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Annotated Bibliography on Hurricane Katrina Literature Literature review
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This book was written with the intention of donating funds for charity purposes. The book narrates the whole event of hurricane Katrina that destroyed lives in America within just hours. It states how dramatically the lives of the victims changed from living in well-built luxury houses to no roof at all above their heads.
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Comparison of Siddhartha and The Temple of the Golden Pavilion Literature Case Study
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“Siddhartha” by Hermann Hesse is a novel that deals with the spiritual trajectory of a boy known by the name of Siddhartha from the Indian Subcontinent during the period of Buddha. Published in the year 1951 in the U.S., the book was able to influence the mass of the 1960s greatly. Another book crafted on the path of humanity and presented on a spiritual plane was the book “The Temple of the Golden Pavilion” by Yukio Mishima.
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Tthe book Brunelleschi's Dome by Ross King Literature Book Report/Review
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Work started on this Cathedral in 1296, yet the dome that had been proposed in the original drawings was considered impossible for human construction. Moreover, it was thus the greatest wonder and also a puzzle to all when in 1436, the dome was completed and its beauty was seen to be incomparable.
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Aspects of Narrative Literature Essay
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The novel captivates the preceding years of the great First World War in America. This was when the superpower witnessed prosperity levels, which shall remain unprecedented in America's history and will always be marked with glory as of the “roaring” 1920s due to excessive soaring of the economy.
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The Personality of Edgar Allen Poe Literature Case Study
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Edgar Allen Poe is widely regarded today as an author who was ahead of his time, in terms of literary conventions, the development of the modern short-story form, and other innovations, including his use of unconventional meter in poetry. Certainly, during his time, Poe was not as appreciated as he is today.  
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An Inspector Calls Play Literature Essay
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Priestley in 1945 and remains one of the most prominent works of 20th-century theatre. Even though Priestley was a British playwright the play was originally performed in Russia in two Moscow venues in 1945 as a proper theatre couldn’t be acquired in Britain. A year later it was first performed in the United Kingdom to great critical acclaim.
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El Cantar de Mio Cid - How Reliable Are the Described Events Literature Essay
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El Cantar de Myo Çid, also referred to as The Lay of Cid, is ranked as one of the greatest epic poems of medieval Spain. It is the only Spanish document to have survived the adulterations in truth rendered over time. The poem constituted a part of the famous trend referred to as the mester de juglaría by Ramón Menéndez.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain Literature Research Paper
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This research will begin with the statement that the fundamental point Mark Twain has tried to make in his novel “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” is that success has no single formula to be achieved. The way Mark Twain has portrayed Tom Sawyer in the novel has a strong relationship with the events and experiences of Twain’s own life.
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Bartholomew Fair and The Jew of Malta Literature Essay
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The Bartholomew Fair is a play by Ben Jonson and can be regarded as the Seinfeld of the English Renaissance (Cantor 2009). On the surface, the play does not deliver a sense of any meaningful story or theme. When it was first presented to the London theatres for being staged, the play drew nothing but confusion from the theatre companies.
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The Thematic Importance of Journeys in Dante Inferno Literature Literature review
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The journey teaches Dante that experience is the best teacher of life. It is a venture into ‘the physical territory of hell and a spiritual through the dark forest of human sin’ (Alighieri, Bondanella and Longfellow, 189). The spiritual realization is possible only when Dante, the pilgrim is purged of the emotion of pity.
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Portraying Utopias In Literature Literature Term Paper
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The utopian and dystopian models have many differences in the way life is depicted between them. One theme, however, which is predominant in both models, is the use of technology. Huxley’s Brave New World, Well’s When The Sleeper Wakes and Iron Murdoch’s The Bell are some examples of books which deal with the future use of technology by humans.
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The Rose of Time Literature Literature review
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Although the imagery in many of the poems depicts a somber atmosphere, based on feelings of desperation and loss, the final two poems in the sixth section provide a sliver of hope that will result in liberating both characters – one from the oppressive nature of the socio-political climate, and the other from the aimless wandering of being an orphan.
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Wife of Bath in Chaucers The Canterbury Tales Literature Research Paper
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According to the findings, it can, therefore, be said that most of Chaucer’s female characters play either on the line of male expectation or on the line of debauchery and immorality. But these transgressions are strictly defined by the male standard of morality and male ethics of chastity that is assigned to women.
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Myths as Vehicles for Communicating Messages Literature Term Paper
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‘Myths were primarily vehicles for communicating moral and/or political messages.’ Do you agree with the statement? Answer in relation to the uses of myth encountered in Block. Throughout history, myths have been transmitted prolifically, modified, truncated, or extended to suit various purposes. Often, one of these purposes was the validating of different moral or political messages. 
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Food in Jumpha Lahiri's A Temporary Matter and When Mr Pirzada Came to Dine and Nora Okja Kellers Fox Girl Literature Essay
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Along with relationships, emotions are associated with food. As food varies according to the nature of the meal taken in the day, it differs from an individual’s mood and lifestyle. In a foreign land, food helps to retain identity and culture. Even when they are away from their motherland, food helps in bringing these people close to their soil. 
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The Role of Food in a Temporary Matter and When Mr Pirzada Came to Dine Literature Essay
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Food serves as a common ground for people to come together with their stories and helps in healthy exchange or find a peaceful retreat from their busy schedules. Thus all the works essentially help in building food as a metaphor for highlighting changes in economic and social changes as well as emotional and personal alterations in people’s lives.
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The Yellow Wallpaper from a Feminist Point of View Literature Essay
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In her book, Gilman states her agenda for her fellow women who live in a patriarchal society in nature (Gilman 3). The Yellow Wallpaper is highly feminist as it is not only written by a woman; it is also written in a way that points out societal deficiencies in terms of equality of the sexes.
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Inevitability in Romeo and Juliet Literature Essay
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Figuratively speaking, Shakespeare substituted human subjection to the Church by subjection to the family feud. The main heroes had to follow this historical family feud and kill each other. They realized their wrong actions only after a tragic end. Deaths of five young representatives of these two families made their parents raise their heads and look in the sky with no fear
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The Role of Women in A Thousand Splendid Suns and The Rape of Shavi Literature Research Paper
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According to the research findings, it can, therefore, be said that since ages, women in various societies and cultures, irrespective of their geographical location and economic status, were considered as the homemakers, whose solitary duty was to carry out the household works as well as take care of her husband and children.
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The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and Uncle Toms Cabin Literature Literature review
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Fundamentally, the racist view in America is to be studied historically with Stowe, even as she represents the white abolitionist sentiment, for it is from the shared views on race that dominated America at the time that the institution arises and perpetuates itself in inhumanity. Through this, the novel is opened up to Stowe’s own racial stereotypes by the way she presents Uncle Tom.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from a Libertarian Perspective Literature Research Paper
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The researcher states that the author of the novel tries to amend the image of the runaway slave and the concept of considering black slaves as inhuman through the relationship between the characters of Huck Finn and Jim. Author has touched every important aspect in a human life as loyalty, companionship, punishment, greed, education and control.
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Principal Characteristics of the Weberian Ideal Type Bureaucracy Literature Research Paper
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Max Weber is one of the leading German intellectuals of the 20th century, having written influential treatises on Sociology, Capitalism and Religion, and Bureaucracies as they represented the rational rule of society. When looking for the philosophical influences that influenced Weber’s theories, it is difficult to find as Weber critiqued in many ways Socialism in his writings but maintained an academic distance from other schools of thought.
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Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton Literature Book Report/Review
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In this sense, it is most like Invictus. This sensitivity characterizes the entirety of Cry, the Beloved Country. The plot of the book centers around Stephen Kumalo's search for his son, Absalom, in Johannesburg. Moreover, the external conflict is this search and the social and practical difficulties that get in Kumalo's way.
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Desirees Baby by Kate Chopin Literature Research Paper
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The researcher states that Kate Chopin’s reputation as a storyteller goes unquestioned in the world of American literature. In Chopin, we find a deep inclination to depict the issues of women empowerment, racial conflict and identity and the condition of American slavery and miscegenation. The story “Desiree’s Baby” is an example illustrating this estimation.
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A Pure Woman Literature Literature review
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Such a brief summary of the main events of the book would seem to indicate a woman who is anything but pure, particularly for her time period in the late Victorian age. However, there are many ways in which the word ‘pure’ might be used. While most likely considered it in terms of a chaste woman or a woman unstained by sin.
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Analysis of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave Literature Literature review
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Mr. Covey’s attitude is most strongly revealed in his actions. Chapter 10 opens with him brutally whipping Douglass with switches from a gum-tree. This is not remarkable in and of itself but it is revealing because the incident that inspired the whipping was not Douglass’s fault as the team that he lost control of was “unbroken”.
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A Conversation with My Father by Grace Paley Literature Research Paper
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It is evidently clear from the discussion that Grace Paley has started her career as a writer in 1959 with the publication of her first collection of stories, The Little Disturbances of Man. Most of her short stories created waves in America since it contains criticisms against the contemporary politics and changing life styles.
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The Modern Rhetorical Practice Based in the Creation of a New Dialect of Language Literature Essay
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The essay will focus on how the protagonist of the novel, Alex, a young hipster and gang member in a dystopian, totalitarian future society, uses Nadsat to communicate with other characters of the. Furthermore, Nadsat will be analyzed not only in terms of the character’s own rhetoric but in terms of the author’s rhetoric.
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Ovid's Metamorphoses and Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus Literature Book Report/Review
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The use of referencing other books and works in literature is one that becomes important to the overall themes in the plot that an author is speaking of. In several examples, there is use of Metamorphoses as a book, all of which refer to the burning of the book, exile, and the transformation which continues to remain as a part of the ideology from the book.
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Structures of Amusing Ourselves to Death and You Just Dont Understand Literature Literature review
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It's pointed out that While Amusing Ourselves to Death focuses on television communication, You Just Don’t Understand deals with gender communication. I personally prefer Tannen’s book, since such situations occur in our everyday life and she explains why there is a lot of miscommunication between the genders.
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Iraq Then and Now by John King Literature Research Paper
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According to the research findings, it can, therefore, be said that the Iraqi people still live in fear. The capital city of Baghdad has been wracked by violence since 2003 and tens of thousands of people have been injured or killed, and this has made the expectation of a random and unpredictable death a fact that Iraqi’s now have to live with.
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The Jilting of Granny Weatherall by Katherine Anne Porter Literature Book Report/Review
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The setting of the short story is very much suitable for the events in the story. The setting is the bedroom where Granny is dying. However, the majority of the events happen in the thoughts of Granny. Events are a flashback of her memory. The short story is presented as a stream-of-consciousness monologue.
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Chaucers Feminine Romances Literature Essay
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Among these stories, the primary focus was typically placed upon the story's action, the battles and the skirmishes between characters, and the aftermath of such behavior, such as the winning of the lady, the acquisition of worldly fame, or the re-enforcement of nobility. However, not all stories followed this basic formula, especially as the written tradition began to grow through the 14th century.
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Chaucers Conception of Religion Literature Literature review
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There are numerous themes and ideas presented through the tales, including issues of women’s rights, chivalry, thievery, nobility, and knavery. These subjects are expanded greatly by the fact that the various individuals in the story come from a variety of backgrounds representing as many aspects of medieval society as Chaucer could capture.
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Anne Bradstreet and Michael Wigglesworth Literature Research Paper
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This research will begin with the statement that Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) was among the first generation of Puritans who “left the security of England for the wilds of America”. From her poetry, it is evident that devotion to God and a spirit of love helped the pioneering woman to accept the hardships and establish a new life in America.
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Western Literary Tradition Literature Essay
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Moby Dick is a classic tale of good versus evil, in which Ishmael, the protagonist, represents the positive side of the binary; because he is orphaned and an outcast, he has a level of sympathy that is not present in his counterpart. Ahab, the antagonist, is the negative side of the binary, and his obsession with the whale becomes his undoing.
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The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin Literature Research Proposal
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Kate Chopin’s work reflects upon her life and her stories which are an extension of her own experiences and the desires that arose for freedom, due to the events that shaped her own destiny. Chopin had great mastery and as seen in this piece, she could convey such a profound idea in the space of a few pages.
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The Heroism of Othello Literature Research Paper
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It is evidently clear from the discussion that to understanding the concept of the tragic hero, it is important to understand the criteria for the archetype that was defined by Aristotle. After studying the character types in a number of classic texts of his own age and earlier, Aristotle said there are six major elements required in the construction of a tragic hero.
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Science, Technology and Ethics in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Literature Book Report/Review
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Frankenstein is a scintillating novel that speaks about the oppressive forces in the society. We can see oppressive forces operating in the novel that ultimately made it a tragedy. These opposing forces damaged the entire show as no good things happened in the entire story. The growth of science and technology is portrayed as an oppressive force.
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The Strong Themes Of Love And Death In Literature Literature Term Paper
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Florentino used to watch the young Fermina walking to and from school. The aspiring poet he was, he wrote a more than a sixty-page love letter to her but, at his mother's advice, did not deliver it. He instead stalked and stared at the school girl, once even appearing in her bedroom in the dead of night.
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Food as Trope in the Works of Nora Keller and Jhumpa Lahiri Literature Essay
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Jhumpa Lahiri’s A Temporary Matter and When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine involve the stories of a couple that slowly drifted apart after a tragedy struck them and a family left behind in a war-torn country. Nora Keller’s Fox Girl, on the other hand, tells a story set in post-war Korea where two schoolgirls are caught in the harsh realities of life while growing up in America Town.
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Shakespeares Portrayal of Hamlet: the Themes of Love and Marriage Literature Literature review
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Shakespeare’s treatment of his female characters in respect to marriage explores the diverse aspects of the nuptial ceremony and conjugal life within the patriarchal system. Ophelia is portrayed as a character that is subjugated by Hamlet. Denmark is a Catholic country and so the marriage of Claudius and Gertrude raised the eyebrows of many people.
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Romanticism Phenomenon in Poetry Literature Essay
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Felicia Hermes’ poem “Properzia Rossi” and Letitia Elizabeth Landon’s poem “A History of the Lyre” deal with different subjects; the former has a human subject, while the latter has a female orphan as its subject. Both poems reveal an emphasis on loneliness and affinity for death, which suggest the underlying feelings of oppression that women were experiencing.
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Comparison of Hamlet and My Last Duchess Literature Term Paper
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My last Duchess the dramatic monologue by Robert Browning in which the Duke of Ferrara speaks of his previous wife. The setting of the poem is the late Italian Renaissance period. It seems that the Duke is showing some artworks to his second wife and her family. Duke unveils the painting of his late wife
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Critical Analysis of the Wild Duck Play Literature Term Paper
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Aside from spectacle, the lyrics and music of show tunes hold within them the fabric of the play. After the audience leaves the theatre, they will not recall much of the dialogue, but they will hum the songs. A true form of tragedy, Aristotle opines, is the imitation of the action, not that of persons or characters
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Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions Literature Book Report/Review
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Kurt Vonnegut’s 1973 novel works as a satirical and useful example of the ridiculous aspects of American society. While the novel appears to be scattered and filled with random observations, this is just the way Vonnegut intended: a humorous yet truthful examination of the randomness in American society and the very short attention span of its citizens.
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The Turn of the Screw - Effects of Uncanny Literature Book Report/Review
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In the novel “The Turn of The Screw” Henry James utilizes the uncanny effects to captivate the readers’ topnotch attention up to the end of the stories. Also, both the novel’s theme and structure interact with each other in a way that they significantly contribute to the growth of a sense of uncertainty and confusion in the readers’ mind.
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The Significance of Nature in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Literature Essay
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During this time, anxieties over the emergence of science and technology, shifts in gender and class ideologies, and the ongoing urbanization that followed industrialization were echoed in public sentiments that feared that these transformations were causing a degeneration rather than an elevation of humanity.
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The Nature of Marriage in The Importance of Being Earnest Literature Term Paper
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The whole play fundamentally debates whether to consider marriage as pleasant or unpleasant. Marriage, in the Victorian era, was far less romanticized than what is conventionally reflected in the literature (Ziegenfuss). Marriage indeed assumes a vital role in the overall mood, plot, and formulation of the play “The Importance of Being Earnest”
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The Fallen Woman and the Value of Virtue in the Victorian Novel Literature Term Paper
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The existing feminism that was beginning to rise during the time was revealed in feminine ways, but through clever conversation that discussed influences of morality and dignity in order to create a sense of the temptation to lose one’s self through a man in balance with the sense of identity that is difficult to attain in an oppressed state.
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