yellowish and long. He is not a pretty baby. He has a heavy-shouldered hunched look with his hair growing in an unusual pattern. He had focused greeny-yellow eyes. When he was born his mother even said‚ “He’s like a troll‚ or a goblin or something (Lessing 49). Ben is never quite accepted into the world. Because of his temper tantrums and scaring of the other children David and Harriet’s family force Harriet to let Ben be institutionalized. Ben had many acts of violence such as killing a cat and a
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No witchcraft for sale Doris May Lessing (22.10.1919-17.11.2013.) She was a British writer‚ born in Iran. In 1925 the family moved to a farm in the British colony area of Africa. In the story “No witchcraft for sale” Lessing tells about a relationship between the Farquars‚ a Christian family and their servant Gideon‚ in a colonized Zimbabwe‚ and the native secrets‚ that no power can buy. The story is written with a 3rd person narrator with an omniscient point of view‚ where the happenings are
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In literature‚ this struggle for adulthood takes the form of a journey or quest. In the story “Through the Tunnel” by Doris Lessing‚ one can see powerful recreation of this journey to adulthood. As Natalie Babbot points out‚ the path the protagonist follows on this journey is‚ “Mainly unalterable and inescapable” (Babbot 27). The protagonists journey through the tunnel in Lessings story follows “The standard half of the mythological adventure of the hero separation‚ initiation‚ return” (27). Separation
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The Female Tradition A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing by Elaine Showalter Review by: Ruth Yeazell NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction‚ Vol. 11‚ No. 3 (Spring‚ 1978)‚ pp. 281-285 Published by: Duke University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1344968 . Accessed: 15/02/2015 09:17 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit
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Qualities of a Hero “What is a hero without love for mankind.” (Doris Lessing). That meaningful saying expresses only one important quality that a real hero should have‚ but there are other qualities to be considered. Most people believe that superheroes share some common characteristics and qualities that embody human’s deep hopes and wishes. Some of the qualities that most people believe make a real hero are wisdom and humanness. First of all‚ wisdom is the most desired quality that every hero
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Obedience to Authority No human social organization can function without some degree of obedience to authority‚ as the alternative would be anarchy leading to total chaos. Hence we find some sort of a hierarchy in both the most underdeveloped and the most civilized societies where certain individuals exercise authority over others. Almost everyone will agree that some degree of authority in certain individuals or groups (and their obedience by other groups) is desirable for the proper
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Streams Research Journal‚ 2‚ 1-5. Mass‚ L. (2009). On the recovery of psychoanalysis. Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide‚ 16‚ 16-18 . Wang N. & Wen Y (2012). In room nineteen why did Susan commit suicide? Reconsidering gender relations from a Doris Lessing ’s novel. Studies in Literature & Language‚ 4‚ 65-74.
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Through the Tunnel by Doris Lessing The narrative constructs an eleven-year old English boy‚ Jerry‚ who is on holiday with his mother in the South of France. He encounters a group of older‚ native African-French boys swimming along the beach. When they disappeared by swimming through an underwater passageway to the other side of a large rock in the ocean‚ he feels left out and rejected. Jerry makes it his goal to swim through the passageway to prove to the older boys his manhood‚ even if it meant
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Scot. English literature has produced an endless stream of poets‚ dramatists‚ essayists and novelists from Geoffrey Chaucer via Shakespeare and his contemporaries to a plethora of modern writers such as J. K. Rowling and the Nobel Prizewinner‚ Doris Lessing. There are many regional and traditional specialities to tempt the visitor to the United Kingdom. For example‚ in Scotland you might try Arbroath smokies (lightly cooked
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“There is nothing I can’t do!” exclaimed Doris Lessing’s protagonist in her short story‚ Sunrise on the Veld. In this story‚ Lessing illustratrates the vanity and invincibility of adolescence. This story accurately depicts how youth sometimes fail to recognize the reality that humans cannot change the future or natural order of things. In this essay‚ we will demonstrate how several authors attempt to portray death‚ and what comes after it. The fifteen-year-old boy in Lessing’s story shouts to the
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