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    With all the terrorism that has been happening around the world‚ it might remind you of the way the narrator of The Tell-Tale Heart goes insane and makes irrational actions. The short novel The Tell-Tale Heart written by Poe is one of his best works from all the stories that I have read that was written by him. The Tell-Tale Heart begins with the narrator explaining to the reader that he is nervous but not mad. But yet he confesses that he killed an old man‚ and then he explains that he killed him

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    biggest challenge you will come across is not the story‚ but in creating a character. In order to be a captivating writer‚ you would need to create someone your readers could connect or even‚ relate to and when people feel sympathy for your character‚ then you know you have succeeded. This is generally achieved through flawed and conflicting characters that pursue a noble cause‚ or at least in their own mind. In Deogratias: A Tale of Rwanda‚ Jean-Philipe Stassen presents Deogratias as an innocent figure

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    Literary Analysis of The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. How do you think it is to wake up one day and suddenly have no rights over your own body? Where the main purpose in life is to reproduce. Where one comes to life to give life. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood criticizes and ridicule the ideas of Christianity. It shows what would happen if religion would ‘’take over’’ and if the Christians’ and the feminism’s ideas would be pushed too far. The book was written in the 80s‚ after

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    and they rise up to take control of their fate. Sometimes this is for the better‚ sometimes for the worse. In the case of the French Revolution‚ the people rose up but ended up changing the lives of others for the worse as they bettered theirs. In A Tale of Two Cities‚ the author‚ Charles Dickens reveals this truth that the spiritual lives of all people depend upon the hope of renewal through the events of the murder of the Monseigneur‚ the

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    is an assortment of stories called The Canterbury Tales. Through the eyes of the main character it chronicles the journey of various characters as they travel on a pilgrimage to Canterbury. As they make their way to the shrine of Thomas a Becket‚ they each tell a story in hopes of winning a free meal from The Host‚ who is the judge of all the stories. Of all miscellaneous characters‚ one of the most intricate and extensive stories comes from the character‚ The Wife of Bath. Initially‚ she is described

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    Character Analysis of Montresor If written with skill‚ “Villains” can be some of the most interesting characters in literature. The character of Montresor from Edgar Allen Poe’s “A Cask of Amontillado”. Poe‚ being the horror writer that he was‚ portrays this dark character in exactly that way. The story begins with Montresor explaining to the reader as a narrator that a man named Fortunato has insulted and hurt him for a great deal of time. Montresor never explains what exactly Fortunato did to

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    Listening piece commentary My listening audience piece was inspired by the old man in Poe’s Tell Tale Heart‚ thought evil by the protagonist‚ but given no voice to express himself. My protagonist is an elderly character with a dark side‚ similar to Angela Carter’s in The Werewolf. To subtly reveal this hidden personality I adopted the style of Alan Bennett’s monologue Playing Sandwiches where he gradually builds suspicion of the speaker‚ ultimately revealing the horrible truth.

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    stated in The Pardoner’s Tale. The Pardoner’s Tale is one of The Canterbury Tales. In The Pardoner’s Tale‚ the Pardoner begins the prologue by fleetingly accounting his methods of conning people out of their money. Then‚ he begins to tell a tale. In the tale‚ three rioters are out to kill Death. They encounter an old man who explains he will wander the earth for someone who’s willing to exchange youth for an old age. He says “Not alas Death will take my life” (The Pardoner’s Tale 119). The men ask him

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    The movie "A Bronx Tale" is obviously set in the Bronx and sets a young man Calogero Anello‚ "C" against the trials and tribulations of growing up incorruptible‚ in a neighborhood of mob crime and wayward minors. The movie holds characters that fit delinquency terms such as chronic offenders‚ and characters that fit theories such as the choice theory. Calogero at the end of the movie seems to have an identity crisis as mentioned by Erikson in his theory. Also characters show signs of being latent

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    In Tales of Wonder from Many Lands there are many foolish characters that are deficient in judgment‚ good sense‚ or intelligence. How can the foolish characters in Tales of Wonder from Many Lands be classified? The foolish characters in this text can be classified according to their lack of knowledge or lack of ability to use knowledge to good effect. Three Groups of foolish characters includes characters who act possessive‚ gullible and short sighted. The first group of foolish characters in Tales

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