"Social Criticism in Literature, As Found in George Orwell's Animal Farm and Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities." ... George Orwell and Charles Dickens wrote Animal Farm and A Tale of Two Cities, respectively, to express their disillusionment with society and human nature. ... A Tale of Two Cities also typifies this kind of literature. ... A Tale of Two Cities is a love story which chronicles the lives of Charles Darnay, a Frenchman who renounced his link with the aristocracy, and Sydney Carton, a wastrel who lived in England. ... Animal Farm and A Tale of Two Cities were written ...

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George Orwell and Charles Dickens wrote Animal Farm and A Tale of Two Cities, respectively, to express their disillusionment with society and human nature. ... A Tale of Two Cities also typifies this kind of literature. Besides the central theme of love, is another prevalent theme, that of a revolution gone bad. ... A Tale of Two Cities is a love story which chronicles the lives of Charles Darnay, a Frenchman who renounced his link with the aristocracy, and Sydney Carton, a wastrel who lived in England. ... Animal Farm and A Tale of Two Cities were written to express their author...

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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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In Romeo and Juliet, Wuthering Heights, The Count of Monte Cristo, and Tale of Two Cities, a recurring theme is how children act as "agents of redemption" for their parents. ... The audience is, of course, meant to wonder how excessive of a feud there really is between the two families. ... Friar Lawrence not only believes that it is unfair for the two to be separated by their quarrelling families, but he also believes that marriage between the two families could possibly end the pointless bickering that infested the streets of Verona. ... In Charles Dickens's newspaper serial T...

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The article attempts to convey the senses, of fear, pain, and hopelessness by way of gripping tales and pictures. ... Cities across the world are becomingly increasingly more chock-full of people. ... There were numerous interviews given by actual people living in these cities. ... For instance you have tales of abundant crime, and extreme povery levels in Sao Paulo, while in Hyderabad there is instances of economic upswings, and technological development. In both instances the article stayed with the underlying theme of population, but two different results were achieved under seemingly simil...

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It is nature's splendour and our relationship with it that is the main theme in both the poems I am to explore, Keats's Ode to a Nightingale and Wordsworth's Lines. ... In the seventh stanza we are presented with the powerful image of the Biblical tale of the Israelite Ruth caught in Egypt longing for her home. ... Once again Do I behold these steep and lofty cliffs, That on a wild secluded scene impress Thoughts of more deep seclusion A strong comparison that can be drawn between Lines and Ode to a Nightingale is the use of the countryside, or nature, as an escape f...

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Laura Esquivel was born in 1951 in Mexico City, Mexico. ... Esquivel married Alfonso Arau, whom she wrote Chido One for, and currently lives in Mexico City. ... Two years was considered an outstanding success. ... Like Water for Chocolate contains many different themes. ... Esquivel also uses creativity and imagination as a theme. ...

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In Homer's The Odyssey, hospitality is a major theme in regards to the Greek culture. ... Homer makes this theme of conviviality a crucial part of characterization, however, slight contradictions within the epic make us question this motif. ... The Phaeacians exploited hospitality and took in Odysseus, awed by the tales of his journey. ... Then there's no need to throw a circle of high mountains round their city " (Homer, 173). ... This dialogue between the two contradicts everything Homer idealizes as custom in Greek culture to remain of good moral in the eyes of the gods. ...

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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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Discuss this statement with reference to TWO texts studied this year- one pre-1900 and one twentieth century. ... During the industrialisation age, focus was on city life, materialism, poverty and oppression. ... Truth and beauty are two of the noblest and most nebulous causes found in history. ... The themes of immortality and morality can be seen throughout "Ode on a Grecian Urn". The unchanging marble of the urn can be considered as immortal just as the tale displayed on the urn. ...

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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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Summary The Outsiders, an enthralling tale by S.E. Hinton, is an excellent story about the hardships and triumphs experienced by the Greasers and the Socs, two rival gangs. ... The fictional novel is set in the moderate-sized city of Tulsa, Oklahoma in the late 1960s. ... This theme is expressed in the novel several times. ... She shows how two sides can come together if they put their differences aside. ...

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It is captivating tale and has a lot to offer to a westerner to find out about the Chinese way of life. ... Buck shows these relationships in three major themes. ... During the drought the family had to move to the south city. ... There were two main female influences in Wang Lung's life. ... Wang Lung finally succumbs to his sons" wishes and moves from his land to the city. ...

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The two love stories intersect in the body of the "English patient". The reader is faced with many questions that are influential towards it's themes. ... "He is a doctor, has two children and a laughing wife. He is permanently busy in this city" (p.299). ... In "The English Patient", he contrasts two characters that lose control with two who do not. ...

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He looks at his experiences through out the book in an optimistic way and the main theme is that everything on earth happens for the better. ... In chapters two through six Candide goes through the process of being a soldier in the Bulgar's army during the time they were at war with the Abarians. Candide's recruitment was at an Inn of the neighboring town of Westphalia, where two men buy him food after he went through a complicated travel. ... The glory of war was then described by Voltaire in the third chapter by showing the brutality of European war, cities burnt to ashes and so ...

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The city of London had seen its population double in the decades following 1563, to top 200,000 people for the first time, and a massive new middle class was influencing the economic, cultural, and literary development of the nation. ... To be sure, As You Like It contains good and bad rulers - Duke Frederick and Oliver are tyrannous siblings, who usurp the rights of their nobler kin, Duke Senior and Orlando - but their wickedness comes straight out of fairy tales, and, the nature of their badness left unexplored, it is easy to create a happy ending by simply letting them reform. ... For insta...

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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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Originally the Disney brand was built on animated characters, films and the stories however two of the main impacts of the growth in the Disney brand was the forming of the Walt Disney Music Company in 1949 and in 1955 the Disney brand was then extended with the opening of the Walt Disney theme park, by doing this they allowed the consumers to communicate with the brand through multiple senses hence increasing the brand impact. ... Robin hood a thief, Pinocchio was a liar, and Cinderella sneaked out to go to a party Increase in labour costs which will have an impact in Walt-Disney expenses due...

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As the plague slowly takes control of the city of Oran. ... The scenes alternate between clarifying the main themes in the context of the physical plague and the emotional plague. ... Camus created a timeless tale of humans cause in implacable death. Bubonic plague came in two forms. ... Camus does a nice job of pointing out that these themes also recur in everyday life. ...

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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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This is the theme of a journey into Marlow's inner-self. ... The best way I can say it to you is by saying that, for a second or two, I felt as though, instead of going to the centre of a continent, I were about to set off for the centre of the earth." ... It is a world of it's own, not blinded by city lights, crime, and noisy cars. ...

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The two sides retreat, and the Achaians build a wall around their encampment to protect their position and their ships. ... Because Patroclus and his army are rested and fresh, they easily drive the weary Trojans back to the city wall. ... His courage fails at the last minute and Achilles pursues Hector twice around the city walls. Hector's flight is finally halted through the trickery of Athene, and the two men duel. ... At the first thought or reading, the main theme of this epic poem seems like the description of gruesomeness of war in that it tells us of the Trojan war in full detai...

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The earliest showing of Christian art was found in the catacombs (burial chambers benith the earth, outside the city of Rome). ... The Buddhist Identity: Buddhism spread throughout India and China while setting up many monasteries throughout these two nations. ... He proclaims his teachings came from the angle Gabriel and that he is the prophet of Allah, or God, in the city of Mecca. ... Bedouin minstrels had song themes of romantic love, warfare and nomadic life, with a signal rhyme dominating the entire poem. ...

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