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  • "Othello" A Critical Review

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    Othello A Critical Review Othello A Critical Review Prof Niamat Ali Depatment of English Govt Islamia College Kasur Pakistan Shakespeare the crown of English literature can rightfully boast of his marvelous achievements as a dramatist His plays both comedies and tragedies have a sterling worth of their own The magnet of his plays pulls the iron dust of thoughts and the reader feels himself bound by silky ropes of interest and pleasure He maintains such an artistic balance in his writings as is

  • Loss of Innocence in The Wars

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    Throughout history mankind has been ravaged by war From ancient Egypt to the Greeks and even the Romans to the modern ages with wars like World War I and World War II and even the war in Iraq War I something that humans are bound to do and will continue to do throughout history In Timothy Findleys novel The Wars Findley tries to portray the ideas of the brutality of war and the devastation that it causes Also both the emotional and physical pain that war causes as well Another thing that Findle

  • Analysis of Into The Wild

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    A young man just tends to leave the world and all of society behind him only to build a new life Is something like this attainable Christopher McCandless thought so The novel Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer tells the story of a young man who had always believed his life ritual was based on mental knowledge The existential mind of McCandless seemed to prove this statement true His effort he put into his work was nothing compared to what would lie ahead on this so called journey of his To part from

  • Analysis of Daisy Miller

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    An Analysis of The American Girl Daisy Miller By Henry James In the novel Daisy Miller Daisy Miller herself represents the typical American Girl of the late 19th century She is free spirited and her individuality most likely reflects the social movement of the American middle class Daisy is introduced to us as an extremely pretty young American who is on a European tour with her mother and brother She is seemingly unaware of customs and traditions of European high society and very much has issu

  • Symbolism in The Lovely Bones

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    English Summer Reading Essay The Lovely Bones details symbols Every novel or piece of work has symbols and details that are placed in the story for specific reasons A symbol is something that represents something else most of the time it is something abstract The little details in a story can also be very significant in the story line They might be the smallest of details but they can mean or represent something so big In the book The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold there are details and symbols t

  • Literary Devices in The Scarlet Ibis

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    Foreshadowing is one of the elements of style which make The Scarlet Ibis great For example the author states The last graveyard flowers were blooming and their smell drifted through our house speaking softly the names of our dead This passage clearly foreshadows the death of Doodle Also Hurst comments on Doodles full name William Armstrong that such a name sounds good only on a tombstone again foreshadowing Doodles death Later Doodles cries of Dont leave me Dont leave me are a parallel to the

  • Paradise Of The Blind

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    Duong Thu Huong writes Paradise of the Blind intending to expose the poor workings and of Communism and demonstrate the adverse effects felt by the people effected Huongs sees that Hangs self discovery and acceptance of her dissatisfaction with life heavily characterises the novels final passage By the end of the passage Hang has come to terms with her place in her Vietnamese culture deciding she will leave all this behind Huong establishes this decision through the use of contrasting natural i

  • Commentary on We All Fall Down

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    General outline for any essay question Themes Characters and Techniques Robert Cormiers We All Fall Down explores the April Fools Day trashing of the Jeromes house that leaves the youngest daughter Karen in a coma the house a physical disaster and an emotional state for Jane and her family The trashers are four average high schoolers led by the domineering Harry Flowers Harry manipulated the group and takes advantage of Buddys state of mind The Avenger an 11 year old boy witnesses it all but re

  • The Theme of Deception in Twelfth night

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    he Theme of Deception in Act One of Twelfth Night by Shakespeare The theme of deception runs very strong in Act One Almost all the characters seem to either be deceiving someone or being deceived themselves Orsino is the first deceiver we meet He is also being deceived by himself He is fooling himself by believing that he only has to tell a woman he loves her and she will fall in love with him He is in love with the idea of love itself He is so infatuated with love he makes parallels about love

  • Commentary on To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time

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    Gather ye rose buds while ye may Old Time is still a flying Take advantage of all the opportunities that come your way they will never boomerang and come right back to you again In the 1648 poem To the Virgins to Make Much of Time Robert Herrick uses the controlling metaphor of embracing ones purity to express the complex attitude of the speaker To maintain a more relaxed and inviting tone Herricks diction emphasizes a carpe diem theme to the audience clearly stated in the title in an attempt t

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