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English Language First Woman
1,347 words[... ] a Devil on't the Woman damns the Poet. -- Aphra Behn, Preface to The Lucky Chance Aphra Behn (1640 - 1689) was not the first woman writer; neither was she the only woman writer of her day. But Aphra Behn holds the singular distinction of being the first professional woman writer in the English language. That's right, ladies -- Aphra Behn was the first woman writer who did it for money. It was a natural choice for this young woman, a recent spy for the crown and a widow at the age of 26, t...
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J Hillis Miller Ideas But In Things Williams
1,042 wordsI am going to show the implications of Williams maxim by demonstrating the effects it has on his poetry, and most notably himself. First of all I would like to divert our attention to duality as a major theme, and affecting factor of such a maxim. For my introductory explanation I would like to consider the criticism of J. Hillis Miller. In his famous essay on William Carlos Williams in Poets of Reality (1966), J. Hillis Miller contends that the world of Williams is beyond dualism. According to ...
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Characters In The Book Cannery Row
593 wordsIn the book Cannery Row who is written by John Steinbeck we get a glimpse of a strange idler community by the California-coast and its working, shy, but happy inhabitants who we learn to know. In the book there are strange things happening, fighting's and funny expedition. Everything in Steinbeck's humanity and humor. John Steinbeck is an American writer who was awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in literature. His characters are often trapped in an unfair world, they remain sympathetic and heroic if ...
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Henry Viii Anne Boleyn
929 wordsBloody Bloody Mary &# 65279; Bloody Mary Mary I, Queen of England was a very prominent figure in European history. Her reign as queen was filled with many trials and tribulations that were not accepted by most of England. Many of Marys rash decisions were most likely do to her upbringing and her lack of will power. Whether it is being declared a bastard as a young child by her tyrannical father, Henry VIII, or her marriage to Phillip of Spain, Mary was easily influenced by others and it showed a...
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18 Th Century Order To Survive
798 wordsMoll Flanders is an excellent story about one womans evolution from a poor economic status to a, later, mid-class caste in life. Moll Flanders used her meticulous cunning in order to survive in the 18 th century. She started out with a tabula rasa, or clean slate, when she is born, but, eventually, she resorts to an immoral life in order to survive. When she learns that her husbands die very quickly, but give her money for having sex with them, she turns to a life of whoredom. This choice, howev...
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Second World War U S Army
1,149 wordsA cult classic, Catch- 22 is also considered a classic in American literature. It tells the story of Captain John Yossarian, bombardier in the U. S. Army Air Force in the Second World War. Yossarian sees himself as one powerless man in an overpoweringly insane situation. Heller himself was a bombardier for the U. S. Army in the Second World War, flying in combat over Italy. He flew 60 missions before he was discharged as a lieutenant at the end of the war. After the war, Heller took a job as a c...
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Nately Whore Nately Whore Kid Yossarian
706 wordsThe novel, Catch- 22, is a comedy about soldiers during World War II. However, this comic scenes and phrases are quite tragic when they are thought about, as most things related to war are, which makes this comedy completely absurd. The best way to represent this idea is through the characters in the book, specifically, Yossarian, Huple, and Nately? s whore? s kid sister and the events that occur with their thoughts and their actions. Clearly, the main character and one whose life is chiefly des...
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Nervous Breakdown Brother Allie
1,506 wordsCrit Scholar 4 - 28 - 00 English 2 Ms. Nessier, Period 4 Societies Influence Upon Humanity Rejection is the key to self-destruction. Rejection of an individual could possibly cause the mental deterioration (nervous breakdown) of that individual due to the repudiation of society. Ostracization is not always induced by the physical appearance of a person but is sometimes caused by a character flaw. In both J. D. Salinger s The Catcher in the Rye and E. L. Doctorow s Ragtime the main characters, Ho...
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Moll Flanders Jane Eyre
1,071 wordsSurprising Similarities And Striking Differences Essay, Research Surprising Similarities And Striking Differences Daniel Defoe wrote Moll Flanders in 1722, almost one hundred years before Charlotte Bronte finished Jane Eyre. Despite the difference in the times of writing, they bore apparent similarities. Nevertheless the writers adopted different techniques to portrait two heroines. The two novels were both growth novels, to a certain extent, which depicted the changes of the heroines as they gr...
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Act Iii Scene Cassio And Desdemona
1,449 wordsIf one reads Shakespeare's Othello, they can come to the conclusion that it might be one of the his most tragic plays ever written by Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet, is probably the most famous of his tragic plays, but Othello, has characteristics that, I think make it even more tragic then his other plays, and therefore for that reason, you can say that Othello is the most tragic hero. Othello is a noble man, one who has grace with the ladies but also possesses all the virtues of a military lead...
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Act 1 Scene Verbal Irony
595 wordsThe play Othello was written be William Shakespeare in the latter years of Shakespeare? s career. Shakespeare composed, revised, and acted in many theatrical performances throughout his life, he also owned the Globe theater where many of his works were performed. The work Othello was based on a story by Giraldi Cinthios, Tale of a Moor, which was a mellow drama about a moor and his doubts about his wife? s fidelity. In Shakespeare? s play the moor (Othello) is convinced by his jealous aid (Iago)...
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Frederick Henry Code Hero
903 wordsIn this novel A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, Hemingway brings about the evolution of Frederick Henry being converted into a code hero in realistic ways. Frederick Henry achieved the six code hero characteristics by the end of the novel with the help of Catherine, a code hero herself. All the characteristics seem to follow the path of a manly person who is continuously striving to live his / her life to the fullest. Throughout this novel, Frederick Henrys behavior matures to the code her...
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Possibility That A Brahman Meantime Dhowli Misrilal
1,095 wordsThe Forbidden Love Forbidden Love The short story Dhowli, is a tragic tale about a woman who puts her trust and faith into a love that is forbidden, and how she is ultimately betrayed by that love. The story demonstrates how some of the choices that she made, and her own selfish pride led to the injustices she received. Misrilal is a young Brahman who is captivated by a young Dusad widow. In the Indian culture, the Brahman caste is one of the highest castes, and the Dusad's are one of the lowest...
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J D Salinger Catcher In The Rye
1,158 wordsPost World War II America experienced an economic boom never before seen in the United States. Despite this prosperity, discontent and alienation were becoming a common experience for American youth. J. D. Salinger s The Catcher in the Rye portrays its protagonist, Holden Caulfield, as a disenfranchised youth who can no longer function in the world in which he resides. The novel became an instant success among young people. The Catcher in the Rye s portrayal of a society that had become a moral ...
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Main Theme P 101
642 wordsHysteria Many occasions of mass chaos and ultimate breakdown of society directly result from hysteria. Hysteria means total loss of control of what seems rational and righteous. If a community falls into such a state, the results can be devastating. The Puritan society possesses the perfect conditions for such an event. In Arthur Miller s play, The Crucible, hysteria plays a key role as the main theme. It portrays as the main theme because it often becomes the atmosphere of the play and the main...
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Caged Bird Sings Don T Worry
1,352 words1) Summary of Character Traits a) School smart (Maya is smart. When she moves to San Francisco from Stamps, Arkansas, she is skipped a grade. ) b) Caring sister (she always talks of her devotion to Baily) c) Determined (she wants to get a job with the streetcar company and she keeps bugging them until they finally give her a job) d) Proud (she lives with the junkyard kids instead of going back to her father? s; she slaps Dolores for calling her mother a whore) 2) Appearance a) African American, ...
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Portrayed As Whores Iago Told Othello
523 wordsMany years ago, women were used betrayed by their husbands or just men in general. They had no say so in anything. Whatever the men told them to do to do they did or they paid the consequences, in which they were bad. In the play The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, Shakespeare portrayed the women in a couple of different ways. Desdemona, Emilia, and Bianca were all portrayed as whores. Othello, Desdemona's husband of another race, didnt believe the fact that she didnt cheat on him with C...
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957 wordsThroughout Shakespeare? s Othello, the major theme of jealousy is apparent. According to Microsoft Bookshelf, jealousy, by definition, means? resentful or bitter in rivalry. ? The tragedy Othello focuses on the doom of Othello and the other major characters as a result of jealousy. The theme of jealousy is prominent throughout the play as it motivates the characters? actions. In Shakespeare? s Othello, jealousy is portrayed through the major characters of Iago and Othello. It utterly corrupts th...
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Beginning Of The Book Repeat The Past
1,364 wordsSarah Woodruff and Daisy Buchanan A Comparison In the two novels The French Lieutenant s Woman by Fowles, and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the authors give life to two women; Sarah in The French Lieutenant s Woman and Daisy in The Great Gatsby. These women live very different lives, but even though the differences in this case outnumber the similarities, the two ladies still have some common characteristics. Also, more importantly, they also have some similar functions in the novels....
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Holden Nervous Breakdown
1,410 wordsSocieties Influence Upon Humanity Rejection is the key to self-destruction. Rejection of an individual could possibly cause the mental deterioration (nervous breakdown) of that individual due to the repudiation of society. Ostracization is not always induced by the physical appearance of a person but is sometimes caused by a character flaw. In both J. D. Salinger? s The Catcher in the Rye and E. L. Doctorow? s Ragtime the main characters, Holden and Evelyn, feel rejected by society and in isolat...
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