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The Reader Essays and Term Papers
Oedipus And Odysseus: A ComparisonThe major focus of this tragedy is on the character of the hero,
Oedipus. He is a person of great importance; in fact, the security and
health of the community depend upon him. And he has to meet an urgent
crisis, something which threatens the continuing existence of the city.
And because he ...
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Ray Bradbury's Dandelion WineDandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury, a collection of poignant vignettes
about one summer in the life of 12-year old Douglas Spaulding, is a
powerful mirror into childhood, growing up, and life in general. Bradbury,
generally considered one of the Grand Masters of science fiction, did not
in fact write ...
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Little Girl Lost"A " from Songs of Experience is one of Blake’s most important poems. Though judging the aesthetic value of a poem is nearly impossible, I would contend that "A " is "better" than "The " found in Songs of Innocence. Perhaps because "A " was ...
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The Journey Of Odysseus And TeIn The Odyssey written by Homer and translated by Richard Lattimore, several themes are made evident, conceived by the nature of the time period, and customs of the Greek people. These molded and shaped the actual flow of events and outcomes of the poem. Beliefs of this characteristic were ...
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The Tempest. An Imperialist Heaven Or Hell??
Shakespeare lived and wrote in the Elizabethan age, a time when his
society was branching out and making itself known throughout the world by
colonizing other cultures. Great Britain was reaching for new heights of power.
In the play Shakespeare questions the value of this new concept of ...
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To Build A Fire: Significance Of Words "Dying" And "Death"The significance of the words "dying and death" in Jack London's 1910 novel, "To
Build a Fire" continuously expresses the man's dwindling warmth and bad luck in
his journey along the Yukon trail to meet "the boys" at camp. London
associates dying with the man's diminishing ability to stay warm ...
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The Old Man And The Sea: IsolationHuman beings need to live in a group where everyone respect them and treat
them equally. No human being can live alone isolated from other people
because one hand can not clap by itself. In the old man and the sea, the
author uses setting, character and symbolism to show that people who
society ...
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Joyce's "A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man": A ReviewJames Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is considered
to be one of the finest works of literature of all time. Herbert Gorman,
an author from the early twentieth century, stated that "so profound and
beautiful and convincing a book is part of the lasting literature of our
age," and ...
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Essay On Separate PeaceESSAY ON "A SEPARATE PEACE" John Knowle's A Separate Peace is novel that focuses in on characters and their reaction to the world around them. Since the book was written in the forties the reader knows that the backdrop is WWII. The author uses the backdrop of war to show how young boys develop ...
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Hamlets TroublesHamlet is supposedly centered on one character; Hamlet himself, but the play is driven by plots and schemes that are derived from other characters in the play. The plot of Hamlet is constantly being heightened by the characters that are a part of the play, they help to manipulate the story in a ...
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A 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 tragedy of the ...
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The Worries Of AgingT. S. Eliot’s poem “The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is quite a lengthy poem for the novice poetry reader, which consists of some 130 lines. Yet, it is the poem’s mass that enables the rookie to discern the theme at length. In the beginning and later towards the ...
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Compare Rosencrantz And GuildeCompare and contrast the ways in which ‘Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead’ by Tom Stoppard and ‘Waiting for Godot’ by Samuel Beckett teach important insights about the human condition.
Inspired by Beckett’s literary style, particularly in ‘Waiting for ...
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What Makes Up A Work Of LiteratureA work of literature may be defined as a classic because it
promotes deep insight into human behavior. Both The Scarlet Letter, by
Nathaniel Hawthorne, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey give
a reader a complete understanding of what is going on inside of the heads
of the ...
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The Shield Of AchillesThe shield of Achillles plays a major part in the Illiad. It portrays the story of the Achaeans and their fight against the Trojans in a microcosm of the larger story. Forged by the god Hephaestus, who was a crippled smith, it depicts the two cities and the happenings within , as well as ...
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The Chrysanthemums 2The Chrysanthemums, by John Steinbeck, is set in the beautiful valley of Salinas, California, during a time when California was the land of plenty. A place where dust storms and drought were unheard of, where water was plentiful and the air sprinkled with the sweet smell of fruit blossoms. A ...
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Franklins Preface To Poor RichIn Benjamin Franklin’s preface to Poor Richard Improved, "The Way to Wealth", Franklin offers many adages to help the reader conserve money. Many of these sayings are common even today. The title of this preface makes since because the title, "The Way to Wealth", can be interpreted as The ...
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Franklins Preface To Poor RichIn Benjamin Franklin’s preface to Poor Richard Improved, "The Way to Wealth", Franklin offers many adages to help the reader conserve money. Many of these sayings are common even today. The title of this preface makes since because the title, "The Way to Wealth", can be interpreted as The ...
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Slaughterhouse FiveCritics often suggest that Kurt Vonnegut’s novels represent a man’s desperate, yet, futile search for meaning in a senseless existence. Vonnegut’s novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, displays this theme. Kurt Vonnegut uses a narrator, which is different from the main character. He ...
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Pride And Prejudice: The SummaryPride and Prejudice opens in the home of an English family, the Bennets, in the eighteenth century. As the story unfolds we find out that Charles Bingley, a rich, young, single gentleman is moving into Netherfield, near the Bennets. Mrs. Bennet decides that he will marry one of her five ...
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