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Use of metaphor in poetry Literature Book Report/Review
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The writer has employed metaphor in a number of lines in the poem. The use of the words "Good night" is a metaphor as well as "Dying of the light". They are used symbolically to mean "the coming of death" (Grimes). In the poem, Beat!
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The Novel and Poetry Literature Essay
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Nowadays poetry is said to have been relegated to the backstage with the novel taking the limelight. One can frequently see, especially in an academic and learned community, people glued to their paperbacks of the most recent sequel to a bestseller.  Poems today can mostly be heard in poetry readings; so few are its enthusiasts in bookstores.
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The Idea of Birth and Creation in Mary Shelleys Frankenstein Literature Book Report/Review
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Shelley’s character, Victor, is a doctor that is seemingly not destined to fail from his initial desire to overstep the natural bounds of human knowledge; rather, it is his poor parenting towards his creature that leads to his creation’s thirst for revenge as a result of his unjust life.
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Social Message in Dramas Literature Book Report/Review
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It is worth mentioning at the outset that there will be a use of the Aristotle's poetics to analyse theses themes and shades of tragedy within the two plays.analysis of these two plays.According to Aristotle tragedy within poetry and drama arouses the sense of pity and fear and my paper explores these themes within these two dramas. The notion of the perfect "American Dream" is a prominent theme with in the empty life of both the protagonists portraying life in the fifties era.)Death of Salesman was authored by Arthur Miller in the early twentieth century and the play was written in 1949 .The play was an immediate success with the literary critics and won the Pulitzer Prize.
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Balthazar's Marvelous Afternoon by Ashley Ranises Literature Essay
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On his attempt to sell the cage, Chepe Montiel, the rich man of the town refuses to accept it on the ground that he was not consulted beforehand. On seeing the tumult of the boy on disappointment, Balthazar gives away the cage as a gift to the boy and comes out. On facing the crowd that surrounded him and asked how much he sold the cage, he lies that he sold for sixty pesos.
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American Literature: Literary Realism Literature Essay
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In sum, realism emerged during the dynamic phase of capitalism, so it was vitally concerned about the relationship between humans and things. At the same time that men and women lived their lives in a human environment, they also were surrounded by things. Realists were not reducible to the social class or group to which they belonged.   
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Sexy by Jhumpa Lahiris Literature Essay
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According to the research findings, it can, therefore, be said that with flowing narrative, Lahiri unfolds the complexity of human relationships, in this story that touches everyone. As a result of research, it was suggested that the story develops on the subject of the immigration and the discovery of the foreign.
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Rationale Paper on 'The Outsiders' by S. E. Hinton Literature Essay
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Some educators have suggested that less academically minded students would relate easily to the book, and in so doing, may be motivated to pursue further literary examples.(Wilder and Teasley, 1998) It has enough material to encourage discussion, study, report writing and to work well as a whole class study.
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We real cool by Gwendolyn Brooks Literature Book Report/Review
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There is the unmistakable joie de vivre that leaves one rereading the poem a couple of times to get the full beauty. And before long the poem is there with you. You think about it. You trace it back while you are brushing your teeth, leaving for the office, mulling over some controversial decision, or just doing plain thinking.
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The Cask of Amontillado Literature Essay
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The author states that the story opens with the claim of the murderer that he is not mad. As the plot progresses, however, the man gives a hint that he is suffering from a very serious psychological problem. At first, his paranoia gives him the irrational fear of the vulture’s eye which brings him the urge to kill the old man.
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Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert Literature Essay
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This slow passage of time during which Frederic undergoes change gradually and gains much-needed wisdom spans a total of twenty-eight years. By forty-six, it appears that Frederic has had enough but his twenty-years described in the book were not eventless.
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August Wilsons The Piano Lesson Literature Essay
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The main theme of August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson is a contradiction and connection between the past and the present, and the main characters’ attempts to follow their own imagination and attitude to life and its values. Our past always influences and affects our present and even our future, and people should respect their past and its attributes.
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Theme on Dolores Driscoll Literature Essay
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The town has to survive and get going and the assignment of responsibility has very little to do with that continued existence. She had been in the middle of a dreadful accident. She, too, had mourned, although at this moment she wanted her town back, and she looked forward to them to accept her as well as her husband.
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Supernatural Liminality in Shakespeares Hamlet Literature Book Report/Review
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As Hamlet’s father’s ghost occupies a liminal state in reality, so does the marriage between Gertrude and Claudius and Hamlet’s possible madness.  Hamlet’s indecision and inaction further this sense of incompletion. Thus the liminal state of the supernatural in relation to the living characters would have deepened the sense of dramatic tension and ambiguity about the tragedy’s true meaning.
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The Carpe Diem Prophesy of Herrick Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that if the expectation is about hope, love, lust, and truth, then there is also a burning desire to control all of these and not quite leave it up to Fate to deliver them. But if fate must have it all, these texts must find a way to make peace with it or fight it or give it with dignity and yet give in to the temptation of tricking it!
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Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami Literature Book Report/Review
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Considering that many of these characters contrast vastly in the first place, it is only reasonable to assume that each of these characters have a different reason to be drawn to Toru.The first two people to consider are Naoko and Kizuki. Naoko was Kizuki' girlfriend in high school, and Kizuki was Toru best friend.
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The Role of Gerasim in The Death of Ivan Ilych Literature Essay
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Gerasim is introduced early in the short story and we know his position in the household from this early description. His role is constant, but pivotal and when Ivan dies in peace, we know that is it partially because of Gerasim's influence. The story opens with the announcement of Ivan's death.
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Structure and Meaning in Literary Discourse Literature Book Report/Review
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 Structure and meaning are closely connected in literary discourse and the significance of the structural elements of a narrative in relation to the overall meaning and interpretation of the literary piece is often emphasized. Structural elements of a narrative ensure cohesiveness and coherence of the literary piece.
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A Taste of Honey Literature Book Report/Review
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The author will then assess if Britain has actually changed in the last five decades or these biases are still a part and parcel of society. He intends to challenge the notion that we as a British Society have changed, even in the wake of liberal, legal, and social reforms. The play was written in 1958 when Divorces were a taboo.
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Literature Essay
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The novel greatly influences the reader and gives another vision of society and the world on the whole. The novel was published in 1847. And it is a matter of fact that this novel made the author famous all over the world. The main reason for this is that this novel became an innovation in world literature.
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Female characters and psychological problems of women Literature Essay
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The author explains that in the story by Joyce Carol Oates the tragedy is caused by idealized world view of the teenager, while in the story by O’Connor it is a result of imaginary superiority of the grandmother, her selfishness and egoism. Both female characters are dreamers driving by their desires and fantasies.
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Life in a Coroners Office by John Temple Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that it is not difficult to understand the turmoil and misery of new recruits in a coroner’s office. The prospects of coming face to face with dead bodies day in and day out, 24x7, serves as a deterrent to the squeamish and filters in only those with nerves of ice and steel to qualify for jobs at the coroner’s premises.
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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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Lee Smiths Oral History Literature Essay
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The author reveals how history, especially if orally delivered, can easily be tainted and thus be difficult for historians to examine. The author presents the complexities and convolutions that happen in the development of such a delicate field as history. The point of the entire novel is to show readers the different facets of history.
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Comparison of Odyssey and Book I of Augustine's Confessions Literature Essay
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The Odyssey is a great book in which many characters are brought out and developed. The most significant development that occurs in the epic is the development of Telemachus. Telemachus is a very complex character that Homer develops from beginning to end. Many factors influence Telemachus as he matures into a man.
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The First Agreement: Be Impeccable with Your Word Literature Book Report/Review
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The metaphor of smoke and mirrors is used. This term is often used to describe illusion and deception. But here there is self deception; we fail to see ourselves as we truly are because of this smoke. The concept of dreams is explored in a very unique manner.
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Different Types of Poetry Literature Essay
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It should be pointed out that all the presented verses of the paper are written in the modern English language. Thus, "Psalms 137: Super flumina" sounds like that: "By the waters of Babylon, we sat down and wept when we remembered the old Zion as for our harps, we hung them up upon the trees that are there".
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Fear by Pablo Neruda Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that when Neruda says, “Everyone is after me to jump through hoops/ whoop it up, play football, rush about,/” the busy din and excitement of normal everyday healthy life is invoked, where man rushes on from one thing to another without pause. Also important is the introduction of the phrase that is repeated in the poem.
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The White Mans Burden by Rudyard Kipling Literature Book Report/Review
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Deeply embedded in Kipling’s prose can be found the racist politics very common of the era and popular among people who believed in the expansion of white imperialism throughout the world. Kipling’s main argument proposes that it is the responsibility of whites in the west to colonize and rule over the darker nations.
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The Shadow Our Future Throws by Al Gore Literature Book Report/Review
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The chapter in which he elaborates the theories underlying the questions of globalism and capitalism are detailed in the essay, ‘The Shadow our Future Throws’.The name itself is a signifier that actions can lead to disastrous consequences if we leave progress unchecked. The first theory that Gore mentioned concerned the ‘Chaos Theory’
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Hans Christian Andersens Stories Literature Book Report/Review
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What makes Andersen's use of the technique distinctive is how he treats death in these stories and uses the concept as a foil for the deeper themes of faith and trust. For Andersen, and the two mothers in these stories, death is a personality-an actual character in the story.
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The Sermons, Epistles, and Apocalypses of Israel's Prophets Literature Essay
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The close of the chapter containing his version of Jonah is accomplished with the laity departing; in essence, turning away from this demand of blind sublimation, and, more importantly, portrays Ishmael turning to Queequeg, a pagan cannibal who is nothing but anchored in the physical world of nature in the following chapter, “A Bosom Friend” (Melville 60).
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Edgar Allan Poe: Mystery and Suspense Literature Essay
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Arthur Conan Doyle, for instance, described Poe as “the father of the detective tale” (qt in Morrow). Detective writings are usually built around imitation and repetition, but Poe is not consistent in his reflections on values of originality or imitation. He anonymously reviewed one of his works, and in his review, he wrote about his originality.
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Bellamys Looking Backward Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that through technological utopianism, Bellamy deals with social problems in his Looking Backward, and technology solves the problem of scarcity in this great Utopian novel. Technological utopianism, which is an optimistic form of technological determinism in view of the fact that it is a technology that becomes the engine of change.
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Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude Literature Book Report/Review
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And yet, there is a sober and muted undertone to this magnum opus, as Marquez provides for us, his readers, a dark commentary on war and revolution. Themes such as the seduction of power, the disastrous effects of human frailty and the evils of capitalism animate the text.
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Leo Tolstoy's Distinctive Style of Narration Literature Research Paper
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In Part One, Chapter Thirty-Three, Alexey Alexandrovitch Karenin is introduced as a socially correct, important man who takes pride in doing everything right. Tolstoy develops his character to reveal chinks in the armor of hypocrisy and artificiality. He uses Anna to cast the initial doubt over Karenin.
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Comparison of The Fall of the House of Usher and The Telltale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe Literature Essay
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The two stories “The Tell-tale Heart” and “The Fall of the House of Usher” demonstrate an intricate mix of similarities and differences. Both tales present mysterious atmospheres, yet the first finds its mystery and suspense proceeding from within the narrator while the second has it coming from without.  
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Conflict and Turning Points in Shakespeares Hamlet Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that by continually allowing us into Hamlet’s mind, Shakespeare exposes the conflicts, internal and external that affect Hamlet, seeming to portray a descent into madness. The interactions with the ghost of old Hamlet show us that these conflicts include Hamlet against Claudius, revenge against justice.
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The Jilting of Granny Weatherall Character Analysis Literature Book Report/Review
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In her celebrated short story “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall”, Katherine Anne Porter deals with the memory of a dying woman about being left at the altar on her wedding day. Whereas the short story is celebrated for several artistic qualities, it remains one of the most effective illustrations of the genre of stream of consciousness story.
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Dark Side of Human Nature in Literature Literature Essay
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They were poets who did that and more. They attacked not just governments and politicians and the powers, they spoke candidly about the flaws of human nature as seen in patrician or plebeian, governor or greengrocer, pope, or pauper. Blake exposed the dark side of human nature in poems such as “The Human Abstract” and “London.”
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The Aeneid Written by Virgil Literature Essay
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Lines 12-760-781 talk of Aeneas’ resolve to raze the smoking rooftops of Latium. By attacking the city itself (till now both the armies were ranged outside on the battlefield) he plans to take it over, and once and for all uproot the cause for the war itself. These lines speak of Aeneas’ resolve that builds up to be decisive.
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Qualities in the Celtic culture Literature Book Report/Review
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Analysis and evaluation of these two types of characters would reveal the qualities in the Celtic culture that denote a strong character and those that indicate weakness in character. Arawan represents one of the strong characters of the Mabinogi. This shows a complex notion of character build up in this text.
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The Play Macbeth Literature Essay
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As the paper outlines, in 1603, James VI, the king of Scotland, succeeded Queen Elizabeth I on the English throne, becoming King James I of England. In August 1606, he was at Hampton Court, a palace near London, entertaining his brother-in-law, King Christian of Denmark. For their sake, a play- written by the best dramatist of that time, William Shakespeare- was enacted. This play was Macbeth.
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How do you, in the 21st Century, respond to Shakespeares dramatization of Cleopatra Literature Essay
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He removed the shears of symbolism enshrouding her in order to express a more evolved character in ways that were much more, "fascinating, complex, dramatic, and human-like" than just the past points of view about her (Encyclopedia Britannica, 2005). Shakespeare gives the audience intrigue and mystery in regards to Cleopatra's character.
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Emile Zola Literature Book Report/Review
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In the seventeenth century 'naturalist' referred to those working in natural sciences and the term was also used to describe a philosophical doctrine, which denied the existence of metaphysical phenomena and concentrated on the material world. These earlier meanings are important in that naturalism is primarily concerned with the natural world.
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Emma by Jane Austen Literature Essay
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In other words this character can be better understood by the short summary of the main events which occurred with Emma during the whole novel.A rich, clever, and beautiful young woman, Emma Woodhouse was no more spoiled and self-satisfied than one would expect under such circumstances. She had just seen her friend, companion, and former governess, Miss Taylor, married to a neighboring widower, Mr.
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Thomas Hardy Literature Book Report/Review
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Most of Hardy's characters have the stubborn determination to know the worst the future has in store for them. The belief that "what will be, will be" runs all through all of Hardy's works. In addition, Hardy's characters face whatever comes to them. This admirable spectacle of human patience and sweetness generally moves the reader to pity.
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Resource Collection on Disabilities Literature Annotated Bibliography
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It has been estimated that it is one of the major causes of physical disability and worldwide around 0.2% of live births get affected by cerebral palsy. This developmental disorder is characterized by motor disorders and secondary musculoskeletal problems which restrict the patient’s physical activity. This disorder is broadly classified into three main categories spastic, dyskinetic and ataxic.
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Joyce Carol Oates's Is This the Promised End Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the thesis of the article is that King Lear is caught between “self” and “other”, the finite and the infinite, and only the ability to overcome these psychological states helps him to see the eternal truth. King Lear is hooked by his own imagination, and hidden psychological problems.
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English Literature - Contemporary British Fiction Literature Book Report/Review
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Holocaust as par excellence injuring event got the present importance only at the end of 1970th years. After a quarter of a century, this topic was not preferred, at the end of 1960 in Germany, this theme became popular first of all in connection with such events as the Euqman process in Jerusalem. 
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