The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a romantic tragedy about a man named Nick Carraway who gets involved with the life of Jay Gatsby and his not-so secretive love for Daisy Buchanan. A critic named Lionel Trilling once said‚ “Jay Gatsby is to be thought of as standing for America itself.” This is proven to be true because Gatsby moves up in life and pursues his dream. He is an example for the American way because he fails at certain things and succeeds at others. Like
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comparable to those of other writers thought to be geniuses and characteristics unique to his writing style. Firchow argues against Lionel Trilling’s (“one of the most influential critics of the century”) explicit claim that Orwell is not a genius with insight into his lifestyle‚ his unique viewpoint‚ and even his limitations that set him apart from other writers that Trilling labels as geniuses. (77) The first point Firchow makes in defending George Orwell’s intellect is the major distribution and
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Formative Writing I : Identity‚ Authenticity and Survival by Kandru Manibhushan Rao Kwame Anthony Appiah’s essay on Identity‚ Authenticity and Survival is based on Charles Taylor’s earlier work on recognition and identity. Though Taylor’s references to identity are mostly to collective identity‚ Appiah’s aim is to draw a comparison or even find a connection between individual identity and collective identity. Identity A collective identity‚ explains Appiah
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On Morality/ By Joan Didion As it happens I am in Death Valley‚ in a room at the Enterprise Motel and Trailer Park‚ and it is July‚ and it is hot. In fact it is 119°. I cannot seem to make the air conditioner work‚ but there is a small refrigerator‚ and I can wrap ice cubes in a towel and hold them against the small of my back. With the help of the ice cubes I have been trying to think‚ because The American Scholar asked me to‚ in some abstract way about “morality‚” a word I distrust more every
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Teaching Huck Finn: The Controversy and the Challenge Resources on this Site: 1. The Struggle for Tolerance by Peaches Henry. 2. Racism and Huckleberry Finn by Allen Webb (includes list of works for teaching about slavery). Additional Internet Resources: 1. A site created for teachers by WGBH television to compliment the PBS special‚ "Born to Trouble‚" that focuses on the innovative Huck Finn curriculum developed in Cherry Hill‚ New Jersey. 2. The Huck Finn and Censorship Teacher Cyberguide
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Bolanos 1 Brigitte Bolanos Eng 110 Johanna Scheffer October 15‚ 2014 Post-colonialism Criticism Joseph Conrad’s‚ Heart of Darkness is about the character Marlow venturing off to Africa to meet the famous Kurtz that everybody in Europe praises. In the novella‚ a shadowy second figure is narrating Marlow’s telling of his life-changing journey in meeting Kurtz to a crew of men. In his journey Marlow encounters the demand for ivory‚ colonial dehumanization and overall the effects of imperialism. Due
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“The most iconic characters in literature are alienated by the changing world around them.” Discuss these ideas in relation to The Great Gatsby and Nineteen Eighty-Four. In ‘The Great Gatsby‚’ Fitzgerald frequently demonstrates how isolated his strongest characters are by the world around them through a variety of techniques. Both Nick and Gatsby are presented as being alienated from the world in some way and‚ as suggested by William Troy‚ both characters represent two forces in Fitzgerald’s own
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CRITICA ESSAY #1 Jeffrey M. Lilburn‚ M.A (The University of Western Ontario) is the author of a study guide on Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman and of numerous educational essays. In the following essay‚ he discusses the narrative and moral ambiguity in Ethan Frome First published in 1911‚ Ethan Frome is now considered a classic of twentieth-century American literature. A tale of lost opportunity‚ failed romance and disappointed dreams ending with a botched suicide attempt that leaves two people
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Rises overtly cynical‚ focusing instead on the circularity of the human condition. Emphasis in the considerable body of criticism in print on The Sun Also Rises rests with the cynicism and world-weariness to be found in the novel. Although Lionel Trilling in 1939 afforded his readers a salutary‚ corrective view‚ most commentators have found the meaning inherent in the pattern of the work despairing. Perhaps most outspoken is E. M. Halliday‚ who sees Jake Barnes as adopting "a kind of desperate
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How does Austen represent women’s agency in Emma? The term ‘agency’ is used to signify the ‘ability or capacity to act or exert power’ (Oxford English Dictionary‚ 2013) therefore when referring to ‘women’s agency’‚ one implies the feminist philosophical idea of women’s capacity for independent choice and action. Jane Austen’s Emma was published in the early 19th Century (Whalan)‚ an era in which women had an especially rigid role in society that often confined them to the desires of men.
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