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  • Success in Crow Lake

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    Success is life giving you a chance at something great and you take that chance and work for it Failure is something one would avoid but it just happens These failures can affect peoples lives more than one would think In the novel Crow Lake by Mary Lawson Kates family plays a major role in her success and failures in life Her family was given choices to make throughout the novel and the choices made by them led to her success and failure Some of the success that Kate had in her life happened b

  • Death In Home Burial in The Cask Of Amontillado

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    The short story is an important genre in American literature For a variety of reasons including but not limited to the rise of the middle class and the expansion westward which gave most American leisure time and created a perfect atmosphere for this mode of literature to blossom the short story exploded in popularity in the early stages of American history One of the preeminent authors of this mode was Edgar Allan Poe His tales are often gothic macabre short stories so it is no surprise that A

  • Use of Literary Devices in 1984

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    Discuss and illustrate how Orwell political and social views are shown by the choices of themes characters language narrative style in 1984 Comment on distinctive features of the novel Commenting on how effective you find it in warning about the dangers of totalitarianism Nineteen eighty four was released in 1948 It is a satire that depicts Orwells extreme perspective of a future controlled by totalitarianism In the novel the world is split up into three main super powers Oceania Eurasia and Ea

  • Presentation and Function of Symbols in A Dolls House

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    A Dolls House by Henry Ibsen adapted by Frank McGuiness centres around the controversial theme of female repression in the 1970s It is about a middle class family in which the wife Nora is controlled and infantilized by her husband Without his knowledge she undergoes a loan to safe his life but by doing so she undermines all of his core familial values She goes to every extent so that he does not find out but in the end it is inevitable As in many literary works A Dolls House contains many symb

  • Setting in Chapter One of Thrse Raquin

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    In the first chapter of the book Thrse Raquin Zola creates a detailed description of the setting creating an atmosphere that is some what less then desirable We are instantly taken into the bleak dark narrow corridor that runs between the Rue Mazarine and the Rue de Seine Out of this sinister atmosphere that is created we are then introduced to mysterious characters that dwell in the the darkness that is at home in the middle of the day Zola creates a tight claustrophobic almost suffocating atm

  • Dante's Journey in The Divine Comedy

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    In the Divine Comedy Dante goes through many changes as he travels through Hell on through Purgatory and ending in Heaven As the story progresses and Dante goes through hell he changes from being sympathetic to the residents of hell to being less sympathetic and believing more that you get what you deserve Not only does Dante change throughout the story but the style in which the poem is written changes Just like Dante the writing becomes more refined as the story unravels Right off the bat in

  • Commentary on the Opening Sequence of Dog Soldiers

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    Opening sequence of Dog Soldiers The sequence begins with a couple camping in the Scottish Highlands The woman gives the man a silver letter opener as a present soon after they are attacked in their tent Meanwhile Private Cooper is seen running through a forest in North Wales He attacks his pursuers but is overwhelmed and wrestled to the ground It turns out Cooper was trying to join the Special Forces but fails when he refuses to shoot a dog Captain Richard Ryan returns him to unit This sequenc

  • Domestic Chronotope In Pride And Prejudice

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    NEHA YADAV DOMESTIC CHRONOTOPE IN PRIDE AND PREJUDICE The Russian philologist and literary philosopher Mikhail Mikhailvoch Bakhtin 1895 1975 uses the term Chronotope to designate the Spatio Temporal matrix which governs the base condition of all narratives and other linguistic acts The term itself can be literally translated as Time Space The term is developed in Bakhtins essay Forms of Time and Chronotope in the Novel Bakhtin in his essay says that a literary works artistic unity in relationsh

  • Commentary on The Sun Rising

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    Paying close attention to language tone and action write a critical appreciation of The Sun Rising In order to unpack the methodology of Donnes love poems it is necessary first of all to expound on his concept of love Quite contrary to the poetry of his day Donne postulates that love may not only be of divine or lofty conception but in his estimation truly seen in the combination of carnal enjoyment of country pleasures a la The Flea to intangibles seen in heavenly realms of angels and heavenly

  • Dr. Faustus: A Tragic Hero

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    Dr Faustus A Tragic Hero Doctor Faustus died a death that few could bear to imagine much less experience After knowing for many years when exactly he would die he reached the stroke of the hour of his destiny in a cowardly horrid way Finally when the devils appeared at the stroke of midnight tearing at his flesh as they draw him into his eternal torment he screamed for mercy not even God Himself could pity him for what he has done However what to consider about Doctor John Faustus from Christop

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