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  • Cora and Addie in As I Lay Dying

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    Many mothers regardless of age or situation share similar views They all share the common goal of raising their children well and creating an environment of love nurture and support They channel their unceasing effort and try to instill good values in hope that their children would become successful However this is not the case for all women as portrayed in the novel As I Lay Dying Using the technique of first person narrative with alternating perspectives William Faulkner adds verisimilitude t

  • The Use of Literary Devices in A Tale Of Two Cities

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    Charles Dickens is undoubtedly one of the greatest English writers of all time just take a look at his masterpiece A Tale of Two Cities The novel chronicles the years before during and after the French Revolution Dickens characters come to life especially the grotesque ones through their in depth portrayals The sorrow and horrors of the French Revolution are easily imagined through Dickens detailed and visual descriptions And most powerfully Dickens employs many metaphors throughout the story r

  • Heroism in Crime And Punishment

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    Crime and Punishment When you think of the word superman what comes to mind Is it a hero with a cape and superpowers Well according to Raskolnikov his idea of a superman does not include a cape and is not very heroic Raskolnikov came up with a theory that there are ordinary people and there are extraordinary people In the novel Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky Raskolnikov believes that he is not an ordinary person but a superman Throughout Crime and Punishment this theory of a superior

  • Cruel And Sorrowful War: How to Tell a True War Story

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    Cruel and Sorrowful War War is cruel and sorrowful no matter in which country and at what time The Vietnam War began in 1955 and did not end until 1975 In the Vietnam War it exacted a huge human cost in terms of fatalities Estimates of the number of Vietnamese soldiers and civilians killed vary from less than one million to more than three million Vietnam War casualties World War I was a major war centered on Europe that began in the summer of 1914 and ended in November 1918 In World War I more

  • Prejudices of Cosmic Justice in King Lear

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    In the crumbling universe of Shakespeares King Lear a world in which evil and treachery is allowed to triumph for a moment too long and goodness falters under the dominion of the former a terrible irony is made resoundingly clear The ambiguity of the victory between the binary oppositions becomes one of the most unsettling themes of King Lear who truly triumphs Perhaps more importantly what become the cruelly conceived expenses of such a victory The prevailing question of cosmic justice pervade

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