T.S. Eliot, in his notes on The Waste Land, mentions that “Tiresias…is yet the most important personage in the poem, uniting all the rest” (Eliot 70). Essentialy, all the characters in his poem, all the sexes, merge into the figure of Tiresias; he is the “substance of the poem” (70). Eliot uses two apparent methods of connecting characters to Tiresias...
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Ovid Growing up Ovid, full name Publius Ovidius Naso, was a poet born on March 20th in 43 BC; the year after the assassination of Julius Caesar. He was born in a small town called Sulmo, located East of Rome. He was born to a rather wealthy and established family and as a young man moved to Rome for his...
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The Life of Ovid Publius Ovidius Naso, Ovid, was a Roman writer who held and still holds a very large influence on many aspects of Roman literature. Ovid was born on March 20, 43 BCE in Sulma, a city that is about 90 miles outside of Rome. As a writer, Ovid worked on and wrote so many influential pieces of...
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By writing Mansfield park to be a real-life foil to Elizabeth Inchbald’s interpretation of August Von Kotzebue’s Lovers’ Vows, Jane Austen re-inverts Kotzebue’s subversive moral standard and creates a work positing equal moral conscience. Austen’s resulting text is a novel that, although separate in its stories and characters, also upholds distinct parallels to “Lover’s Vows” in the structure and situations...
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Up until about year ago, I really felt like I needed some sort of permission to read poetry and its bizarre because I never felt the same way when it came to reading books. Books just felt like a ‘free-range forest’ that I could wonder in at any time… camp out… have some fun… go home… keep camping whatever! However,...
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The Nazi’s rule is taken into account to be the foremost oppressive and discriminative rule in present time. During this rule, which lasted until the period of the Second war, the Nazi engaged in widespread discrimination against European Jews. One of the Most known cam was Auschwitz concentration camp, where millions of Jewish prisoners were killed. Before being killed, the...
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Introduction Primo Levi, an Italian Jewish chemist and writer, stands as one of the most poignant voices recounting the atrocities of the Holocaust. His memoir, "Survival in Auschwitz," offers a harrowing account of his experiences in the Nazi concentration camp, providing a narrative that is as much a testament to human resilience as it is an indictment of human cruelty....
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Executive Summary This report focuses on the innovative approaches adopted by one of the largest eye care services in the world which ultimately defeated barriers of distance, poverty and ignorance to create a self-sustaining system. In order to achieve this, the report outlines its effective use of scientific management and McDonaldization in providing high quality care available to masses at...
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Many of us have at least once heard of an ancient legend. As kids, we have heard mention a few, and who doesn’t love a legend with a bit of mystery to it. There are some legends that date back as far as 800AD. The early creation of these legends is what makes it consequently difficult for one to trace,...
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Virgil’s Aeneid is one of the most renowned classical literature that exists. Moreover, Aeneid can be considered as a “literary epic” . While the ambition behind Aeneid is still being debated by scholars, one of the ideas behind this literary work is the “national greatness of Rome” . Just like Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Virgil’s Aeneid also contains a lot of aetiology...
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“Second attempt crossing”, “I Hear America singing”, “Harlem” A reader might come across many similarities when they read two or more poems at a time. So is the case in the analysis of the three poems “Second attemt crossing”, “I hear America singing” and “Harlem”. While all the three poems differ from each other the only similarity is that the...
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Virgil writes the Aeneid between the years 29-19 BCE. The Aeneid tells the legendary story of a man named Aeneas and how he found the city of Rome. Consisted of twelve books, the Aeneid is an epic poem. The Aeneid is considered one of the historically relevant works of Latin literature because it tells the story of the founding of...
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Many of Shakespeare’s sonnets revolve around two people’s relationship with each other. Shakespeare’s sonnets show the Victorian standards of true love. Although Sonnet 130 and Sonnet 138 both discuss love, they have different views of how true love is expressed. Sonnet 130 regards loving your partner despite their faults and being honest about the fact that they’re human. Sonnet 138...
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“Araby”, a short story apart of Joyce’s, Dubliners, is rich with culture and symbolism, dripped in a veiled jab at the drab culture of Ireland. The interaction of light and dark are mostly addressed in Araby to support the setting and narrator alike, helping to set the tone and give a realistic aspect to the story. The use of imagery...
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Originally published in 1988, The Alchemist was written by the world renown and best-selling author Paulo Coelho. Being an allegorical novel, the author writes a story about a young shepherd from Andalusia who is on a journey to the pyramids in Egypt. His goal is to acquire the treasure that he keeps having recurring dreams about. Throughout his journey, he...
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A Woman’s Place Women have experienced hardships since the beginning of time. Society has always placed certain standards upon women which, despite many attempts to remove them, will never go away. Many artists have found inspiration in such hardships and utilized them as their muse within their works. Writers, such as Mary Wollstonecraft and Jane Austen, often touched on the...
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Introduction This paper deals with the “Sonnet XXIX”, one of the 154 Sonnets the well-known English poet, playwright and actor William Shakespeare has written. The aim of my paper is to examine in how far this particular Shakespearean Sonnet fits into the pattern of a ‘typical’ Shakespearean Sonnet. “Shakespeare's sonnets are synonymous with courtly romance, but in fact many are...
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Emma: Jane Austen One of the novels that I have read and enjoyed in this module is Jane Austen’s, Emma. I found this novel quite confusing at first, as I was trying to discover if it was romance novel or not, which I am still unsure of. I found this to be a secular novel, through the author being concerned...
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The political representation in genre in both Keats' 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' and Rankine's Citizen collection are vastly different, with Rankine's poetry aiming to convey specific political messages to her readership on cultural issues such as sexism and racism. Keats' ode - and, indeed, the majority of his own poetry - is based on the Romantic poetic movement which...
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I'm not a big fan of poetry. I can enjoy reading poetry of Latvian writers from time to time and, but I’ve never been in to poetry. Of course, I have not read much poetry. But I got interested in Billy Collins poetry and in his style of writing. That’s why I chose to analyze exactly this poem. Moreover, I...
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The topic about death, fate, and destiny troubles the human heart and mind, and every human tend to ignore this discussion. While many people believe in life after death, most people choose to keep away from the talking about it because of fear of the mysterious afterlife. However, when people decided to discuss what they think about the fact that...
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Many of the criticisms of Chaucer’s Legends of Good Women stem from his style of writing – he presents himself as a reader and wonders if he should trust the authority of the text over his own experience. In the Prologue, The God of Love is presented as a literary critic who judges Chaucer’s previous work, condemns it, and assigns...
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Nandan is a legendary hero in Tamil literature, whose story is first mentioned in by one of the Saivite saints, Sundarar in the 8th century. His story has been sung by many poets down the ages. The slender skeletal story of Nandan is expanded and enhanced by Sekkizhar. According to the myth Nandan belongs to the lower caste of the...
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“My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country, and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis” James Joyce 1906. Joyce proves his point by making paralysis appear all throughout the novel by featuring a n inefficient government, corrupt church, emotionless people, and stagnant social life....
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Romanticism emerged in Europe towards the late 18th century, and is referred to as an “artistic, literary and intellectual movement”, that opposed many societal aspects such as family, government, and monarchical that were apparent during the Enlightenment period. This era created an atmosphere booming with ideas surrounding freedom, liberty and equality. However, these ideas appeared to be futile for women...
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Peter Singer in his paper Famine, Affluence and Mortality believe that people of higher wealth should be morally obligated to donate more to humanitarian causes than what is considered normal in western cultures. It’s Singers premice that if it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance we ought to...
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With Power Comes Responsibility In the greek mythology play, The Three Theban Plays, Sophocles entails the story of Antigone, a daughter who rebels against Creon and his rules of the city in order to bring justice and glory to her brother. But through this journey, King Creon’s character develops from a cold hearted figure of authority, to a humbled and...
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The legend of Robin Hood has been around for centuries. This story of an outlaw hero, a generous criminal, the “Prince of Thieves,” is a popular story that has been told in many different ways throughout generations. This legend does not tell the story of a common criminal. The courageous, selfless Robin Hood steals from the rich and gives to...
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During the Romantic Era nature was used as a model for writers to base their writings as well as their beliefs of off. Nature is described through their poetry as representing the best and properly ordered aspect of things. Also, nature is the representation of sincerity, equality and perfection. In nature everything that is alive has the same and equal...
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Characters as friends and guardians This section aims to discuss the use of characters introduced to children through book illustrations and how these can become much more than just a scribble on a page. An illustrated character has the capability to become a friend to a child just as much as any other human, as young children have an imaginative...
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