THE SETTING AND SYMBOLS IN THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE The setting place of this novel is Casterbridge (England), a fictional town based on the city of Dorchester. ... At this extent, the town does have some features, which are important to the novel. ... With this kind of impression in our mind, we even can foresee the struggles between Henchard and Farfrae. ... He runs the town by traditional customs. ... For example, the reappearance of one long-lost character would test our willingness to believe, but here we witness the returns of Susan, the furmity-woman, and Newson, each of them br...

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The town has no church and no jail and essentially no foundation of morality. ... Their hopes are founded on the false belief that the town will expand because of a rumored mill to come to their territory. ... His words remain blindly optimistic to the town's people and his family, and he fails to see things as they are to the end. At the close of the novel, he even comments that he should save the lumber in the town in case if someone needs it to create another town. ... Like Doctorow's Hard Times, Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale seems to be a warning of...

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When it is decided that Tessie was going to take her position in the traditions withheld in their town, she became quite outraged as very accurately depicted in the film. ... Due to pre-judgments a lot of readers may get the impression that this town should look like something from the movie Children of The Corn, where the residence still wore Colonial or Amish style clothing. In the movie however there is depicted a small town with shops and houses alike, the inhabitants are commonly intelligent, and they dress the contemporary style as it was in the late nineteen forties. ... Characters t...

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We first meet the families in two small towns in Western Australia, the Lambs in Margaret River and the Pickles in Geraldton. This acknowledgement of these towns appeals to Australian readers as they are able to relate to them, as they are places they know. " through Nedlands, Shenton Park, and Subiaco." ... "We do it for our family Quick- Rose Pickle is forced to take on the role of a mother after her own Mother, Dolly abandons the family for alcohol. ... As we read the text our gained knowledge of each family confirms our views that they are real Australians. ... We see our mothers as the...

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Raised together in the working class quarry town of Bloomington, Indiana, the four boys consider themselves to be "Cutters", proud of their father's heritage as limestone workers in the once prosperous factory town. ... This is very true in this screenplay; Tesich creates a world enough like our own for us to recognise it. ... Steve Tesich has created a believable world that seems to go beyond the screen leaving our imaginations free to wonder. ...

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Patrick uses each character as a symbol of people in our society. ... While we see the guests inside the home changing for the better, Patrick teaches us a lesson about our world when we see the "sane- characters of this play becoming those who show the most need for change. As a result of greed, Ethel's step-children do anything, including making fools of themselves, in order to gain control over the family fortunes; a perfect example of many members of our society who choose put their own lusts for riches over their reputation and family. ... In an attempt to escape from her hecti...

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However, sometimes those events, which we often dream about, result in a complete destruction of our lives and personalities. Sometimes, the gifts of fate have devastating effect on our families, friends and other people we know. ... Main Characters Hank Mitchell - The main character of the novel who lives in a small town of Delphia, 30 miles east of Asheville, Minnesota. ... Jacob rents a small apartment above the hardware store in the town where he was born. ...

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Marlow also switches the Thames and the Congo to remind a reader that our own civilized country, where nature is "the shackled form of a conquered monster", was once darkness "monstrous and free" and we were once the savages, like the primitives of the Congo. Therefore, a reader is already made to question imperialism and its consequences, for the reader is given an insight into how civilization can model societies into producing the "biggest, and the greatest, town[s] on earth", where the sea is the "color of lead", and the sky, the "color of smoke". ...

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Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game" and Thomas Wolf's "The Child by Tiger" are both fictional short stories. Connell's story demonstrates a commercial fiction style of writing whereas Wolf's tale uses the literary fiction style. For a story to be commercial fiction, it must posse...

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