Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy is about the titular character, Tess Durbeyfield, who goes on a journey to reclaim her family’s wealthy name. On this journey, she encounters a relative, Alec, who takes away her innocence, causing her to live with a secret that eventually causes her downfall. In closely examining this passage, it highlights the significance of...
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Introduction Tess of the D'Urbervilles is one of Thomas Hardy's best novels - perhaps it is his very best. The beautiful simplicity of his style when, as usual, he forgets he is writing, the permeating healthy sweetness of his description, the idyllic charm and yet the reality of his figures, his apple-sweet women, his old men, rich character as old...
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Throughout history leadership is perhaps one of the most widely conversed subjects. For good reason, the art of leadership has been synonymous with success. Gilgamesh, Odysseus, Alexander, Hannibal and Caesar. All these names fill ancient stories alongside dramatic heroics that have perhaps grown just a little embellished with time. Fictional or real, these stories are all about leaders. Heroics, leadership...
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In life we are never aware of the outcomes of our consequences, but when we face our consequences we feel remorse towards the ones we hurt. “Cell One” focuses on the out-of-control crime and the corrupt criminal system in Nigeria by telling the story of a boy’s stay in jail. When someone is taken into custody, things start to change...
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The Crying of Lot 49’s story-line is perhaps clearly explained by Randolph Driblette telling Oedipa, “You can put together clues, develop a thesis, or several… You could waste your life that way and never touch the truth” (56). The novel may seem frustrating to some readers, presumably undergraduate English majors, to search for meaning in Oedipa’s investigation into Tristero, involving...
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CNBC’s Shawn Carter states that “Less than 20% of Americans say they are living the American Dream”. The majority of people in the U.S. don’t feel that they are living their American Dream. Barbara Ehrenreich states in her article “Nickel and Dimed”: “I am terrified, at the beginning, of being unmasked for what I am: a middle-class journalist setting out...
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What lies within the depths of a minimum wage job? In this investigative journal, A Nickle and Dimed, our protagonist and author Barbara Ehrenreich explores the worst when it comes to low-wage jobs in America in the late 1900s and early 2000s. In the book she goes undercover through different jobs across the country and explains the complications as well...
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Noble savage refers to the group of uncivilized men and indigene outsiders who symbolize humanity without exposing themselves to the influences of corrupting civilization. John Dryden was the person to bring the phrase in English through his heroic play “The conquest of Granada”. It referred to “wild beast or wild man”. The phrase became renowned later for the idealized picture...
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Introduction The publication of "Sybil" in 1973 marked a pivotal moment in the understanding and popularization of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), previously known as Multiple Personality Disorder. Written by Flora Rheta Schreiber, the book narrates the real-life case of Shirley Ardell Mason, under the pseudonym Sybil, who was treated by psychiatrist Dr. Cornelia Wilbur. This sensational story captivated the public's...
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Key mortal female characters described in The Aeneid heavily influence his journey, and Goddesses who hold positions of power and influence within the world the poem is set in. Although it is common to have Goddesses play roles in such literature, Virgil’s makes the decision to divert from mortal female stereotypes and the expected roles of Roman women at the...
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When life gives you lemons, should make it into lemonade or throw them back to life instead? Interesting riddle, isn’t it? All through life, we face many situations which could lead to problems and we wish we had a guide book for life. And that’s where Sun Tzu comes into the picture. Who is he, you ask? Sun Tzu was...
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Latin texts have always touched on the topic of “afterlife” due to the close knitted relationship with God and Christian belief. The Underworld, Heaven and Hell have always been interpreted in different ways, each influenced by contextual ideologies or religious factors within those preceding times. One can determine the Divine Comedy’s significant societal expectations through close comparison between Virgil’s The...
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Quality poetry possesses an extensive ability to illuminate the complexities of human existence, through the representation of the flawed aspects evident within humanity. T.S Eliot's poetry is a powerful portrayal of the existential crisis faced by humanity in a post-war society, which leads to paralysis and confusion of individual thoughts and actions. Eliot’s fragmented imagery in both “The Lovesong of...
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The narrator has clearly seen many events and the story of each event is told throughout the novel. The story starts off bearing true faith that it is true, because she has either seen the events unfold or have been told firsthand by the involved characters. The way in which this novel is written gives a reader a more intimate...
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The book I chose is “The Canterville Ghost” written by famous English author Oscar Wilde. He was an Irish poet and playwright. It is a short story written in the form of novella about the mansion haunted by a ghost. Its genre is Gothic fiction. The title itself reveals that it is a scary ghost story. But when I read...
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Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko is commonly seen as narrative that reinforces the immorality of slavery practiced by the English. Following the story of the enslaved prince, this message of injustice is clear within the text, serving to mask a feminist agenda that is encrypted throughout the work. While the tale of Oroonoko serves as the forefront of the story, the novella...
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Dissociative Identity Disorder: it is defined as a dissociative disorder in which a person reports having more than one identity or alter. Those diagnosed report to have more than one identity or alter. Each alter presents with individual characteristics. Each alter presents at different times and is determined by the alter in charge. The primary alter may be unaware of...
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Literature is a reflection of society and writers test and investigate the beliefs of their time, highlighting their flaws in society. In Tess of the D’Urbervilles, published in 1891, Thomas Hardy challenges the superiority of men, present in the Victorian Era. Hardy presents the protagonist as weak and shows how her low social status and lack of voice allows dominant...
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Elizabethan literature covers the written works throughout the reign of Queen Elizabeth I from 1558 until her death in 1603 (The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica 1998). William Shakespeare published Hamlet in 1602, however, he likely wrote Hamlet in 1601 as Act II Scene 2 makes reference to an event in London that occurred that same year. In addition to drawing...
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The poetry of T. S. Eliot is memorable in nature as he is able to resonate with both his immediate context, and future contexts by formulating a detailed illustration of human life, presenting one’s modern-day turmoils within an atmosphere fueled by anxieties yet is futile. This modern era saw an age of heightened anxiety and the collapse of traditionalism. With...
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Through the Extension Two English course, I have produced a podcast - Fairytales: The Feminist Makeover - that explores the interplay between contexts, fairytales and female expectations. The concept of my podcast emerged through a process of independent investigation with my understanding of the concept developing deeply throughout. Although guided through the Preliminary Extension 1 and Advanced English courses, the...
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Violence is not used only to shock in either Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte or The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter. Both novels use violence to explore themes such as love and feminism. They also make the reader ask important questions and show that there are no easy moral answers. Violence is also an integral part of the gothic literature...
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Shirley Ardell Mason Shirley Ardell Mason also is known as (Sybil) was quietly living in Lexington Kentucky, and had run an art business out of her home in the 1970s. She later died on Feb 26, 1998, from breast cancer due to declining treatment. There was a movie based on Shirley Ardell Mason Life called “Sybil” which came out in...
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Gulliver’s Travels is a famous satire novel that was written in the 18th century by Johnathan Swift. Swift uses Gulliver to play a role that helps us understand the differences and similarities between the Lilliputians and the Brobdingnagians and their emperor and king respectively. This undermines the subculture of aristocratic England. The Lilliputians are very aggressive and violent little miniature...
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“Carter’s stories merely perpetuate presentations of helpless women rather than challenging them”. In the light of this comment, consider Carter’s presentation of women in at lease two of the stories. Stereotype fairy tales have reinforced the idea of “woman-needs-to-be-saved” with the dependence of women on men. Correspondingly, it has been conventional to associate women with pejorative connotations such as helplessness,...
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My chosen texts are Bernardine Evaristo’s 'The Emperor’s Babe' and Aphra Behn’s 'Oroonoko (The Royal Slave)'. Ultimately, the characters have no control at all, as they are figments of their author’s imaginations. However, upon closely examining the texts, the two characters which I will focus on have little to no agency and gradually lose all of their freedom, whereas most...
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For the second part of my Independent studies across the study weeks 11-17, I covered the option for Chapter six regarding ‘Topics covered in Gulliver’s Travels’. Further to this, I looked at two of the sub-headings ‘Swift, Gulliver’s Travels and travel writing’ also, ‘Swift, Gulliver’s Travels and colonial discourse’. From my cursory reading of Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, I found the...
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Autoethnography approaches research and writing to describe and analyze personal experiences to understand cultural experiences. This treats research as a political, socially just and conscious act. Autoethnography is made up of autobiographies and ethnographers, making it both a process and a product. Crisis of confidence introduced new opportunities to reform social science and reimagine objectives and forms of social science...
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“Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met- obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.” -John F. Kennedy. The historical non-fiction novel, Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot, by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard describes Kennedy’s journey as the 35th president of the United States. The novel specifically focused on the life...
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In the novel Passing by Nella Larsen the audience experiences what is called, the rites of passage. They have a sense that they are attempting to be something that they are not meant to be by constructing an illusion that they believe influence other people that they posses an identity. The Rites of Passage is what each adolescent goes through...
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