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In literature, sonnets in English form refer to poetic verses of 14 lines with rhymes arranged into a fixed scheme and divided into three quatrains (4-line stanzas) and a couplet at the end (Burrow, 2002). Shakespeare’s and Milton’s sonnets are among the most popular sonnets worldwide, standing the tests of time by surviving for centuries.
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Kafka’s Country Doctor is an intriguing story full of adversity and obstacles; the dreamlike description of the story creates a nightmarish feel, the story attempts to explain to the audience that understanding the irrational behavior of human beings is difficult and hence it is often easy to blame others for one’s own mistakes.
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“Kafka’s world is ultimately one that comes to a full stop, and K[afka] himself is one who dwells in its fixity, which has become the hallmark of the modern age in which closed rooms, closed doors, and closed windows personify a barren, spiritless world” (Panichas 91). Franz Kafka is one of those authors who is not easily understood by readers.
Symmetry is a language in which several perspectives of arts and science can be appreciated, expressed, and eventually better explained and understood. Frequently, the authors employ a number of convenient symmetric statures, either as an underlying core or as a descriptive means around which their stories unfold.
The use of picture books creates a holistic and flexible interaction. They are also miniature ecosystems and reemphasize the interdependence of word and image. Unlike an ecosystem, picture books provide complexity and diversity, and organization and take the role of the reader into consideration that separates them from continuum approaches.
Due to the embedding of social organization on concrete institutions such as the labor market and family which are both related to inequality that can be easily studied, the main focus of past research was on matters relating to labor and work. However, the impact of leisure has not been sufficiently studied (Harker, Richard, et al-123).
The most prominent act of violence and crime in the novel is the stabbing of Alec by Tess. In the second novel known as “The Long Goodbye” by Raymond Chandler, the author also presents to the reader some evidence of crime and violence. In this novel, there are more acts of violence and crime than in the first novel.
Rabindranath Tagore is one of the greatest poets that ever existed in India. He has written poems in various niches. He has tremendous potential in the use of words if he uses them properly. In his poem, he has given it a substance that is fantastic, and this has been done by the incorporation of words that are used properly.
Emily was born in the early 1830s while his counterpart was born in the late 1890s. Though both wrote on death they are both seen to have been particularly influenced by their different environments with Borges who lived through the First World War confining his ideas on death to a location where one goes to.
Multi-modality and non-verbal expression is often stifled in normal education. This can be attributed to the dominance of written and literal language. Nonetheless, visual or non-written languages are important in making cognitive links that are essential in learning. Art as an example of a multi-modal medium integrates visual and text.
Since the invention of fast modes of transport such as air transport and others, many people, across the world have benefitted from positive impacts. Some of the positive impacts include connectivity, increase in productivity in business, cultural exchange, recreation and leisure, and social contact.
Tempted to settle for half—for the loss of meaning and the loss of consequence endemic in the whole complex of personal and social relationships, the American way of living as Miller sees it—the heroes of these plays, no matter how perversely, are still attached to life, still moved by irresistible desires for a name, a significance, a meaning.
In this paper, the similarity of the traditional man in Australian literature and in McGahan’s novel praise is critically compared to find out the features of Australian masculine identity that have not been eroded by time. The paper concentrates on and supports McGahan’s portrayal of the Australian man as a man who is afflicted by an identity crisis
Popular culture is an overview of the daily life of an individual showing the totality of their social world. It shows how we interact with other people and the environment that include the ever-changing technology. For instance, research indicates that children greatly interact with books, video games, and their play items at a tender age.
This is a comparative analysis and critical review of three indigenous art, culture, and design texts that I have engaged with in relation to the Australian culture, the comparative analysis discusses the theme, perception, and representations that are conveyed by the books and their influence on the modern society.
This study was aimed are carrying out research on how to improve professional assessment on the themes formed in literature. It also tried to propose a learning plan to improve on professional development on assessment. The study has three cycles of research; to identify the extent that can be used to implement the assessment tool could address the challenges of assessment for quality learning.
Charles Dickens does this for instance in such works as ‘Oliver Twist’, which deals with how society deals with unmarried mothers and their children under the workhouse system. Despite the fact that the authors deal with fictional characters, the situations in which the characters find themselves often have their counterparts in real life, situations that would be familiar to readers of the time.
This paper is organized in three parts. Sectio1 is the introduction. The next section 2 relates to conceptualization of the term, modern fiction. Section 3 is the main body and present discussion pertinent to the topic. Section 4 gives a conclusion drawn from the rest of the paper. It generally describes the literal work(s) done in the first decade of the 20th century or anything written immediately after 1900.
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The Kite Runner is a story of a young boy called Amir who hails from Wazir Akbar Khan, a district in Kabul, the capital city of Afghanistan. The text is set during the upheavals that came as a result of the Afghanistan Monarchy’s fall due to the Soviet invasion, the migration of many people from Afghanistan, and the subsequent rise of the Taliban.
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Generally, the author of the poem is presently unknown but it is believed to have been written between the 8th and 11th centuries. Among the main characters in the poem are Beowulf, Grendel, Hygelac, Hrothgar, Hrothulf, Grendel’s mother, Hildeburh Eschere, Wealhtheow and Wiglaf as described by (Anonymous).
Basically, in this article, Sir Phillip Sidney discusses in-depth the significance of poetry. He begins by sharing his experience at the Emperor’s court. While at the emperor’s court, Sidney and his friend Edward Wotton devoted themselves to learning the horsemanship of John Pietro Pugliano. Pugliano praised his faculty as a horseman saying that “Soldiers were the noblest of mankind and horsemen were the noblest of soldiers.”
Generally speaking, this paper seeks to critically examine the two editions of Felicia Hemans’ The Domestic Affections and Other Poems in reference to a psychoanalytic literary criticism theory. Psychoanalytic criticism theory will be used as a key literary theory to critically examine Heman’s poems.
John Nicholson has portrayed a great depth of extant scholarship, especially in terms of content mastering. This is indicated in various thematic presentations poems are developed in a way that there is no definite environment of a subject that dominates his poetry. This mastery is present in the degree of familiarity with the field of poetry in all three editions of his poems.
The theme is what the writer talks about in the entire text; everything revolves around it in a text. It also points out to a reader what they can expect in a clause. Following the sampling and analysis of the texts, a theme is identified as the major issues before a main verb and rheme as the main thing after the main verb.
Creativity is a rooted aspect within literature and it characterizes the uniqueness with which every artist brings out various aspects of their expertise. Postmodernism has significantly changed the way of thinking of both artists and their audiences creating an environment where everything is possible with art and art has virtually no limits.
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Realism in literature, as the name suggests, is a literary style that seeks to make literature resemble real-life experiences. Realism refers to a literary movement or theory that endeavors to represent life as it is bereft of idealization or romanticism (Farley 1). Simply put, literary realism uses fiction to give accurate descriptions of the real-life experiences of its subjects.
Isaac Asimov, an American author, who wrote many popular science fiction books as well as non-fiction books, brought many scientific concepts to the common man in a simple manner. Asimov has been particularly remembered for his approach to bringing together science and technology and human ethics in his works.
The onset of anti-Vietnam War movement in the United States began soon after the Vietnam War broke out. Following the war break out, various movements emerged, some anti-war movements advocated for USA’s continued involvement in the Vietnam War whereas some movements opposed the involvement of the USA in the war on grounds that they wanted peace.
Spenser’s allegorical epic poem ‘Faerie Queene’ was a product of its time. Wauchope ( 2005) describes in his introduction to the text of the Gutenberg Project how there was a revival of ideas about chivalry and the rise of new ideas about national identity. The queen was closely linked to both of these.
It is essential to state that Spenser's epic poem The Faerie Queene (1590-96), is a romance in allegorical form, the primary aim of which was to glorify and praise his monarch, Elizabeth I, then queen of England. It was also presumably designed to enhance Spenser’s place in Elizabethan society, as it proved to do.
‘The Shepheardes Calender’ is an extended poem by Elizabeth’s poet, Edmund Spenser (circa 1522 – 1599). It is perhaps not as well known as his ‘Faerie Queene,’ but both include praise of the Queen, Elizabeth I. It is written in 1579 and included in the Stationers’ Register of 1591. It was printed only under the name of ‘Immerito’ in the first instance.
The poem ‘Mother Hubbard’s Tale’ written by a renowned poet, Mr. Edmund Spenser and published in 1591 is a masterpiece of a satirical fable written in Chaucer’s style. It consists of four tales. The tales are supposedly narrated by an old lady given the name ‘Mother Hubbard’ while the poet plays the role of the audience.
In 1591, when the fable of ‘Posopopoia: Or, Mother Hubbard’s Tale’, in decasyllabic heroic couplets, was published as part of ‘Complaints Containing Sundry Small Poems of the World's Vanity’, Spenser was already a famous poet as his famed ‘Faerie Queene’ had been widely acclaimed the previous year and his ‘Shepheardes Calender’ was so popular that it had gone to four printings.
A lot of fantasy and imagined science advancement is a commonality. However, this fantasy has been classified into a literary genre that tries to illuminate the imagination of science in the future. In addition, these imaginations do not necessarily mean that they are not founded within the possibilities of science, only that they are idealistic, that is, can only be put in literal form.
It is essential to state that over the last several decades, there have been tremendous changes in gender roles with particular reference to education, the workplace, and the family. In contemporary society, more women are now gaining access to higher education than was the case in the 18th and 19th centuries.
In order to honor one’s deepest truth, one must first discover what the truth is and then apply that truth to everyday life (Nelson 30). The life of Edna Pontellier in The Awakening signifies the search, discovery, and application of an individual’s deepest truth. Edna, a wealthy New Orleans housewife, attempts to find the deepest truth about her by conforming to society’s norms.
This paper will then place the novel in its historical context by analyzing and paralleling the historical events captured by Brown in the novel. It will then explore the political context of Wieland and identify the conflicts and problems faced by the new American Republic by analyzing the characterizations of the members of the Wieland family.
Jane austen has proven that foolish people suffer for their foolish acts while at the same time brings out the connection between sense and success. Austen clarifies this by giving the characters and qualities in order to show case what she feels about sense and self-restraint and the roles they play in shaping up the destiny of different characters
Culture is the cumulative deposit of experience, beliefs, knowledge, values, attitudes, hierarchies, religion, meanings, notions of time, spatial relations, roles, concepts of the universe, and material objects. it also comprises possessions acquired by a particular group of people in the process of developing generations through group striving
The aestheticization of the Natural--and the naturalization of the Cultural--is constantly foregrounded: a self-conscious and deliberate confusion of life and Art that is burlesqued by Wilde in The Importance of Being Earnest when Miss Prism puts her three-volume novel of more than regularly disgusting sentimentality into a bassinette, and a baby into her handbag ( Foster 1956 p20).
The term magical realism is a contradiction in terms, a paradox as it seeks to blend in two concepts that exist on the two different spaces of the existential spectrum. The term seems confusing, misleading, and highly unlikely; raises many questions like how anything real is magical or magic at the same time and vice versa.
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We would see how these theories are applied to the interpretation of these literary texts in the Caribbean and most of all the effect of the colonial experience on hybrid writers like Naipaul and Rhys. We do achieve a clear understanding of how the Caribbean theory and literature related to the issues in post-colonial theory.
Australia got independence in 1901 and a testament to its commitment to its women was the fact that after only a small matter of 2 years i.e. in 1903, it become the first and at the time the only county whereby Caucasian women were allowed the liberty to vote and stand for a position in the parliament.
The term ‘erotic’ is never associated with any consistent or stable category because it is always subjected to social traditions and civilizations that are affected by religious beliefs and didactic convictions. The twenty-first century still holds on to the debate that whether the erotic narratives written by men are different from those of women.
The tussle between rebellious viewpoints wherein she advocates women’s liberation through proper education that envisages knowledge of political and social scenarios becomes imperative for her to get equal status with her male counterparts. On the other hand, in congruence with the social strictures of marriage and family.
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There are a variety of interesting facts revolving around the poem by Alexander Pope titled “An Essay on Man”; one of them being the fact that he refused to acknowledge the ownership of the piece until 1735! More interesting than that, however, is the fact that it was initially written in heroic couplets before being published as a whole in 1733
In today’s world, the text has become more important than the writer. People seem to be least concerned with the face behind a text. The panache for consumption of information overrides the need for recognizing the creativity of a writer behind a text. The 21st-century craving for individuality has ironically deprived the writers of their uniqueness and originality.
Overall, John Steinbeck uses biblical symbolism to deliver his message towards the readers since during the time that the novel was published religion is a common factor among Americans (Slashdoc.com); hence can easily be understood in the light of biblical symbolisms making an impact on the message of the novel piercing towards its readers.
Macbeth is truly a great tragic figure because his downfall cannot be explained away by the facile use of the mistaken translation of Aristotle’s “character flaw”, but rather because his story is one of the de-evolution of a person’s innate humanity through bad judgment based on the often prized characteristic of ambition.
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In novels, a new type of protagonists emerged. The crème de la crème of the society was composed of swanky, suave, and competent achievers. Yet, looked at more closely, they were hollow people, as TS Eliot said in The Waste Land, they were "hollow men, the stuffed men, headpiece filled with straw".