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Borges' Work: the Relationship of Author and Audience Literature Book Report/Review
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Borges exposes in this way the relationship of author and audience. By using every stratagem available to him, Borges prevails upon the reader's confidence and shapes his thought so that by the end of the story the reader is happy to accept notions of causality that, if baldly narrated, would seem impossible, if not ridiculous.
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The Dreamer Examines His Pillow by John Patrick Shanley Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that when Tommy opens the door, she blows in angrily. She finds that the apartment is filthy and run down. It looks like he has not been taking care of himself. She comments on this, saying that he used to be clean and presentable, and demands an explanation. When he seems unfazed by his current condition, her anger escalates.
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'Cal' by Bernard Mac Laverty Literature Essay
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The state appears to us as a violent society, in which people are experiencing hate and anger towards each other. We can see not only mere facts of the history but feel how did they affect the Irish. Cal McCluskey is a young, Catholic man living in Protestant housing estate in Northern Ireland with his father.
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The Evolution of the Grail Myth throughout Arthurian Romances Literature Book Report/Review
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The role of Chretien de Troyes, Malory, the Mabinogion, and others in the evolution of the Grail Myth through the Arthurian Romances is of paramount consideration. Cultural historians from time to time have dealt with the evolution of the Grail legend which came mostly through the written romances and these romances derived mainly from the pre-Christian folklore suggestions.
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What Happens in Hamlet: Macmillan Literature Essay
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The author states that the entire play is full of such lines showing her beauty and innocence. However, Hamlet’s later attitude towards her mixed with the death of her father and her own tragic end creates dissatisfaction among the audience. Secondly Hamlet’s tragic end creates unrest in the minds of the audience.
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19th century medievalist poetic comparison Literature Essay
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Knights performing acts of chivalry, damsels in distress, magical beings, and internal struggles between loyalty and passion are prominent identifying aspects of medieval literature.
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Enough Money, a Room and an Androgynous Mind of Ones Own Literature Essay
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The author states that Woolf quite clearly sees the flaws of society, which has been and still is, patriarchal in orientation. The woman had been denied a proper education for centuries; she had only recently acquired the right to property, wealth, and suffrage. Even as late as 1928 she could be shooed off the University turf.
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Treatment of Love in the Following Romantic Poem and Extract from a Romantic Poem Literature Book Report/Review
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They help the reader to understand that such love cannot be divorced from the physical, which some may consider as mere lust.  Physical and psychological are intertwined in the final consummation of passionate love, or what individuals may perceive such love to be.  Byron and Dacre have, in their different ways, exposed the different facets of this enigmatic emotion, this love, whatever it may be.     
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Joyce and Beckett Literature Book Report/Review
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Yet, rather surprisingly, only one book-- Barbara Reich Gluck's Beckett and Joyce: Friendship and Fiction (1979)--has been dedicated to the subject. Besides Gluck's study, however, many other researchers and critics have addressed the Joyce-Beckett relationship; the difficulty is simply that the material is scattered among chapters of books and scholarly journals.
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The Descriptive Aspect of Literature Literature Essay
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The author states that Toni Bambara’s work presents the reality of social inequality and William Faulkner’s work presents patriarchy and gendered narratives. Toni Cade Bambara’s “The Lesson” reflects a social perspective regarding one African-American girl's struggle and her increasing awareness of the nature of class inequality.
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Analysis of The Yellow Wallpaper Narrative Literature Essay
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The setting, symbols and literary devices suffuse the reader with the horror, not of the supernatural but the horror behind the “proper” surface of every woman who is shaped in mind and body to fit patriarchal discourse. The narrator says “most women do not creep by daylight” and later she sees “there are so many of those creeping women”.  
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Huxleys Brave New World Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that to be more precise the writer has described all the human moral values as vices in this world. Every chapter in this novel sends jitters through the body of a reader. The time showed in this novel is in the future. The significant thing about this World is that it is not divided into different continents.
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What is Achilleus' line of reasoning in specific Line Literature Essay
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According to his words which he said to Ulysses ,Achilles believes he has two options: he can either live a long, unremarkable life at home or else he can die young and gloriously as a mercenary warrior.
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Seeing through August Wilsons Fences Literature Essay
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The author states that at the beginning of the play, Troy thinks he is building a fence to please Rose. She wants a fence that will keep all those she loves safe inside its walls. Later, after Alberta’s death, Troy completes the fence to keep danger, death, and frustration outside its walls.
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Twentieth Century Fiction Literature Assignment
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The author states that under ordinary circumstances, petite narrative happens to be less intricate than the work of fictions. In most cases petite narrative is oriented towards a common incident; it has a distinct background, a small numeral of attributes, and stretches for a very minimal interlude.
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Travel as a Symbol of Personal Freedom, Self-Identification and Truth Literature Book Report/Review
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The theme of travel, based on real journeys or imaginary ones, is one of the most popular in world literature. In many stories, travel symbolizes life paths, experience, and eternal knowledge. Travel is used as a canvas to describe the deep personal feelings and life experiences of a human. Both books are based on the theme of travel and real journey.
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Alvar Nuez Cabeza de Vaca: Texas Campaign Literature Essay
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This essay follows the history of colonial Texas. In early November 1528, he and about eighty other Spaniards and an African slave named Estevanico sailed to the Texas coast to the west of present-day Galveston Island. Over the next eight years, “Cabeza de Vaca experienced hardships and misfortunes that would have defeated a lesser man.
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Beowulf and the Epic of Gilgamesh Literature Essay
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The researcher proves that the journeys undertaken by Gilgamesh and Beowulf are not only personal journeys of self-discovery, but journeys that establish the values of their cultures. While their personal adventures and situations are unique, the travels of Beowulf and Gilgamesh are representative of each human’s quest to find purpose in life.
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Sir Philip Sidneys Defence of Poesie as an Apology for Imagination rather than Literature Literature Book Report/Review
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He asserts without a doubt, that style and diction should assist a writer in the imaginative portrayal of real life. He advocates creativity in literature. He states that literature without imagination does not serve any purpose. Thus, it is not an overstatement to comment, that Sidney’s “Apology for Poetry” is in fact an apology for imagination.
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Symbolism of Snakes in Metamorphoses Literature Essay
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According to the report the hero arrived in the form of Apollo, who killed the serpent Python. He then established the annual Pythian games to commemorate this anniversary. The God that bears the bow, and that had never before used such arms, but against the deer and the timorous goats, destroyed him.
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A Rose for Emily Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that it was no wonder that the whole populace of the small town was interested in a marriageable young woman, especially so if the woman and her sweetheart did not belong to the same social class. The class difference played an important part in the small towns of the American South, with ordinary people.
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My Sisters Keeper by Jodi Picoult Literature Book Report/Review
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The author explains that Anna and Kate are sisters. Anna’s birth is meant to help Kate fight Leukemia. Anna was born through In Vitro Fertilization, only to be a donor to her sister who was diagnosed with leukemia at the age of two. Within thirteen years of age, Anna has undergone many surgeries and transfusions to help her sister.
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Annotated bibliography: William Shakespeare''s Othello Literature Essay
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The author of the paper goes further comparing other critics in stressing Othello's vulnerability, and totally ignores Emilia's role in the play. In some way he summarizes the critical debate between those who see Desdemona as saint and those who see her as slut. He contrasts the genuine intimacy of the women with the hypocritical friendship of the men.
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Russian myth in modern literature Literature Essay
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To demand allegiance, cultural literacy is often brought out in modern literature and filmography and entertains its avid reader or viewer. True enough; a desired effect is probably gained if the audience is limited to a group of similar beliefs.
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End Game from the Views of Dollimore Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the plays Bus Stop by William Inge and End Game by Samuel Beckett are two most significant examples of how the artist represents anti-establishment ideas through the use of disjointed elements in the work of art. In a close reading of these two plays, one realizes that the authors have been careful in presenting discordant ideas.
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The Philosophy of Francisco dAnconia and John Galt Literature Book Report/Review
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The fact that the majority is invariably wrong on any point distinguished by the slightest element of doubt or controversy should not really surprise the discerning. Anyone who takes for granted the premise that on such points the majority is always right must realize that he has entered the garden path of destruction.
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An Unusual Scrivener and an Unlikely Lawyer Literature Assignment
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The author states that the narrator has quite a lot to say about both himself and Bartleby, and his experience with the scrivener seems to have been really educative. It could be argued that the lawyer gets a scrivener after his heart to help him know himself better. The position of the subordinates in his office is also preeminently safe.
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This Book Is not Required by Inge Bell Literature Assignment
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The author states that this is a book which has in fact been regarded as being an incredibly powerful tool which can be used in many different ways, in particular, to introduce students to the sociological analysis and personal reflection of college life, and through the concepts that are introduced in the book.
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Everyday Use by Alice Walker Literature Essay
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Dee has not successfully found a single self-consciousness that combines her American and her African parts; she instead has merely traded her African for her American.  DuBois writes of blacks living a life in which they see themselves “through the revelation of the other world” and this is precisely what Dee does throughout the story.
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Carl Roger's Humanistic Approach Literature Annotated Bibliography
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He discusses the advantages and disadvantages of these conditions from the points of view of various commentators and scientists and compares their viewpoints. The author states that the two elements, e.g. realness and acceptance are useful and attractive for those who work in the field of psychology. “Empathetic understanding”, is concerned, he states that this condition brings a lot of problems.
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The Yellow Wallpaper by Perkins Gilman Literature Essay
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This short story is full of symbolism which forces readers to confront with and think over events depicted in the short story.In this story, "the yellow wallpaper" is both the surface and symbol. As the surface, it represents lunatic asylum where the main character is put.
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The function of context in literary studies Literature Essay
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The ideas of ambition, deception, loyalty and retribution represented in William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" were widely spread in medieval history. Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" has as well historical as psychological contexts. The novel takes us a good picture of customs spread in the 18th century in England.
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Toni Morrison's Novels The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, and Beloved Literature Book Report/Review
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In the afterword to The Bluest Eye, Morrison writes that she hopes its opening ‘provides the stroke that announces something more than a secret shared, but a silence broken, a void filled, an unspeakable thing spoke at last’ (Morrison 1977). In these three novels, I believe Morrison sets out to speak the unspeakable in order to fill the void she sees in communal black American culture.
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The immigrants and working class of In the Skin of a Lion Literature Essay
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In Book One’s The Searcher, after his father’s death, Patrick temporarily left the honest but dangerous profession of being a dynamiter and went to Ontario. He became an immigrant transplanted into the big city. He changed his profession to become a Searcher of missing persons, namely, the vanished millionaire called Ambrose Small.
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Alices Adventures in Wonderland Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that Alice most of the time forgot that she was merely a visitor in Wonderland for she would get exasperated when things there did not conform to her expectations, according to her own values and knowledge. More significantly, she did not realize that even her innocent ways of giving advice.
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Spirituality of Epics and Novels since the Ancient Times Literature Essay
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The Epic of Gilgamesh dates from the beginnings of civilization in Mesopotamia. Gilgamesh was the fifth king of the Sumerian city of Uruk after the Great Flood. The Epic of Gilgamesh is one of the most popular stories ever told. The story seems to have taken form almost two thousand years before that. There is also another story titled Dante’s inferno.
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Women, Work and Worthiness in Jane Eyre Literature Essay
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In the early nineteenth century women were very much confined to the domestic sphere of work, even as scientific advancements and industrialization were slowly forcing women to supplement the family income. The dilemma and difficulties faced by women during this period of change and turmoil have been the subject of many a classic.
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Virginia Tech: Making Sense of What Happened Literature Case Study
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The author states that the murderer left behind a videotape by taking dozens of other people with him, he ensured his notorious place in history and found a way to set the record straight: He was a man to be reckoned with. Cho Seung-Hui had been previously investigated for hostile behavior.
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Th Smrtst Guys in th Room Literature Essay
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Thе аuthors rightly spеnd thе vаst mаjority of thе book еxаmining thе pеrsonаlitiеs аnd circumstаncеs thаt аllowеd thе compаny to bеcomе whаt it wаs аt thе еnd of its lifе. Mix а potion thаt's onе pаrt hаrdscrаbblе Hаrvаrd MBАs, onе pаrt еnеrgy dеrеgulаtion, аnd onе pаrt hystеricаl bull mаrkеt, аnd you'vе got а finаnciаl Molotov cocktаil.
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A&P by John Updike and Araby by James Joyce Literature Essay
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The author states that John Updike portrays Sammy, the narrator of "A & P", as a nineteen-year-old cashier at the local A & P in a coastal town near Boston. Sammy, thru the use of daring means, fruitlessly attempts to win the attention of a beautiful girl. The narrator of "Araby" depicted by James Joyce, also, conveys his first failed love.
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Contrast of The Crucible by Arthur Miller and The Color Purple by Alice Walker Literature Book Report/Review
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A common theme is the approach of the people towards their religion. The title of both the literary pieces conveys a religious touch in a different manner. The link between the theory and the practice of "capitalism" and of "religion" or spirit is the key to the novel's reformulation of mainstream Afro-American nationalist politics 
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Hawkings Hollow Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that ever since then every seventh year their town is plagued with unexplainable events for a full seven days. As one more seventh year unfolds they find themselves at receiving ends of a series of bloody attacks. Also joining them in their tryst this time are the three lovely ladies Lyala, Quinn, and Cybil.
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Feast of Roses by Indu Sundaresan Literature Essay
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For modern people living 21st century and considering the romantic charm of the Taj Mahal it seems easy to label these women as unthinking, vapid creatures, given only various forms of pleasure methods, living exclusively to please and satisfy their men. We must look beyond the mirror adorned harem rooms, or beyond the baths where those women amused themselves, or miniature paintings that show life of harem in an opium haze, jewels, wine and gestures of love.
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How not to commit plagiarism Literature Essay
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The author explains that the very first thing that he was able to observe while reflecting on his essays was the frequency of corrections that he made in the document. It would seem that he drew more lines than letters. Not only did he delete sentences, he also erased paragraphs in his desire to make a more polished and worthy essay.
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A Tale of Two Stones Literature Essay
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Lawrence Stone stated it best when he said, “It is perfectly true that any means by which society exercises pressure or control, whether it is an administrative organization, constitutional law, economic interest or physical force, can be a fruitful field of study in its own right, so long as its students remain aware that they are looking at only one part of a larger whole”
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The Lady and the Tiger and ''The Pearl'' Literature Book Report/Review
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Both the stories depict the probabilities of a hostile fate operating to upset one’s hopes and desires. Ambition and greed can sometimes destroy innocence. The king never thought that his barbaric idealism would also apply to his own apple-like daughter. Kino also failed to see his foolishness in relying on the pearl 
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The Path to Rome By Hilaire Belloc Literature Essay
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Initially, he praised the rail transport system for helping industrialization, the modern marsh of his time, but then contradicted himself when he said that the rails also disrupted the peace and conservation of the countryside. His sharp observation that the ‘railways are trenches to drain our modern marsh’ has another ambiguous meaning.
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A comparison and contrast of James Fentons God and Seamus Heaneys Mid-term Break Literature Essay
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.Both poems were chosen because they seemed so powerful and dealt with a topic (death) that most people do not talk about. Both authors speak English but different versions of English.
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The Turn of the Screw by Barry Literature Book Report/Review
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Language only describes the genuine article. It is only a symbolic representation of the perception -- not of the reality. It is similar to how a stick man only represents a human and is not actually a human. Furthermore, the perception of the stickman is not the stickman itself but only a mental representation of it.
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Soliloquy in Shakespeares Macbeth Literature Essay
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Soliloquy enables the reader (or viewer) to develop a sense of relation towards the characters’ inner thoughts and feelings by making universal motifs explicit to the audience in personal, subjective terms, through the words of the characters. Desire, mental anguish, and death are key points of Macbeth’s soliloquies that foreshadow his tragic end. 
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