Kipling wants the reader to be so enthralled with India, and so familiar with his love of the land that he can share the taste of Kim's sugar cane and the Lama's snuff ( ClassicNotes ). ... To examine the themes in the novel we should approach it as an adventure story probably aimed primarily at adolescent boys, in which Kim is seeking to find his place in the country in which he was born, while at the same time struggling to find, or create, an identity for himself ( ClassicNotes) . ... Kim asks ...

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According to the article, "ClassicNote on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight:" The Pentangle on the outside can be seen as a symbol of chivalric values; indeed the five virtues of Franchise, Fellowship, Cleanness, Courtesy, and Charity quickly summarize the chivalric code. ... (ClassicNote 17) The three different animals that Bercilak hunts (a deer, a boar, and a fox) each represent the method Gawain uses to stave of the Advances of Bercilak's wife. ...

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Plato's Critique of Democracy: The Equality of Unequals In order to clearly understand why Plato seems to find democracy and the democratic soul so objectionable one must first understand the definition of what democracy means. Plato's discord with democracy does not concern the democracy we ...

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CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF HAMLET William Shakespeare, a name that has been written in all books of English literature with golden letters. If a poll for the most popular person to have ever lived in this world was to be conducted, I am quite sure that Shakespeare would have no problems in winning it...

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Katherine O"Flaherty Chopin The Life and Literary Works Literature is often used as a devise to express opinions and ideas that are socially unacceptable. Many authors have been ahead of their times when writing works that defy the socially accepted ideas of the era. One such author is Kate C...

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Many writers in history have written science fiction novels and had great success with them, but only a few have been as enduring over time as Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five. Slaughterhouse-Five is a personal novel which draws upon Vonnegut's experience's as a scout in World War Two, his captur...

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1 Geoffrey Chaucer was an outstanding English poet, and today is remembered still as the most significant poet to write in Middle English (online literature.com). H...

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Biography of Elie Wiesel Eliezer Wiesel (Elie), son of Mr. And Mrs. Shlomo Wiesel, was born in Sighet, Transylvania on September 30, 1928. He had two older sisters, Hilda and Beatrice Wiesel and a younger sister, Tzipora Wiesel. Elie spoke many languages including Hungarian, Roman...

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"What a writer should try to do is to write as truly as he can. For a writer has to invent out of what he knows in order to make something not photographic, or naturalistic, or realistic, which will be something entirely new and invented out of his own knowledge . . . What a writer should try to do is to make something which will be so written that it will become a part of experience of those who read him."" Hemingway 1954 (Harvey Breit p 77) "He became the most influential and most imitated writer. He dared deal (without saying so in speech or discour...

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Theme Descriptions of As I Lay Dying William Faulkner portrays all of his themes in the actual human drama of the South, where William Faulkner grew up. Since the death of Addie Bundren, her family is affected in a way that allows them to question and analyze who they really are. In As I Lay Dying...

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The book, The Turn of the Screw written by Henry James, is about a young woman taking on the position of governess to two orphaned children. Their uncle is their guardian, but he doesn't live with them or want to be bothered regarding to the children. The previous governess, Miss Jessel, is dead and soon after there is the heart of this story the new governess comes to the house. When the new governess arrives, she meets the housekeeper, Mrs. Grose, who is taking care of the girl, Flora. ...

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In Jane Austen's novel Sense and Sensibility the title is a metaphor for the two main characters, Elinor and Marianne. Elinor represents sense and Marianne represents sensibility. The original version of this novel was titled Elinor and Marianne and has been known to be the first novel that Austen worked on, which is also her first published text. It was originally a series of letters between the two sisters, but evolved to become the novel we know and read today (Bates). As a supreme prose stylist, Austen secured a lasting place in English literature. ...

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In literature, one of the most commonly identified roles is the tragic hero. Whether it is in classic Elizabethan works or in modern twentieth century works, the traits of the tragic hero abound. How did this role become a force in literature? The credit goes to none other than Shakespeare and h...

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