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Fight Clubs Cultural Context Literature Book Report/Review
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The film version of the novel, directed by David Fincher, was released in 1999 gaining cult status. When that cultural/historical context of the novel is compared with the current times, it can provide key perspectives. Fight Club, its cultural/historical contexts would be gleaned thereby interpreting the novel.
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Main Features of The Importance of Being Earnest Literature Book Report/Review
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Paul's argument has enabled me to adopt an open mind with regards to the text. As a result, I have extracted more dimensions of the text than I expected. Rather than read the text with a fixation on its title, Paulun has led me to embrace a more critical and deeper approach that generates more interpretations on top of the obvious ones.
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The Meaning of Struggle in Human Life Literature Essay
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The first work is an example of how courage and conscious people can be when they are determined at noble aims, such as defense of their motherland and protection of population from the aggressive actions of the invaders, and the second literary work is the best proof of the necessity of the permanent struggle with the injustice, which is described by the efforts of the African American people.
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How Is the Theme of Tradition Reflected in Shirley Jacksons Short Story The Lottery Literature Annotated Bibliography
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Du Bose scrutinizes how humanity was dominated by men who govern the town both politically as well as economically. He critiques Shirley Jackson’s works. It states that Shirley Jackson was renowned for her psychosomatic horror story. The story “The Lottery” was frequently observed as sarcasm of social institutions and human behaviour. 
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The Review of the Book Literature Book Report/Review
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Mostly, hip-hop incorporates several elements that include rap music, which is the main component, graffiti that comes along with hip-hop, and breaking which is the dance popular with hip-hop artists. The break-dancers, as people know them, do not call themselves that especially in the groups affiliated with hip-hop music.
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Secrets in Frank Stockton Text Literature Essay
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The author's stories are mostly mere narratives. Besides, he does not make adequate use of the theme of description to localize the story's scene. Stockton is analytically conversant with his art. He can convey a delightful credibility to motivate eccentrically plots (Bowel 458). Also, some of his stories make classification hard.
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Identity in The Awakening Literature Book Report/Review
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The society perceived as inferior to their men counterparts. This is the reason women were strictly given the role of taking care of their husbands and being submissive to them.  Te role of motherhood also made Edna dissatisfied with the labels. In fact, the identity of women in society was demeaning and disenfranchising.
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Analysis of Dante's Works Literature Assignment
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Many consider Dante’s Divine Comedy as a supreme literary work, not only of medieval Christendom but of the Christian faith in general. Rivaled only by Milton’s Paradise Lost. (pv) (The comedy is only rivaled by Milton’s Paradise Lost). Never has a poet given a more compelling vision of Christian love than Dante in his Commedia (The Divina was added after Dante’s death).
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Comparison and Contrast of Literary Pieces Literature Essay
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Somehow, Bendrix keeps on observing jealousy that has forced him to appoint a detective in order to intrude into the personal life of his ex beloved. Thus, all the three works under investigation demonstrate different postures of jealousy, though all of which depict possessiveness, where no lover allows any sharing of love altogether on the part of their beloved.
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Marriage in Literature Literature Essay
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Marriage is an important social institution as it retains and provides the basic infrastructure to the family system. For the effective and smooth running of this social system, the role of the wife is of crucial importance. In the English literature, a woman has been identified with strange tendencies which represent her immature and incapable of retaining a strong and stable marital relationship.
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The Use of Character and Setting in Literature Literature Book Report/Review
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In particular, the book creates a link between the students and the literary works of the authors to help them understand reading and writing skills such as the use of symbols, plot, setting, characters, point of view, theme, language, and style. 
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Insanity in Edgar Allen Poe's Works Literature Essay
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 Individuals would constantly or irregularly develop those thoughts based on external situations. When it is the right time, he/she will try to “translate” or actualize those thoughts into actions and reality. When that actualization happens in a smooth and expected manner, it will provide optimal happiness and contentment to the individuals.
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Contemporary Writing Literature Essay
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It is the unique characteristic of man, to visualize the world of fantasy. Such a cavernous obsession for the fantasy led many writers to fabricate the amazing books on science fiction. According to Carl Freedman, “Of all genres, science fiction, is thus the one most devoted to the historical concreteness and rigorous self reflective-ness of critical theory.
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Cornell Notes Analysis Literature Assignment
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The Cold War and the wars in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan are some of the wars that both made the U.S. a superpower nation and also a failure for many Americans who did not want to have an image of a violent America. The cultural influences are also present in the chapter, which included the Civil Rights Movement.
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The Theme of Power in the Disgrace Novel by Coetzee J Literature Book Report/Review
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The main character is a confusing individual, at once one of the intellectual snobs, the contemptuous of others and being one who will commit outrageous mistakes. The story is also local the theme and the aging challenges both on a societal and individual level that lead to no country for the old men line. 
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Analysis of the Novel Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee Literature Book Report/Review
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The novel ‘Disgrace’ looks at the effect the social and political agendas have in the creation of the identity of a person. Coetzee articulate that the part of our identity developed upon the social and the political grounds may have a harmful effect on both the advantaged and disadvantaged within the system.
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The Theme of Marriage in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Literature Assignment
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The first sentence in Pride and Prejudice is also one of the most famous sentences in English literature as well as a representative of the times. It can also be understood as the plot of the novel as well as many others of the time since it describes as a universal truth that a single man who has had good fortunes will automatically be looking for a wife.
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A Spiritual Quest of Life: Self Realization and Human Consciousness Literature Book Report/Review
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Ron Kovic rightly says that he became a messenger, a living symbol, an example, a man who learned that love and forgiveness are more powerful than hatred, who has learned to embrace all men and women as my brothers and sisters. He also eschews the element of hatred and feels that no one will ever become his enemy no matter how hard they try to frighten and intimidate him.
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Kurt Vonneguts Harrison Bergeron and the Propaganda of the Welfare State Literature Book Report/Review
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When equality is taken too seriously, it can have counterproductive effects. All of us have experienced inequality of power, fortune, and endowments in our personal and social lives. We accept it to be part of the game of life and adapt ourselves to the fact. In contrast, the political realm endeavours to offer equality of individual rights. 
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Elie Wiesel and His Beliefs and Observations which Shook His Faith in God Literature Book Report/Review
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The selfishness of people makes them think about their rights and concerns. People remain totally unconcerned about other people’s problems and sufferings. The cycle completes itself, with no one helping out no one. This matter of self-centeredness has arisen many bloodsheds in the world, in the political, social, and religious scenario. 
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Childrens Literature in the Victorian Period Literature Literature review
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Early Victorian books written for children display a great deal of emphasis on educating children in the strict moral lessons of the day. Regardless of the subject matter being discussed, such as simple mathematics or the alphabet, these ideas are usually brought together with ideas of religion, moral and ethical ‘correctness’.
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The Historical Background of the Play Lysistrata by Aristophanes Literature Literature review
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The author states that the play is centered on Athenian women who were tired of the Peloponnesian war. The play can be absurd for many as it has many situations where there is much sexual explanation that can be bold and sultry. I would look at the play from many angles like historical, contemporary and production basis.
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History of Tom Jones by Henry Fielding Literature Book Report/Review
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Henry Fielding’s novel A History of Tom Jones: A Foundling conveys the story of a young man who was found, as an infant, asleep in the bed of a kind-hearted and loving country gentleman, Squire Allworthy and his life as a young man. Published in 1749, the novel is set in the countryside where Fielding himself was born and is thought to contain at least some biographical information.
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Literature Book Report/Review
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Through the poetic story, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the lessons told about the nature of the fair-sex are, one may cross the moon and beat the stars, but to probe the mystery unfolding within a woman’s mind is no ordinary mission. The challenge of love that Gawain faced was no less than the challenge in front of a battle-ready warrior.
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Harper Lee's Vision and Depiction of Courage in To Kill a Mockingbird Literature Book Report/Review
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To Kill a Mockingbird is a well-penned narration of the racial issues in the South before the Civil Rights era, say published in 1960. The author Harper Lee sketches out the story as a fluent description of the views of Jean Louise Finch, better known as Scout, a young girl. The story runs through lots of action and emotion but the key focus is on the projection of the theme of courage.
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Gender Roles in Wildes Lady Windermeres Fan Literature Essay
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The approach used by the writer mainly focuses on the showcase of such women as elements of a new societal force which is capable of doing well to society and contributing significantly to its goals. In a world that only relied on its men folk for intellectual thinking, this approach served to change the stringent mindset of the 19th-century audience
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Analysis of Percy Bysshe Shelleys A Defence of Poetry Literature Book Report/Review
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It is essential to state that the literary text itself begins in the mind of the author and cannot be appreciated without reference to the author.  It becomes necessary to learn who the author is, his or her particular style of writing and the times and social norms that influenced his or her authorship. 
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Roles of Women in the 19th Century Literature Essay
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During the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, another issue that can be found in the writings of Jane Austen, specifically in Pride and Prejudice, was the right of women to inherit their father’s land.  During that time, only a male heir has the right over the succession of title and the land.  The land and title goes to the nearest keen without consideration to the female members of the family.  
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Feminism and Frankenstein Literature Case Study
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Women often found means of breaking out of their limited spheres enough to express some of the greater issues encountered within this male-dominated system. It is worth mentioning, that one of the more successful female writers emerging during this time period and addressing this issue was Mary Shelley. 
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The Relationship between History and Violence in the Twentieth Century Literature Literature review
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World history in the twentieth century is especially noted for the various wars, bloodsheds, violence, etc and the modernist literature, including fiction and poems, has attempted to represent this human situation. Significantly, there is an obvious relationship between history and violence in twentieth-century and modernist literature.
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We Are Not Concerned With The Very Poor, They Are Unthinkable by Edward Morgan Foster Literature Essay
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In novels of Edward Morgan Foster, he dealt with different topics like- middle-class materialism, conflict of cultures, and marginalized sexuality. His personal life was with full of scandals related to his homosexuality. So, some publishers were not ready to publish his short stories in his lifetime. 
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Features of the Novel The Buddha Of Suburbia, Written by Hanif Kureishi Literature Book Report/Review
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In the novel The Buddha Of Suburbia, the author, Hanif Kureishi, portrays a message through a character named Karim Amir about how his life resembles Hanif’s own personal life growing up. The paths that the author and his character follow are very similar, as biographical information on this author shows this parallel. 
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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Literature Book Report/Review
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It will not make a man happy to live in a world chained to the dictates of someone’s will. A society that is a puppet of someone else’s power or influence is miserable. Deprivation, oppression, and terror do not create a real utopia but the opposite. Dictatorship, as Huxley shows it, the theme that exists all throughout the novel.
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Joseph Conrads Abandonment in Heart of Darkness Literature Book Report/Review
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In Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, the main character Marlow continuously calls into question the modern assumptions that are made by his listeners as well as his readers, blurring the lines between inward and outward, civilized and savage and, most especially, dark and light. The bulk of the book concentrates on Marlowe’s telling of his adventures on the Congo River.  
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Libertine Fiction Charts the Decline of the Aristocracy in France Literature Coursework
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The realm of literature narrated the story of the time and laid before the readers the society of France of that time. The ascendancy and decline of aristocracy in that period and their frivolous pursuits found their depiction in a specific literary form which is named as Libertine fiction.
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Wuthering Heights Narrative Technique Literature Case Study
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Bronte challenges the ideas of her society proving that love can transcend social class and position in life. She proves that a person can change their destiny in life and rise from poverty to high esteem. Moreover, the novel employs different perspectives as different narrators take part in telling the story. 
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Matsuo Basho's Poem as a Piece of Literature Treated as Comic or Unorthodox Literature Book Report/Review
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The period of Tokugawa (1603-1868) is generally considered as the Golden Age in the History of Japan. In this period, Japan was ruled by the shoguns of the Tokugawa family. After the period of the war was over, all confusions turned silent and it was the time of commencement of a new era. This point onwards, peace prevailed in Japan for four hundred.
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Understanding of Freedom in Literature Literature Assignment
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The interpretation and representation of individualism and celebration of individual existence as an independent identity emerged as one of the most popular themes of discussion among modernist writers. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf and The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald were published in such a time when the cultivation of modernist intellectualism was heading towards culmination.
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Realism, Fantasy And Utopia Literature Coursework
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Utopia is a dream that shatters and destroys, it replaces the idea of the human spirit with bliss that takes from humanity its essence. There is no need for achievement if there is no concern driving innovation towards that achievement. Thus, Utopia is a negative, a framework of an idea that cannot exist in concert with human life.
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Analysis of Euripides Hippolytus Literature Assignment
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Euripides’ treatment of the myth of Heracles is also different from the tales of his heroism in that in his play The Madness of Heracles, Euripides focuses his attention on the tragic aspect of Heracles’ story where he kills his wife and children after being visited by a frenzy sent to him by Hera and only just misses killing his father by Athena who smites him with a rock.
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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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Analysis of Self-Expression in The Yellow Wallpaper Literature Book Report/Review
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The value of self-expression, therefore, is influential and has a great impact on society (Athina and Scherer). It influences the way of living that people embrace and determines one’s level of joy and happiness in their lives. Self-expression goes hand in hand with self-satisfaction, which is vital for growth and development.
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Fantasy in the 1890s Literature Research Paper
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Tono-Bungay traces the historical life cycles of the technologies of British agriculture, manufacture, and mining. The novel begins with anatomy of an imperilled agricultural system, ‘the Bladesover system.’ It then turns to an extended parody of entropy in the manufacturing process, embodied in the patent medicine system of turn-of-the-century Britain.
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Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare Literature Book Report/Review
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Before Cleopatra dies, she orders her best attire with the words: “I am again for Cygnus to meet Mark Antony…”  She met Antony for the first time in Cygnus.  “If the aim of her suicide is to join Antony in death (which of course it is), her death could be considered an entirely appropriate Egyptian conclusion to Egyptian life. 
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Elements of Literature Plot, Characters, Stylistic Devices Literature Essay
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Every writer or poet follows certain parameters for composing a literary piece of work. However, the elements vary with the forms of literature. This essay explores elements of short stories and poetry with the special consideration of Anton’s Chekhov’s The Bet, O’ Conner’s A good man is hard to find and Wordsworth’s The world is too much with us. 
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Hauntings and Its Influence on Choices Literature Essay
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As the author wants to put the ‘outcast’ in the ‘mainstream’ and to give justification to her choice, aunt is made to haunt. Even then, the fact that her family made the choice to forget and disband her is an act of pain, which could continue to haunt aunts’ ghost even in her afterlife. The choices have a lot of correlation to the haunting. 
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Issue of Identity through the Work of Patrick Kavanagh Literature Case Study
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The paper shows that Kavanagh's identity comes through his work, and his work is considered to be a cultural mediation of his identity, a way to share his identity with the world while shaping it. It is evident from Kavanagh's background that loneliness, isolation, and feelings of being an outsider shaped his years.
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Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg Literature Book Report/Review
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In the modern world, popular literature has become the centre of focus in many of the important and energetic debates and the poems of Allen Ginsberg offer an effective example of popular literature or the requisition of popular literature into more elite literary forms. To comprehend popular literature, one needs to realise what popular means as well as what literature means.
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Lost in a Modern World Literature Case Study
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In reviewing the themes and characters introduced by the authors William Shakespeare, Ha Jin, Ron Rash, and Peter Cameron in their works of literature, it is important to understand how the writers themselves define modernism. Shakespeare's work is so influential in modern literature that it conditions what later writers will pursue in their work and themes.
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Family for Jane Eyre and Elizabeth Bennett Literature Book Report/Review
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In both Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre, the main characters struggle against the social conditions of their position as women in Victorian society for the same reasons, insisting on a relationship based on love and achieve the kind of life most women desired but few enough won. Elizabeth allows herself to pursue those activities that interest her, in spite of social constraints.
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