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Roald Dahl Indirect Characterization
636 wordsCharacterization, a method that an author chooses to develop his / her character, is a very important element in a story. In Lamb to the Slaughter, Roald Dahl, effectively develops the protagonist both directly and indirectly; however, the use of indirect characterization is more dominant because it reveals her actions and how she deals with her conflict, her words, and creating a dynamic character with her words, and her personality. First, she seems like a typical house-wife longing for her hu...
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Complicated Realm Sexual Encounter
1,162 words'SOLDIER'S HOME': ANOTHER STORY OF A BROKEN HEART He knew he could never get through it all again. "I don't want to go through that hell again. " In the works of Ernest Hemingway, that which is excluded is often as significant as that which is included; a hint is often as important and thought-provoking as an explicit statement. This is why we read and reread him. "Soldier's Home " is a prime example of this art of echo and indirection. Harold Krebs, the protagonist of "Soldier's Home, " is a yo...
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Lord Of The Flies William Golding
1,061 wordsIn the Lord of the Flies, William Golding reveals, through the characters in his novel, the extent of evil in human nature and the complete dominance that magnificence has on this young society of innocent school boys. When an airplane full of english school boys crashes on a remote island, the boys are left alone with the absence of adult guidance and must find ways for survival. The setting seems to be a perfect backdrop for innocence and goodness to flourish. However, Golding opens the reader...
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Constraints Of Society Feminine Sexuality
1,194 words... ng her inner emotions. Calixta and Alce move to a window to watch the storm, and when lightning strikes nearby, Calixta staggers backward into Alce's arms, and for a moment he draws her "close and spasmodically to him" (p 210). Alce has apparently not, until this point, sensed the passion that Calixta feels: "The contact of her warm, palpitating body when he had unthinkingly drawn her into his arms had aroused all the old-time infatuation and desire for her flesh" (p 210). Chopin presents bo...
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Calixta And Alcee Feminine Sexuality
1,015 wordsIn Kate Chopin's short story The Storm, the narrative surrounds the brief extramarital affair of two individuals, Calixta and Alcee. The story does not seem to be as a condemnation of infidelity, but rather as an affirmation of human sexuality. The Storm may be interpreted as a specific affirmation of feminine sexuality and passion combined with a condemnation of its repression by the constraints of society. Even though the adultery considered a crime at that period of time, the storm allowed a ...
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Calixta And Alcee Yellow Wallpaper
581 wordsThe protagonists in The Yellow Wallpaper, The Storm, and Eveline all seem to have similarities in their character. They are all women that have lived in an era in which women are seen as nothing. This woman had no identity in this world because they were told what to do by men. Human nature is also another important element that these women have in common. Calixta from The Storm is a married woman with a family. She is living in a time period in which woman have no control in what goes on in the...
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Lost His Pants Dill And Jem Radely
541 wordsThe theme of these two chapters is that Dill, and Jem wanted to go to the Radely house to get a peep at Boo Radely through the blinds. Scout feels uneasy about it but despite Jem's wishes refuses to go home. He gets shot at with a gun while trying to escape. He lost his pants while escaping and when he went back to get them they where laid out on the fence like they where expecting Jem to come back. The next day every body was talking about it, they all thought Mr. Radely shot at a black man but...
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Make A Good Sci Fi
1,089 wordsSo, you just wrote your first science fiction novel. Your friend read it and told you that you were the next Ray Bradbury or Gene Roddenberry. Your fertile mind fantasizes your name up there on a Borders wall poster right next to images of Isaac Azimov and Jules Verne. Before going off the deep end and equating yourself with Hemingway and Steinbeck, give your ego a stiff reality check. Few of us mortals are literary Mozart's that can plop down in front of a computer screen and author a perfect m...
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J D Salinger Catcher In The Rye
909 wordsThere's far more to the censorship issue than a ban on sex and four-letter words. I sometimes think that those of us who need to be the most clearheaded about these matters are planting the very trees that obscure our view of the forest, " says Dorothy Briley. According to Briley, a vast amount more is needed than simply vulgar language and suggestive material to censor a novel. But this is the very reason why J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye is frequently being banned from high schools. ...
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Death Of A Salesman Minor Characters
575 wordsIn the play Death of a Salesman, the plot is affected by three minor characters: Ben, Charley and Howard. The minor characters help the story's protagonist, Willy, develop extensively throughout the course of the play; therefore, they are key elements in the advancing story line. This story line blends and contrasts Willy's closest companions, Ben and Charley. They represent two aspects of Willy's ideals. Howard, Willy's boss, functions in order to heighten the destruction of Willy's dream. The ...
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Catcher In The Rye Vs Don Quixote
1,004 wordsJ. D. Salingers The Catcher in the Rye can be compared to Cervantes Don Quixote. Both novels feature naive protagonists pining for an ideal world. In Salingers novel, Holden Caulfield is a sixteen year old who experiences challenging and questionable events in the mid-stage of his adolescence. Holden wants to protect the innocent children like the catcher in the rye from the immorality and corruptness of the phony adult world. In Cervantes work, Don Quixote is the idealistic protagonist who sets...
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Catcher In The Rye Romeo And Juliet
840 wordsSome may say that the main character of J. D. Salingers novel The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield, is merely the average teenager, although he seems to think about sex and women quite a lot for his age of sixteen. This point can be easily argued in many ways, one example being the time Holden called a perfect stranger, Faith Cavendish, to get together at an unruly time of night. Another example of the main characters perversion is when he hired a prostitute named Sunny, and never actually a...
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Heart Of Darkness Nineteenth Century
1,363 wordsThere have been many critics, predominantly China Achebe, that have cast a cloak of racism upon the back of Joseph Conrad. Those authors base these allegations upon the novel Heart of Darkness, calling it a vile and most ungodly novel that only seeks to set the black race as a footstool of the white race. However, one must realize that there is a much deeper meaning to the novel than that of blatant racism. It is, in fact, a connection with the past that shows both the mindset, as well as the ig...
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Male And Female Ancient Greek
773 wordsIn Euripides Medea, the protagonist abandoned the gender roles of ancient Greek society. Medea defied perceptions of gender by exhibiting both "male" and "female" tendencies. She was able to detach herself from her "womanly" emotions at times and perform acts that society did not see women capable of doing. However, Medea did not fully abandon her role as a woman and did express many female emotions throughout the play. In ancient Greek society, murder was not commonly associated with women. Thr...
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Tom Walker Dark Forest
1,329 wordsA theme that always has been popular, specially among young people, is terror or the horror stories, there are many books, movies, TV shows, comics, and so on, but the most expressive, and imaginative, is literature. Literature since a long time ago, has produced many kinds of horror stories, novels, tales, short stories, plays, even poems, all of them with very different themes such as vampires, ghosts, lep recons, evil and estrange creatures. A characteristics of this themes is the fight betwe...
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18 Th Century Gulliver Travels
1,277 wordsDuring the beginning of the 18 th century, satire grew; and the most famous writers who wrote satirically were Pope and Swift. This period, often called the "Age of Reason, " was highly influenced by a group of the elite of society, who called themselves the Augustans and were determined to live their lives according to "truth" and "reason. The satire of both Swift and Pope is animated by moral urgency and heightened by tragic sense of doom. Pope saw the issue as a struggle between Darkness and ...
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To The Lighthouse And Lady Oracle Gender Restraint
1,827 wordsTime and time again gender-conflict is brought to the attention of the public in various forms. In our time someone who wants to make a point about gender-conflict and the inequality that is present will be more likely to use television or song to reach their audience. This however is a fairly new technology. Books or some form of writing on the other hand have been around for thousands of years. Gender-conflict is nothing new. It is not as though one day it just came out of no where. It has bee...
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Completing The Quest Hidden Obstacles
767 wordsAn obstacle is an attachment that is a hindrance to a protagonist in any piece of literature. To overcome the hidden obstacles, one has to be focused, never losing sight of the objective or goal. In the novel Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, the protagonist, Marlow, encounters a number of obstacles that creates a temporary shield from the completion of his quest. Although creating transient setbacks, the breakdown of his steamer, being disliked by the company representatives, as well as the a...
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Empty Picture Frames Love Or Hatred Jerry
976 wordsTeacher: Bocsor Peter Introduction to Literature 2 Seminar 2003. 03. 22. Spring, Szeged, Hungary Tth Gabriella Imprisoned Souls The Zoo Story, by Edward Albee is a one-act play, with a simple plot, representing a deep, socio-philosophical question: the feeling of being isolated, and loneliness People in modern, post-industrialised society can often feel that they are unimportant, ignored and their life is not more than vegetation. Many times people can only see one way out of the prison of their...
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Suffering And Agony In Malgudi Is There Any
1,822 wordsSuffering and Agony in Malgudi: Is There Any? Suffering is the feeling of physical or mental pain or a state of acute pain. Agony is the intense feeling of suffering. Suffering and pain are, generally, used in the same sense; however, there is a difference between these two experiences. Suffering stands for mental experience, whereas pain is a physical experience which when acute can result in suffering. The word suffering may be related to the desires. Every man has certain desires. When he fai...
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