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The Count Of Monte Cristo
1,214 words... f literary work: Adventure / Drama The main point that Alexandre Dumas is presenting in this novel deals with judgement. Those who are good to others will be rewarded in the future. Those who are sinfull will be punished. The action in this novel takes place in Marseilles, Paris, France in the 1800 's. The era of the novel is set during the Napoleonic era. The cities in which this novel takes place in are, Marseilles, Paris, and Rome. Most of the scenes are in the cities but others take plac...
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Life And Death Mother Death
1,297 wordsAlbert Camus' The Stranger explores the causes for Monsieur Meursault's murderous act, portraying Meursault's increasing feelings of indifference toward life following his mother's death. Meursault becomes ignorant to social values and conventions, thinking they constrict him, for he veers toward the 'I don't disrupt what you " re doing, so don't disrupt what I'm doing' outlook. He is more interested in the simple, physical actions rather than emotional feelings because he finds routine and reli...
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Story Took Place Scarlet Pimpernel
1,084 wordsIn 1792, during the French Revolution, a figure named the Scarlet Pimpernel saved many aristocrats from the French. Using daring plots and disguises he escaped from the French and his archenemy, Chauvlin. The richest man in England, Sir Percy Blakenley was married to the most beautiful woman in France, Lady Marguerite Blakenley. Sir Percy was an important character in The Scarlet Pimpernel. The story took place in both England and France. It started in Paris, France at the scene of the guillotin...
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Jean Valjean Turning Point
906 wordsVictor Hugo made it so that the characters in Les Miserables progressed throughout the novel. The theme progress can be seen and used widely. Three main characters, Jean Valjean, Cossette, and Javert expressed positive and negative forms of growth. Jean Valjean began the story as an ex-convict who was searching for food and shelter after working in the galleys for sixteen years. Unfortunately, he failed to receive compassion from any lodging, or home. While he was wandering through the streets a...
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Tale Of Two Cities Madame Defarge
813 wordsGovernment has been an essential part to any civilization for as long as human kind has existed. People who disagree with the government have also existed for just as long. Whether the government was so simple that the leader was the strongest in the tribe, or whether the government was so complex that it involved thousands of people to make one decision, it always was challenged and eventually changed. The means of change are quite diverse. Assassination, protests, war, petitions, and others ar...
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Abraham Lincoln Dark Haired
1,446 wordsThe year 1866 is an important time in nautical history. It is the year that the world was first terrified by an amazing ocean going monster, the Nautilus. During that year several ships had met with this "thing, " a long slender object far greater in size than any creature known to man. After numerous sightings and the pass of many months the "monster" began attacking any vessel that drew near. This alarmed all the world's nations and the United States decided that they would send out the Abraha...
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Tale Of Two Cities Madame Defarge
1,581 wordsSocial Criticism In Literature, As Found In Social Criticism In Literature, As Found In George Orwell's Animal Farm And Charles Dickens A Tale Of Two Cities. Many authors receive their inspiration for writing their literature from outside sources. The idea for a story could come from family, personal experiences, history, or even their own creativity. For authors that choose to write a book based on historical events, the inspiration might come from their particular viewpoint on the event that t...
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Albert Camus Mother Died
1,816 wordsThe Stranger: Analysis Author: Albert Camus Pierre Palmer English II. Period # 5 Date: 1 copyright, by Pierre Palmer I. Biographical Insights A. Albert Camus cultures consist of being a novelist, literature and short story writer of many books. He wrote an essay on the state of Muslims in Algeria, causing him to lose his job and he moved to Paris. Albert Camus also joined the French resistance against the Nazis and became an editor of Combat, an underground newspaper. He was dissatisfied with th...
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Early Middle Ages Eighteenth Century
3,504 wordsThe Eighteenth Century Duel: Evolution and Ethics. Throughout time, the image of the duel has transcended into our collective consciousness, so that there is hardly a person today who does not understand what the word means, even though there are practically no modern day duels. Anyone asked to define the word would be able to conjure up the image of two men standing face to face, for the purpose of settling a dispute and very likely leaving one of the men dead. The portrait of the duel has rema...
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Murders In The Rue Morgue Point Of View
1,020 wordsThe Murders in the Rue Morgue In Edgar Allen Poe's short story, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, a classic detective story is played out in a seedy Paris suburb. The story begins as the narrator meets Monsieur C. Auguste Dupin, a poor but well-read young man. As they become close friends, they live together in seclusion, departing only briefly each evening to take introspective strolls along the dark Paris streets. Soon both the reader and the narrator begin to see Dupin's intimate knowledge of th...
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Count Of Monte Cristo Napoleonic Era
1,701 wordsEvery man has his rise and his downfall. His rise can be attributed to hardware, dedication to accomplishing a set goal, or possibly even luck. Sometimes a man can become jealous at another man s fortune and wish forums downfall. He might even try to make this wish come true in an innumerousamount of ways. At some point in a man s life, there is his downfall. It could a disastrous downfall or maybe just a minor setback. However, if this mani's smart he will try to overcome this downfall and try ...
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Man Named Four People
806 wordsThe Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas is a story which begins in 19 th century France. The Main character, Edmond Dantes begins the story as a happy man. He has everything going for him. ? you? re a lucky man, Edmond, and you have a very pretty mistress, sir? ? she? s not my mistress, sir? ? she? s my fiancee. ? This changes quickly when Dantes is imprisoned. Four people plot against him. The people are Gaspard Caderousse, he want? s Dantes imprisoned because Second was Monsieur de Villef...
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Franco Prussian War Guy De
4,595 wordsGuy de Maupassant Guy de Maupassant is acknowledged through the world as one of the masters of the short story; Guy de Maupassant was also the author of a collection of poetry, a volume of plays, three travel journals, six novels, and many chronicles. He produced some three hundred short stories in the single decade from 1880 to 1890; a period during which he produced most of his other works. Five of his six novels were published during the second half of the decade. His short fiction has been c...
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Upper Middle Class Madame Bovary
1,212 wordsStriving for higher social status has been the downfall of many people just as it was the destruction of Emma Bovary. In Nineteenth Century France, several class existed: peasant or working class, middle class, upper-middle class, bourgeois, and aristocrats. In the story, Madame Bovary, we see a number of individuals striving to move themselves up to the bourgeois, a status that is higher than the working class but not as high as nobility. The bourgeois are characterized by being educated and we...
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Madame Bovary Emma Bovary
2,299 wordsMadame Bovary The Tragedy Of Emma Bovarys Madame Bovary The Tragedy Of Emma Bovary's Relationships With Herself And Others Madame Bovary: The Tragedy of Emma Bovary's Relationships with Herself and Others Madame Bovary is a narrative which compels the reader to keep turning the pages once he has begun reading. There are no screaming car chases, no resourceful detectives, no horrifying surprises, and no terrifying secrets to capture the readers attention and rivet him to the page: There is only a...
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Hercule Poirot Agatha Christie
1,917 wordsMurder on the Orient Express Agatha Christie &# 61656; Introduction &# 61623; Author- Agatha Christie was born in 1890 in England and raised by a wealthy American father and English mother. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English and another billion in 44 foreign languages. She is the author of 78 crime novels and was made a dame in 1971. She was married twice, her second husband being an archeologist whom she often traveled with on his archeological exhibitions to the Middle East. ...
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World War Ii Father
879 wordsA Childhood Lost in A War Tell No One Who You Are Walter Buchignani Copyright 1994 Tundra Books 185 pages? But I? m Regine Miller. ? ? I know that, ? said Nicole. ? But from now no one else must know your real name. What I? m saying is: Tell no one who you are. Do you understand? This is very, very important. ? (Nicole and Regine In Buchignani 76) In Tell No One Who You Are, Walter Buchignani explores the topic of the holocaust seen from the eyes of twelve year old Regine Miller. This book, insp...
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Money And Power Fifty Thousand
1,420 wordsOld Goriot Success: Love, Money, Power? Isn? t it a fine game to play, after all, to be alone against mankind and to have luck on your side? (p. 125) states Vautrin. Honore de Balzac, in his novel Old Goriot, places us, the readers in Eugene de Rastignac? s mind. The position in which Balzac prepares the readers to learn about Paris and Parisian life is set up brilliantly. What better way to teach the readers that to have them experience the main character? s experiences. The lesson Honore de Ba...
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Poe Reader
1,084 wordsIt is very easy to associate Edgar Allen Poe with thoughts of dreariness and darkness and with good reason as much of his writing does reflect those very downcast moods. Although, authors do like to sometimes break their stereotypes and produce things entirely different from their usual and Poe is no exception. This can be easily observed by comparing the use of his lead characters in the stories? The Black Cat? , ? Hop-Frog? and? The Purloined Letter. ? Each character is in a different situatio...
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Competitor To Shame City Of Paris Maguire
986 wordsRewrite ARe-Write Essay Essay # 2 Rewrite A Day At the Races An upper class tourist attends the races in the countryside South of France. As the couple rides smoothly in their stationary horse carriage, the man stops to contemplate the good times he has enjoyed since his first race. The carriage? s passengers comprised of a coachman, a small, black dog, and two women-one carrying a baby while the other holds a parasol. They celebrate the birth of their child and he returns to the scene of his fa...
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