a national fear of the American psyche and playing with the idea of American culture being turned backwards and no longer standing as the dominant culture. Atwood engages the reader by recreating events that have previously happened making the ‘dystopian’ world more relatable and‚ therefore‚ more frightening. Two of the most important themes of The Handmaid ’s Tale are the presence and manipulation of power and freedom. The ideas of power‚ freedom and confinement are closely entwined and constantly
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Victor In the very first sentence of Sherman Alexie ’s "This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix‚ Arizona‚" you can assume that the main character‚ Victor‚ is facing a hard life. Not only did he lose his job‚ he also lost his father to a heart attack the same day. The story tells the journey of Victor and an old friend‚ Thomas Builds-the-Fire‚ traveling to Phoenix to pick up his father ’s ashes‚ pickup truck‚ and money from his savings account. Victor did not have any money and neither did anyone else
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Jamaica Kincaid’s Main Female Protagonists‚ Their Personalities and Relationships in Novels Lucy and Annie John Every person’s character is created and formed in background the person grows up in‚ and is influenced by everything that surrounds him or her‚ like friends‚ teachers‚ television and other media‚ and of course‚ family. And if our person is a female‚ the strongest influence always comes from her mother and their relationship‚ and this is clearly visible in Jamaica Kincaid’s novels‚ where
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The Outsider by Albert Camus ‘The protagonist of the novel is condemned because he is a stranger to the society in which he lives.’ The Outsider‚ by Albert Camus‚ is a philosophical novel set in the mid 1940’s in the newly colonized country of Algeria. The novels plotline is that of a middle aged French Algerian man‚ Meursault‚ whose outlook on life is of an emotionally detached absurdist. Throughout the course of the novel it is understood that this outlandish philosophical view separates Meursault
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Patriarchalism in the Societies of Woman at Point Zero and Blood Wedding and its Impacts on the Lives of the Female Protagonists Dağsu Yağmur Demir Candidate Number: 000511-007 Word Count: 1498 Hvitfeldtska Gymnasiet‚ Göteborg/Sweden THE EXTENT OF PATRIARCHALISM IN THE SOCIETIES OF WOMAN AT POINT ZERO AND BLOOD WEDDING AND ITS IMPACTS ON THE LIVES OF THE FEMALE PROTAGONISTS Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi and Blood Wedding by Federico García Lorca are works which take place
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Every human is influenced by his or her surroundings let it be internal or external‚ these forces is what shape and develop who we are. Similarly in Jon Kraukauer’s novel “Into the wild” Chris McCandless a man who is offended by the corruption he sees within society decides to change his name‚ renounces all his material luxuries and go off on his way hitchhiking to Alaska from Washington‚ DC. He spends approximately 112 days in Alaska‚ he eventually planned on returning back to civilization one day
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Mansfield’s "A Cup of Tea" is the selfishness often displayed by rich‚ arrogant women of the British aristocracy. Set in turn-of-the-century England‚ rigid social classes separate the rich and the poor. As a member of the upper class‚ the story’s protagonist Rosemary Fell lives a luxurious life. Her encounter with Miss Smith‚ a young beggar‚ exemplifies the rich woman’s need to constantly be pleased. Rosemary’s exclusive shopping habits‚ romanticism of the poor‚ and frivolous requests expose her self-serving
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Supernatural as a Means of Protagonist Empowerment in Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel and The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende IB A1 English HL World Literature Comparative Essay Word Count: 1496 Keri-Anne Murray Candidate #: 003072-058 World Literature Comparative Essay 1 In Like Water for Chocolate and The House of the Spirits‚ respective authors Laura Esquivel and Isabel Allende use a connection with the supernatural to empower the protagonists in three ways. Firstly
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The biographical film Blow (2001)‚ directed by Ted Demme‚ depicts the life of American cocaine smuggler George Jung and his involvement with Pablo Escobar in the Medellín Cartel. During the 1970s and early 1980s‚ Jung was responsible for the majority of the cocaine that was trafficked into the United States. Narrated by George himself (Johnny Depp)‚ the film follows a chronological sequence of events beginning with his childhood growing up in Massachusetts up until his final arrest as a result of
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Comparison of how Orwell in 1984 and Ishiguro in Never Let Me Go use failure and futility in human relationships as a theme in their dystopian novels As humans‚ we judge ourselves by how others perceive us and seek to conform to a universally accepted code of ethics and laws. It is this inherent value that we possess‚ a conscience that make us different from animals and it is also what is missing to a large extent in Orwell’s “1984” and Ishiguro’s “Never Let Me Go”. The futility of relationships
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