The Scarlet Letter and A Tale of Two Cities: A Comparison The ninth commandment tells man not to give false witness.(Exodus 20:16) Nathaniel Hawthorn and Charles Dickens in their novels The Scarlet Letter and A Tale of Two Cities‚ respectively‚ both use punishment for deception as a recurring theme. Although they do so to different degrees and in dissimilar manners‚ both authors agree that deception is a sin that requires punishment. In The Scarlet Letter‚ the heroine‚ Hester Prynne conceived
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Edward Island it is almost impossible to avoid an encounter with the freckled faced‚ red-headed heroine from Lucy Maud Montgomery’s novel‚ Anne of Green Gables. Anne is everywhere; her unique image can be found on everything from dolls to preserves. The Anne phenomenon is known worldwide and has been an integral part of the Island’s tourist industry since the early twentieth century. Lucy Maud Montgomery‚ one of Canada’s most prolific writers‚ created the beloved character of Anne that is celebrated
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Teacher’s notes LEVEL 3 PENGUIN READERS Teacher Support Programme Dracula Bram Stoker for help. Lucy dies and is buried. A number of children are then found with marks on their necks and Van Helsing knows that Lucy has come back to life as a vampire. He and his companions go to the coffin and push a wooden stake into her heart and cut off her head. Van Helsing sets out a plan to kill Dracula. The men first go to Carfax House‚ where Dracula is thought to be hiding‚ but they find
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brother is to be engaged to a woman from Oregon and that he is in accountancy school. When he sees his brother‚ he is surprised at how old he looks. At first‚ he doesn’t even believe that the "old man" is his own brother. When the doctor gives him a mirror so he can see himself‚ he becomes very upset and confused. However‚ he forgets this in a matter of a few minutes. Eventually‚ we learn that he has Korsakov’s syndrome‚ which is usually caused by alcoholic degeneration of the mammillary bodies.
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seduction throughout the film. Most notably‚ Lucy was portrayed from the outset as an overtly flirtatious character. As Dracula’s first victim‚ she embraced her sexuality and actively sought out vampirism. Simple aesthetic features were effective to convey her sensuality. Her clothing was mostly flamboyant reds and other provocative colours‚ especially after her initial encounter with the devil. These colours have a connotation with blood and deviousness. Lucy similarly utilised wordplay with her male
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someone else. Dracula strives to be the single dominant male‚ by hoarding women around him and claiming them as his own. In this sense‚ Dracula can be seen as “the ultimate adulterer‚ whose purpose is nothing if it is not to turn good Englishwomen like Lucy and Mina away from their own kind and customs.” (Stevenson) Stoker does an amazing job of illustrating vampire sexuality as a “doubled phenomenon”. (Stevenson) In this essay I will look at the dual interpretations between “feeding” and “sex” and how
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everyday situations I‚ myself‚ have experienced. Families Robert Putnam focuses on social class and family structure in this section. Divorce‚ race‚ and gender norms are discussed. Putnam introduces a better than average family including Earl‚ Patty‚ Lucy‚ and Andrew. Earl was raised in a middle class house with a broken family in the 1950’s. This didn’t stop him from going to college‚ getting a degree in business‚ and meeting the love of his life‚ Patty. Patty was a sophomore at the time and dropped
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important aspect of characters is the way they interact with each other. Their interactions can either create conflict or resolution. Most of the characters in Dracula can be compared and deemed equal to a character in Carmilla; Dracula and Carmilla‚ Lucy and Laura‚ Van Helsing and the General. On the other hand‚ there are characters in Dracula that have no equal in Carmilla and vice versa. These are the characters that define each story and make it unique from the other. In his novel Dracula Stoker
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which are evident in the story‚ ideas‚ characters‚ and actual dialogue which are presented in the play‚ and mirrored in Mozart’s opera ‘Cosi Fan Tutte’. His insights and opinions which are offered through Lewis‚ go largely against the views of Nick and Lucy who represent the general public‚ because in addition to the main themes of the play‚ Nowra intends to open the audience’s eyes to some of the less obvious ideas‚ such as the necessity of self-discovery and transformation‚ the significance of art and
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challenged the traditional gender stereotypes of the time. This “New Woman” is showcased in The Awful Truth‚ where the female lead‚ Lucy‚ is suggested of being intimately involved with three men‚ despite being married. This was obviously a stark contrast to the traditional woman‚ who was expected to stay loyal to her husband and not engage in any sort of infidelity. Lucy is a shown to be a flirtatious woman‚ busy getting busy‚ which was strictly against the norm of women being monogamous. She refuses
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