In using simple, uneducated language, he added to the realism of not only the story's characters, but also the situations in which they were put in. ... He was merely developing the character and making him believable by using the language a real person of that sort would use. ... This means that Anderson was not only trying to trick the reader into accepting the character as real, but also take the reader into the deep mind of the character to help them to better understand the seemingly uncomplicated, but truly complex, individual. ... In repeating phrases, such as the narrator's n...

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The statement is the narrator's, and that part of the sentence most indicting--the part between the dashes--is spoken suggestively, with a sly wink and a nudge of the elbow, in an attempt to disparage Homer's character. ... "A Rose for Emily" is about, among many other things, gossip, and Faulkner, through his narrator, tricks us into implicating ourselves as we gossip about his characters in a way that we usually reserve for neighbors--failing to truly understand them, revealing only our own phobias and fascinations. ... Perhaps we should approach "A Rose for Emily" by refusing to d...

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However this could be due to the fact that Gertrude is, more than any other character in the play, the antithesis of her son, Hamlet. ... The fact that the characters are almost complete opposites and that Gertrude is arguably self cantered could be why Hamlet has to explain, in Act Three Scene Four, why he is so infuriated with her and Claudius. ... Due to it being used to portray a positive attribute in each character it could suggest that Paul views his mother in the same way as he views Miriam which hints at the oedipal theme that is present in both "Hamlet" and "Sons & Lovers." ... Despit...

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Changes in a community are not always positive but woe to those that refuse to move when presented with a clear and present danger to the survival of that people. [ The sources of conflict of Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev are caused by differences in characterization in the text, which arises, from the principles and beliefs of each character stemming from the generation and the environment in which they were raised.] The conflict between Paul Petrovich and Bazarov stems from the complex characterizations of both. ... The sources of conflict of Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev are caus...

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Changes in a community are not always positive but woe to those that refuse to move when presented with a clear and present danger to the survival of that people. [ The sources of conflict of Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev are caused by differences in characterization in the text, which arises, from the principles and beliefs of each character stemming from the generation and the environment in which they were raised.] The conflict between Paul Petrovich and Bazarov stems from the complex characterizations of both. ... The sources of conflict of Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev are caus...

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The Flea appears deceptively casual in its composition and style but is infact a complex argument. ... The pretence of shock follows with his comparison of her act with the biblical character Herod. ... Donne indulged in quaint poetical conceits ignoring the classical conventions and classical characters (always keeping the object of affection anonymous), and the treatment of topics and objects of everyday life. ...

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