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The Reader Essays and Term Papers
The Scarlet LetterThe book is all about symbolism. People and objects
are symbolic of events and thoughts. Throughout the course of the book,
Nathaniel Hawthorne uses Hester, Pearl, and Arthur Dimmesdale to signify
Puritanic and Romantic philosophies.
Hester Prynne, through the eyes of the Puritans, is an ...
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America And I: “Light” And “Dark”America and I: "Light” and “Dark”
For this final paper I chose to take a closer look at the writing of Anzia Yezierska in “America and I”. I decided to examine the symbolism used by Yezierska in this piece. Yezierska tells the story of her struggle to find “America”. As she writes about this ...
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The Scarlet Letter: Arthur - Tragic Hero Or Merely Tragic??
In Nathaniel Hawthorne's torrid tale of The Scarlet Letter, Arthur Dimmesdale, a main character, is confronted with a number of circumstances, both in and out of his control, that lead to his ultimate demise. While it can be argued that Arthur is a tragic hero, he lacks the underlying goodness ...
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Stephen Crane's "The Open Book": Determinism, Objectivity, And PessimismIn Stephen Crane's short story “The Open Boat”, the American literary
school of naturalism is used and three of the eight features are most apparent,
making this work, in my opinion, a good example of the school of naturalism.
These three of the eight features are determinism, objectivity, and ...
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The Glass Menagerie: A Study In SymbolismIn the drama, The Glass Menagerie (1945), Tennessee Williams reflects upon personal experiences he and his family encountered during the Depression of the 1930’s. As a lower class family, the characters are placed in the slums of St. Louis in 1935. The protagonist, Tom Wingfield, is the ...
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A Farewell To Arms 5A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway, is a typical love story. A
Romeo and his Juliet placed against the odds. In this novel, Romeo is
Frederick Henry and Juliet is Catherine Barkley. Their love affair
must survive the obstacles of World War I. The background of war-torn
Italy adds to the ...
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To Teach Or Not To Teach?? This is the question that is presently
on many administrators' minds about The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by
Mark Twain. For those who read the book without grasping the important
concepts that Mark Twain gets across "in between the lines", many problems
arise. A reader may come away with ...
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Writing With MechanicsAs one creates a story, the various techniques an author will use have a great impact on the story and the effect that it will have on the reader(s). A piece of literature serves its purpose when it leaves the readers with a new impression or insight. In the short story, The Storm, the author, ...
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A Good Man Is Hard To Find 2“A Good Man is Hard to Find”
In the short story, “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, the main character is the grandmother. Flannery O’Connor, the author, lets the reader find out who the grandmother is by her conversations and reactions to the other characters in the ...
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To Kill A Mockingbird NotesTo Kill A Mockingbird - Chapters 18-19
Mayella testifies next, a reasonably clean nineteen-year- old girl who is obviously terrified. She says that she called Tom Robinson inside the fence that evening and offered him a nickel to break up a dresser for her, and that once he got inside the house he ...
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Herman Melville: An Anti- Transcendentalist Or NotMelville, Herman (1819-91), American novelist, a major literary figure whose exploration of psychological and metaphysical themes foreshadowed 20th-century literary concerns but whose works remained in obscurity until the 1920s, when his genius was finally recognized.
Melville was born August ...
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Annotations From The NarrativeAnnotations from Frederick Douglass By far the large part of the slaves know as little of their age as horses know of theirs, and it is the wish of most masters within my knowledge to keep their slaves thus ignorant. [Ch. 1, p. 39.] ‘Ignorant’ is the key word in this passage. Slaves seemed to be ...
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Macbeth - Lady MacbethMacbeth – Scene Analysis
“Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be
What thou art promised; yet do I fear thy nature,
It is too full o’th’milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be great,
Art not without ambition, but without
The illness should attend ...
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Lewis Carroll In WonderlandThrough the writing of Lewis Carroll in the story Alice in Wonderland
the difference between fantasy and reality can be seen through the eyes of
a child. The stories created by Carroll are a combination of make believe stories made to entertain children he talked to on an almost daily basis. ...
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Irony In OthelloShakespeare's plays rely largely on irony. There are three kinds
of irony presented in this novel. They are: situational, verbal, and
dramatic. Irony plays an important role in Othello. It creates suspense,
and adds interest to the story.
There are many examples of situational irony in ...
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"Minister's Black Veil" : Hidden Sins"The Minister's Black Veil", a literary masterpiece written by
Nathaniel Hawthorne, was a divergent parable for the period it was written.
Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote as an anti-transcendentalist in the
transcendentalist period; as a result, his view's in writings were mostly
pessimistic ...
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East Of EdenIn the novel, by John Steinbeck, Catherine Ames is one of
the main characters. She is introduced to the reader as a monster and
as time goes on, she possesses both monster like and animal qualities.
As Catherine she gets older and wiser, she gets more evil and displays
her monster and animal ...
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Poetry ExplicationThe second sonnet in Mark Jarman's group of sonnets entitled The Word "Answer" can be interpreted two different ways. Is there a "right" way from which to view this poem, or is the poet simply exercising his God given right to ambiguity? Sonnet 2, as I will refer to it, revolves around someone ...
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