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Phaedra As An Example Of Enlightenment Values Literature Essay
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For example, following the original conception of this tragedy by Euripides, versions of it have appeared in Latin, Italian, French, Spanish, etc through the authorship of such great writers as Francesco Bozza, Jean Racine, Miguel de Unamuno, etc. This enduring appeal makes relevant its study in relation to enlightenment values.
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Thousand Cranes Literature Essay
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Thousand Cranes Thousand Cranes is an interesting modern classic novel set in post-War Japan. The storyline follows the orphaned Kikuji trying to make sense of his father’s adulterous relationships with Chikako and Mrs. Ota against the backdrop of the traditional Japanese tea ceremony.
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Anne Bradstreet vs John Winthrop Literature Essay
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The author states that similar to Anne Bradstreet, John Winthrop presumes that existence is determined. Like Anne Bradstreet who believes God is preparing her for a better life, after the destruction of her residence, John Winthrop also believes that God exists among his people during their movement to America.
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Race and Discourse Analysis in Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness Literature Essay
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The new cultural politics of difference reacts to this crisis of representation. West argues that the goal of these marginalized groups is “to empower and enable social action and, if possible, to enlist collective insurgency for the expansion of freedom, democracy, and individuality”  (During 257).
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Ten Types of Hospital Visitor - A Classification of Pain Literature Essay
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The hallmark of Causley’s craftsmanship in conveying a message that is of universal importance and significance is the style he has selected to wrap and convey it, which is the traditional ballad form. No wonder the words and style chosen by the poet are so typical of his body of work, deft at conveying pithy messages in a simple and matter of fact manner.
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Flannery OConnors Good Country People Literature Admission/Application Essay
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The names of the characters reflect their personality. O’Connor has used symbolism to develop the importance of each character in the story. Symbolism is also used by the writer to signify the difference between good and bad and the physiological problems and the psychological issues of the characters. The use of biblical parallels is also very common in the story.
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Sexual oppression of Women in relation to the play House of Bernada Alba Literature Essay
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For centuries, the subject of giving equal gender rights is being broached and discussed, resolutions passed, some enactments have been made in legislatures in many countries, but no meaningful improvement in the status of women in real terms is seen. She continues to be painted as an incapable and inferior part of the society, and must remain subservient to men.
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Emotions and Ethics: A Case of Contention Regarding Paulina Literature Essay
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But at the same time, the play calls for ethical grounds to be followed and violations to be obscured. The Author Aerial Dorfman has carefully provided a two-sided picture of justice in a military regime. The story The Death and the Maiden put the audiences in agreement and disagreement of the contention of the emotional stance.
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Machiavelli The Prince Literature Essay
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Machiavelli wrote “The Prince” as an instructional manual for a Renaissance ruler. Some of the secular aspects of governance have changed much since the time of Machiavelli, and as the ruler, I will follow what is relevant and practical in the present political scenario in the world.
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Turning White by Lee Thomas Literature Essay
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Lee Thomas is an author, reporter, and four-time Emmy Award-winning television anchor. Lee’s father and mother are a military officer and a nurse assistant respectively. He currently stays in Detroit and has a first-rate relation with his stars as they keep in touch on a regular basis. He is a holder of a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Speech Communications, which he got from George Mason University.
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Paying Special Concentration upon Consciousness Literature Essay
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Cooley has associated his concept of self with the views social establishment provides to a personality about it. Hence, the flow of ideas and formation of self appears to be predominantly influenced by social fabrics, including the prevailing social norms and cultural values, which pave the way towards personality development and views.
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Memory and History in Maus and Austerlitz: Recovering from Trauma through Remembering, Forgetting, and Sensemaking Literature Essay
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Memory and History in Maus and Austerlitz: Recovering from Trauma through Remembering, Forgetting, and Sensemaking. Testimonials and autobiographies are some of the common ways of recording and sharing personal and collective histories. This essay believes that these forms have been entrenched into new ways of narratives, including the comics or commix and novel forms.
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Folk Tales as Cultural Productions Literature Essay
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I realized that the inspiration impacted by African folk tales revolved around the encouragement to act based on morality and ethics. The author wanted to instill into the minds of the readers that goodness triumphs over evil. I had an overwhelming feeling after realizing the moral lessons of these stories.
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Carmen (1845) novella by Prosper Mrime Literature Essay
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The appendix is a bit different from the novella but it portrays the author’s attitude and thoughts about the novel in general. In the appendix, the author generally gives his views, thoughts and opinions about the people of Spain mainly the Gypsies. This is so because the characters are Gypsies and hence their behaviors are almost similar.
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The Nymphs Reply to the Shepherd Literature Essay
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The poet proclaims his love for the shepherd by saying, “If all the world and love were young.” She compares that when living things are alive, they still die (lines 15-16) and wishes youth would last forever without ever growing old. The poet uses imagery to show his wish for their love to live forever (Bloy 15).
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Losses and Gains in the Character of Miss Amelia in The Ballad of the Sad Caf Literature Essay
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Carson McCullers was known for portraying the tragic cycle of love in the novella The Ballad of the Sad Café (1951), and the situation of the three main characters resonates among the novella’s readers. The stage adaptation of the story by Edward Albee shows the similarities in the intended portrayals of the characters within the short story.
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Carmen-Prosper de Merimee Literature Essay
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The setting is done in the Southern Spain and creates a colorful backdrop of the focus of the clash which existed between the Gypsies who are nomads and who were an ethnic group which was highly despised by the public and the Europeans. The author clearly states that the Gypsies can be distinguished from the other inhabitants by their physiognomy and expression.
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Reading Meaning through Deconstructing the Writing of Shelleys Frankenstein Literature Essay
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Women have to kill their “women” selves so that they can be born again. This essay argues that death comes with fully opposing what society says about gender, especially womanhood. Being ostracised is expected, and loneliness kills too, but if women want to be de-womanized, they must do so by killing their socially-produced identities.
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Is Architecture the Museum Literature Essay
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Architects are the other group of people to whom the museums and their importance are related. Architecture is one of the most important aspects of a museum and thus there are special architects that contribute to the museums and their buildings. This has been coming on for hundreds of years when the museums had started to exist.
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Writing the Modern World, 1600-1800 OROONOKO Aphra Behn, HAMLET Shakespeare, THE MAN OF MODE George Etherege Literature Essay
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‘Oroonoko’ (Aphra Behn) ''Texts in this period are less interested in performances as such than in what happens when those performances break down or fail'' It is a fact that one of Aphra Behn’s texts, known as “Oroonoko”, was not well-received by the English public when she wrote it in the seventeenth century.
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The Land of Egypt with Unique Characteristics Literature Essay
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Ptah is the symbol of preservation, a parental duty, and a protector. It is the symbol of caring parenthood a protector which are the major qualities of a king. He should assure his subject all kinds of assurance of living a good life such as financial stability, happiness, prosperity, etc. Sekhmet is the Goddess associated with bravery and justice.
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Romanticism and Transcendentalism Era of Literature Literature Essay
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To a large extent one can argue that transcendentalism constituted a broader ranging perspective on the universe than did romanticism. One considers Henry David Thoreau, when he writes, “I had withdrawn so far within the great ocean of solitude, into which the rivers of society empty, that for the most part, so far as my needs were concerned, only the finest sediment was deposited around me” (Perkins, p.
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The Protestant Reformation in England Literature Essay
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The Catholic Church in England tried to stem the spread of the new movement by burning the new English Bible Translations and executing the supporters of the Protestant Reformation.  The Reformers responded by sacking monasteries, plundering their possessions and releasing monks and nuns, and encouraging them to marry (Abrams et al, 538).
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Literature Essay
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The obvious superficiality and crassness of such maneuverings is a failure in terms of its philosophy. Thus, Austen’s philosophy “fails to open itself truly to the random possibilities of the future. A turn towards the bright future is not enough, in and of itself, to guarantee the authenticity of action.
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Shooting an Elephant by Orwell Literature Essay
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The researcher says that Orwell seems to be asking the reader whether or not the narrator was justified in his actions. To be clear, this student feels that the shooting of the elephant was justified in order to preserve human life, protect social stability, and to help bridge the divide between two cultures. 
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Chaucer and His Relation to English Society Literature Essay
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In The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer holds the mirror of the Middle Ages before the reader, as for its contemporary life and characteristics. He was in the thick of the happenings in the society and his writings and observations related to the entire society right from the people at the grassroots level to the top hierarchy.
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Psychoanalysis of Sestina by Elizabeth Bishop Literature Essay
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The complexity of the environment can be seen as similar to the dream state in which intentionality has a much deeper meaning. The simple joy of the moment is entrenched in the sorrow of the grandmother. Although the child is not aware of the nature of the environment, the grandmother has knowledge of its meaning.
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Religion themes in Dantes Inferno and Buddha's instruction texts Literature Essay
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In the two texts, the poets assume protagonists’ positions of their respective works. Their role besides relaying the core information entails developing the works’ plots. Since, instead of giving tale of what will happen or happened; they are the key players whereby their souls are undergoing tests meant to merit eternal contentment (IATH & UOV, n.d).
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Sapphos Poems Loneliness and To any army wife, in Sardis Literature Essay
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Final Essay (Sappho’s Poems Loneliness and To any army wife, in Sardis) Name Professor Institution Course Date Introduction Undeniably, Sappho in her two poems “To any army wife, in Sardis” and “Loneliness” utilizes same perspective in depicting the texts’ respective women figures (Sappho, 2002).
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Ramayana and Shakuntala: A Comparison Literature Essay
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Both Ramayana and Shakuntala are great works of artistic and philosophical merit. Originally written in Sanskrit close to two millennia ago, their authorship and date of origin are both speculative and mythologized. Yet, these ambiguities do not detract from their unique contributions to Eastern philosophy and literature.
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Nikolai Gogol's The Overcoat Literature Essay
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p.). It sounds as fantastic as it used to be in the middle ages, the atmosphere of narration hardly changed even in the XIX and XX centuries. The under discussion story “The Overcoat” is also on the same theme. A number of figurative themes and stylistic metaphoric combination is the cause of fancy in the story.
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Reflections on The Theory of Moral Sentiments Literature Book Report/Review
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It is a book by an intellectual, trying to understand what the borders of spirituality are, but unable to reach it. Spirituality is all about experiencing and it transcending mind-level reasoning. The book, however, from the secular point of view, is the foundation stone for the later works of Adam Smith on the subjects of ethics, philosophy, psychology, politics, justice, economics, arms and methodological underpinnings.
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Analysis of the Poem Sestina by Bishop Using the Psychoanalysis Theory Literature Essay
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The grandmother is viewed to put many efforts in amusing the child. At the later stages, the child is seen to be developing emotionally and through perceptions made and drawing. The child’s pain and misery are conveyed by the use of lexis such as ‘rigid’, ‘mad’ among others which are typical references for the child undergoing hard times.
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Regeneration, Birdsong and the First World War Poetry by Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon Literature Coursework
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The soldiers had fought in the 1st World War and were being treated for shell shock sometimes known as War neurosis. Birdsong is a war novel by Sebastian Faulks about a man named Stephen Wraysford at different stages of his life before, during, and after World War 1. It tells of the events and attitudes towards the Battle of Somme and the life in the trenches.
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Carmen (1845) novella by Prosper Mrime Literature Book Report/Review
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Although they all meet at different times and under different circumstances, their stories intertwine to give rise to the author’s narration. This essay seeks to examine how the author incorporates his thoughts and attitudes into the characters within the novella, judging by the information contained in the appendix.
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Beowulf: a Legendary Poem of Ancient England Literature Essay
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On the one hand, he is a rather self-centered person, but he helps people in their fight against the drastic monster. From this point of view, Beowulf is a classical ancient hero of an epic poem because his strength and also power are much more important than his intentions to do everything himself.
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The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison Literature Essay
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Pecola has totally lost her senses because she is ill-adjusted to fit in the hostile black community, whose concept of beauty has been corrupted by the ‘bluest eye’ myth. Ultimately, Claudia symbolizes hope for the black woman who has to contend with societal ridicule and ill-treatment against a backdrop of a racist concept of beauty (“Chasing Rainbows”).
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Extremely loud and incredibly close Literature Essay
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For purposes of this particular story, Foer examines the way in which a young boy, Oskar Schell, attempts to cope with the loss of his father during the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. By using different tones for each of the main characters, Foer allows the reader to better to connect to the characters within the story.
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Comapare how relationships are presented in Before you were mine and Anne Hathaway by Carol Ann Duffy Literature Essay
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The language in her poem is so easy and flawless that her poems largely became famous in schools and colleges. She debated over various issues of everyday life in her poetry. The topics of her poetry vary from gender to violence, relationships to obsession.
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Nostalgia in the Peter Pan Literature Essay
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Peter and Wendy inspire their readers and they show determination in their aims and persecute their plans accordingly after facing all hurdles. They belong to two different worlds and cannot stay in both worlds at the same time. Peter Pan goes for immortality as he fears death and wants to live an adventurous life being a child.
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Representation of the Female Gender in Novels of Sappho and Du Fu Literature Essay
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This is regardless of the passage of time that has granted women the liberty to have almost the same say as their male counterparts. Mainly, this is evident in diverse pieces of world literature, which exemplifies women as weak in both statures and will thus be devoid of assertiveness. Therefore, men end up not respecting their boundaries.
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Antigone And Feminism: How Has Antigone Empowered Women Literature Research Paper
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In ancient societies, women were always termed inferior to men with no political, social or economic importance, and their main roles included bearing children, preparing meals and watching over the household. However, over the years women empowerment has enabled them to gain equality with their male counterpart.
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In Goethe's Faust, Is Faust good or evil Literature Essay
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It is through establishing this foundation Romantics are trying to accept the idea as true that people attempt to achieve something that at some point may go beyond their limits, which they believe as potentially dangerous because it would probably bring humans into their darker side.
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The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty Literature Essay
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The evilness in the domain consists of both human and supernatural facing modern society, ranging from women's sexual immorality to murder cases among others. Blatty outwardly seems to aim at confronting great mysteries in human life, and the supernatural world. He bases his story on the moral perspective in mind of how to conquer evil with good.
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Morality in Choderlos de Laclos Les Liaisons Dangereuses Literature Essay
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Laclos presents his ambiguous stance on morality through the characters of Tourvel and de Merteuil, considering that Laclos illustrates both faults and weaknesses of characters. In this case, it is likely that such ambiguity presents the objective intention of the authors in creating their art, regardless of the sidetracked social relevance of their works.
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Samskara by UR Ananthamurthy Literature Essay
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“Samskara” by UR Ananthamurthy (Translated by A.K. Ramanujan). “Samskara” is a narrative about life in an agrahara, where Brahmins, belonging to the Madhwa community, live. The Brahmins, of this agrahara, are totally decadent, jealous, selfish and narrow-minded.
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The Conflict between Romantic and Victorian Values in Wuthering Height Literature Essay
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Starting at the third page of the novel, where Lockwood’s crossing the Heights’ heavily embellished ‘threshold’, the novel sets up several such thresholds for the characters to crossover and overcome – symbolizing social expectations in Victorian society. To illustrate, when Nelly speaks to Catherine of Hareton’s embarrassingly slow learning process.
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Realizing fate and responding Literature Essay
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In the first place,what is fate?Or how should fate be defined?These are realities and events beyond the control of a human being,usually attributed to divine Will of God or forces.The Free Dictionary defines it as “force,principle,or power that predetermines events;the inevitable events predestined by this force.”
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The chestnut tree in Jane Eyre and Mrs. Sparsits staircase in Hard Times Literature Essay
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The chestnut tree in Jane Eyre and Mrs. Sparsit’s staircase in Hard Times. Two of the most important novels in the history of English literature, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and Hard Times by Charles Dickens were significant for the complexity of their themes and the innovation of the stylistic devices that they were able to introduce into their novels.
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Impact of Naturalism, Capitalism and Urban culture in Sister Carrie Literature Essay
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Most important leading character is of Carrie whose life got totally changed directly by city life and she indirectly changed lives of her admirers i.e. Drouet and Hurstwood. The environment at Chicago was based on people living with class differences.
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