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Magical Realism in Literature Literature Research Paper
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The reader realizes that magical realism is not simply magic, but it forms the part of life and human experience. Also in the Native American tradition, as seen in Monkey Beach authors depict their deep religious heritage in literature, inserting religious beliefs, rites, and supernatural occurrences.
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The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by Lewis Literature Book Report/Review
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The ability to bring about cross-boundary satisfaction is a major characteristic of good literature work. The author has been able to achieve this by including older people as part of the human character team, for example, the professor. This makes the novel to find a place in the reading tables of children as well as adults.
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Raymond Carver Story Analysis Literature Book Report/Review
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The story succeeds in developing certain characters that are very commonly seen in day-to-day life, and hence, the story looks like a chapter from an autobiography. What we talk about when we talk about love can be considered one of the best stories of Carver. The story tries to explore the notion of different people about love.
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The Analyzing the Football Motif in The Goalies Anxiety at the Penalty Kick Literature Essay
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These motifs could be recurring throughout the work and could be placed aptly. Starting from any physical objects to designs, paintings, figures, etc., motifs could take a different form. The novel, The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, written by Peter Handke, is about a former goalkeeper of a football team and his life after he is ejected from a game for foul play.
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A Comparison Poet Laureates from U.S. and England Literature Research Paper
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History has always recorded the enviable position of poets in society during the pastime. It is said that they had been enjoyed special seats beside kings and lords and assumed a royal position. It will not be an exaggeration to remark that they still possess a respectable position in almost all the sects of life
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce Literature Book Report/Review
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Joyce’s Portrait focuses on the spiritual crises experienced by Stephen Dedalus. And the soulful battle of Stephen against the temptation of the human flesh has created in him a conviction or conception of being the redeemer of this world and of his Irish people. Like Saint Augustine, Stephen has sinned morally and spiritually, yet, has surpassed the determinism characterized in the human body.
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Self-Realization in Oedipus Rex, A Dolls House and The Glass Menagerie Literature Research Paper
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From the above analysis, it is clear that each character in the three works undergoes self-realization due to one reason or other. Each character faces different depressing, confusing, and constricting situations, making them undergo self-realization. Oedipus after understanding his crimes becomes confused and undergoes self-realization
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Martin Dressler: A Tale of American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser Literature Research Paper
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This thrilling novel brings us face to face with the darker aspects of the American dream and it shows the very fact that the stake of American culture is the dream. By drawing such a powerful character, Steven Millhauser intensifies the situation of the then America with full of vision and invention
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Barn Burning by William Faulkner Literature Essay
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Faulkner has used the plot, and the interactions between the characters, to explain the concept of mental and emotional slavery in man. However, what strikes most in Faulkner’s story is the use of symbolism. Through different symbols in the story, the author has described the internal conflict that a human is experiencing before he succeeds in getting freedom.
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William Shakespeare Literature Essay
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The parents of William were John and Mary, in whom father belonged to a merchant class, and motherland gentry. During his teenage years, William’s dad faced with much financial difficulties and it continued till the success and fame of his son. It is not very easy to track the exact details of the life of William Shakespeare, the greatest, writer, poet and art lover of England.
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Analysis of Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler Literature Research Paper
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Publicly heralded in France, Darkness at Noon survived Cold War Communist censorship and underground book sales. While French Communist party members abhorred Koestler’s message and his successful publication, Western critics and democratic-minded European readers clung to the revolutionary statement envisioned in the book
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J. G. Ballards Concrete Island Is Entry into Island an Accident or Work of Fate Literature Essay
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Maitland crashes into the concrete island at a crucial time in his life when nobody was expecting him. Hence, this is the time when people would not miss him and his absence would not be questioned. Maitland has to restore his resources to be able to stay alive. Maitland is an impulse individual who rushes into things without waiting. 
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The Quiet American by Graham Greene Literature Book Report/Review
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Through the title Green seemingly places stress on the awaiting irony of the attribute in ‘quietness’ when the silence and meekness associated to Pyle turn into huge contradiction at the point that marks Vietnam history with a blast of destruction, claiming several innocent lives. Pyle expresses his need for acquiring knowledge about Vietnam.   
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The Voices of Reason in Tartuffe Literature Essay
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This is because the clergy was highly offended by the way Moliere allegedly mocked religion. This is not so, as Moliere only targeted the self-righteous people who use religion to justify immoral behavior. Because of the controversy, the King banned public performances of it. After several revisions, the King approved of its public performance again in 1669.
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Critique of Ma Raineys Black Bottom by August Wilson Literature Research Paper
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The author states that as long as the black (colored) man continues to look forward to white people to put a crown on what he says, as long as he looks to white folks for approval, he is never going to find out who he is and what he is about. No black man can progress until he stops relying on the white people.
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The Science and Culture of the Sea: An Analysis of Herman Melvilles Moby Dick Literature Book Report/Review
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Now in modern times, we realize that we cannot necessarily conquer the sea. However, it is the unbridled brazenness that keeps us returning to the figure of Ahab as we see him in the timeless quest to become immortal by doing something great in one’s lifetime. For Ahab, that quest is to find and kill Moby Dick.
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Five Roads to the Future by Paul Starobin Literature Book Report/Review
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Chapter 6 of the book is devoted to returning of Russia to global politics. The author compares its first-rate military potential with the third rate economy. Despite contemporary weakness of Russia, it influences the places where American influence becomes to week, for example, Georgia.
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The Secret of Channel No. 5 by Tilar J. Mazzeo Literature Book Report/Review
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 While all perfumes move out of trend over time, the channel no. 5 perfume has always been in trend since its time of invention. This is the major question dealt with in the book by Tilar J. Mazzeo, “the secret of channel no. 5: the intimate history of the world’s most famous perfume”. She chases away certain mythology and substitutes them with particulars. 
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Shaaras The Killer Angels Analysis Literature Book Report/Review
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To Michael Shaara, the joy of carefully crafting a great story meant more than a mass-market audience or a lot of money. What hooked him was the fun of the story "waiting to be told". Michael Shaara was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, on June 23, 1929. His father, Michael Joseph Sr., was an Italian immigrant active in local unions and politics.
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Robert Frost: Contribution to American Literature Literature Research Paper
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The author states that Robert Frost was the most highly esteemed American poet of the 20th century. He had received 44 honorary degrees and a host of government tributes, such as birthday greetings from the Senate, a gold medal from Congress, an appointment as honorary consultant to the Library of Congress.
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Aristotle's Theory of Tragedy Literature Essay
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Though not a feature, the outcome or effect of a tragedy on the audience is the purgation of emotions, in the Aristotelian term, Katharsis. The term “Katharsis” has generated considerable debate among scholars. But the most acceptable meaning of Katharsis is to relieve oneself from the excesses of emotions like pity and fear. 
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World Literature Questions Literature Assignment
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Parody is a text that imitates the characteristic style of an author or a work for comic effect. In Cervantes Parody, Don Quixote is a middle-aged man from the region of La Mancha in central Spain. He is obsessed with the chivalrous ideals touted in books he has read. He lives in the world of his imagination.
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Margaret Atwoods Survival and Sally Morgans My Place Literature Literature review
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The author states that the occupation and long-term administration of large areas of the world by colonizing powers have had far-reaching effects on the people who live in these territories. These are political and economic but also deeply cultural and highly visible in the creative output of the people.
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The Romanticism in Frankenstein Literature Book Report/Review
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One of the most essential characteristics of successful work of art is that it represents the age in which it is written or produced and every literary work is influenced by the literary period in which it is written. Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley is one of the compelling illustrations of this fact.
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Lyricism in Coraline Literature Book Report/Review
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It is boring, she does not know anybody there, and her parents are busy with their work and do not have much time for her. Amidst all this, Coraline finds a door that leads to another world. The other world is much like her own, visually it is almost identical. The other world is populated by people with buttons for eyes, and all sorts of fantastical and magical things happen there.
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Religion in The Lord of the Rings Literature Assignment
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The themes in The Lord of the Rings are universal in their nature and religion is not explicitly mentioned, religious undertones can be observed throughout both the book. Urang agrees, “The Lord of the Rings, although it contains no ‘God’, no ‘Christ’, and no ‘Christians’, embodies much of Tolkien’s ‘real religion’ and is a Christian work”. 
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The Supremacy and Command of the Goddess Night Literature Case Study
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The author of the following paper states Looking about from the sides of the goddess Night eyes this immortal goddess has filled all the spaces, the depths, and the heights and she stems the tide of darkness with her light. Pushing her sister twilight aside the goddess envelopes everything in herself.
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The Relevance that the Study of Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet has to the Modern World Literature Assignment
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According to the study, The Relevance that the Study of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet has to the Modern World, social power means the differences among important families, tribes, and gangs and how it interferes or helps with the social order. The family order involves the differences between the family's beliefs, religion and culture and how these beliefs affect  Society. 
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A Reading Response on The Pool Players Literature Literature review
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Brooks had been known for writing poetry that often dealt with issues confronting America’s urban poor, particularly the African American communities.  The Pool Players is one of those poems that tackle the youth's problems not only then when it was first published but also now, although it may be safe to state that the young nowadays no longer see the pool as a game draw them away from school.
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Life and aging: Robert Frosts The Span of a Life Literature Essay
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The first element is a memory. The poem is developed through an economy of words, starting with one line and ending abruptly with the next. The message, however, can be examined for a lot of elemental variations on themes on the issue of the memory. The first line shows the dog turning back, his bark coming from a stationary place.
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Themes in The Naked Sun and The Day After Tomorrow Literature Research Proposal
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The detective from Asimov’s previous novel, The Caves of Steel, returns and was given a new assignment which is to investigate the murder of a famous “fetologist”, Rikaine Delmar. Delmar lives in a distant (fictional) world called Solaria, which is a politically antagonistic planet to Earth. He is one of the high-profile personalities of Solaria.
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Orgon's Women Relatives in Tartuffe Literature Book Report/Review
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Many of the characters of this scathing social commentary – one of many such incisive plays penned by Molière – are one-dimensional, allowing each persona to highlight one aspect of the central dilemma. The women in Tartuffe are mostly backgrounded characters, their presence only necessary to create problems for Tartuffe and Orgon. 
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Anna Beer about Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer and Patriot Literature Book Report/Review
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Milton has very cleverly created the context of Paradise Lost in such a way that there would be stylistic resemblances to his political work. In a very noteworthy manner, Milton created the situation in Paradise Lost so that the characters find themselves in an environment that is inherently political (Carey, 1971).
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The Societal Depiction of the English Society in Bridget Jones Diary and Harry Potter Literature Literature review
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The substance of this prose assesses the depiction of the English society in the novels Bridget Jones’ Diary by Helen Fielding and Harry Potter and the sorcerer’s stone by J.K. Rowling. Both novels belong to entirely different genres but they all revolve around the same setting that is the English society and highlight the aspects of the society.
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The Swimmer by John Cheever Literature Assignment
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The story moves ahead along with his journey where he swims in different pools. This results in the passage of a very long time and Neddy tends to lose track of all time. It is then realized that Neddy is actually denying the cruel realities of his life and he is running away from all the problems of his life.
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The Remains of the Day Literature Literature review
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One of the main components is decidedly dignity, a virtue he qualifies with numerous examples. As his journey stretches to a world beyond the only world he has ever known, Stevens begins to question his ideas about ‘greatness’ and what constitutes a fulfilling life. Professionalism in the face of any situation is the embodiment of dignity.
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Hughes Nature Imagery Literature Literature review
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The author states that Hughes has what a few English poets of the time posses, a sense of nature an original writing style, and a most modern outlook on nature, men and god. Hughes's attitude to and treatment of nature distinguishes him from almost all other poets. Hughes's nature imagery is most graphic.
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Literary Analysis of The Yellow Wallpaper by C.P. Gilman and Patriotism by Y. Mishima Literature Term Paper
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Perkins Gilman's struggle was against prejudices of gender, which, combined with prejudices of education, gave her male doctor a spurious authority over her – so much so that Charlotte was not even considered an authority on her own existence, forbidden from contributing any suggestions towards her own treatment 
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Stowe about the Horrors of Slavery and the American Civil War Literature Research Paper
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Stowe came out of obscurity to write a story that could provide a framework for the slavery experience. Through the power of her beliefs about the wrong of slavery, Stowe participated in motivating the public into action against the terrible conditions that had allowed one culture to put another into ownership and slavery.
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Orozcos Orientation Analysis Literature Book Report/Review
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In terms of stirring short stories that have an incredibly interesting theme or a gripping subject, certainly anything from The Lottery to Asimov's Nightfall to many of Heinlein's short stories to short stories by Twain like The Celebrated Jumping Frog would be better as far as teaching quality of the story. This is not to say that Orientation is a bad story.
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Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Literature Essay
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An interesting aspect of the book is how much of the story could be a product of a person with a mental illness. Is the author showing us Billy's strange fantasies or time travels to indicate to us how he is reacting to the stress of the war, even years later? Or is this part of the story for another reason?
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Analyzing the African American Woman: The Writings of Nella Larsen Literature Research Paper
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All in all, the two writings by Larsen offered an opportunity to critically examine society and make the readers aware of the urgent need to improve radically. Any woman who has sought a metaphorical place in the sun, a position she could be paid what she deserved or treated a love or a marriage based on respect and honor for herself
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An Analysis of King Lear Literature Literature review
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King Lear’s action is very quick and he immediately disinherits Cordelia. In this part of the play, the king severs his relationship with his daughter Cordelia and considers her as a “stranger.” The rage that King Lear feels is so great that he does not only disinherit Cordelia; he also gives her share to her sisters Goneril and Regan. 
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Masterpiece of Kate Chopin Literature Book Report/Review
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Though Chopin has courageously raised voice against the confinement of women within four walls, as well as against the repression of her emotions and thoughts, yet she is aptly criticized for portraying and presenting only one region of the globe, and thus is regarded as a regional writer containing limited canvas to paint the social and cultural problems prevailing in her contemporary era.
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The Story The Lottery by Shirley Jackson Literature Book Report/Review
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However, we can not say if or not people tend to be correct because the criteria of rationality are different for different people. It is, though, true that there can always be some justification for any action an individual displays, though not all are convinced by that justification at the same time.
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Griffin-like Piece with the Moves between Stories Literature Essay
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The mayor’s son was furious, dragging the girl out into the alleyway, his friends opening the door and closing it so no others could follow the two. He threw her to the ground, behaving in a way to which any thug could relate, taking what he wanted and thrusting his fist into her body when she resisted.
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close Literature Literature review
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The author of the paper states that in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies the innocent respond to the apocalypse by hopelessly degenerating into abject crudeness and barbarity, thereby questioning the supposed nobility of human existence and the lofty achievements of human civilization.
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T.S Eliots The Wasteland, its Richness and Cataloguing Sequences Literature Assignment
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Though many cultured readers find it amusing to check their knowledge of the greats against Eliot, there is much more to the poem then simply referencing. The language of the poem is in itself a mark of what makes the work ‘literary’. The literary traditions of the past felt that the ideology of a text is what placed it foremostly as a work of literature.
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Epic of Gilgamesh as the Heroic Saga of a Demigod Literature Literature review
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These universal issues of human life are beautifully presented in the epic through the transformations of its main characters: Gilgamesh and Enkidu, who could be understood as symbolizing the contradictions of life from which the meaning of life is realized. Actually, it was to foil Gilgamesh that the gods created Enkidu.
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A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage Literature Book Report/Review
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Many authors in the past have made an attempt to write a book on the subject of history, though not many have been able to do complete justice with the very subject. The books have either been very superficial with a focus on only some obvious events in the history or else, too complex for an ordinary reader to conceive.  
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