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Stevens Insists Stevens Thinks Graham
407 wordsEtiquette between a butler and all others is, at least in Stevens' world, defined clearly and narrowly, and "'dignity' has to do crucially with a butler's ability not to abandon the professional being he inhabits" (42). He is to be chummy but distant with butlers from other households, to maintain a strict professionalism with other employees in his own household, and to remain unquestioningly loyal to his own employer. To achieve "dignity and its crucial link with greatness" (113), it seems, he...
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Sir David Cardinal Denies Working For Darlington Day
761 wordsTimeline of Events in The Remains of the Day 1899 (Approx. ) All within a short length of time: Stevens' brother killed in South African War; Father has incident about car; Father must be butler to general. (40) 1914 Darlington in Great War (WWI), along with Herr Bremann 1920 (towards the end of the year) Darlington makes the first of a number of "disturbing" trips to Berlin. 1920 's (at the start of the twenties) Given's Wax disappears, and leads to excessive silver polishing. Hayes Society exe...
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Reading This Book Takes Place
1,149 wordsThe title of the book was The Frontiersman by Allan W. Eckert. The significance of the title was that there were many settlers trying to survive on the frontier, where the book takes place. The settlers made a name for themselves by how much land they got and how well they survived, and were called the frontiersman. The majority of The Frontiersman takes place in the area of present day Ohio. The story also takes place around Kentucky and some parts of Michigan, but its mainly centered around Oh...
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World War Ii Theory And Practice
1,165 wordsThe Remains of the Day The Remains of the Day is a pretty good and educating book written by Kazuo Ishiguro. This book tell the reader a story of Mr. Stevens within a historical concept of post WWII period. This novel helps people understand more accurately the role that theory plays in forming and analyzing practice. Set in interwar and post-World War II Great Britain, this novel introduces the reader to a key historical period and raises a number of complex theoretical issues. It accomplishes ...
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Stevens Insists Stevens Thinks Miss
403 wordsEtiquette between a butler and all others is, at least in Stevens world, defined clearly and narrowly, and dignity has to do crucially with a butlers ability not to abandon the professional being he inhabits (42). He is to be chummy but distant with butlers from other households, to maintain a strict professionalism with other employees in his own household, and to remain unquestioningly loyal to his own employer. To achieve dignity and its crucial link with greatness (113), it seems, he must ev...
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Miss Kenton Father Death
964 wordsThe passage outlined by this title is perhaps one of the most crucial points in the play. In it there are many important collisions of loyalties and decisions. Stevens must decide between his professionalism and his father. He also is forced to decide between emotion and his professionalism; as a result of this. Although he does decide upon his career, rather than seeing his dead father, and thus subside to his emotions. The first fact that is drawn to the reader s attention in this section is S...
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Makes The Reader Miss Kenton
2,918 wordsKazuo Ishiguro s Remains of the Day gives an eloquent treatment of the issue of how a stoic English butler s unemotional reaction to the emotional world around him is damaging and painful, and how he resolves to make the best of the remains of the day the remainder of his life. Ishiguro explores some of the differences between the old English Victorian culture that of the stiff upper lip, no show of emotion, and repression of personal opinion and the no-holds-barred American culture of free expr...
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