The work of Leo Tolstoy “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” portrays the rich society and their characteristics and through the characters, he represents these bad characteristics to show as the bourgeoisie lived completely different than the proletarian ’s life. The Ivan’s friends were members of the bourgeoisie, with this example we can understand as the superficial relationships of them work,...
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Introduction In "The Death of Ivan Ilyich," Leo Tolstoy presents a profound exploration of the cultural and social dilemmas confronting 19th-century Russian society. This novella, while being a poignant meditation on mortality, also serves as a critique of the superficial social structures and cultural norms of its time. Tolstoy's narrative delves into the existential crises provoked by a life lived...
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Abstract This is the author's perspective and mind about how women feel why they should approve a marriage just because of social or economic class problems, and about how women's rights are not free. The novel by Jane Austeen to be analyzed is titled 'EMMA'. The study was conducted by using theories and also historical and biographical approaches. Which will...
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“Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving,”(Dale Carnegie). The book To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee contains many strong and defining characters. One character who stands out from the rest is a lawyer who defends a black man accused of raping a white woman. This character goes...
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In “Medea” author Euripides depicts how alienation can fuel rage. In title character Medea’s place, she is left by her husband, Jason, for another woman and is soon to be exiled from her home. Both alienation and fear are ingrained into the daily lives of women in a patriarchal society. Today’s society reflects that of Medea’s world in ancient Greece...
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Women in society have always been seen as inferior to men. With that being said, there has always been a social construct that men have more power and responsibility than women. In Madame Bovary (1857) Gustave Flaubert manages to show how Emma is simultaneously the perfect woman and the nightmare woman of this period. Through her life, he attempts to...
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The omniscient narrator of Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle, starts off about a man named Diedrich Knickerbocker who finds particular interest in recounting the histories and rich anecdotes from Dutch descendants of New York. Knickerbocker focuses on the life of Rip Van Winkle, a resident from a small village in the Catskill mountains. Although he is an ancestor of many...
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By 2001, the United States held the record for the highest rates of obesity in the world. Studies show that obesity has gradually increased because of the mass consumption of fast food products. The people of the US are known to have a great passion for fast-food ***. Fast Food Nation depicts the horrors and detriments that come with indulging...
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In the search for truth different perspectives develop allowing for people to perceive things in a new light like never before. Personal justifications to each situation transform an objective approach to truth into a subjective one, and when truth is subjective it may also be deceptive. We all have our own truths, and when they encounter one another they create...
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In the article written by Catherine Lavender, a popular saying about women in the late 1800’s was “She does what she can, but she is conscious of her inferiority and therefore grateful for support” (Lavender 3). In “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspel was written in 1917 based in Dickson County, where the characters Mr. Hale, Mr. Peters,...
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The story of a soldier who devises and carries out an elaborate plan that will become his general’s undoing is one possible way of summarizing William Shakespeare’s “Othello”. Throughout the play, Iago moves the characters as though they were chess pieces - he utilizes their individual goals, and interests as a means of getting them to carry out his plan....
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Introduction to Atticus Finch's Parenting and Role Model Qualities Referring to the classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird, readers will see Atticus Finch as no ordinary man. He acts as not only a role model to his children Scout and Jem Finch but to the Maycomb community itself. He is shown as a good father and role model, many times...
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Humans are said to be born with a moral compass telling them what is wrong and right, if not soceity does a good job instilling their views of what is good or bad into people. In Othello, written by William Shakespear and performed by Mixed Magic Theatre, the character Iago seems to be easily placed in the group of a...
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“A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell and “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Gilman both have plots of very different natures. In “The Yellow Wallpaper”, a mentally disturbed woman is taken into an isolated house to recover. In “A Jury of Her Peers”, a woman is blamed for killing her husband. However, one common message that the stories share...
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When analysing Madam Bovary as a character, it is important investigate all facets. This will not only ensure a greater understanding of her actions, but will give a more informed decision for the extent to which Emma deserves sympathy. Gustave Flaubert uses Madame Bovary to express women's obsession with the bourgeois life in nineteenth-century France, as well as give insight...
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Nothing is the same, not even identical twins. Everyone should be individual and think for themselves, regardless of the outcome. In Fahrenheit 451, and “All Summer in a Day,” Ray Bradbury develops a strong perspective about human nature. Bradbury develops this perspective through figurative language and dialogue, which are intended to make the reader consider the harsh actions society takes...
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Apart from bringing the world an enviable amount of novels, theatrical plays, puritan and native literary pieces, 19th-century American literature has provided authors such as Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne. These masters of the macabre use similar characters, setting, and narration in their writing in order to build up a sense of impending doom. Even today numerous readers enjoy,...
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The most intriguing part of a Greek tragedy is the involvement of a tragic hero, which consistently draws in a greater group of spectators and excites their feelings. A tragic hero is an honorable or imperial character whose pain is brought about by his own misinterpretation, and his experience consistently makes the audience feel dread and sympathy. Medea is a...
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In Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, he illustrates the realistic struggle of a woman’s life in the mid-eighteen hundreds when Bourgeois women lived restricted lives. The heroine Emma Bovary rebels against the traditional behaviour of a woman, by portraying herself as the opposite. Through various masculine modes, specifically, her display of male fashion, Flaubert develops this concept. Her contrasting views of...
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The narrative Chronicle of a death foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez outlines the events surrounding Santiago Nasar’s murder. He is the man who allegedly took Angela Vicario’s virginity. Bayardo San, Angela’s husband to discover that she was not a virgin on their wedding night, and takes her back to her house. Disgusted by the shame brought into their family, Pablo...
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Villains in literature play an important role in plot development. While villains initiate actions, they simultaneously illuminate the good qualities of heroes in the play. William Shakespeare’s play Othello is no exception. In Othello, Iago is a complex character that plays a major role in determining the events and fate of several characters in the play. He manages to deceive...
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Through the utilization of the repetition of honour, the situational irony of love, and the stereotypes of gender roles in society—that men are dominant while women are seen as weak and submissive—Marquéz unveils the global issue of gender inequality and it’s correlation with honour in a society (the machismo and marianismo roles of men and women respectively and its connection...
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William Shakespeare is deemed to be the greatest dramatist of all time. As Ben Jonson, one of his closest friends once said, “Shakespeare is not of an age but for all time”. Many of his plays continue to be studied in our modern era and are a staple to any English curriculum. He has many famous plays that have been...
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Ray Bradbury wrote many short story’s, most of them take place in the future and have similar themes such as time travel or companionship. One of the themes that stood out the most is Technological innovation. “The Pedestrian”, “there will come soft rains” and “Harrison Bergeron” all relate to this theme. Technology can be good in some ways but it...
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Would you ever think that Southern Americans would write stories based on morality in the early 1900s? Probably not based on the fact that slavery was abolished only a few years earlier. Authors, William Faulkner and Flannery O’ Connor were far from exceptions to this. In the short story “Barn Burning” written in 1939, author William Faulkner shows that discerning...
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In the late 1700's and early 1800's, literature began to show it was changing thanks to the newly formed democracy in America. As is the case with any young government, many different people wanted to turn the country into their own and make sure that the country worked under their democratical ideals. Washington Irving, was a native New Yorker who...
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What would one do if they suddenly found themselves on a strange island inhabited by people six inches tall? Would one rule them, or simply submit to them? This is the exact situation that Lemuel Gulliver in the novel 'Gulliver's Travels' finds himself in. In part one of this novel, the difference between having physical power and moral power is...
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Gulliver’s Travels is a book written by Jonathan Swift with an intriguing plot filled with characters that complement one another. This novel begins with the main character, Lemuel Gulliver, being described as an English surgeon. After his business failed, he decides to travel the seas on a voyage. Lemuel’s first journey begins after his ship wrecks and he wakes up...
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Who is Atticus Finch? Atticus is one of if not the best man in Maycomb, he is also a lawyer and a father who acts in a very gentleman way even in the most nerve-wracking situations a person could be in. And in the types of situations that he finds himself in during the novel he really shows that he...
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Imagine living and surrounded by false people. Every word becomes nonsense and true identity is lost. All you witness is shallow people and their aspiration are petty and they only focus on their appearance. The thought of mortality never crosses their minds which blinds them to see that their lifestyle is false. So, that doesn’t seem like a good community...
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