APPRECIATION OF ENGLISH LITERARY TEXTS SRI RAHULA BALIKA MAHA VIDYALAYA – MALABE SECOND TERM END EXAMINATION GRADE TEN – THREE HOURS Answer question ONE and FOUR others selecting one from POETRY‚ PROSE and FICTION. 1. Answer all the questions in PART A and PART B PART A a. “But she is in her grave‚ and‚ oh‚ The difference to me!” I. Where are these lines taken from? Who has written them? II. Who do “she” and “me” refer to? III. What is the difference felt by him? b. “Says he‚ ‘The
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Bronte Quotes”). This quote ties in with Charlotte’s personal perspectives on life. Bronte believed in being a person who speaks out for what she values most‚ no matter if her opinion is against the larger majority. “Bronte published her first novel Jane Eyre in 1847 under the manly pseudonym Currer Bell” (Biography.com Editiors). Charlotte’s novels have now become classics in today’s English literature. Charlotte Bronte was a famous poet and novelist mostly known for contradicting society through her
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A bildungsroman novel‚ also called a coming-of-age story‚ contains plots and obstacles that cause the characters to develop and change throughout the entire novel. There are many different characteristics in order to make up a bildungsroman novel. However‚ in The Namesake‚ the character that developed and changed throughout their life into adulthood was Gogol. Gogol’s coming of age was made evident by the bildungsroman’s genre conventions of social isolation and a conflict of generations. In Buckley’s
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19th century to this day. Therefore‚ in this paper I am going to analyse the evolution of the Byronic hero that appeared in Childe Harold‚ into that variations noticeable in the Victorian literature‚ more precisely those in Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre written by the Brontë sisters. His dark characteristics are what make the original Byron ’s hero different from the traditional idea of a hero‚ even though he retains his heroic virtues. However‚ the original idea has slightly changed over time.
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The most important scene in “Jane Eyre” is in chapter 26‚ where her seemingly perfect marriage with Mr. Rochester was prevented by the presence of his living wife. While serving as the turning point of the novel‚ this chapter conveyed the maturation Jane had gone through and included the emerging Gothic writing style during the nineteenth century. In chapter 26‚ Briggs showed up during the marriage ceremony to confront the near-newlyweds that “an insuperable impediment to this marriage exists”
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very nature had a community focus as its ambition was to purify the Church of England and instill a new definition of righteous living in its adherents. Dorthea’s religion was on the austere side‚ similar to that practice by St. John in Bronte’s Jane Eyre. She wore severe clothing without ornamentation on the clothing or her person and she was devoted to projects of doing good for the villages surrounding the farming estates. Dorthea’s religious background gives her earnest motives; she is not motivated
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The Bildungsroman and Pip ’s "Expectations" Rachel Birk On the surface‚ Great Expectations appears to be simply the story of Pip from his early childhood to his early adulthood‚ and a recollection of the events and people that Pip encounters throughout his life. In other words‚ it is a well written story of a young man ’s life growing up in England in the early nineteenth century. At first glance‚ it may appear this way‚ an interesting narrative of youth‚ love‚ success and failure‚ all of which are
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Do you know what is the strongest and the oldest emotion known to the mankind? That is fear. And gothic literature can be explained as fear-literature. But the true gothic tale has something more than secret murder‚ bloody bones‚ or clanking chains . So‚ let me explain how to know what is the real gothic book. First of all‚ i will give you some backround. Gothic fiction began as a joke.In 1764 author Horace Walpole first applied the word ‘Gothic’ to a novel in the subtitle – ‘A Gothic Story’ – of
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eventually comes to loathe Antoinette. Through his actions and words‚ he mentally tortures this fragile woman and causes her madness. Perhaps if the pressure for financial gain was not so imperative to Rochester‚ he might have waited for his ‘Jane Eyre’ and not felt pressured into marrying for wealth. Many of Rhys’s minor
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that there are people out there in your life that truly do care about you. It is a nice to know that there will be someone there to pick you back up when you need it. Finding those loving relationship with people is something that Jane faced in her life in the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. She never truly had the relationship with someone who truly cared. However she reached her happiness when she finally did get that relationship when she found her long lost family members. This is only one example
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