‘The Catcher in the Rye’ and ‘The Bell Jar’ are two comparable bildungsroman novels that handle the topics ‘loneliness and madness’ in ways typical to modern American Literature‚ techniques including irreverent humour and terse prose. Yet it must be considered that Plath and Salinger depict altered views on loneliness and madness. Whilst both authors are attentive to the superficial values of 1950’s America‚ Plath’s novel is individualised as it seems to focus on the darker side of society‚ inclusive
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Amy Heckerling’s Clueless sustains interest in the values represented in Jane Austen’s Emma by the modernization of the initial text through the medium of novel to film. Additionally‚ Heckerling transforms the ideas of marriage‚ social class and gender roles from Austen’s early Nineteenth century context‚ to a late twentieth century context through an examination of relationships‚ high school cliques and the changing notion of gender roles. Emma embodies the value of social class by the determination
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Novels reveal the influence of culture and allow audiences to develop a greater sense of empathy for the experiences of others. Both NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names (2013) and Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss (2006) explore the migrant experience with the purpose of creating a deeper understanding of the difficulties of assimilation. We Need New Names examines the choice for a successful assimilation into American society over retaining cultural heritage‚ while The Inheritance of Loss
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The Catcher in the Rye Review Sheet -Jane Gallagher: A girl Holden used to spend a lot of time with one summer when their families were neighbors in Maine. She is important to Holden because she is one of the few girls he can find attractive and connect to. -Allie Caulfield: Holden’s younger brother who died of leukemia three years ago. He was intelligent‚ red-headed‚ and friendly. Holden is still suffering from Allie’s death. -Phoebe Caulfield: Holden’s 10 year old sister who he loves
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CATCHER IN THE RYE QUESTIONS: 1. The novel can be described as a bildungsroman genre‚ in other words‚ a rite of passage novel. In what way does Holden experience a rite of passage? The rite of passage experienced by Holden in the text involves the original identity of Holden: a typical representation of the angst teen‚ susceptible to extreme dips between depression and contentedness‚ who has a profound distaste for most of society fed by his belief he has the ability to read behaviour to determine
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Romanticism"‚ as a term‚ derives from "romance‚" which from the Medieval Period (1200-1500) and on simply meant a story (e.g. all the chivalric‚ King Arthur legends) that was adventuristic and improbable. Romantic Period refers to literary and cultural movements in England‚ Europe‚ and America roughly from 1770 to 1860. Romantic writers (and artists) saw themselves as revolting against the "Age of Reason" (1700-1770) and its values. They celebrated imagination/intuition versus reason/calculation
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Prejudice was especially rife. Maycomb was a rural town and was especially effected by the Great Depression. Rural areas were poor and undeveloped‚ and black people worked for very low wages in the fields for white farmers. The novel is a Bildungsroman and is told in first person narrative from Scout Finch’s point of view. She is an adult when she tells the story but it is from
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“I am only a little satisfied with my previous works. From today on I will take a neuen Weg – a new path.” When Beethoven said this to his friend Wenzel Krumpholz in 1802‚ Beethoven was at his pinnacle in the Viennese tradition. But faced with the fear of repetitive style‚ Beethoven changed towards what we can call his Romantic or “Heroic” decade‚ where Beethoven would launch “a turning point in the history of music itself.” This turning point was epitomized in his new symphony‚ the Symphony n°3
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According to the Oxford English Dictionary realism is defined as ‘close resemblance to what is real; fidelity of representation‚ the rendering of precise details of the real thing or scene.’ Phrases in the definition like ‘fidelity of representation’ or ‘rendering of precise details’ tends to show truth or reality to be a subjective matter (Morris). This leads us to believe that realism is then in fact a representation of someone’s reality which may not be someone else’s reality. Amitav Ghosh in
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Bianca Richards 1st hour Title: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Author: James Joyce‚ Irish born (1882-1941) Date of Publication: 1914 Genre: Kunstlerroman (novel of artist)‚ Bildungsroman (novel of education)‚ coming of age Writing style: stream of consciousness‚ Hallmarks of modernism (perspectives‚ thresholds‚ and stream consciousness) structure of epiphanies (1. Justice from rector (2. Idealization of sin‚ (3. Idealization of morality.)‚ The myth (Daedalus and Icarus)‚ structure
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