Assignment 1 Produce an analysis of any ONE of these short stories that argues for its ongoing relevance to a contemporary reader in Singapore. Cultural identity in Our Trusty and Well-Beloved‚ and its relevance to contemporary readers in Singapore This essay wishes to argue how Clifford’s Our Trusty and Well-Beloved still carries a vital relevance to contemporary readers in Singapore today‚ through the problematization of a fixed cultural identity. This is brought out by Clifford’s dramatization
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As Scott’s poetic words detail Canada’s natural beauty and beloved spirit‚ the Canadian population’s love and respect for their home land is made clear. There is a significant presence of poetic passion and rhythmical high regard for such a newly confederated nation. The poem is quite patriotic‚ considerably towards
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Essay 2 Situation: The Sense of Loss When Losing the Beloved Ones -- Comparing “ To a Daughter Leaving Home” and “On my First Son” How will you feel when you lose your beloved ones? How will you react toward the sense of emptiness? In Linda Plastan’s To a Daughter Leaving Home (1988) Ben Jonson’s On My First Son (1616)‚ both poems reveal the true feeling and reaction that we will have when we lose the person we love very much. The reason why they attract me is because the feeling is so simple
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unity and grand narrative often obscured‚ which can easily be observed by reading and analyzing some of the most important works of American postmodern fiction. Works such as Ishmael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo‚ Don DeLillo’s White Noise‚ Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 are only a few of many which contain all or some of postmodernism’s most distinguishable elements. Throught these four novels one can perceive the concepts of potmodernism‚ from its assault upon
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treatment of time (net na rememory) Rememory serves as a literary strategy to introduce flashbacks into the story. The main story line sets up a linear progressive chronology but is often interrupted‚ made more complex by rememory. (Ferguson 112) Mae G. Henderson states: “”rememory‚” it seems‚ is something that possesses (or haunts) one rather than something that one possesses. It is‚ in fact‚ that which makes the past part of one’s present.” (86) A few months after Beloved was published‚ Toni Morrison
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Beloved is a novel by the American writer Toni Morrison. Set after the American Civil War (1861–1865)‚ it is inspired by the story of an AfricanAmerican slave‚ Margaret Garner‚ who temporarily escaped slavery during 1856 in Kentucky by fleeing to Ohio‚ a free state. A posse arrived to retrieve her and her children under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850‚ which gave slave owners the right to pursue slaves across state borders. Margaret killed her two-year-old daughter rather than allow her to be recaptured
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RETENTIONS IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN’S WRITINGS ABOUT MADNESS Jeanne Phoenix Laurel …[T]he genre of the psychiatric memoir or fictionalized account of madness by women authors bifurcates along lines of race. As I will show by using Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987)‚ Nettie Jones’s Fish Tales (1983)‚ and Carolivia Herron’s Thereafter Johnnie (1991)‚ the dynamics of the slave narrative influence African-American women’s writings about madness. (A similar kind of historical genre influence can be seen in
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source‚ which recorded Jesus’ speeches‚ and a Passion source‚ which recorded the crucifixion of Jesus (Ehrman 181). In addition to these sources‚ the author refers to an eyewitness‚ the Beloved Disciple‚ as “the disciple who is testifying to these things and has written them‚” causing scholars to question if the Beloved Disciple is John‚ the son of Zebedee‚ the author of the Gospel of John‚ both‚ or neither (John 21:24). Though many scholars have abandoned the idea of John‚ the son of Zebedee‚ as the
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of love connects all the characters‚ Sethe‚ Beloved‚ Denver‚ and Paul D‚ throughout the book‚ Beloved by Toni Morrison‚ between the love they share with each other and the love that drives them to the extremes. All four main characters‚ Sethe‚ Beloved‚ Denver‚ and Paul D‚ are connected through love‚ individually and separately. Morrison‚ the author of the novel Beloved‚ uses imagery and repetition to portray the theme of love in Sethe’s murder of Beloved and attempted murders of all her children‚
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response of the lover to qualities he perceives and values in the beloved.” These valuable intrinsic characteristics is why the lover has reason to love their beloved. However‚ Stump proves a fault in this account by stating‚ that others possess similar if not the same features of one’s beloved. Meaning another person could be acceptably substituted for the beloved‚ provided only that the new person had the valued characteristics of the beloved. Stump then showcases an opposite theory to the responsiveness
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