The narrators are victims of their obsessions‚ leading to an overruling of rationality and logic- a study of The Tell-Tale Heart and The Black Cat‚ by Edgar Allan Poe. “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Black Cat” are texts by Edgar Allan Poe showing the state of mind of a person who becomes corrupted from their obsessions. We see the changes in behaviour‚ like anxiety‚ that stem from their obsessions‚ causing the narrator to eventually self-destruct due to lack of rationality and logic. The critical
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contrast the narrators in Gulliver’s Travels and Frankenstein‚ the narrative methods‚ and the effects of these different ways of telling a story in Gulliver’s Travels and Frankenstein. Ravee Chen S2 English H Dr.Freisen 8 April 2010 Word count: 1491 Why do authors use different types of narrators? Jonathan Swift and Mary Shelly have both chosen a first-person narrator in their novels Gulliver’s Travels and Frankenstein. In Gulliver’s Travels the narrator is Gulliver
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"Piano and Drums" is a poem that accurately explores the trying conflict of merging a traditional culture with a new‚ modern civilisation. The author Gabriel Okara‚ who also doubles as the narrator in the poem‚ responds to the drums as his tribal heritage and the simplicity of youth‚ while he sees the piano as the foreign customs irrelevant to the black society‚ with the complexity of experience. Throughout "Piano and Drums"‚ Okara’s choice of diction is used to show his response to the two kinds
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During any war‚ many acts of brutality were committed by soldiers on both sides; and most people seem to realize this. Nevertheless‚ when we look at photographs of the dead women and children from any massacre‚ it seems impossible to understand how soldiers could participate in such an atrocity. However‚ in psychological views‚ we can easily explain their behavior by using conformity and obedience. Conformity within a group entails members changing their attitudes and beliefs because of real or
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The first of two plays that has been considered for selection in upcoming International Theatre for Young People’s Festival soon to be held in Vancouver‚ Canada is "Blackrock" by the late Nick Enright. The plays must represent the values‚ attitudes and beliefs of today’s Australian Youth Culture. "Blackrock" explores the strength of mateship‚ the importance of image and the dangers of peer pressure‚ parties and underage drinking. The second play is the popular "Blurred" by the playwright Stephen
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Can a work of art have value regardless of who creates it? Can‚ and should‚ we look past the character of the artist - however immoral we consider them to be - and simply experience and esteem the work itself? Art is such a simple word‚ consisting of just three letters‚ and yet it takes ceaseless flows of discussions‚ arguments‚ debates and theories just on the very definition of it. So what is just so important about this creative field? We have to acknowledge that
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A narrator‚ by definition‚ is how an author chooses to portray information to readers in their work. An author’s choice‚ in how to tell a story is ideal to the effect it has on readers. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s timeless classic The Great Gatsby‚ Nick Carraway tells the entire story as a first-person‚ peripheral narrator. Fitzgerald purposefully chooses Nick as a partially removed character‚ with very few emotions and personal opinions. By doing so‚ readers experience the same ambiguity of other character’s
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this lofty goal by participating in organized crime‚ including distributing illegal alcohol and trading in stolen securities. Throughout the entire novel it is clearly portrayed that almost all the characters in the society were corrupt even Nick Carraway is a corrupt
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beginning of the novel summarizes entirely the whole book in just a sentence. The Great Gatsby is a novel about a hopeless romantic‚ Jay Gatsby‚ who attempts to attains the woman back that he “loves”‚ while his dear friend Nick Carraway tags along with him during this journey. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s popular novel takes place in the 1920’s‚ an era most commonly known as the Roaring Twenties. This was a time with great cultural and technological improvements. Everyone
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Scott Fitzgerald uses the honest and moral narrator‚ Nick Carraway to portray the many immoral people and their corruption of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby. Many of the characters in The Great Gatsby are materialistic‚ as they try to satisfy their materialism by doing immoral things. Nick‚ who is slow to judge‚ shows the reader the significant contrast between his ‘American Dream’ and how the other characters have corrupted ‘American Dream’. Nick is one of the many characters in this novel
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