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J Alfred Prufrock T S Eliot
1,322 wordsEzra Pound and T. S. Eliot on Modernism On Ezra Pounds quote on modernism, he claims that the modern age wants a literature that reflects an image of itself: accelerated and mass produced (a mould in plaster/Made with no loss of time) as well as superficial. This means that todays society wants a literature that resembles itself, fast paced and shallow. Society want literature that is direct and straightforward simply because people find it too time consuming to think for themselves. They would ...
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Femininity And Sexuality Unable To Trust Elisa
1,203 wordsMargaret Sidorowicz- 1 Symbolism in "The Chrysanthemums" In his story "The Chrysanthemums", written in 1938, Steinbeck introduces us with a woman, named Elisa, who is trying to gain power in a man's world. Elisa Allen tries to define her role as a woman in a very close society. Her environment portrays the social depression, while the garden shows her power and masculine. Elisa has trouble extending this power outside the fence that surrounds her garden. Finally, she learns but not accepts, that...
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Modernism And The Great Gatsby
2,005 wordsTo understand modern literature, one must develop a sense of the structured and ordered lifestyle prior to modern culture. Before the era of modernism, lifestyles were systematically organized through standard traditions. When World War I started, Americans felt the impact of modernism at its strongest with men going off to battle and women working in factories. Lifestyles were beginning to divert from family traditions. People started to abandon their traditional values and adapt to the challen...
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End Of The World Kurt Vonnegut
1,408 wordsKurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, one of the century's greatest anthropological works, deals with religion, science, and the end of the world; its major theme involves the symbolic nature of the title of the book. The theme of the cat's cradle is used throughout the book to represent many of the truths, as viewed by Vonnegut, that are found in society. A cat's cradle is essentially a game played by all ages and almost all nationalities; "Even the Eskimos know it" (Cat's Cradle 114). It is a game usi...
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Mother And Daughter Marry A Man
923 wordsIn the novel, The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan, the mothers and daughters face much adversity and hardships. With each mother and daughter have their own virtues to overcome. In the novel, the first generation mothers are having troubles with their American daughters and their different ways. With the help of their mother, the daughters are able to overcome the hardships they endure. Even though the daughters wish to live their lives aside from their Chinese descents, their mothers attributes help ...
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Written Word Main Idea
1,383 wordsThe Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Comparison of the Novel and the Movie. The Novel and the movie differ in how they emphasize events that occur. Things that hold great value in the novel dont have much importance in the movie and vice versa. Milan Kundrea wrote the novel, which was first published in 1984. The movie was the work of Philip Kaufman, the director, and Saul Zaentz, the producer. Together they did a very respectable job in representing the novel. The novel focused on three relatio...
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Macbeth A Tragic Hero
1,060 wordsWilliam Shakespeare's play Macbeth, written in the 1600 s is a perfect example of Shakespeare's ability to manipulate his audience through creating a tragic hero. A tragic hero who, because of a flaw, tumbles from a well-respected hero to a coward less murderer. It is through Shakespeare's manipulation of figurative language, dramatic conventions and social expectations of the seventeenth century, do the audience witness the demise of this mixed up man. Macbeth's persona of the tragic hero is en...
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The Hollow Men Ts Eliot And Society
1,101 words... right to vote. The Portrait of a Lady, Aunt Helen, and Cousin Nancy are among various poems written by T. S. Eliot that has themes dealing with women and their advancement in society. In the poem Cousin Nancy, Eliot writes: Miss Nancy Ellicott Strode across the hills and broke them, Rode across the hills and broke them -- The barren New England hills -- Riding to hounds Over the cow-pasture. Miss Nancy Ellicott smoked And danced all the modern dances; And her aunts were not quite sure how th...
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Contemporary Literary Criticism Vol Pet Dog
1,283 wordsJoyce Oates The Lady with the Pet Dog has a strange and suspenseful structure. When reading the story, the reader senses confusion, much like the life of Anna. The author reveals Annas character through the structure of the story, and through the imagery in the story. Alfred Kazin said that Annas life seems to move through a world wholly physical in its detail (Contemporary Literary Criticism Vol. 11 313). Annas life throughout the story is disordered and repetitious. Linda W. Wagner says Oates ...
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Waiting For Godot Human Life
1,006 words... Together the decide to fill the emptiness and silence with cheap entertainment. Itll pass the time, explains Vladimir when he offers to tell the story of the Crucifixion. That passed the time, he says after the first departure of Pozzo and Lucky. Life becomes a game to them, passing back ideas in order to stop themselves from thinking or contemplating too deeply and escaping the pain of waiting. Thats the idea, lets make a little conversation, suggests Estragon. Beckett deliberately employs ...
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Teachings Of The Buddha One Place
1,113 wordsSiddhartha had one single goal - to become empty, to become empty of thirst, desire, dreams, pleasure and sorrow - to let the Self die. No longer to be Self, to experience the peace of an emptied heart, to experience pure thought - that was his goal. When all the Self was conquered and dead, when all passions and desires were silent, then the last must awaken, the innermost of Being that is no longer Self - the great secret (14) Siddhartha, according to his actions, was constantly in search for ...
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1,133 wordsFellow world kings, presidents, and leaders: In a time of despair and emptiness, the world we knew has changed forever. Perhaps in this day and age, it is difficult to fathom why anyone would mastermind the attacks of September 11 th. In the time that has followed that fateful day, news organizations have ingrained into our brains images of planes crashing into buildings, people jumping from windows many stories up, abandoned shoes among the rubble, and -- of course -- images of the victims and ...
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Emptiness In The Great Gatsby
790 wordsIn The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald portrays the emptiness of a very meretricious society. Many people in todays materialistic world are just hollow, but some have a dream, which turns into a goal. In many cases this dream might be pursued, but for some people it becomes a superficial vision. Through the use of symbolism and characterization in the novel and Eliot's poem the blindness of people in depicted; the only person with any substance is Gatsby, but in the end, his dream becomes artificial as...
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Catcher In The Rye Holden Caulfield
1,067 words... ous breakdown. This was evident by his bouts of unexplained depression, impetuous spending and generally odd, erratic behavior, prior to his eventual nervous collapse. Some critics have argued that Holden's character is erratic and unreliable, as he has many of the middle-class values that he claims to reject. Later on critics began to have praised the twisted humor of the main character. These critics have commented that the structure of the novel helps you understand Holden's unstable stat...
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Borderline Personality Disorder Mental Health Services
1,609 wordsBorderline personality disorder "is defined in the DSM IV, a manual used by psychiatrists to diagnose all mental disorders, as an AXIS II disorder which has symptoms of impulsively and emotional dys regulation" (Livesley 146). A person with BPD have feelings of abandonment and emptiness, and have "frantic efforts to avoid abandonment, going to extremes to keep someone from leaving" (Burger 300). He or she is emotionally unstable and forms intense but unstable interpersonal relationships. They sh...
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Anne Bradstreet Christian Faith
1,399 wordsTelevangelists like Jimmy Swagger and Jim and Tammy Fay Bakker promise the Christian faith to millions everyday. For the right price, anybody can have something- a. k. a. Christianity, God, and faith- in their lives. On these shows, there is no need to have believed in religion before, as long as there is a need for it now. Religious telecasts asking for money in exchange for faith attract nearly five million people each year. Fifty-five percent of these people are elderly woman; Thirty-five per...
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Fell In Love Holden Caulfield
1,421 wordsPreface - This book has been steeped in controversy since it was banned in America after it's first publication. John Lennon's assassin, Mark Chapman, asked the former beatle to sign a copy of the book earlier in the morning of the day that he murdered Lennon. Police found the book in his possession upon apprehending the psychologically disturbed Chapman. However, the book itself contains nothing that could be attributed with leading Chapman to act as he did - it could have been any book that he...
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Sound And The Fury Lay Dying
956 wordsThe Women of Yoknapatawpha County Faulkner's intrinsic portrayal of his characters using his signature stream of consciousness style left much room for discussion on the true nature of his characters, however his portrayal of women was obviously that of despair as the female characters never transcended their lowly confinement. Caddy Compson was a victim of the dysfunctional family, whose attempt to reject it landed her even worse off. Addie Bundren was also a victim, a victim of an indolent hus...
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F Scott Fitzgerald Winter Dreams
569 wordsA great lecturer once said, |Man is so caught up in his own recklessness that he does not notice the values of life. X The theme proclaimed in the quote reflects literature in the abundance that it is used in throughout the history of writing. Author F. Scott Fitzgerald, spokesman of the Jazz Age, illustrates the shallow emptiness, careless recklessness, and materialistic concerns of the rich in his novel The Great Gatsby. First and foremost of all are the issues of the materialistic concerns of...
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Charles Foster Kane Richest Man In The World
2,331 wordsThe United States of America is the most powerful, wealthy, and attractive country in the world. The varieties of class, individuality, religion, and race are a few of the enrichment's within the " melting pot" of our society. The blend of these numerous diversities is the crucial ingredient to our modern nation. Even though America has been formed upon these diversities, its inhabitants- the " average American" - have a single thing in common; a single idea; a single goal; t...
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