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The Diary of Anne Frank: Book Review

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‘The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition’ is a book that was written by Anne Frank. She was a Jewish teenage girl who was living in a very difficult time in which Jews were victims of the Nazi laws and persecution during World War II. She received the diary as a birthday present. She wrote on it the...

Beowulf and His Challenges: Character Analysis

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Whoever you are or wherever in life you live, everybody faces hardship. The question is how people answer. Beowulf faces the same problem as we are today, which challenges his character in different forms. Beowulf's story has three main opponents: Grendel, his mother, and lastly the dragon. It is the hardships of life that Grendel, the mother of Grendel, and...

Audience Influence Tools in 'Brave New World' and 'V for Vendetta'

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Narratives can be used as powerful tools to encourage an audience to question the cultural beliefs and practices of their world and to inspire action among them. Aldous Huxley’s speculative fiction ‘Brave New World’ (1932) and James McTeigue’s film ‘V for Vendetta’ (2006) use the dystopic conventions present in their context to comment on the negative concerns of society which...

Analysis Satan's Character in John Milton's 'Paradise Lost'

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Every epic poem depicts a shattered historic civilization and its surviving virtues through the narration's main characters. The dynamic political and social events that inspired Milton's ‘Paradise Lost’ also apply to those conventions found in epics like Homer's ‘Iliad’. Thematic affinities between the central acts of ‘Paradise Lost’ and Homer's ‘Iliad’ were noted by Milton himself, who followed Homer's ‘Iliad’...

Personal Development and Surroundings in Butler's Kindred

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The surroundings of an individual strongly have a large contributing factor in how a person will turn out, while others believe it predestines a person to conduct oneself a certain way. Written by Octavia E. Butler, ‘Kindred’, takes place in 1815, Antebellum South and in 1976, Los Angeles, California. The protagonist is a young African-American woman writer, Dana Franklin, who...

Abigail as the Villain in Arthur Miller's 'The Crucible'

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In the play ‘The Crucible’ by Arthur Miller, Abigail Williams is a pivotal character and has a very simple role. Abigail is a villain in the story as she when she uses manipulation to fulfill her sexual desire and wanting for power. But it is also understandable to an extent why she is acting this way. Specifically mentioning that she...

Marxian Comparative Analysis of 'V for Vendetta' and 'Animal Farm'

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‘Animal Farm’ and ‘V for Vendetta’ both explore the ways propaganda, totalitarianism and excessive power impact on a tyrannized society. Both works demonstrate and emphasize the ease with which certain factors and tools are used to gain power, and how corruption will inevitably follow on. Situated within an authoritative government, leadership is gained and enforced in both Orwell’s allegorical novel...

The Swimmer': Man’s Attempt at Avoiding the Inevitable

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Time moves, whether it’s slowly or fast. There are people who embrace time and there are others who try running from it. Those people who do attempt to escape it try many different ways to accomplish, either by delusions or Botox. These attempts, however, will forever end in defeat. In the story titled ‘The Swimmer’ by John Cheever, the audience...

The Outsiders': Book Review

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‘The Outsiders’ is a book by S. E. Hinton which was made published on April 24, 1967, and the setting in the book is in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This book is about a 14-year-old boy named Ponyboy Curtis and his two brothers, Soda and Darry. They are orphans who are struggling at the low class of the community. There are also...

Night': Decisions That Affected Elie's Life

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Elie Wiesel is a Jewish-American author, professor, and activist best known for his book ‘Night’. ‘Night’ is a book that describes what was going on with Elie in the Holocaust. Elie made many decisions that negatively and positively affected his life. The decisions that impacted Elie’s life were that he had to lie about his age, decide if he wanted...

Night' by Elie Wiesel: Essay

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“I turned into A-7713. From that point on, I had no other name”. Elie Wiesel's ‘Night’ is about a youthful Jewish kid and his encounters through the Holocaust in the 1940's. He is isolated from his mom and his sister, also is extradited to Auschwitz, one of Hitler's most discouraging inhumane imprisonments. Wiesel utilizes night as the title as well...

Who Moved my Cheese: Summary Essay

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Summary Dr. Spencer Johnson's book 'Who Moved My Cheese' is frequently suggested to help people and businesses accept and embrace change. Cheese has been defined by the author as any relationship, love, career, money, happiness, reputation, achievements, or anything else that a person desires in life. Maze, on the other hand, is the world in which we humans live. Sniff,...

Symbolism in Story Animal Farm

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George Orwell uses a range of language features such as metaphor, characterisation and symbolism to convey his personal view of people involved within the Russian revolution, through his story known as Animal Farm. Animal Farm is a short story about animals who run a farm and the eventual downfall of its perfection. Though being a fairly simple short story, it...

The Symbolism of the Glass Castle

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Introduction The Glass Castle, as depicted in Jeannette Walls' memoir, serves as a multifaceted symbol encapsulating hope, illusion, and the dichotomy between dreams and reality. At its core, the Glass Castle represents the aspirations of the Walls family, particularly those of Rex Walls, the patriarch. The castle is an architectural fantasy, a vision of grandeur and success that stands in...

Glass Castle Analysis

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Often people struggle most of their lives, get nowhere, Jeannette Walls showed otherwise by becoming a successful woman in the city of New York. Jeannette Walls grew up just about everywhere, from one end of the country to the other. She constantly lived in a car with her parents as a child even if they stayed in a certain place...

Forgiving the Contradictory Behavior of Rex Walls in The Glass Castle

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Bad parenting occurs when the guardian of a child does not act out their duties and responsibilities when raising that child. There are many reasons why a parent is considered bad. Bad parents abstain from affection from their child, lack support in their child, take up excessive or extreme discipline, or are unwilling to provide any necessary resources for their...

The Physical and Psychological Impact of Misogyny in The Handmaid’s Tale

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Organizations like MeToo and TimesUp have recently become important movements that shed light on sexism and misogyny. In October 2017, the hashtag #MeToo stood out in the news universally, inspiring women from around the world to openly share their experiences with sexual harassment or assault. The movement gained momentum after sexual assault charges were alleged against movie producer Harvey Weinstein....

Thematic Depth and Societal Reflections in The Handmaid's Tale

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Introduction Margaret Atwood's seminal work, The Handmaid's Tale, published in 1985, remains a pivotal piece of dystopian literature that continues to resonate with contemporary audiences. Set in the fictional Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian regime that supplants the United States, the narrative explores themes of power, control, and gender oppression. Through the protagonist, Offred, Atwood crafts a chilling portrayal of...

Symbolism in 'The Book Thief'

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Crossword Puzzles Every Thursday, when Leisel collects and delivers mama’s washing and ironing, she looks for newspapers with crosswords to bring home for Max. Every week she looks forward to finding a newspaper with an empty crossword to give to him. They sit together in the basement while Liesel reads and Max does the crosswords. The narrator, death, explains, “Where...

Sex in the Handmaid's Tale

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The handmaid's story is an oppressed world that expands upon the tragic symbolism of women's activist writings from 1970s. Atwood's epic was written in direct response to the developing political intensity of the American strict right during the 1980s. It anticipates a bad dream future wherein conservative strict radicals have set up control of the administration of what was previously...

Queerness in The Monk and The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Looking up the word ‘queer’ in the English dictionary one will find multiple definitions and meanings for the word. The most common one is probably ‘queer(adjective) for something odd, strange, unusable or even slightly ill’. However, words and their meanings change over time and in the late nineteenth century ‘queer’ got a new definition. It was used as an epithet...

Literary Criticism of 'Robinson Crusoe'

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Protestant work ethic is a sociological concept developed by Max Weber in 1904-05. He looked at economic developments in regions of Europe and concluded that it was the result of religious belief that led them to success or failure. He suggested that Protestantism promoted a way of life and a daily code of conduct that pushed it ahead of Catholic...

Literary Criticism of 'Catch 22'

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The moment we laugh at something for the first time is the moment we change its truth value, undermining its solemnity, its accuracy, its authority, and become free to discard it. This is the effect Joseph Heller and Stanley Kubrick intended to evoke in their respective satires. Heller and Kubrick’s protagonists live in a world where individuals are subjected to...

Harry Potter Book Reports

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Inclination to obey changes as soon as Harry receives a letter formally addressed to him. He has finally been singled out as an individual, and he becomes determined to learn the letter's contents and its sender's identity even if he disobeys his uncle. This new tendency to defy authority intensifies with Hagrid’s arrival. The knowledge Hagrid gives him about himself...

Handmaid's Tale Research

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A Feminist Modernist Dystopia Feminism began in the mid 1960's as the First Wave of Feminism hit. It is the idea that women should be capable of doing and should be allowed to do anything men can do. Feminists believe that neither sex is naturally superior and stand behind the idea that women are inherently just as powerful and scholarly...

Main Character Comparison in The Namesake: Frustration vs Hybridity

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This study tries to examine the two main characters of the novel The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri including Ashima and Gogol; in order to do that, the researcher uses the ideas of postcolonial theorist Homi Bhabha, especially the concept of hybridity. The study tries to see the way the two main characters see and experience the world as to representative...

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