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The Lottery is a fictional short story by Shirley Jackson about blindly following traditions set in a small village. Every year in June, the villagers prepare for the annual ritual, most of whom do not understand the purpose of the lottery. Who is Tessie in the Lottery? Tessie Hutchinson is the main character and like everyone else she follows the...
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The novel âThe Metamorphosis,â by Franz Kafka illustrates a young man named Gregor Samsa who transforms into a beetle. At the beginning of the story, Gregorâs life consists of his job as a salesman and helping his family to pay off their debt. Gregor wakes up in the morning, confused about his transformation into a bug. Due to his Metamorphosis,...
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Who is more powerful in regards to affecting you ââthe readerââ, Crooks or Curleyâs wife? Some say Curleyâs wife, others say Crooks. In the book Of Mice and Men Crooks is more powerful. The author Steinbeck created this character to show discrimination, to show who and what this character is and his lifestyle. In Of Mice and Men we are...
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In Shakespeareâs Othello the Desdemona, the wife of Othello, ranges from a mix of emotions starting with the opening of the play having her be filled with joy and happiness until the end where confusion and sadness are her final thoughts. From this wide array of her character's paths, each detail of the way she is thinking is clearly expressed...
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Stranger Things has become one of the most popular television shows on the planet with its mind-blowing science fiction-horror storyline. The plot of the show revolves around a young girl named Eleven (Milly Bobby Brown) who has supernatural abilities. At the beginning of the show, Eleven escapes from a laboratory where she was being studied and travels to a small...
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Initially Charlie was intellectually disabled. He was happy but always wanted to be smarter. Charlie Gordon changed in some aspect, but not as a person. Doctor Nemur had come up with the idea of performing a brain surgery on a patient to make them smarter, this was only after it was proved that it was successful on a small white...
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Of Mice and Men âwas published in 1937. At this time it was the beginning of the end of the age of modernism in literature. Modernism focuses more on the progression of characters rather than religious, political, and social views like Victorian literature did. However, Steinbeck is thought to have been influenced by sexism and racism that were both heavily...
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Who is Edgar Allen Poe? Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer and editor. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery. Poe made a short story called âThe Black Catâ. The short story shows us that Poe's unreliable narrator undergoes both physical and psychological transformations throughout the narrative. From the beginning, this...
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Penelope's Dual Role as Wife and Mother Homer's Odyssey is a story of the homecoming of Odysseus after the Trojan War. Odysseus left his wife, Penelope, and their young son, Telemachos, almost twenty years before the telling of this story to fight in the Trojan War. His absence places Penelope in a rather precarious position. Faced with many different circumstances,...
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In 2018, books that religion in them generated 593.7 million U.S. dollars in sales revenue. The text we will be analyzing is Flannery OâConnorâs âA Good Man is Hard to Find.â This takes place in the present day and the genre of the story is a short story. Some characters we will be analyzing is the grandmother and The Misfit...
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Robinson Crusoe prayed to God to help him survive his illness and he also repented to his sin because of his past doings; as he had quarreled with his family and pursuing his dreams. He regretted it because he was being put into danger and realized that if he obeys his parents in the first place, his life would not...
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Mary Maloney, a housewife in her sixth month of pregnancy, is waiting for her husband to return home. It is a Thursday night, and they usually eat out. Patrick announced to her that he is going to divorce Mary. The husband communicates that âitâs kind of a bad time,â promising to provide for her financially, but asks her not to...
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A novel in which I felt sorry for the main character is âThe Great Gatsbyâ by F Scott Fitzgerald. The novel depicts the story of a delusional, hopeless individual blinded by his dream, believing he can bridge the gap between the contrasting social classes in 1920s America, eventually leading to his demise. The author prompts the reader to feel compassion...
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Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind â (Axel shakar). You have fun as a child but adapt to the new world as an adult. In J.D Salingers â Catcher in the ryeâ adulthood, childhood and change all play a major Role in young 16 year old Holden Caulfieldâs life we will see how this...
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Introduction Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" stands as a seminal piece of 20th-century drama, often categorized within the "Theatre of the Absurd." The play's plot, seemingly simple in its structure, is a profound exploration of existentialist themes, where two protagonists, Vladimir and Estragon, wait for the mysterious Godot. This perpetual waiting sets the stage for a narrative that defies conventional...
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âYou never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in itâ (Lee 39). An individual once told me, I stopped explaining myself when I realized people only understand from their level of perception. In the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee it...
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The concept of the hero has evolved and is represented differently throughout literature. In the stories of Beowulf, the Lais of Marie de France, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the idea of the hero is present. However, each of these influential stories depicts different aspects of heroism, showing a variety of traits that define the hero in a...
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In Chaucer's time, society had certain expectations of a monk, doctor, and summoner. All of these characters are thought to be courteous, honest, and intelligent however Chaucer depicts his characters as greedy, dishonest, and inappropriate. Throughout the tales, Chaucer finds humor in the difference between the ideal and the real in the characters that populate The Canterbury Tales. Society views...
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Creative response: You are producing the film version of The Canterbury Tales. Choose five characters and cast them with real-life actors (living or dead). Explain why the actor fits the role. Two or three sentences should suffice. As the director of the film production of the Canterbury Tales, I would begin to carefully look through my auditioning actors and their...
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The ambiguous representation of female characters in Margaret Atwoodâs Oryx and Crake is unusual for Atwoodâs often acclaimed portrayal of authentic female relationships as the story features a male protagonist, the first whom Atwood has written which makes the novel provide only unreliable information on the female characters portrayed in the novel. Margaret Atwoodâs novel Oryx and Crake is the...
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Desire in both texts are found in most characters in both texts, particularly in the characters of Blanche and Ethan. Their desires can be seen as immoral in our times and in the context of the times the texts were written. Blanche desires her appearance to be youthful and beautiful, whilst Ethan desires Mattie who has youth and beauty. Blancher...
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Ethan Frome Edith Wharton 1911 Horror Fiction, Fantasy Characters: Mattie Silver: Protagonist. Mattie is Zeenaâs cousin who moves in with her and Ethan who she shortly thereafter falls in love with. 'Zeena' Frome: Protagonist. Zeena is Ethanâs wife and they live a struggling and sad life. Despite every vile action acted against her she becomes the bigger person and takes...
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How far would you go to make your dreams come true? Would you be willing to give up things you love and go through many hardships just to turn your dream into a reality? Even if the dream has a low chance of coming true and is an unrealistic goal, will you still stop at nothing to get it? Well...
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Individuality, as found in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, is defined as total character peculiar to and distinguishing an individual from others (âIndividualityâ), or simply put, someoneâs personality that sets them apart from everyone else. This trend of individuality seems to be the forefront of Lois Lowryâs novel The Giver. In The Giver, the young protagonist, Jonas (and everyone else) live in...
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Bakhtin's discussion of the chronotope is indeed useful in analysing any piece of literature. Every piece of literature has a setting in both place and time. The author could have written in a time and place separate to the time and place of the novel but what Bakhtin is concerned about is the time and place of the novel in...
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Weâve all done something insensitive to somebody, whether it was out of emotion, or because we didnât know any better. Throughout âTo Kill a Mockingbirdâ, the protagonist Scout Finch is portrayed as an immature, naive child. Because she has grown up with wealth, privilege, and a nonchalant father she doesnât learn empathy. Growing up in a small town in 1930âs...
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The kenning that I choose to use for this story is corpse-maker. This kenning is one of many of the names to describe a monster named Grendel in the story of Beowulf. For example, Grendel was basically similar to the devil himself. He is the embodiment of moral and physical evil. Grendel is an evil monster and everyone in the...
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What does happiness and suffering means to you? That is very board topic as everybody have their own perception towards it. Personally, humans must experience both happiness and suffering during its lifetime as it is a part and parcel of life. We cannot say that we are only seeking pleasant experience and feeling. Feeling of suffering helps to shape a...
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In this paper, I'm going to analyze one of the scenes in âThe Shawshank Redemptionâ, namely the scene (0:34:00 - 0:38:51) where Andy helps Hadley with his tax problem and gets beers in return from him. This scene is shot outdoors unlike the majority of the film, which is shot indoors and makes very good use of natural lighting for...
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Lord Farquaad is the main evil villain of the movie âShrekâ, and shortest one too. He is the ruler of Duloc - and a cruel one at that. At the beginning of the movie Farquaad banishes all of the fairytale creatures from his land (relocated to Shrekâs swamp), torturing others to give up the location of whatever creatures he hasn't...
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