Berner A Tale of Two Cities As many already know, Charles Dickens was a great writer of the 18th century Victorian era. ... Many elements were used in the story to present a theme and two different plots. In A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens uses bitter diction, continuous use of the motif blades representing street violence, and use of metaphors to convey the theme that the oppressed that switch with their oppressors, have changed nothing; but simply have now become the oppressors. ... John Gross writes in a literary criticism paper, "A Tale of Two Cities", that "Dickens wouldn&...

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Following a more modern tale, Simon's "The Boxer" tells of a struggling man living in New York City, and his perseverance through his hard times. Through binding elements within these two works such as first person citation, contrasting themes, and diction both artists are able to portray their own ideas on the power of perseverance and redemption. ... Although both Coleridge's and Simon's works share themes of perseverance and redemption, and the power that they hold, their themes contrast one another. ... Both works hold important themes about the power over one's life t...

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Washington Irving was born in New York City on 1783 and went to become the first story teller of America, and was best known for his two famous stories, Rip Van Winkle and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow. ... " The time period and cultural influences from the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century influences the story theme and symbolism (Thompson 4). ... Therefore teachers had to come from the city. The entry of Ichabod Crane represents the intrusion of the city. ... Knickerbocker" (p. 296), then whose hand wrote the foregoing tale? ...

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My first encounter with the term identity crisis was in the story of 20-year-old Brandon, who arrived in rural Falls City, Nebraska, in 1993, her handsome looks and boyish charm won her several friends in town and even a pretty young girlfriend. ... On Christmas Eve, Brandon was brutally raped and beaten by two of her friends, who became enraged when they discovered that she was actually a woman rather than a man as they had been led to believe. A week after this incident, the same two men murdered Brandon, along with a young mother and another man with whom she had sought refuge miles away. ...

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The name of the city, Personville, frequently mispronounced as "Poisonville" suggests its function as a fictional microcosm of the whole society. ... These two levels of the story are linked by the two hallucinations the Op encounters which gives the reader an in-depth view into the psychological reality of the Op's state of mind. ... Hard-boiled fiction targeted the lower, working class to be accessible to the common reader, yet it also incorporated modernist themes and techniques. ... Thus, Hammett breaks the Continental Op's war on crime down into increasingly large-s...

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The film is ultimately a chilling morality tale that demonstrates police brutality, which leads to intense race riots. ... Essentially, Lee hoped to investigate the polarities of the inner city. ... It was evident that New York in the 1980's was a very polarized city, racially. ... However, the film is still talked about two decades later. The overall tones and themes of the movie are still relevant in today's society. ...

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This new political independence meant that any free male citizen of Athens could achieve being one of the rulers of the city and having the fate of his community in his hands. The need to understand and to be taught how to deal with power was obvious for the men of the city, and it was in this climate that Greek tragedy emerged. ... With the possibility of dialogue between the actor and the chorus, more complex themes and modes of storytelling could be developed. ... Studying the plots of a number of Greek tragedies, we find variations of two basic tragic situations: either the fatal situat...

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Growing up in Edinburgh Stevenson would have seen the two contrasting areas of the New and Old Town. This was another example of dualism as Edinburgh was a city with two very different parts. By introducing dualism firstly in the setting, rather than the characters, give the reader an insight into the themes of concealment and secrecy that are present in the story. whilst also creating a sense of intrigue. ... And the idea of dualism is introduced as the two are linked very closely. ... The idea of dualism is a key feature that runs throughout the twisted tale of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, not on...

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The various works of Michael Ondaatje entail themes of identity. ... Two main characters from both novels realize the importance of their ethnic background in the most unlikely of places. ... The play demonstrates the language and cultural barriers experienced by immigrants to the city as they mouth the words of the actors to themselves in order to learn English. ... In Tuscany, two Canadians, an alleged Englishman and a Sikh take refuge in the abandoned building during World War II. ... Patrick Lewis" tale is one of coming of age between the two world wars in the immigrant-infested bustle of ...

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Cervantes lingers on an antique style of writing throughout the story, but yet I am sure that the style of writing that he is using is repetition of a tale. ... The first of these sections, including the chapter covering Don Quixote's first expedition, functions mainly as a satirical composition of fashionable romance tales. ... The third section, which covers the second part of the novel, is different since it is written as a more established novel, arranged by emotional and content, which relates to the theme, and filled with character development. ... However, toward the end of the sec...

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Huxley satire in his novel is two directional; first on scientific technology and second on an over-regulated and materialistic society. ... The novel Brave New World uses a dytopic tale style to examine the importance of humanity's relationship with the natural world. ... Through using the dystopic tale style of the narrative, the novel that is supposedly depicting a perfect world, a utopia, present the reader with the opposite, a world where the natural has become a victim of technological and scientific advancement and man need to control nature. ... Brave New World the novel uses cont...

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Both texts make reference to the Lamb(s) of God, to a messianic figure who will herald the end of days, to the beasts (dragons and leviathons) who will raze the earth of sinners, and both texts describe a very similar process by which this earth will be destroyed, and replaced by the eternal "holy city.... In a close reading of the two texts it is clear that Revelation and Enoch draw from a shared pool of apocalyptic symbols and numerological concepts. ... In this paper, a review of the literature regarding Enoch's influence on Revelation will be followed by an analysis of the simi...

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Although they are caught between two different cultures and expectations, Vietnamese refugees and immigrants successfully adapted and integrated into America with their infinite perseverance and diligence. ... The paper focuses on two specific aspects: how these developments create or recreate a sense of identity and how has it helped the Vietnamese immigrants integrate into American society. ... Preserving the culture not only consolidates their ethnic identity, but also integrates the Vietnamese Diaspora into the U.S popular culture, bridging the two cultures and nations. ... Little Saigon...

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By being an author, publisher, and lover of books, Friedrich Schumann influenced his child's younger years; Robert spent much of his time reading books such as the Greek classics, the imaginary Romantic tales of Byron and Sir Walkter Scott, as well as other Romantic literature and poetry. ... To spite Wieck, the two married on September 12th, 1840, one day before Clara's twenty- first birthday. ...

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By being an author, publisher, and lover of books, Friedrich Schumann influenced his child's younger years; Robert spent much of his time reading books such as the Greek classics, the imaginary Romantic tales of Byron and Sir Walkter Scott, as well as other Romantic literature and poetry. ... To spite Wieck, the two married on September 12th, 1840, one day before Clara's twenty- first birthday. ...

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Within 1984 there are various recurring themes involving "homelessness", an "encounter with nothingness" and the "nostalgia for the absolute". ... "To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to d...

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Barrie's Peter Pan (1904) circulates in the popular imagination as a happy tale for children that, through the adventures of Peter and the other children in Never Land, celebrates playfulness. ... As its name implies, the middle class falls between the upper and working classes as an unstable site of mediation between the two. The instability of the middle class means that arriving at a definition is difficult, but a point of departure might be the consideration of the broad terms of work for the middle class, which requires a degree of intellectual engagement and is remunerated at a leve...

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