L. M. Montgomery once stated‚ “… we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world….” Montgomery means that whatever a person does or gets‚ there will be consequences. One would agree with this sentiment. Two works of literature that exemplify this quote are Animal Farm by George Orwell and A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. Animal Farm by George Orwell shows that “we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world.” This work of literature is set on a farm called Manor Farm
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A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens‚ set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 200 million copies sold‚ it ranks among the most famous works in the history of fictional literature.[2] The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution‚ the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution
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we meet also exhibit similar propriety‚ "she [Madame Lebrun] was a fresh‚ pretty woman‚ clad always in white with elbow sleeves. Her starched skirts crinkled as she came and went" (3-4). When Edna and Madame Ratignolle walk out to the beach together‚ we get an even better idea of the clothing worn by each‚ "She [Edna] wore a cool muslin...white...also a white linen collar and the big straw hat which she had taken from the peg outside the door. Madame Ratignolle‚ more careful of her complexion‚ had
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“Holes”‚ the whole story is based around Stanley’s situation in the present and it’s connection to the past. Stanley’s bad luck is the result of his “ No good rotten-pig- stealing-great-great-grandfather‚” who failed to fulfill his promise of carrying Madame Zeroni up the mountain where the stream runs uphill. His situation at Camp Green Lake was connected to the history of ‘Kissin’ Kate Barlow‚ a schoolteacher turned bandit who robbed his great-grandfather and buried her treasure somewhere on the lake
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after growing up. They get married and have a child‚ but the baby ’s skin is the same color as a quadroon. Armand assumes that Désirée is a decendent of black people. Désirée tries to deny the accusation by asking for her mother Valmondé ’s proof‚ but Madame Valmondé only suggests that Désirée and the baby return to the Valmondé estate. Armand also insists on their leaving. After that‚ Désirée takes the baby away and walks off into a bayou‚ never to be seen again. Armand finds one letter written from
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room where an ‘’ old toady lady’’(Rilke.143)‚ Jason also describe her as an old royal looking like lady‚ for example he said‚ ‘’He jewels were big as cola cubes and sherbet lemons’’ and ‘’silver hair and a royal purple shawl’’(Rilke.143). Her name is Madame Crommelynck because she is a very formal lady. She told him that she wasn’t the vicar‚but she still sends his poems to him‚ but that she reads them first and the reason why she invites him over was to talk about his poems she just told him that you
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refer to British Narrative Prose 1700-1900 by Ebbe Klitgård. In this essay I will discuss the two following analytical points from Charles Dickens’‚ A Tale of Two Cities; 1: Darkness and death versus lightness and life‚ including a consideration of Madame Defarge versus Lucy Manette. And 2: The novel as representation of a great historical movement‚ the French Revolution. The reason for choosing these two questions is mainly because I believe that Dickens’ use of contrasts‚ like lightness versus darkness
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family struggled and suffered heavily‚ supposedly‚ due to a curse put on them by a one-legged gypsy‚ Madame Zeroni. An old‚ Egyptian woman‚ Madame Zeroni reluctantly provided Stanley’s great-great grandfather‚ Elya Yelnats‚ with a piglet‚ to get the love of his life‚ Myra Menke. As her father was already in talks with Igor Barkov‚ who offered an enormous pig‚ he demanded something similar. Thus‚ Madame Zeroni told Elya to carry the piglet up the mountain where water ran uphill‚ make him drink that water
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Unfortunately‚ violence only creates more violence. For example‚ Madame Defarge is intent on killing all that get in her way because “It was nothing to her‚ that an innocent man was to die for the sins of his forefathers; she saw‚ not him‚ but them. It was nothing to her‚ that his wife was to be made a widow and his daughter an orphan; that was insufficient punishment‚ because they were her natural enemies and her prey‚ and as such had no right to
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CHARACTER ANALYSIS Charles Darnay Charles Darnay‚ a French aristocrat by birth‚ is the protagonist of the novel. He is a noble person in the true sense of the word and a foil to his wicked uncle‚ the Marquis St. Evremonde. Taught by his mother to be compassionate‚ Darnay abhors the system into which he was born. As a result‚ he migrates to England‚ where he renounces both his name and his inheritance. In London‚ he falls in love with and marries Lucie Manette. Ironically‚ she is the daughter
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