When you spend time in jail‚ you get a new view on life. Since O’ Henry spent some time in jail for embezzling‚ his stories all seem to have a lawless element. Running from the law seems to be a big part of his short stories‚ and even more than his famous surprise endings‚ the obvious similarities between the stories‚ especially the lawlessness element‚ obscures the plots as just details. When you consider that 2 of the plots are about these grafting schemes‚ and the third one implies it as much
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then consolidate that power. One Shakespearean hero that can be considered a Machiavellian is Henry in Shakespeare’s famous play Henry V. He can be considered a hero because of how he was able to use his Renaissance prince qualities to better his country. Juxtaposing with the Renaissance prince‚ Henry the Fifth‚ is the Machiavellian villain known as Richard of Gloucester‚ in Shakespeare’s Richard III.
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Literary Semiotics Quite often the terms semiotics and semiology are equal‚ so that often instead semiotics use semiology and vice versa. Ferdinand de Saussure speaks of the sign and the first makes the distinction between semiotics and semiology. Semiotics is the general theory of signs. Semiology study the functioning of the sign in the social practice. Today avoids this distinction and semiotics equate with semiology‚ ie‚ they are synonyms. GENERAL Semiotics: The sign does not exist only
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I. Read the following passage carefully‚ and answer all the questions A Moment of Madness It was Arvind’s birthday. In the afternoon there would be a cake and a party‚ but it would be like other birthdays‚ and Arvind was eleven. So in the morning‚ he collected his friends‚ Jimmy and Paudeni‚ and they set off to the forest that lay on the hillside in a huge half-moon behind the village. When they reached the first few trees they stopped‚ listening to the sounds of the birds and searching
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Stopes’ reading on the subject prompted her first book ’Married Love’‚ which was published in 1918. The book was condemned by churches‚ the medical establishment and the press but was very popular‚ selling 2‚000 copies within a fortnight. Thousands of women wrote to ask her advice. Marie Stopes became famous overnight‚ and used the publicity to advance her cause. Stope’s first book Married Love published in 1918 was condemned by churches‚ the medical establishment and the press. However‚ the book
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Literary Devices Allegory A form of extended metaphor‚ in which objects‚ persons‚ and actions in a narrative‚ are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. The underlying meaning has moral‚ social‚ religious‚ or political significance and characters are often personifications of abstract ideas as charity‚ greed‚ or envy. Thus an allegory is a story with two meanings‚ a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning. Alliteration The repetition of the same sound at the beginning
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Criticism and defences of advertising -Advertising supports our economic system; without it new products could not be introduced and developments in others could not be announced. Competitive advertising of new products and new business powers the engine’ of our economy‚ fastering economic growth and creating jobs in many industries. -People use advertising to gather information before making buying decision -A revenues make possible the free’ mass media we use not only for entertainment
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1. Allegory (寓言)– The word derives from the Greek allegoria ( “speaking other-wise” ). It loosely describes any writing in verse or prose that has a double meaning. This fictional literary narrative acts as an extended metaphor in which persons‚ abstract ideas‚ or events represent not only themselves on the literal level‚ but also stand for something else on the symbolic level. An allegorical reading usually involves moral or spiritual concepts that may be more significant than the actual‚ literal
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In the poem “O Me! O Life!” by Walt Whitman he starts by saying that he has always questioned himself and life like most people regularly do. The fact that there are tons of others in this world like him‚ faithless and without direction and foolish‚ he admits he may be amongst the worst of them. He claims that he is always criticizing and analyzing himself in a negative light and how he along with other people long to become more and long to see the truth of what the meaning of life is. The poem
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When considering art criticism it becomes difficult not to discuss inconsistencies between the content of the work if any exist. It is easy to point out the successful connections of subject matter and the expression achieved; the intended interpretation to be deciphered by the audience. However for professional critics it must be a foregone conclusion to evaluate art so impartially and without subjective personal feelings or prejudices. This of course contributes to the stereotype behind the
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