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Pride And Prejudice Jane Austen
697 wordsIn the classic 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice, originally entitled First Impression, Jane Austen approaches satire and irony with full force exhibiting both throughout the novel. In this novel Austen is critical of the English societies and prejudices of its upper classes. During this era class divisions were related to family connections and wealth. Throughout this novel Austen's characters convey irony in their actions and satire in their tone. Although Austen is notorious for writing novels o...
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Nanapush And Fleur Sole Survivor Ways
790 wordsThere is a story to it the way there is a story to all, never visible while it is happening. Only after, when an old man sits dreaming and talking in his chair, the design springs clear. There was so much we never saw and never knew. "We started dying before the snow, and like the snow, we continued to fall. " So begins Nanapush, as he recalls the winter of 1912, when consumption, the last in a line of diseases brought by the Europeans, wiped out whole families of Ojibwa, unraveling tribes "like...
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Ocean In Iowa Marilyn A Woman Scotty
760 wordsJoan, the mother in Peter Hedges's end novel, "An Ocean in Iowa, " is onstage for only part of the book but she hovers over every page. She's that new icon: the woman who landed in suburbia by mistake. She's an artist, a dedicated smoker and the shelter, the best friend, the nonconformist inspiration in the life of her 7 -year-old son, Scotty, the novel's hero. She's also an alcoholic, but it's a measure of what's good about this novel that Hedges doesn't present her drinking as some scarring tr...
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Separate Peace Gene Writes War
734 wordsAs with most novels, it is best to begin a discussion of thematic by examining the title. The phrase " a separate peace" is mentioned once in the novel when, speaking of the Winter Carnival, Gene writes: "It was this liberation we had torn from the gray encroachments of 1943, the escape we had concocted, this afternoon of momentary, illusory, special and separate peace. " The Devon of 1942 and 1943 is, at times, a haven of peace and forgetfulness for Gene and his classmates. And it is significan...
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Passage To India Important Role
676 wordsThe first chapter of A Passage to India describes the setting of the novel. Forster establishes Chandrapore as a prototypical Indian town, neither distinguished nor exceptionally troubled. This town can therefore be taken to be symbolic of the rest of India rather than an exceptional case. This allows the actions that occur in the following chapters to be representative of the Anglo-Indian colonial relations that will dominate the events of the novel. By beginning the novel with a mention of the...
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Sydney Carton Charles Darnay
561 wordsIn A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens uses a variety of themes, including, love / hate , revolution, and recalled to life. Though these are very important themes, and were integral elements of this novel, resurrection served as the main theme aside from the obvious one which is revolution. It is also important to note that the theme of revolution is closely tied into resurrection. The phrase "recalled to life" sounds the first note in the theme of resurrection with Dr. Manette's release from ...
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Bram Stoker Gothic Horror
988 wordsIn 1897, Bram Stoker's "Dracula" was published in Great Britain. It was one of many Gothic horror novels of the day and, although popular, wasn't considered to be meaningful or timeless in any way. Yet, over a century later, the book has never gone out of print. Its title character, Count Dracula, is the quintessential vampire of Western literature and has inspired more movies than any novel. "Dracula" is sufficiently multi-faceted that writers and directors of film have been able to adapt it fo...
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Grapes Of Wrath Work Of Art
691 wordsThe Grapes of Wrath tells the story of the Joad family, migrant farmers from Oklahoma traveling to California in search of an illusion of prosperity. The novel's strong attitude stirred up much controversy and was banned from schools and stores due to its vulgar language. This story, winning the Pulitzer Prize, is considered to be John Steinback's greatest work. What makes this novel such a masterpiece is its use of symbolism, its description about history and its use of intercalary chapters. A ...
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Faulkner Story Grand Design Faulkner's
567 wordsAs physical beings we exist in that spatial-temporal order designated as "nature. " But as human beings we also exist in an exclusive realm of "consciousness, " which might be described as a vast, collective energy field made up of the signs, i. e. "language, " by which humans endeavor to make sense of their existence. This field is beyond the grasp of any single human being, not only its vast and oceanic proportions but its dynamic, protean, organic flow resisting ownership by a single instance...
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Catherine And Heathcliff Wuthering Heights
1,778 wordsA novel's strategy reveals itself in structure and process, not in isolated passages or speeches, however striking. Any complex work that aspires to a statement about something larger than the experiences it depicts must be understood as a proposition on two levels: that of the immediate, or present time (the shared fiction of the "immediate" as it is evidently experienced by both participant and reader, simultaneously), and that of the historical (in which the fiction of the simultaneous experi...
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Absence In The Sound And Fury By Faulkner
1,467 wordsAbsence in The Sound and Fury by Faulkner The Sound and the Fury is considered to be Faulkner's greatest work, although its controversial nature resulted in many critics disclaiming Faulkner's novel, as too modernist. It is not a secret that Faulkner was a proponent of this literature style, which used to be fashionable, at the beginning of twentieth century. It could not escape people's attention that the fundamental lack of completeness characterizes The Sound and the Fury, as whole. The reade...
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Man And The Sea Francis Of Assisi
2,085 wordsThe Old Man and The Sea: Santiago as an Image of Christ Introduction Through the history of civilizations, as distant as the early ages when Homo Sapience first roamed the planet, man has incessantly entered into conflict with environment. As the ancient man has evolved, he has become over dependant on nature to the point where he takes benefit of its abundance of gifts. In spite of the fact that man has a tendency to desecrate nature, there are those who recognize and praise its power and make ...
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Louise Erdrich Native American
2,209 wordsIssues in Louise Erdrich's "The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse" On the opening pages of Louise Erdrich's new novel, "The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, " we " re introduced to the central character of Father Damian Modeste. He has spent the past half-century ministering to the Ojibwa people on a remote reservation in North Dakota, and keeping a deep secret. The 80 -year-old Catholic priest is actually a woman named Agnes DeWitt. The fantastic idea appealed to Lou...
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