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Modern Critical Interpretations York Chelsea House Publishers
1,487 wordsAll My Sons, a play by Arthur Miller, tells predominantly of the story of the Keller's. This play takes place after World War II, in the year 1947. It is a drama of actions and consequences and morality. This theme of actions and consequences is shown after Joe Keller ships out defective engine parts, which ultimately ends in the death of many pilots including that of his own son, Larry Keller, who kills himself in shame of his father s actions. Joe Keller had two sons, Chris and Larry, who is d...
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Edgar Allan Poe Tales Of Ratiocination
1,098 words... is and the more out of the ordinary the case is, the more easily, ironically, the case can be solved by the key detective. The problem in "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" that has the police so stumped is simply how can a non rational, inhuman being break through the bounds of law, custom, and civilized order and commit such a gruesome and horrible atrocity on two well protected women. The police cannot bring themselves to conclude that a human could possibly do this. The house is built in su...
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Nineteen Eighty Four Modern Critical Views
1,655 words... loom 18). In contrast to the animals on Animal Farm, meetings are not held between the different social classes. The vast majority of the working class is not aware that they have political rights and only knows of the propaganda the government provides for them. The working class is allowed to live their own lives as long as they remain oblivious to the governments daily communications. By contrast, the Outer Party of Big Brothers administration is required to work hours on end. Winston Smi...
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Character Analysis Of Jay Gatsby And Nick Carraway
974 wordsA man is tested against nature and then tested again by how well he behaves in relation to other men, (46) Richard Lehan stated in The Great Gatsby: The Limits of Wonder. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald tested each of his characters by giving him or her a place in society and seeing how each one would react to his or her surroundings. East Egg and West Egg are the areas where the main characters in this novel lived and through stereotypes of Tom, Daisy, Gatsby and Nick, it is clear what...
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Jane Austen Pride Modern Critical Interpretations
1,680 words... zing the falsehood of personal power in the material world. The ability to do so is shown to be the ability to deviate. Authority is achieved by counteracting in revisions. In Austen's novels, characters who gain authority are able to modify themselves (Bloom 25 - 6). The title of a French translation of Sense and Sensibility sums up the novel's theme. The two ways of loving, although the contrast is wider than that. Austen provides closely paralleling experiences for her heroines. The Dashw...
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1,494 wordsGerard Manley Hopkins is a reflection of his time period because his work represents realism, his work was different from what was expected, and his work had to do with religion. Although Hopkins is considered as one of the great poets of the past, he was not that appreciated during his time period. The only reason that we have his work today is because his friends held on to his work after his death and decided to publish it for him in 1918. Hopkins age was defined by the change from romanticis...
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1,254 wordsRomeo and Juliet: Romeo A Tragic Hero Shakespeare is a well known author who wrote in the 1500 s. Many of his plays are classified as tragedies. According to the Oxford dictionary of current English, a tragedy is described as a serious disaster or a sad event. In Shakespeare plays, tragedy is identified as a story that ends unhappily due to the fall of the protagonist, which is the tragic hero. For a play to be a tragedy, there must be a tragic hero. In the play Romeo and Juliet, Romeo is the tr...
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2,212 wordsMrs. Brew 13 May 1996 Intelligent Design of the Universe The search for knowledge about the origin of humanity is as old as its inhabitants. Since the early 1800 s mankind has narrowed the debate to creation by a Supreme Being and the theory of evolution. Ever since then, science has been at odds against religion. Now it appears that science is returning to religion. Scientists are finding proof that the universe was created by a Supreme Being. The word evolution refers to the change of somethin...
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1,364 wordsMany of the critics who have critiqued Jonathan Swifts Gulliver's Travels have used the word extraneous more then once. Swift was viewed as an insane person who was a failure in life. But this is far from the truth. Swift wrote Gulliver's Travels, a book that has been assigned to students for years, and it is written from experience. Swifts experience with the Tories and their conflicts with the Whigs caused him to write books that mock religious beliefs, government, or people with views differi...
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1,111 wordsKatie Shannon 1 Mrs. Campbell English III Honors March 15, 2001 Communal Ties in the Bluest Eye In America, white culture dictates its cultural values to society and to the other cultures within it. In The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison illustrates the effect of racism on the development of a black girl, Pecola. Racism that goes beyond whites belittling blacks but the effect that the white culture has on blacks and their appreciation of their culture and each other. It is not only the whites that stu...
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1,244 wordsThe short story writer which I have chosen to research is Edgar Allen Poe. After reading one of his works in class, I realized that his mysterious style of writing greatly appealed to me. Although many critics have different views on Poe's writing style, I think that Harold Bloom summed it up best when he said, Poe has an uncanny talent for exposing our common nightmares and hysteria lurking beneath our carefully structured lives. (7) For me, this is done through his use of setting and narrative...
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2,135 wordsThe detective story is a tale that features a mystery and / or the commission of a crime, emphasizing the search for a solution. It distinguishes itself from other forms of fiction by the fact that it is a puzzle. The detective story did not just spring into being in its current form, but rather, evolved over time. The first true detective stories were written by Edgar Allan Poe. Many writers and critics have plainly stated that he is the inventor of detective fiction. Poe introduces one of the ...
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2,601 wordsNo Escape Tennessee Williams play The Glass Menagerie relives the horrors of the Great Depression and the effects it had on many peoples lives. The story is in many ways about the life of Tennessee Williams himself, as well as a play of fiction that he wrote. However, the story is based on Tennessee and his family's struggle to emotionally deal with the harsh realities that followed the crash of 1929 (807). He says in the beginning, I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion (695). Th...
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1,490 wordsFlannery O? Connor? A Good Man Is Hard To Find? A Southern American novelist and short story writer, Miss O? Connor? s career spanned the 1950 s and early? 60 s, a time when the South was dominated by Protestant Christians. O? Connor was born and raised Catholic. She was a fundamentalist and a Christian moralist whose powerful apocalyptic fiction is focused in the South. Flannery O? Connor was born March 25, 1925, in Savannah, Georgia. O? Connor grew up on a farm with her parents Regina and Edwa...
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Lady Brett Ashley Modern Critical Interpretations
3,329 wordsDavid A. Beuerman English 11 April 10, 1998 Hemingway's Depiction of a Man in The Sun Also Rises Common among many of Ernest Hemingway? s novels is the concept popularly known as the? Hemingway hero? , an ideal character readily accepted by American readers as a? man? s man? . In The Sun Also Rises, four different men are contrasted and compared in the world of the 1920 s as they engage in some form of relationship with Lady Brett Ashley, a near- nymphomaniac Englishwoman who indulges in her pas...
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1,637 wordsby Hemingways Themes Hemingway's Themes by Rachel Spring Hemingway's greatness is in his short stories, which rival any other master of the form (Bloom 1). The Old Man and the Sea is the most popular of his later works (1). The themes represented in this book are religion (Gurko 13 - 14), heroism (Brenner 31 - 32), and character symbolism (28). These themes combine to create a book that won Hemingway a Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and contributed to his Nobel Prize for literature in 1954 (3). Santiago...
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2,243 wordsThe search for knowledge about the origin of humanity is as old as its inhabitants. Since the early 1800 s mankind has narrowed the debate to creation by a Supreme Being and the theory of evolution. Ever since then, science has been at odds against religion. Now it appears that science is returning to religion. Scientists are finding proof that the universe was created by a Supreme Being. The word evolution refers to the change of something over a period of time (Websters 634). In biology, the t...
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2,192 wordsIntelligent Design of the Universe The search for knowledge about the origin of humanity is as old as its inhabitants. Since the early 1800 s mankind has narrowed the debate to creation by a Supreme Being and the theory of evolution. Ever since then, science has been at odds against religion. Now it appears that science is returning to religion. Scientists are finding proof that the universe was created by a Supreme Being. The word evolution refers to the change of something over a period of tim...
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2,620 wordsJonathan Swift Answering The Question Did His Jonathan Swift Answering The Question Did His Works Reflect The Time In Which He Lived Introduction Did Jonathan Swifts literary works reflect the life and times in which he lived? While researching for this paper I have read many criticisms, biographies and articles. In reading those I have come to the conclusion that his works clearly represented his life and times. I hope that by the end of this paper you agree. Biography Jonathan Swift was born o...
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1,577 wordsThe Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a novel about one mans disenchantment with the American dream. In the story we get a glimpse into the life of Jay Gatsby, a man who aspired to achieve a position among the American rich to win the heart of his true love, Daisy Fay. Gatsby's downfall was in the fact that he was unable to determine that concealed boundary between reality and illusion in his life. The Great Gatsby is a tightly structured, symbolically compressed novel whose predominant i...
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