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Modern Critical Interpretations York Chelsea House Publishers
1,487 wordsAll My Sons, a play by Arthur Miller, tells predominantly of the story of the Keller's. This play takes place after World War II, in the year 1947. It is a drama of actions and consequences and morality. This theme of actions and consequences is shown after Joe Keller ships out defective engine parts, which ultimately ends in the death of many pilots including that of his own son, Larry Keller, who kills himself in shame of his father s actions. Joe Keller had two sons, Chris and Larry, who is d...
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Jane Austen Pride Modern Critical Interpretations
1,680 words... zing the falsehood of personal power in the material world. The ability to do so is shown to be the ability to deviate. Authority is achieved by counteracting in revisions. In Austen's novels, characters who gain authority are able to modify themselves (Bloom 25 - 6). The title of a French translation of Sense and Sensibility sums up the novel's theme. The two ways of loving, although the contrast is wider than that. Austen provides closely paralleling experiences for her heroines. The Dashw...
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F Scott Fitzgerald York Chelsea House Publishers
1,798 wordsSpring 1996 The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God -- a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that -- and he must be about His Father's business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen-year-old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end (99). James Gatz was already 'about his Father's busin...
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York Chelsea House Publishers Gulliver Travels
1,364 wordsMany of the critics who have critiqued Jonathan Swifts Gulliver's Travels have used the word extraneous more then once. Swift was viewed as an insane person who was a failure in life. But this is far from the truth. Swift wrote Gulliver's Travels, a book that has been assigned to students for years, and it is written from experience. Swifts experience with the Tories and their conflicts with the Whigs caused him to write books that mock religious beliefs, government, or people with views differi...
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Edgar Allan Poe York Chelsea House
2,135 wordsThe detective story is a tale that features a mystery and / or the commission of a crime, emphasizing the search for a solution. It distinguishes itself from other forms of fiction by the fact that it is a puzzle. The detective story did not just spring into being in its current form, but rather, evolved over time. The first true detective stories were written by Edgar Allan Poe. Many writers and critics have plainly stated that he is the inventor of detective fiction. Poe introduces one of the ...
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