A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens‚ set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 200 million copies sold‚ it ranks among the most famous works in the history of fictional literature.[2] The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution‚ the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution
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BANKIM: THE ORIGINARY* FIGURE OF INDIAN NOVEL IN ENGLISH Y.V.R. Prasanna Kumar Research Scholar (M.Phil.)‚ (Part-time)‚ Department of English‚ S.V. University‚ Tirupathi. A. P.INDIA 517502 INTRODUCTION A great deal of Indian writing in English is in the form of novel. In the course of an eventful history‚ Indian novel in English demonstrated the capacity and resilience for innovations and attained the status of Universal Form. The post-independence India has witnessed a Sea change of Indian
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How‚ and to what extent‚ do the texts on this unit challenge the idea of “the novel‟? The conventions of “the traditional novel” are almost completely disregarded in twentieth century avant-garde fiction. According to Hutcheon‚ a healthy piece of postmodern fiction ‘paradoxically uses and abuses the conventions of both realism and modernism‚ and does so in order to challenge their transparency’ (1988‚ p. 53). Despite this‚ what effectively happens with avant-garde literature is that each text
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The Victorian Novel: main features First of all in the Victorian Age the dominating literary form was the novel. It was in fact easier to be read and understood by simple people‚ its plot was more interesting than any other literary forms‚ the main protagonists of the novel were the same people who read it so that they felt deeply involved in the adventure told‚ the writer and his readers shared the same opinions‚ values and ideals because they belonged to the same middle class‚ the setting was
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of the novel who is set in his structural ways. Coetzee prefers to write his story with more interest in the gaps‚ silences and absences of his texts. One can see this through his choice of a distant narrator‚ a narrator who does not know what is to come and has limited access to the events of the novel. Coetzee does this for the interest of his readers‚ to put his readers in David Luries shoes‚ where difficult situations need to be resolved without any help or guidance. This makes the novel a more
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How to answer novel ‘The Curse’ Below are some tips that you can follow: ** Rememeber to write your answer in paragraphs ( at least 3) **If you are not sure how to answer‚ make sure include all these elements 1. how many characters 2. how many events/evidence 3. how many values/lessons/themes * manipulate your understanding of the story to fit the question – not to fit the question to what you know about the story **always have concluding paragraph to reinforce or sum up what you
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Isabella Rix and I will be highlighting today the themes regarding the Australian identity in the novel‚ ‘No Worries‚’ by author Bill Condon‚ published in 2005. I will be discovering whether this novel’s themes‚ characters and ideologies explore a true Australian culture or embodies the stereotypical representation. ‘No Worries’ is from a first-person perspective of a teenage boy named Brian. The novel follows him with his parents‚ social and working areas of life‚ underlying the main message about
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Women in Victorian Novels The ideas and standards that are set with being a proper Victorian woman are starting to become questioned. Through these novels there are subtle hints portrayed throughout the book of women being able to make their own choices and finally have their own independence. Some women choose to take the opportunity and have a say while others still abide by the Victorian way. Louis J Boyle Victorian Writers 30 April 2013
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The roles the villains/ nemesis play within the Bond novels isn’t unique per say‚ but without them‚ there would definitely be no Bond novels. Each villain Bond faces shapes who Bond is as a character. They test Bond’s limits and they provide him with the tools to make himself look good within the novel and films. Every good guy has a bad guy to fight type situation is what we see in the Bond novels. Though Bond is tortured and put to the test by these villains‚ he always comes out on top. The villain
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Rizal‚ for all the agitation his writings produced‚ never called for outright revolt against the Spanish colonizers. On the contrary‚ his explicit statements never ceased to sustain the hope that Spain would allow the Philippines the freedom and means to develop its intellectual and material resources within a colonial partnership. A Philippine revolution‚ in Rizal’s view‚ would be unsuccessful and yet inevitable‚ should Spain continue to delay in granting the kind of reform that would ensure security
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