A. Melendrez Dr. Colson English 101A June 14‚ 2013 The Girl on the Strand What is beauty? That kind of beauty that touches one’s heart and soul and brings happiness and many other emotions to one’s spirit. In James Joyce’s novel “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”‚ the girl on the strand portrays this ethereal beauty. I claim that the girl on the strand signifies beauty because Joyce describes the girl as a strange seabird and a monument to mortal beauty. Although the girl on the strand
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change in the main character‚ Grendel. One compositional risk that Gardner uses extremely effectively is motif. A motif is defined as recurring structures‚ contrasts‚ or literary devices that can help to develop and inform the piece’s major themes. The most effective motif Gardner uses over the course of the novel is the recurring references to the signs of the zodiac. Other important motifs referenced in Grendel are the seasons‚ machinery‚ and the number twelve. Starting in chapter one‚ Gardner
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First written in the 1880s and extensively revised in 1908‚ The Portrait of a Lady is often considered to be James’s greatest achievement. In it‚ he explored many of his most characteristic themes‚ including the conflict between American individualism and European social custom and the situation of Americans in Europe. James proclaimed that “The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent reality.” Plot was for him but the extension of character. The novel must
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The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James Apparently the fiction of Henry James appears to be about people at the center of high society. On closer examination‚ many of James’s characters struggle to enter high society from less fortunate backgrounds. A repeated theme in Henry James’s fiction is the culture clash between Americans and Europeans. As an American who spent most of his life in Europe‚ he was well-placed to see the contrasts between these two cultures. For example‚ his novels Daisy
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Jasmine Watkins Mr. Seborowski British Literature Honors April 9‚ 2013 Motifs play a central role in Macbeth as a way to display important actions‚ scenes‚ and lines. Motifs are a recurring subject‚ theme‚ or idea especially in a literary artistic or musical work. In the Shakespearean tragedy Macbeth‚ the three motifs‚ appearances vs. reality‚ blood‚ and darkness are used in Macbeth to demonstrate repetitive structures‚ contrasts‚ and literary devices that aid in the development of the
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Week 8 Assignment 2: Self Portrait By: James Roppel II Professor Michael Briere HUM 111 September 4‚ 2012 My self portrait would be the combination of Michelangelo (sketch of a male head‚ in two positions)‚ and the abstract self portrait of Stanton MacDonald-Wright (1890-1973). Stanton MacDonald-Wright collaborating with Morgan Russell developed “Synchronism”. An “aesthetic philosophy upon modernist theories of perception“. My portrait would show signs of Synchronism‚ a color based style that
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In the visual text‚ Juno directed by Jason Reitman‚ the motifs develop one or more ideas which include‚ the purpose - age does not mean maturity and love. The motifs appear throughout the visual text which may seem random but are important along the course of the visual text. In the visual text Juno‚ the main character 16 year old Juno decides to experience sex with her best friend Paulie Bleeker‚ who wasn’t entirely eager to do so. Despite their closeness they are not together for the majority
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cloudy shapes and beings." Analyse some of the stages of this movement as they are described in the chapter. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a brilliant work dealing with the realisations and discoveries that one person has to make in life in order comprehend the restraints of religion and society. In doing so‚ he can gain freedom and reach his full potential of becoming an artist. Throughout this semi-autobiographical novel Joyce recreates some of his own experiences through the protagonist
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you aware of the main plots‚and it does a great job of that.The main topic I’m working on is about the motifs in this novel. Motifs are the repetitiveness of several items throughout the novel. If you pick up on them then you already know what im talking about. The idea of a motif is to allow the reader to understand why this item is so important and what it has relations to in the book. A Motif can stand for many things in a book such as ‚it could be major foreshadowing‚ or even keeping an idea going
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Final Draft: Sex Motif Essay Sexuality is a recurring motif in The Catcher in The Rye. Both physical and emotional relationships offer Holden opportunity to open up to the world and see that there is nothing wrong with being a conformist. They also represent what he fears most about the adult world: complexity‚ unpredictability‚ and potential for conflict and change. As he acts out at the Museum of Natural History in chapter 16‚ Holden likes the world to be silent and frozen‚ predictable and unchanging
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