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    Macbeth’s Passage Shakespeare is one of the mayor authors of English literature. Passages created by Shakespeare are known as excellent because of his new techniques of writing in the English literature. On his multiple tragic plays one of the most important is called Macbeth. Macbeth is characterized of having a strong desire of ambition and treacherous. On the trategy of Macbeth‚ there is more than one famous passage. Passages where they are analytical fundamental for the play‚ passages where Shakespeare

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    restored from death—there stood Henry Jekyll! This passage appears in chapter 9 as Lanyon describes the moment

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    Three Passage Analysis – The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde used comedy as the primary means of communicating the key themes of his play. In particular he used satire to ridicule the hypocrisy of the strict code of behaviors that characterized the late Victorian era. His use of satire is intended to spotlight the shortcomings of the Victorian era and highlight social issues at play that he personally condemned. Of particular importance in the play are the strict rules of behaviour concerning

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    Write a critical analysis in no more than 500 words on the following passage from Homer’s Odyssey: Homer‚ Odyssey 1.130–154 (Lattimore‚ pp. 30–1‚ ‘… and he led her and seated … because they made him’). I. This passage comes very early in the Telemachy and it is wholly descriptive. The first point of interest is the arrival of Athene to Telemachos’ home in Ithaca. Disguised as Mentes’‚ leader of the Taphians and an old friend of Odysseus. Telemachos is the first to greet Athene as it would

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    AMERICAN LITERATURE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY ESSAY ON PASSAGES FROM PLAYS BY EDWARD ALBEE Preface: Sources Passage one and passage two are from Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf? I read the whole play at http://ebookbrowsee.net/who-s-afraid-of-virginia-woolf-the-full-text-pdf-d466659706 Passage three is from the play The American Dream by Edward Albee‚ which I read at http://99ebook.com/the-american-dream-edward-albee-full-text/‎ Caparison one is from Tennessee Williams

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    fascination of many humans. Many people assume the world will end in big floods similar to that of the Noah’s Ark or like the Walking dead where zombies take over the world. Justin Cronin has tried to show how he thinks the world will end in his novel‚ The Passage. When reading the story‚ the reader is shown a new world ending that entails a mixture of folklore from various places. Justin Cronin began working his ideas for this book when his daughter asked him to write a story that depicts a girl saving the

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    Island death in custody. She follows the lives of the families involved and the events that took place after the death. I will focus on a passage from the text on pages 182-185. This passage is about the inquest into Cameron Doomadgee’s death. A large proportion of the passage is spoken in the first person but also reverts to the third person at the end of the passage. Speaking in the first person is Tracy Twaddle‚ the now widowed wife of Cameron Doomadgee. In this part of the text Hooper has used a

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    This passage‚ found as a conclusion to a chapter in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart‚ takes place after Okonkwo’s return to Umuofia. A new English missionary has been set up in the village and has caused a great divide between the villagers. The main purpose of the section is to describe some of these events and changes that have taken place in Umuofia since Okonkwo’s return. The passage is structured in three parts‚ each detailing about a different aspect. The first section focuses on Okonkwo’s

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    The passage taken from “The Comfort of Strangers “by Ian McEwan essentially describes the want of two sisters Eva and Maria to look beautiful and furthermore the denial of their parents towards the girls’ desires. It is written in the third person i.e. the omniscient. The passage conveys few symbols: Beauty through the want of the sisters to look gorgeous ie. lipsticks‚ mascaras make up etc. ‚ The truth and honesty through the confession of the boy. Owing to the fact that‚ when cosmetics are used

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    The Middle Passage was the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of people from Africa were shipped to the New World‚ as part of the Atlantic slave trade. Ships departed Europe for African markets with manufactured goods‚ which were traded for purchased or kidnapped Africans‚ who were transported across the Atlantic as slaves; the slaves were then sold or traded for raw materials‚ which would be transported back to Europe to complete the voyage. Voyages on the Middle Passage were a large

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