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Romeo and Juliet are the main protagonists of William Shakespeare’s romantic tragedy. Romeo, a descendant of Lord and Lady Montague, falls in love and secretly marries a young girl called Juliet, a descendant of Lord and Lady Capulet, whom of which happen to be the rival family. Romeo is a well-respected young man in Verona. At the start of the...
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Carol Ann Duffy analyses society’s attitude to women in ‘The Diet’ and throughout Feminine Gospels, connecting it to other poems in the collection. The poet explores themes through an extended metaphor of society’s pressures and the effects it has on women such as isolation, loss of identity and loss of control. A variety of literary techniques are used to convey...
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English has changed a lot on the course of history due to its heavy-borrower nature and if one could go back and travel in time to see the changes that the language has undergone, he would be surprised and maybe not even find similarity between those English’s. Change has happened due to different factors like time itself, literature, history, tradition...
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Dante’s The Divine Comedy is a narrative poem that depicts the realms of the afterlife. It is comprised of three parts with Inferno(hell) being the first. Dante's Inferno is based upon the idea of mortality and divine justice. In this part, he creates his own hell made up of nine different levels, each for various types of sins. He places...
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The theme of good versus evil within the novel, Salem’s Lot by Stephen King, seemed straightforward at first. Indeed, the vampires are a clear manifestation of evil, that big, bad, devil worshipping, drink your blood kind of evil. However, it becomes apparent that many people within the town itself are evil as well. This blurs the lines between good and...
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Introduction "In The Wild," a non-fiction narrative by Jon Krakauer, explores the life and journey of Christopher McCandless, a young man who abandons societal norms to seek a more meaningful existence in the Alaskan wilderness. This essay evaluates whether McCandless can be considered rational in his decisions and actions throughout the narrative. By examining his motivations, the risks he undertook,...
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Modern poets have pushed past societal norms, and have given themselves the platform to conquer and challenge topics and issues in regards to racism, class division and sexuality. Two poets who have interrogated traditional concepts of gender, include Sylvia Plath and Carol Ann Duffy. Their questioning of female/male relationships, and the misogyny involved challenges society’s patriarch structure, and showcase the...
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Both the ‘Captain of the 1964 Top of the Form Team’ and ‘Stafford Afternoons’ written by Carol Ann Duffy explore their respective characters’ past written in said characters’ perspectives. In the Captain of the 1964 Top of the Form Team, Duffy impersonates someone who’s life peaked in the past which makes him insecure of his current situation and longs to...
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“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of good fortune, must be in want of a wife” (Austen). In the society of Austen’s time, marriage was one of the most common ways to increase one’s social status. Social status was based on one’s family background, reputation and wealth. Marriage was very crucial for women, for...
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About author and his early life Americans have given the world great people among every field of life. If we look at the history of America we see that there are great novel writers, story writers, poets, actors, sportsmen or politicians. One of these great men was William Faulkner. William Cuthbert Faulkner was born on American soil on 25th September;...
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Ray Bradbury is known for changing the way people viewed American literature and social issues with the way he wrote about the future, leaving readers with apprehension, yet he is scared of technology himself; he often questions the identity of his characters with the way they desire to change the past, which is why many consider him an celebrated author....
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Jane Austen is a female author from the Georgian era, spanning from 1714 to 1837. In my independent study novel, Pride and Prejudice, she is known for her social commentary that bridges the gap between romance and realism. Born in Steventon, Hampshire, England, on December 16, 1775. Born to Cassandra and George Austen, she was the seventh child of eight....
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In this short essay, I will discuss the topic of marriage as an economic factor in the early nineteenth century based on Jane Austen´s novel “Sense and Sensibility”, which consists of a complex debate and terms like morality, economics, aesthetics, and psychology. The novel Sense and Sensibility was published in 1811 after Jane Austen did her first draft in writing...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Chris McCandless was stuck in the wild. No food, no water, no compass. He was all alone. What if this was you? What if you were in this situation? In the book, Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer, this is that crazy situation. Chris McCandless was deep in the Alaskan wilderness and struggled to survive. He used his instincts and...
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American novelist and mountaineer, Jon Krakauer, in his book, Into The Wild, describes the life and death of Christopher McCandless. Krakauer’s purpose is to explain the exact details of McCandless’s final expedition. Krakauer adopts a sympathetic tone to convey to his readers that Chris is extremely gifted and did not die out of stupidity. Krakauer persuades the reader to develop...
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I, William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer born in 1897 and died in 1962. During my life I achieved many awards including the Nobel prize in 1949 and published many of my books during the 1920s through 30s. I am known for my short stories, but I also wrote essays, poetry, and even a play. was born in New...
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Diedrich Knickerbocker was an increasingly prepared man of respect who lived in New York City, New York. He was perceived for being worried about the reason and culture of the Dutch colonizers in this state. The state, where the record of Rip Van Winkle began. He lived horrendously in a little out of date town that may have the principal...
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In America we have values, a person’s principles or standards of belief or what a person finds important in life. Throughout history, we have acquired values that are still present to this day. In A Narrative of the Captivity, Rowlandson loses her child and has to continue working to be able to survive. During that time period, work was not...
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Science fiction is a genre particularly created to present thought-provoking and unbelievable ideas to the reader. Composers in this genre use multiple codes to give readers a sense of curiosity about the world. Ray Bradbury has described the overarching idea of humanity's relationship with technology in his texts the pedestrian and there will come soft rains. Within these short stories,...
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Jane Austen’s last novel was quite a different take on the romance genre during her time. It was expected of Austen’s art of writing to direct her irony in her novels about expectations in women, aristocracy, and social customs. Austen herself was a keen observer of the economics of her class and herself of the landed gentry but mostly from...
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