The Signal-man How does Charles Dickens use the ghost story genre to provoke fear in both the Victorian and modern reader of the Signalman? The Signal-Man is a ghost story from Pre 1914’s written by Charles Dickens it shows the difference of the fear that a Victorian reader would feel compared to what a modern reader would feel. The Signal-man projects the ghost story genre very well due to the fact that a ghost story is not supposed to be scary. A ghost story is just meant to play with the readers
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1. Moem 2. Title – The Happy Man the only one of his kind‚ who achieved smth‚ then – who followed his dream. 3. Gist 4. Narrator - 1st person narrator (The narrator is the participant of the narrated event) The main character is the narrator. There is no any information about him in the text. Nevertheless we can judge about his character from his thoughts‚ behavior and speech. The description of his character is indirect. He is a wise man & a bit ironical towards life: he knows that it is impossible
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Гушан Елена 3 курс 304 группа Analysis of the text: The happy man William Somerset Maugham (1974 - 1966)‚ a well-known English novelist‚ short-story writer‚ playwright and essayist‚ was the son of a British diplomat. He was educated at King’s School in Canterbury‚ studied painting in Paris‚ went to Heidelberg University in Germany and studied to be a doctor at St. Thomas Hospital in England. Although Somerset Maugham did not denounce the contemporary social order‚ he was critical of the morals
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Ice man Have you ever been treated unfairly? Have you ever been treated like you have no rights at all? Most people have‚ but few of them have been treated as badly as Victor and his friends were in “Ice Man” written by Elmore Leonard‚ just because they are Native Americans. “Ice Man” is fiction. In “Ice Man” the narrator is an unknown 3rd person narrator. He does not enter the characters minds‚ he only tells us what they say and what they do. And therefore he must be a person that does not take
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The actions of Macbeth and other characters show that appearances are misleading and Shakespeare created dialogue that constantly incorporates techniques that represent this duplicity. Equivocation is especially found in the line from Act 1 Scene 7: “False face must hide what the false heart doth know." Shakespeare uses repetition of the adjective false to link the appearance of the face and the heart. Macbeth’s facial expression is false as he is acting customary to the routine of everyday life
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sible Questions to consider while reading chapters from Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel‚ Invisible Man: Prologue: How does the narrator perceive himself within the context of society? What does his perception of himself as an invisible man infer? What is the cause of his invisibility? What does Louis Armstrong’s “What Did I Do to Be So Black and Blue” refer to? Chapter 6: Describe Bledsoe’s character. What is his ideology? What does the narrator learn from this encounter? What is Bledsoe’s
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‘A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money’( W.C Fields). The main male characters in “The Taming of The Shrew” and “Ten Things I Hate About You”‚ Petruchio and Patrick‚ have three things in common‚ the lust for money‚ the lust for power‚ and the lust for women. In the 1967 version of the play‚ originally written by Shakespeare‚ Petruchio is portrayed as brute only thinking about money and himself. In the 1999 version Patrick is portrayed as a charming‚ smooth talker that doesn’t care about
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The Themes of Antigone Antigone is credited as one of the best works of Sophocles‚ ranked by most modern critics above Oedipus the King. There are many aspects of Antigone that make it the play critics love to ramble about. "Antigone must be received as the canon of ancient tragedy: no tragedy of antiquity that we possess approaches it in pure idealism‚ or in harmony of artistic development" says one critic named Berhardy. Tragedy is usually concerned with a person of great stature‚ a king
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“The Lottery” is a story written by Shirley Jackson in 1948 and tells the story of a town that takes part in a barbaric ritual every year on June 27th. There are several themes in this short story. The main themes in “The Lottery” are our aversion to examine and challenge outdated ideas and rituals‚ that society will pick scapegoats to carry its wrongs and the horrors in following the crowd. The townspeople in “The Lottery” blindly go along with an appalling custom having lost the reason behind
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The Themes of Existentialism in “The Shawshank Redemption” Existential themes can be found in so many different mediums‚ such as in TV show‚ books‚ poems‚ music‚ dance and the list can go on and on. I must be fair in saying that “The Shawshank Redemption” is on a small list that I have as favorites. This film is full of existential platforms. The main character displays actions that lead us to believe that he believes he is free. The supporting character has a completely different
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