which turned out to be a bad decision for the animals. There were other animals on the farm besides Napoleon like Muriel or Snowball who were fit to lead‚ they just didn’t speak up because they were afraid‚ or they were chased off of the farm. Of course animals like rats or sheep don’t have a lot of say on the farm either because of their size or stupidity. Animals like the horses or Muriel the goat would have been worthy to lead the farm because they had big parts in the story and they were always talking
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J.D Salinger is a critically acclaimed author that is equally well known for his eye catching‚ yet slim‚ body of work as he is for his reclusive and oftentimes mysterious personal life. Salinger was brought up in an average family‚ and seemed to be set to live an average life. However in 1942‚ Salinger was `drafted into WWII‚ and he served until 1944. The war was not kind to anyone‚ and especially not to the sensitive Salinger. He ended up suffering a mental breakdown‚ and recovered in a mental hospital
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The Black Madonna The Black Madonna by Muriel spark is a short story about Racism and religion. It aims to explore the real meanings behind what people say and the actions they do. It deals with happenings that closely reveal people’s reactions to it. Muriel Spark does this through subtle humor by the ironic happenings that take place during the short story. The characters in the short story play a huge role in adding to the dramatic storyline. At first impression the married couple Lou and
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to the end of the barn and tried to puzzle out the Seven Commandments which were inscribed there. Finding herself unable to read more than individual letters‚ she fetched Muriel’”(49)‚ "’Muriel‚’ she said‚ ‘read me the Fourth Commandment. Does it not say something about never sleeping in a bed?’"(49)‚ “With some difficulty Muriel spelt it out... ‘It says‚ ’No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets‚’’ she announced finally.”(49). These three quotes were all related because this conversation arose
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World War II had a profound effect on everyone who risked their lives for their country. The soldiers who were fortunate enough to make it out alive were often scarred for life and dealt with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Post-war America and the experiences that the soldiers suffered during WWII were so disconnected from each other that many veterans could no longer fit in with society. When America’s troops came home‚ the country had changed dramatically as it had developed into a consumerist
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INTRODUCTION- It is possible to develop a good understanding of Australian culture by exploring Australian icons in Australian literature‚ film and painting. This understanding can be explored through the three texts: ‘Muriel’s Wedding’‚ the satirical film produced by P.J.Hogan in 1994‚ Sidney Nolan’s 1947 Ned Kelly series of paintings which was inspired by the mythology and historical story of Ned Kelly‚ and ‘Kath and Kim’ the comedic television series‚ produced in 2003‚ which represents contemporary
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Gender Inequality is a characteristics of social structure‚ according to which different social groups (in this case – men and women) possess stable differences and resulting from these unequal opportunities in society‚ there was realized by researchers in social sciences and humanities through the notion of gender in 1980‚ as the basis for feminist concept (Joan Scott). Conceptualizing gender shed light on the social construction of masculinity and femininity as oppositional categories with unequal
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Middle White Boar – calls a meeting – animals come because he is highly regarded by the other animals The animals come to meeting in following order: dogs: Bluebell‚ Jessie‚ Pincher‚ pigs‚ hens‚ pigeons‚ sheep and cows‚ two horses – Boxer and Clover‚ Muriel – white goat and Benjamin – old Donkey‚ ducklings Mollie‚ and then the Cat. All except for Moses the Raven Old Major explains he is dying‚ the cruelty and inequality from the humans‚ how they don’t know happiness – live miserable‚ laborious‚ and
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provide the reader with a checklist which they can use through out the novel to see the treacherous behaviour of the pigs‚ and the fact that they change the seven commandments multiple times throughout the novel shows their total lack of morals‚ ‘Muriel‚ reading over the seven commandments to herself‚ noticed there was yet another the animals had remembered wrong’. The fact that the animals regularly just ‘read over the seven commandments’ shows the importance of the commandments to the animals‚
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The Black Madonna by Muriel Spark Brief summary Lou and Raymond Parker are a Catholic working-class couple with middle-class aspirations (D.: Bestrebungen) . They flaunt /display (D.: zur Schau stellen) their progressiveness and tolerance by befriending two newly arrived Jamaicans‚ Henry Pierce and Oxford St.John and they also introduce them to their friends. As Lou is jealous of her neighbours` and her sister`s children‚ Lou prays to the newly installed and consecrated Black Madonna – a
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