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    Oedipus Complex‚ structuralism Texts: Lawrence‚ Sons and Lovers Lawrence‚ “The Snake” Lawrence‚ “The Rockinghorse Winner” Lawrence‚ “The Blind Man” Lawrence‚ “The Horse Dealer’s Daughter” Lawrence‚ “Gladiatorial” Lawrence‚ “Sex versus Loveliness” Maugham‚ Of Human Bondage Additional resources: Powerpoint‚ “Freud and Modern Thought” Powerpoint‚ “Literary Theory” Powerpoint‚ “Structuralism and Semiotics” Various fine arts resources Handout‚ “An Incomplete List of Archetypes” Handout‚ “Structuralism

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    Contents Introduction……………………………………………………….…..…….3 Chapter 1: General overview of Grammar………………………….…….5 Chapter 1.1: The Subject as the Principal Part of the Sentence…………7 Chapter 2: Ways of Expressing the Subject…………….……….………12 Conclusion………………………………………………………..……….16 Bibliography…………………………………………………….………..18 Introduction The title of this term paper is “Ways of Expressing the Subject”. The main goal is to identify the main features of the subject in the sentence and to examine the subject and

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    leads an intellectual lifestyle by reading book‚ attending lectures‚ traveling around the world‚ and learning and experiencing different religions. Overall‚ he is an idealist who seeks for the absolutely spiritual happiness. Like Larry explains to Maugham: “Money is nothing to us; it’s merely the symbol of success. We are the greatest idealists in the world; I happen to think that we’ve set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection”

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    subjective modality d) grammatical means (mood forms of the verb) conveying grammatical modality. I do really wish it hadnt been you. (Greene) Can I come up and see your pictures (Hemingway) Having it all‚ one cant leave a woman without a bob. (Maugham) 310 d) When the modal verb can expresses irrefutability of action or assuredness of statement‚ it may be conveyed in Ukrainian‚ where this kind of modal meaning is usually expressed implicitly‚ through a definite word-order and sentence stress (prosodic

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    The English author William S. Maugham is best known for his short story “Mr. Know All”‚ in which he employs the irony technique brilliantly. Written in the same fashion is “The Verger”‚ another short story about the path of making success of an illiterate verger. Maugham‚ in this amazingly ironic literary work‚ has put the art of utilizing irony to the top degree with the reply of Foreman the protagonist to the bank manager at the end of the story. Foreman has been the verger of St. Peter’s for

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    few differences‚ though the authors’ use of language‚ ending‚ and plot. In “Appointment in Samarra” Maugham uses assertive language that depicts Death in a negative way. He lets the reader know through his language the kind of fear the character Death emits to the Merchant. “She looked at me and made a threatening gesture…Death will not find me.”(Maugham 1). The reader can pinpoint with this fear and understand the story better. On the other hand‚ in “Godfather Death”

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    Analysis of the story “The Escape” by Somerset Maugham. Sometimes men cannot say “No” to women‚ although they want it‚ and that’s why they have to make up some situations to make women say them “No”. The short story “The Escape” written by Somerset Maugham is exactly about this case‚ about the conflict between man and woman‚ and this escape is the main theme of the text. The idea of the story is that one should put on his thinking and act very carefully‚ as sometimes procrastination can give better

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    Analysis of the story ‘The Escape’ by Somerset Maugham The story “The Escape” written by an English writer Somerset Maugham is under the interpretation. This is a story about common people in common situation‚ and Maugham manages to tell it with the sense of humour and in a very interesting way. The story has a straight line narrative structure with author’s digressions at the beginning. The author establishes realistic setting to his piece of writing. He is the observer-writer‚ he uses the

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    William Somerset Maugham. The Unconquered. William Somerset Maugham is a British playwright‚ novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and the highest paid author during the 1930s. By 1940‚ when the collapse of France and its occupation by the German Third Reich forced Maugham to leave the French Riviera‚ he was a refugee – but one of the wealthiest and most famous writers in the English-speaking world. May be that is why in 1943 he wrote a short story called

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    purpose of understanding the concept of “different types of atmosphere” 3. To find out all the peculiarities of “atmosphere” 4. It has to reveal the function of usage of “atmosphere” 5. It has the purpose of looking through different sources of “Stylistics” 6. To search through O. Henry’s short stories 7. Finding examples which demonstrate one or another type of atmosphere 8. It has to distinguish between the main types of atmosphere found and give supporting examples 9. It has to reflect the

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