“The Horla” By Guy de Maupassant Guy de Maupassant’s short story “The Horla” is a great example of the notion that art sometimes imitates life. In 1887‚ while battling the end stages of syphilis and institutionalized for insanity‚ de Maupassant’s last story “The Horla” was published. In the pages his fictional character‚ the narrator‚ chronicles his journey into madness while fighting an unseen beast. The protagonist can be compared to de Maupassant and his own struggle with syphilis and psychosis
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Picking the Aphrodite of Melos as the topic I wanted to write on was easy because I’ve seen the figure before over time and in many places‚ it is a renowned classic in art. The culture the figure is from is ancient Greece. To Socrates and Plato‚ Aphrodite was a real god because she represented the giver of love and life and joy‚ among other things. Further back and in even more ancient times‚ this Venus or Aphrodite was the mother of all mankind‚ and although the roman’s didn’t restrict her to just
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Christine de Pizan was a versatile writer/poet. She was born September 11‚ 1364. In her writings‚ she advocated for women’s rights and equality. Pizan was one of the first women to have her writings read because back then people didn’t pay attention to women’s writing. People paid attention especially because of her writing about Joan of Arc. Christine de Pizan was very important to women in medieval times because of she fought for her education‚ how she provided for her family at a young age and
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Cosimo de Medici grew up gaining the interest in artistic achievements and knowledge in his quest to become someone great. His father was Giovanni de Medici who started the family’s banking and trading empires. When his father passed on‚ Cosmo became the chief controller of the family’s finances. His central bank was the Medici bank that propelled him to be the wealthiest man during his times. Despite him being rich‚ Cosmo was concerned about the plight of the less fortunate people in the city
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Honor in Cyrano de Bergerac People in today’s society have many different aspects about their character that make them who they are. Positive character traits can be found in people around the globe and in the characters that many read about in books. Edmond Rostand presents the character Cyrano in the play Cyrano de Bergerac with a many positive traits that make him a very relatable character. Cyrano lives his life based on a strict code of honor through his actions. A code of honor can be
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The royal Château de Chambord at Chambord‚ Loir-et-Cher‚ France‚ is one of the most recognizable châteaux in the world because of its very distinctive French Renaissance architecture which blends traditional French medieval forms with classical Renaissance structures. It is located between the untamed royal river and the wild woodlands‚ which is home to many boar and deer. Building of the château was begun by Francis I in 1519‚ and was completed in 1547. The design itself can be attributed
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“The Terror” by Guy de Maupassant is a story about a man who is getting married because he’s afraid to be alone. First‚ the story begins with a man who talking about is upcoming nuptials to a woman he barely knows. The guy (nameless) has only met his future wife four times‚ and thinks she is what any man could want in a spouse; he talks about how she’s not really rich‚ but was raised for the sole purpose of marriage. He says the only reason he’s getting marriage is because he doesn’t want to be alone:
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Brady Detwiler Art of Nonfiction Professor Hoffman 10/15/14 On “Against Joie de Vivre” Phillip Lopate’s “Against Joie de Vivre” is‚ in a sense‚ an absurd project. The term joie de vivre‚ after all‚ literally translates as “the joy of living”‚ and if we as readers are to take this denotation at face value‚ one must naturally ask—why would one take up such an argument? The title tacitly asserts a nonsensical proposition‚ and presuming that we are convinced by what Lopate writes‚ what then shall we
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2/6/14 Fiction Paper Jewelry at a Cost The short story “The Jewelry” by Guy de Maupassant displays a theme of irony throughout the story through an objective narrator. The story begins by leading the readers to think that the relationship between M. Lantin and his wife is stable and pleasantly upright. Irony strikes after the sudden death of Lantin’s wife. The irony emphasizes hints that are given earlier in the story through symbolism of material and non-materialistic things. Irony is a clear
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Samuel De Champlain (1567?-1635) was a French explorer and navigator who mapped much of northeastern North America and started a settlement in Quebec. Champlain also discovered the lake named for him (Lake Champlain‚ on the border of northern New York state and Vermont‚ named in 1609) and was important in establishing and administering the French colonies in the New World. In 1603‚ Champlain sailed to France on Francois Grave Du Pont’s expedition. They sailed up the St. Lawrence River and the Saguenay
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