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Instead of dealing with these issues directly, these stories were buried in criticism. It was not until years later that they became included in American literature as respected authors of great pieces of truly American prose. These authors had the courage, foresight, and technical expertise to write about topics and events which were important depictions of the human experience.
Kaplan looks to ancient philosophers and military strategists for ageless wisdom that can be applied to modern geopolitics. He argues that the end of the cold war and the proliferation of modern technology threaten to create such complacency that world leaders miss the significance of 'nasty little wars in anarchic corners of the globe'.
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William Shakespeare, the greatest dramatist the world has ever known, has created characters and situations that have meaning beyond the time and place of his plays. “The Merchant of Venice” is a comedy partly based on a story in “Il Pecorone”, a collection of tales by the Italian author Giovanni Fiorentino.
It is with the adjective that she paints a picture to be seen with the mind’s eye that can then be translated into more specific, metaphysical considerations. While she entertains our vision, creating new identities for her subjects, Bishop works to expound on the inequalities of life as she sees them, namely the isolation and alienation she has found in the modern city.
Is life ever fair to weak people who seek new lands and want a good credit of living a good life but this weakness shown in the beginning is what yielded the personality they are? Is it true, then, that the performance they gave in America and the grace od living they found there was worth and deserving more than if they had lived in China?
Squatter’ and ‘Lend Me the Light’ are the stories of immigrant experiences, of occupying transnational spaces, while the men and women who are involved in this process have to deal with the complex, ambivalent identities they have created for themselves. The protagonists of these stories, Sarosh and Kersi.
Li-Young Lee is an American poet of Chinese descent born in Indonesia. Like all writers, his poems seem to emanate from his past experiences. He was born to a family of different classes where his mother was the daughter of the Chinese President and his father was a son of a gangster. His father would serve as a doctor to the Great Mao and would at some point in time be exiled to Indonesia.
“There are some poets whose poems can be considered more or less in isolation, for experience and delight. There are others whose poetry, though giving equally experience and delight, has a larger historical importance. Yeats was one of the latter. He was one of the few whose history was the history of our own time, who are part of the consciousness of our age, which cannot be understood”.
Great writers employ a variety of irony in their works to achieve special rhetorical and artistic effects. Raymond carver’s short stories are abundant with various ironies and verbal repetitions made by various characters in his works. He uses various types of ironies such as verbal, situational, dramatic, and attitudinal, in his short stories.
Shakespeare portrayed his barbarian as easily tricked by Prospero’s willingness to deal falsely with him and utterly angry about this treatment, but not unintelligent in that he was thoroughly knowledgeable about his island and how to survive on it as well as having learned the means by which to overcome the magician himself.
George Lamont (1995) points out that Napoleon and Stalin share a similar weakness for public speaking that is actually a strength for their primary opposition – Snowball for Napoleon and Trotsky for Stalin. They each demonstrated a willingness to do anything for power, proving themselves cruel, brutal, and willing to kill to reach their goals.
In sum, King Lear demonstrates that art is a game played against death and chaos, which leads to self-knowledge and self-development. It is important to disclose the eternal nature of art: it is opposition to chaos and death. Art is explained as a constructive force that helps the characters to oppose evil and chaos.
I'm winning, he thought, Magpie doesn't stand a chance. He adjusted the scan depth to see where Madpie's wagon was. There. Straining away in the myelencephalon, grubbing away around the brainstem. He had already claimed the cerebellum, right after the medulla oblongata. Magpie could have the pons if he wanted. Barney was after the dynamic duo, the thalamus, and the hypothalamus.
From the beginning of his studies, Victor Frankenstein purposefully and intentionally turned his back on the natural world as a means of concentrating on discovering the secret of bringing life to inanimate material, a process in which he was “forced to spend days and night in vaults and charnel-houses.
Bless Me, Ultima, considered the classical Chicano novel, is the first in Anaya’s trilogy of the trials and troubles of adolescence in New Mexico. Moving in an episodic, seasonal, and cyclic fashion the novel represents Antonio’s rite of passage from innocence to knowledge and self-awareness, which occurs through a serial of inner and outer crises.
The human mind is a ‘mine’ of thoughts. That is, the human mind is ‘mined’ with a lot of thoughts and memories, which can be extracted and put into action only at appropriate times. If those thoughts are erroneously and imperfectly translated into action and fail to achieve the intended targets, then the mind of the humans will become unstable, leading to insanity in course of time.
The characters evoke a world and situate the reader within their context by way of dialogues, letters, and monologues. Through the dialogues (which many times hide more than they reveal) the characters are linked with empirical reality: in their consciousness, they project tensions, conflicts, and memories of the real world.
The idea of active learning of classical Greeks began with the teachings of myths, which acted as the bedrock of their education. While at first the youths were informed of these myths as stories to enjoy, as they grew older they learned of this in poetry and art. Later on, they would learn of their heroes and legends in serious literature.
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This research analyzes the realities presented by Rankine and ways of eliminating the micro-aggressions that result in a buildup of racially discriminating societies. Realism in the Citizen is portrayed depicted in various ways. Rankine gives the readers a feeling of the contemporary work through her use of intense emotions in her text.
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He was not able to live an upright life since his association with a man called John Allan left him socially and economically not well positioned. This was against his desire to live a safe and comfortable life. This relationship left him an indebted artist in his times. This paper focuses on Allan Poe’s transgressions towards the American Dream focusing on the text ‘Fall of the House of Usher’.
The illiterate people are encouraged to learn writing skills that are very basic requirements in the contemporary world. Writing is a conscious and humanizing technology; thus, one finds him or herself irrelevant in society if he or she cannot effectively literacy and oral knowledge (Walter & Ong 313). Writing separates the past from oral narratives and the present.
Published in 1969, the Godfather tells the story about a mighty Mafia family in New York. The manner in which the author captured the essence of being part of the Mob in the book was amplified in the movie through vivid characters and a stellar cast. The inner details on the workings of the mysterious world of organized crime had not been before exposed to the public so sensationally.
When the death of Ivan is announced, fellow coworkers and family members react in different ways to the announcement. Upon being informed of Ivan’s death, the coworkers start to discuss the vacancy that has been occasioned by Ivan’s demise (Tolstoy, 2010). The coworkers discuss what changes in the company will be created by the death of Ivan.
The lover’s desire is finally conquered; however, since the love god demands both restraint and distance, the lover is unable to realize both his love and his desire. Thus, the contradictory effects of courtly love indicate that the latter be complemented through the integration of both the physical and the emotional.
The characters of Thomas More and Galileo may not immediately emerge as characters that have much in common. After all, one was associated with politics and the rule of a particular monarch while the other is associated with science and the rule of the church. Thomas More was a statesman and Galileo Galilei was an Italian scientist.
Notwithstanding his bright mind, Hamlet obviously lacks insight. Due to this, he makes mistakes. He cannot kill Claudius during his prayer. Hamlet is deceived by his eye, while the scene demonstrates that Claudius is a good actor. Further, Hamlet, deceived by his ear, kills Polonius, who forgets his role and gives away his presence in the room.
Earlier in Act II, Scene 2 Hamlet discusses the play once seen by him in the city. “…it was, as I received it, and others, whose judgments in such matters cried in the top of mine, an excellent play, well digested in the scenes, set down with as much modesty as cunning,” – recollects he, pointing to the way the plays should be written and demonstrating his interest in theater and tastes.
This is primarily because these values and these struggles have also transported themselves from period to period. We have seen the representation of Antigone on the histories and freedom struggles of various countries. In the same way, we have also heard stories of various struggles of mere survival and right to exist from every nook and corner of the world.
However, the father’s language to her, including his reference to her ‘purple moods’, suggests an age-old enough to understand the description and the distinctions he’s making. When he says her purple moods and her interest in hockey are faults, he only means they are not consistent with his ideas of what a girl should be.
The rich man’s treatment of Lazarus goes against this Christian tenet and was so extreme as to warrant some sort of penance. In the end, he paid the price by suffering the same fate he failed to identify within his lifetime. As a result, it is fair to say that he got just what he deserved, his just desserts.
Lena is depicted as a woman who is extremely anxious about her standpoint in life. Her heart is such a difficult thing to understand both for her and for the people around her. However, Lena’s bitterness will then later on wilt like a flower because of a detested wedding bond that eventually became favorable for her.
Through the story of this family of black people who were torn apart by the institutions of American slavery and brought together again in part only as of the result of their own tremendous efforts and incredible suffering, Stowe introduced America to the realities of the situation as it was experienced by the lowest of the members that lived it
The depictions of male and female characters in Shakespeare’s plays present the gender roles that were prevalent in society at that time. The female characters in Shakespeare’s plays portray a variety of emotions and though these emotions are ambiguous in nature, they bring forth the status of woman in society.
Literature often provides us with a means of understanding elements of life that are frequently misunderstood or not considered in a ‘normal’ experience. One of these elements is the way in which human beings frequently cope with extreme long-term stress such as those who are trapped in the bonds of poverty or enmeshed in the violence of war.
Keeping up appearances was indubitably the underlying tone of the novel. It expressively tells of the story of being displaced and the hardship of fitting in while simultaneously being uncertain of your own identity in many respects. The main character, Franklin "Doc" Hata, tells of the many sides behind a seemingly tranquil and fulfilled life.
Both characters show an incredible amount of insecurity and low self-esteem, and are driven by the haunting desire to be something more than merely “ordinary.” Both characters lie compulsively to themselves and to their friends and families and want desperately to change anything about themselves, their towns, or their lives.
When her father died, her mind is hardened to such an extent, that she has lost the ability to think coolly and rationally. Her involvement with a gay man named Homer is the outcome of the decision made by her confused state of mind, and she believes that she will eventually marry him. It is her total reliance on a male figure.
In this way, the house was anecdotal evidence of who his father was. Auster knew the state of the house, how the house was kept, and this knowledge was a piece of the complex puzzle of who the owner of the house was. This was one of the pieces of evidence that led the author to the eventual truth of his father.
In addition to such realization, cultural differentiation, religious and racial discrimination, social cosmopolitanism, globalization, capitalism on one and economic deprivation of common people in welfare, corporate aggression fused with common hedonism. All these factors, conjointly made the issue of human existence quite complicated one.
The way in which the Alice books are written can be defined by their commentaries about the time period within which they were penned. The Victorian Era was a time in which society was held under strict control with a sense of appropriateness and propriety overriding the choices that one had for behavior.
The concepts that Twain displays in his satirical works about The Bible are designated to challenge readers into a different approach to religion. The main question that Twain associates with his satirical works is based on the power of the church and how it has formed a stigma over religion, good and evil, and living a virtuous life.
The social attitude toward women during the Elizabethan period was that they were generally only suited for household needs and didn’t have the necessary capacity for thought that men had. Despite this opinion, Shakespeare wrote numerous different female characters demonstrating a variety of abilities, characteristics, and responsibilities.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts on December 10, 1830. She was the daughter of Edward Dickinson, a successful lawyer, and politician”. In her youth, she was popular and socially active. In her twenties and middle age, she isolated herself in her house and garden. Two men played important roles in her early life.
The Chinese philosopher Confucius said, ‘True goodness springs from a man’s own heart. All men are born good.’ So why then are there so many bad people? We look around and we can not deny a man taking advantage of another, a woman disdaining her neighbor, a girl fights with someone her age or even younger or older, a boy steals to feed himself and his siblings.
Li Po’s poems focused on nature and entertainment, which developed a balance between both poets through the identification of the function and lifestyle aspects of the Chinese society during the period. Therefore, both poems provided a complementary element to each other as they highlighted the various changes experienced within the society relating to the adopted societal aspects and processes.
Wilde has wildly addressed “personal value at stake” as one of his themes. In the novels, Wilde introduces some things that his characters embrace and some challenges that result in the loss of values. Based on this assertion, the paper will use the three books introduced above to justify the claim that “Personal Value at Stake” is a theme typically used in Wilde’s works.
The main theme of the story was focused on Ah Q, who was a man belonging from a rural peasant family possessing less education and does not have any specific occupation. Ah Q was generally renowned for the spiritual victories and he highly feared the people who are above him in context to power, strength, and rank.
The fundamental description provided by Denis attempts to explain the concept of being human. There is an aspect of rhetoric and eloquence in life yet the major question around these two is how one can transform rhetoric into eloquence. Several literature sources have been used to explain how people have managed to transform rhetoric into eloquence.
Significantly, Chaucer’s collection The Canterbury Tales is a good example of his talent to create stories full of moral lessons, which are important for people of any generation. In particular, the author considers the theme of love in all of its aspects in numerous tales of his collection. Among them, The Wife of Bath’s Tale and The Clerk’s Tale represent so different kinds of love.
Through the autobiography, it was clear that Nelson Mandela was a Nobel Peace Prize Winner and the first democratically elected president of the Republic of South Africa. The literary work portrayed the Late Nelson Mandela as a global hero who dedicated his entire life struggling against the apartheid policy that was ripping the nation apart during the late 20th Century.