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  • Assessment of The Scarlet Letter

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    Margaret Fuller 1810 1850 was an author critic editor and teacher who possessed more influence on the thought of American women than any woman previous to her time 1 She contributed significantly to the American Renaissance in literature and to mid nineteenth century reform movements A brilliant and highly educated member of the Transcendentalist group she challenged Ralph Waldo Emerson both intellectually and emotionally Women who attended her conversations and many men of her time found Fulle

  • Bartleby The Scrivener Compared to Wish I Was Here

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    Short Stories Evaluative Summaries The two short stories that I have chosen to summarise are Wish I Was Here By Jackie Kay and Bartleby The Scrivener By Herman Melville Of the four or five short stories we have studied these were the two that I found most entertaining and certainly the ones that I somehow found very able to relate to They are entirely different styles of writing from era they are written and set in to narrative technique I will attempt to summarise and evaluate these stories wi

  • Character Analysis of Malvolio from Twelfth Night

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    In Shakespeares gender comedic farce Twelfth Night the character that undergoes the deepest transformation throughout the storyline would be the straitlaced and priggish steward of Lady Olivias household Malvolio In the beginning of the play Malvolio comes off as an insignificant minor character not holding much depth however as the play progresses Malvolio begins to transform into a more complex and fascinating character that connects with the audience on numerous levels that the other charact

  • Character Description Of Louise Mallard from The Story of an Hour

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    Kate Chopins character Louise Mallard in The Story of an Hour is made realistic through her internal conflict over how she is expected or supposed to feel about her husbands death as opposed to how she actually feels It is her revelations that really make Mrs Mallard relatable and complex Her unexpected new feelings are the keys to her complexity without which she would be flat and dull Mrs Mallard is a young woman with a heart problem whom is expected to be devastated and destroyed over the su

  • Characterization and Symbolism in Everyday Use

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    Alice Walkers short story Everyday Use is a tightly woven tale that brings together many disparate elements of the story to reinforce the thesis put forward by W E B DuBois that black Americans are trapped in a double consciousness between their African heritage and their American citizenship Walkers story is about the bifurcation between a mother and a daughter between America and Africa and between the two cultures battling for one identity Beyond the obvious identity confusion expressed in t

  • Character Development of Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol

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    One of the most common and well liked Christmas tales in the English literature is A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens created one of the most famous literary characters Mr Ebenezer Scrooge as well as the most commonly well liked story A Christmas Carol Dickens uses four characterization techniques to invent Scrooge The first technique used by Dickens is physical description describing how Scrooge physically looks The second technique is Ebenezers own speech thoughts feelings or actions Also Dick

  • Characterization of Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol

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    One of the most common and well liked Christmas tales in the English literature is A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens created one of the most famous literary characters Mr Ebenezer Scrooge as well as the most commonly well liked story A Christmas Carol Dickens uses four characterization techniques to invent Scrooge The first technique used by Dickens is physical description describing how Scrooge physically looks The second technique is Ebenezers own speech thoughts feelings or actions Also Dick

  • Marriage in The Canterbury Tales

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    Chaucer and Marriage in the Canterbury Tales Chaucer has written many stories of literature in his time of the middle ages The Canterbury Tales is one of the many pieces of literature he has written In these stories there are many themes we see One of these themes that we acknowledge is marriage In three of his tales The Wife of Bath The Merchants Tale and The Clerks Tale we see this theme of marriage In The Wife of Bath we see a marriage where we have a wife who is controlling her husbands She

  • Christophine in Wide Sargasso Sea

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    Wide Sargasso Sea a novel of racism feminism greed misery and madness written by Jean Rhys in 1960 this story tells a tale of main character Antoinette Cosway her life growing up and the paths taken by herself and made by others around her The author decided to pen this book due to her fondness for Jane Eyre written by Charlotte Bronte and this was meant as an unofficial prequel to the ever popular story also starring Mr Rochester and Antoinette as Bertha the madwoman upstairs At the time when

  • Criticising Victorian Society in Hard Times and Mary Barton

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    The Victorian Era was a period of great change in many areas of life for example The Industrial Revolution There were many problems in society Famous authors in this patriarchal society were well known for being social commentators that serialised their works through newspapers Charles Dickens wrote Hard Times which is full of criticisms on pollution monotony and lack of creativity Similarly Mary Barton is a novel that was written by Elizabeth Gaskell criticising the poor conditions in which th

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