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Christmas Eve First Chapter
1,218 wordsThe epic tradition in Gsta Berling's Saga. Having been born and bred in Vrmland, Selma Lagerlf is conversant with the peasant culture and its folklore. In Gsta Berling's Saga, she is primary occupied with a provincial type and investigates deeply into the spirit of the folk-life of Vrmland. It took her ten years before her work was achieved. There were circumstances, which motivated its conception; the sale of her childhoods home Mr backa emphasized her will to preserve the tales she was told ab...
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The Motif Of Windows In Madame Bovary
813 wordsMadame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert is a novel about a woman who is never satisfied. She is always searching for something new, and when she finds that, she quickly leaves it to search for yet one more thing. Throughout the novel there is a constant reference to windows. This motif is used by Flaubert to help give insights into the character of Emma. By showing her in the context of windows, Flaubert paints a picture of a woman who is constantly searching for excitement and a woman who is trapped ...
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Peut Tre Albert Camus
2,337 wordsThe Stranger In The Stranger, Albert Camus portrays Meursault, the book's narrator and main character, as aloof, detached, and unemotional. He is the idealistic existentialist. He does not think much about events or their consequences, nor does he express much feeling in relationships or during emotional times. He displays an impassiveness throughout the book in his reactions to the people and events described in the book. After his mother's death he sheds no tears; seems to show no emotions. He...
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Chord Progression Dizzy Gillespie
2,031 wordsAbstract This essay is a discussion of how the way jazz trumpeter Miles Davis changes his way of improvising, looking at two pieces from different times. The solos in the pieces were transcribed by myself and then analysed in detail. From these analyses, several conclusions on the style of improvising were drawn, and then the conclusions from the two pieces were compared. The piece New Rhumba, showed how Davis was using his technical ability to create an impressive solo, but was also leaning tow...
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Mice And Men Curly Wife
501 wordsMy mother is dead, my father is dead, my sister is dead, and now I am going to kill myself. When reading that list is becomes obvious after the first couple of deaths that there are more to follow. In John Steinbeck's masterpiece Of Mice and Men, the use of deaths as a motif, or a reoccurring theme, is just the opposite. As we begin our journey with George, small and quick, dark of face, (2) and Lennie, a huge man, shapeless of face, (2), we experience the death of a mouse that Lennie carries in...
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Willys Dreams For Biff Dreams For Biff Father
353 wordsWillys dream for success affected both of his sons. He wanted to be above average like Dave Single man so badly that his expectations for Biff were too high and he neglected his relationship with Happy. One motif in the book showed that Willy wanted his boys to be well liked because that is what he considered to be the most important thing in life. Biff was a strapping young man in high school. He was full of dreams just like his father was. He had several scholarships to go to the University of...
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Analysis Of The Twelve Dancing Princesses
431 wordsIn the folk tale The Twelve Dancing Princesses, the main characters are a poor soldier, twelve princesses, and their father, the King. This is important because in German folklore, there is always a pauper esque character and a powerful, rich man (often the King), thus showing the contrasts between the two feuding social classes of the era in which these stories were told. Also, the women of this story, as in all the folk tales we read, have very few lines, and do as they are told. This shows th...
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Owen Meany Mary Magdalene
364 wordsOwen Meany Motif A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving has many different motifs. One dominant motif is aimlessness. Armlessness was a reoccurring motif throughout the story and came up in many occasions. It seems to symbolize helplessness or being under your own control. There are a variety of things throughout the novel that gives off that feeling. The armadillo was very dear to John. He had gotten it from Dan Needham the only gift he kept from one of his mother's beaus. It had great sentimen...
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Hundred Years Ago Greek Gods
1,408 wordsThe World is Too Much With Us "The world is Too Much With Us" is a very strong and emotional poem. This poem was written almost two hundred years ago. William Wordsworth loved nature and based many of his poems on it. He uses very strong diction to get his point and feelings across. This poem expresses Wordsworth's feeling about nature and religion. It contains a melodic rhythm. Each line and each word were chosen very carefully to express his thoughts and feelings. His references to God and Gre...
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Tom And Daisy Corruption Of The American Dream
2,744 wordsThe Great Gatsby Throughout F. Scott Fitzgerald s novel The Great Gatsby, the reader, through many methods and techniques, is placed in a position which, influenced by rich characterisation, leads to either a favourable or unfavourable outlook on the characters involved in the story. Set in 1922, and around the locale of New York City and Long Island, the story portrays the destruction of innocence, the materialism and the dishonesty of the times and the people. These values are foregrounded by ...
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Tea Cake Pear Tree
1,118 wordsDis Love In making dreams become realities there is always a struggle between what happens and what you want to happen. More often than not, it seems like what happens has prevalence over your wishes. In Zora Neale Hurston's novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, the main character, Janie, goes through life in pursuit of her dream. Hurston uses reoccurring motifs to show the progression of Janie's dreams and wish to achieve the love. People she turns to for this love are Nanny, Logan, Joe, and Tea...
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Mock Heroic Female Characters
2,410 wordsIn O? Casey? s Dublin Trilogy, the playwright attacks the weight of dead heroes which manacled contemporary Ireland to a violent past and self-destructive dream. The space between pretension and failing, rhetoric and reality, abstraction and suffering is carefully exposed as O? Casey departs from the stereotypes of the Irish stage to evolve a fresh realist idiom of tenement drama. His characters indulge in their own detached fantasies? create sanctuaries of inaction around themselves? and O? Cas...
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Call To Adventure Catcher In The Rye
1,356 wordsThe forthcoming of American literature proposes two distinct Realistic novels portraying characters which are tested with a plethora of adventures. In this essay, two great American novels are compared: The Adventures of Huck Finn by Mark Twain and The Catcher In The Rye by J. D. Salinger. The Adventures of Huck Finn is a novel based on the adventures of a boy named Huck Finn, who along with a slave, Jim, make their way along the Mississippi River during the Nineteenth Century. The Catcher In Th...
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Zora Neale Hurston Eyes Were Watching God
658 wordsZora Neale Hurston, the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, uses symbolism and metaphors, also known as motifs, frequently throughout the novel. Motifs are unifying ideas that are recurrent elements in a literary work, and are used in this novel for numerous reasons. The main reason is that they convey the story? s themes and their purposes. A few examples of motifs introduced in Their Eyes Were Watching God include a blossoming pear tree, horizon, death, and spouse abuse. The motifs used by...
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Seven Deadly Sins James Joyce
996 wordsDubliners motif essay. The seven deadly sins were once thought to be the worst side of man. It was also thought that anyone who possessed these qualities could not live as a man. In James Joyce s Dubliners, the seven deadly sins are apparent in a number of cases, and often times contribute to the downfall of the character. There is also a number of cases of a mention of hats. The hats reoccur often enough to give them an impact on the theme of the book as a motif. Joyce uses hats to contribute t...
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Macbeth Lady Macbeth
518 wordsIn William Shakespeare? s Macbeth, the motif of blood plays an important factor in the framework of the theme. A motif is a methodical approach to uncover the true meaning of the play. Macbeth? s tragic flaw is that he thinks he can unjustly advance to the title of king without any variation of his honest self. The blood on Macbeth? s hands illustrates the guilt he must carry after plotting against King Duncan and yearning for his crown. Shakespeare used the image of blood to portray the central...
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Owen Meany Mary Magdalene
371 wordsOwen Meany Motif A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving has many different motifs. One dominant motif is aimlessness. Armlessness was a reoccurring motif throughout the story and came up in many occasions. It seems to symbolize helplessness or being under your own control. There are a variety of things throughout the novel that gives off that feeling. The armadillo was very dear to John. He had gotten it from Dan Needham the only gift he kept from one of his mother s beaus. It had great sentimen...
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Woman Red Hair
839 wordsEduard Munch and His Works Eduard Munch (1863 - 1944) was a Norwegian painter, engraver, and printer. He is often reputed to have been a loner and a misogynist. Many of his works revolve around a motif concerning women and their obscene vulgarity. The two works that will be described here are Vampire (1893) and Jealousy (1896). These two depict women as creatures of temptation, petty provokers of pain, and selfish enslaver's of vulnerable men. To just marginally understand Munch? s hatred of wom...
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Hamlet Madness Shakespeare Hamlet
1,159 wordsDenmark: The Land of Make-Believe In William Shakespeare? s, Hamlet, there exists a predominant motif of pretense. Throughout the play, the characters feign emotions in order to achieve their own purposes. Various characters use pretense to hide their true thoughts from each other and to cover up for what evil deeds they have down. In Act I, Claudius, Hamlet and Polonius demonstrate their pretentiousness. Claudius claims to mourn for his? dear brother? s death? (I, ii, 1) when actually, he was t...
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Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Play A Role
974 wordsRecurring Images And Motifs In Walt WhitmansRecurring Images And Motifs In Walt Whitman's Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Recurring Images and Motifs in Crossing Brooklyn Ferry In the poem Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, by Walt Whitman, there are many recurring images and motifs that can be seen. Whitman develops these images throughout the course of the poem. The most dominant of these are the linear notion of time, playing roles, and nature. By examining these motifs and tracing their development, ones unde...
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