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  • Comparing The Cask of Amontillado and The Tell-Tale Heart

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    During his lifetime Edgar Allen Poe wrote a number of short stories In many of his works such as The Tell Tale Heart and The Cask of Amontillado there are many similarities They are comparable through the narrative story and mood of the stories The narrators in both works of literature prove to be similar in many ways Both are murderers and tell their story in a first person point of view and they take very careful caution so that they would not get caught Also both stories deal with very dark

  • Education in Jane Eyre

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    Throughout the novel of Jane Eyre we see the theme of education been used by Bronte to convey the hostile and rootless life of Jane as she goes on a journey of experience The novel Jane Eyre provides an accurate view of education in nineteenth century England The course of Janes Life in regard to her own education and her work in education are largely autobiographical mirroring Charlotte Brontes own life At the beginning of the novel Jane educates herself as she reads I returned to my book Bewi

  • Overview of Emma

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    Youthful Emma Woodhouse whose long time governess and friend Miss Taylor has just married Mr Weston takes some solace in being left alone with her aging father by claiming that she made the match herself An old friend of the family Mr George Knightley does not believe her but in her certainty she decides that she must also marry off the young rector Mr Elton Among her friends and acquaintances in the large and populous village of Highbury she begins to notice young Harriet Smith the pretty ille

  • Expression in The Glass Menagerie

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    Williams use of Expression as an essential element of his drama Tennessee Williams is admired for the theatricality of his plays and for introducing literary devices into the theatre in particularly The Glass Menagerie In this drama he uses devices such as lighting and sound techniques to enhance the effectiveness of his themes Throughout this play the characters are tempted toward illusion when they find reality too painful Although the illusions of some characters are more socially acceptable

  • Love in Cat in the Rain

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    Love is more love is more than just a word its an action its a way of life it is a way to describe something so fulfilling that every second is worth it Both Ernest Hemingway and James Joyce describe actions of love that step beyond boundaries to prove that love exists Ernest Hemingways short story Cat in the Rain takes place in a hotel room in Italy In the story the lady sees a cat outside of her window crouched under a dripping wet green table feeling sorrow for the cat she wants to go and ge

  • Analysis of Kindred

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    Octavia Butlers Kindred tells a story of how a modern day black woman Dana is transported from California to the antebellum South to protect a man that would become her ancestor Her survival essentially relies on her ability to keep him alive She is summoned to a plantation in Maryland that her ancestor Rufus Weylin lives on Every time Rufus faces danger Dana would be called upon to protect him so that he can father the child that will become her ancestor Each time Dana goes back to the past sh

  • Commentary on Ethan Frome

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    At midnight through an accumulated snowfall of some two feet a young Ethan Frome walks the quiet streets of Starkfield Near the edge of the village he stops in front of the community church where a dance is being held He makes his way around the churchs perimeter and settles in front of a basement window craning his neck to get a view of the festivities The dance is concluding and the assembled group is preparing to leave But when the young handsome and energetic Denis Eady jumps back onto the

  • Excessive Excess: A Catalyst for Introspection in Various Comedies

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    Excess is a recurring idea in comic works that is portrayed through the various actions and interactions of the characters Excess is essentially the idea of taking something to an extreme in some cases to the point where it begins to stretch the realistic credibility of what is occurring Comedy attempts to be realistic using characters that seem human and to an extent the audience can relate to these fictional beings But excess is the flip side where the actions of the characters seem artificia

  • 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

  • Presentation of Race and Religion in Act 1 Scene 3 of The Merchant of Venice

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    Explore Shakespeares presentation of race and religion in Act 1 Scene 3 of The Merchant of Venice There are many ways in which Shakespeare presents his views on race and religion and the way he portrays the characters that have very different religious beliefs The effect that The Merchant of Venice might have on the audiences is changing the way people think about race and religion In this play the main religions are Christianity and Judaism At the time of Shakespeare anti Semitism was a big is

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