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The Devil And Daniel Webster
767 wordsThe play "The Devil and Daniel Webster" was written by Stephen Vincent Bent in 1938. Stephen Vincent Bent was born in 1898 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. His education came from Yale University and the Sorbonne in Paris, France. "The Devil and Daniel Webster" has a wide array of characters, each with a distinguished personality, yet an overall temperament that would be fitting of a New England community. The main character is Jabez Stone, a wealthy New England statesman whose position was the state...
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Point Of View Stephen Vincent
769 wordsStephen Vincent Bent wrote the novel in 1937. The novel is fiction and takes place in and around New York in the future. The world as we know it has been completely destroyed, properly by one or several atom bombs. Many places have been into-cated and only the priests are allowed to go there. Only a few people have survived and they have gathered in tribes, who fight each other. The main character in the novel is a boy, from the Hill people, called John. His father is a priest. They live in a ve...
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The World All Watched Over By Machines
1,057 wordsThe World All Watched Over By Machines The twentieth century was characterized with the rapid growth of technical industrial and military progress. The number of inventions made in twentieth century exceeded the scope of all the inventions made during the all history of mankind. Such rapid progress changed the guise of our world forever and the conscience of people. The writers could not keep out of these changes and there appeared such literature style as Science Fiction. The Industrial twentie...
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Devil And Daniel Webster Stephen Vincent
1,412 wordsStephen Vincent Benet Only in a time when the pressure of the world amounts to angst and the fight for freedom can a world advance in its literary achievements. A writer, just like an artist, builds his creations from the mood and settings of the surrounding atmosphere. In the first half of the twentieth century, the atmosphere was filled with resources to stimulate literary creativity, such as the second World War and the Great Depression (Roache 102: 14). The social genre of the time gave way ...
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Frank N Magill Detroit Gale Research
1,574 wordsThe Devil and Tom Walker: Human Intent and the Aftermath of It Washington Irving, in writing The Devil and Tom Walker, and Stephen Vincent Benet, in writing The Devil and Daniel Webster illustrate to the reader the consequences of mans desire for material wealth and how a persons motivation for a relationship with the devil affects the outcome of the deal. In these two different, yet surprisingly similar narratives, the authors present their beliefs about human intent and motive. In The Devil an...
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