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Ralph Ellisons The Invisible Man Literature Essay
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The confrontation that happened between Dr. A. Herbert Bledsoe and the main character in Ellison’s novel proved how ambition could be blinding for people of the same race that one would rather ignore and waste the dreams of the other than allow him to remain in school and threaten the power he claimed he has had over the white people who founded the school.
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The Theme of Nature in Big Two Heart River by Hemingway Literature Book Report/Review
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The story is about Nick, a war veteran who seeks peace from the turmoil of the war by going fishing in the Fox River which in this book is called the “Big Two Heart River”. The river gets this title from the fact that it offers food in the form of fish which is crucial for survival and that it also gives redemption. In this book nature is a recurring theme.
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Literary analysis on Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Literature Essay
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When making a management criticism, one studies the various major events that take place in a literary work and their consequences. The decisions that are made by the main characters are analyzed according to the results that come about because of them.
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Analysis of Where the Jackals Howl by Amos Oz Literature Essay
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There is something in the manner the author wrote the story that triggers the thought that Galila is frequently soliloquizing or she often makes a dialogue with herself. For instance, right at the start when Galila was taking a bath inside the shower, she says that if she would have a mirror inside the shower, she would gaze herself over. 
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Dick Gregory - drum major for justice and equality Literature Research Paper
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More than fifty years later, it remains to be an apt description as he has remained committed to activism and championing a multitude of causes (Gay, p. 260). Richard Claxton Gregory was born in St. Louis, Minnesota on 12 October 1932 and became a frontliner for Civil Rights during the sixties.
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The Effect of Paternal Presence on Child Development Literature Essay
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The father is often responsible for the enforcement of discipline in the life of a child and his absence more often than not causes a lapse in it. Although that the presence of a mother is needed for the child to learn how to interact within the family environment, it is a father’s presence that has a direct hand in the introduction of the child into society.
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Soap Opera by David Ives Literature Essay
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. As the play continues, the writer highlights how Manny is bent on finding love and companionship and is capable of finding both characteristics in a human being while the Maypole is comfortable with its power-driven status. Manny does not seem conscious of the fact that he already has an ideal partner in Mabel.
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Country Lovers and What its like be a Black Girl Comparsion Literature Essay
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According to psychologists, racialism refers to the theory that posits that race is the primary determinant of human capacities and traits. Frable (1997) defines ethnicity as the unique affiliation to a certain social group, which shares common cultural or national traditions. Poetry defines everything that a poet senses.
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Gender Roles within The Great Gatsby Literature Essay
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Scott Fitzgerald approaches gender roles in both a predictable and a visionary way. As a means of understanding this unique dichotomy, this brief analysis will discuss the methods by which F. Scott Fitzgerald utilizes both traditional/conservative understandings of gender roles as well as incorporating key elements of visionary and/or avant guarde interpretations of these constructs within the novel.
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Comparison and Contrast within the Context of Romanticism within the Four Selected Poems Literature Essay
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When analyzing a particular period of literature, one can readily note that key similarities and divergences exist even within a particular genre.  Within such a context of understanding, this particular analysis will compare and contrast four of the poems which have been studied thus far this semester.
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The Waking by Theodore Roethke Literature Essay
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e exhibits self-awareness in relation to the state of his emotional and psychological being. Initiating with “I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow” (1) at the onset of the poem, the critical reader may pay curiosity to the stage prior to the waking act and ponder on what might have taken place in this period of sleep which has led the speaker to decide on waking from it.
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A role of place in the depiction of childhood in childrens books Literature Essay
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The essay investigates the importance of sense of place to the depiction of childhood in children’s books. The storytelling process describes the nature of childhood through the reality and fantasy which J. K. Rowling uses in the novel Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and Arthur Ransome uses in Swallows and Amazons.
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Literature Essay
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The word of Mrs. Mitty commenting that her husband is “tensed up again” and that it is “one of your days”, (Thurber) means that the incident happened more than once. Obviously, the man’s daydreaming is affecting his current activities which could suggest how deeply involved he is with his mental activities.
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A Synthesis of the Themes in Selected Poems about War Literature Essay
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War is the single most physically devastating event that has fascinated human intelligence since the beginning of time. The bravery of soldiers in combat, the glory and prestige of patriotic young men and the heart rendering image of the soldiers’ mothers, sisters and wives awaiting their return has been a common theme of war poems not only in Europe, but across the world.
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An Extremely Jealous Wife Literature Essay
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The author states that jointly, through sharing the loss of their loved ones, their lamentation eased into solace. As time progressed, they talked about other matters, fell in love, cherished one another, and finally wedded. The rich king had a daughter named Joanne whom he loved deeply.
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Analysis of Paradise Lost, Book 2, lines 910 through 927 Literature Book Report/Review
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This book majorly focuses on the devil’s nonviolent yet seemingly democratic decision to bring destruction to the human race through illustrating how the human reason had fallen. Despite the devil illustrating evil to be so appearing to be so pleasant, the author illustrates the devil’s organization as ironical.
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The Poems - Death and old age Literature Essay
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This essay gives a detailed information about the "Death and old age". The poet is the addresser of the poem by conjoining the adverse emotions of wait and getting prepared oneself to face the death. The poet is explaining the characteristics of old age when the body of an individual is getting weakened and is no more able to perform the tasks.
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Textual Analysis: This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona Literature Literature review
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 In terms of culture, Thomas himself represents the culture that he even describes as insignificant for the present and the future. There is this plot of the story that everyone who surrounds him feels like Thomas is crazy, and so they do not want to hear his stories anymore. Nevertheless, Thomas’ character never abandons the old tradition.
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The Unique Aspects of Popular Culture Literature Essay
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The true reason for the NATO intervention in Libya had little if anything to do with humanitarian rights. Rather, as this writer became aware, the ultimate causation was Old European powers along with their American counterparts realizing that there was a fundamental weakness exhibited in the aging leadership of a very wealthy North African nation.
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The Oxen and The Darkling Thrush Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that Jane Gardam’s Short story Easter lilies are one of the best short stories in her collection, The Pangs of Love. In this short story, a strange old lady known as Mrs. White decides to have flowers sent over to their church by buying them from Malta. Mrs. White had stayed in Malta for a certain period of time.
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The Gwendolyn Brooks Poems Literature Essay
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The sequence of "A Street in Bronzeville” poems vividly explains Gwendolyn Brook’s theory that challenges and obstacles encumber the person’s hopes of fulfilling one’s dreams of equally better community life. These obstacles, however, may be related to a person’s financial status, gender, sexual orientation, age group, or any other factor.
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Review of Mans search for meanng Literature Research Paper
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Frankl suggests that even in the most hopeless and helpless of situations, where one is under the total control of an external force, there is scope for independence of thought. He not only proved the possibility of this proposition during his own time in Nazi concentration camps, but has attested it with the exemplary cases of his fellow inmates and ‘decent’ German officers.
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Poem Exposition/ Response Paper Literature Essay
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One can listen to the historical impulse of the people, and how the blacks went through the process of transformation and their inner world changed along with the secular lifestyles. The poet captures the cultural moments that were part of, and shaped her life.
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Dexter Green and Leo Finkle Literature Essay
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This essay discusses that while Finkle and Dexter are similar in their pursuit of girls who represent the American Dream, they differ in their reactions to the results of their search. Leo Finkle and Dexter Green pursue girls who represent the Great American Dream: the hope of happiness, freedom, meaningful relationships and wealth.
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Sovereignty and Misogyny in Chaucers: The Wife of Baths Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer Literature Term Paper
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The Wife is not corrupt, she simply exercises sovereignty. Several scholars have explored various feminist readings of s “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” in The Canterbury Tales. This paper discusses and criticizes four scholarly articles that studied this tale. Their views are similar, where they take a feminist perspective of the work.
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The Untold Story of Li Mu Bai and Cheng Literature Essay
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The author states that the woman wanted to get rid of them because they were endangering her secret to being revealed. While they were fighting, Li Mu Bai came to their rescue. It was later revealed that Jane Fox disguised as a nun who went to the Wudan training center, aiming to steal the secret training manual of master Li dan Pen.
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Character Analysis of Connie Literature Essay
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This essay is a character analysis of Connie. The focus will be on how her body image is linked to self-esteem, self-image, identity, individuality, conformity, and rites of passage. Moreover, the analysis will focus on how the character changes as the story ends. Connie, the main character in Where are you going, where have you been? has excess self-confidence.
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William Shakespeares King Lear Literature Essay
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The death of Cordelia, his banished daughter who did not inherit anything but risked her own life to save him, confirms her loyalty. She pays the price of her own life to liberate her father and restore order in the kingdom. This strangulation also proves the wickedness of Goneril, Regan and their accomplices who are responsible for Cordelia’s death.
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Compare Dances With Wolves (Costner film version) with The Searchers (John Ford film version) Literature Essay
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Both of them are based on ethno-racial conflict between the Red Indians and the Native Americans who had been in vogue in the then US socio-cultural establishment since it had been the central idea of many literary pieces and movies during nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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I Wish Theyd Do it Right by Jane Doe Literature Essay
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The essay analyzes the imaginary freedom in cohabitation, in reality tightens the noose of negative traits amongst the cohabiting partners as they are likely to get addicted to smoking, substance abuse and alcohol on a regular basis, inviting serious health problems. The incidents of domestic violence are more in cohabiting relationships.
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Exploring the Elizabethan Age - Robert Herrick Literature Essay
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According to Norment, the American society, which was then dominated by white people, was profoundly influenced by black poetry of the day (23). Black poetry during the 1990s was copied and expanded by whites, and thus whites managed to become rich and famous for what was known to be imitations (Norment 24). 
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Religion and its Role within Daniel Defoes Book Robinson Crusoe Literature Essay
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Rather than performing a running commentary on each and every religious reference, analysis of the reference, and attempting to categorize the very broad topic of religion and religiosity as exhibited within the work, this author will seek to analyze four specific religious themes that manifest themselves throughout the novel in a number of different ways.
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18th-Century Satire in British Literature of Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift Literature Essay
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The writings of British literary figures Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift are an answer to the times that these two men lived. The corruption in the government, the folly of the nobles, and the lack of practicality of science and religion have all encouraged these two men not only to expose these things but also to teach their readers about good and bad.
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Changes in Language and Language Use Literature Coursework
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Some of the literary devices that Solzhenitsyn uses also help him conform to the conventions of a particular genre, and to show specify the time in which the novel was set. Among these literary devices, symbolism features chiefly. Shukhov’s spoon which he strives to keep at all cost symbolizes his personality or individuality.
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Intertextual Issues Paper Literature Research Paper
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3). The attack has drawn media and political attention to people from all over the world since it is again interpreted as an act of terrorism and a call for peacekeeping forces to mediate the incident so that there will be no more lives to be lost. CNN correspondents Lister and Cruickshank (par.
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Poetry Makes Us Feel that We Are not Alone Literature Essay
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The number of people who love poetry exceeds the number of those who do not because poetry can help a person to express something that just could not have been expressed otherwise. Poetry makes us feel that we are not alone and it is easier to express ourselves in the poet’s beautiful words. It can define who a person is.
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Association between Manhood and Leadership Literature Essay
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Leadership and manhood are richly associated with each other in Shakespeare’s Richard II and King Lear. Masculinity and manhood are associated with stalwart qualities which also characterize strong and effective leaders. In King Lear, his masculine qualities were basically diminished by his daughters.
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Review of Mans search for meanng Literature Essay
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The foremost of the book’s concerns is that of ‘meaning’ pertaining to human life. It talks about how humans miraculously manage to find meaning even in the most despairing, demeaning and de-humanizing of circumstances. One of the insights into human personality traits offered by Frankl is the classification of humans into ‘decent’ and ‘indecent’ types.
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Comparision of Edgar Allen Poe's Literature Literature Essay
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He focusses on the theme of death in ways that illustrate a macabre kind of engagement with an issue that unsettles human imagination. Similarly, Poe changes the points of view in some parts of his narration with the intention of enhancing emphasis and authenticity to the central ideas in the stories (Poe and Patrick 33).
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Good Country People Literature Research Paper
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Mrs. Hopewell's daughter, Joy, is thirty-two years old and lost her leg in a childhood shooting accident. Joy is an atheist and has a Ph.D. in philosophy but seems non-sensible to her mother, and in an act of rebellion against her mother, Joy changed her name to "Hulga," the ugliest name Mrs. Hopewell can imagine.
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Social Commentary in Charlotte Brontes Jane Eyre Literature Essay
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The twists and turns and fluctuations of fortune that comprise the plot of Jane are both original and engaging. The notable aspect of the novel is its authorship by a woman.  Although originally published under a male pseudonym, it is evident to the scrupulous reader that the work is by a woman, as it contains numerous insights into female psychology.
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John Steinbeck: Mice and men Literature Essay
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George’s dream is to have a peaceful and quiet life with Lennie on his own land, but he never gets to have it or at least the author does not say so. George’s dream is to first “go up the American River and pan gold” (Steinbeck 16). George tells his friend Lennie, “O.
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The Stranger by Albert Camus Literature Essay
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Meursault remains adamant in his atheistic beliefs, stating that God is a waste of time and that he has no interest in Him. The priest does his best to persuade this strange man as he tries to convince him to have faith that God will save him, "God can help you …the men I’ve seen in your position turned to Him in their time of trouble".
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Love beyond Life and Reason in Shakespeares Sonnet 18 and Sonnet 43 Literature Essay
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How can someone prove their love? Nothing they do or say can, but poetry may. Shakespeare expresses the hardships of defining and proving love in two sonnets, “Sonnet 18” and “Sonnet 43.” In “Sonnet 18,” the speaker of the poem struggles to describe his love. In “Sonnet 43,” he gets sick because of this love, a sickness with no cure. 
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Depiction of Masculinity in King Lear and Richard II Literature Essay
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Richard shows more pleasure in changing fashions and investing too much in his self-willed interests not in favour of the kingdom. Both of the characters show weaknesses in terms of having masculine traits due to which, they get deprived of their kingdoms and power and have to hand over the power and land to those who are more masculine in character.
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The symbolical use of religion in Flannery OConnors A Good Man is Hard to Find Literature Essay
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It narrates the saga of a family, consisting of a grandmother, her son, his wife and three of their children, going on a trip that finally ends up in their unfortunate execution by a convict at large.
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Homoscocial and Homoeroticism in Shakespeare Literature Essay
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The first rule is that words should not always be depended on and can hardly ever be pinned down to a precise single meaning. The second rule is that the whole truths of words are hardly ever presented on the stage. What is placed on the stage is meant to arouse a creative response, not to set up moments of actuality?
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Comparison of George Orwell's 1984 and Bradbury Rays Fahrenheit 451 Literature Essay
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Winston thought O’Brien was trustworthy and a friend, but the truth was that he wanted to deceive him and his hidden motives were ugly and not what he showed. Beatty also claimed to be a well-wisher for Montag, but in reality, he was not his friend – in fact, someone who wanted to harm Montag badly and cruelly. 
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Bertolt Brechts Life of Galileo: Social and individual concerns are inextricable in modern literary texts Literature Essay
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All through the chapter, Quigley celarly explains the close relationship between social and individual concerns and in the introductory section he refers to the modern play with attention focused in the horizon of a domain.
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Discuss some of the targets of the satire in 'The Beggars Opera' by John Gay Literature Essay
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It is also the only model of the once flourishing genre of satirical ballad opera to stay popular nowadays. The opera is a satirical play with more than 60 short songs. The word 'opera' is used satirically in the title. The play satirizes, through the talks of the unlawful characters and events, the ethical standards of the upper classes and politicians in general.
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