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The Battle for Bunker Hill by Richard M. Ketchum Literature Essay

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In his breathtaking book, Ketchum provides a significant exploration of the Battle of Bunker Hill, which took place on June 17, 1775, on and around Breed's Hill, and the author gives an interesting account of the ensuing fight.

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The idea of masculinity and femininity in Jean Rhys novel Wide Sargasso Sea Literature Essay

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The fictional scaffolding is only to support her unconcealed life experience. Rhys once called herself, a doormat in a world of boots. The recurring theme of her writing is the helpless female and outsider in a patriarchal milieu.The feminist literature as a genre is relatively new.

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The Long Valley by John Steinbeck Literature Essay

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The author states that the relationship between the description of the setting which is an external landscape, and its relationship to the characters, is one of great importance and significance, and is the most primary issue in the discussion of this compilation of short stories. The aim of this paper is to discuss this matter.

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El Cantar del Mio Cid Literature Essay

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El Cantar del Mio Cid is based on a true historical figure named Rodrigo (also referred to as Roy or Ruy) Díaz de Vivar who lived during the time that Spain was being reverted back to independent rule from the Moors. The poem had changed some of the names of the figures in history but most of the historical background is true.

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Psychology Annotated Bibliography Literature Essay

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This author also developed the Children of Divorce and Intervention Program which has been praised for its work. Conclusions reflected by the author as to the imbalance between the challenges and promoted strategies present extensive evidence and thorough research.

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Experiments with Female Characters in Howard Barker's The Castle Literature Book Report/Review

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In this, he shares in common with European theatre practitioners, such as Antonin Artaud and Bertolt Brecht. He is not typical of the British theatre establishment and has often alienated himself from them. He is not the type of artist to leave the script at the rehearsal door and not engage with the process beyond that. He is detailed, descriptive, and respectful of the discipline of dramaturgy.

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Super Size Me by Morgan Superlock Literature Essay

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McDonald’s is now an organization by itself. It is ‘the process by which the principles of the fast-food restaurant are coming to dominate more and more sectors of American society as well as the rest of the world’ (Retzer, 1999:1). It’s affected all walks of life—education, work, travel, the family, and every other sector.

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Post-Colonial Writings Literature Essay

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The author states that literary texts are ‘knots in a discursive network’ and “literary history is but a specific parcel within a history of the dialogic relation between the different discourses composing a culture, and the different institutions’ – not taken as a ‘thing’ but as a ‘process designed to give stability to the objects constituting it.’”

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The Cask of Amontillado Literature Essay

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The author states that Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” is recognized as one of his most well-known literary contributions because of its intricate and complicated plot of murder. The story relates Montressor’s clever plan of murdering his victim Fortunato as his revenge for the insults he received.

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Tracks by Louise Erdrich Literature Assignment

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The author states that in traditional Ojibwe culture, the tribe interacts with a number οf these manitos, or monsters, in every part οf their lives. It is this that "constitutes the ultimate source οf Ojibwa existence". Each member οf the tribe views the manito as a means to an end because all sources οf food are in some way governed by a manito.

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Paradise Lost: Miltons Divine Inspiration Literature Essay

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In the very next line, Milton shows us again the connection between the written word and divine revelation. “In the beginning,” (I, 9) also the first words of Genesis, as shown earlier, complete the unbroken circle from traditional scriptural interoperation to divine revelation and back. Throughout Paradise Lost, the two concepts play against one another and move back and forth.

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Poems on the Icarus Theme Literature Book Report/Review

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Three poems have been selected, Musee des Beaux (poem1), Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (poem 2), and Brueghel in Naples (poem 3). Even though they are all writing about the same painting all poems have the same ambiance, but their length and the point of view from which they are written are entirely different.

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Creativity in Education Shown by Percy Walker in His Essay The Loss of Creature Literature Essay

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The student is presented with cold, uninspiring facts packaged in glossy books, beautiful classrooms, and scientific rules. The result is, the student no longer enjoys the poetry he reads nor does he learn anything from the science experiment he does, except dry jargon and clichés. In the process, he loses the beauty of the poetry and the wonder of creation.

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The Tragic Hero Suffers from a Tragic Flaw Literature Book Report/Review

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The author states that the play is based upon revenge; Hamlet takes revenge on his father’s death in the play. Revenge is a very dangerous motive but a very powerful one. This paper will throw light on how Hamlet was a tragic hero in the tragedy of Hamlet. The ideas of Aristotle will also be discussed in this paper.

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The Greenleafs of May Literature Essay

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The author states that Mrs. May scorns her hired help for their race as much as she detests their success. She loathes her own children but still manages to provide for them. She is inwardly tormented by a world that is not of her making and outwardly by a wild bull that is eating away at what little peace she has left on earth.

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Born in Bondage by Marie Jenkins Schwartz Literature Book Report/Review

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The author of the paper states that the book is an excellent source for convincing the reader how wrong slavery really is against any person. The slave-owners, and slaves for that matter, lived in such an insulated era and location that they were unable to compare or debate their point of views on slavery – and perhaps that is why it continued on so long.

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Melancholic World: Sinking Literature Book Report/Review

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Such feeling comes from an inner sense of inferiority. Coming from, China, a poor country compared to Japan, he and his brother were forced to go to Japan to seek for better education, which will eventually lead to a better life. There is so much feeling of anxiousness in his heart. The narrator seems to look at things, always on the negative side. He never seeks contentment.

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Review of In The Aftermath of Genocide - Armenians and Jews in Twentieth-Century France Literature Essay

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It is important to look at the history of Armenian and Jews religious, origin, language, and economic biographies. Armenians are one of the oldest Christian communities in the world who originated from Asia Minor in the Mediterranean. Their language is Indo-European and most were peasant farmers in the eastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire.

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Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali Literature Book Report/Review

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The author states that all societies are based on some organizing principles that are essential to their functioning and to the maintenance of the social order instead of chaos, and many of those principles are grounded on myths that exist in every culture. We often tend to perceive myths in their narrow definition as fables or legends.

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David Reimer Case Literature Literature review

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Judith Butler explains us the idea of intersex and human life in her own philosophical way in the book “Undoing Gender”. We can say that Butler knows the art of saying ordinary things in extra ordinary way. In this book he focused on the question that “what it might mean to undo restrictively normative conceptions of sexual and gendered life”.

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Helen in the Iliad and Dido in the Aeneid Literature Essay

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These woman characters have some common features and characteristics, but also have distinctions that make them differ from each other. Helen is treated as a character, symbolizing ambiguity of feminine character, and she has become a model for many characters of women described in later writings by various authors all over the works.

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Comparison of Still to Be Neat and Delight in Disorder Poems Literature Assignment

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Looking at the poems side by side, the similarities are highlighted, but then some of the essential differences are also immediately discernible. The themes of the two poems obviously have much in common, but the same cannot be said of the treatment of the subject matter. While Benson’s poem has a serious, simple tone, Herrick’s poem has a more playful, teasing approach.

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The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe Literature Essay

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The variation of language gives a clear change in the narrator’s mood. The reader is able to establish the type of character used in the story. The change of the narrator's move indicates to the reader that the characters in the tale are not fictitious. Poe was also able to use language skills in stressing the theme of the tale, murder.

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The Use of Symbols in American Literature Literature Book Report/Review

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The stories underline the need for compassion which seems to be lacking among mankind. In order to illustrate this both th stories make use of symbols. In Bartleby, the character of Bartleby acts as the narrator’s double and reveals the modern man’s inability to help humanity. Goodman delves into his unconscious to come to terms with the evil in the society which makes him loathe mankind.

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Le Morte Darthur by Sir Thomas Malory Literature Book Report/Review

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The author states that the round table had a place for 150 nights. Guinevere’s father also sent 100 knights along with the round table. For the remaining 50 places, Arthur with the help of Merlin chose 50 more knights whom he found loyal, courageous and brave. There was a special seat for the leader knight, who was to direct the quest.

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The Main Conflict in 'The Virginian' Literature Essay

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That did not exclude a gentle, yet wicked sense of humour, evidenced by his teasing of Uncle Hughie, the music and fun in Medicine Bow, the trickery over sleeping arrangements and the switching of the babies at the Swinton barbecue. His exchanges with Molly also demonstrated a fine, dry wit and much intellect.

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Detriment of Socialism in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Literature Book Report/Review

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People have been deprived of all their lives and forced into a hive-like mental state. The book reminded me of a few of Orwell’s ideas of social order gone crazy in his book Animal Farm. In Animal Farm Orwell has an animal exclaim that all animals are equal but some are more equal than others (Orwell 88).

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Importance of translations Literature Essay

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Due to this reason there are many translation guide books in the market to help a layman understand a language and carry out transactions in languages other than the ones known to him. There are 3000 to 8000 odd languages in the world and there are 180 to 200 languages with more that a million native speakers.

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The Treatment of London in Poetry Literature Book Report/Review

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With an almost ‘stream of consciousness technique in both, the essence of time and place, and more importantly, the poets’ own impressions and originality of thought and presentation come alive. These characteristics ignite the reader’s imagination, enabling them to share the poets’ experiences, feelings, and personalities.

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Character of Beowulf Literature Book Report/Review

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According to the research findings, the character of Beowulf was a heroic character, however, his belief in himself and his overconfidence was what ultimately cause his death. He was heroic and conceited, until his final fight on the battlefield. Never giving up and never flinching, Beowulf fought to the death and showed true power and courage, perfect traits for any legendary hero.

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Preface to Shakespeare by Samuel Johnson Literature Essay

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A seemingly simple, harmless, and the ordinary act of having scholarly discussions, had become a heroic act to be shrouded in secrecy, to be shared by a private few and held precious in the hearts of those gathered. It seemed, to Dr. Nafisi, due to the very deprivation of opportunities to carry on such normal activities, the defiance to subjugation grew.

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George R Stewarts Earth Abides and its sociological aspects Literature Essay

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With the other survivors, they gather to expand and to ensure the production of enough food and the preservation of the existing stocks. In their new state, each and everyone has his own role in order to make the system work and decide of all the different actions they have to take.

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E.B. Sledges With the Old Breed Literature Essay

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The Marines to him exemplified all that was noble about warfare, and this is the "esprit de corps".The hallmarks of a good Marine are his loyalty, devotion, patriotism and above all their bravery. The training given in the Marines corps ensures that a man learns not only to kill but also to survive.

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An Analysis of The Makeup Artist from Hell Literature Book Report/Review

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The Tang dynasty (618-907) was followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period in ancient China. The Tang period was called the hey-day of literature, and also the most famous literary men like To fu (712-770), Li Bai (701-762) and Wang Wei (698-759) got into the scene.sty.

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Hope or Tragedy: Points of View Literature Essay

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However, upon a closer examination, how the respective narrators’ point of view is expressed results in a fundamentally different impression for each story. Point of view alters the texture of the stories in dramatic ways. Chekhov chooses to have the narrator tell the story from the point of view of the male protagonist, Dmitry Dmitrich Gurov.

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Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston Literature Book Report/Review

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The author states that the presentation and “evolution” of Janie’s character seem to have caught my attention, thereby propelling me to fix my concentration with every detail of it. To begin with, the story actually starts at the ending part, which means that the author employed a flashback of events through the storytelling made by Janie.

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The Sun Rising by John Donne Literature Book Report/Review

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The author states that the character, inquiring the sun, asks controversially. “Busy old fool, unruly Sun, Why dost thou thus through windows, and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run?”. The considerable oppositions imparted in these lines are detention versus candidness as well as infinity versus momentariness.

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The Tempest Play Literature Essay

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The play also affirms various hierarchies. In the debate between the two professors, the English professor says Caliban deserved his punishment because he was trying to defy the Elizabethan concept of the Great Chain of Being. He implies that Caliban must always be Prospero’s inferior and must never fight back.

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The Role of Family and Women in Everyday Use by Alice Walker Literature Book Report/Review

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The author states that in the particular case of Walker`s short story, this set of literary tools is combined to provide an examination of the role of family and women in society. In fact, Walker typically emphasizes in her works the struggles of African American women who are shown in their opposition to racism and sexism.

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Women Liberation Literature Book Report/Review

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In Adrienne Rich's "Diving into the Wreck", she separated the myth from the reality, about who she is, especially as a woman. With careful investigation, she went beyond the shallow waters to examine the depth, for the purpose of witnessing the truth about her humanity, specifically her womanhood.

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Let someone hold you:The journey of a hospice priest by Paul Morrissey Literature Book Report/Review

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While working with a hospice care service, he tells the stories of the dying patients as well as the evolution of his own view of death and dying. His compassion reaches out across all cultural and income lines, and in doing so presents a picture that death is not selective about our station in life.

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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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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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Period Of Water Issues In The History Of New York Literature Book Report/Review

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The Manhattan Company, which owed its social responsibility, had to come up with solutions for the sorry situation. After many hiccups and problems – which are very well documented by the author – the Company came up with a solution to end the water crisis – by bringing in the water from the Bronx River.

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The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien Literature Book Report/Review

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The photo of his girlfriend is the only thing which helps him to overcome depression and emotional burden. Thus, Tim O'Brien points out that Ted's romantic relationships with the girlfriend are over, still Lieutenant Cross hopes for love and sympathy. Lieutenant Cross expresses his love and romantic feelings to Martha, thus he knows that she has other boyfriends and will not wait him for too long.

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Gray Ghosts of the Confederacy Literature Book Report/Review

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This paper is a history of the Confederate guerillas who plunged Missouri into a bloody and vicious conflict of an intensity that as of then is still considered as being unequaled in any other theatre of the Civil War. Brownlee uses the beginning of the book to discuss how fighting in the Civil War commenced on April 12, 1861.

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Diviners Role in Sorie Contehs The Diamonds Literature Book Report/Review

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The author states that in one such experiment, the lieutenant-general in Lyon, Matthieu de Seve, hid three ecus under one of several hats on a table in his library and asked Conteh to find the money, a task Conteh accomplished easily. He also asked Conteh to determine where, in his library, twenty-five ecus had been stolen some seven months earlier.

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Women in Irish Short Stories Literature Essay

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The positivist epistemology can escort toward fundamentalist assertions of fact that obscure the interpretive perspectives of the historical tales. On the other hand, the subjectivist epistemology can lead toward the paralysis of total relativism in which the Real of history vanishes into the play of story and discourse.

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Arabic Version of The Da Vinci Code Literature Literature review

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Culture plays a key role in good translation. Likewise, a good translation transmits language with simple terms and phrases that can be understood by simple folk in a way that the meaning is not lost or is almost similar with that of the source text. Culture specific terms have to be dealt with clearly, i.e. the actual message being conveyed by the source language must be the message and meaning that should be understood by the target language.

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The Adventure of the German Student Literature Book Report/Review

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The theory of Gothic Enlightenment would explain that the anima fails to satisfy the man and that is why the head drops out from the woman’s body. The woman has become a corpse because that feminine persona within the man (Wolfgang) has died. On the other hand, the dead anima could have been beheaded because it is not identified as part of Wolfgang’s character. (Andriano 75).

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