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Frosts Use Of Everyday Subjets
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 842.... teaching at his mothers private school and working in a textile mill. In 1894 he published a few poems in The Independent and began corresponding with its literary editor." (Bloom p.12) In December 1895 he married Elinor. "In the early years of there marriage, Frost attended Harvard as a special student but withdrew in 1899 and took up poultry farming to support his growing family. The Frost's family life, often strained by emotional and financial anxieties, was marked by a series of tragedies. Their first child, Elliott, died of cholera at age three. Another child, .....
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The Great Gatsby 4
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 895.... the moral decline of the period in American history through the interpersonal relationships among his characters. The situations in the lives of the characters show the worthlessness of materialism, the futile quest of Myrtle and Gatsby, and how America ‘s moral values had diminished- through the actions of Daisy, Tom, Jordan, and Gatsby’s party guests. Despite his newly acquired fortune, Gatsby still cannot afford his one true wish, therefore he cannot buy everything which is important to Daisy. "..Their love is founded upon feelings from the past, these .....
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Brave New World: Comparing Life In The World State With Life In The US Today
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1148.... true love for one person would lead to a
passion for that person and the establishment of family life, both of which
would interfere with the community and its stability. Nobody is allowed to
become pregnant because nobody is born, everyone is a "test-tube" baby.
Many females are born sterile.
The ideas and ways of obtaining happiness are not too much
different in the brave new world than in our lives here in the United
States. The only difference is that these pleasures are looked at in
different ways. Sex is a very large part of our society's pleasure and
everyon .....
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Doubt Of Shakespeare's Authorship Of His Plays
Number of pages: 9 | Number of words: 2407.... resort to pro-Shakespearean arguments. John
Drinkwater, author and believer, felt that the flowers, banks, brooks, pastures,
and woodlands of Shakespeare's boyhood home, Stratford, were all transfigured in
his plays by his wonderful verse, but yet they still remained the scenes to
which he was bred. Drinkwater believed too, that not only in Shakespeare's
humble folk, shepherds, gardeners, and serving men, but also in his princes and
kings, he reflected the humanity with which he was familiar in Stratford. The
knowledge and wisdom he acquired directly from his own enviroment .....
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Hamlet
Number of pages: 1 | Number of words: 238.... believe that the most important issues in the play are the "psychological issues" involved. How do two relatively unimportant characters in Shakespeare's play interpret what is going on around them? What is the audience's response? What role do the Players hold in each of the two works?
As an authority on Shakespearean works, I would consider Stoppard's play to be very enriching in both the interpretation of as well as the consideration of what role plays in modern society. Aside from that, the play "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" addresses issues of isolation, .....
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Hamlets Oedipus Complex
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1213.... incestuous cycle. Oedipus’ act on envy and rage leads to the character’s downfall, where his mother commits suicide and Oedipus himself gouges out his own eyes and suffers banishment from his country. The Oedipal Complex involves the indecorous and harmful attachment of a son to his mother, which ultimately leads to the son becoming morbidly suppressed and suffering mental impotence.
Shakespeare’s Hamlet evolves around the title character, Hamlet, and his obsession with correcting a wrong against his father, committed by his father’s brother Claudiu .....
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Macbeth-tragic Hero
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 725.... This proves that Macbeth was greatly influenced by his wife and that she toyed him around using his only weakness- his vaulting ambition. As Schucking talks about Shakespeare's tragic heroes:
He creates a hero such as Macbeth, who is a moral coward
and for a while a henpecked husband, who in critical moments
is rebuked like a schoolboy by his wife and who, on the other
hand, proves himself a lion on the battle field.
(p.95, The character of the Elizabethan Tragic Hero)
Macbeth's vulnerability to the witches is caused by his corrupt desire, which moves him .....
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A Prayer For Owen Meany
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1254.... to indicate them. Finally, the relationships between the protagonists and the guiding figures are the one in which the protagonist is truly guided and complimented by his best friend.
The protagonist in one book is similar in nature to the one in the other book, i.e. Gene Foster from A Separate Peace and John Wheelwright from . For example, the protagonist is definitely innately good but lacks to know the very self of him. This translates into a very vulnerable and an uncertain character, who must learn from the events that occur around him. Gene is a noble name, and he w .....
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