Hemingway was conceivably the only writer to achieve the combination of international celebrity and literary stature in the twentieth century. ... During his stay in Europe through the 1920's, Ernest was influenced by eccentric writers like Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound their literary compression. ... REFLECTIONS OF HEMINGWAY'S LIFE Hemingway did not only create characters but created himself. ... Many of the situations and characters in A Farewell to Arms came from Hemingway's own experience with the war in Italy. ... Beginning with the illustrative story and perhaps this exper...

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• Grade Level: High School

He also used the widescreen to his advantage as John Wayne's character leaves his house into the desert in the very last scene. ... His character would make seeking revenge an obsession. ... In his film The Tall T, always gave precedence to character over action. ... (Pg. 407) " A Star is Born (1954) took the genre even further with an inner battle between two main characters. ... His belief as a conventional filmmaker was that, "it's not so much what the characters do, it is where they're placed, and how the react. " "In Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast, there wasn'...

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Throughout the novel "Lord Of the Flies," author William Golding incorporates characters, objects, and events which represent concepts or ideas pertaining to the flaws of mankind. ... Golding uses allegory as a literary device to advance the story's significance beyond just an adventure fable. ... Simon's character traits are like Jesus' because he demonstrates true morality and selflessness and many of the things he do seem supernatural. ... Only when the reader takes a closer look at these events, they can see the similarities between the biblical stories and attributes of the...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Golding's own experiences with the inner darkness of man are clearly reflected in the actions and thoughts of his characters. ... Golding and Conrad were both heavily influence by contemporary trends, both political and literary. ...

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A strong social ethic, continued from the Victorian times of Dickens and Disraeli, began increasingly to influence the political character of the country and its institutions. ... This led to the rapid expansion of a largely unsophisticated literary public, the rise of the popular press, and the mass production of 'popular' literature for a semi-literate 'lowbrow' readership. ...

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Critics on Virginia Woolf: Reading in Literary Criticism. ... Dalloway, Virginia Woolf addresses the subject of "shell-shock," or Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, in the character of Septimus Warren Smith. ...

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Chapter One The narrator assures us that the book we are about to read is true, more or less. The parts dealing with World War II are most closely associated with actual events. Twenty-three years have passed since the end of the war, and for much of that time the narrator has been trying to write ...

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Joseph Stalin was the soviet communist leader who's passing molded an era, and whose iron rule determined the lives of millions of people. Considering that he shaped the direction of post-World War II Europe, we may regard him as the most powerful person to live during the 20th century. Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili on December 21, 1879, in Gori, Georgia . Both his parents were peasants. His father, Vissarion Dzhugashvili, was a cobbler, hopping that one day his son will be apprenticed in the same trade; his mother, Yekaterina ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate