BROTHER IN THE LAND Character Sketch of Rhodes In the play script “Brother in the Land” by Robert Swindells and adapted by Joe Standerline‚ Rhodes is portrayed as a sadistic P.E. teacher who is an active member of the MASADA and participates voluntarily in tasks which are set up‚ in order to overthrow the Civil Defense Team. Unfortunately at the end he turns out to be a selfish person who deceives the MASADA. Rhodes proves to be a good strategist as he prepares the students and tells them about
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forgive’ pages 3-6 How does McEwan establish the genre of tragedy in this extract? In relation to the rest of the novel‚ how typical are the tragic features used here? When thinking of a tragic novel or play‚ you may think of the great Greek tragedies. You may think of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. You may even think of a more modern play such as Death of a Salesman or Hardy’s Novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles. All of these end‚ as has become the custom for tragedy‚ with the death of their tragic
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Adrian Barlow writes of Susan Hill’s Strange Meeting: “At the time of its publication‚ to write a novel about intense relationships between men in the First World War was considered an ambitious risk for a woman writer.” Compare and contrast the ways in which your three writers present relationships between men. ’One of the paradoxes of the War - one of the many - was that this most brutal of conflicts should set up a relationship between officers and men that was... domestic. Caring. As Layard
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In many ways Walton’s depiction of Victor Frankenstein is made accurate through the first five chapters; Frankenstein judges Elizabeth immediately on her beauty and likens it to that of an angel who has been ‘heaven-sent’. Then‚ in the next chapter he describes her soul as ‘saintly’‚ indicating that she is as good as she is beautiful. The depiction of Frankenstein as a ‘wanderer’ is primarily true as he spent the beginning of his life travelling with his parents until they gave up their ‘wandering
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HS*250 Survey of Africa to 1800 Historical Novel Review Guide Conde‚ Maryse (1984) Segu. New York: Ballentine Books What is historical fiction? According to “Historical Novels Review”‚ a historical novel is a novel which is set fifty or more years in the past‚ and one in which the author is writing from research rather than personal experience (Johnson 2002). These are fictionalized stories that are set in a historical reality and can thus portray actual relationships‚ events‚ and people within
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Chapter 4 (85-94) – “The fire was dead…” to the end. What is the Importance of this section in the plot of the novel? How does this passage help our understanding of the main characters? How does it help us to understand what Golding is trying to say in the novel as a whole? The major event of these few pages is the first sentence. “The fire was dead.” This is clear and simple‚ like Ralphs anger at the confirmation of his fears at the fact it has gone out; this is exaggerated further by the
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September 25‚ 1897 – July 6‚ 1962)‚ also known as Will Faulkner‚ was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford‚ Mississippi. Faulkner worked in a variety of written media‚ including novels‚ short stories‚ a play‚ poetry‚ essays and screenplays. He is primarily known and acclaimed for his novels and short stories‚ many of which are set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County‚ a setting Faulkner created based on Lafayette County‚ where he spent most of his life‚ and Holly Springs/Marshall
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Foster had to write this book. Is this a proto-feminist novel? Is Foster condemning the patriarchal society that she is lives in? Or is this novel written as a cautionary tale so that women can learn from Eliza’s s mistakes and see the outcome of what happens when a woman does not stick to the norms of society? In answering all these questions‚ it can be concluded that The Coquette can be considered a proto-feminist novel. The reasons that this novel can be considered proto-feminist are because of Eliza’
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of duty from 1969-1970. After returning home he enrolled in graduate school at Harvard University and studied government. After finishing his studies he worked as a national affairs correspondent for the Washington Post. O’Brien has written several novels based on his experiences in Vietnam. The Things They Carried (published 1990) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. | Historical information about the period about the publications: The United States sent
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In both the novel and epic case‚ heroism can be attributed to common ideological and semiotic construction‚ subconsciously tailored to differing ends. Case: I do not contend that the heroes of epic and novel are synonymous‚ but instead that they rise from a singular and ubiquitous construction. The embryonic format for all heroism is inherently embedded in the human mind. Realizing that there is great discontinuity between the structure‚ and indeed the very nature of epic and novel hero; I contend
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