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    Essay What is Mr Golspie’s role in the novel Angel Pavement? When we come to see Twigg & Dersingham company in the Angel pavement for the first time it present a sorry spectacle. The first chapter contains a detailed description of a street and the employees at Twigg & Dersingham. We learn that the life of the main characters such as Mr. Smith‚ Turgis or Miss Matfield is rather dull. The story is set against the background of the Great Depression. Their work at the office is quite monotonous;

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    Introduction Although Henry Fielding (1707-1754) wrote many literary works I am going to deal mainly with his major novels‚ Joseph Andrews‚ \and Amelia. All of these works contain a strong moral message‚ but the moral message is not entirely consistent‚ and is presented in various ways. One of Fielding’s main concerns was the question of marriage. His ideas on marriage are concisely summed up by All worthy in his sermon on matrimony: I have always thought love the only foundation of happiness

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    Patriarchy in Conduct Literature 4 1.3. The Private Sphere as Woman’s Domain. 5 1.4. Characteristics of ideal female features 6 1.5. Conduct Manuals and the Novels 9 2. Romantic Novels. 11 2.1. Introduction to the Novel. 11 2.2. The Novel of Manners‚ Sentiment and Emulation. 12 2.3 The Gothic Romance. 13 3. Jane Austen and Her Novels in relation to the Contemporary Literature. 15 3.1. Austen’s Criticism about the Contemporary Fiction. 15 3.2. Jane Austen as a Conservative Writer and as a

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    feelings dwelling in me. I found salvation in teaching myself how to express ‘no’ as a part of speech and mostly within‚ not without. But Daniel Clowes did not seem to care much about censorship while writing “Ghost World”‚ one of the best graphic novels about adolescence and its mechanism of defense. Nor Terry Zwigoff did while directing the film adaptation with the same title. He actually enriched the story by adding “Lolita” plots‚ while Clowes only referred to individuals of the same age falling

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    From the novel you have studied‚ what is the most important lesson you have learnt? Support your answer with close reference to the text. GUIDELINES • Name the novel and the author that you have chosen • Think of a lesson you have learnt after reading the novel • State the characters and the hardships they go through that have an impact on you • Explain how the story affects you • Use evidence from the novel to support your answer ------------------------------------------------- SAMPLE

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    English Argumentative essay The novel‚ “Their Eyes Were Watching God”‚ focuses on a woman named Janie Crawford and her adventure for love and her struggle for independence. Since both of Janie’s parents were not in her life‚ she is forced to live with her grandmother. One day‚ Janie meets

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    Critical analysis of Thomas Hardy’s novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles. Thomas Hardy is on of the brightest representatives of English realism at the end of 19th and the beginning of 20th century. At that time‚ a new stage in the development of the English literature began‚ characterized with the conflict between the supporters of realism and the new modernist artistic directions. He learned from his predecessors to raise important and interesting problems‚ to tell interesting stories ‚ to portray

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    The Novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne had criticizes the Puritan society in the colonial times in Massachusetts. The Novel has a lot of characters and all of them start the Novel in a way and then end it in another way. Chillingworth is one of the most transcendent Characters in the Novel because he completely changed during the Novel. While he was on "England" Hester is in the New World working and waiting for him to come back. He got Kidnaped by the Native Americans thats why he wasn’t with

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    Key Facts full title ·  The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time author · Mark Haddon type of work · Novel genre · Mystery novel; Family drama; Children’s book language · English time and place written · Early 2000s‚ Oxford‚ England date of first publication · 2003 publisher · Vintage Contemporaries‚ a division of Random House Publishing Inc. narrator · The novel’s mildly autistic protagonist‚ Christopher John Francis Boone‚ narrates in the first-person. point of view · Christopher

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    Many novels are so successful that producers can’t wait to adapt the story into a film. The majority of times‚ however‚ the original novel is much stronger than the movie because it is able to capture the emotions of each character‚ all the symbols and meaningful events. Due to the novel’s flexibility‚ readers are able to extend the use of their imagination. Similarly‚ this was the case with William Golding’s masterpiece‚ "The Lord of the Flies." Overall‚ the novel is far superior to the film because

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