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  • Dramatic Device and Dramatic Impact in A View From The Bridge

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    View from the bridge In this essay I intend to explore how Miller uses dramatic devices and the dramatic impact it has on the audience The play A view from the bridge was written in the 1950s by Arthur Miller When the play was first performed the audience would have reacted very differently to how an audience would now due to the morals being different For example in the play the women are controlled by men whereas now women are independent The women in the audience back then would have thought

  • Allegory in Heart of Darkness and Lord of the Flies

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    Allegory Essay Allegory a form of extended metaphor in a narrative they have meanings that lie outside the narrative itself The underlying meaning has a moral social religious or political significance The idea of savagery is hidden beneath the literal of both Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and William Goldings Lord of the Flies These are both examples of allegories which can be read through a literal sense or an allegorical reading Heart of Darkness explores issues surrounding the ideas of

  • Commentary on To Kill a Mocking Bird

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    To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in Alabama during the Depression and is narrated by the main character a little girl named Jean Louise Scout Finch Her father Atticus Finch is a lawyer with high moral standards Scout her brother Jem and their friend Dill are intrigued by the local rumors about a man named Boo Radley who lives in their neighborhood but never leaves his house Legend has it that he once stabbed his father in the leg with a pair of scissors and he is made out to be a kind of monst

  • Gender Discrimination in Alias Grace

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    Margaret Atwoods novel Alias Grace takes us back to 1848 to revisit the story of the most notorious woman of the nineteenth century Grace Marks a pretty sixteen year old servant girl Marks is accused of murdering her employer Thomas Kinnear and his alleged mistress Nancy Montgomery with the help of a fellow servant James McDermott Both Marks and McDermott were captured a couple of days later in the United States and brought back to Toronto where they were charged and found guilty of premeditate

  • Conflicting Cultures in A Passage To India

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    A passage to India The author of the novel A passage to India is E M Forster and the main character of the novel is Dr Aziz a Muslim doctor in Chandrapore and widower The novel is about the associations among the English and the native population of India during the colonial period when Britain ruled India The novel takes place primarily in Chandrapore a city along the Ganges River notable only for the nearby Marabar caves After he is summoned to the Civil Surgeons home only to be promptly igno

  • Critical Analysis of Anthem

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    Learned helplessness is the giving up reaction the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesnt matter Spoken once by Arnold Schwarzenegger when one finds that no matter what they do cannot possibly have an effect on anything learned helplessness becomes increasingly revealing in that their changing personality Helplessness is a clear characteristic displayed by all citizens subordinate to the World Council in Anthem Anthem is a dystopian fiction novel by Ayn Rand

  • Analysis of Daddy

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    The first two stanzas of the poem Daddy by Sylvia Plath are deceptively simple and sound more like a strange nursery rhyme than an angry depiction of the speakers father An analysis of the straight rhyme scheme in Daddy by Sylvia Plath lulls the reader into a hypnotic state and the language is relatively free from the kind of ominous and dark imagery and terms that will arrive as the poem by Sylvia Plath progresses This nursery rhymes innocence is obliterated quickly with each and with the imag

  • 1984: Does Winston Adequately Represent Mankind?

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    Throughout the novel 1984 it is easy for one to conclude that Winston is an adequate representation of mankind as a whole but once one gets down to it one finds that there are several points regarding this matter that can be easily debated upon For instance some might possibly debate whether or not Winston would have cracked as easily as he did during the torture Whereas others would argue that the so called human spirit that Winston mentioned to OBrien does not really exist at all and that hum

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