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London Oxford University Canterbury Tales
1,573 wordsChaucer's The Canterbury Tales, demonstrate many different attitudes and perceptions towards marriage. Some of these ideas are very traditional, such as that illustrated in the Franklins Tale. On the other hand, other tales present a liberal view, such as the marriages portrayed in the Millers and The Wife of Baths tales. While several of these tales are rather comical, they do indeed depict the attitudes towards marriage at that time in history. D. W. Robertson, Jr. calls marriage "the solution...
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1,066 words... d the inability of the upper classes to realize the problems they have caused. Similar symbolism is found in the conviction and lonely death of Fagin. Here the reader is reminded that the wealthy are only a trial away from ending up in the dirt themselves, and in fact are already dirty with guilt. Therefore, Fagin represents the unfeeling system that dances and jokes around the misery of others. He also represents the underworld itself. This is the opposite of power and the home of the under...
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4,218 words... t a step further and examine the message that is being projected rather than the emotions it creates it is possible to find a new method of maintaining reality. As John Jervis writes in Exploring the Modern: "The pleasure is in a vicarious sense of adventure, linked with a satisfaction gained through decoding, 'reading', the signs of the city. " He suggests we are to embrace the information we are presented with. To examine and appreciate its role in the reality in which we live; that ultima...
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2,151 wordsOliver Twist and the Dark Side of British History Progress can be compared to a coin. On one side of the coin is wealth, and on the other side of the same coin are poverty, despair, misery, and crime. As Gertrude Himmelfarb explains: The Victorians were avowedly, unashamed, incorrigibly moralists. They... engaged in philanthropic enterprises in part to satisfy their own moral needs. And they were moralists in behalf of the poor, whom they sought not only to assist materially but also to elevate ...
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London Oxford University Macbeth Macbeth
1,449 wordsPower, Authority and Corruption in Macbeth Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself [Leninthis, 271 ], this quotation applies to Shakespeare's Macbeth. In the play, Macbeth commits regicide; the most heinous of all crimes in Elizabethan times, in order to become king himself. However, during his rule, Macbeth demonstrates that he is incapable of mastering the power and qualities of being a king. His drive for power and maintaining his power is the source of his downfall. Macbet...
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