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    Jesica Jaramillo English III The Great Gatsby Essay 3/20/14 In The Great Gatsby novel Jordan and Nick are a couple and they stay in a relationship together until nearly the end of the summer. In the new movie Jordan and Nick are not considered a couple‚ at one of Gatsby’s parties Jordan is whisked away by a male companion. In the movie it shows Myrtles sister Catharine giving Nick a pill she said she got from a doctor in Queens and that does not come up anywhere in the novel. In the movie

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    THE GREAT GATSBY THE STRUCTURE OF THE DREAM by M M Green‚ Rand Afrikaans University The final belief is to believe in a fiction‚ which you know to be a fiction‚ there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and believe in it willingly. - Wallace Stevens The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas -in the mind at the same time and still retain the abi1ity to function. – F Scott Fitzgerald‚ The Crack Up Miles Donald

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    Hamlet Themes: Sanity vs. Insanity Study Guide: 1. What gives evidence that Hamlet is not really insane but just upset? The fact that Hamlet is re-enacting the murder of his father shows the readers that he is well aware of the situation and what has occurred. He is not in denial of the death‚ but seems to want King Claudius to feel guilty with his wrong doing. 2. What gives evidence that Hamlet is insane and not just upset? The way Hamlet acted around Ophelia gave signs that he was going

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    The Great Gatsby Narrative Technique The narrative technique employed by Fitzgerald is believed to have been derived from Joseph Conrad‚ a writer Fitzgerald admired‚ who used a similar technique in Heart of Darkness (1902). Type of narrator First person narrator (Nick Carraway) Everything narrated by Nick is coloured by his character. His narration is not a neutral affair. The narrator is a participant in the story who is‚ however‚ more of a spectator than a protagonist.

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    Dystopian Novel: The Handmaids Tale vs. Elysium April 23 2013 Ms Kitchen ENG 4U A dystopian fiction is a futuristic‚ imagined universe in which oppressive societal control and the illusion of a perfect society.In Elysium written by Neill Blomkampand and The Handmaids Tale written by Margaret Atwood‚ these two dystopian fiction focus on how society in the future has altered drastically because how society has became. In both fiction the authors focus on how both society failed and collapsed

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    Themes in Hamlet Impossibility of Certainty and Delay of Action Hamlet undoubtedly takes a long time to avenge his father’s murder‚ and his hesitation is his tragic flaw. He spends a great deal of effort thinking and analyzing and far less acting on his dead father’s request for revenge. Hamlet’s delay of action is a direct result of his attempts to obtain more certain knowledge about what he needs to do as well as the circumstances of his father’s death. However‚ had he not taken so long‚ the

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    Hamlet Shakespeare’s Hamlet explores the complex psychological profile of Hamlet. Shakespeare expertly molds his construction‚ content and language to explore his own social and cultural realities. However‚ it is undoubtedly Shakespeare’s dramatic treatment of the tragic hero’s complex psychological struggle with vengeance and his disillusionment with both his interior and exterior worlds that imbue the play with a timeless universality. In the light of my critical study‚ it has become apparent

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    mentioned in the characters’ dialogue. Throughout the play‚ the motif of seeing and perceiving is commonly used and ties in themes like uncertainty- the presence of the ghost for example: why can Hamlet and the guards see the ghost but Gertrude cannot? Is it really there? The uncertainty of what our eyes see vs what really exists and the uncertainty surrounding this is a big theme that I noticed in the book. The diction is also used‚ with characters often describing how they ‘see’ things‚ ‘perceive’

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    Hamlet: the Illusory Mortal God The greatest value of literature is as a mode to further reading and study to develop one’s own opinions and arguments. In Harold Bloom’s Hamlet: Poem Unlimited opinion of Hamlet‚ the character Hamlet unrealistically‚ philosophically battles with his own consciousness but surpasses the idea of modern consciousness. Hamlet is not an astral drama as viewed by Bloom but a tragedy by Shakespeare to be understood at a worldly value. Through character development Bloom

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    by Machiavelli highlights how one should be obeyed and maintain power. In  Shakespeare’s ​ Hamlet‚​  these characteristics are shown between the main characters‚ Hamlet and  Claudius. This tragedy is a battle of a king in power and one trying to dethrone him. In the end‚  Claudius displays a better resemblance of a Machiavellian leader.  Machiavelli defines a successful leader as charismatic‚ inventive‚ manipulative and  willful; than a benevolent‚ kind prince . Hamlet possesses some of these qualities such as

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