Coping with situations within FRIED GREEN TOMATOES Human Nature, it's our instinct, our reaction, our thoughts, and our ability to make decisions. ... Literature has explored every component of human nature from pride to envy and insecurity to depression. Fannie Flagg's novel FRIED GREEN TOMATOES pays particular attention to human nature and specific ways we choose to cope with the situations that life places before us. Flagg explores humor, nostalgia, and avoidance as common examples of how, not only her characters, but humans in general confront the circumstances surrounding thei...

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• Grade Level: High School

Ontology as a philosophical viewpoint on life is defined as, "The science or study of being; that branch of metaphysics concerned with the nature or essence of being or existence.... Exploring ontology and the many other philosophical branches that derived from it resulted in many new perceptions of viewing the nature of a human being and the society. ... The rise of modernism goes hand in hand with an entire society progressing their intellect and awareness of who they are as humans and the dynamics of society. ... A main theme in "The Open Boat" is the idea of that constant ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"All's fair in love and war" said Francis Edward Smedley. Such could be the summarization of - according to critics - the greatest classic of our time, L.N. Tolstoy's War and Peace. Themes of dedication to one's homeland, war strategies, fate, bravery, rebirth, religion and love are po...

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Inspired by this work I became interested in the nature of adapting classical novels to the modern audience within film media. ... By its nature, film has a visceral quality that eludes even the most moving printed page. ... The visceral nature of film viewing is rooted in the chemical exchange created by the simulation of the visual and auditory senses. ... "It is spoken, not written and the human voice is capable of far more nuances than the cold printed page" (Gianetti, 2005:242). 2.3. ... As far as Gianetti declares it is so because of the dramatic nature of the medium (Gianett...

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Jane Austen stood up for the novel when she says, "Yes, novels- for I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performance, to the number of which they are themselves adding- in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language."" ... In Northanger Abbey, Austen intended to reflect a ...

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Throughout the ages, literature has revolved around the personal relationships between people. The relationships between women have evolved throughout the ages possibly as a result of the transformations of society as these texts explore; The Shakespearean era where only men were allowed to act, the Victorian era in which everything must be prim and proper and women should still do their work as a mother and wife to the Post Modern era in which women are free to express themselves in the same way that men are. All three chosen texts explore these relationships differently; Jane Eyre's cl...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Parsis and India become metaphors for the human experience in Mistry's fiction. ... His meteoric career cannot then be credited altogether to the exotic nature of the Parsis. Instead, he has turned their lives into a metaphor that stands for the human experience: the fears, the joys, the ambitions and failures, the terror and the conflicts, finally the sense of balance that once attained will allow the characters to withstand the outer world, a world awash with dangers to personal fulfillment and identity. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Parsis and India become metaphors for the human experience in Mistry's fiction. ... His meteoric career cannot then be credited altogether to the exotic nature of the Parsis. Instead, he has turned their lives into a metaphor that stands for the human experience: the fears, the joys, the ambitions and failures, the terror and the conflicts, finally the sense of balance that once attained will allow the characters to withstand the outer world, a world awash with dangers to personal fulfillment and identity. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 is a very deep, complex, and demanding novel, requiring the wide breadth of knowledge. One of the most fascinating aspects of the novel is Pynchon's choice -- or rather, invention -- of the names he gives the characters and organizations described in the novel. ...

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The variety of passionately displayed themes, interactions, and events presented in The Bluest Eye provide an understanding of Toni Morrison's inner thoughts and beliefs which were highly impacted by her various life experiences. Throughout her writing, Morrison continuously focuses on her readers b...

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Known as one of the most controversial American writers, James Baldwin has been known to speak out on racism and civil rights throughout the 1950s. He is recognized as one of the finest writers in post World War II Literature. Although he spent most of his life in France, his works became very well known in the United States, as well as in Europe. He found readers of every race and nationality and revealed many truths about society. In many of his works Baldwin exposed racial and sexual topics about American society and challenged readers to confront and resolve these differences. ...

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In the mid-1980s, just as the new historicists, with their invocation of "the historicity of texts and the textuality of history," were transforming the way readers understood the English Renaissance, Umberto Eco's novel The Name of the Rose became both a critical success and a bestseller. (1983) Widely celebrated as a postmodern historical novel, this dazzling mixture of thick historical research and popular detective fiction invited its readers to view historical fiction as an academically respectable genre and a vehicle for recovering and reimagining the past in unconventional ways...

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• Approx Pages: 19
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate