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- 11701: T.s Eliot Interpretation Of Wa
- ... inability to be a part of society is personified by this "etherised patient." Like a scene from an apocalyptic film, the streets are dark, dirty and half-deserted, leaving the reader to wonder why the world is as is described by Prufrock. The reader begins the poem on a dark note but is suddenly thrown into a lyrical couplet that presents a glaring juxtaposition of emotions: "In the room the women ... two scenes. Which one represents the reality of Prufrock's life? No sooner than the reader witnesses some cleanliness and civility, does Prufrock take us back to the horror and dream like (nightmare) of the world originally mentioned. The yellow fog which, according to Eliot, is the factory smoke from St. Louis that blew across the Mississippi, is referred as a type of beast, probably a cat. The fog "rubs its ... he is still able to darken it by refusing to succumb to its pleasures and choses (or feels compelled) to return to the dark side: "Till human voices wake us, and we drown." The mundane world draws him back. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is not generally described as a surrealistic poem, but if the definition of surrealism combines dreams, the un- or sub-consciousness' and symbolic meaning ...
- 11702: The Glass Meangere
- ... publication, in that same year, of Lyle Leverich's Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams. Both events represent access to information about this playwright that has, heretofore, been unavailable to scholars an influx of so much new information that a reexamination of Williams's work is not only possible, but necessary. My dissertation will reexamine Williams's work in light of his claim that "plays in the tragic tradition offer us a ... Harry Rasky's 1986 book, Tennessee Williams: A Portrait in Laughter and Lamentation, is another personalized account of Williams's life. This work contains priceless and irreplaceable photographs of Williams in Key West and in New Orleans. The infrequent occasions wherein Rasky sets aside his authorial voice and presents block quotes from Williams are historically valuable, as well. Yet another anecdote-based account of the playwright's life comes from his ... religious, mythological, and existential symbols and imagery. I expect Thompson's groundwork to be a foundation on which I will build. Published a year before Thompson's work, Roger Boxill's Tennessee Williams is a New Critical examination of the life and major works of the playwright. The critics in this collection provide a thorough textual analysis of selected Williams plays. For an overview of critical and biographical works relative ...
- 11703: The Black Cat
- A Glimpse Into the World of The Black Cat Those who have read any of Edgar Allan Poe s short stories know that most of them are full of suspense and mystery and that they efflict a feeling of horror ... maddened by the actions of the cat, he cuts out its eye and later kills the cat by hanging it. After his house burns down and he has lost all he owned he finds a new cat resembling all to well the first. One day while working with his wife in the cellar he is nearly tripped down the stairs by the cat, he then picks up an axe and tries ...
- 11704: Naturalism In To Build A Fire
- ... the elements. The mistakes that the man made reflect everyday life by showing how just one accident or miscalculation can cost you your life. Naturalism utilized the environment to show how fierce and apathetic the world can be. In the opening scene of "To Build a Fire" London used a bleak description of the Yukon to show how barren the wild is. "The Yukon lay a mile wide and hidden under ... the darwinistic idea of survival of the fittest to reveal that no matter what the environment is, if you are not careful about the decisions you make you will die. When the man decided to brave the perils of the Yukon he was not smart enough to take a partner with him in case something happened to him. His only thoughts were of getting back to camp before it became dark ...
- 11705: Thunderwith
- ... with the death of her beloved mother. She is sent to live with her father that she has not seen since she was a child. Lara is also going to live with her father s new family that she has never met. Larry her father has a new wife. Lara has the impression that the Man will care for and look after her, saving her from his wife and kids. When Lara eventually meets her new stepmother, her half-brother and half-sisters, she immediately knows that she is not wanted and that they hate her. So Lara thinks that the Man will look after her and save her from ...
- 11706: The Queen Of Spades, Pushkin
- ... overthrow the Czar Nicholas I in the earliest days of his reign. History has come to call this dramatic episode in Russian history "the Decembrist Rebellion." After the uprising was successfully put down by the new government of Nicholas I, Pushkin found himself in grave trouble with the Czar's secret police because, although he had not been part of the plot (probably on account of the great distance between Mikhaylovskoe ... psychology. It is a story of man's character becoming his fate, of calculation triumphing over imagination and feeling with the protagonist's destruction the ultimate result. Hermann's overweening desire to rise in the world by acquiring money causes him to lose not only his winnings and his patrimony, but finally his mind. Unlike Macbeth, who also sells his soul out of greedy ambition, Hermann is never able to enjoy ...
- 11707: The Jungle 4
- ... meat packing industry and the general corruption of capitalism. He did this by telling the story of a group of Lithuanian immigrants who came to America seeking fortune, freedom, and opportunity. These hopes for the new world perished in jungle of human suffering. Sinclair s answer to the horrible conditions in packinghouses, wage slavery, and anguish of laborers was socialist reform. The immigrants in The Jungle were victims of the greed that ...
- 11708: The Farming Of The Bones
- Towards the end of Edwidge Danticat's new novel The Farming of Bones, a man says "Famous men never truly die... It is only those nameless and faceless who vanish like smoke in the early morning air." The time is 1937, the place ... Amabelle... Sad and powerful, The Farming of Bones is a beautifully written book. Edwidge Danticat has an effortless style that seems as natural as a flowing stream. Her simple but sensuous language brings her tropical world to life; one can feel the heat, see the luxuriant colors, taste the spicy foods. The tone of her narrator remains level throughout, and this understated directness, even in the face of brutality and horror ...
- 11709: Native Son...what Does The Nov
- ... America. On page 276 half way through the first paragraph in the thoughts of Bigger Thomas is this first illustrated. Bigger is thinking the following: "that they regarded him as a figment of that black world which they feared and were anxious to keep under control. The atmosphere of the crowd told him that they were going to use his death as a bloody symbol of fear to wave before the eyes of that black world". It is common knowledge that people fear what they don't know but what is not common knowledge is how those fears are manifested. In this part of the novel we see fully how fear ... full paragraph. In Buckley's argument you can hear the fear but most of all you hear those words of control. The words that he uses are not just meant for the judge but the world outside the courtroom. He says "My voice may sound vindictive…but I am really saying is that the law is sweet when it is enforced and protects a million worthy careers…from the ravishing ...
- 11710: Night
- ... was going to be set up. Initially, the Jews were able to have their own government and police system. After living in this ghetto for a while, the Germans forced them to relocate into a new ghetto some miles down the road. This new ghetto did not last very long and the Jews were forced to move again. The Germans forced the Jews to board a train and travel to a concentration camp. Elie, Elie’s mom, father, and ... for three weeks. At the end of three weeks, the person in charge of their barracks was executed for being too humane. Elie, his father, and many other Jews were forced to go to a new concentration camp. Their destination was a camp called Buna. When the Jews arrived in Buna the camp looked like “it had suffered an epidemic”. The camp looked empty and dead. Elie’s job here ...
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