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Does the Rich Man Get What He Deserves Literature Essay
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The rich man’s treatment of Lazarus goes against this Christian tenet and was so extreme as to warrant some sort of penance. In the end, he paid the price by suffering the same fate he failed to identify within his lifetime. As a result, it is fair to say that he got just what he deserved, his just desserts.
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How to Bring Your Kids Up Gay by Eve Sedgwick Literature Essay
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The author introduces the idea of affect by comparing the spread of emotion from one individual to another to the spread of wildfire from one tree to another. While this is a phenomenon that is easily tracked between one individual and another, the article points out the tremendous magnification powers of the media in transmitting these impressions and emotional understandings.
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Possibility of Fantasy to Create a Subversive Space to Critique or Challenge the Mainstream Culture Literature Essay
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Fantasy novels are of great importance in literature. People presume that fantasy novels are always meant for children as they consist of many unrealistic and immature thoughts and views. However, many adults still read fantasy novels and watch fantasy movies. 
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Puddnhead as a Socially Meaningless Figure Literature Literature review
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As fingerprinting was not popular in the United States at that time and was not part of the legal system to investigate crime, it was taken lightly by the townspeople. This was how Wilson obtained his name “Pudd’nhead – a socially meaningless figure, taken oddly by people alongside his lawyering ambitions.
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To a Sad Daughter Literature Essay
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However, the father’s language to her, including his reference to her ‘purple moods’, suggests an age-old enough to understand the description and the distinctions he’s making.  When he says her purple moods and her interest in hockey are faults, he only means they are not consistent with his ideas of what a girl should be. 
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Is Plato Right in not Including any Concrete Laws in the Republic Literature Essay
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The explanation of what is good depends on the knowledge that a person has and the explanation of knowledge is given as smoothing which the philosophers possess. Since the philosophers know what is to know, they know the difference between good and bad and thus they are the only individuals who can know exactly what virtue is and what is just.
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Analysis of Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin and The Things They Carried by Tim Obrien Literature Essay
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O’Brien eloquently portrays how these brave men had to cover up their fear by looking at death right in the face with a grin. They killed and died bravely because “they were embarrassed not to.” He captures the essence of a heavy burden by stating, "they carried the soldier's greatest fear, which was the fear of blushing” 
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Love and Transcendence: A Feminist Approach Literature Essay
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The notion of women as independent or self-sufficient is null and void in this piece.  This is similarly done in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream because the play is perpetually moving towards a “rightful” ending by pairing women to their seemingly appropriate male counterpart.  Again, the notion of a single woman or a self-sufficient woman is not anymore present here than in Chekhov’s piece.
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What to Take from In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Literature Book Report/Review
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While describing Smith as a murderer, Capote has tried to bring about the indecision and thought to go on in his mind at the time of the murder. Smith has not been projected as a hard-core killer, but as a gentle character who acknowledged that Clutter was a gentleman and he liked him but was forced to kill him nevertheless. It seemed to have happened at the spur of the moment.
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The Souls of Black Folk Literature Essay
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To further implicate the veil as something that black people are born with, Du Bois states that “the Negro is a sort of the seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with a second sight”. The second sight is seeing the world inside the veil and seeing what it is like outside. That is the purpose of the veil, to not see what is on the inside.
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A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and Family Relationships in the US and China Literature Essay
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The stories take the reader from China to America, tracing the many facets of Chinese interaction in the face of influencing familial and societal forces. Many of the short stories are set in the 1990s, a time of great political and social change globally. Yi depicts both the political and personal adjustments required of her characters. 
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Features of Fiction Short Story and the Link with Fantasy Literature Literature review
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And in some respects, this assessment is true as the very definition of fiction indicates it is “an imaginative creation or a pretense that does not represent actuality but has been invented” or “a literary work whose content is produced by the imagination and is not necessarily based on fact” (“Fiction”, 2000).
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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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Rationality in The Garden Party and Kew Gardens Literature Essay
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Katherine Mansfield presents the first of these approaches in her short story “The Garden Party” while Virginia Woolf attempts to remove the separation between rationality and irrationality, arguing that the two exist side by side, in her short story “Kew Gardens.” In “The Garden Party”, Katherine Mansfield tells the story of a young girl as she helps her family prepare for a special garden party.
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Love in Literature Literature Literature review
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That last phrase aptly sums up not only the role of “reason” in relationship to love but for Chekhov the role of realism as well. His balanced and brilliant use of it transcends giving mere form to creative literature of which he is the author. For Anton Chekhov, realism is not his literary means of expressing stories of love in life, but rather is his means of exposing love in life’s story.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell Literature Essay
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Stalin was the last of the world leaders that had contributed to the end of the war, causing much of the world to view Russia and Stalin in a favorable light. However, Orwell saw a darker side to this reality, one in which Stalin was not the humanitarian. Within his novel, he attempted to present this alternate view of reality through the characters and events that took place on a fictional farm.
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Eye-Openers by Ana Lydia Vega Literature Literature review
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The third story further mirrors the superstitious nature of the Puerto Ricans, the bias for lighter skin people and prejudice against dark-toned skin. It also highlights the conflict between the men on board, especially the man from Guayama and the other woman passenger. The story revolves around a moneyed woman and his son who fell in love with a dark-skinned woman.
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Analysis of Death of a Salesman Written by Arthur Miller Literature Book Report/Review
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Dreams give us a reason to live and as Joyce Carol Oates says ‘dreaming is required of us, even if our dreams are very possibly self-willed delusions’. The most unfortunate part is that like Willy, it is easy for people to keep pretending that they are best and refuse to see the reality until finally, the whole illusion crashes around them.
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Jack London as an Idealist Writer Literature Book Report/Review
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Even the mental process or rather the inward instincts of the companion dog is successfully narrated by him. The absence of sunlight is used as a symbol to suggest the tragedy that is awaiting the man and all throughout the story the dramatic irony that all his attempts to preserve his life is futile are maintained. As it is said, “London’s works were much more than transcriptions of actual experience.”
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Edgar Allan Poe and the Fall of the House of Usher Literature Essay
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Edgar Allan Poe has given us literary pieces that touch the core of our humanity, and this is made possible by the fact that his works have trudged from man’s deepest angst – death to the most sublime emotion known to us – love. But then again, when one goes over his works, one cannot help but asks oneself self how much of the character in the story is Edgar Allan Poe.
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Discussion Thread For Three Poems by Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson and Robert Burns Literature Essay
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The theme song is a reasonable rendition of the poem and reinforces my statement of the discontinuity in the original writing. Even the singer, Davey Steele, faces this problem, though he gets over it easily enough by repeating the musical score. The poet is sincere in his expression and the singer is equally sincere, no more, no less.
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What We Talk about When We Talk about Love Literature Essay
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We go next to the various literary contexts encountered in Raymond Carver’s short story. Because not much happens in terms of plot development, the gist of the story consists of dialogue among the characters. The socializing that takes place centres on alcohol consumption which in this case is gin. Without gin, they are at a loss for words.
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Joan of Arc by Mary Gordon Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the human person that is Joan of Arc was published on a hardcover of 208 pages in a factual yet creative manner that can be considered as an interesting read. Due to the interest that it can bring about to the readers, it is a privilege to be able to present a review on the said published work.
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The Parallel of Mary Shelleys Monster in Frankenstein and Paradise Lost Literature Literature review
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Shelly positions Frankenstein and as this rebellion and draws from there at Man likewise. He hints at God to be the monster's God. Shelley's assimilation of the relationship of Adam and God from Paradise Lost to that of Frankenstein’s monster and Victor creates an occasion for illustrating a comparison.
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Machiavellis The Prince: Gift or Trick Literature Essay
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The line was he states that the prince will “learn my extreme desire that you should attain that greatness which fortune and your other attributes promise” are also important to consider.  This line is one of the most important lines, as it is stating that Machiavelli himself wants not to earn praise for this document that is being sent to Lorenzo.
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A View on the Manifestations and Influences Literature Essay
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The said line that had been quoted in the work by Beckett can be a representation of the perception of the writer and characters on the affairs of the human race thus, they are considered to be expressing responsibility.  This can mean that when one is in grief thus some other people are happy in turn.
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Depending on Others: Two Differing Viewpoints Examined Literature Essay
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Everything is the same by the end of Godot, but Gregor’s family has learned how to better themselves. While Gregor might have undergone a physical metamorphosis into a bug, his family underwent a transformation in which they became self-sufficient people that had better prospects in life than when everything was being supplied for them.
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The Inventor f the Detective Story Literature Literature review
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In Franklin's boyhood his father sent him to some institutions in Germany, which were considered to be the best establishments in Europe οf those days. Then Mr. Blake travelled a lot around the world. And each country he had visited laid its influence on him. As he grew and gained his education in such countries as Germany, France and Italy, he imbibed their culture.
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Aristotles Theory of Tragedy in the Poetics Literature Essay
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Creon faces the consequences with a stone-cold face. He continues to run his kingdom without the slightest bit of wavering emotion, just as he feels a ruler should. Thus Creon is the tragic hero for all who should have died had died on the cause of Creon's actions and thus found Creon finally in the state of nothingness.
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Quality, Quantity, Morality - Eugenics in Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley Literature Research Proposal
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The subject of eugenics came into much criticism, particularly when it acquired racist connotation in Nazi Germany, there has been a renewed interest in social biology that aims to deny the process of the natural order. The terms eugenics refers to the social philosophy that supports intervention into the genetic composition of mankind. 
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Analysis of the Novel Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Literature Essay
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Madame Bovary does not belong in aristocratic society but she wants to become a part of it because she believes that it will make her happy. She is clearly depressed about the life she was living at the beginning of this novel and wants to find a way to escape the boredom. The results, however, are not what she had been hoping for.  
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The Controversies in the Novel The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown Literature Essay
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Sales for The Da Vinci Code have broken all previous sales records for a novel. In the first year alone, Witherington reports that Christian presses published more than ten related tests, most of which identified themselves as “debunkings” of The Da Vinci Code (p. 3). Essentially, The Da Vinci Code has become an industry in and of itself. 
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A Comparison of Salesman and Mater Harold Literature Essay
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The main difference between the two plays is in the tone of the ending. In Salesman, we are left with a bleak view, with no hope of Willy’s sons escaping the legacy that their father provided for them. They will never be successful themselves, and they are likely to pass these adjusted attitudes upon their children if they do eventually have them 
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Reconstruction of the Character of Scheherazade Literature Essay
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This paper discusses why the Western interpretation is so narrow with regard to the concepts of orientalism, othering, inequality, alienation, and culture with regard to the character of Scheherazade. Additionally, through the character of Scheherazade, it discusses the Westernized representation of Arab women.
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Critical Analysis of Uncle Toms Cabin and The Escape Literature Book Report/Review
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Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin deals with the plight of the Black slaves in America in the 19th Century. It poignantly describes the trials and tribulations of the majority of the slaves of the period, while trying to convince the contemporary White audience of the merits of a different way of life, one without slavery.
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My Papas Waltz by Theodore Roethke Literature Assignment
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During the course of his life, Roethke was in and out of mental institutions. Despite severe lapses and constant hospitalization, Roethke continued to write because of his great passion for writing. Unfortunately, in 1963, Theodore Roethke suffered a fatal heart attack and died on Brainbridge Island, Washington. 
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The Theme of Gene Manipulation in Literature Literature Term Paper
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The novel Frankenstein, a man named Victor Frankenstein is determined to discover the link between life and death, by bringing a lifeless creature to life. Frankenstein pursues his experiment to the end. When his outcome reveals that something went terribly wrong, Frankenstein disregards all responsibility, which leads to deadly consequences.
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Analysis of the Merchant Of Venice by Shakespeare Literature Essay
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During Shakespeare's time, there was a lot οf racism, purely because οf the fact that there were few if any different cultures in England, and what is new is always strange, and although it seems difficult for a modern production to face the difficulties involved with this production, I feel it would take to much away from English literature and psychology even to edit anything really out οf this play.
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Standpoint Theory Literature Literature review
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     Fanon’s specific standpoint and the insightful attempts to maintain the highest level of objectivity makes the book a significant work that could be analyzed under the major precepts of standpoint theory. A true understanding of the discriminations against the black people can come only from a careful reading of a book like this.
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Loves a Bumpy Ride Literature Essay
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The romance between Hermia and Lysander is shown to be young love, full of its uncertainties and susceptible to sudden change. The love between Titania and Oberon, though aged and presumably mellowed, has degenerated into a general long-term struggle over trivial matters underlain by a deep-seated affection and jealousy for the other’s attention.
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Analysis of Hamlet by William Shakespeare Literature Essay
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Hamlet’s promise to the ghost is mirrored in every ghastly act and incident including his meeting with his mother. This confrontation is also viewed as trying to enable his mother to see reason and to alter from sin. Therefore this battle between evil and good is ever present in Hamlet which ultimately leads to his death 
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Insanity in Shakespeare Literature Essay
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The human mind is a ‘mine’ of thoughts. That is, the human mind is ‘mined’ with a lot of thoughts and memories, which can be extracted and put into action only at appropriate times. If those thoughts are erroneously and imperfectly translated into action and fail to achieve the intended targets, then the mind of the humans will become unstable, leading to insanity in course of time.
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Araby by James Joyce Literature Essay
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Gabriel is forced into his own epiphany as well.  Indeed, the keen lust towards his wife that he felt upon stepping out of the cab is now lost. His lust was the result of feeling that they had now escaped the disdainful society at his aunts’ house together and they would be heading back into the sophisticated atmosphere “they” had created.
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Henry V by Shakespeare and the Rover by Aphra Behn Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that Henry V is an epitome of manhood. He represents a picture of masculinity that is very much comfortable with his femininity thus making him a person whose potentialities are holistically harnessed and developed. First, Henry V manifested strength of character that stems not from arrogance.
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Robert Matthews and The Daily Telegraph Literature Essay
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A 1991 article by Robert Matthews in The Daily Telegraph was particularly scathing, as this article refers to Wittgenstein as a “nutcase”. This article also claims that Wittgenstein had a deranged mind and that he exhibited many of the behaviors of someone suffering from schizophrenia and included quotes from a psychiatrist who supports these claims.
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The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand Literature Literature review
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Following the norms in society is judged as being illogical because it allows for the heart to be led in a direction that the mind would not normally take it into. The argument is also made that even when an emotional response to a problem has the best intentions, logic and reason are the only ways that an individual can be free.
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Maggie: A Girl of the Streets Literature Book Report/Review
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The conflict of naturalism with human desires and will is the theme to study in the plot and the craft of the story. The author successfully puts up the theme of naturalism and through a number of characters shows how this ambience determines the fate of an innocence young girl.
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Literature Essay
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It galvanized many into becoming abolitionist sympathizers, if not activists themselves” (Cornell University Library). Uncle Tom is a character who transcends race, which was a very rare occurrence during this time period in the United States and is also what makes this novel so important to anti-slavery literature.
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Sexuality and Disguise in Ibsens a Dolls House Literature Essay
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Torvald has been appointed bank director and one of the first things that he has done even before he assumes office is to fire Krogstad. Krogstad, sensing his impending dismissal, tried to blackmail Nora. He has revealed to Nora that he knew that she forged her father’s signature and that if he will be fired he will tell Torvald about Nora’s lies. 
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The South as Depicted in the Short Stories Barn Burning and The Life You Save Literature Essay
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This theme for O'Connor also moves into the aspects of the storm when Shiftlet makes a plea to God to "break forth and wash the slime from this earth!" and according to Deignan, Shiftlet "eludes nature and God's grace" because he has done these horrible things (left the girl and chosen the car over sensibility) because of his greed for the car 
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