Sophistication Study Guides, Literature Essays

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  • Commentary on No Longer At Ease

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    Obi nkwo an Igbo villager who through a community scholarship given to him by the Umofia Progressive Union UPU is sent to England to attain the only hope of advancement in the colony a European education Upon his return he settles into a senior government post which he eventually loses to corruption by an acceptance of bribery After Obi is caught and is facing trial for bribery The Umofia Progressive Union describes obi as A man who runs after sweet things of Lagos This paper will therefore dis

  • Commentary on The Great Gatsby

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    I believe that The Great Gatsby was the most influential of the two books that we were to read My reasoning behind this is simple both the future and the past cannot be changed but at least from the past lessons can be learned Although the future that Anthem lays on the table is intriguing the way that F Scott Fitzgeralds novel weaves together the perks and flaws of human nature as it correlates to the turbulent 1920s in America is fantastic The main characters of The Great Gatsby are interesti

  • The Importance of Side Characters in Alias Grace

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    Each of the characters in Alias Grace plays such an important part that they have the ability to change the whole outcome of the novel These male characters have shaped Grace into the character that she is and had a huge impact on her life and her personality There are three milestones in Graces life that define her life and personality The death of her mother which results in Grace having to grow up at a young age and being forced my Mr Marks her father to get a job Another would be the moving

  • Europe Versus Africa in Heart of Darkness

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    A Part from Africa Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness illustrates Marlows realization of the whole universe beat in the darkness 90 However the dichotomy Conrad exposes between Europe and Africa outweighs the similarity Chinua Achebe comments on the difference by writing Things Fall Apart Achebe illustrates the complexity of one African man and this character challenges Conrads stereotypical view of Africans in Heart of Darkness Heart of Darkness fails to display the complexity of Africans Achebe

  • Culture in Everyday Use

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    Alice Walker Everyday Use Critically examine the representation of culture groups and communities in one or more texts studied I have chosen to focus my study upon the novel by Alice Walker Everyday Use From the texts studied Everyday Use appealed to me the most and stood out as being a great representation of different culture groups and communities and ultimately how they affect identity It is a complex story of different ideals and what it means to be part of a community or culture group a s

  • Gatsby's Character in The Great Gatsby

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    Frederick C Millett Perhaps F Scott Fitzgeralds greatest work The Great Gatsby is not only a great story but an insight into the flaws of real life during the Roaring Twenties His book has been considered by many a symbol for the Jazz Age a time of extraordinary wealth and promise but Fitzgeralds novel is much more than that presenting the truth behind the twenties and creating an atmosphere which has earned a permanent place in American literature Fitzgeralds novel works on many different leve

  • Chutes and Ladders in The Great Gatsby and Their Eyes Were Watching God

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    Chutes and Ladders The Movement Through Social classes In The Great Gatsby 1925 F Scott Fitzgerald acquaints the reader with a developing love story that occurred in the early to mid 1920s in the nations busiest city New York City at a time or industrial and social reform In Their Eyes Were watching God 1937 Zora Neale Hurston chronicles the life story of a poor African American girl in the late 30s throughout a variety of regions a small town where she and her Grandmother grew up and lived wit

  • Commentary on The Alchemist as a Comedy of Humours.

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    The comedy of humours pertains to a genre of dramatic comedy that focuses on one or many eccentric characters each of whom has one overriding trait or humour that dominates their personality and obssesses their mind The comedy of humours was one of Jonsons major innovations The Alchemist is basically a comedy of humours even though it does not contain such a variety of humours as in Jonsons earlier play Every man in His Humour In The Alchemist Jonson concentrates mainly on greed which is the hu

  • Aesthetics and Ideology in The Man Who Loved Children

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    Many of the characters in the poems novels and short stories set for this subject are outsiders who see differently to those around them With reference to one or more texts from the subject discuss what ideological and or aesthetic function these characters serve New literary eras demand different interpretations of the texts While in the Shakespearian time the plays that have been identified as tragedies usually involve a royal character He either is driven mad or he dies in the timeframe set

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