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Victor Frankenstein Henry Clerval
1,283 wordsAuthor: Mary Shelley Country England Title Frankenstein Genre: Fiction/Horror 1. Characters, with a brief description of each. Victor Frankenstein: He is the main character, a paradigm of ambition and curiosity. He does not know when to stop, and therefore loses everything. Elizabeth Lavenza: She is the sweet sister-bride of Victor. With flawless personality, she represents the hope for escape to a good future. Caroline: As Victor's mother, she is as generous as can be. A bit controlling, she de...
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Crime And Punishment 19 Th Century
2,085 wordsDostoevsky and Flaubert Both Dostoevsky and Flaubert are known for being a realist writers, therefore their most famous works Crime and Punishment and Madam Bovary revolve around the real life situations, even though that many critics used to point out to the fact that such situations cannot serve as inspiration, because of their cheer banality. Nevertheless, both authors are now being considered as the classics of 19 th century European literature, while their critics are mainly forgotten. Let ...
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Hard Work Personal Feelings
670 wordsWork and Love The poem Hard Work written by Stephen Dunn reflects on the problem of hard work and personal feelings. The author argues the purpose of hard work and shows the tiny, fragile borders that limit social responsibility and obligation and give the way to individual prerogatives - love, wishes, and desires. The poem Hard Work is characterized with a deep introspection of the protagonist. The whole mood of the poem is philosophically calm, though somewhat sad and pessimistic. At the end o...
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House Of The Risin Sun
1,063 wordsHouse of the Risin Sun In order to understand the song House of the Risin Sun we need first to have a short look at Bob Dylan and his music. Bob Dylan was born in 1941 in Minnesota. He was a regular child and he became interested in music only while being in high school, when he learned to play piano and guitar. From these basic musical skills, Dylan constantly acquiring new knowledge and experience in music has grown to be the master of folk music in the period of rock expansion. It is a big ac...
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Brave New World Tele Screen
1,398 words1984 Vs. Brave New World Imagine a world in which people are produced in factories, a world lost of all freedom and individuality, a world where people are exiled or? disappear? for breaking the mold. Both 1984 by George Orwell and Aldous Huxley? s Brave New World are startling depictions of such a society. Although these novels are of fictional worlds, control of the future may be subtly evolving and becoming far worse than Huxley or Orwell could ever have imagined. Each society destroys the fr...
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Edna Pontellier Grand Isle
452 wordsThe Awakening, written by Kate Chopin, is a unique and exclusive novel that shows us a woman, who through her stirring, or sparking comes to her senses and grasps reality. Throughout the whole story the main character (Edna Pontellier) fluctuates between two different places or settings. Her home in New Orleans and her summer home in Grand Isle. By using these contrasting settings Chopin represents opposed forces or ideas that are central to the meaning of her work. The novel starts of in Grand ...
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Artists No Longer Chose This Picture Painted
1,001 wordsImpressionism originated in Impressionism impressionism Impressionism originated in Paris, starting in 1870 going to 1890. When impressionism was introduced the artists where just coming from paintings and drawings of photo images and changing to subjects such as a? Luncheon of the Boating Party? or? The Prima Ballerina? . The subjects where no longer boring portraits of people but interesting daily objects. The aim of an impressionist was to capture the fleeting vision of joyful everyday scenes...
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Ministry Of Truth Totalitarian Regime
1,217 wordsFear, confusion and intimidation are not just feelings. If they are used in the right way they can be used for control and power. A dictator in a totalitarian regime will use these emotions to control his people. The world that Winston Smith lives in has no personal rights, poor living conditions, and everything is controlled by hatred, even the peoples history and language. The language Newspeak is being implemented by the government to limit the possibility of political rebellion by eliminatin...
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Story Of An Hour Kate Chopin
633 wordsThe short story, The Story of an Hour, was a story meant to show how the effects of oppression by men over women led to the freedom and inevitable death of Louise Mallard. The name of The Story of an Hour was used because Mrs. Mallard s realization of her freedom all takes place within one hour. Author Kate Chopin wrote the story in 1894 during a time in which women s suffrage was just beginning to really start up. Many references of oppression are made throughout the short story. The first refe...
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Edwin Arlington Robinson Edgar Lee Masters
330 wordsThe Realist Poets incorporated the theme of death into their works. Edwin Arlington Robinson and Edgar Lee Masters both wrote about the theme of death and is clearly shown in their works. Edwin Arlington Robinson wrote? Richard Cory? . ? And Richard Cory, one calm summer night, Went home and put a bullet through his head. ? This clearly showing a theme of death because he went home and killed himself. Robinson also wrote? Miniver Chevy? . ? Miniver caused, and called it fate, And kept on drinkin...
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Wall Paper Dramatic Change
880 wordsThe Catch of a Lifetime Adrienne Rich once said, I am an instrument in the shape of a woman trying to translate pulsations into images. Elizabeth Bishop applies Rich s quote in the poem The Fish. The poem tells about a situation where Bishop catches an unattractive fish. As she studies the fish closer, Bishop notices that the fish has special characteristics. These features slowly carry the fish from an unworthy catch to a great accomplishment. Bishop s use of imagery allows the reader to see a ...
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Ethan Frome Job Skills
445 wordsEthan Frome Essay Compare and Contrast the characters of Mattie and Zeena In the novel Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton, the characters of Mattie Silver and Zeena Frome are dissimilar in many ways. Mattie is a compassionate, lively, outgoing woman who tries hard and has a positive outlook on life. Zeena, on the other hand, is a pessimistic, cold-hearted, and dull woman who is too self-absorbed to have fun in her life. Perhaps the biggest difference between the two is Mattie s adventurous spirit com...
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Explain In Your Own Words Words The Four People
374 wordsExplain, In Your Own Words, The Four Explain, In Your Own Words, The Four Ways Tolstoy Thinks People Try To Come To Terms With The Question Of Life? s Meaning. Do You Think There Are Others? Which One Have You Chosen? Ignorance, a person that lives their lives without any knowledge of what they may come across in life, people who do not give themselves the chance to learn new things and to experience new things. Once they come across things in life they do not know how to handle the situation. F...
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Guy Montag Fire Chief
534 wordsFahrenheit 451 Novel Notes Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Characters Guy Montag The Protagonist in the book, who s life as a fireman begins to dull. His unloving wife, Mildred drives him to sadness, and he turns to books as his backup. Soon he turns convict, and leads a life on the run. Mildred Guy Montag s wife. Dull, Boring, Living with no Purpose. Constantly watches the Parlor walls, and her family. Clarisse McClellan The girl next door who seems to be from another time period. Constantly ask...
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Ty Cobb Babe Ruth
587 wordsI see great things in baseball. Its our game the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism, tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set, repair these losses, and be a blessing to us. " Walt Whitman " If youre not having fun in baseball, you miss the point of everything. " Chris Chambliss " Our country is the only one in the world with a national anthem that the last two words are " Play Bal...
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Leaves The Reader Reader Feels
921 wordsSpring in Fialta's opening line, Spring in Fialta is cloudy and dull, (Nabokov 413) is quite an atypical beginning for Nabokov. This line, coming from a man who is overly concerned with trifles, brings up many questions. Is Nabokov intentionally leaving out the trifles of Fialta here at the beginning? If so, why? Perhaps the answer to this question is that Nabokov intends for the line in question to be a double entendre referring to both the town and the story itself. On the narrative level, Nab...
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Basic Principles Holiday Season
901 wordsThe Non-Designer s Design Book By Robin Williams I chose this book because I am very interested in the design of a page, whether it be an advertisement, invitation, or feature story. I learned some important principles to follow. This book was easy to read and understand. I recommend it to anyone who might need a little help with design. There are four basic principles in design. They are contrast, repetition, alignment, and proximity. I will go on to discuss these each separately, but keep in m...
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Edwin Arlington Robinson Irving Howe
770 wordsEllsworth Barnard This harmony and proportion are found most often, in Robinsons view, in lives that are otherwise undistinguished. The admonition in The Clerks reveals a permanent attitude, although in later life he would probably not have stated it so directly: And you that ache so much to be sublime, And you that feed yourselves with your descent, What comes of all your visions and your fears? Poets and kings are but the clerks of Time. from Edwin Arlington Robinson: A Critical Study. Copyrig...
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Makes Me Squint Sensory Writing People
576 wordsStanding Sensory Writing Sensory Writing Standing here, in this arena that? s larger than five of my houses, I feel like a needle in a haystack. So many people surround me it? s like I? m a little grain of sand in a huge ocean. The people in round gymnasium all form a crimson, white, and blue rainbow. Their shirts mesh together like a finely woven shirt with different colors strings. Smelling the concession stand foods, makes me feel like a starving child. The aroma of the melted cheese on nacho...
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Louise Mallard Heart Disease
666 wordsWhen the doctors came they said she had dies of heart disease- of joy that kills (215). Suddenly freed from a life full of oppression and lacking self-expression. That is the feeling and realization that suddenly rushed over Louise Mallard at the news of her husbands untimely passing. Life suddenly seemed wonderful and full of delicious opportunities. Her newfound life sprawled in front of her as she made plans for future and began contemplating the consequences. The life she had always dreamed ...
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