAll modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finnâ (Coveney, 2003, p.12). Transatlantic writer Samuel Clemens (1835-1910) gave the world The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in 1844. Growing up in Antebellum southern American society, with the backdrop of the Mississippi river in his boyhood provoked the settings for his novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer...
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The concept of âidentityâ is defined as who a person is, or the qualities of a person or group that make them different from others . Throughout his 1915 novella The Metamorphosis , relationship between the identity and the motivations of Kafkaâs characters plays a major role in the narrative. The Samsa familyâs attitudes towards work are arguably linked to...
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Oppression could be defined as âprolonged cruel or unjust treatment of authorityâ, thus is present in both George Orwellâs dystopian books âAnimal Farmâ and â1984â as such aspects of tyranny are integrated into the texts in order to create a perfect dystopian novel, introducing the reader into a world of repression and chaos. Orwell enhances the dystopias by presenting a...
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Hosseini and Achebe, authors of The Kite Runner and Things Fall Apart above all else, heavily focus their novel on âa bleak portrait of a changing worldâ. Both authors present the changing world through key events that are happening in world during the time the novels were set. During The Kite Runner the major events include the rise of the...
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A dramatic change in environment can have varying effects on its inhabitants, leading to a person performing actions that they normally would not. I will be investigating how the characters of the two novels âHeart of Darknessâ and âThe Roadâ behave in response to these changes, as well as how their very way of thinking is altered by their experiences....
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Charlotte BrontĂŤ created a piece of literary revolutionary work in a world where women were marginalised in a society dominated by men. Powerfully written, she commands a dominating, liberating womanâs voice and using it as her strength we can relate to Janeâs struggles and explore the twists and turns of her turbulent world. Sophie Franklin writes that the âWoman Questionâ...
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Defined as conflict between two or more opposing groups within a society in efforts to attain irreconcilable goals and prevent the advancement of an opponent, social conflict is a theme that is at the forefront of Chinua Achebeâs Things Fall Apart and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichieâs Half of a Yellow Sun, and their respective historical settings, with Things Fall Apart set...
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The Scarlett Letter is somewhat considered romance novel written in 1850 and set in Puritan Colonial America. Nathanial Hawthorne, its author, invites us on a journey that follows the life and death of Hester Prynne, a young woman left alone by her husband who has long been gone, and feared to have been killed by native Americans during war. She...
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Exploring Female Oppression in Patriarchal Societies There are evident intertextual links between BrontĂŤâs âJane Eyreâ and Du Maurierâs âRebeccaâ particularly in their presentation of female oppression within patriarchal societies. Both authors use first-person narration to convey internal conflict, and couple this with the external conflict explored through the themes of class and gender. Whilst Du Maurier uses the first-person narrative...
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Introduction William Faulkner's short story "A Rose for Emily" is a profound exploration of how the past inexorably shapes the present. In this narrative, the protagonist, Emily Grierson, becomes a living relic of the bygone era, embodying the conflict between the Old South's traditions and the encroaching modernity. Faulkner employs a non-linear chronology and a rich tapestry of symbols to...
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Although Achebe has made known his desire to counteract through his writing the negative image Africans have been given through works like Conradâs Heart of darkness and Cary's Mister Johnson, in Things Fall Apart he nevertheless presents both âpositive and negative aspects of traditional Igbo lifeâ rather than simply â idealizing and romanticizing the pastâ Substantiate . Chinua Achebe wrote...
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Whatâs the problem with conformity? Debasish Mridha once said, âA closed conforming society is a sick society waiting to die from stagnation and inner illness. Only openness is the treatment.â The novel Fahrenheit 451 has a main character named Montag who profession is a fireman. As a firefighter, Montag does not put out fires. Instead, he starts them in order...
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There are some differences that we can notice between the movies and book âLord of the Fliesâ. The reason that there are differences is because the book is written by William Goldingâs while the movie is made by Harry Hookâs so thatâs why we can recognize some differences , but that doesnât mean that we donât have similarities between those...
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In a vast majority of ancient Greek epics, males tend to be the heroes of the stories. The Iliad and the Odyssey are perfect examples of male characters being the main heroes in each respectable epic. In Homerâs, The Odyssey Odysseus is proclaimed to be the main hero of this epic. Though the Odyssey is centralized around Odysseusâs character and...
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In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee develops Atticus as a complicated character who refuses to abide to his society's norms. On one hand, portrayed as the valiant protector of Tom Robinson, his outstanding moral qualities set him far apart from others of his time. In contrast, he also distinguishes himself from others by his wishes of a...
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Mary Shelleyâs novel Frankenstein combines elements from Gothic literature and romanticism. Using the elements of fear, horror and gloom, Shelley combined these elements with the ideas of nature, beauty and emotions. Authors of this time created symbols of terror that were used during this period which included the wanderer, the vampire, and the seeker in their novels. Mary Shelly being...
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Again, Garcia Marquez employs realistic fiction as his journalistic style in order to produce a seemingly more authentic and credible work. In the Colombian culture, it is believed that of the virginity every woman is of utmost importance as such every woman should ensure that she keeps herself until marriage. Based upon a real life tragedy, the novel seeks to...
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To Kill a Mockingbird was written by Harper Lee in 1960. The book is talking about racism back in the 1900s. It revolves around a small family of three Atticus, finch, and his two children Scout and Jem. The main idea is about Atticus trying to defend Tom Robison during the trial because Tom Robison is being accused of raping...
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Within these two articles there are reasons why Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, an adventure novel by Mark Twain, should be allowed in classrooms along with why it shouldnât be allowed. This novel should be read in high schools for various reasons. The first reason being that this novel will open conversations about racism and help to slowly stop this issue....
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The author, Jane Austen adheres to the common convention of a moral or a lesson in her novel, Emma. There are several cases that Austen displays the moral lesson which are the negative effects of believing in our imagination and interest rather than looking at the reality or the facts of the situation. These cases include: Emma misinterpreting Mr.Eltonâs actions,...
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Two short stories âThe Lotteryâ by Shirley Jackson, and âHarrison Bergeronâ by Kurt Vonnegut, both share many similarities. The government has full control over society by having authoritarian practices and traditions. In âThe Lottery '' the short story begins with people gathering together at the town square for the annual lottery in their small village. At the start of the...
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The novel, Dracula, by Bram Stoker is an important piece of gothic literature written to reflect on societyâs views on female sexuality in the Victorian Era. Published in 1897, Stoker highlights the role of women in society as purely virgin and devoted to one man in their lives. The introduction of Dracula offsets the innocent side of women bringing forth...
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In criticizing the story using a formal approach, another reading of 'Emily Rose' was made. I started reading this article because I had already decided to use a formal approach. The story of 'Emily's Rose' is written in the first person or as a member of the community. The images Faulkner presents in this story run the former South Stadium....
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Jane Austen's narrative technique is a unique phenomenon. Her use of irony, along with realism and social commentary have earned her spot among critics and well known writers. Pride and Prejudice, first published in 1813, is one of the finest fictional creation of Georian era. Pride and Prejudice, is a novel of manners which includes sub genres such as satire,...
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While Wilde and Wells emphasize science as an underlying theme in their works, both authors use science to serve the bigger theme: gothic fiction, and to get the point across they use horror, suspense, and fear that is prevalent in the Victorian Age. In the Island of Dr.Moreau and in The Picture of Dorian Gray, both novels use different themes...
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Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre is considered complex. In her journey, the main character Jane Eyre comes across many women characters, which a significant number of them can be seen as doubles for her. Those women had the impact to make us realize things about Jane that she did not notice about herself. The most important two women are Bertha...
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