and sentenced to a life of hard labor in Australia by the corrupt Judge Turpin‚ who lusts after Barker’s wife Lucy. Now under the assumed name "Sweeney Todd"‚ Barker returns to London with sailor Anthony Hope. At his old Fleet Street lodgings above Mrs. Nellie Lovett’s pie shop‚ he is led to believe that Lucy‚ having been raped by Turpin‚ has poisoned herself‚ and his teenage daughter Johanna is now Turpin’s ward‚ and like her mother before her‚ is the object of his unwanted affections. Todd vows
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A Feminist Reading of Clarissa Dalloway in Mrs. Dalloway A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Degree of BA in English South China Business College‚ Guangdong University of Foreign Studies April‚ 2011 DECLARATIONS The thesis contains no material which has been accepted for the award of any other degree or diploma in any institutions of higher learning and that‚ to the best of my knowledge and belief‚ the thesis contains no
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psyches. Throughout section‚ Mrs. Ramsay questions her existence and purpose in life‚ echoing the novelist Virginia Woolf’s own existential angst and concerns of being agnostic and therefore without belief of a next life. The novel‚ which consists of three individual parts: The Window‚ Time Passes and The Lighthouse‚ is a general portrayal of James Ramsay’s ten-year journey from the Ramsay’s house to the lighthouse‚ a period with a minimal plot-line‚ during which Mrs. Ramsay‘s death is quasi-unnoticed;
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Facing Fears and Rejecting Childhood Fantasies: The Analysis of Two Poems The transitional period that children and their parents endure can be a challenging time as children are forced to become mature adults. Children have to say goodbye to what they think is everyday. They have to reject some of their orthodox childhood practices. However‚ this time period can also affect a parent’s life. A parent may feel that they have lost the connection between themselves and their children. Two poems
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‘Clarissa Dalloway is disagreeable and limited’ – Discuss It is absolutely just to say that this is so. Clarissa is very shallow; she fits the typical‚ one-dimensional image of women created at that time perfectly. She says on page eleven‚ “she would have been‚ in the first place‚ dark like Lady Bexborough‚ with skin of crumpled leather and beautiful eyes”. She thinks this‚ as she considers how she would have liked her life to be‚ and she reels off things she would have preferred to what she has
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_____. "Character in Fiction." The Essays of Virginia Woolf. Ed. Andrew McNeillie. Vol. 3. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich‚ 1988. 420-38. _____. "Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown." The Essays of Virginia Woolf. Ed. Andrew McNeillie. Vol. 3. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich‚ 1988. 384-9. _____. Mrs. Dalloway. London: Penguin‚ 1996. _____. Mrs. Dalloway ’s Party: A Short Story Sequence. Ed. Stella McNichol. London: The Hogarth Press‚ 1978. _____. "Professions for Women." Norton Anthology of English
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{“Berry”}Literature question berry” 1. What was the issue that Mrs. Osborn was having with Berry‚ regarding his accommodations? 2. Where was Berry eventually employed? 3. What was the rumour about Mrs. Osborn’s feelings towards Dr. Renfield? 4. What position did Mr. Osborn hold at the establishment? 5. Recount the discussion between Mrs. Osborn and Dr. Renfield about Berry. What decisions were made? 6. List the tasks that Berry was assigned. What was his view on the number of tasks? 7. What
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his infamous role as Mr. Bean in the television series and 1997 feature film of the same name. Synopsis English actor‚ comedian and screenwriter Rowan Atkinson was born on January 6‚ 1955. In 1979‚ Atkinson wrote for and starred in the BBC’s Not the Nine O’clock News. His later landed a role on the television series Blackadderand subsequent spin-off TV specials. In 1990‚ he starred as his originally developed character Mr. Bean on the televison series of the same name. Mr. Bean was adapted for
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Julia Kristeva’s quotation from Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia provides an interesting piece of observation in regards to the rampant depression apparent throughout literature. Kristeva points out that melancholy and depression can send writers into an “abyss of sorrow‚” (Kristeva). However‚ she believes that so long as a writer avoids collapsing into the “noncomunicable grief‚” (Kristeva)‚ extraordinarily powerful pieces of literature can rise from ashes of depression. The melancholy experienced
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British Modern Fiction Modern Science-Fiction in Britain started in the early 20th century. The modernism is the name of Europe movement that predominated to the art and cultural since 1890 -1930. It has captivated a lot of people from the time it started up to this point. It has certain aspects that attract people‚ such as war‚ love or relationships‚ social class‚ communication‚ political commentary. These stories contained solutions to modern problems at that time‚ such as‚ the
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