Outline Plato’s simile of the ship and two of its possible purposes (15 Marks) Plato’s simile of the ship is used as a retort to Adeimantus’ assertions that philosophers are “very odd birds‚ not to say thoroughly vicious”‚ and even their best qualities prove to be completely useless to society. In the simile‚ each feature represents an element of Athenian society. The ship itself represents the Athenian democratic state. The captain of the ship‚ who is large and strong‚ is also deaf and short-sighted
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Symposium‚ Plato presents various intellectual perspectives on the subject of love. The speech given by Aristophanes focuses on a search for wholeness culminating with the discovery of a soul mate. This idea is articulated by George Eliot in Silas Marner. Silas leads a lonely existence‚ cut off from the world‚ until Eppie is brought into his life. Whether it is the love for a beloved‚ family member or friend; love brings about the discovery of self-hood and personal identity. The comic poet‚ Aristophanes
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Eliot also wrote The Mill on the Floss which is said to be about her and her family’s life. George Eliot also wrote the book SILAS MARNER (1861). Which was about Silas Marner‚ a linen-weaver‚ has accumulated a goodly sum of gold. He was falsely judged guilty of theft 15 years before and left his community. Squire Cass’ son Dunstan steals Marner’s gold and disappears. Marner takes care of an orphaned little girl‚ Eppie and she becomes for him more precious than the lost property. Sixteen years later
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context in which it is placed (19) and a text is always interpreted depending on the readers’ social and cultural knowledge (Bawarshi & Reiff 24-25). One concrete example that can be analysed to explore the genre-text relationship is George Eliot’s Silas Marner (1861). When she wrote this novel‚ she was trying to follow the conventions of realism‚ a genre which was particularly important in the nineteenth century. We directly know that she wanted to create a realist novel‚ even if her original idea had
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III – Poetry N.B. Candidates must answer on Shakespearean Drama. They may do so in SECTION I‚ The Single Text (Hamlet‚ As You Like It) or in SECTION II‚ The Comparative Study (Hamlet‚ As You Like It) INDEX OF SINGLE TEXTS Wuthering Heights Silas Marner Amongst Women Hamlet As You Like It − Page 2 − Page 2 − Page 2 − Page 3 − Page 3 Page 1 of 8 SECTION I THE SINGLE TEXT (60 marks) Candidates must answer one question from this section (A – E). A WUTHERING HEIGHTS – Emily Brontë (i) “Heathcliff
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Twist Charles Dickens The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas Adam Bede George Eliot The Mill on the Floss George Eliot Silas Marner George Eliot Middlemarch George Eliot Cranford Elizabeth Gaskell King Solomon’s Mines Rider Haggard Far From The Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy Under the Greenwood Tree Thomas Hardy Tess of the d’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy The Scarlet Letter
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Total No. of Pages: Register Number: 5753 Name of the Candidate: M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION‚ 2010 (ENGLISH) (FIRST YEAR) (PAPER-III) 530. ROMANTIC AND VICTORIAN PERIODS Nov] [Time : 3 Hours Maximum : 100 Marks SECTION-A Answer any FIVE questions (5×8=40) 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 1. a) To
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101 Great Books 101 Great Books Recommended Reading for High School Students and Readers of all Ages (Provided by collegeboard.com) **Denotes titles typically included in the CdS Curriculum Author | Title | Author | Title | ------- | **Beowulf | Ford‚ Ford Madox | The Good Soldier | Achebe‚ Chinua | Things Fall Apart | Goethe‚ Johann Wolfgan von | Faust | Agee‚ James | A Death in the Family | Golding‚ William | Lord of the Flies | Austen‚ Jane | Pride and Prejudice | Hardy‚ Thomas |
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knowledge in Buddhism by metaphor and the spiritual attainment of the noble teaching. The following discussion based on the chulahatthipadopama-sutta will verify the afore mentioned points. The sutta occurred when the Brahmin‚ Janussoni‚ repeated the simile of great elephant’s footprint given by a wanderer‚ Pilotika
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Robert Frost ’s Approach to the Theme of Death Reflected In His Poetry. “All poetry is a reproduction of the tones of actual speech.”(Frost .R. Class Slide2) Throughout Frost ’s poetry it is clear to envisage that Frost himself had experienced great loss. His poem’s take you through some of the stages of grief he had experienced at various points in his life. There is a certain cathartic quality to his poems‚ it is obvious Frost used the medium of creative writing as a release from his grief
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