extremities people will go to please others. The opening line‚ “there was a woman who was beautiful...” is very similar to many opening sentences in fairy tales. This is how D. H. Lawrence uses tradition to tell his story and gives the reader the sense of a fable‚ especially when he uses supernatural gifts like Paul’s seeing the winning Horse. D. H. Lawrence’s characters are symbols of Love and the lack there-of. The mother represents the lack of love and the overflowing pool of greed that lies in the
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The best advice I ever got about reading came from the critic and scholar Louis Menand. Back in 2005‚ I spent six months in Boston and‚ for the fun of it‚ sat in on a lit seminar he was teaching at Harvard. The week we were to read Gertrude Stein’s notoriously challenging Tender Buttons‚ one student raised her hand and asked—bravely‚ I thought—if Menand had any advice about how best to approach it. In response‚ he offered up the closest thing to a beatific smile I have ever seen on the face of a
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Joan Gardona Andrada II-BSE English Creative Writing (POETRY) Forms Specific poetic forms have been developed by many cultures. In more developed‚ closed or "received" poetic forms‚ the rhyming scheme‚ meter and other elements of a poem are based on sets of rules‚ ranging from the relatively loose rules that govern the construction of an elegy to the highly formalized structure of the ghazal or villanelle. Described below are some common forms of poetry widely used across a number of languages
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(20 pts) The first ’real’ children’s book in English was called; A Pretty Little Pocket Book. John Newbary published it in 1744. The book included games‚ fables and rhymes for children. This book was the first of its kind‚ as for the first time in history a book’s target audience were children. Till then‚ all books were written for adults only. 2. How did the legislation of labour laws for children in the
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The African-American folklore stories are entertainment but also have a teaching element and are similar to the Native American stories read earlier this semester. The Brer Rabbit stories are classic trickster tales much like the Native American stories. Brer Rabbit in these stories would be comparable to the coyote of Native American trickster tales. Brer Rabbit is a smaller and less intimidating animal than his fellow characters Brer Fox and Brer Bear. Brer Rabbit is a trickster figure that is
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In short story “The one about the coyote going west” by Thomas King‚ begins with the narrator telling a story to a coyote about who discover the Indians. The narrator introduces the main character named Coyote‚ who represented the first colonizer. In addition‚ as Coyote explores her new land she finds a straight smooth river‚ and a round mountain. However‚ Coyote does not accept nature’s true form‚ therefore she decides to fix the river and mountain to her standard‚ by added rocks and rapids to the
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his young daughter was discovered at the National Trust’s Wimpole Hall in Cambridgeshire in 2010.[2] The tales in the book (and also those in The Second Jungle Book which followed in 1895‚ and which includes five further stories about Mowgli) are fables‚ using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to give moral lessons. The verses of The Law of the Jungle‚ for example‚ lay down rules for the safety of individuals‚ families and communities. Kipling put in them nearly everything he knew or "heard or
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Farm: George Orwell=s Animal Farm: A metonym for a dictatorship Harry Sewlall Vista University Distance Education Campus PRETORIA E-mail: swlll-h@acaleph.vista.ac.za It seems‚ to warp George Orwell’s elegant phrase‚ that “All animals may speak freely but some may speak more freely than others” (Ronge‚ 1998:13). It is the lesson of George Orwell’s Animal Farm‚ a little book I am sure much of the ANC leadership would have read‚ if not always taken to heart (Carlin‚ 2001:4). Abstract Orwell= Farm:
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Maugham short story "The ant and the Grasshopper" we are introduced to the two main characters as referring to them as George and Tom. The characters are introduced after a short introduction about the story of the ant and the grasshopper. In this fable we learn that the ant in the story is much like the character of George. The ant begins working away throughout the summer collecting his food and building his shelter in order to prepare for the upcoming winter. The Grasshopper on the other hand
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century. Epilogue-Three meanings may be distinguished: a short speech to be delivered at the end of a play. It often makes some graceful and witty comment on what has happened and ask for approval‚ if not the indulgence‚ of the audience (b) the end of a fable. Where the moral is pointed(c)the concluding section or paragraph of any literary work‚ sometimes added a summary‚ but more often as an afterthought. Theme-The socialtradition like arranged marriages‚ dowry system and its evil impacts are discussed
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