‘A View from the Bridge’‚ by Arthur Miller‚ is a play which explores the theme of obsession. Set in 1940s Brooklyn‚ the play is based upon the lives of the Carbone family and‚ in particular‚ focuses upon longshoreman Eddie Carbone’s unhealthy obsession with his seventeen year old niece Catherine. A modern version of a Greek tragedy‚ the play charts Eddie’s downfall‚ ending with his tragic demise. Throughout the play‚ Miller makes effective use of characterisation and key scene to encourage the audience
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The Fire ‚ William Saroyan William Saroyan was an American dramatist and author. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in and won the Academy Award for Best Story. He is recognized as "one of the most prominent literary figures of the mid-20th century." Stephen Fry describes Saroyan as "one of the most underrated writers of the 20th century and suggests that he takes his place naturally alongside Hemingway‚ Steinbeck and Faulkner. The heroes of his works were always simple and not very happy
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The story seems to have a straightforward idea. The grandchildren of Ellen Forbes have come from the future to save her or to visit her. The reader would assume that Ellen Forbes did not have children and grandchildren of her own. Yet‚ that is not the case. One should not believe every single thing that is uttered by the other characters‚ especially if the point of view is a third person limited view of only one character. In the end of
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Point of View in “The Garden-Party” “The Garden-Party” by Katherine Mansfield can easily be classified as a coming of age tale for the main character and narrator‚ Laura Sheridan. The ending of the story leaves the reader with many more questions than answers. This is mainly because Laura herself is unable to put into words what she has learned from her new experience with death. “She stopped‚ she looked at her brother. ‘Isn’t life‚’ she stammered‚ ‘Isn’t life –’ But what life was she couldn’t
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that you shouldn’t believe a word those crazy cat lovers say because dogs make the world go round here are 10 reasons why dogs are better then cats. 1. You can train a dog better than a cat. Have you ever seen a cat sit on command? Roll over on command? Stay? Neither have I. 2. Dogs are smarter. Have you ever seen a dog fall into a fish tank? I haven’t either. 3. A dog can protect your home much better than a cat. 4. Dogs are better suited to lead you to a more active lifestyle. Have you ever
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their marital life. It narrates an incidence of a quarrel between a husband and a wife that escalates to the point that it reaches the child and the couple is portrayed fighting for the possession of the baby. Now each parent is pulling on an arm causing him symbolic physical injury;”he felt the baby slipping out of his hands and he pulled back very hard”. From a narrative point of view‚ Raymond Carver uses in this story a third person narrator; an objective narrator‚ who relates information that
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ecologists are fond of remarking in reference to nature‚ the interconnectedness and unity of these individual themes. (1) Insofar as it has begun to act as a check on man’ s arrogance and ecological hubris‚ the transition from an anthropocentric (human-centered) to a biocentric (humans as only one element in the ecosystem) view in both religious and scientific traditions is only to be welcomed. 4 What is unacceptable are the radical conclusions drawn by deep ecology‚ in particular‚ that intervention
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Photo of a fire taken with a 1/4000th of a second exposure A flame is a mixture of reacting gases and solids emitting visible‚ infrared‚ and sometimes ultraviolet light‚ the frequency spectrum of which depends on the chemical composition of the burning material and intermediate reaction products. In many cases‚ such as the burning of organic matter‚ for example wood‚ or the incomplete combustion of gas‚ incandescent solid particles called soot produce the familiar red-orange glow of ’fire’. This light
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The novel To Kill a Mockingbird‚ by Harper Lee‚ is told from Scout’s point of view‚ and because of that‚ the novel is told through a filter of innocence‚ as Scout is a young‚ naïve girl. Societal views have not affected her much at her young age. However‚ throughout the story‚ the filter begins to fade‚ as she has realizations that changes her viewpoints on people and ideas. Scout becomes more mature in the process‚ in the way that she understands more. Scout’s innocence contributes to how the story
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Summary of Main Points from the article: Reading from the Drop: Poetics of Identification and Yeats’s “Leda and the Swan” – Janet Neigh Janet identifies with Leda and her experience of sexist victimization allowing her to explore how Leda might symbolize the female-identified reader trying to establish agency from a text that in its representation of rape undermines her agency as a woman. The sonnet seems to explore the intersection of feminist and postcolonial power structures‚ and yet the politics
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