Humiliation and enslavement for the sadist are simply the means to an end. However‚ suffering is the sadist’s trademark as there is no greater power over another than that of inflicting pain and forcing them to suffer without the benefit of self-defence. In fact‚ the pure pleasure in the complete domination over another is the very essence of the sadistic drive. In her short‚ compelling story "The Fly‚" Mansfield details how a commonplace incident of fly killing defines the sadistic‚ arrogant‚ and
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character of the story. An abundance of Katherines is a book written by the award- winning author John Green. This work of the famous author consists 19 chapters and 215 pages of a knowledge-filled story. Colin Singleton is a child prodigy who is somehow attached to girls named Katherine. When it comes to girls with this nine- letter name‚ Colin always gets dumped. Nineteen times‚ to be exact. He was suffering and still hurting from his nineteenth Katherine and after all of his heartaches and being
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Katherine Mansfield’s story‚ "Bliss‚" is about sex. Yet‚ because Bertha’s sexuality does not manifest itself in an immediate desire for a heterosexual sexual encounter it is difficult to determine how sexuality figures in the story. The presentation of sexuality in Mansfield’s stories is so unique that most critics contributing to Jan Pilditch’s The Critical Response to Katherine Mansfield do not realize how deeply sexuality figures in the stories and do not refer to it in their analyses. Cherry
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had since dissolved. A moment captured in time reminded me of how many dead things are forever frozen in space leaving us memories of the details we were determined to delete. The day before my 29th birthday I began to spot. Often I ask God why He would have me lose a baby‚ the week of my birthday‚ in the last year of my twenties‚ to which there is usually silence. While I understand that no one is prepared
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Miss Brill” by Katherine Mansfield is a short story written in 1922 about an older lady who takes routine walks each Sunday and listens to the band that plays in the park. She sits on a bench which seems to be placed directly across from where the band is playing‚ and she makes constant observations of the people or things around her. She makes note of how pretty the sky is‚ that it almost has a painted effect‚ and how the band seems to be much more lively when it is in season. She also notices that
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By Katherine Mansfield Synopsis The modern soul is more about characters than action. The story begins with the stereotype of the pompous German music professor explaining to the young English narrator why he incessantly eats cherries: “There is nothing like cherries for producing free saliva after trombone playing‚ especially after Grieg’s ‘Ich Liebe Dich’” He’s cherry eating is connected with a consuming desire for women. The two older Germans‚ the Professor and the German actress’ mother‚ talk
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someone very close to you? Katherine Mansfield‚ an author from the 1920s‚ lost her brother‚ Leslie‚ in World War l. Instead of going to see a therapist to help her overcome her grief of losing her brother she wrote a story about it. In the short story Mansfield wrote‚ the boss represents the author because of the struggle the boss goes through with the loss of his son similarly to the struggle she had with the loss of her brother. In the short story‚ “The Fly”‚ by Katherine Mansfield although the boss
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Construction of a Narrative self (2013)‚ the editors‚ Robyn Fivush and Catherine A. Haden‚ focus the first part of the book toward The Development of Autobiographical Memory and Self Understanding. In that section‚ Narrative and Self‚ Myth and Memory‚ Katherine Nelson writes the first chapter on “the theory [of] current work on autobiography and the development of self understanding” (Nelson‚ 2013‚ 3). Specifically‚ she explores the emergence of the cultural self-understanding by categorizing the different
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Bertha Young felt the bliss in her soul‚ family‚ and everything that surrounded her. There were sunny days‚ happy faces‚ smiles everywhere and it was this purity that let the bliss flow around her‚ fulfilling her house and her anima day and night. Bertha’s mirror reflected only the image of innocence and blind happiness! Thirty years facing this world‚ Bertha and reality were two strangers who lived together never realizing it. Sometimes the innocence or purity may only correspond to one aspect of
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The Grave "The Grave‚" by Katherine Anne Porter‚ is about two young children’s lives and how their past affected them while growing up. Both Paul and Miranda are related as brother and sister.Paul was a twelve year old boy who really enjoyed hunting and gathering skeletons.Miranda was a nine year old girl who use to like shooting targets‚ and grew up as a tomboy. They used to live in Louisiana and then later on they moved to Texas. After they moved down to Texas‚ their family purchased a small farm
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