Universial Themes in "The Return of the Native" and "Great Expectations" Classic novels usually share in the aspect of universal themes which touch people through out the ages. All types of audiences can relate to and understand these underlying ideas. Victorian novels such as Thomas Hardy ’s The Return of the Native and Charles Dickens ’ Great Expectations are examples of literary classics that have universal themes. Hardy ’s tale illustrates the role of chance in his characters lives
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Critical Analysis of the Great Gatsby “I think a woman gets more happiness out of being gay‚ light-hearted‚ unconventional‚ mistress of her own fate…. I want [my daughter] to be a flapper‚ because flappers are brave and gay and beautiful‚” from Zelda Fitzgerald. In the 1920’s Zelda Fitzgerald says she wants her daughter to be a flapper‚ a woman who smoked cigarettes‚ drank‚ drove vehicles‚ and did not respect what was considered acceptable behavior. Zelda Fitzgerald is the wife of the author F.
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Critical Lens Essay: Black Boy According to Richard Wright‚ “All literature is protest. You cannot name a single literary work that is not protest.” This means that literature is usually based on a reflection on society which is protest. Literature exposes the dark side of society. I agree with this quote because literature is one of the protruding ways to understand how one thinks about an idea. The author’s opinion is a protest against what other may believe. Coherently‚ in the bildungsroman
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Over 14.5% of Americans are in poverty and affected by what poverty causes. Throughout the novel‚ Great Expectations is about a boy named Pip coming of age and meeting people along his way of becoming a gentleman and learning life lessons. Charles Dickens looks at the effects of poverty negatively and during the novel it illustrates how many people of poverty struggled‚ but the rich got to live lavishly and didn’t care for the poor. Furthermore‚ poverty is a big issue of our modern day society and
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Complete the Ethical Lens Inventory Write at least 150 words as a reflective statement that defines your personal ethical viewpoint. Include what you learned through the Ethical Lens Inventory: Your preferred ethical lens Your blind spot Your strengths and weaknesses Your values and the resultant behaviors Over the past few years I have been in the ‘finding myself’ phase. I have always been a person to be analytical and constantly working things through in my head. As of recent‚ I have
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Expectations According to the National Center for Education Statistics‚ a record of 21.8 million students are expected to attend American colleges and universities in the fall of 2013‚ constituting an increase of about 6.5 million since the fall of 2000. An average of 87.4% of those students are also expected to graduate within six years of their enrollment year. And of course‚ one can only assume that the students have their own expectations from college as well. Students expect to attain a
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Ethical Lens Inventory My personal preferred lens is the Results Lens. According to this ethical view an action is ethical if good results come from good actions. A moral person must take actions that create the greatest good and the greatest happiness for many. I listen to my intuition. I use my sensibility to implement the decisions that will determine the greatest good. I try to be equal and fair. My blind spot is that I get satisfied with too little good or unrealistic role expectations. I tend
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WHO IS MISS HAVISHAM? (Analysing the life of Miss Havisham and Dickens’s use of grammar) Miss Havisham and Satis House‚ both in ruins‚ represent wealth and social status for Pip the servant boy; the irony is obvious. Their decayed state prefigures the emptiness of Pip’s dream of rising in social status and of so being worthy of Estella the adopted daughter of Miss Havisham. With them‚ Dickens extends his spoof of society from the abuse of children and criminals to the corruption of wealth. Miss
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This reawakens his sister’s desire for his death‚ and she enters "on a fearful catalogue" of all the "illnesses‚" "sleeplessness‚" and "injuries" of which he "had been guilty" and "all the times she had wished [him] in [his] grave‚ and [he] had contuma- ciously refused to go there." Pip is made to feel guilty not only for being so much "trouble" but also for his lack of gratitude. He is not grateful for his ill-treatment‚ of course‚ but is full of suppressed rage. During his sister’s recital of
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It is generally accepted that hardship would ensue harsher test of one’s character than power would. Abraham Lincoln attempted to denounce this belief when he claimed that "Nearly all men can stand adversity‚ but if you want to test a man’s character‚ give him power." Lincoln illustrates that adversity is something that many men can succeed in spite of while maintaining their character by comparing its effects with those of power. He sustains the idea that a man’s character is only truly tested if
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