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    a “beautiful‚ youthful‚ happy‚ and oblivious lad of nineteen to a depressed‚ alcoholic‚ self-loathing would-be caretaker of dying lepers” (Shmoop‚ Brideshead Revisited Summary). Sebastian is also described as‚ “Perpetually childishly melancholic” who “wallows in self-loathing when he is not loathing his mother and brother” (Shmoop‚ Brideshead Revisited Summary). Religion plays a big part in his constant self-loathing‚ “He takes the burden of religion upon himself bitterly‚ hating it with every step

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    “1984.” Michigan Law Review 102.6 (2004): 983-6. Web. Tyner‚ James A. “Self and Space‚ Resistance and Discipline: a Foucauldian Reading of George Orwell’s 1984.” Social and Cultural Geography 5.1 (2004): 131-46. Web. Wilson‚ John Howard. “Brideshead Revisited in Nineteen Eighty-Four: Evelyn Waugh’s Influence on George Orwell.” Papers on Language and Literature 47.1 (2011): 4-7. Web.

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    curriculum was also classical‚ and deeply rooted in our Catholicism. This inspires the whole class to think about the situations and messages in the themes we talk about each class‚ whether it was about the idea of the redemption of Charles Ryder in Brideshead Revisited or the savageness of the atomic bombs in World War II‚ and apply it to our lives and the people we want to become. Saint Thomas More Academy‚ I would say‚ has prepared me for the challenges and rewards that is the classical curriculum at Christendom

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    Anthony Blanche first introduces Sebastian’s family to Charles at dinner during his Oxford years. “They’re all charming‚ of course‚ and quite‚ quite gruesome‚” (Waugh 53)‚ he exclaims. Brideshead and Julia take the brunt of his ire. ‚ proceeding to list the family members and commenting upon their varying faults. Anthony is critical‚ Waugh makes him incredibly so‚ but he knows nothing about Cordelia except that her governess drowned herselfnever once does he mention Cordelia. She is exempted from

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    contrasts Orwell’s Socialist politics. Both books‚ although written a decade apart‚ predict war highlighting the collision course the traditional authorities are on. One of the main features in Coming Up For Air and many of Waugh’s novels‚ such as Brideshead Revisited‚ is nostalgia and the loss of traditional values‚ warped by business and money ’ bury something precious … where I’ve been happy …. [when] old and ugly and miserable‚ I could come back and dig it up and remember.’‚ ’It’s a wonderful thing

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    Edward McKnight Kauffer started his expert life as a painter‚ however got to be one of Britain’s best known between war originators. He grasped business outline as a method for profiting as well as a vital artistic expression in its own privilege. Counterparts commended him as a ’decent interpreter’‚ adroit at utilizing present day workmanship to address a mainstream gathering of people. Naturally introduced to destitution in the Midwest of America‚ in his late adolescents Kauffer was given the

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    The Black Prince is structured as Pearson’s apologia to his editor and friend P.A. Loxias. This allows Murdoch to address an audience directly‚ pausing for philosophical musings‚ without engaging in the post-modern trick of acknowledging the reader. Loxias and Pearson both write forewords to the main text. Pearson and four other characters offer competing postscripts. Two deny Loxias’s existence. This fulfills early premonitions about Pearson’s unreliability as a narrator. The first significant piece

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    the story lines of Middlemarch‚ written by George Eliot‚ and Jude the Obscure‚ by Thomas Hardy‚ is the theme of ambition and the tempering of expectations both to social difficulties‚ and on a broader scale‚ human frailty. Dorthea Brooke and Sue Brideshead display elements of the "new woman" and both are driven to accomplish what each desires. Both are intelligent and educated women. The contrast in the two comes from the different motives each has to separate themselves from the norm. Sue is self-centered

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