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    about 1200 objects which illustrate the history of Cambridge. The Arbury Coffin is one of the highlights of the gallery. It contains the bones of a woman‚ a shrew and a mouse thought to date from the fourth century AD. This coffin inspired the Sylvia Plath poem ‘All the Dead Dears’. The shrew and mouse bones found in the coffin of a well-to-do Roman woman in Arbury. Her ankle had been knawed. As you walk up the stairs‚ you will arrive the Maudslay Hall. It is the museum’s principle Anthropology

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    Symbolism In The Bell Jar

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    The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath is an unsettling novel written about a young university student‚ Esther Greenwood‚ as she struggles through her journey into adulthood. Throughout the book‚ Plath uses opinionated tone‚ heavy symbolism and unique plot to force the reader to imagine themselves in Esther’s shoes as a young adult faced with the reality of life and mental illness. Fundamentally‚ the novel shows that Esther cannot or will not conform with is expected of her‚ but does not have a clear image

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    Fate vs. Freewill

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    fate vs. freewill plays a large part of Frankl’s story. Frankl is imprisoned in a concentration camp during the Second World War. He struggles to find inner peace as his journey progresses and his life unfolds. In The Bell Jar‚ a novel written by Sylvia Plath‚ Esther Greenwood is a girl searching to find her place in the world. As she falls into depression‚ she loses her power of freewill and slowly recedes into herself. Her mind becomes her prison as her will to live disintegrates. In both stories

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    Two Kinds

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    Literature: Reading‚ Reacting‚ Writing‚ 5th Edition Laurie Kirszner and Stephen Mandell Table of Contents Preface 1. Understanding Literature Imaginative Literature Conventional Themes The Literary Canon Luisa Valenzuela‚ “All about Suicide” Wole Soyinka‚ “Telephone Conversation” Thinking Critically Interpreting Literature Evaluating Literature The Function of Literary Criticism Checklist: Evaluating Literary Criticism 2. Reading and Writing About Literature

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    Compare how the theme ‘passion’ is expressed by the poets Larkin and Plath Passion is an integral theme demonstrated in several poems by Sylvia Plath and Philip Larkin through their conscience use of literary devices which are explored in a number of auxiliary themes. The variety in techniques used‚ in addition to their differing attitudes towards the subjects of their poems express dissimilar versions of passion; there is a contrast in the levels of passion displayed: In Larkin’s poetry‚ a deficiency

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    born in Mytholmroyd‚ Yorkshire in 1930. After serving as in the Royal Air Force‚ Hughes attended Cambridge‚ where he studied archeology and anthropology‚ taking a special interest in myths and legends. In 1956 he met and married the American poet Sylvia Plath‚ who encouraged him to submit his manuscript to a first book contest run by The Poetry Center. Ted Hughes was very passionate by animals‚ nature‚ myths and he used them in drawing different types human behavior. In 1970‚ he published Crow‚ a

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    with his late and emotionally disturbed wife Sylvia Plath. Victoria Laurie describes the poems as a "a collection of elegiac tender and harrowing poetry addressed to his dead wife.". through Birthday Letters‚ Hughes asserts that the facts and memories of his life and relationship belong to him and not to the world or the media. He says "I hope that everyone owns the facts of his or her own life." In this sense‚ as well as being a personal address to Plath‚ Birthday Letters is also Hughes’ attempt to

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    Task 2

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    Written Task 2 ONLY HL Written tasks One of the tasks submitted for external assessment must be based on a literary text studied in part 3or part 4 of the course. (The Awakening‚ Katherine Mansfield short stories‚ Sylvia Plath Poetry‚ A Doll’s House‚ Interpreter of Maladies ss and Pride and Prejudice) The other must be based on material studied in the language option ( Media and Advertisement). Formal requirements for tasks 2 One of the tasks submitted for external assessment must be a critical

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    launch party for the magazine‚ he met Sylvia Plath. A few short months later‚ on June 16‚ 1956‚ they were married. Plath encouraged Hughes to submit his first manuscript‚ The Hawk in the Rain‚ to The Poetry Center’s First Publication book contest. The judges‚ Marianne Moore‚ W. H. Auden‚ and Stephen Spender‚ awarded the manuscript first prize‚ and it was published in England and America in 1957‚ to much critical praise. Hughes lived in Massachusetts with Plath and taught at University of Massachusetts

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    'Death of the Author

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    ‘Death of the Author’ Analysis Roland Barthes is a French literary philosopher born in 1915. In one of his theories ‘Death of the author’ he argues that by “giving a text an author is to impose a limit on that text”. He claims that having knowledge of the author’s background and purpose for the text restricts the readers imaginative license to build their own interpretations‚ and that the author and text are completely unrelated. Barthes declares‚ "The death of the author is the birth of the

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