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The tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare and recent historical events Literature Essay
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Both Macbeth and the Venezuelan caudillos are strongly ambitious characters that use any means to achieve their goal: power. For example, Macbeth, at the beginning of the play, considers killing King Duncan, so that the prophesy he has been told will become truth: "Are less than horrible imaginings:/My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical"
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How does African American literature exposes a society Literature Essay
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While African American literature had, for quite a long time, been devalued' simply because its authors were black' and, therefore, popularly perceived of as incapable of producing art, it is a literature which is currently highly valued for both its aesthetic nature and its exposition of humanity and society
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The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown character analysis Literature Essay
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Silas suffered a traumatic childhood, as his drunken father regularly beat his mother for the albino son. The father blamed her for the boy's embarrassing condition. She finally dies and Silas starts blaming himself, thinking that he is responsible for his mother's death.
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Twin Evils of the Nineteenth Century Society Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that Little Dorrit, about prison life, is set in an English debtors' prison called Marshalsea Prison. It is widely believed that Dickens borrowed this aspect of the story from his own life and the harrowing experiences of his father who was put behind bars for not paying his debts. Social class dominated social life at all levels.
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Why You Should Buy Frank O'Connor's My Oedipus Complex Literature Essay
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It would be very useful for 12th-grade students to discuss the source of misunderstanding between Larry and his father because this problem often occurs in many families. It’s not easy to overcome misunderstanding between father and son, and Frank O'Connor's story "My Oedipus Complex" could help in it.
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Man playing God in Frankenstein Literature Book Report/Review
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She takes up this issue, and presents her own version of the concept, debating whether man is qualified enough, in all senses, to try and take over the powers of the Creator, and what would happen if he would succeed in doing so.
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The Human Insect in the Mechanized Modern World of Morons Literature Essay
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The loving and subservient nature of Gregor offers unconditional love after they had long forgotten about him. The movement, in and out of Gregor’s room of furniture and all things “no use trying to sell but that should not be thrown away either” dumped into his room, in the third part show how uncaring they had become of him.
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Exploring the Theme of Patriotism in the 1960's novels Literature Essay
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Since its independence, America has been Utopia to many and Dystopia to many. Sometimes it is vehemently deplored for the underlying realities of its myth of success and development. If it is true that literature is the reflection of society, then the American novels of the 1960’s are the evidence of it.
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Cultural environment in America: Fahrenheit 451 Literature Essay
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The author states that Bradbury seems to view the theatrical demonstrations of power in his book as a commentary not on official power, suggesting that people like spectacles and that the government is merely giving them what they want. Bradbury emphasizes the voluntary participation of the populace in the oppressive policies of the government.
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Langston Hughes's Childhood Literature Essay
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Early in his career, he was able to elevate the level of discourse on black America without the loss of dignity suffered by begging or pandering. Hughes had the ability to write about black without speaking of race and talk about poverty without mentioning class. He has at times been revered as an important American artist.  
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Mans Laws vs Gods Laws in Antigone by Sophocles Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that in the face of strict laws developed by her uncle, Creon, Antigone feels morally obliged to bury her dead brother according to God’s laws. Antigone is convinced that she has to follow God’s laws and care for her brother's body. According to the laws of the state, everyone who obeys them is condemned to death.
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Beowulf -A Celebration of Heroic Ideals Literature Literature review
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 A hero or heroine is an eminent character archetype that quintessentially embodies key traits valued by its originating culture. The hero commonly possesses superhuman capabilities or idealized character traits which enable him or her to perform extraordinary, beneficial deeds (i.e., a "heroic deed") for which he or she is famous.
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Influence, Inspiration, and Hard Work in Life of Pi Novel Literature Essay
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Life of Pi’ is a novel where the three most basic elements: influence, inspiration, and hard work came into play. The plot outline of this novel is as follows: The novel begins when Pi's father, a zookeeper, moves his family and the zoo's animals by ship to Canada for a new start. The ship sinks, however, and Pi finds himself lost at sea on a lifeboat.
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Enlightenment age or age of enlightenment Literature Essay
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We all know that the French walked the streets of Paris and that the revolution was from the people.Be aware of Kant, his ideas where not the same that lead to freedom. His idea is based on self criticism.
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Portrait of America by Steven B. Oates Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the “Portrait of America” speaks of the period of President Andrew Johnson and how the period of “Reconstruction” brought with it a lot of positive things but since it was not feasible enough it had failed. It speaks of the political corruption that prevailed in addition to the slave trade that was carried on.
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The Scarlet letter Literature Essay
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Why does Hawthorne grant Hester Prynne the name Hester The query appears an unavoidable one for an author like Hawthorne, who works as a minimum partly in a Spenserian tradition of allegory. Dimmesdale's first name, Arthur, as well as Hawthorne's daughter's name, Una, proposes some of the influence of Spenser on Hawthorne's acts of baptism.
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The Goopherd Grapevine Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that we, the offspring of slavery are esteemed hard-working citizens and intellectuals; revered by those who once looked upon our ancestors as merely labor mules. We are honored and we are in fact free. But, if we maintain a hard-headed stubbornness, suspicions or fantastical ideologies, nothing, in essence, will change.
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Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder Literature Essay
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Tracy Kidder, known best for his Pulitzer Prize winning book, "The Soul of a New Machine", is a former servant of the US Army and holds a degree in MFA from University of Iowa. He has been a noted writer among the critics right from his first book, "The Road to Yuba City".
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Fashion Me A People A Critical Analysis Literature Essay
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This essay explores the Maria Harris' "Fashion Me A People". Harris' book is not about designing or selecting published resource materials for religious education; instead, it is a description of her theory of religious education. She calls it a book about "curriculum in the church" because she conceives of "curriculum" as the whole of the church's life.
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A comparative analysis of Shakespeares Hamlet and Mel Gibsons Portrayal Literature Essay
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The most obvious discrepancy is the age difference: for Hamlet to fit into his period role he could have ranged from the age of 13 to possibly as old as 21. Gibson, to be generous, is at least 28.
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Kate Chopin's Character Mrs. Mallard Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that at the beginning of the narration the readers are misguided to believe that Mrs. Mallard “was afflicted with a heart trouble”. Within the context “heart trouble” has a double meaning. We may take the literal meaning which is that indeed Mrs. Mallard is suffering from heart disease.
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Ernest Hemingways In Another Country Literature Book Report/Review
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It’s no surprise that many of his story protagonists had a close resemblance to actual characters he met during those real-life experiences in which he gathered content for his plot development. In the case of Nick Adams, the main character of Hemingway’s short story, In Another Country, this real-life resemblance grew incidentally, out of his own identity.
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Comparison of A Room of Ones Own, The Prince, and Stranger in the Village Literary Works Literature Essay
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The first story under analysis “A room of one's own” by Virginia Woolf was published in October of 1929. In this novel, the author investigates the phenomenon called “androgynous” mind trying to find factors which influence a writer. Woolf is convinced that female writers need two things to write fiction: enough money and their own room to write. 
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Breakthroughs That Shakespeare Made in Terms of Literary Competence Literature Book Report/Review
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Apart from being a legend in his own lifetime, William Shakespeare remains one of the most influential writers for centuries to come. Even though he might have been writing four hundred years ago, there is still a lot of breakthroughs that Shakespeare made in terms of literary competence, which are a benchmark for modern writers as well.
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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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Sunday In The Park by Bel Kaufman Literature Essay
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Morton's wife seated beside her husband on a nearby bench, watching her son play in the sandbox, is quite content and at peace with the world as, "she squeezed his [Morton's] arm affectionately and glanced at Larry, delighting in the pointed face frowning in concentration".
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English Literature Tragedies - Othello, the Moor of Venice Literature Essay
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Iago is able to exploit the unconsolidated love between Othello and his wife, their respective isolation, Othello's subsequent passionate jealousy to bring about the disastrous end. Iago pays in the end with his life, but his villainy is almost unrivalled in literature, especially because he makes it seem so easy through his genius at plotting.  
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E. A. Robinsons Poem Richard Cory Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the poem continues in this description in a regular rhythm. The description in this poem, on the syntactic level, ends in a sudden, sparsely described the tragedy of Richard Cory’s suicide, but in the same rhyme form. The rhythm of the stanzas is not at all foretelling of what is to come in the last stanza.
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Social Convention and Adolescence Literature Book Report/Review
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The social convention has always demanded the periods of childhood and adolescence be a time of innocence and as such most parents attempt to shield their children from the harsher realities of life. A child who thinks or behaves like an adult worries teachers and parents alike. We know, instinctively, that exposing a young human to traumatic or disturbing events can cause damage later on.
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The Country of Pointed Firs by Mrs. Todd Literature Assignment
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The author states that the novel permeates the atmosphere of gloominess and death which constitutes its central focus. Most of the inhabitants of Dunnet Landing that were encountered by the narrator belonged to the last stages of life – sixty years old and above. The setting is an old town where nothing consequential and interesting happens.
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Morality in two plays: Doctor Faustus and Importance of Being Earnest Literature Book Report/Review
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In the plays, Dr. Faustus and Importance of being Earnest, what strikes us is the presence and absence respectively of conventional morality. Marlowe’s novel is concerned with the Faustian myth where a person sells his soul to the devil in order to gain something great.
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Dickinson: A Haunting of the Social Self Literature Essay
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In the first stanza of the poem Dickinson says, "One needs not be a Chamber - To be haunted - The brain has corridors - surpassing - material place" (Dickinson). Dickinson is using imagery in this stanza to compare the internal confrontation between "the social self" and "the poetic self" to the haunting of a house.
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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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Animal Farm by George Orwell Literature Book Report/Review
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The conclusion states that everything Squealer did work out for his own benefit in the end. The pigs ruled supremely, enjoying all the riches that the working of the farm had brought. Any animals that were deemed to be balking the authority of Napoleon were quickly silenced in the cruelest of ways, much like that of how human dictators such as Hitler had abused his subjects.
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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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Wilde & Shaw: Two Satirical Responses to Social Class Literature Essay
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This discussion talks that by analyzing the similarities and differences present in Wilde’s and Shaw’s mindsets, one can gain a better appreciation of how immensely complex elitism is in general, both in what causes it and how it can be eradicated. Both "Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime" and "Pygmalion" purport the idea those on the higher end of the class hierarchy.
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The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that psychoanalytic criticism adopts the methods of ‘reading’ employed by Freud and later theorists to interpret texts. It argues that literary texts, like dreams, express the secret unconscious desires and anxieties of the author, that a literary work is a manifestation of the author’s own neuroses.
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The Socially Marginal Characters Are Not the Least in Henry V and The Rover Literature Book Report/Review
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This essay examines the socially marginal characters in Shakespeare’s Henry V and Aphra Behn’s The Rover. The thesis states that gender is not a discerning factor for socially marginal characters since both sexes are equally vulnerable to be marginalized. It is how one conducts oneself that respect and importance can be earned.
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Stylistic nlysis on The Brown Wsps by Loren Eiseley Literature Essay
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First of ll it is needed to sy tht throughout the story the point is mde on the similrity of ctions between humns nd nimls. The uthor sttes tht humns nd nimls cling to the things they know very strongly. Sometimes they even ct s if nothing even chnged. Humns nd nimls tend to wnt to return to things tht re fmilir to them, s they grow older.
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The Aeneid The Iliad The Song Of Roland Literature Book Report/Review
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The setting of both epics is a variety of places in which wars are more or less constantly taking place.The main characters occupy different positions in the hierarchy and have different roles to play. While Aeneas is the undisputed leader of the Trojans, Roland is merely the nephew of the main leader of the French, Charlemagne.
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The Control of Revelation - A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner Literature Essay
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There is the world of every day, with gossip and interaction on the street.  And then there is a world behind the closed door, and if that door is closed for over forty years the distinctions between these two realities can become excessively distinct. Arranged in a series of five sections identified by the Roman numeral, “A Rose for Emily” does not follow a standard chronological arrangement.  
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Integration of the Individual in the Community and Home in Hawthornes Roger Malvins Burial Literature Literature review
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The absence of healthy communication has made the three characters turn to themselves and the vigor and gusto of life were missing in all of them, though Tom had cleverly camouflaged his ennui with external smartness of gait. As the keynote of the unfolding drama the dull existence of Elizabeth is revealed right in the beginning.
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Who Is the Hero of Antigone Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that after a bloody battle in which one of Antigone’s brothers, Polyneices, refuses to accept Creon’s claim and tries to plunder the city, in the process fighting against his own brother who has sworn allegiance to Creon, both brothers are slain. Creon immediately issues a decree that Eteocles will be buried with all honors.
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Snow White and the Seven Deadly Sins Literature Literature review
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The author states that the title gives the reader a sense of foreboding by associating the seven sins with the original story of the seven dwarves. Beneath the vulgar tone of the poem is a story of a religious girl who flirts with sin and eventually returns to the church. The poem is broken into ten stanzas of four lines each.
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Ellis's and Palahniuk's Literature Representation of Sexuality Literature Book Report/Review
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The late-twentieth century literature, particularly American novels, is replete with the use of sexuality as a form of self-expression of the characters, and also as a means of portraying social control, domination and exploitation.
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Macbeth by William Shakespeare Literature Book Report/Review
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The famous tragedy by the Bard of Avon deals with the story of Macbeth who, insisted on by his wife Lady Macbeth and prognosticated by prophecy, commits regicide so as to achieve the crown. 
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Light at the Edge of the World by Wade Davis Literature Book Report/Review
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The author through his work takes readers deep into worlds. This book basically covers the notion and existence of nature from one corner to the other covering rituals, beliefs, and lives of the Waorani, the Penan, the Inuit, and many other unique and hidden traditional cultures. He writes “The human imagination is vast.
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The Glass Menagerie Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the play deals with a family down on its luck, with each of them grappling with pathos-laden conflicts and each of them refusing to face squarely their throttling circumstances through fantasies, escapism, and illusions. When their dreams were shattered into pieces, both mother and daughter recoiled to their own shells.
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The Cask of Amontillado Literature Book Report/Review
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In this short story, the role of the narrator is crucial, still there are some facts that make his narration unreliable. Montresor, the protagonist of the short story, an aristocrat who values honor and his good name above all. He insists that he has been insulted by Fortunato, and wants to take revenge upon him.
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Jane Austen's Novel Sense and Sensibility Literature Book Report/Review
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This report will begin with the statement that Jane Austen’s novel Sense and Sensibility broaches a number of human failings with a gentle but firm admonishment.  Despite the story’s close adherence to acceptable social behavior, both its inception and its execution reveal a much more revolutionary nature.
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