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  • The Prestige

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  • Life On The Mississippi

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    In Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain reveals the permanent ambition of every young boy on the west bank of the Mississippi River That was to be a steamboatman The prestige mysteriousness and pay together make such an aspiration so attractive to a young boys imagination The boys of the village of Hannibal Missouri had many transient ambitions such as becoming a clown for the circus becoming a pirate etc These fascinations faded and what remained was becoming a steamboatman All aspects of the st

  • Ulysses Compared to Journey of the Magi

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    This essay will attempt to offer a close detailed comparison of the following pair of poems Alfred Tennysons poem Ulysses 1842 and T S Eliots poem titled Journey of the Magi 1927 We will also aim to provide some discussion of in regards to aspects of period form and genre relevant to these poems Ulysses is a poem written in 1833 and published in 1842 by Alfred Tennyson preceding the death of his friend Arthur Henry Hallam The character of Ulysses drives from the Greek myths of Odysseus This cha

  • Masculinity in Things Fall Apart

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    MASCULINITY IN THINGS FALL APART Things Fall Apart is set in the 1890s during the coming of the white man to Nigeria The novel portrays the clash between the whites colonial government and the traditional culture of the Igbo people The novel is about a very strong mans rise to great prestige fortune and power which in the end were overshadowed by his inevitable death Okonkwos demise was not because of colonization but rather his downfall was attributed by his obsession with masculinity Okonkwos

  • Marriage and Relationships in Taming Of The Shrew

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    The Taming of the Shrew Essay Examine the different ways in which Shakespeare presents issues connected with marriage and male female relationships in The Taming of the Shrew The Taming of the Shrew is very involved in the unfair treatment of women in the period in time in the 16th Century Shakespeare scrutinizes these issues a lot in his play and challenges Elizabethan womens stereotypical submissive roles leading to modern day beliefs that he was a feminist ahead of his time In Elizabethan ti

  • Commentary on The Great Gatsby

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    Jay Gatsby and the Amazing 1920s The Great Gatsby is a compelling story of a man and a mogul This piece of fictional work is written by F Scott Fitzgerald and it takes the reader on a roller coaster ride As Fitzgerald writes the story he only describes a few of the settings in the story such as East Egg West Egg Valley of Ashes and New York City Most of the storys action takes place in both East and west Egg As the story progresses more of the Valley of Ashes and New York City are depicted The

  • Commentary on Othello

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    Othello In the play Othello written by William Shakespeare Shakespeare shows the conflict of being a good lover and a good soldier that results in a union made in hell Shakespeare explains negligible detail of Othellos past life as a war hero Othellos love for war has forestalled him from living a normal life and having interaction with the ordinary people who live normal lives Othellos failure to make the transition from a good soldier to an ordinary human being as a lover leads to a tragedy l

  • Analysis of In Another Country

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    In Another Country By E Hemingway In Another Country by E Hemingway Hemingway creates a powerful and true to life story about real experience of many soldiers who came home but remember all casualties and hardship they were faced with during the WWI On the other hand their stories full of bravery honor and courage They need to adapt to new world but the only way for them is to change their habits and personal values Settings and objects reflect inner psychological state of the characters and he

  • Naturalism and Determinism in An American Tragedy

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    Theodore Dreiser was a part of the naturalist movement His works depicted real life subjects in a harsh and gritty manner Many of his novels were controversial and considered amoral Dreiser grew up in a poor working class family in Terre Haute Indiana An American Tragedy his most commercially successful novel tells the story of young man searching for success and fame An American Tragedy is told from a naturalistic and deterministic point of view Determinism deals with an individuals fate being

  • The Cultural Context of A Dolls House

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    Understanding the cultural context of a text allows you to see how values and attitudes are shaped Show how this statement applies to one of the texts on your course Henrik Ibsen was the cultural phenomenon of his time He shows us how the values and attitudes of people are shaped in society He shocked audiences daily in the 1879 play with his radical insight into the social roles of a husband and wife or man and woman of that time In Ibsens play A dolls house we see Noras personality being shap

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