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    of Between the Assassinations and those he had left behind to their fates in the India of Darkness. He wants to take up responsibilities and be a part of “all that is changing in this country‚” instead of waiting endlessly for nothing to happen like the hapless tramps in Beckett’s Waiting for Godot (The White Tiger 191). He wants to help shape the emergent identity to build “a new Bangalore for a new India” and proudly claim that in his own way he fashioned it

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    and menacing situation in which human society - shrunk into one community with a common fate - finds itself‚ but only a few acts accordingly. Most people go on living their everyday life: half frightened‚ half indifferent‚ they behold the ghostly tragicomedy this is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world. But on that stage‚ on which the actors under the floodlights play their ordained parts‚ our fate of tomorrow‚ life or death of the nations‚ is being decided

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    own way and make Shylock feel isolated because he is Jewish and different. If the merchant of Venice was to be looked at as more comedy‚ the outline of the plot would not be taken seriously. The merchant of Venice is sometimes referred to as “tragicomedy” because it shares features in common with tragedies but also has tragedies. There are moments in the play when it is humorous. For example‚ when Lancelot is the jester‚ Lancelot and Gobbo‚ when Jessica deceives her father when she disguises as

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    The dialogues are filled with tension‚ laughter and comedy and this makes the play fit into the tragicomedy category. The playwright incorporated a cluster of themes within the plot and shaped her characters according to certain profound psychological and mental states. She stays objective and gives the audience a hint of foreshadowing in order to make

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    Paper I : Poetry-I Unit 1 : Explanations with reference to the context from the starred texts Geoffrey Chaucer : “General Prologue”* to The Canterbury Tales The Nun’s Priest’s Tale John Donne : “The Canonization* “A Valediction:Forbidding Mourning” “The Sunne Rising” “The Ecstasie”* : Paradise Lost‚ Book I : Essay on Man* : “Introduction” “Earth’s Answer” “The Tyger”* “London” (from Songs of Experience) Unit 2 : Unit 3 : John Milton Unit 4 : Alexander Pope William Blake

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    San Quentin Prison‚ Retrieved June 7‚ 2010 from http://www.insideprison.com/San-Quentin-State-Prison.asp MSNBC Special (2006)‚ Inside San Quentin‚ Retrieved on June 7‚ 2010 from http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6890776 Berton‚ J.‚ (2008)‚ When ‘Waiting for Godot’ played San Quentin‚ retrieved on June 07‚ 2010‚ from http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/22/DDME14SN4R.DTL City Youth Now (2010)‚ S.Q.U.I.R.E.S‚ retrieved June 07‚ 2010‚ from http://www.cityyouthnow.org/programs/squires

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    Nancy Mitford and the Pursuit of Love ‘Morbid’ accurately describes Nancy Mitford’s ‘The Pursuit of Love’. It’s rather funny throughout‚ and is brutally honest in the way only a child could pull off‚ but‚ if you look past the humor‚ the story itself is very sad and sordid. After all‚ the plotline is about the failures that is the characters love lives. But everything is overshadowed with a darkish humor‚ regardless of the serious nature of the topic. Ironically enough‚ one of the best examples

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    The Elizabethan Period The people in the Elizabethan Era lived very different lives to what we do today. The Elizabethan people believed that the queen was God’s representation here on Earth. Their social order ranked the monarch as the highest‚ followed by the nobility‚ the gentry‚ merchants and labourers. The government was relatively stable‚ centralised‚ well-organized and efficient. The Elizabethan people had high regard for family in a community. They believed that families were role

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    Abstract This paper discusses the ways of communication of two characters Ben and Gus in Harold Pinter’s play‚ dumb waiter. Ben and Gus are two assassins awaiting the arrival of their next victim in a dank basement. The pair inhabits a pantomimic parody of world where nothing is ever accomplished through their dialogue. As a result they talk‚ but they don’t communicate. This paper examines four kinds of their communication and the violence and menace underneath it. It also explores the concept of

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    ENGLISH 120 MID-TERM Alice Miller explored several themes in her book Banished Knowledge. The main idea of the book is the effect of childhood trauma‚ such as‚ emotional blindness and disconnection from one’s real self and feelings and the need for an enlightened witness in order to begin the healing process. In Banished Knowledge‚ Alice Miller states that trauma suffered in our childhood is remembered by the body and is manifested later in the abused child’s adult life often in a destructive

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