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The Platos Symposium Literature Essay
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Pausanias categorizes love by the main idea: love may be good or bad depending on the performance of the two lovers. Pausanias acknowledged the importance of performance by saying,” turn out in this or that way according to the mode of performing them, and when well done they are all good and when wrongly done they are evil...”.
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The Character of Wife in Sunday in the park Literature Essay
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We can see that the wife in the story has complicated emotions. She loves her husband, but at the same time expects her husband to be protective of her. She is content with her life but at this point in life, she feels that her husband has not met her expectations. A part of her favors the idea of non-violence but another part denies this explanation.
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The Concept of Race In Othello the Moor of Venice Literature Research Paper
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In Othello the Moor of Venice, the concept of race is addressed as Othello, a Moor is demonized by his wife’s father for supposedly implementing witchcraft in her seduction. In this text racial stereotypes abound, causing critics and contemporary audiences to continue to debate their intended meaning.
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Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid Literature Book Report/Review
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According to the text, the moral, psychological and intellectual development of the protagonist is carefully depicted in the novel. Admittedly, critics analyze the novel as the perfect picture of the transition from childhood to adolescence which is strictly assisted by her parents, especially mother.
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The Staging of Two Plays Literature Essay
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In terms of characterization, the protagonist of A Raisin in the Sun is Walter Lee Younger and the protagonist of Othello is King Othello himself. It should be noted that the major characters of the two plays shared something in common and this was in the color of their skins as they were both dark-skinned.
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Unmasking and Discovery: Female Agency and Masculine Power in the Last Act of Othello and The Rover Literature Essay
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The Rovers, on the other hand, ends lightheartedly with the marriages of Florinda and Belville, and Hellena and Willmore. However, before reaching such a conventional comic ending where the heroines are married off, the play is mainly motivated by female agency or the lack thereof. There are three attempted rapes of Florinda in the play.
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Comparing the Two Main Characters in Othello and the Stranger Literature Essay
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The focus of this essay is to provide the reader with a brief description of the story and then focus on the characters of each piece. The conflicts that they were faced within their society and in themselves and thus making them the outsiders in their respective communities. It will outline the similarities in the personality of the main characters and the story of their life as well as contrast the heroes.
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Main Points and the Importance of Louis Alberto Urreas Work Literature Literature review
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No man is safe; the honor of women is not safe. The criminality of all sorts and harassing the innocent is the way of life for many groups of thugs. Urrea writes, “If you are not Mexican, you can’t pass as tijuanense, a local, and tough guys find you out. Salvadorans and Guatemalans are routinely beaten up and robbed.
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Analysis of Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi Literature Admission/Application Essay
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Throughout Persepolis, Marjane struggles with what it means to be Iranian, especially when she realizes that the West sees all Iranians as terrorists (203) or the epitome of evil (195). This book gives a graphic picture of Iran during the heady days of the revolution, how the Iranians are tossed from one political hypocrisy to another.
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In Paradise Lost, How Does Milton Justify The Ways of God to Women Literature Assignment
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C.B Bowra, in his definition of epic, has suggested, “An epic poem is … a narrative of some length and deals with events which have certain grandeur and importance and comes from a life of action …. It gives a special pleasure because its events and persons enhance our belief in the worth of human achievement and in the dignity and nobility of man”
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Literature Research Paper
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This essay demonstrates that Coleridge’s poem entitled “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” was not well-received at the time he first introduced this poetic form but has since become very popular, perhaps one of his best-known works. The character of the ancient mariner describes presumably his first trip on the ocean.
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Creativity Exists in all Literary Practices Literature Term Paper
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By simply announcing the name and the gas mileage, the advertiser gives off the impression that this is all a person needs to know about this vehicle to make it worth buying.  The metaphor that has built up between the frog and the consumer is now transferred over to the truck, making it a natural match for the buyer. 
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Langston Hughes Literature Case Study
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The Harlem Renaissance, a period spanning roughly the decades of the 1920s and 1930s, is frequently referred to as a literary movement, but the movement also encompassed a great explosion of African-American expression in many venues that celebrated the unique heritage, art forms, sights and sounds that were the African-American experience.
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Victorian Jane Eyre and Adam Bede, What Do They Share Literature Book Report/Review
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Adam Bede is essentially a study of the common people, hence it is based upon close and detailed observation of illiterate village people, and it’s a work that sheds a considerable amount of light on the psychological underpinnings that move and shake these people. “Jane Eyre” on the other hand is a study of upper-class people because Jane herself belongs to an upper-class family is forced to grow up poor.
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The Theme of Love and Hatred - Romeo and Juliet Literature Book Report/Review
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The story has become so well known that it has also been incorporated into movies and dramas. The story revolves around two main characters of Romeo and Juliet who are madly in love with each other. Both of these characters belong to families who are against each other and this hatred leads to many untoward incidents in the story.  
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The Native Son - a Richard Wright's Novel Literature Research Paper
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Superficially, the Native Son is a story about Bigger Thomas and his life caught in a downward spiral. He kills a white woman, then, his girlfriend in order to cover for murder, then a series of violence: the manhunt, gunfights, Bigger’s arrest, trial, and surprising confession. The narrative was an exciting crime novel.
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Cool It by Bjorn Lomborg Literature Book Report/Review
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Global warming is a major subject and any attempt to stifle debate on it would be an unfair approach. An open mind and multiple points of view are hallmarks of a healthy debate that has world-wide ramifications. Global warming is not the sole concern of any power-block. It concerns humanity and the generations to come.
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Monster Smack-down: Dracula versus Hyde Literature Book Report/Review
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The literature of the late 1800s introduced some of the more fascinating monsters of the next century. These monsters, creatures such as Dracula from Bram Stoker’s novel of the same name written in 1897 and Mr. Hyde from Robert Louis Stephenson’s novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde published in 1886, were hideous not only because of their inhuman activities.
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The Time Scheme from Act 1 to Act 2 of Romeo and Juliet Literature Term Paper
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This paper highlights that from the time they meet, until the time they are both dead, is an almost unbelievably short period. Juliet is introduced to the play first, and the audience learns that her family plans for her to marry a young nobleman, Paris. Lady Capulet, Juliet’s mother asks her, Speak briefly, can you like of Paris’ love?
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Lev Tolstoy Literature Research Paper
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Ivan Ilyich lived in St.Petersburg with his family. His life is without worries and he is always struggled to raise his social status in the society. For this purpose, he has to become a the person like others. Ivan Ilyich is sick of his wife, who has nothing new instead of demanding all the time but he, his relations with her.
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Romeo and Juliet Act I, Scene V Literature Coursework
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This essay discusses that the dramatic effect that is offered in the opening of the fifth scene in the first act is the typical rush and concern that comes with preparing a large gathering of people. To the servants, it becomes clear that not everybody is going to want to help or pull their weight by making sure the preparations are as they should be.
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The Real Hero Literature Research Proposal
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To the people in the South, economic difficulties seemed to be foremost.  The war devastated the countryside; a quarter of a million Southerners were killed and the South lay in ruins.  Farms and plantations were destroyed; cities were ravaged by fire and the transportation system was in complete disrepair.
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The Financial Impact of Undocumented Immigrants in Emergency Rooms Literature Literature review
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Hospitals in New York recorded a net profit margin of scant 0.9% in 2007. In the past nine years, New York hospitals reported combined losses worth $2.4 billion. A survey conducted in 2008 revealed that gross margins had fallen to negative 1.4% whereas bottom-line margins that normally higher than operating margins, had dropped to negative 2.2%.
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Literature in the Modern Age Literature Coursework
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It needs to be remembered that liberal education is not a particular system of the education process that has been emerged through the modern intellectual revolution. It actually depends to a great extent on a person that how he is utilizing the education and keeping himself flexible to inculcate the traits of liberal education. 
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Postmodernism in Literature Literature Essay
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Artists pertaining to this norm-defying era (postmodernism) were the ones who did their utmost in ensuring that simple and not-that-literate common people develop an apt understanding of art. That was not the case in the bygone era where the dominant force constituted of accepted conventions, and art was beyond the comprehension of the general public.
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On the Genealogy of Morals by Nietzsche Literature Coursework
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The extinction of the ego is not the extinction of the will. Nietzsche fails to appreciate this differentiation. Ego is a negative trait, and as such, it needs to be eliminated by the one who truly pursues asceticism. The paradigmatic example of a water drop coming to see itself as a part of the ocean, should not be understood in the negative concept of its weak surrender.
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The Garden of Eden and the Hope of Immortality Literature Book Report/Review
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Overall, Burr’s proposition is an enticing one. Rather than a scene of downfall and punishment the Garden narrative instead becomes one of failed potential. This is a radical shift from what most Christians would attest to believe. Indeed, the sin motif is so ingrained into the Garden story that one wonders if it can be disassembled.
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Sylvia Plath's Daddy - Poem Exploration Literature Research Paper
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There is no doubt Sylvia Plath was writing about her own father, who died when she was ten years old. It is not a case of fiction. And perhaps her choice of language indicates she wanted to create a young girl’s impressions, caught the awe and confusion of having a German father in middle America during the war years.
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Redburn by Herman Melville Literature Research Paper
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Redburn leaves the United States a nostalgic, potentially violent boy, but returns a man shaped by the maturing, enlightening, and disciplining forces of life. After working on the ship Highlander, assimilating into the crew, and experiencing the world through living rather than imagining, Redburn alters his Romantic mindset.
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Egyptian Creation Myth Literature Term Paper
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According to the paper, while there are a number of conflicting versions of Egyptian myths the underlining concern of all of them is their emphasis placed on the sea. The Egyptian’s believed that the basic elements of the universe were an ever-expanding sea from which all things, including the sun, moon, and stars, emerged. 
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Summary of The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien Literature Book Report/Review
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When we read Tim O'Brien's stories for the first time, we become so deeply involved with the characters and the plot, that we can hardly believe the fact that these stories are fictional. Every story discusses its own theme: courage and heroism, the meaning of death, the truth, the nature of war, the meaning of friendship.
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Comparative Analysis of Prince Hals Soliloquy and King Henrys Speech Literature Essay
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Shakespeare uses his words skillfully to paint an accurate picture of the two people involved in the conversation and their relationship. From the reproachful language the King uses we learn that Hal has a dissolute lifestyle not befitting a prince and that he allows himself to be led astray by his “common” friends and disgraces the importance of royalty.
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Three Different Stories Literature Essay
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The article ‘Television: yes, America has a class system’, tries to affirm the fact that class system does exist in America and backs this argument using the instances from various sitcoms aired on the television and the kind of response they got. The various classes which it identifies like working class, middle class, rich class, etc.
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Satisfaction the Sexual Pleasures of Men in Homers Iliad: the Role of Women in the Poem Literature Research Paper
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Mortal women like Chryseis and Briseis are treated as mere objects and are given prizes to men who win battles. Men who have bravely fought a war spend time with women in their camps Women are also seen as powerless and seek men for both protection and pleasure. They are by and large treated as mere objects who satisfy the sexual pleasures of men.
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Analysis of Shakespeares Othello Literature Book Report/Review
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Definitions by Belsey and Eagleton of the literary dramatic form known as a tragedy share some basic, common characteristics: the noble hero suffers and dies because of something inside, such as a character flaw, or because of conflicts from outside, such as unexpected opposition from a dark-hearted villain.
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Comparison of The Red Wheelbarrow and Winter Night and Their Authors Literature Research Paper
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Williams thought about the creative process in painters’ terms, and he asks us to experience the work as we might experience a modern painting: "There is no subject; it's what you put on the canvas and how you put it on that makes the difference. Poems aren't made of thoughts — they’re made of words, pigments put on ...” (Costello, 2005).
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Comparison of Short Stories Winter Night and Everything that Rises Must Converge Literature Research Paper
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A hat is a symbol of transforming the cultural landscape in 1960s south that brought the two “different” women at equal social status. In historical perspective, Julian’s mother felt superior to the black women who were supposed to be the epitome of ugliness regardless of any comparison between wealth, knowledge, education and status.
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Analysis of Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda Literature Research Paper
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Considering the political situation of the time in which he lived and the social attitudes, it is somewhat remarkable that his love poetry was accepted, especially when he was very young. However, it is very powerful and beautiful, especially in the original Spanish, which tends to have more of a musical lilt than English.
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Analysis of Hamlet by Shakespeare Literature Research Paper
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After the confirmation, Hamlet boiling with revengeful mind goes to the Claudius’ room to murder him. There Claudius in a solitude state, without knowing that Hamlet is hiding in the room, self-confessed to killing his brother and laments the fact that he cannot repent his crime. He then starts his prayers to absolve this crime.
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Analysis of Native Son by Richard Wright Literature Research Paper
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With Native Son and Bigger Thomas, Wright did something that no other writer in black literature have undertaken previously: he created a genuine type of African American, a character with no hope and aspirations, made savage by the ghetto life, eventually emerging as one that harbors hate for a world that he did not perfectly understand.
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The Poetry of Berni Searle Literature Research Paper
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Today where so much expression is overt, the stillness of Searle’s work has more impact-the videos are short (7 or eight minutes), her installations are large, but not overwhelming and she uses angles screens and multiple screens as a showcase rather than of scale and volume, but it is not over and the screens and prints are without adornment.
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The Amalgamation of Literature and History in the Story of Beowulf Literature Essay
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Digressions in Beowulf were not included for pointless reasons as they serve an artistic purpose which had been achieved through careful evaluation. The length for literary works as it may be now is preferred to be concise without any misleading subplots or digressions that could set the reader off track.
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Critical Analysis of Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Literature Book Report/Review
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‘Mrs. Dalloway’, published on 14th May 1925, is counted as one of Virginia Woolf’s finest literary works. The novel takes up and brings forth the problems faced by the post-war English society, and represents it through the subjective empiricism and cognizance, of the two central characters in the novel, Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Smith.
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Peshawar Express by Krishan Chander Literature Research Paper
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The author explains that the Muslims of India established a nationalist movement because of various tensions occurred between Hindus and Muslim, including that of 1905-1911 in Bengal. Muslims feared that they would be ruled by the majority Hindus. Therefore, few Muslim delegates in the Indian National Congress left and formed The All India Muslim League.
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Symbols and Mythical Meanings in Fuentes Chac Mool Literature Essay
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Fuentes often writes of mirrors into history, and his use here of this concept is not surprising in the symbolic sense. While Filiberto is ultimately destroyed, he has also in reality destroyed Chac Mool. Mexico has neither succeeded in becoming a working modern nation; nor has it succeeded in preservation in any real sense its past. 
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The Unique Features of a Short Story Literature Essay
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In addition, although the two writers are very much aware of the conventions of story-writing, they both do what they prefer to do with their story. They narrated as naturally as they could and both capture the minds and hearts of their readers that they continue to read until the last word is over. 
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Who is More Ambitious Lady Macbeth or Macbeth Literature Research Paper
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The author states that some believe that Lady Macbeth was more ambitious than Macbeth while some believe that Macbeth becomes over ambitious in the end. Those who are in favor of the argument that Macbeth was the more ambitious of the two, argue that Macbeth’s intention to murder increases with the progress of the play.
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The Sceptre of the Child Literature Essay
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In “The Weir”, the single appearance of the scepter as a telephone voice that sounds like the dead child does not cause death or suffering, rather it establishes a friendly link between the scepter and its mother Valerie, and brings comfort to her. The manner of appearance of the scepters is similar to the other story.
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The Muslim Experience Literature Book Report/Review
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As compared to Najwa’s experience, where her identity crisis prompts her to seek a return to her roots in a positive fashion, Kaukab’s affirmation of her Muslim identity is a negative one. While Najwa’s experience is uplifting, Kaukab’s experience is regressive because it supports the injustice meted out to Chanda and Suraya under Islamic law.
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A Drama in Muslin By George Moore Literature Literature review
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George Moore was one of the luminaries in the Anglo-Irish Community. His social protest in the form of novels and other literary work will continue illuminating generations. His works not only bear social document and social history but also serves as a major source of chronicle information of the period when Irish gentry was in a tumultuous situation.
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