things we can’t touch like love‚ loyalty‚ freedom‚ friendship‚ and imagination that are concealed within everyone’s lives. These universal ideas can also be motifs; a motif is a dominant idea or distinctive feature in an artistic or literary composition. Motifs are used to teach a lesson to others throughout out dance‚ art‚ or literature. Motifs have been around and hidden in literature for a very long time. Almost 3‚000 years ago there was a tale told by Homer‚ his story is now translated into an
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Gulliver’s Travels Gulliver goes on four different journeys in Gulliver’s Travels. All four journeys bring new perspectives to Gulliver’s life and new opportunities for satirizing the ways of England. The first journey is to Lilliput‚ where Gulliver is huge and the Lilliput are small. The king’s faction‚ the Small-Endians believe that boiled eggs should be broken at the small end while the rebel Big- Endians believe the opposite. Some of the Big- Endians have escaped to the neighboring country
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over the course of twenty-three years and 117 chapters (yikes). During this time he will pretend to be a number of different people‚ including Sinbad the Sailor‚ Lord Wilmore‚ Abbé Faria‚ and the Count of Monte Cristo. Edmond returns from a long journey at sea. The captain of his ship‚ thePharaon‚ has died along the way‚ and Edmond has successfully lead the crew and the cargo home to Marseilles‚ France. The ship’s owner‚ Monsieur Morrel‚ is extremely happy about this. Edmond gets a promotion. He
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Satire in Gulliver’s Travels Satire is a literary genre of Greek origin (satyr)‚ in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn‚ derision‚ or ridicule. Although satire is usually meant to be funny‚ its purpose is often irony or sarcasm‚ ideally with the intent of shaming individuals‚ religion‚ and communities themselves‚ into improvement. In Gulliver’s Travels‚ satire is shown through narration‚ setting‚ character‚ and plot. Jonathan Swift uses utopia and dystopia as elements of setting‚ and
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PART IV. A VOYAGE TO THE COUNTRY OF THE HOUYHNHNMS. CHAPTER I. [The author sets out as captain of a ship. His men conspire against him‚ confine him a long time to his cabin‚ and set him on shore in an unknown land. He travels up into the country. The Yahoos‚ a strange sort of animal‚ described. The author meets two Houyhnhnms.] 1.1 I continued at home with my wife and children about five months‚ in a very happy condition‚ if I could have learned the lesson of knowing when I was well. I left my poor
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Gulliver’s Travels is written from the perspective of a shipboard doctor named Lemuel Gulliver‚ and tells of four of his journeys into remote parts of the world. At the time Jonathan Swift wrote (1726)‚ the increase in exploration of all parts of the globe had made stories of travels quite popular; the travels Swift wrote of‚ though‚ were fictional and satirical‚ even though presented as if a factual account written by Gulliver himself. A Voyage to Lilliput: Mocking the Pompous Gulliver’s first
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In the story “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver‚ the narrator is overwhelmed with disappointment and misunderstanding in his own life. He doesn’t see all the beauty and creativity in the world‚ but merely goes through the motions of life without actively living. Blindness is an underlying theme in this story‚ but not only as a physicality‚ but a social handicap. The narrator may be more capable of sight than the blind man‚ but he knows nothing of the descriptive illustration of life. It is through the
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In the novel Heart of Darkness‚ the author Joseph Conrad uses the motif of darkness and the words “heart of darkness” to represent the unknown. For example‚ as our framed narrator travels via boat down the coast of Africa to begin his work with the company‚ he observes the ‘“edge of a colossal jungle‚ so dark-green as to be almost black‚ fringed with white surf‚ ran straight‚ like a ruled line‚ far‚ far away along a blue sea whose glitter was blurred by a creeping mist’” (Conrad 18). Here‚ darkness
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0906484 PPB B MOTIF DAN MOTIVASI MOTIF Motif adalah alasan sebab orang melakukan sesuatu. (KBBI) Motif adalah suatu keadaan‚ kebutuhan atau dorongan dalam diri seseorang yang disadari atau tidak ldisadari yang membawa kepada terjadinya suatu perilaku.(Azwar‚ DR.Yayu Khodijah‚2006) Motif merupakan salah satu aspek psikis yang paling berpengaruh dalam tingkah laku individu. Motif diartikan sebagai perilaku sangat kompleks dalam organism(individu) yang mengarahkan perilakunya kepada
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