Texts reflect the context of the time in which they are composed as well as the culture their respective society possess. This is evident in Pygmalion‚ a play by George Bernard Shaw and its appropriation She ’s All that‚ a film directed by Robert Iscove. In these two texts‚ the same Pygmalion myth is approached from two different viewpoints to reflect distinctly the context of the time in which each was written. Shaw‚ through the use of a wide range of dramatic techniques such as language‚ form‚
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Poem Comparison All four poems that I read are related in their purposes and goals; however‚ they are also very different. "Lucinda Matlock" by Edward Lee Masters‚ "Chicago" by Carl Sandburg‚ "Richard Cory" by Edwin Arlington Robinson‚ and "We Wear the Mask" by Paul Laurence Dunbar are all about the joys and sorrows of life. How we look at life makes life good or bad. "Lucinda Matlock" is a story of a woman‚ who‚ by some standards‚ would have a life that we consider a mediocre. However‚ the narrator
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I. The Robinson Crusoe Economy Plays a dual role: as consumer and as producer. He chooses between two goods: leisure and coconuts as a customer. If he sits on the beach watching the ocean‚ he is consuming leisure. If he spends his time gathering coconuts‚ he has less time for leisure but gets to eat the coconuts. We can depict Robinson production opportunities and preferences over the two goods. At this point‚ the slope of the indifference curve must equal the slope ofthe production function
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Colonialism in Defoe ’s Robinson Crusoe Defoe ’s Robinson Crusoe was known as a colonization novel. It was considered as the first novel in English literature written in prose narrative. This novel was well received in the literary world and it made the foundation for the realistic fiction genre. Defoe ’s novel was based partly on one of the British ships ’ sailors ’ tale. This Scottish sailor is Alexander Selkirk who refused to go on sailing on the ship after it leaked badly. But the difference
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Constructions of reading/writing in the British literature of the Enlightenment and Romanticism Robinson Crusoe‚ which was written by Daniel Defoe‚ was published in 1719. At the time of its publish‚ a revolution was taking place all across Europe known as the Enlightenment period. The Enlightenment period was a time of conflict‚ suffering‚ and also a time of growth for society. This revolutionary time period gave birth to such terms as deism‚ rationalism‚ skepticism‚ and empiricism. The period
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Daniel Defoe’s “The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe”‚ just as his second and no less of a name amongst classic novels - “Moll Flanders”‚ was mounted borderline between journalism and fiction‚ being based on the true story of Alexander Selkirk – a shipwrecked seaman. With his (Defoe’s) childhood marked by two amongst the most tragic of occurrences of the seventeenth century: a recurrence of the plague‚ which at the time took about 70‚000 lives‚ dubbed the Great Plague of London and the Great Fire of
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The castaway narrative exposes man in his most basic state as the descendant of monkeys‚ concerned with existence rather than production‚ his superiority one of intellect rather than technology. Computers‚ cars‚ household appliances detach us from our organic existence‚ making us seem closer to machines than mammals on the evolutionary scale. The castaway loses all such objects. He may create new ones‚ but in the process we are
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equally savage in its satirical intentions‚ becomes one of the world’s best loved stories - by virtue simply of its imaginative brilliance. It tells the story of a ship’s surgeon‚ Lemuel Gulliver. Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver’s Travels: AD 1719-1726 Daniel Defoe‚ the author of Robinson Crusoe‚ has a genius for journalism in an age before newspapers exist which can accomodate his kind of material. He travels widely as a semi-secret political agent‚ gathering material of use to those who pay
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"How much did J.M.Barie invest of himself in "Peter Pan‚ and how did he do so?" Peter Pan and the Lost boys originally came around from the traumatic childhood of J.M.Barrie and the loss of his younger brother David in a skating accident. This left James desperate for the love of his grieving mother‚ Margaret‚ who under depression could not cope with the loss of her favourite child. Barrie’s mother found comfort in the fact that her dead son would remain a boy forever‚ never to grow up and leave
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RE-WRITING THE COLONIAL DISCOURSE Written by: Nouha Mahjoubi Supervised by: Professor Beltaif The world’s structure today is tightly linked to the historical development and events. One of the most noticeable historical processes is colonization. The British Empire was one of the greatest imperialist powers. It is through colonization that the Western world is gaining a kind of prominence and domination in the world. The influence of colonization may not be very obvious nowadays as the concrete
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