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- 2191: The Lottery By Shirley Jackson
- ... for a shocking and deadly end. What seemed like a wonderful, joy-filled day ended with an unfortunate, tragic death. This is what makes this story so disturbing and horrifying but a wonderful work of literature art.
- 2192: The Sun Also Rises - Response
- ... often found myself reading five or ten pages and laying it aside to absorb without engulfing. A man gets used to reading Star Wars and pulp fiction and New York Times Bestsellers and forgets what literature is until it slaps him in the face. This book was written, not churned out or word-processed. Again, I thoroughly enjoyed reading. I never noticed it until it was brought up in class, maybe ...
- 2193: Things Fall Apart By Chinua Ac
- Chinua Achebe wrote the novel, Things Fall Apart, which is a great piece of African literature that deals with the Ibo culture, society, and history. One place where the Ibo religion is practiced is in the village of Umuofia in Africa, where the story takes place. On the other hand, Christianity ...
- 2194: Wutherinng Heights
- ... Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1995, p.36. All subsequent quotes from the novel will be indicated by the page number in parenthesis. 3 Abrams, M.H. The Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol. 2, sixth edition, Norton & Co., London, p.6. 4 Idem. No Coward Soul is Mine by Emily Bronte, p.1273.
- 2195: OLIVER TWIST SUMMARY
- ... the important aspects of the book. I do not think Orwell took into account his audience when he wrote this book. He must have known that not everyone who would read his great work of literature would not know well the complete history of the Russian Revolution. Taking this idea into account, I think he could have somehow made it possible for a person who did not know about the Russian ...
- 2196: Odysseus And Aeneas
- ... jumps into things without thinking about it first. Odysseus on the other hand plans things before and has a much better outcome. Both Aeneas and Odysseus are important epic heroes in both Greek and Roman literature. They both play an important role in The Oddessy and The Aenied.
- 2197: Narrative Of The Captivity Of
- ... of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson is a personal account, written by Mary Rowlandson in 1682, of what life in captivity was like. Her narrative of her captivity by Indians became popular in both American and English literature. Mary Rowlandson basically lost everything by an Indian attack on her town Lancaster, Massachusetts in 1675; where she is then held prisoner and spends eleven weeks with the Wampanoag Indians as they travel to safety ...
- 2198: Far From The Madding Crowd
- English Literature Coursework Assignment - Far From The Madding Crowd (Prose written before 1900) ‘Compare and contrast Bathsheba Everdene’s three suitors’ In the novel ‘Far from the Madding Crowd’ the main female role, Bathsheba Everdene, is pursued ...
- 2199: Familial Themes With Shakespea
- ... arms. In the end, by breaking the natural law, Lear was left a bittered old man who lost what was most precious in his life. Bibliography 1) Abrams, M. H. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. W. W. Norton and Co., New York, 1993. 2) Harbage, Alfred. Shakespeare: the Tragedies. Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1964. 3) Heilman, Robert. Shakespeare: the Tragedies (New Perspective). Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs ...
- 2200: Jane Eyre And Foreshadowing
- ... its essence. Rectitude was a basic Bronte quality: the importance of what people are and believe in, as opposed to their sense of self-interest. Applied to fiction, it contributed a new dimension to popular literature. All unconsciously Currer Bell, with her scrupulous regard for truth and critical self-analysis, and advanced the novel by half a century.
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