Abstract There is a gap of over ninety years between the advent of T. S. Eliot as a major poet and the literature of our own time. An approach to Eliot at the end of twentieth Century might lead one to believe that Eliot is now out dated, that he belongs to the twenties and that the intellectual, emotional and...
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Key Facts about: Full Title: The Chosen Author: Chaim Potok When Written: from 1960 to 1967 in Philadelphia, Israel, and Brooklyn Where Written: The United States of America When Published: in 1967 Genre: a coming-of-age novel Setting, time, and place: June 1944, Williamsburg, a part of Brooklyn. Point of View: The story is told from Reuven Malter's point of view...
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The Waste Land is a poem of breakdowns, psychological breakdowns of marriages and relationships, breakdowns of poetry and language and evidently the entire world. The carnage of the first World War had laid waste to Europe and made a mockery of civilisation thus starting the evolution of modernism and new forms of expression. After the war, it was T.S Eliot...
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In today’s world, although significant strides have been made towards the pursuit of gender equality, women continue to face discrimination in the workplace, at home and in society. In works such as “This is a photograph of me” by Margaret Atwood, the speaker is wistful and has made herself unimportant even in her death. In “Spelling” by Margaret Atwood, the...
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Life does not come easily; everyone must sacrifice something. While some people sacrifice the bare minimum, other will sacrifice everything. These sacrifices are what truly define their character and moral values. Those who sacrifice the most are the ones that display these traits boldly and with the most passion. In “The Minister’s Black Veil” Nathaniel Hawthorne uses the sacrifices Mr....
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A Woman’s Place The human history with strewn with events that glorified men while women were pushed aside. In the historical context, whether it about wars or people, the vast majority was a platform for posing men as figures of worship and women as accessories for men’s decoration. History has been written by men for men. The last five to...
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Abstract Living among the Whites has caused many problems for the Blacks throughout the history. African Americans, who are African in their roots and American in their life, as opposite races, are segregated from the White's societies due to their colored skin. They are considered as uncivilized and lowbrow people who do not have equal rights to the Whites. Thus,...
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Many characters are often shown in literature being restricted and constrained by the traditions and cultures enforced by their society. This is true of Edna in The Awakening by Kate Chopin and Ramatoulaye in So Long A Letter by Mariama Bâ. The Awakening, a novel first published in 1899, is set in New Orleans and on the Gulf Coast at...
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People will do anything even if it means losing their innocence. The author of Lord of the Flies, William Golding, fought in World War II, which suggests he knows what people are truly capable of, hence the reason he wrote Lord of the Flies. The novel is allegorical, which means the diagnosis of fictional figures and actions about human existence....
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“Maybe there is a beast….maybe it’s only us” (Golding 89). William Golding, the author of Lord of the Flies, lived through the two World Wars. During these wars, he witnessed the horrors and evils of our society: the numerous casualties, the Holocaust, and other tragic events. He even participated in one, World War II. It is clear that these events...
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Introduction Short stories offer a unique lens through which readers can explore complex human experiences and emotions within a compact framework. Renowned for their brevity and depth, stories such as "Araby" by James Joyce, "Bellflower" by Guy de Maupassant, and "The Bet" by Anton Chekhov delve into themes of desire, disillusionment, and moral introspection. These narratives not only entertain but...
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A few years before joining the Church of England, T.S Eliot published The Waste Land. During this time, he contemplated on the idea of joining the church as a way of salvation. His ideas of rebirth and salvation, at this time, resonate through the poem’s lines. The Waste Land, as a whole, is not considered a religious poem; however there...
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“Aww romance” is what many people accept as true with after they hear American romanticism. People don’t understand the genuine evil at the back of such deep dark tales and what would a few call disturbing. They don’t recognize that American romanticism is simply supposed for authors that speak approximately instinct over the reality, and these authors generally tend to...
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Many social inequalities persist whether it be manifested through culture, sexuality, finance, or race. In many of these instances, there is a group that has an advantage. Pizan wrote The Book of the City of Ladies as an attempt to enlighten readers and free readers as well as herself from the bondage of sexual prejudices held against women. The main...
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Biologists, geneticists, and physical anthropologists, among others, reached a common understanding that race is not a scientific concept rooted in aperient biological differences. However, race is still commonly and popularly defined in terms of biological traits, such as differences in skin color, hair texture, and other physical attributes, often are perceived as expressions of differences in intelligence, temperament, physical prowess,...
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Texts and Human Experiences Textual mechanisms are utilised by composers in attempt to mimic the social conformities which not only impede the individual’s strive for happiness but also the quintessential behaviourisms of that person through the manifestation of their own personal experiences, as a reflection of not only their contexts, but the inconsistencies, paradoxes and anomalies of individuals or the...
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Introduction The rumbling tension between South Korea and Japan ever since the colonial period (when Korea was under Japanese rule from 1910 through 1945) has recently manifested itself. The tension escalated on July 4th of 2019 when Japan implemented heavy barriers and regulations on the export of three chemical materials – fluorinated polyamides, photoresists, and hydrogen fluoride - to South...
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T.S. Eliot, in his The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, takes the reader through the perils of life as a middle-aged man in modern society. His poem takes the form of a story, a narrative, with a character delivering a strong sense of voice and mood throughout the poem, moving away from the use of a strict rhyme scheme...
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Every day, people go home to relax. A home is considered to be a safe space for everyone. However, it may not be safe for some individuals. For example, some neighbourhoods and communities might be dangerous and there might be crime. However, there could be a lack of safety in places people expect to be safe, such as neighbourhoods with...
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There are 34 cantos with about 140 verses each. Look at a matrix that mixes the organization of hell, as classes and as subclasses of sins. The Divine Comedy is Dante's greatest work. This work waswritten in 1310 and was completed shortly before Dante's death in 1321. The work is a narrative poem fully planned within symmetry and algebraic logic.The...
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Senegalese teacher and writer, whose epistolary novel Une si longue lettre (1980, So Long a Letter) is considered the classical statement of the female condition in Africa. The book won the first Noma Award for Publishing in Africa at the 1980 Frankfurt Book fair, and made Bâ at her 50s world famous. Central themes in the novel are male-female relations...
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Unifying the Races - Assimilation Versus Segregation When the Thirteenth Amendment was signed and officially ended slavery, one would think that this would begin the steady reunifying of the union. However, after the slaves were free, American entered a state of living that would continue to divide the people of this country. This state of living was segregation; it caused...
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“Too much knockin' will ruin any 'oman. He done beat huh 'nough tuh kill three women, let 'lone change they looks,” says Elijah Mosley one of the characters discussing how Sykes Jones treats his wife Delia Jones in Zora Neale Hurston’s short story, Sweat. He uses this comment to express the extent of Sykes’ abuse and Delia’s resilience. Elijah says...
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In life there's always gonna be a good versus evil. There's going to be times where you are going to be a good person and you are gonna be fighting the bad in your life. Also in life you are gonna be the bad person where you are gonna fight off the good. In the short story Sweat by Hurston...
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While the basic perception of the use of gardens is to sustain human needs, gardens symbolize life and how it can be created by simply placing a tiny seed into the earth and properly caring for it. In The Poisonwood Bible, Nathan’s garden illustrates his ignorance of Congolese customs while the plants in the garden that refuse to bear fruit...
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Could it be that the problem has been wrongly perceived? The combination of many countries have shown that extremist groups are no match for the various countries. Many countries are striving for more of a modernized society and this contributes to societal values of the country. This will take a long time, but is already taking away from the extremists...
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Explain the “world is flat” argument (Friedman) and “the world is spiky” argument? Which one do you believe better explains the impact of globalization and technology on inequality and opportunities for workers? Why? Friedman argues that the world is flat for a few reasons. One of his reasons being that with technology growing as rapidly as it has over the...
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'Sweat' written by Zora Neale Hurston bears an undertone of bondage and slavery against the black. In this story, Delia, who is a middle-aged black woman who washes clothes for the white people to take care of her husband Sykes, who abuses her mentally and physically. Sykes is unemployed, and therefore, he depends on Delia's provision, yet he cheats; he...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne’s, “The Minister’s Black Veil”, was written in 1832 and tells the tale of a puritan minister ultimately given up things that mean a lot to him, so he would not have to sacrifice what he believes in. The parable shows that people do not always see through the same lens as another. The veil is used to symbolize...
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The concept of respect, particularly how it is earned, given, or withheld, forms a fundamental aspect of human interaction and social dynamics in literature. Through careful examination of Raymond Carver's "Cathedral" and Alice Walker's "Everyday Use," we discover how respect manifests through character interactions and evolves as perspectives shift. These stories, though distinct in their settings and contexts, share compelling...
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