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    like adventures‚ not ladies. The role of the women in the American literature has been always victim of sexism and discrimination. There are always men who play the principal role. We can see that in Ulysses‚ by James Joice (1922); Moby Dick by Herman Melville (1815) or The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925). In the previous work of Mark Twain‚ The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)‚ there are a clear division between men and women too. The main women in Huck’s life all fulfill the same basic role

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    Romanticism and Realism in the Arts Romanticism and Realism were two forms of art that came into existence in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Both formed as a resistance to traditional standards and in response to a time of war and revolution. Both Romanticism and Realism are prevalent in works of art to this day. This is where the similarities of the two art forms end. So how can two opposing literary movements overlap time periods yet be so different in style? Romanticism

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    Bibliography: MelvilleHerman. Moby Dick. Richard Bentley‚ 1851. Fitzgerald‚ Francis S. The Great Gatsby. Charles Scribner ’s Sons‚ 1925. 22 Apr. 2008 .

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    List of literary movements From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search This is a list of modern literary movements: that is‚ movements after the Renaissance. These terms‚ helpful for curricula or anthologies‚ evolved over time to group certain writers who are often loosely related. Some of these movements (such as Dada and Beat) were defined by the members themselves‚ while other terms (the metaphysical poets‚ for example) emerged decades or centuries after the periods in

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    Sacrifice has played a crucial role since the dawn of time. Every culture‚ society‚ and denomination has used some aspect of sacrifice in the way they either live their daily lives or who and or what they praise. Merriam Webster’s Dictionary definition of sacrifice is an act of offering to a deity something precious; especially: the killing of a victim on an altar. It’s been written in textbooks and historical novels for centuries that different cultures specifically had blood offerings‚ whether

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    Intro to The Romantic Period At the turn of the century‚ fired by ideas of personal and political liberty and of the energy and sublimity of the natural world‚ artists and intellectuals sought to break the bonds of 18th-century convention. Although the works of Jean Jacques Rousseau and William Godwin had great influence‚ the French Revolution and its aftermath had the strongest impact of all. In England initial support for the Revolution was primarily utopian and idealist‚ and when the French failed

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    Melville uses many symbols and omens to add to Ahab’s monomania‚ but in chapter 71‚ “The Jeroboam’s Story”‚ he uses the story about a gam with the Jeroboam to reveal a prophecy that will end with Ahab’s doom. Through the gam‚ Melville introduces Gabriel‚ an archangel who takes over the Jeroboam. Gabriel prophesizes his own chief mate’s death when he “burned with ardor to encounter” and capture Moby Dick (344). Gabriel soon learns that Ahab’s chase is for the same White Whale that kills Macey and

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    Introduction to Romanticism Romanticism has very little to do with things popularly thought of as "romantic‚" although love may occasionally be the subject of Romantic art. Rather‚ it is an international artistic and philosophical movement that redefined the fundamental ways in which people in Western cultures thought about themselves and about their world. Imagination The imagination was elevated to a position as the supreme faculty of the mind. This contrasted distinctly with the

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    Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem‚ Massachusetts‚ on July 4‚ 1804. His parents were Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ and Elizabeth Clark Manning. His father dies of yellow fever when he was four years old. He then grew up in the manning household with his grandparents‚ uncles‚ and aunts. Nathaniel Hawthorne was fond of taking long walks by himself and reading excessively. He studied Shakespeare‚ Pope‚ Milton‚ and Thompson. He went on adventures while he took these long walks and he wrote about his adventures

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