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Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats Literature Essay
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"Ode on a Grecian Urn” composed by the poet in May 1819 and consequently published in January 1820 is one of his finest and most remarkable creations. Keats composed many other odes simultaneously in the same year and this Ode is regarded as one of the most impeccable and unparallel creations of the era.
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The Last Speaker of the Language by Carol Anshaw Literature Essay
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Each member of the family is crazy in their own way, but when they get together, they showcase a family that bursts with love and human frailty. Darlyn and her brother exchange roles and help each other with taking care of their mother (Anshaw 3). Lake her daughter fixes her food whenever she can like a show of support to her.
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Debates In Literature Literature Essay
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In a manner quite unprecedented, Freud offered an alternate means of understanding the human psyche, that is, through the realm of the unconscious or the repressed. Thus dreams and hitherto stifled desires become the chief subjects of Freud’s studies. This essay would attempt to argue for the continuing relevance of psychoanalysis in literature and literary inquiry through a reading of Robert Louis Stevenson’s work TheStrange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
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Comparing Punishment by Tagore and The Conscience of the Court by Hurston Literature Research Paper
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This paper will compare two short stories written by different authors and in different placements. The stories are Punishment written by Rabindranath Tagore and The Conscience of the Court written by Zora Neale Hurston. The two stories have several features in common that therefore compel the comparison of how the authors use them in developing the conflicts, which sustain the story.
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English Literature - Ancient vs Modern Literature Essay
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The difference in content in the literature varies in terms of intensity of literature and the strengths given to the characters. Various ancient female readings were spectacular owing to the fact that the women were writing them in an age when they were practically not allowed to engage in anything whatsoever.  
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Words and Pictures Across Cultures Literature Essay
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Words and Pictures across Cultures Name Professor Institution Course Date Words and Pictures across Cultures Orientalism has been a debate between different people and cultures over many years and one of the acclaimed writers in the field is renowned American author, Edward Wadie Said.
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Landscape in Angelas Ashes and Cold Mountain Literature Book Report/Review
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Frank McCourt’s autobiography Angela’s Ashes and Charles Frazier’s novel Cold Mountain both use landscape to reflect the mental state of the characters and show their metaphorical journeys as well as their physical ones. However, each author uses descriptions of the landscape and character interactions with it in a very different way.
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Significance of the crossroad to both africain and caribbean litterature Literature Essay
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Crossroad movies are more like a meeting point of the culture of Africans and the Caribbean. They contain scenes where certain Caribbean, that have their roots from Africa come together with their own brand of music that has its origin from Africa and this music remind viewers of the rich cultural history of Africa.
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Comparison of Characters in Shakespeare's Othello and The Merchant of Venice Literature Essay
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Lorenzo himself is a Christian while his girlfriend Jessica is a Jew. We get to learn that intermarriage between the two antagonistic religious groups is highly forbidden. This is a ’Love is blind’ kind of relationship that leads Jessica and Lorenzo into the world of unfamiliarity characterized by love blossoming beyond religious boundaries.
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The Art of Storytelling by Shahrazad Literature Essay
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No one knows the significance of the storytelling art better than the Shahrazad, as it saved her from the beheading. If she was born in modern times, she would have gone on to become a successful screen play writer, wining various Oscars for possessing a superb and spellbinding art of creating blatantly visual and remarkably intricate scenarios.
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How did Muhammad Ali Impact America Literature Research Paper
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He was stripped off his boxing rights for a period of four years after which he went on to become one of the world’s greatest fighters and earned himself the nickname of the ‘Greatest’ as he was involved in some of the most historic boxing matches that have taken place in history.
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Summer words of a sistuh addict Literature Essay
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This research will begin with the statement that poetry is by its very nature an artifice.  The paper tells that one of the most important components of poetry is the fact that each word is chosen, each sound was chosen, so specifically by the poet that it can convey an incredible amount of meaning with a small amount of text. 
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Red Badge of Courage: Tracing Henrys maturity Literature Essay
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The character of Henry develops from a cowardice youth afraid of war and reluctant to participate in war to a fulfilled brave soldier. The plot unfolds to give the reader of the background from which Henry got an injured hence receives a “war wound” that becomes his turning point.
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Kleos in Homeric Poems Literature Essay
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“She spoke, and still more roused in him the passion for weeping. He wept as he held his lovely wife, whose thoughts were virtuous. And as when the land appears welcome to men who are swimming after Poseidon has smashed their strong-built ship on the open water...; so welcome was her husband to her as she looked upon him, and she could not let him go from the embrace of her white arms.”
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The Way of the Wind Literature Essay
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Gideon’s personality is “not the stuff of which dynasties are founded”. The father lets his disappointment show through in their relationship. Shimshon is prepared for his son to “drop out at the last minute” and avoid the parachute jump. In the event that Gideon does go through with the jump, Shimshon is prepared to be proud of him “for a change”.
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Debate Whether the Wife and Her Tale Are Feminist Literature Essay
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Many women in this time believe in gender equality. They believe in the fact that they can do anything the masculine gender is assigned to. Human rights activists help to see that women get the full share of authority as the men. This is defined as feminism the greatest tool of battle in the women society.
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Winterson's The Passion and Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale - Common Motives Literature Essay
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Jeanette Winterson’s The Passion and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale can both be considered feminist works. They both look at the different aspect of feminism, which can be seen in the remarkably different environments in which the stories in these novels are set, and these give a hint of the authors’ thoughts on the feminism.
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A Christmas Carol Literature Essay
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Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol during a period when the British were exploring and re-evaluating past Christmas traditions, including carols, and newer customs such as cards and Christmas trees. He was influenced by the experiences of his own youth and by the Christmas stories of other authors, including Washington Irving and Douglas Jerrold.
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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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The Relationship between the Occult and Madness in Edgar Allan Poe Literature Essay
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The stunning moments Edgar Allan Poe created through his bizarre imagination generate his views about the human psyche and his profound use of literary language. Poe is a difficult writer in the sense that sometimes he reaches the heights of imagination, throwing the reader's minds into an indefinable dilemma with utmost curiosity to know the rest.
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The Theme of Race in Othello Literature Essay
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Shakespeare’s works come under the category of classics in literature, is to be justified not on the basis that they were authored many centuries ago, but for the reason that they throw light on the various facets of human nature. They deal with the most profound realities and shades of life that are as often ugly as they are beautiful. 
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Inhale Movie by Baltasar Kormakur Literature Movie Review
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Indeed this movie elicits different emotions among the audience. To begin with, when Paul arrives in Mexico, as a father, he becomes friends with certain street children and becomes emotionally attached to them. This relationship later presents a painful situation, when Paul learns that one of these street children is a subject of murder in order to save his daughter’s life.
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Strategic Management a Dynamic Approach Literature Assignment
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This paper observes a range of findings of the review of the paper titled “Strategic Management, a Dynamic Approach”. It is part of a peer review activity supposed to assume critical analysis of the paper. Most notably, the paper will cut across different areas including the structure, components and units of the paper.
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The Argumentation Literature Essay
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Argumentation is a social process. Having an argument involves two or more individuals responding to one another's claim and support for such a claim. Argument is not simply restating the same claims and reasons, rather it is supporting, modifying or defending positions accordingly.
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Symbolism of the Handkerchief Literature Essay
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The handkerchief plays a significant role from the start of their marriage till the end of the couple’s lives. The handkerchief has a story attached to it which is told by Othello to Desdemona. An Egyptian Sibyl wove the handkerchief with silk obtained from the purest of the silk worms and dyed with the hearts of preserved virgins.
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Introduction to Literature : I Died for Beauty and We Real Cool Literature Essay
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The poems "We Real Cool" and "I died for beauty" will be analyzed here.
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Allen Ginsbergs Howl Literature Essay
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The poem offers no ultimate spirituality or social or political agenda but instead testifies to the absurdity of soul-banging away on a piano. This essay has examined Allen Ginsberg’s Howl in terms of how it relates to political, social, and historical concerns. It’s demonstrated that the poem articulates the social and historical concerns surrounding the beat movement.
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Literature review: Herodotus Literature Research Paper
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It was believed that he was born at Halicarnassus, a Greek city in Asia Minor. There was no precise record of the date of his birth and death. However, it can be estimated from the details of the book he wrote, The Histories, and from another source book by the Athenian historian.
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Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Fall of House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe Literature Research Paper
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Both the prose follows the cliché i.e. every saint is a sinner and every sinner a saint because without the other it is not humanly possible to retain the balance of this world.Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne use their power of imagination and fabulous skills of writing to project the sinister and the dark side of human nature.
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Literary Analysis of Richard Ford's Optimists Literature Research Paper
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The short story ‘Optimists’ was written by Richard Ford in 1987. The narrator and protagonist of the story are Frank Brinson who tells about his teenage years and how his family fell apart.  The whole story is about adolescent disillusions and family disintegration (John, 2011) and revolves around a single event (David, 2011).
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Analysis of 3 Poems by Martin Espada Literature Essay
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Martin Espada is a notable Latin poet and is renowned for notable contribution to poetry especially in Latin America. His words flow on paper very systematically and beautifully and through his poems, he has been able to deliver messages to the people regarding emotions and feelings.  
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Webster's Ninth Edition Literature Essay
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My definition of a hero is an individual of high moral reputation and superior ability who follows his goals tirelessly in the face of strong antagonists. Because of his uncompromised devotion to excelling no matter the challenges, a hero attains spiritual greatness even if he fails to gain practical victory.
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Whitman's Song of Myself and Ginsberg's Howl Literature Essay
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It is evidently clear from the discussion that both the poets have exhibited limited similarity when it comes to the use of line, as Whitman’s lines connect to the outer sphere, while Ginsberg’s lines are inward. The self of Whitman is all-encompassing but Ginsberg’s self is passive, lacking diversity by excluding rural settings.
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How the Writings of Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau, and Dickinson Reflect the Transcendental Movement Literature Essay
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The early to middle years of the nineteenth century (about 1836-1860) witnessed the flourishing of this movement which first began as a reform movement in the Unitarian church, following the views of William Ellery Channing, the foremost Unitarian preacher in the United States in the early nineteenth century.
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Murders in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot Literature Book Report/Review
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2. In reference the chorus in the opening speech the features that show it is a catholic are the presence of the priests during the singing and the fact that the singing takes place in the archbishop’s hall. Catholic is one of the denominations that first introduced the ranks of priests and archbishops.
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Sadness and War in Poem They Beat Their Drums Literature Essay
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The narrative in the third stanza is different than the first two. In the previous stanzas, the narrator was telling a coherent story about the war. Here the focus appears to have shifted away from the war and towards something that was happening at that specific point in time. This is evidence of the despair of the narrator increasing.
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The Manipulation of Image by Walther von der Vogelweide Literature Essay
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Generally, why does red mouth not grant the speaker any favours in I follow her banner? While social status may be a convenient explanation for this, then we must assume the girl as firstly, being a peasant who is not willing to correctly play the game of courtly love, and going to bed with an armoured man.
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Joseph Bruchacs Ellis Island and Gloria Anzalduas To Live In the Border Lands Means You Literature Essay
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A great amount of scholarship has been devoted to answering the question of what America means to the disparate groups that call it home.  Some authors have noted that what they see represented is a melting pot of cultures all seeking to find a better life and work towards adopting a new culture of Americanism in what can only be described as an unrealistic and old-fashioned approach to patriotic virtue.
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Critical Analysis of Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale Literature Research Paper
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Throughout history, there has been a battle for equality between a man and a woman. Women’s rights are where they are today not because of mass rebellion, but by every woman standing up for herself and what she believes in, subtle yet firm. Such is the tale presented in Margaret Atwood’s “A Handmaid’s Tale”.
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Analysis of W or the Memory of Childhood and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Literature Essay
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One of the oldest arguments for the means of development is the age-old argument with regards to whether environment or heredity serves to be the most important formational aspect of how an individual interacts with and relates to their surroundings. The environment affects the most powerful means by which identity is formed.
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Things fall apart Literature Book Report/Review
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This research will begin with the statement that love for truth, painful experiences, sticking to the grassroots realities, imagination based on the practical vision make a brilliant writer. Some write for making a career and some for the sake of upholding the truth and to lend solid support for the common man and societal values.
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Surprise Ending Literature Essay
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He finally goes on to mention his true proposal for reforms in the country. Swift’s “surprise” method shocks the reader and wakens the reader’s conscience, making him particularly receptive to the soundness of Swift’s real proposal to effect reforms in Ireland.
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Illusion and Reality in Literature Literature Research Paper
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Novels and poems could be based on a true story or purely fictional. However, it is rare for a novel and/or a poem to be entirely fictional. Authors usually incorporate their own actual experiences in literary works. But what makes a novel remarkable is not whether it is based on a true story, or purely fictional, or both, but how the author uses the boundary between illusion and reality.
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Major Themes in Literary Works Literature Essay
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The opening of this poem triumphantly praises the individual: “I celebrate myself, and sing myself” (1). On the other hand, Whitman considers himself to be the voice of many people. He, however, passes equal praises to some of the most exemplary people in history, including Abraham Lincoln, whom he thinks to merit more praises.
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Iliad, Antigone, and Bhagavad Gita Literature Essay
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Is the classical Greek Hero a dharma warrior? Yes, I do believe that the classical Greek hero is a dharma warrior mainly due to the symbols, character and humanity they represent as we are about to find out. A Dharma warrior is an Eastern term whose Western equivalents may incorporate ethics, morals, prudence, honesty and immaculateness.
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Misgynism or Photo-Feminism Literature Essay
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Although Euripides is called “misogynist” by his contemporaries, recent studies qualified him as a champion of women’s equality (Rabinowitz, 1993, p.90-1). Certainly, the author of The Trojan Women, Alcestis, Medea, and Hippolytus, who talks about the ill-treatment and suppression of women in ancient Greece, cannot be called a misogynist.
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Medea by Euripides and Gender Roles Literature Essay
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Medea – Gender Roles Medea, a very famous play written by Euripides, is a tale of retribution; a woman, going to extreme ends to inflict sorrow on her beloved husband who had wronged her by abandoning her in order to marry someone else. The play is set in Corinth, the place where Media and Jason had taken refuge after stealing the “Golden Fleece”.
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Edgar Allan Poe and His Works Literature Research Paper
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The most common themes in Poe’s work of Gothic fiction are dark and gloomy and hover around the issue of death. Most of Poe’s works of Gothic fiction explore questions of death as well as the physical signs of death along with the effects of decomposition on the human body after death. Other works also include the themes of premature burial with or without themes of reanimation of the dead.
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Shakespeare/Hamlet Literature Essay
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Student’s Name: Professor’s Name Subject: English Literature (Classic and Modern) 04 January, 2012. Shakespeare/HAMLET One of the most debated topics by literature scholars regarding the play “Hamlet” by Shakespeare is whether Hamlet is really mad or not.
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Comparison and Contrast of Blanche and Sister Marie Literature Essay
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Blanche de la Force, the daughter of a strong believer, in a setting based on the era of the French Revolution, is one of the main characters in Gertrud Von Le Fort’s 'The Song at the Scaffold'. Another main character is Sister Marie who is the leading nun in the convent. She is supremely confident of her faith.
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