result of his facial deformities‚ narrated through his stream-of-consciousness. The text portrays how society’s preconceptions about an individual diminish the individual’s sense of self-worth and acceptance. The text offers insight into how specific differences between individuals and other people in society can result in alienation and marginalisation. Palacio utilises polyphonic perspective and the protagonist’s stream of consciousness to contrast between the protagonist’s sense of self-acceptance
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Anna is lost in her sin In the Lady with the Pet Dog by Joyce Carol Oates‚ Oates breaks up chronological order into a boxlike structure with three distinct sections of a plot. Every section of the plot is written in different time and part of Anna’s life in order to express more clearly how Anna is lost in her sin since the day she committed adultery. Oates describes changes in her thoughts and her confused state of mind. Using the third person perspective‚ omniscient narrator‚ she makes Anna the
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A Haunted House “A Haunted House” by Virginia Woolf‚ is a short story that tells the experience of a young couple‚ living in a house with a ghostly couple. The story begins with a “ghostly couple” looking for their treasure‚ in the house they previously lived in while alive. While alive‚ the ghosts lived in the house more than a century before the current residents. The woman died first‚ this is when the man left her and the house‚ he “went North‚ went East‚ saw the stars turned in the Southern
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emotion.” There are numerous modernist features in ’The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‚’ such as the stream-of-consciousness method showing Prufrock’s disconnected thinking processes. This specific method lets the reader enter into the character’s consciousness. The poem presents the apparently random thoughts going through a person’s head within a certain time interval. The stream-of-consciousness makes it vague what is intended to be understood literally and what is figurative. Prufrock’s thought
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Death of a Salesman‚ Arthur Miller uses several stylistic devices to add another layer of complexity to his work. These devices include several themes such as the American Dream and abandonment‚ symbols such as the stockings‚ and a modified stream of consciousness point of view. These literary devices combine together to add a deeper meaning to the play and because all of the symbols and themes are not as conspicuous‚ they provide insight into the protagonist Willy’s mind. Willy is a traveling salesman
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THE DUCHESS AND THE JEWELLER Oliver Bacon‚ the jeweller‚ is really the only developed character in the short story "The Duchess and the Jeweller" by Virginia Woolf. The author uses the indirect stream-of consciousness technique as well as her own words to depicts the enterprising merchant as a many-sided man: He is both ambitious and sympathetic. The jeweller is highly arrogant and ambitious. His strutting smugness is evident through the animal metaphors used to portray him-from his physical
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Sr. No: | TOPIC: | Page No: | 1. | Consciousness: An illusion? | 3. | 2. | Perception | 6. | 3. | Physics and Illusions | 13. | 4. | Color and Light illusions | 20. | 5. | Psychology and illusions | 24. | 6. | Conclusion | 32. | 7. | Bibliography | 33. | 1. CONSCIOUSNESS: AN ILLUSION? Consciousness could be at once the most obvious and the most difficult thing we could investigate. We seem either to have to use consciousness to investigate itself‚ which would sound slightly
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of poetry that contained long poems about city life. As all four poems are short pieces‚ each of them is like an introduction to the longer poems. He called them preludes and grouped them together. In Preludes through the technique of stream of consciousness Eliot reveals the thoughts of a city dweller. The four preludes represent four time periods of the day. The first takes place at dusk/ a winter evening. The observer is outside and observing the atmosphere of the neighbourhood. The writer
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Wole Soyinka’s A Shuttle in the Crypt contemplates a critical period in Nigerian history between 1966 and early 1971. Soyinka’s efforts to curtail the Nigerian Civil War in 1967 resulted in his arrest and imprisonment without trial by the federal military government. Soyinka’s work remains inseparable from his activities as a political dissident. His commitment to promoting human rights in Nigeria and other nations reflects his new approach to literature as a serious agent of social change. A Shuttle
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structure using simple word choice‚ or diction‚ in a stream of consciousness to enable the reader to perceive the novel in the rational of an eleven-year-old girl. One short‚ simple sentence is followed by another ‚ relating each in an easy flow of thoughts. Gibbons allows this stream of thoughts to again emphasize the childish perception of life’s greatest tragedies. For example‚ Gibbons uses the simple diction and stream of consciousness as Ellen searches herself for the true person she is
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