Max. Marks: 100 Programme: MEG Assignment code: MEG-02/TMA/2010-2011 Question 1. Discuss Dr. Fautus as a tragedy relevant to all times. Answer : There are several reasons for why Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus is relevant to all times. Some have to do with its nature and stature as a work of art. Others have to do with its content. Yet another has to do with the nature of the central character‚ Doctor Faustus. From the perspective of great art‚ it is a drama that is still entertaining due to the
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delving into a book that others had found next-to-useless--too full of trivial detail‚ or so they said. But the details were what she found interesting; and faced with so few sources‚ Ulrich realized her only option was to dig deeply into the ones she had‚ to discover the unspoken realities of women’s lives written between the lines of Ballard’s diary. The result of Ulrich’s efforts was the Pulitzer Prize-winning book "A Midwife’s Tale‚" now a movie of the same name‚ made in collaboration with
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Prioress Tale and Christian Anti-Semitic In the story “Prioress Tale” by Geoffrey Chaucer had some ways where it was anti- semitic. The Catholic Church had a hatred of Jews. Jews did not believe Jesus was their savior. Christians hated and blamed Jews for the death of Jesus calling them Satan’s agents. “The boy is “little”‚ “young”‚ “tender” etc. The Villains are “cursed”‚ “a wasp’s nest of satan” who “conspire” to murder the little boy” (3). The school where the young boy had gone
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According to the Webster’s collegiate dictionary the definition of horror is "a painful and intense fear‚ dread‚ or dismay." These are the emotions humans feel when watching a horror movie or reading a horror novel. If this is the case‚ it may seem strange that people receive enjoyment from it. The pleasure of the horror genre can be explained in three ways. First of all‚ humans’ morbid curiosity intrigues them to scare and disturb themselves. Secondly‚ the constant excitement throughout the horror
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The Tale of Genji Murasaki Shikibu The Tale of Genji Table of Contents The Tale of Genji ......................................................................................................................................................1 . Murasaki Shikibu...........................................................................................................................................1 {The Paulownia Court} .....................................................................
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getting the handmaids ready for their society. They pound the ideas of the new culture into the handmaid’s head so that when they enter it seems normal. Handmaids are the next class‚ they are the only women who can reproduce they are forced to have children for upper class couples women are often compromised by a forced sexual nature‚ thereby allowing them to be blamed for problems of conception. Handmaids show which Commander owns them by adopting their Commanders’ names‚ such as Fred‚ and preceding
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Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale takes place in a post Cold War society plagued by infertility. Atwood presents the reader with “The Republic of Gilead”‚ the Christian theocracy that overthrew the United States government. Narrated by a woman renamed Offred‚ the reader gets an idea of a future in which women are no longer women‚ but are solely needed for reproduction. Atwood uses a system of vocabulary established under the Republic of Gilead in order to manipulate and dehumanize women and
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titled “Fairy Stories‚” eventually altered into an essay retitled “On Fairy Stories.” At the heart of his argument‚ which explores the nature of fantasy and the cultural role of fairy tales‚ is the same profound belief that there is no such thing as writing “for children.” In Tolkien’s essay “On Fairy Stories” he argues that it is not necessary to be a child to enjoy and read fairy tales. At the beginning of “On Fairy Stories‚” J.R.R Tolkien starts the literary work by defining what a fairy tale
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Comparing texts forces us to question our values in the context of the author’s zeitgeist and our own. The dystopia novel The Handmaid’s Tale (1985)‚ written by Margaret Atwood‚ and the film adaptation Children of Men (2006)‚ directed by Alfonso Cuarón‚ both examine the abuse of power by totalitarian government regimes which come about as a result of chaotic disasters. These oppressive governments’ abuse of their given power creates a dystopic world‚ and with it come restrictions to individual freedom
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Draft My First Day Fright Have you ever experience a moment where you have no idea where you are‚ and what you would have done in that particular moment? Well I have‚ and here is my story. It all started in late August of 2009‚ when millions of children across the country were looking forward to their first day of school. For me‚ I was not looking forward to start my first year of High School. I still had the middle school mentality. I was concerned that I was not ready for high school. I felt
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