Miserables‚ consider the fortunes of Cosette‚ Jean Valjean‚ Javert‚ Marius‚ and Thenardiers and how they have developed. Further analyze the social injustices portrayed by Hugo‚ through their stories. In Victor Hugo’s novel‚ Les Miserables‚ there are many social injustices that are made evident through his writing. These social injustices are made clear through the stories of the main characters. Hugo presents these issues from a wide spectrum of perspectives. The fortunes of Jean Valjean and Cosette
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How does Shakespeare present the theme of deception in the first two acts of Twelfth night? Shakespeare’s Twelfth night‚ focuses mainly on the theme of deception in both main plot and the sub-plot. Not only do the characters deceive each other‚ but many of them are also self-deceived and we‚ as the audience‚ begin to realise ourselves that we are sometimes deceived. This creates great opportunities for Shakespeare to create humour and dramatic irony‚ which a Shakespearian audience would understand
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seen in a different light. In the Wuthering heights manor‚ two cousins‚ Cathy and Hareton are living with their uncle‚ Heathcliff‚ and their relationship with one another follows a pattern of fights and reconciliation. Cathy’s arrogant and spoiled nature is shown through her tumultuous relationship with Hareton‚ however despite this moral ambiguity‚ Cathy is perceived as a heroine with a good heart‚ while her relationship with Hareton is encouraged and seen as pure and healthy. Throughout the novel
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Elizabeth Bennet is arguably one of Jane Austen’s most memorable characters. Her bold nature and clever wits especially cause for her to be noteworthy character. These traits guide Elizabeth’s actions throughout the novel and contribute to the conflict between her and other characters‚ particularly Mr. Darcy and Lady Catherine. Elizabeth is the second child of the five Bennet sisters and is characterized as a young woman with "something more of quickness than her sisters.” She is considered as a
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Part a) Lee presents Miss Maudie as a generally optimistic person‚ despite being a widow. She uses many techniques to demonstrate Miss Maudies positive view of Maycomb. Lees use of the superlative ‘safest’ to describe Miss Maudies view of the ‘folks’ of Maycomb‚ this illustrates how highly she regards most of the people who live there‚ this creates a tone of optimism which juxtaposes her positivity. Furthermore‚ Miss Maudie answers an inquisition of jem’s using the verb ‘surprised’ to perhaps demonstrate
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PIKE By Ted Hughes Background Ted Hughes was born in Mytholmroyd in the West Riding of Yorkshire‚ England in 1930. His poetry discards Romantic notions about the natural world. He became British Poet Laureate in 1984 and was so until his death in 1998. In Pike Hughes offers a far from Romantic view of nature in his depiction of this primitive and malevolent fish. Stanzas 1 – 4 offers a mix of objective description (‘green tigering the gold’) and subjective description (‘their own grandeur)
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John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men does not portray women very respectively. Curley’s wife walks the ranch as a seductress. Bored‚ lonely and always looking for her husband‚ Curley. When we first encounter her appearance‚ Steinbeck describes her as having ‘full‚ rouged lips and wide-spaced eyes‚ heavily made up’ this is a prime example of her superfluous character. She is flirtatious and her body language is provocative. Before Curley’s wife makes her first appearance‚ her personality is emphasised
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How does Scrooge’s recollection of his childhood bring about his reform? In ‘A Christmas Carol’‚ Dickens uses memories from Scrooges childhood to assist him in his transformation throughout the novella. As the Ghost’s take Scrooge on adventures back into his childhood‚ thoughts charge into his mind that causes abundant feelings of regret and disappointment towards the person he has become today. He is reminded that it’s not too late to revolutionize his ways to improve himself‚ and comes to the
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novel‚ a Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens takes place in England and France around the time of the French Revolution. It follows two families‚ the Manettes and the Defarges. Both families have a connection with Charles Darnay‚ a man who left his aristocratic family to live a normal life. Both families’ relationship with Darnay leads the families together in France during the revolution to cause deadly results. Dickens uses the oppression of the revolutionaries to indicate that living with
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Is the Internet a huge homogenizer? So you are viewing an article online‚ then you get a pop-out widows showing the funniest video on YouTube today --- a dog fights with a baby --- which of course you would like to share; then you find you have got unread massages on twitter; while checking‚ you notice on Facebook that Taylor Swift has published her new album; then you go to iTunes store to buy the music online. This experience is from an actual narrative of an Internet user. Surprisingly
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