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- 521: To My Dear And Loving Husband
- Literature, unlike a more exacting subject such as math, is open to several interpretations. There are no right or wrong answers - - just varying theories. The poem "To My Dear and Loving Husband" by Anne Bradstreet is ... describing the love with her husband. This exploration for a new interpretation allows the reader to think in such a way that others may not think of. This search for deeper meaning is essential to literature, because it adds variance and diversity to the interpretations. Anne Bradstreet's poem "To My Dear and Loving Husband" is capable of being interpreted in more than one way. This ambiguity allows the reader to ... literal and profound levels. Anne Bradstreet's poem "To My Dear and Loving Husband" can be understood literally, or it can be taken deeper, and be perceived differently with tactful analysis. The ability to understand literature in great depth is significant. It is important to probe deeper in order to gain a new perspective.
- 522: Realism And Credibility In Mol
- Realism and Credibility in Moll Flanders and Oroonoko In the Dictionary of Literary Terms, Harry Shaw states, "In effective narrative literature, fictional persons, through characterization, become so credible that they exist for the reader as real people." Looking at Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders and Aphra Behn's Oroonoko the reader will find it difficult to ... are far from established plots. The story is innovative, for example, inasmuch as the hero is black and enslaved. Behn actually was among the first to contribute to the image of the 'noble savage' in literature, seventy years before Rousseau did. It is now commonly accepted that Behn probably experienced this part of the plot herself. The first part which takes place in Africa, on the other hand, is very traditional ... of description of the colony and its inhabitants and a lively illustration of customs and scenery. Thus, although both narrators lack a certain concern for their surroundings they are aware of it. Language in realistic literature should show accuracy and authenticity. Defoe was a journalist with an immense output of written work. Moll Flanders mirrors this, as it is written in a journalistic, observing and, in some ways, bare style. ...
- 523: Censorship Of The Grapes Of Wr
- ... Censorship does have its place in society. There are many things that are too risquι, degrading, and should not be shown. Pornography, extreme sexual content, and extreme gratuitous violence does not have its place in literature or in society. The Grapes of Wrath does not have any of these above aspects. Of those who choose to ban this book and other works of literature with questionable themes, many of them are wrapped up in political correctness. In literature, life should be shown like they it is, not as someone would like it to be. As much as political correctness advocates would like to change things for the better, they cannot change the ...
- 524: Death of A Salesman: The Tragedy of One Man
- ... flight from shame and his own weakened self image. The Marxist perspective is a viable reading of this drama but it does not truly define it as a tragedy. To better understand this piece of literature as a tragedy one should observe the psychological reading which depicts the tragedy of one man. Many people wonder if Willy is really responsible for his own death, or is he, as Luke Carrol put ... Rhythm in Death of a Salesman." Modern Drama 31 (June 1988): 157 - 174. Koon, Helene, ed. Twenteth Century Interpretations of Death of a Salesman. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1983. Meyer, Micheal. The Bedford Introduction to Literature. Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1989 Sue, David, Sue, Derald, and Sue, Stanley. Understanding Abnormal Behavior. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1991. Welleck, Judith S. "Kohut's Tragic Man." Clinical Social Work Journal ...
- 525: Nadine Gordimer
- ... to live as a private individual outside the public eye. However her international fame and the many major awards which she has received have made it difficult. She has been continually involved on behalf of literature and free speech in a police state, where censorship and persecution of books and people exist. She won the Booker Prize in 1974 for The Conservationist, and she is one of only nine women to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, which she did in 1991. She has received honorary doctorates abroad, but declined one in South Africa. She also holds various positions; she is for example, Vice President of International P E.N. She was ...
- 526: Mark Twain and Racism
- Mark Twain and Racism The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, is an excellent example of racism in literature, because it uses language describing African Americans which goes beyond satire. It treats them as objects and perpetuates stereotypes. It does not expose and deal with racism, as many advocates of its reading claim, but encourages an attitude of superiority that is unnecessary and intolerable. In order to rid ourselves from this racism, African American literature should be read more often in classrooms throughout the United States. Anything less will simply perpetuate racism. The American Heritage Dictionary defines racism as "the belief that some races are inherently better than others." Mark ...
- 527: Wuthering Heights And The Them
- ... was thought to be obscene and crude (Chase 19). To the common person, it was shocking and offensive, and it did not gain popularity until long after it was first published. When the piece of literature became widely read and discussed, however, Bronte was declared as a romantic rebel against repressive conventions and a writer who made passion part of novelistic tradition (Chase 19). Unlike earlier writers, Bronte used factors from ... that she personally held to construct her classic novel. For example, Joseph s bible-thumper character most likely symbolizes her father, who was a minister. However, Bronte s book is not only a breakthrough to literature in these ways. The narration of the story is also very unique and divergent because there are multiple narrators. Bronte s character Lockwood is used to narrate the introductory and concluding sections of the novel ...
- 528: Arthur Miller and "The Crucible"
- ... of what it actually means. There are many instances of ironic language in the play. To help students identify them when they occur, have them discuss ironic statements they recognize in advertisements or in other literature they have read. - Paradox: A statement or event contrary to what one might expect. It is helpful for students to understand the term so that they can discuss the events of Salem as a paradox to what one might have expected from God- fearing people such as the Puritans. Students might identify other historical paradoxes or others found in literature they have read. - Allegory: A story in which people, things, and happenings have another meaning, as in a fable or parable. Many critics have referred to The Crucible as a political allegory. Discuss with students ...
- 529: The Transcontinental Railroad and Westward Expansion
- ... on a lesser scale by colonizing companies on the seaboard during the colonial period. The Great Plains were advertised with extraordinary enthusiasm. The Northern Pacific Railroad kept eight hundred agents in various European countries distributing literature and assisting immigrants. Literature was spread in every important European language, especially to areas in which there were droughts or bad soil. Western railroads had agents in New York City to receive immigrants; they offered special immigrant rates to ...
- 530: An Analysis of Hamlet
- ... will not bring Hamlet's father back. We are willing spectators to the unfolding of this tragedy. And between the anticipation and the act fall some of the most beautiful lines in all of dramatic literature. We never complain of the price of the ticket. And Shakespeare achieves his goal. Hamlet has run a year, several hundred times over. Works Cited *A. C. Bradley, "The Substance of Shakespearean Tragedy" Shakespearean Tragedy, MacMillan and Company Limited, 1904, pp. 1-29 **David Daiches, A Critical History of English Literature, Vol. 2.
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