Kenneth Millard‚ in his book Coming of Age in Contemporary American Fiction‚ examines the coming-of-age genre and its place in American culture. He makes a relatively solid case that authors use adolescent characters to enact social change‚ accurately asserting that “adolescence‚ youth‚ [and] innocence...become an idealised fictional category which literary writers can use to give a particular urgency to representations of subjectivity and socialisation that highlight their own social and political
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In Thomas Mallory’s King Arthur‚ he emphasizes the values of the people in this time period. He does this through characters and through conflicts that occur in the story. Throughout the story‚ Mallory gives the readers a better understanding of how the people viewed kings and their expectations of how the nobility should act. Not only that‚ but also the different beliefs and customs of the time period. Values that Mallory emphasizes many times throughout the epic is the value of humility and mercy
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My Papa’s Waltz Theodore Roethke was born to Otto and Helen Roethke on born on May 25‚ 1908. As a child his parents and his uncle owned and operated a greenhouse in Saginaw Michigan. Theodore spent a lot of time helping with his father working in the greenhouse. In 1923 his father died of cancer and shortly thereafter he turned to literature. His poem "My Papa’s Waltz" is a very emotionally stimulating poem. Roethke’s use of ethos in this poem helps establish his creditability. He writes
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Slessors poetry is distinctive in that it evokes string images by emphasising the mood and the setting of his subjects. He uses poetic devices such as personification‚ metaphors and sound to highlight his philosophical views on life. Slessors philosophical view is evident in the poems "North country". "North Country" demonstrates the lack of concern towards the country land enforced by loggers. It ’s a discovery of change from a peaceful country environment to the harsh and cruel takeover by technological
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The article‚ "Calculating the optimum temperature for serving hot beverages" (2007) by Fredericka Brown and Kenneth R. Diller focuses on the science behind the optimum serving temperature of hot beverages. The purpose of the article is to persuade hot beverage vendors to reduce the serving temperature of hot beverages in order to "reduce the scald burn hazard and improving customer satisfaction" [1]. This analysis is to underline how the authors made their article simple to comprehend by utilizing
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environment has a big influence on the roles deemed accurately for men and women. In "A Rose for Emily‚" we see the effects of socially given gender roles for a women along with the same social perception upon the male adult in the poem "My Papa ’s Waltz."Both show images of gender roles in their respective ways. For many generations status has been the envy and the demise of many people. William Faulkner intriguingly depicts status‚ society‚ and the role of women in his short fiction "A Rose for
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Robert Hayden and "My Papa’s Waltz" by Theodore Roethke‚ a relationship between a father and son are portrayed as both authors reflect on their own childhood experiences. While the two poems have similarities; in that‚ the fathers work hard and believe in stern punishment‚ they also have several contrasting ideas in parenting that separate their respective roles as fathers. In both poems‚ the fathers have worked hard to provide for their family. In "My Papa’s Waltz"‚ the father’s daily labors were
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Poets use many techniques to convey their thoughts and purpose in their poetry. In this case‚ Kenneth Slessor’s poetry will be analysed to show his effectiveness. William Street is a poem which discusses about the beauty and ugliness of the red light district. Country Towns‚ in contrast‚ romanticizes the country and its sleepy atmosphere. In addition‚ Night-Ride is also sleepy in tone and tells about a train trip Slessor ttok. Finally‚ Beach Burial will be discussed about its anti-war themes. William
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Kenneth Branagh takes Hamlet from play to screen in an intense‚ full-length adaptation and he got it right! Gregory Doran also takes a whack at bringing Hamlet from the stage to the screen but with a more modern-day interpretation. Branagh restores Hamlet’s greatest scenes and brings out the most in Shakespeare’s awe-inspiring revenge-tragedy plot; in both performance and direction‚ Branagh displays energy and cogency. The language has the upmost clarity and makes the film feel accessible
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‘For me‚ the story is less a horror…than a larger than life gothic fairytale’ (Kenneth Brannagh) How far and in what ways do you agree with this description of the text? Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a novel which forces the reader to question whether it is a simple horror story or whether it is a gothic fairytale of many depths. Frankenstein is considered by many critics as the first modern horror story ever written‚ and it opened a whole new world of ideas for novels and has inspired many similar
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