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Lear Madness
782 words
Of all Shakespeare's great tragic heroes, Lear is
perhaps the least typical. In the beginning of the
play Lear is already an old man; his best days
have passed, though doubtless there is still about
his person a certain regal carriage. Lear? s
petulant behavior betrays him, and soon, when he
engages his three daughters in the dreadful game
of flattery, wherein Goneril and Regan swear the
whole allegiance of their hearts to a father,
leaving nothing for a husband, it becomes clear
that Lear is so...
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Romeo And Juliet Fall In Love
714 words
The only theme that tragedy reveals is that the
noble and good must suffer. There is no lesson we
can draw from tragedy that will help us avoid the
fate of the protagonist. It is known that in
Shakespeare? s tragedies the main characters die
in the end. Romeo and Juliet being a tragedy, sets
up a situation where we know that Romeo and Juliet
are going to die in the end. There are many events
that lead to their deaths. The Capulets and
Montague's share the responsibility for the deaths
of Romeo a...
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Avenge His Fathers Death Lady Macbeth
1,494 words
Consider the role of female characters in
Shakespearean tragedy. With particular reference
to Hamlet. Are the actions of women central to the
downfall of the central protagonist? In
Elizabethan England women played a subordinate
role in society, economically and politically. As
a result, many literary works were reflective of
this diminutive role women encapsulated, in many
cases gaining little reference at all. In contrast
to this trend, Shakespeare's tragedies portrayed
the female characters a...
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Jeffrey Moore Weidenfeld Red Rose Chain One
1,098 words
Theyve started and Ill finish Red-Rose Chain
Jeffrey Moore Weidenfeld 038; Nicholson? 12.
99, pp 392 Gone Helena EchlinSecker 038;
Warburg? 10, pp 230 The Virgins Knotty Holly Payne
Orion? 12. 99, pp 303 This is my final monthly
round-up of first novels. My first selection two
years ago included Helen Dewitt's remarkably fresh
and original tale of an intellectual prodigy, The
Last Samurai; high points in between have been
Nuala OFaolains My Dream of You and Accidents in
the Home by Tessa H...
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Flannery O Connor Rises Must Converge
578 words
Flannery O Connor s use of the protagonist in the
three stories Everything That Rises Must Converge,
A Good Man is Hard to Find, and Revelation are all
expressed through characters that do not fit the
typical protagonist mold. As you will see the
three protagonists have many similarities. Mrs.
Turpin and Julian s mothers similarities are out
in the open and easy to recognize. On the other
hand the grandmother s similarities are more
subdued, but she does share them with the other
women. There ar...
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Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz Dream
804 words
A successful novelist integrates the element of
conflict into his story. Mordecai Richer? s The
Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz clearly depicts
the different forms of conflict a young man coming
of age in Montreal during the 1950? s would have
faced. Duddy Kravitz is ever battling with the
prejudice present in society, economic status, and
the many hindrances of family. Through out his
journey, Duddy Kravitz encounters great obstacles
of prejudice. One of his first dealings with this
phenomenon ...
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Catherine Barkley Italian Army
884 words
In many works, the conflict involved is an inner
conflict within the protagonist. Two external
forces pulling in opposite directions which the
protagonist must sort out and decide which is more
important to follow. This is especially evident in
the mind of Frederick Henry, from Ernest Hemingway
s A Farewell to Arms, for he must decide to follow
his obligations to the Italian army in World War
I, or follow his love for Catherine Barkley.
Frederick Henry is an American who serves as a
lieutenant i...
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20 Th Century 19 Th Century
1,476 words
9; Octavia Butler? s novel Kindred is
categorized as science fiction because of the
existence of time travel. However, the novel does
not center on the schematics of this type of
journey. Instead, the novel deals with the
relationships forged between a Los Angeles woman
from the 20 th century, and slaves from the 19 th
century. Therefore, the mechanism of time travel
allows the author a sort of freedom when writing
this " slavery narrative" apart from her
counterparts. Butler is abl...
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Make Their Rounds Long It Takes Johnny
653 words
Johnny Got His Gun was not what I expected it to
be. I thought it would be about the battles that
were fought throughout the war. Instead it was
about a man who had been severely injured by a
bomb. The entire story takes place with the
protagonist in a hospital bed. He remembers his
childhood and thinks about the war. He cannot see
or hear and has to rely on touch to know whats
going on around him. This setting was very
different from all the action I expected from a
war book. 9; I guess its ...
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Lady Of Shalott Center Of The Universe
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James Dickeys On the Hill Below the Lighthouse
best reminds me of the Lord Alfred Tennyson. Upon
first reading Dickeys poem, a deep yearning and
sentimental emotion is achieved. There is a great
sense of not regret but of something that the
narrator longs for. This can be seen in the last
stanza of the poem. Now that I can be sure of my
sleep; The moon is held strongly within it. A
woman comes true when I think her. Shade swings,
and she lies against me. Let us lie in the
returning light; Let us...
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Mc Murphy Cuckoos Nest
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One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest: Jesus Christ and
Mc Murphy Many protagonists are considered heroes,
ranging from Hamlet to Hercules. All of these
heroes also did something to earn the honoured
title. In todays society modern heroes have been
found, one of which is the traditional Western
hero. We also have a hero in Jesus Christ, saviour
to some, yet a hero no matter what religion those
who look upon him follow. In One Flew Over the
Cuckoos Nest Ken Kesey uses both of these heroes
of today, amal...
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Limited Omniscient Narrator Thoughts And Feelings
575 words
Writing Metamorphosis 2 Adam Sanderman Writing
About Point Of View The point of view that is used
in Franz Kafka's short story The Metamorphosis is
that of a Third Person narrator. The narrator of
the story is not a character who appears in the
story, but is a witness to all of the events. The
type of narration in The Metamorphosis changes
once in the story. At the beginning of the story,
the narrator is a subjective, limited omniscient
narrator. The narrator is able to display to the
reader all...
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Dedicates All Of His Time High School James
521 words
The Protagonist of a novel is the main character.
The Protagonist of, The Color of Water, is James
Mc Bride, also the author. He tells about his life
story and about how he had to deal with a hard
lifestyle growing up. He also tells the story from
his mother, who also talks in the book. This novel
is like a diary because James, in every chapter,
writes about a different account in his life, just
as one would write in their diary about what
happened in a day. James describes his life in
great det...
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J D Salinger Faith In God
1,416 words
The Color Purple By Alice Walker And Franny and
Zooey by J. D. Salinger Alice Walker and J. D
Salinger demonstrate how faith helps their main
characters to discover their true potential. Both
authors use their novels to show the readers how
faith, religion, and human interventions can
promote a positive and meditative change within a
person. In Alice Walkers novel The Color Purple,
protagonist, Celie, relies upon her faith in God
and her sister to give her strength in times of
hardship. This fai...
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Late Nineteenth Century Social And Economic
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That Zola s is not purely romantic as was Hugo s,
lies chiefly in the choice of milieu. These great
terrible dramas no longer happen among the
personnel of a feudal and Renaissance nobility,
those who are in the forefront of the marching
world, but among the lower almost the lowest
classes; those who are falling by the roadway.
This is not romanticism this drama of the people
working itself out in blood and ordure. It is not
realism. It is a school by itself, unique, somber,
powerful beyond word...
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Edgar Allen Poe Literary Techniques
1,313 words
Born in 1809, losing his parents and contact with
his siblings before the age of three, Edgar Allen
Poe had no idea that he was destined to be a great
writer. Before he mysteriously died in 1849, he
wrote many tales, including poems and short
stories, which immortalized his name. The Raven
was one of Poe's greatest poems that brought him
much fame. Poe's The Raven displays his poetical
prowess through the use of his method to writing,
diction and literary techniques. Like others held
in the spot...
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Artist As A Young Man Begins To Question
1,902 words
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man traces the
growth and development of Stephen Dedalus from
infancy to young manhood in Ireland at the end of
the nineteenth century, and his gradual decision
to cast off all his social, national, and
religious constraints and live a life devoted to
artistic pursuits. A Portrait of the Artist as a
Young Man is one of the earliest examples in
English literature of a novel that makes extensive
use of stream of consciousness, which is a
narrative technique throug...
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State Of Mind Sexual Desire
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Violence and sexuality are usually the theme for
action movies. In Hitchcock's Psycho, violence is
brought out as a substitute for sexuality. Norman
Bates uses violence to release his sexual
frustration. Two clues in the movie to support
such an idea are: taxidermy and the shower murder.
To most people, taxidermy is a hobby; in Norman s
case, stuffing birds can be viewed as a sign of
violence and sexuality. Hobbies are usually
regarded as innocent activities of casual
interest, designed to help ...
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Point Of View Defender Of The Faith
738 words
Reliability of a Narrator Stories are often told
by a narrator giving his / her point of view, by
using omniscient, limited omniscient, or first
person. The purpose of the narrator is to give
facts and details, being reliable or not. Three
stories we have read in class are The Body, by
Stephen King, Defender of the Faith, by Philip
Roth, and Everyday Use, by Alice Walker; which
give examples of a reliable narrator. Each
narrator was a reliable source of information, and
told his / her story well...
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Oedipus Complex Main Characters
423 words
According to me, the model of the classic cinema
is respected in the movie Strangers On a Train.
The movie starts on a train, where we are
introduced to the two main characters, having a
conversation. The subject of the conversation is
basically the most important part of the setup. By
listening to them, we could predict the direction
that the story was going towards. Throughout the
rest of the introduction, we are introduced to the
rest of the important characters. The first plot
point, as expe...
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