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    Flight by Doris Lessing Flight - Text Analysis In this assignment I’m going to analyze the short story‚ Flight by Doris Lessing. This short-story was published in 1957‚ in a collection of short stories entitled The Habit of Loving. This is an old short story but it is a very popular one among many. Dorris Lessing (93) was born in 1919‚ in Khermanhah in Persia (now Iran) and she is a British novelist‚ poet‚ playwright‚ librettist‚ biographer and a short story writer. Her parents were British

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    Asch‚ Solomon. “Opinions and Social Pressure.” Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum. Columbus‚ OH: Pearson‚ 2013. Print. 655-659. According to the article “Opinions and Social Pressure”‚ Solomon Asch writes about how the affects of group pressure can alter a person’s decision. During the investigation‚ Asch describes how everyone in the group agrees with the answer that they have chosen except for one in which the author calls him the “dissenter (Asch 656)”. Solomon Asch stated that the

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    Lessing was born in Kermanshah‚ Iran‚ then known as Persia‚ on 22 October 1919‚ to Captain Alfred Tayler and Emily Maude Tayler (née McVeagh)‚ who were both English and of British nationality.[6] Her father‚ who had lost a leg during his service in World War I‚ met his future wife‚ a nurse‚ at the Royal Free Hospital where he was recovering from his amputation.[7][8] Alfred Tayler and his wife moved to Kermanshah‚ Iran‚ in order to take up a job as a clerk for the Imperial Bank of Persia and it was

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    is blind obedience to authority is always going to result in disaster. then comes the argument itself- then add two outside sources then conclusion then mla then rough draft will be completed. --------- stanley milgrom? doris lessing or erich fromm can be used as other sources. when introducing milgrom-you need more than a basic introduction-use first‚ last name and his credentials-but because of the experiment and it’s importance to the quotations‚ you need to take a couple

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    The Death of Virtue “A Sunrise on the Veld” by Doris Lessing reflects on the universal sentiment of youthfulness and amazement in existence shared by all mankind‚ shadowed by the devastating blow of adulthood‚ reality and death. The story starts with a boy triumphantly awakening early in the morning‚ displaying graceful control over his body. The boy had trained himself to outwit the frail part of his own psyche‚ to wake up half-past four every morning. He would even pompously jest with the notion

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    1. In “A Sunrise on the Veld‚ Doris Lessing uses contrast to get her theme across. In the beginning of the story‚ the boy is very excited about life. He exclaims how he is fifteen and that he had a long and wonderful life ahead of himself. Then‚ Lessing brings the dying buck into the story. The buck symbolizes how life comes to an end. Everyone dies at some point and sometimes it is not expected as the young bucks death was. The boy becomes very disturbed by confronting death face to face.

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    Conformity and Obedience

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    influence‚ groups can change their members ’ thoughts‚ feelings‚ and behavior. In her essay "Group Minds‚" Doris Lessing discusses our paradoxical ability to call ourselves individuals and our inability to realize that groups define and influence us. We‚ as humans‚ hold individualism in the highest regard yet fail to realize that groups diminish our individuality. Lessing writes‚ "when we ’re in a group‚ we tend to think as that group does... but we also find our thinking changing because

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    In short fiction‚ characters experience conflict that impacts plot development. Firstly‚ in “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson the conflict is man vs. nature. To provide a reason why this happens in the small town‚ Jackson wrote “Lottery in June‚ corn be heavy soon.” (Jackson 4). This was said by Old Man Warner‚ the oldest person in this town and this shows that Tessie‚ the women who gets sacrificed‚ is conflicting with the actual agriculture sacrifice. This conflict only starts to show at the end

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    Brainwashing

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    Brainwashing Brainwashing is the attempt to change the thoughts and beliefs of another person. In Doris Lessing’s book‚ Prisons we choose to live inside‚ she studies human behavior. Lessing talks about the tools people use to overcome their difficulties in life‚ but people tend not want to change them. Lessing analyzes a few human behaviors with her own personal stories. In 1986‚ Lessing studies brainwashing behavior and its effects. At this point‚ brainwashing was not fully understood but it

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    working on another roof‚ trying to explore women ’s subversion toward the gender bias and their self-consciousness raising in the society. Key words: silence;indifference;rebellion;subversion 1. Introduction Doris Lessing‚ the recipient of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature‚ is described by the award committee as" that epicist of the female experience‚ who with scepticism‚ fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilization to scrutiny". Her novel A Woman

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