Global war is one of the defining features of twentieth-century experience‚ and the first global war is the subject of one of this period’s topics‚ “Representing the Great War.” Masses of dead bodies strewn upon the ground‚ plumes of poison gas drifting through the air‚ hundreds of miles of trenches infested with rats—these are but some of the indelible images that have come to be associated with World War I (1914-18). It was a war that unleashed death‚ loss‚ and suffering on an unprecedented scale
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Chapter I: literature of the middle ages A. ANGLO- Saxon period (5th - 10th centuries) During the first five centuries of our era and long before that‚ Britain was inhabited by a people called Kelts‚ who lived in tribes. Britain’s history is considered to begin in the 5th century‚ when it was invaded from the Continent by the fighting tribes of Angles‚ Saxons and Jutes. At the very end of the 5th century they settled in Britain and began to call themselves English (after the principal tribe of
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*MSF16* ME (F) 16 M.A. (Final) Examination‚ May/June 2011 (DE Scheme (SIM)) ENGLISH (Course VI) Twentieth Century English Literature Time : 3 Hours Max. Marks : 90 Notes :1) Answer five questions choosing at least one from each Section. 2) All questions carry equal marks. 3) Do not omit any Section. SECTION A 1. Critically comment on the salient features of twentieth century poetry. 2. a) Attempt an essay on the mother-son relationship in Sons and Lovers. OR b) Comment on the role
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Civilized Natives In the 16th century‚ the ethnocentric Europeans believed that Natives weren’t civilized and cultured people. “They caused a huge genocide on the Aboriginal people; leaving only around 800 000 Aboriginal Canadian citizens today.” (Manjikian‚ notes‚ 2013) Unfortunately‚ the Europeans were wrong. The Natives were very civilized and cultured human beings. This can be proven by multiple factors but only three will be analyzed: religion‚ art and creation stories. First of all‚ Natives
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Poetry Question: “His work reveals that he is unmistakably a product of his age and time.” Discuss this view of Hardy’s poetry with reference to any 3 poems. A writer’s work is a ‘nurtured reflective’ of his society. This was no different for Victorian Britain. Britain during the reign of Queen Victoria underwent evolutionary changes that did not only change the lifestyle of a people but the culture of the people. With Britain gaining mass economical wealth through the colonization of other
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was able to by using his creativeand adventurous personality and style into the poem‚ “Daybreak”.Longfellow’s deep thinking and adventurous style creates symbolicimagery that the true understanding of poems requires. “Daybreak” hasdialogue of a lifeless‚ outside force‚ wind‚ which creates personification.Longfellow gave the wind the human ability to speak. This shows thatLongfellow thinks outside of the box. When‚ the wind spoke saying‚ “Awake!It is day.” it revealed that
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This poem represents yet another of Browning’s dramatic monologues spoken in the voice of an historical Renaissance painter. Andrea del Sarto‚ like Fra Lippo Lippi‚ lived and worked in Florence‚ albeit a little later than Lippo‚ and was later appointed court painter by Francis‚ the King of France. Under the nagging influence of his wife Lucrezia‚ to whom he speaks in this poem‚ he left the French court for Italy but promised to return; he took with him some money that Francis had given him to purchase
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In his Poetics‚ Aristotle set forth the characteristics of good tragedy. To him the two most important features of tragedy were plot and character. The plot should contain a change in fortune‚ preferably from good to bad‚ and should ideally hinge on a recognition or discovery. T The main character‚ the protagonist‚ should be a person in whom good and bad are mixed but in whom the good predominates. That definition is usually paraphrased as "a basically noble person with
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The Protestant Reformation of the Sixteenth Century The Protestant Reformation ignited a religious reform movement that separated the western Christian church into Catholic and Protestant groups. Martin Luther embarked on a journey to start the religious reform movement; there were other developments before him that set a foundation for a religious alteration in the sixteenth century. The Protestant Reformation allowed for Protestantism to flourish throughout Europe‚ united the Roman Catholic Church
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Puritan childhood was far from perfect. Childhood was looked at in negative terms during the 16th century. Young children were viewed as animalistic‚ not able to speak‚ impulsive‚ and unformed (Mintz‚ 2004). Puritans didn’t believe in childhood as being a time to indulge in play and leisure (Mintz‚ 2004). Play was viewed as a “sinful waiste of time” (Mintz‚ 2004). It was a time where Puritan children were to be prepared for the adult world of work and salvation (Mintz‚ 2004). Puritan childhood was
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