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  • Cinderella Compared to Soldier's Home

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    It always takes another perspective to see change Sometimes for the person who experiences this it is hard to recognize any difference or even accept that anything happened Such is the case for the Grimm Brothers Cinderella and Ernest Hemingways Soldiers Home Although Harold and Cinderella face similar life altering conditions they ultimately ended up on different paths In order to understand how they change so radically it is necessary to distinguish what influenced them For both of these char

  • Complexity Of Powerplay In Othello And Prize Giving

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    Question Relationships at all levels involve complex powerplay How is this complexity represented in Othello and Prize Giving Othello by Shakespeare and Prize Giving by Gwen Harwood both have relationships that involve complex powerplay Powerplay is the subtle shifts of power between people for some ulterior motive Powerplay is complex because of its varying representations and its ability to shift suddenly In Othello the complex powerplay is represented by the racial tension of society compare

  • Idolisation of Lovers in Sonnet 127 and Sonnet 130

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    Towards the end of Shakespeares sonnets his preoccupation seems to be less with the fair young blonde and is steered in another direction towards that of a more mysterious dark lady Where sonnets in the fair youth section seem to be more straightforward focussing on beauty and its preservation against time The dark lady section however is far more thoughtful and takes a totally different angle on love in some poems dubbing it a maddening disease In Sonnet 130 Shakespeare instead of exaggerating

  • Contentment and Materialism in The Overcoat and The Necklace

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    Contentment and Materialism in The Overcoat and The Necklace Two well written short stories that have remarkable similarities in moral and theme are Nikolai Gogols The Overcoat and Guy de Maupassants The Necklace Both of these stories revolve around material items that drastically affect their lives and they are both aptly named after those items While The Overcoat takes place in Russia and The Necklace takes place in France both capture the essence of each country during a historically unique

  • Art in The Picture of Dorian Gray

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    The Purpose of Art as a Mirror It is the spectator and not life that art really mirrors 4 The Beginning of Oscar Wildes book The Picture of Dorian Gray is filled with oxymorons and other statements meant to give an insight on the ideas of art and the spectator Basil the artists creates a portrait of the seeming perfect Dorian Gray Dorian has a very unique relationship with the portrait whenever he experiences a certain emotion the portrait also changed as well Just as the beginning quote states

  • Eliot's Journey in Journey of the Magi

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    Eliots Journey Journey of the Magi is a dramatic monologue dealing with a mans death and reincarnation in his religious belief T S Elliot fulfills one of the requirements of a dramatic monologue by using a singular speaker He uses one of the magi in order to accomplish this task of portraying his speech and thought By expressing a point of view through the use of a character Eliot fulfills another requirement of a dramatic monologue Some scholars argue this as a free verse poem bearing no resem

  • Passage Commentary: The Merchant of Venice

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    Individual Oral Commentary Merchant of Venice Act Scene 1 Lines 8 45 This extract is from the play The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare and is placed in Act 1 Scene 1 of the play which can also be called the expository scene of the play Right before the extract we as readers have been introduced to the confused character of Antonio a rich Jewish merchant by the author who doesnt even know the source of his extreme sadness and depression Through the extract from lines 8 45 the author ha

  • 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

  • The Climax in Roman Fever

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    The climax in Roman Fever by Edith Wharton appears at the very end of the story however the author she has prepaired subtly for this shocking ending by using a series of foreshadowdings and hints before reaching the climax At the first part of the story the foreshadowings mostly concentrates on Mrs Ansley When Mrs Slade praised the Palatine for its beauty Mrs Ansley assented with so slight a stress on the me and a small break in the middle of the sentence It always will be to me And then the ne

  • 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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