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Point In The Story Indirect Characterization
1,941 wordsAn Investigation into the Structure of Gogol's The Portrait Gogol's The Portrait, is a short story which examined through a formalistic approach, can be understood beyond its obvious storyline and plot. Formalism is the literary theory that literature is not simply a mass of words, but comprised of individual words that each may possess a social stereotype, a spiritual aspect or convey a physical response in the reader. Formalism asserts that the world is full of codes that need to be decoded. B...
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Social Standing Love Triangle
1,182 wordsIt is the aim of this paper to bring forth an interpretation of the "poor people" as portrayed by three different examples of Russian literature. The Diary of a Madman, The Overcoat, and Taman serve as the sources for any assumptions and conclusions drawn out in this paper. All three of these works lead the reader to draw assumptions about the "poor person's" social status, desires, and weaknesses. In Gogol's short story, The Diary of a Madman we are entranced by the diary entries of one man. Th...
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Put The Chops Hair Grows Jim
1,087 words... ose-lying curls that made her look wonderfully like a truant schoolboy. She looked at her reflection in the mirror long, carefully, and critically. "If Jim doesn't kill me, " she said to herself, "before he takes a second look at me, he " ll say I look like a Coney Island chorus girl. But what could I do -- oh! what could I do with a dollar and eighty- seven cents?" At 7 o'clock the coffee was made and the frying-pan was on the back of the stove hot and ready to cook the chops. Jim was never...
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The Overcoat A Story Of Meaningless Misfortune
810 wordsIn Nikolai Gogol's short story The Overcoat, one sees that in life, bad things can happen to undeserving people, with no rhyme or reason. Justice is not a prevalent force in the world that Gogol describes. Hard work and diligence count for nothing in the eyes of fate. In this world, misfortune falls upon any victim, with little -- if any -- positive outcome. The story follows one Akakii Akakievich through his daily life as a government clerk. He performs his duties extraordinarily well, yet neve...
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Merriam Webster Dictionary Metamorphosis Gregor
3,262 wordsThesis: Society has a set of morals, that of which exist for a specific reason, not to be justified by some other action taken just because it felt like the thing to do. I. Rationalizing society II. Frankenstein A. Victor Frankenstein s desire to dominate B. Aftermath of his aspirations III. Metamorphosis A. The individualization of Gregor B. Affects on his family and society IV. The Overcoat A. Akaky Akakievich s unfortunate mishap B. Akaky Akakievich s lack of importance V. Crime and Punishmen...
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Perfect Family Didn T
1,222 wordsIn the United Failure Failure In the United States, print and electronic media advertisements are full of images of the perfect family: usually proud parents with a happy and healthy child. New parents expect the fulfillment of a high-quality relationship with their newborn. So what happens when this fixation of happiness goes awry? How do the parents cope with failure when their child is born with some sort of imperfection? Wednesday s Child by Joyce Carol Oates shows how one family succumbs to...
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Short Story Main Character
1,424 wordsThe short story, Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt, explicates the life of a man named Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka. We see him briefly in his young years, followed by his life in the army, and his return to the farm where his strong characterized aunt resides. We can see immediately that this man lives in constant cleanliness and dutiful paranoia; these are some of his desires that he wishes to exhibit to others. We can also see his fears, which reside in the confiscation of his masculinity and...
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Flattened Like A Fly Squeezed Like A Blister Boyle
897 wordsWhile reading Greasy Lake by T. Coraghessan Boyle, the reader notices that the writing voice of Boyle is quite distinct. Boyles voice is distinct because he has a satirical way of writing stories about the everyday life of people. He focuses on the unusual people and their peculiar circumstances, which in Boyles case just adds to his already humorous stories. However, Boyle does not seem to concentrate on satire alone, he writes in a poetic fashion that allows the reader to enter the mind of the...
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