Introduction Siddhartha Gautama, known as the Buddha, is a pivotal figure in world history, whose teachings form the foundation of Buddhism. His way of life offers profound insights into the quest for meaning and understanding in human existence. Born into a life of privilege in the 6th century BCE, Siddhartha's journey from a sheltered prince to an enlightened sage exemplifies...
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The House On Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros tells the story of Esperanza Cordero through beautiful vignettes and the narrator describing how her family first arrived on Mango Street. When the pipes in their previous apartment burst and the landlord refused to repair them, she , her parents, brothers Carlos and Kiki , and sister Nenny moved to Mango Street....
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The present excerpt is taken from the realistic novella “Daisy Miller” which belongs to the Genteel Tradition of the American Realism, written by Henry James. It was published in Cornhill Magazine in 1878 and in book form in 1879. The story is about an American young lady called Daisy Miller who traveled with her family to Europe. She has a...
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The Amphora with Zeus and Dionysus, as the title suggests, is an amphora, “a two-handled pot with a neck that is considerably narrower than the body,”[endnoteRef:1] that is suspected to have been produced by an artist known as the “Euphiletos Painter” in Athens (within the Attica region of Greece), somewhere between the years of 540 and 530 B.C.E.[endnoteRef:20283] Eventually, however,...
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Satire is a technique employed by writers to expose and criticize the foolishness and corruption of an individual or a society, by using humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule. A writer in a satire uses fictional characters, which stand for real people, to expose and condemn their corruption. A writer may point a satire toward a person, a country, or even...
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In what ways does John Steinbeck use the societal circumstances of ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ to convey the depths of human nature? Through “The Grapes of Wrath”, Steinbeck is able to illustrate two concepts in great detail. The first of those is opportunism and oppression, and how they coincide. As Steinbeck is able to successfully demonstrate the reactions that occur...
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A person can tell much about a society by what and how it eats. In Eric Schlosser, “Fast Food Nation,” it covers the impacts that fast food joints have had in America and other nations as well. After reading one might realize how much harm fast food has been to society. Schlosser highlights the changes American families have made in...
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In the words of Isaac Asimov, “Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world” (“Isaac Asimov Quote”, n.d.). Engineers have been world changers, by trade, throughout history. Contributions from the field of engineering have shaped the modern landscape, and have continuously improved the quality of life for humans on earth. Today, an engineer...
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Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe considers the general effect of post-colonization which is based on a critical study of the cultural legacy of colonialism and imperialism, focusing on the human consequences of the control and exploitations of colonized people, and their lands. Therefore, from a post-colonial perspective, the value of identity and ownership tend to rely on the opinion and viewpoint...
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Garcia Marquez heavily critiques the idea of “progress” in Latin America during the 20th Century in One Hundred Years of Solitude by showing the misfortune and pain that this so called “progress” brings, throughout the novel there was a cycle of taking one step forward and two steps back. He illustrates this through the story of Macondo, a utopia-like village...
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Daoud's hero has a manifest horror of the absurd; he wants to replace a narrative that relates the absurdity of the human condition with a meta-report that revolts against this absurdity. However, as Sartre says: 'The stranger is a leaf of his life. And since the most absurd life must be the most sterile life, his novel wants to be...
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Chapter 1 Encompassing Time-Space Relations In literature, the temporal and spatial parameters of human time journey pass by past their acquainted dualism and are merged into space-time, inherent in every and each and each narrative work. Time and vicinity are integral to literary realism insofar as they aid the novelist to create a sense of genuine cause-and-effect and, especially, a...
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In a world where racism inevitably exists, Brent Staples is one who personally shares his firsthand experiences with issues of racial inequality and unjust treatment in his remarkable essay “Black Men and Public Space”. As an African American man with a BA from Widener University and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago (139), people disregard his multiple qualities of...
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Criticism Of the Novel Whereas A Farewell to Arms describes Hemingway hero’s sense of alienation with his illusion of becoming the saviour of mankind and his acute consciousness of death, the central concern of The Sun Also Rises is the hero’s subsequent struggle to get over the depression of his alienation and learn to live in a world that “kills...
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In Daniel Keyes’ novel Flowers for Algernon, Charlie, a 32-year-old intellectually disabled man, undergoes a newly researched surgical procedure that turns him into a genius. Being intellectually disabled means having severe limitations when it comes to mental and cognitive capabilities. Many with this disability have an incredibly troublesome time adjusting to life, and generally, have IQs equal to or less...
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Absurd drama is a play that takes the shape of man's response to a world clearly without meaning or man as a puppet. It tells the response of people without goal and direction. A form of drama that emphasizes the absurdity of human presence by employing disconnected, monotonous, and meaningless dialogue, purposeless and befuddling circumstances, and plots that need reasonable...
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This paper claim that man’s comprehension of human condition as it emerged in the most outrageous and harshest of conditions will even find meaning in life. The researcher will support his claim by presenting that what lie beyond any man’s condition is a meaning that only he himself can comprehend and appreciate and not any other, even in the harshest...
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People are no strangers to the concept of family, what it means to play a role in a household in order to paint a portrait of normalcy for society. Yet, since the introduction of Charles Addam’s the Addam’s Family (1938), a family who delights in the macabre and are arguably unaware or do not care, that other people find them...
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The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd is about a young girl named Lily. Lily is a fourteen-year-old white girl with a scarring past. After accidentally killing her mom. And having an abusive dad she decides to try for a new beginning. Lily runs away and finds a new home at the Boatright sisters house. As she struggles...
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Guy de Maupassant's most well-known literary work is the short story 'The Necklace.' This classic de Maupassant story is set in nineteenth-century France and is known for its unexpected ending. The plot centers on a young woman and her husband, who enjoyed a normal middle-class existence before becoming completely deprived due to an unfortunate tragedy. This is an irony of...
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Death has always been a part of life but is a mystery nobody experiences to tell. In Hamlet, Shakespeare uses loss as a theme, which permeates throughout the play. There are several ways this theme develops throughout, from where the ghost introduces the idea of death and its consequences, to Hamlet’s preoccupation of death, to the idea of suicide. To...
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Ellison’s Journey through life trying to figure out who he was as a person is incorporated into his writing by revealing the adventure in life of becoming an individual that one would be proud of and realizing that the world is not perfect and will never be completely fair for everyone in it. In Ralph Ellison’s novels he communicates the...
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In the third chapter, the quest for identity in the Black Boy is examined. The work is the autobiography of Richard Wright’s own life in the South during his childhood and youth. It is a true document of race relations in America. Although an autobiography it is highly personalized, the author’s eyes and ears and emotions were vibrantly sensitive, so...
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Only the Small Things are ever said. The Big Things lurk unsaid inside. The god of small things is an extremely touching rendering of the interpersonal complexities of the members of one family. It plays a game of cat-and-mouse with the boundaries of social and cultural dichotomy, contrasting it with the passionate yearnings of the human conscience. In the desolate...
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Imagine living in a perfect world, where no tragedies exist and everyone gets along. Such as no war, violence, and poverty. Which The Giver community makes sure of. A perfect place with a perfect government who takes care of its people and maintains order. This is a utopian society. In the giver, there are various chapters that make us believe...
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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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These literary elements contribute to the Coming of Age theme because it will promote the central idea of the specifically chosen passage that will unify the terms of these literary elements and the Coming of Age theme. The irony is utilized by the author throughout the course of the novel, people of Maycomb County perceived Boo Radley as a violent,...
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Introduction to Pecola's World The Bluest Eye begins with a brief story about Dick and Jane. The story repeated three times to make sure the readers aware that the line of the story will be the heading of every chapter. The Bluest Eye presents Claudia MacTeer is the narrator of the story. She and her sister, Frieda MacTeer, are lived...
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Razor A short story written by Vladimir Nabakov tells the story of an exiled Russian that comes into contact with their former torturer. It was written in 1926. Paragraph one (Ivanov analysis) Ivanov, an exiled Russian, and former Berlin-based military officer took up a job as a barber; a fitting role, Nabokov says, as Ivanov's sharp facial appearance gained him...
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Pride and Prejudice- a 19th-century novel Pride and Prejudice (1813) by Jane Austen is set in 19th-century England which was a period of transition in Western Europe. Austen's novels are domestic fiction as they largely show the daily life of her characters during the Regency period. The Bennets, around whom the novel revolves, belong to an educated upper-middle-class family, much...
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