“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching‚ and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be” (Dickens 284). The three major themes of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens are social status and character‚ growing pains‚ and revenge. In the novel‚ social class determines how a person is viewed and treated in society‚ but it does not define the character of a person. Pip realizes that class and wealth are less important that loyalty and affection. For example‚ “...Miss Havisham
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to speak out of the women’s problems and needs. Their desires always get lost before the grand narratives of patriarchy‚ even the national history and narrative rarely recognize the major contribution of the females in the texts or document. Whenever the woman is portrayed‚ she is put in the second position below the man. She is always kept silent. Identifying this issue‚ Indian critic and feminist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak asks— can the subaltern speak? in her essay ‘Can the Subaltern Speak?’.
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The theme is the moral or life-lesson we learn from a short story. Rudyard Kipling‚ the author of “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi‚” made it obvious that the theme of this story is “greed can lead to negative consequences.” I can support this with loads of evidence. For example‚ the cobras were greedy‚ evil‚ and cruel‚ and they were punished. On the other hand‚ Rikki was selfless‚ content‚ and courageous‚ and he was rewarded. Notably‚ some people think “knowledge can help us prepare for the future” is the
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be learned by reading. Even in the business world‚ the novel relates to many situations and criteria that a business will also face. Some of the scenes in the novel relate back to themes using dealt with in the business world. Some of these themes include a business’ financials‚ customers‚ and mission. To begin‚ a theme shown in Ender’s Game that relates to the business world is financials. For example‚ in Chapter 1 on page 1‚ two unnamed people are observing Ender. The two unnamed people are from
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inessential as opposed to the essential.” (Beauvoir 16) In the Indian context‚ women as gendered subalterns have a very limited role to play within the society. They are mere objects of desire to men. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in her essay “Can the Subaltern Speak?”‚ originally published in Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg’s Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture (1988) says‚ “As object of colonialist historiography and as subject of insurgency‚ the ideological construction of gender keeps
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The theme is defined as a main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work that may be stated directly or indirectly. In the first part of the novel “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” by Rudyard Kipling‚ the primary topic is courage is not the absence of fear‚ but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. The alternate topic is love triumphs over all. The primary reason for courage is not the absence of fear‚ but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear
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Theme: Harrison Bergeron Harrison Bergeron (Kurt Vonnegut‚ 1961) is a fictional commentary on an egalitarian society. Based in the future‚ 2081 to be exact‚ Vonnegut describes a society where the American government has passed amendments to make all its citizens equal by use of handicaps. These handicaps range from masks for the beautiful‚ weights for the strong‚ radio chips that give off bursts of frequencies to disrupt thoughts for the intelligent‚ all in an attempt in an entirely equal citizenship
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Learning to Speak a Second Language How to speak fluently in less time — whether in an established school or in independent study. Lynn Lundquist Public Domain Public Domain Statement This book is not copyright protected. Our purpose in offering this popular book to publishers without cost is to advertise the Spoken English Learned Quickly language course on our www.FreeEnglishNow.com website. Publication of this book helps us advertise. This book may be translated into other languages. The
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Do people need other people to live a joyful life? In Edith Wharton’s novella‚ Ethan Frome‚ many themes are expressed through the landscape and characters‚ but one recurring theme is “people need people”. Wharton used three main characters to elaborate on this theme. She created an epic love-triangle that is doomed from the beginning. The three came together because of each other’s needs. Ethan and Zeena Frome are married. Zeena is a hypochondriac who is need of a caretaker. Mattie Silver‚ Zeena’s
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John Neihardt‚ the author of‚ Black Elk Speaks‚ could be interpreted as something else rather than an autobiography‚ because Black Elk didn’t write it. Black Elk told the story to his son Ben Black Elk. Who then translated It in English to John Neihardt‚ and his daughter to record. After doing research on line about the book Black Elk Speaks‚ I noticed that there was a lot of controversy about the author of the book. Which entailed whether or not the book actually was written word for word that
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