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  • Commentary on The Battler

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    The world contains many different groups of people obviously These groups divide the world into class race gender age and so on But even with all these different physical descriptions of people people can form into three main groups This concept did not come clear until I read Ernest Hemingways The Battler in his collection of short stories In Our Time In this story Hemingway uses three main characters to explain who exactly those three main groups of people are According to Hemingway people oc

  • An Erotic Marriage Argument in The Flea

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    An Erotic Marriage Argument A Discussion of John Donnes The Flea A discussion of the John Donne poem The Flea in reference to the relation between the erotic and religious language found throughout finds relevance in almost every line of the poem The two seemingly opposite ideas exist in a congruent fashion without compromising the positions the entities stand upon Although Donnes agenda when composing The Flea is not certain the tone and the subject of his other work give the reader a good imp

  • Escape To Freedom in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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    Escape to Freedom Over the course of history individuals have fought and died to gain and protect their freedom While some humans perceive freedom as being able to do whatever comes to ones mind without hindrance others believe it is the absence of subjection to foreign domination Regardless of what people can comprehend about being free it cannot be accomplished or achieved until the person finds themselves away from what hinders them from what they desire In Mark Twains novel Adventures of Hu

  • Commentary on Sonnet 130

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    From time immemorial poems expressing love and beauty have always been a common theme Lovers are always portrayed on a pedestal possessing ethereal goddess like qualities However in Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare metaphoric contrast is used to depict his mistress as a rare natural beauty Shakespeare ridicules the traditional expression of love while successfully expressing his own The rhyme scheme of this sonnet follows an abab cdcd efef gg pattern As a Shakespearean sonnet it is organized i

  • Ethan Frome: Marriage

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    Marriage Fantasy is an escape which almost everyone can exploit in times of desperation and hopelessness However it is not equal to the contentment that execution brings Passage 1 is about a man that is too young and too full of the sap of living who is forced to live by the side of his wife whom he detested and who chooses the practical decision of staying with her than pursuing his happiness with the woman that he wishes to be with Mattie The author captures Ethans begrudging attitude towards

  • Medea: Proto Feminist

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    In Euripides Medea readers see Medea the allegedly monstrous wife of Jason hero of the Greek people Many critics have since held up Euripides play as further proof of Medeas monstrosity in her infanticide labeling her a Monstrous Mother However throughout Medeas interactions with other characters her mistreatment by her husband Jason and her interactions with her children the reader sees Medea in a new light she is no longer monstrous In fact the ideas of mythic and monstrous mothers no longer

  • Transformation in the Relationship Between Lady Macbeth and Macbeth

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    Explain the Transformation in the Relationship between Lady Macbeth and Macbeth following the murder of Duncan Macbeth was written between 1603 and 1606 in the times of King James VIs reign a time when the stereotype for the stronger and harder gender was the male sort however Shakespeare obviously knew that making a play that contradicts this would cause a huge uproar either for or against it luckily for us it was a success and we still relish it still today Shakespeare probably did not believ

  • Presentation of Capitalism and the American Dream in Death of a Salesman

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    Arthur Millers 1949 modern classic Death Of A Salesman has been said for years to be a communist attack on the American government Its critical edge ironically tragic plot and far from subtle comment on how the lives of everyday Americans are effected by the wave of overwhelming consumerism that engulfs the Western world have all the makings of a post war anti capitalist masterpiece In this essay I am going to look at and explore how the lives and relationships of the plays key characters are e

  • The Class System in An Inspector Calls

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    An Inspector Calls is set in 1912 but was written by J B Priestley in 1945 The Inspector Calls takes place at the end of the Edwardian Era Around this time took place many new inventions along with social controversy and political activity In 1912 the wealthy upper class people lived extraordinary lives whilst the lower class lived poor deprived lives This is shown extremely well in An Inspector Calls as The Birlings and Croft family are upper class families and show their wealth and intoleranc

  • Psychopathic Behaviour in The Collector and The Wasp Factory

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    Explore the presentation of psychopathic behaviour in John Fowles The Collector and Iain Banks The Wasp Factory Both John Fowles The Collector and Iain Banks The Wasp Factory present characters whose behaviour can be described as psychopathic Psychopathy can be described as chronic immoral and antisocial behaviour In The Collector Frederick Frederick behaves in an obsessive evil and psychopathic way when he imprisons Miranda eventually leading to her gruesome death In The Wasp Factory Frank Cau

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