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Lady Audleys Secret

... to explore the Victorian characteristics of each, and apply them to the text. In addition to establishing the genres, it is important to explain why and how these genres fit into Victorian culture. The term melodrama has come to be applied to any play with romantic plot in which an author manipulates events to act on the emotions of the audience without regard for character development or logic (Microsoft Encarta). In order to classify as a Victorian melodrama, several key techniques must be used, including proximity and familiarity to the ...

Number of words: 2396 | Number of pages: 9

Review For A Canticle For Leib

... the nature of what Francis has really found, what Leibowitz' soul was really like, and how strong Francis' faith remains. Faith is set apart from knowledge cleanly and clearly in this section. The next section takes place 500 years later, when a scholar, Thon Taddeo, is trying to piece together the real story of what happened to civilization after the nuclear holocaust. In sharp contrast to Francis' faith, Thon is filled with doubt which becomes his major way of approaching life and finding truths. History is revealed to be inconsistent a ...

Number of words: 383 | Number of pages: 2

Mark Harris' Criticism Of Doctorow's Book

... drama for the entire book. He accuses doctorow of hanging on to the past and retelling the same story again, through different “main” characters, and says this is the reason the book is uninteresting, saying that “A writer cannot go forward by clinging wholly to his past.” Harris Another reason he says it is uninteresting is because the two main characters, Joe and Warren (which are hard to determine between), are vague and hard to understand. Harris claims that Doctorow's complete abandonment of punctuation and the formal sen ...

Number of words: 740 | Number of pages: 3

A&P And The Bridge Comes To Yellow Sky: Don’t Believe Everything You See

... one of these girls as the leader and watches the other two girls follow her and mimic her around. The girls walk up and down the aisles and as they do this, the cashier and the cashier next to him begin to form and opinion about these girls. They decide that the first girl, leading the other two, is almost the queen of them because she appears very powerful and strong. This interpretation of what they see and think of the girls is definitely not who they really are. This is discovered at the end of the story when the girls are checking out ...

Number of words: 582 | Number of pages: 3

To Kill A Mockingbird: Coming Of Age

... new things in their society and overcoming hardships. Jem and Scout’s struggles help them mature by helping them to change their one-sided views about people. Their struggles include facing and dealing with Mrs. Dubose and understanding her problems, being able to change their views about Atticus after the confrontation with Tim Johnson and encountering the town’s racist ways through the injustice of the court trial, and finally determining the identity of and becoming friends with the mysterious “Boo” Radley. To Jem and Sco ...

Number of words: 1923 | Number of pages: 7

The Odyssey The Role Of Prophe

... run the gauntlet of the Prowling Rocks if not for the gods’ advice of using a sacrificial bird (349). Moreover, prophecy can be negative as well as positive. Achilles was prophesied to die gloriously in battle if he chose his life’s way as a warrior. Oedipus was exiled and condemned by his own words, after he slew his sire and wed his mother. This type of prophesy can blind even the gods themselves; Chronos was fated to be defeated and his throne stolen by his son. Demeter loses Persephone periodically every year because her daught ...

Number of words: 1534 | Number of pages: 6

Moby Dick

... went bankrupt. But to top things off, he would die an insane man two years later. From this time on, life would remain a little unstable, at least until Melville ventured for the first time into the ocean on the St. Lawrence. He was a crewman aboard the ship, and he would sail across the Atlantic Ocean to Liverpool and then back to America. However, this voyage would not be his last. Melville decided to join the crew of a whaling ship named the Acushnet. But Melville did not like his treatment on board this vessel, and would soon abandon ...

Number of words: 3474 | Number of pages: 13

Barn Burning: Sarty's Transformation Into Adulthood

... conscience as the theme of the story “Barn Burning.” Three instances in which we can see the developing of a conscience in the story are the ways that Sarty compliments and admires his father, the language he uses when describing his father, and the way he obeys his father throughout the story. The first instance in which we can see a transition from childhood to adulthood in Sarty's life is in the way he compliments his father. Sarty admires his father very much and wishes that things could change for the better throughout the sto ...

Number of words: 846 | Number of pages: 4

The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Huck Finn As The Narrator

... more than Twain's mouthpiece because he is a living character and is capable of shaping the story. The language that Huck uses shows what he sees and how he will pass it on to us. Something else that is apparent is that the humor of the book often depends on Huck's language. In chapter fourteen, Huck is telling Jim about royalty in general which is an example of humor through language and incomplete education although sometimes he is not that far from the truth. "They [royalty] don't do nothing! Why, how you talk! They just set around." ...

Number of words: 793 | Number of pages: 3

Ethan Frome: Life As A Failure

... in the book is through the marriage of Ethan and his wife. He married her because she had tried to help his mother recover from an illness, and once his mother died he could not bear the thought of living in the house alone. His wife was seven years his senior and always seemed to have some kind of illness. It seemed all she ever did was complain, and he resented this because it stifled his growing soul. Since his wife was continuously ill, and her cousin needed a place to stay, they took her in to help around the house. Ethan took an immedi ...

Number of words: 656 | Number of pages: 3

Alvarez Shows Language Is A Tremendous Difference In Everyone's Lives In His Story

... He allowed nothing but what was the social norm. His social norms became hers. When she moved to the U.S., she was completely naive when it came to the American culture. Yolanda was raised in the way that the use of drugs and alcohol were totally unheard of. Pre-marital sex was something that was taboo, and strictly reinforced. She had grown up with very traditional values that were adopted from her mother and her father. She was never exposed to any outside stimuli. Whether or not it was voluntary, she was forced to conform to the rigid Hisp ...

Number of words: 1292 | Number of pages: 5

Sister Carrie: People Driven By Desire

... “In the store they found that shine and rustle of new things which immediately laid hold to Carries heart.” For Carrie, Drouet is sufficient until Hurstwood comes along. In him she sees a refined Drouet, with more money. Once again, Carrie’s desire impedes her judgement, because we are told that she does not love Hurstwood. Carrie essentially has no feelings for Drouet of Hurstwood yet involves herself with them because of the prospect of money. Once Carrie became accustomed to a comfortable lifestyle, her subconscious desire gave h ...

Number of words: 466 | Number of pages: 2

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