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American Dream in American Literature Literature Essay
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Modern American writers questioned the meaning that has come to be associated with American Dream. Edwards, in Conrad Cherry, ed., “God’s New Israel. Religious Interpretations of American Destiny,” even challenged Americans to restore the values of the American Dream. (Englewood Cliffs, NJ.: Prentice-Hall, 1971), p. 55.
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The Hills Like White Elephan Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the conversation is somewhat vague and elusive. They discuss the topic without saying the topic: abortion. Both characters have different views on this matter, which is evident from their body language and from the dialogue. This paper will analyze the body language and dialogue from a psychological point of view.
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Bound Feet & Western Dress by Pang-Mei Chang Literature Book Report/Review
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Growing up, she was constantly searching for an identity and a sense of belonging and her great aunt's life story was an avenue for her to find that heritage. The story is told in the form of different frames, where Pang-Mei narrates some sections and Yu-I narrates the rest.
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that from the theoretical debate of nuclear energy to the bright glare of Trinity there was a duration of hardly more than twenty-five years. What began as merely an interesting speculative problem in physics grew into the Manhattan Project, and then into the Bomb with frightening rapidity, while scientists knew only to their peer.
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Sonnet 18 by Shakespeare Literature Essay
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It should be mentioned that the author is assured that his sonnets would be read by people until the end of times, although he later begs pardon for the lines that are not cannot direct the youth in its excellence. The author doesn't hesitate stating that the golden age of the youth would be kept safe in his poetry.
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Tear This Heart Out by Angeles Mastretta Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the novel is one of the profound read that can be picked from the 20th century Mexican Literature as it reflects upon the emergence of a new culture, in the wake of the Mexican Revolution (1910-1940) that fragmented the nation, into two despairing decades of civil war.
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When I was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago - the Life of an Immigrant Literature Essay
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Such tensions may be especially challenging for those who live in a society with its own dominant culture, while themselves representing a different cultural tradition. This situation is particularly common for our society in which there are a lot of representatives of different ethnic groups, and into which their members with the different degree of success are trying to become harmonically integrated. 
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The Scarlet Letter Literature Essay
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The novel ‘The Scarlet Letter” represents moral wisdom and reflects values and morals typical for the Puritans. Social and personal morals of people are depicted through emotional sufferings and experience of the main heroes of the novel: Hester Prynne, her husband Roger Chillingworth and Hester’s lover, Dimmesdale.
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Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot Literature Book Report/Review
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Gordon argues convincingly that Beckett was very much aware of the political and cultural turmoil of this period and that the enormously creative works he wrote after World War II can, in fact, be viewed as a product of and testament to those tumultuous times. The anxiety, forlornness - all point clearly to the wars and their effects on the society.   
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Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that Jay Gatsby, Tom, and Daisy Buchanan, Jordan Baker, and the rest of the bacchanalian party revelers, fresh from the human carnage that was the dire result of World War I, all tried to erase the grim memory of that war and lose themselves in the pursuit of wealth, social status, and endless pleasure in the form of lavish.
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Canterbury Tales Literature Book Report/Review
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Every story features many characters, an assortment of plots with fascinating exaggerated interactions. Two of the stories in Canterbury Tales are "The Knight's Tale" and "The Wife of Bath's Tale", which engross different sort of passion and relationships based on graciousness, vigor, respect.
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A Taste of Honey Literature Book Report/Review
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The author that this drama is an eye-opener even in its art form as it confronts and addresses racial and social issues that are not shown by the media. The play first premiered in its theatrical form at the Theatre Royal Stratford East, in London. The theme of the drama reveals Britain of the 1950s through the eyes of Shelagh Delaney.
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The Indecision of Hamlet Literature Essay
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One of Hamlet's first-act soliloquies (Act I, Scene V, 92-112) is a response to the shocking revelation made by the ghost of his father. This response offers insights into Hamlet's indecisiveness at the very onset of the play.  From his speech, we see Hamlet as one who is incapable of deciding the actions that he should take.  
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Eliots Waste Land and Becketts Endgame Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the allusions in the poem to events of his own life, to classical Greek mythology, Old English poetry, religious allusions—not only to Christianity but also to Hindu and Buddhist philosophy—were so many that it both confounded and delighted readers, and made it necessary for the poet to provide annotations—a “scaffolding”.
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Responsibility and Seriousness in Ginsbergs Poetry Literature Book Report/Review
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Popular literature has become the center of focus in many of the important and energetic debates and the poems of Allen Ginsberg offer an effective example of popular literature or the requisition of popular literature into more elite literary forms. To comprehend popular literature, one needs to realize what popular means as well as what literature means.
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The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood Literature Book Report/Review
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In the background of the ‘Theory of Knowledge’, one can assume that truth is contextual and the process of contextualization is the basic activity in the process of finding truths of ideas and things. Only human beings who are able to think and reflect on the reality of things can determine the truth and falsity of ideas and things.
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Bridget Jones The Edge of Reason Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that just like any other fascinating novel, the book opens with the story of a young lady at thirty, Bridget Jones who started to jot down her own detailed account of a lovely relationship with a man named Mark. She was so immersed with her heart’s interest that she did away with her old ways for a new lifestyle.
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George Orwells Homage to Catalonia Literature Literature review
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Chapter 10 follows directly on from this, with Orwell witnessing the street fighting: “The issue was clear enough. On one side stood the CNT, on the other side the police…when I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself what side I am on”.
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Violence in the Ancient World Literature Essay
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Perhaps those who make that connection have a point. After all, since earliest days of recorded narratives, history has been nothing but a continuous bloodbath punctuated by the very occasional and short-lived cease-fire. Aggression has been the rule; peace the exception.
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The Main Themes of La Peste by Albert Camus Literature Essay
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The population, dominated by the bourgeois, the business class, ignores signs of danger until many of their own class fall prey to the disease. A quarantine is declared for those inside the walls of Oran. Dr. Rieux works along with the government and other citizens to take steps to defend against the worsening plague and the resulting social consequences.
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Book Report, Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton Literature Book Report/Review
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After that, every day Ethan used to give the narrator a lift to and from the railway station. But one winter evening on the way home they found themselves in a hard storm. The weather was growing so bad that Ethan offered the narrator to stay at his farm for the night.
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In Her Own Words: Women Offenders' View on Crime and Victmization by Alarid and Cromwell Literature Book Report/Review
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In the book, In Her Own Words: Women Offenders' Views on Crime and Victimization Alarid and Cromwell have reduced the literature use of words and phrases in order to make it more meaningful to the students. They Editors edited it in such a way that it's thoroughly acceptable from the primary reading itself.
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African Literature Literature Essay
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Although motivated by quite disparate circumstances, the effects of both these phenomena have shed light on the cultural aspects of the land. In spite of the harmful effects of the education of Africans in the languages and ideas of colonial nations which destroyed the traditional culture of the land, the recent developments in research on the traditional culture of Africa have greatly contributed to the rich heritage of its traditions.
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My Last Duchess Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the setting is a Duke preparing to meet a new crop of young women to take the place of his deceased wife and he is discussing her portrait with what appears to be a marriage broker. In discussing the color in his painted wife’s cheeks, he states “She had A heart---how shall I say?---too soon made glad, Too easily impressed;”.
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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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One for the Money by Janet Evanovich Literature Book Report/Review
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Stephanie who is in a grave need for money opens up talks with a close relative Vinnie for employment in his bail bonds industry, conversely Stephanie has no certification at all, but still while carrying out her duties, she land Joe Morelli as the first client.
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Machiavellian characters in King Lear Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that in King Lear, he has created some of the most Machiavellian characters in his gallery of masterpieces: Goneril, Regan, the utterly villainous Edmund. All of them are monsters in their own right, but what is remarkable is that they all start out as normal people with whom the audience could have some degree of sympathy.
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The Novel a Passage to India Literature Essay
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Aziz re-creates the same feelings of friendship as when he had offered to show Mrs. Moore Indian culture out of sheer kindness. Aziz thus begins to demonstrate the same positive traits that he had displayed before the trial. In a sense, Mrs. Moore reclaims Aziz’s soul from the depths of hate and bitterness.
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Racial and Cultural Stereotypes Literature Book Report/Review
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The racial and cultural stereotypes evident in Henry James’s “Daisy Miller” (1878) and EM Forster’s Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) suggest the social commitments of their authors. The novella “Daisy Miller” tells the story of the courtship of the beautiful American girl named Daisy Miller by her sophisticated compatriot Winterbourne.
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JFKs Handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis Literature Essay
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President John F Kennedy estimated that the odds of actual nuclear war during the Cuban missile crisis were a staggering high of thirty–three percent. Bundy estimated the gamble of nuclear war during these Cuban missile crises to be a low one percent. But, according to Bundy, this one percent was too large for comfort.
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Analysis of Scenes of Hamlet Play by William Shakespeare Literature Assignment
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Ophelia drowned at the place where a willow tree grows over a brook. Ophelia had made garlands of willow branches and wildflowers. She climbed the willow to hang the garlands. A branch broke and she fell into the water. She started singing as her clothes become waterlogged and pulled her It was strange that no one tried to save her.
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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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Godfather Death and Appointment in Samara Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that an appointment in Samara is a story of a servant to saw Death while he went to a public market in Baghdad. Due to his fear, he went to his merchant and borrowed his horse so that he can go to Samara and escape from Mr. Death. The merchant lends him his horse and the servant went to Samara.
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Shakespeares Comedy of Errors Literature Book Report/Review
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The identical comic fools in the play Dromio of Syracuse and Dromio of Ephesus - the servants - are the ones who display most of the humour. Dromio of Syracuse's sense of humour is evident as he makes fun of a maid named Nell, and compares her to the globe.
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20th century literary theory Literature Essay
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Marxist literary theory can be comprehended as a sociological approach to literature which considers literary pieces as the results of the workings of the historical forces. Whereas the Marxist literary theory developed through the literary theorists such as Georg Lukcs, Valentin Voloshinov, Raymond Williams, Terry Eagleton, Fredric Jameson
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Voice of Minorities in The Getting of Wisdom and Remembering Babylon Literature Essay
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Minorities can speak for a whole nation. This is evident in David Malouf’s novel, Remembering Babylon. The views expressed by the characters forever changed Australia’s social, political, and economic identity. They also reflect the positive and negative aspects of colonialism, nationalism, and the struggles of becoming a country.
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A Novel by Fae Myenne Ng Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that this book by Fae Moyenne Ng was published in 1993 by Harper Perennial and is regarded as one of the premier books by Chinese American woman author. In literature, a ‘reliable narrator’ is a character who presents the characterization in a manner that could be identified with.
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Prosody of Dickinson and Whitman Literature Essay
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When examining a poem one should, with pencil in hand, read and reread the poem. Poets use all sorts of cues to get their poetry to speak beyond what the words alone can do. Examples of cues used are the structure, rhyme, line breaks and language.
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The Presentation of Female Power in Literature Literature Book Report/Review
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In the novel, Walker depicts the struggles of the black women, belonging to the rural town of Georgia.  Though there are many female characters in this novel, the center of attraction is the protagonist and narrator, Celie, who is a fourteen-year-old uneducated black girl, who is impregnated twice by her stepfather Alphonso, and who steals away her children.
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Representation of Men in Literature Literature Book Report/Review
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In “Do androids dream of electric sheep?” Rick Deckard, an android bounty hunter has just finished neutralizing three “andys” ( Androids) and he has to make a final charge to finish three more. These are the advanced kind of androids that are more human in nature. It also has to be done the same day because these three androids have already been warned and could soon be on the run.
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Analysis of The Things They Carried by Tim OBrien Literature Essay
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The soldiers can listen to and hear nothing except fears and horrors of war. Thus, young soldiers, bearing illusions about war and perhaps holding on to a system of loosely formed values to guide their conduct in combat, may discover their values and assurances crumbling, along with their illusions.   
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On the Beach by Nevil Shute Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that global winds slowly carry the deadly radioactive waste towards the Continent which is why he is to find many dead along the way. Human and animal life are dying as a result of sickness produced by radiation, a kind of cholera which begins with nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, increasingly violent spasms.
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Connection Between American Language In Literature And Melting Pot Literature Essay
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The most important is that fiction works used by the author are a first-hand knowledge of the events and processes, and the opinion of the person drew it up influenced the source. On the other hand, it is possible to say that it helps to understand the real matter of the things and connection between American language and the “Melting Pot”.
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Young Adult Literature and the Childrens Imagination Literature Research Proposal
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The content, character, and language that is used by young adult authors make it easier for the youth to identify with these writings. This is because the issues that are presented in this literature are more realistic and more interesting to the teenager audience. The content of these books has led to them been criticized and challenged by society.
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark Literature Essay
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Another consideration that Hamlet puts in is if it is appropriate to kill King Claudius when it is not proven that Claudius killed former King Hamlet. This quotation is interpreted by SparkNotes as Hamlet tries to endure the previous unlikable scene at the court with King Claudius and Queen Gertrude.
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Analysis of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Literature Book Report/Review
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Through his power and influence over the natives, Kurtz has had human sacrifices offered to him.  It implies that the absence of law and morality results in violence and cruelty When a man allows himself to be ruled by whatever brutal passions lie within him, violence is committed. Arising from that is the extreme cruelty from an evil heart.
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Ethical evaluation of The Things They Carried On the Rainy River Literature Essay
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If he were a coward right from the start, he would not have written this; ‘All of us, I suppose, like to believe that in a moral emergency we will behave like the heroes of our youth, bravely and forthrightly, without thought of personal loss or discredit.
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Over Sea under Stone by Susan Cooper Literature Book Report/Review
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One day, they’re snooping about the house and going through the attic to see if they can come across anything exciting.  They find an old manuscript which speaks of an ancient and magical chalice which belonged to King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table.  The Drew children are determined to uncover the manuscript’s puzzles and find the chalice. 
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Setting, Identity, and Theme in Hemingway and Cisneros Literature Book Report/Review
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Judging by the spare, terse prose that marks both these literary works, it is safe to assume that both writers chose their titles at least as carefully if not more carefully than they chose any other words. A comparison of titles leads one to another assumption: a central theme of both the short story and the novel will be the importance of place.  
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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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