The Guide Plot summary Railway Raju (nicknamed) is a disarmingly corrupt guide who falls in love with a beautiful dancer‚ Rosie‚ the neglected wife of archaeologist Marco . Marco doesn’t approve of Rosie’s passion for dancing. Rosie‚ encouraged by Raju‚ decides to follow her dreams and start a dancing career. They start living together and Raju’s mother‚ as she does not approve of their relationship‚ leaves them. Raju becomes Rosie’s stage manager and soon with the help of Raju’s marketing tactics
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frequently found in feminist poetry. It seems that women writers are particularly intrigued by the subject of life and death perhaps because they are the sex which have the unique role of giving birth to the next generation. In the works of Sylvia Plath‚ Stevie Smith‚ and Ani DiFranco‚ the symbols of blood and water are used to represent the various aspects of the life cycle. Plath’s poem "Cut"‚ Smith’s poem "The Boat"‚ and DiFranco’s song "Blood in the Boardroom" all make references to blood. Although
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How do authors portray the isolation of the female protagonists in ‘The Bell Jar’‚ ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’‚ ‘Ariel’ and ‘Look Back in Anger’? Female emancipation and the struggle for women of existing within a predominately patriarchal society is a prevalent topic in literature. Female heroines are portrayed variably across all eras and genres of literature and yet the use of a melancholic and isolated female protagonist is arguably inescapable as writers continually refer back to a critical portrayal
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The “Death and the Maiden” The Death and the Maiden was a common theme during the Renaissance‚ it came from the Dance of Death which is a theme about death and how it’s inescapable and everyone will have to dance it. In many dances of Death already figured a representation of Death with a fine lady or with a beautiful virgin. The image of a young woman was also found in the three ages and Death. However in both cases‚ there was no trace of erotic. But with “Death and the maiden” theme‚ something
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------------------------------------------------- Electra complex From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Electra complex: Electra at the Tomb of Agamemnon‚ byFrederic Leighton‚ c.1869 In Neo-Freudian psychology‚ the Electra complex‚ as proposed by Carl Gustav Jung‚ is a child’s psychosexual competition with his/her mother for possession of his/her father. In the course of her psychosexual development‚ the complex is the girl’s phallic stage; formation of a discrete sexual identity‚ a boy’s analogous
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The Self in the World: The Social Context of Sylvia Plath’s Late Poems‚ [(essay date 1980) In the following essay‚ Annas offers analysis of depersonalization in Plath’s poetry which‚ according to Annas‚ embodies Plath’s response to oppressive modern society and her "dual consciousness of self as both subject and object."] For surely it is time that the effect of disencouragement upon the mind of the artist should be measured‚ as I have seen a dairy company measure the effect of ordinary milk
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Dealing with a father who he is not fond of can be compared to Sylvia Plath’s poem‚ “Daddy”‚ in which he also hates her father and escapes him‚ whether that is meant mentally or physically. When Plath says‚ “I used to pray to recover you” could be compared to when Finn had hoped that his father was the one he found who drowned in a nearby river (Plath 629). Having his alcoholic father dead‚ would put his worries to rest of anymore surprises appearances to beat and rob
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Discussion questions: 1. In the novel “Mrs. Dalloway” both Clarissa and Septimus repeat a line from Shakespeare‚ what is the line and what is its importance to the characters? 2. In “Mrs. Dalloway” Septimus is created as Clarissa’s double‚ why do you think Woolf did this? 3. How are Clarissa and Septimus alike and how are they different? 4. Woolf uses Clarissa to convey her idea of social class and women’s wole within it; how does she achieve this? 5. WWI is a major part throughout the story
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(pp. 74‚ 74 b to b-2 in Rhet II); Whitman #2: read aloud “Song of Myself‚” sect. 1-6‚ 24 (pp. 74 c to 74 c-5 in Rhet II); select favorite passage and explain how it is Idealist; e-mail to WPE Term paper poems: Sylvia Plath‚ “Daddy” and “Lady Lazarus” (Google) Due: Final Draft of PAPER (3-5 pp.‚ typed) on Thoreau’s imagery (due at lights out Tues‚ 4 Dec; e-mail to WPE) W 5 Dec Wed Tour Extra
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Ethics Case Study: Juan S. The social worker in this case study worked at the ABC Children’s Wellness Center. An ESL teacher at a local elementary school referred Juan S. to her. Juan came to the center with his mother‚ Silvia. Before seeing Juan and his mother‚ the social worker called the ESL teacher who referred Juan to her to discuss the case. The teacher reported that Juan was showing little interest in classroom activities or his peers‚ and always seemed exhausted. He was irritable and
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