Vignette of You Situated within a certain mansion, buttressed by stone walls covered in mould, therein lies a portrait. This portrait, caked in dust, had lost the vibrant splendour of which it attained years ago. It depicts a grandiose mansion, windows smiling brightly as candle …
Elizabeth Gaskell’s “Mary Barton” is a novel of social reform that explores injustice, abuse and inequality. The novel is especially concerned with the societal condition of England at the time. In her “Preface” Mrs. Gaskell asserted, “I know nothing of Political Economy, or the theories …
Indo-nostalgia can non be defined in a individual sentence. It is more a thing of realisation, of perceptual experience. It does non lie in alien content but in the head behind the organisation of that content. Whether one writes about apples or flowers or Mangifera …
Aquaria Sahara visited many places in India and gave talks on her two books. Her trip was made possible by her Indian publishers Penguin. I chanced to read her work and I found It Interesting. Later my colleague and the co -editor of this book …
Morrie is about in his late seventies. “He has thinning silver hair that spills onto his forehead…and tufts of graying eyebrows. ” (pg. 3) He lived in the late 1970s. “It is the late spring of 1979…” (pg. 3) Morrie is a sociology professor at …
It was a normal tuesday day for Henry, he woke up to find his room full with the smell of freshly cooked pie. His wife was up early cooking breakfast for him and his sick kid Josiah. Henry was a farmer and didn’t have the …
Tolstoy is one of those writers whose life intervened in his literary activity; the events from real life influenced the specificity of themes and topics, raised in his works. He practiced various genres from novels, short stories to non-fiction letters. The beginning of his work …
Jane Austin explores the character Anne Elliot, a 27- year-old unappreciated and self-sacrificing woman dealing with the emotional consequences of a returned love that she had been persuaded to reject in marriage seven years earlier. Austin exposes Anne as a timid and self-sacrificing character, her …
In the novel Jane Ere, Charlotte Bronze describes and expresses the life of the protagonist, Jane, through the character’s own eyes. As Jane begins to explain her story to the reader, It Is shown fairly quickly that she leads, perhaps not a terrible, but an …
Introduction In the historical novel The Year Of Wonders, Although the author Geraldine Brooks portrays both Anys and Aphra as support characters, both Anys and Aphra play an important role in the novel, this will be explored in three ways, Anys’s view on the patriarchal …
Not Just A Sport In the novel “Football Factory” written by John King, we follow a group of Chelsea hooligans in the present England. I think of this novel as an extremely realistic and kind of frightening novel. Together, we follow the main character’s life …
Literature in Marxism is perceived as something which is profoundly influenced by the civilization and society in which the writer is populating in. Therefore literature is seen as a merchandise from civilization which means that the writer is affected by the environment and the external …
The satire of Joseph Heller’s novel “Catch 22” in characterizing the failures of the military and political facilities of America in the middle of the 20th century is especially true to the public. The novel, which paints a picture of how society has become poorly …
Major Themes Class Silas Marner centers around two households, Marner’s cottage by the stone-pits and the Cass manor, the Red House. These two settings represent class extremes, and the people of Raveloe know it. The cottage is the ramshackle abode of the lowliest member of …
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a novel written in the past. The characters chase visions of the future that are determined by their past, which leads them to tragedy. The protagonist, Jay Gatsby, has dedicated his entire life to recapturing the perfect …
You are just going to encounter a piece of prose as you browse through the next few lines. Yes, prose is any written matter that is expressed in ordinary language as opposed to poetry that uses rhymes, meters, and imagery to convey ideas and emotions. …
Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest The bell jar and one flew over the cuckoo’s nest can be linked considerably. Both novels are set in 1950′ America post the ‘cold war’ an era where conformity and obedience is a norm and anything that impairs it isn’t …
Feminism: Jane Eyre Unveiled Brittney Christensen English 153 Shona Harrison November 15th, 2012 “Feminism: The advocacy of women’s rights on the grounds of political, social and economic equality to men, statuses and classes. ” The novel Jane Eyre greatly depicts many forms of feminism throughout, …
Introduction For many writers, the theme of a novel is the driving force of the book during its creation. Even if the author doesn’t consciously identify an intended theme, the creative process is directed by at least one controlling idea — a concept or principle …
The character of beloved in the novel by Toni Morrison in his book entitled “beloved” symbolizes a lot of important ideas which are crucial to a comprehensive understanding of the novel. Taking a look at the context of the story itself, Beloved is seen as …
The crime and the detective novel and their conventions have changed considerably over the last century. As societies have changed, these genres have adapted and branched out to meet the needs of writers attempting to express new concerns. Edgar Allen Poe’s detective novel, The Murders …
The novel Things Fall Apart written by Chinua Achebe, is a story based on a tribe in a village known as Ibo. The story takes place in the late 1800’s in Africa. The author shares the life of traditional beliefs and customs of the tribe …
In the novel In the Lake of the Woods, O’Brien channels between his life in the present at the lake with his wife, and his life in the past, recalling memories from the war in Vietnam. The novel begins with a preview into the love …
Magic realism – fusion of real and unreal realms. A comparison of F. Weldon’s “Puffball” and J. Winterson’s “The Passion” “My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separates what seems real from what seems fantastic” – Gabriel Garcia Marquez At the …
In analysis of the character, Duena Alfonsa, in the novel All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy, facets of her character are clearly revealed. From her physical deformity to her feelings of her father keeping her exiled in her own country, seventy-two year old Alfonsa …
Victorian Mores In Jane Ere During the Victorian era, It was only acceptable to abide by a set of unspoken rules acknowledged by society called mores. Some of the mores that were present In the eighteenth-century time period included the importance of the family, high …
‘Eveline’ and ‘Lamb to the Slaughter’ The story Eveline interprets different meanings through foreshadowing, repetition, personification, irony and symbolism. James’ Joyce uses language that makes the story full of emotion and weight. To convey passiveness and lifelessness, Joyce uses diction and syntax. In other words, …
Comparing and Contrasting Works by Kundera and Khaled Hosseini The unbearable lightness of being was published in Paris in 1984 by Czech author Milan Kundera. The novel is a mix of genre-defying mix of historical fiction, love stories, philosophy, and experimentation with narrative technique. Set …
1970. Choose a character from a novel or play of recognized literary merit and write an essay in which you (a) briefly describe the standards of the fictional society in which the character exists and (b) show how the character is affected by and responds …
Written Tasks Please describe one good learning experience and one bad learning experience that you have had (not necessarily related to language learning). Please write approx. 150 words and use full sentences and paragraphs. A good learning experience was in the eleventh standard with the …
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