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    The Reproduction of categories of content in the Georgian Translations of ’The Happay Prince’ by Oscar Wild By Tamar Osidze MA Student of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University Publishing collections of fairy tales turned out to be a crucial point along Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde’s great creative path and it marks the beginning of the second important period of his life as a writer. The reality of Victorian London and Dublin is depicted in “The Happy Prince”. The simplicity

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    Literature intensive-Epsilon Seo-Ei-kyoung In the book “the picture of Dorian grey‚ Dorian is influenced by Lord Henry and becomes ruined. Then Dorian influences numerous people and makes them ruined as well. Whether the responsibility lies to those who affect others or those who is affected is not easy to determine. However‚ the one who is affected has more responsibility for their corruptness. It is one’s own job to decide their behavior. Even though‚ people are surrounded by friends who

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    A Real Dominican Man In The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz‚ the reader is led through the novel with a lot of uncertain thoughts and questions about the main characters‚ one in particular Oscar Wao. When I first started working on the assignment my topic was what and who is a real Dominican man? What characteristics does a true Dominican man have? Why isn’t Oscar like all the other Dominican Men? I found it strange that as I began to look through passages I was finding more of what

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    trying to fit in with their surroundings. In the novel “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” written by Junot Díaz‚ the effects- mentally‚ physically‚ and emotionally- of outsiderness can be seen in many ways. In his novel Díaz shows how different things can make someone an outsider‚ and how that affects the person’s decisions‚ and way of life. The novel beginning with the character Oscar Wao‚ Díaz introduce Oscar as an outsider‚ but he was not always an outsider. It says “Our hero was not one of

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    Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao(2007) exemplify how language creates a character.In one situation is which Oscar is searching for an identity because he is in between twon cultures giving him struggling to find his identity. Dominican Republic’s tragic history becomes crucial to Oscar’s struggle to understand which symbolize Oscar’s hybrid cultural identity‚ become the key to understanding Just as important as Oscar’s growing understanding of his cultural makeup. Although he was not present‚ Oscar is still affected

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    the relations between these countries. So in the long run even though countries speak different languages‚ language is what actually connects us all causing language to be the “pantheon of our survival.”   Through out “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” Diaz continuously used Spanish words‚ without definitions provided. I feel as if his goal was to use the Spanish language to get a

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    Explore how Oscar Wilde Opens Act 2: Upon the opening of Act 2 in The Importance of Being Earnest‚ Oscar Wilde sets out a rather peaceful looking scene‚ transporting his audience to Jack’s country estate in Hertfordshire. The act takes off in the Garden at the Manor House‚ described in the stage directions as ‘an old fashion one‚ full of roses’ with baskets and chairs set under a large yew tree. With the time of year being July‚ this all makes up for a somewhat simple Victorian summer setting

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    Introduction. When people speak about style they usually consider texts of verbal art [cf. 14] and it is believed that on the whole only masters of style deserve special investigation and of course masters of style are usually those who are writing artistic texts. But as is absolutely clear any text is characterized by a certain style [4]‚ and it doesn’t matter whether it is good or bad because even if the person is writing in a neutral way [17;18] all the same it is the stylistic

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    English 101 May 9‚ 2011 Fuku—a curse of bad consequences “Fuku—generally a curse or a doom of some kind; specifically the Curse and the Doom of the New World‚” written in the Pulitzer Prize winning novel—The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao‚ which is written by Junot Diaz (Diaz 1). If you make a bad choice‚ you will receive “fuku‚” says Junot Diaz in the interview on Q TV (YouTube). In the interview with Slate Magazine‚ Diaz says that the novel “is all about the dangers of dictatorship”

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    Often an author uses a character to represent the ideals of a society through their work of literature. However‚ in both Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray‚ the authors also use their characters to represent the corruption within the ideals of both colonialism and Victorian hedonism. In Heart of Darkness‚ Kurtz is the ideal colonialist; he gives the impression of maintaining honorable intensions while also being "of value" to the Belgian trading company

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