Character traits are all aspects of an individualâs behaviour that reflects their personality and how they handle circumstances in life. Mother Teresa is a concrete example of how her positive attributes helped her to handle life situations. She was a woman admired for her unselfishness, bravery, generosity and her hard work. Likewise, this is also the case with Saul. In...
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For a long time, the colonial discourses have Africa and African humans very badly; they justify their colonial mission by way of portraying a faux image of African people. Postcolonial writers such as Chinua Achebe produced an anti-colonial discourse to withstand these colonial stereotyped pics and to show that Africans are equal to different nations and have a wealthy subculture...
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âA Clockwork Orangeâ is written by Anthony Burgess, and published in 1962. The protagonist is a fifteen-year-old young man called Alex, whose main interests are ultraviolence and classical music. He spends days sleeping and nights abusing, raping, and robbing along with his three 'droogs'. The four of them form a gang of which Alex is the leader. In the violence,...
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Introduction In Katherine Paterson's novel, "Lyddie," the protagonist, Lyddie Worthen, faces a pivotal decision when she is presented with an opportunity to sign a petition for better working conditions in the factory. This essay explores the conflicting factors that surround Lyddie's decision and analyzes the significance of her choice within the broader context of the novel. By delving into the...
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Introduction Katherine Paterson's novel 'Lyddie' takes readers on a compelling journey through the life of a young girl facing numerous challenges in 19th-century America. Set against the backdrop of the Industrial Revolution, the story explores themes of resilience, empowerment, and the pursuit of dreams. Through the character of Lyddie, Paterson showcases the strength and determination of a young woman striving...
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The graphic novel 'Snowpiercer', created by Jacques Lob and illustrated by Jean-Marc Rochette is a clear depiction of the three major classes of Marxist criticism: the aristocracy, the bourgeoisie, and the proletariat. To begin with, in the novel, the Snowpiercer is a train consisting of one thousand and one carriages which are divided into classes. The closer a carriage is...
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The graphic novel âSnowpiercerâ, written by Jacques Lob and illustrated by Jean-Marc Rochette, is most closely represented by Marxist criticism. Marxist literary criticism is a loose term describing literary criticism based on socialist and dialectic theories. âSnowpiercerâ represents the three-class in Marxist criticism: the aristocracy, the bourgeoisie, and the proletariat. The aristocracy can be best represented by the lieutenant in...
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Literature from Marxist point of view is a reflection of the human existence in such a society which is divided into different classes on the basis of economic conditions. This paper aims to explore various aspects of exploitation, systems of domination, oppression and socioeconomic conflicts that arise in the novel âMoth Smokeâ by Mohsin Hamid. The novel weaves a complex...
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In the novel Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, Kathy was a young lady living a secret life. Everything she did seemed to be private but everyone around her seemed to be just like her. Many times in novels the cultural, physical, and geographical surroundings shape a character. Ishiguro uses Kathy Ěs journey and realizations to show how one's...
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Suzanne Collins`s The Hunger Games trilogy, a dystopian story set in post-apocalyptic North America - now Panem, has been heralded as one of the greatest Young Adult book series, losing only to Harry Potter in NPR`s poll of the one hundred best teen novels. The Hunger Games is largely a tale of conflict, exploitation, and rebellion, with political and economic...
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Tess of the DâUrbervilles by Thomas Hardy is about the titular character, Tess Durbeyfield, who goes on a journey to reclaim her familyâs 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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Bohemian Rhapsody, a song, made by the band, Queen, is an old British hit song from the 1970s. This song has been largely been known as just another popular song from that era, until someone started to look closely at the lyrics. The lyrics show the constant thought of âfantasyâ and ârealityâ. This of course is some of the main...
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In combining realistic and imaginative elements to tell a moving and dreamlike story, The Scarlet Letter is an example of the romance genre. In fact, the novel`s original title was The Scarlet Letter: A Romance. While today we think of romances as love stories, and The Scarlet Letter does contain love scenes between its two protagonists, the term romance as...
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John Steinbeckâs The Grapes of Wrath (1939) is a novel that explores and highlights the modern gender roles of his generation, it is also one which portrays Steinbeck's modernized ideology towards the traditional patriarchal system during a time of great change. The proletarian novelist displayed his ability to perfectly portray the hardships faced during his experience of The Great Depression,...
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In Daniel Keyesâ 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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Truman Capote is one of the most famous and controversial writers in contemporary American literature. He was a flamboyant character, cultivating eccentricity and a certain taste for scandal, as you can guess from this self-portrait: 'I am a alcoholic. I am a drug addict. I am a homosexual. I am a genius.â In turn adulated and criticized, he was one...
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Harry Potter is a character in the series of fantasy fiction novels written by J.K. Rowling. It is one of the most famous stories in the world and almost all people seem to know about it. There are seven series of the novels, which are Harry Potter and the Sorcererâs Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter...
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âPurple Hibiscusâ falls under multiple genres like Bildungsroman and Romance that we see though Kambiliâs character but is also a Novel and Domestic Fiction piece. The genres establish many themes and Adichie challenges readers to not just to think about violence, but about religious hypocrisy, family, and politics. The novel is broken up into four parts but does not follow...
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In the world of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury the government is in complete control over information and news. Books have been banned and firemen once used to protect the public by putting out fires now serve to censure the information by burning books. Instead of water meant to put out fire and to save people. The firemen now possess...
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Disloyalty and Redemption Disloyalty, which can be viewed as a type of wrongdoing, is suffering and winds up being repetitive in The Kite Runner. For the greater part of the novel, Amir endeavors to manage his blame by maintaining a strategic distance from it. In any case, doing this plainly does nothing toward making up for himself, and along these...
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In the 1930s during the height of the Great Depression, mental disabilities were seen as a burden on an already struggling society. This was during a time when America did not have the time or resources to commit to people who were not deemed fit, and as such were treated less than human. John Steinbeck portrays this very well in...
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Ray Bradbury uses a lot of futuristic things in the story but there is a possibility that he really did tell the future in his book. Fahrenheit 451 Ray BradBury Ray Bradbury told the future in his Fahrenheit 451. The wall-sized TVs, the green bullet, the censored doors, The suicid rate, communication, and how people avoid the unhappy things to...
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Since 1951, The Catcher In the Rye, is written through J.D. Salinger has been off and at the chopping block. Although the radical has been the purpose of grievance, it has additionally been the problem of different sorts of characters. The novel suggests the life of sixteen three hundred and sixty five days vintage, Holden Caufield. Currently in psychiatric care,...
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The story 'Fahrenheit 451' is set at a time where the whole population is controlled by the government, and this society has a law that says books are treated as being illegal to have. The main character of the story, Guy Montag is a fireman in charge of burning any book that is found at the locations he is sent...
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Although the term âfeministâ has only recently come in to use, universally, Jane Eyre, by Charlotte BrontĂŤ, has been acknowledged as a âfeminist novelâ since published. The character of Jane Eyre is looked up to by many, due to her strong nature and ability to bounce back from the mental and physical abuse afflicted by her aunt and teacher from...
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Ray Bradbury once said, âThere are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading themâ. This relates to his novel Fahrenheit 451 because people in the society portrayed in the novel do not read books causing the society great unpleasantness and misery. No other style of fiction encompasses the qualities of dystopian literature better than Ray Bradburyâs...
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Having just read Fahrenheit 451 in my Language and Literature class, there is quite a lot on my mind regarding the novel. There are many concepts and ideas that Bradbury mentions and references throughout the three different sections, such as the main message, which is to value the power of thought and knowledge. Bradbury also places quite a lot of...
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The Kite Runner is a first-person narration with everything presented in the text coming from a character's point of view. This novel structure has a strong influence on how the reader views the characters. For example, using a narrative structure the reader understands why a character behaves in a certain way and is also able to empathise with them. The...
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In the novel âThe Giverâ by Lois Lowry, the main protagonist is faced with an important decision when he learns of the true meaning of âReleaseâ. He (Jonas) lives in a âCommunityâ where a decision had previously been made to create a âutopianâ (perfect) society by eliminating all things that were considered potentially dangerous. In doing so, the Elders removed...
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In The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne tells the story of an affair between Hester Prynne and Rev. -Arthur Dimmesdale two members of the Puritan community of Massachusetts Bay Colony during the 1640s. When Roger Chillingworth, Hester's long-lost husband, arrives in the colony and discovers the affair, he is consumed by a desire for revenge. For Hawthorne, revenge is an all consuming...
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