The Pathetic "Lover" The Ballad of the Sad Café‚ by Carson McCullers (1951) suggests that there are two types of people in the world: the "lover" and the "beloved". The "lover" is a pathetic character so enamored by the "beloved" that it changes his/her attitude or personality completely. The feeling is so powerful that even though it causes the "lover" excruciating pain‚ he/she continues to love. The two main characters fall under this mysterious spell and it changes their lives forever. McCullers
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Browning uses a number of different narrative techniques to tell the story in Porphyria’s Lover. The poem is written in first person‚ in past tense‚ from the perspective of our narrator who is unnamed but as the title suggests is “Porphyria’s Lover”. This means that the telling of events is not completely reliable and can be assumed to be biased. The narrator’s first line of speech‚ “I listened heart fit to break” suggests he is waiting for someone‚ maybe even longing. Browning structured this
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A concise Chinese-English dictionary for lovers by Xiaolu Guo. The main character of the book is Z. Z is a young Chinese woman who is sent to England by her parents‚ to take English classes. By sending Z to London‚ her poor parents hoped to give their daughter a better future than that they had. While Z is in London‚ she’s very lonely and experiences a culture shock. After a while of being very lonely‚ meets a men. This man is in the book referred as lover. At first the relationship goes well and
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D.K.Basu Vs State of West Bengal (AIR 1997 SC 610) The case was upon custodial violence and death that are florishing & the victim or the family did not get any compensation regarding this. The Law Commission of India forwarede a copy regarding "Injuries in police custody and suggested incorporation of Section 114-B in the Indian Evidence Act." UBI JUS IBI REMEDIUM - There is no wrong without a remedy. The law wills that in every case where a man is wronged and undamaged he must have a remedy
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My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover Robert Browning wrote the two poems‚ Porphyria’s Lover and My Last Duchess. In each poem‚ the speakers seem mentally disturbed. Also‚ both speakers had relationships with "strong" women who‚ despite apparently loving them‚ they each ended up killing. Strangely enough‚ both men seem to be much happier after they have committed these murders. The murders in these poems deal with power based on gender. The females have the power and the men do not. The men feel
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of the Three Little Pigs should not be read by bacon lovers. They might form a connect to one of the pigs. They also might not want to be compared to The big bad Wolf. Finally they might lose their appetite for delicious bacon! The reader of this story might form a connection to one of the pigs. The third little pig was very hardworking‚ the reader might admire that. He worked day and night to build his home out of brick‚ which would have taken a lot of work. The third little pig is also brave‚ he
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Significant Decisions: A Comparison of "The Road Not Taken" and "The Choice" Have you ever made a life-changing choice that you could not make again? The poems "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost and "The Choice" by Dorothy Parker both deal with these kind of decisions. Although "The Road Not Taken" and "The Choice" both focus on critical decisions‚ "The Road Not Taken" focuses on a choice the narrator makes between two paths of life that he satisfied with while "The Choice" focuses on a choice
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It influences a story’s direction‚ the emotions invoked in the reader‚ and how themes are shaped into ideas. Robert Browning’s dramatic monologues Porphyria’s Lover and My Last Duchess contain many thematic similarities‚ despite portraying different scenarios‚ primarily spoken through a possessive and jealous man. In Porphyria’s Lover a man waits in his cottage for Porphyria. Her arrival “shut[s] the cold out and the storm” both literally and metaphorically. Porphyria confesses her undying love
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Sexual Affronts and Racial Frontiers‚ European Identities and the Cultural Politics of Exclusion in Colonial Southeast Asia. Ann Laura Stoler & Race and the Education of Desire‚ Fauoult’s History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things. Ann Laura Stoler Introduction We will be presenting two essays by Ann Laura Stoler. The first essay‚ “Race and the Education of Desire”‚ Foucault’s history of sexuality discusses class‚ race and desire in terms of family and state regulations which
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among people. Walt Whitman’s “Song of the Open Road‚” Carl Sandberg’s “The Road at The End‚” and Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” are all interpretations of the journey of life‚ but they are written from different perspectives. “Song of the Open Road” is an entirely positive portrayal‚ “The Road at The End” is dark but could be read as hopeful‚ and “The Road Not Taken” is content with some regrets. Despite having very different tones‚ “Song of the Open Road” and “The Road at The End” are the most
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