The destruction of the grand style of the epic is just what Pope was after in his mock epic‚ ’The Rape of the Lock.’ Pope had no such universal goal‚ or moral pronouncements to make as did Milton. His purpose was merely to expose the life of the nobility of his time. While Milton chose blank verse to express the immensity of the landscape of his epic‚ Pope chose to utilize the heroic couplet to trivialize this grandeur. Pope’s quick wit bounces the reader along his detailed description of his parlor-room
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’THE RAPE OF THE LOCK ’. Mock-epic‚ also known as mock-heroic poetry is a juxtaposition of trivial subject matter and grandeur epic style. From the fundamental point of view‚ mock-epic is nothing but the most popular neo-classical burlesque used as a double-edged satirical weapon. Batrachomyomachia‚ an anonymous parody‚ attributed to Homer‚ is most probably the earliest example of mock-epic genre. Alexander Pope was the central figure of Augustan Age‚ for his best mock-heroic poetry The Rape of the
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of War By Zahra Ismail Thesis Advisors: Zulfiya Tursunova‚ PhD Candidate‚ Ina Curic‚ M.A. February 2008 Table of Contents: Introduction and Motivation…………………………………………………………5 Chapter 1-The Plight of Children Born of War: Societal Responses and International Justice…………………………………………………………………11 1.1 Societal Responses……………………………………………………………..12 1.2 Forced Pregnancy……………………………………………………………….12 1.3 Convention on the Rights of the Child………………………………………16 1.4 Justice for Children Born of War……………………………………………
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According to United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs and United Nations Development Programme (2007) the civil war in Sierra Leone was … [A] decade-long …marked by widespread human rights abuses‚ the collapse of the central government‚ and destruction of public capacity to provide any services or protection for its people. [The war displaced] more than two million people…widespread of sexual violence [with a record of] more than 1‚800 victims of sexual violence…[as] 55 per cent
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in savage behavior that is normally forbidden in society. In The Wars by Timothy Findley‚ however‚ soldiers act in violent ways even when they are not actively engaged in battle. The inherently savage nature of humankind is evident when Robert Ross kills the German soldier after the gas attack‚ when Robert is raped in the baths‚ and when Robert kills Captain Leather. These violent events that occur outside the direct action of the war demonstrate the evil inherent in humankind. The innate violence
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furtile destruction‚ does a man persist in waging war? In the short story “The Sniper” by Liam O’ Flaherty‚ the author focuses on the Irish civil war of the 1920’s. On a Dublin roof‚ a republican sniper struggles to destroy his enemy. Although the sniper is an experienced and ingenious combatant‚ the story’s author outcome clearly conveys an anti-war theme. A general Sherman observed‚ “War is hell.” In the short story‚ the sniper is a practiced soldier at war: he has the eyes at a man who is used to looking
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The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II The book that I chose to read was The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang. This book describes the mass murder and large scale depravity by the Japanese army during World War II in China. The Rape of Nanking describes the events that occurred before‚ during and after the invasion and desecration of the Chinese people and their city. Iris Chang was born in Princeton‚ New Jersey on March 28‚ 1968. The
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partaken in war have experiences some form of trauma within war. This idea is presented by the novelist Bao Ninh in his book The Sorrow of War. Ninh’s novel follows the life of the main character Kien‚ as he experiences battling for the North Vietnamese army in the Vietnam War. Kien experiences many instances of trauma and brutality found within war. In his novel‚ The Sorrow of War‚ Bao Ninh uses Kien’s wartime experiences-like: battling during the Tet Offensive‚ witnessing the rape of his love‚
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Michael Hickson Mr. Eynon English 10 5/8/2013 The Rape of Nanking 300‚000 people were brutally raped and murdered in Nanking China‚ and still to this day people don’t believe that it ever happened. The Rape of Nanking is known as the forgotten Holocaust of World War II but is one of the single worst atrocities to happen during WWII in all of Europe and Asia. No ones life was spared in these horrific 6 weeks yet the Rape of Nanking is still unknown to most people. In 1937 the Japanese military
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The Rape of Nanking On December 13‚ 1937 in order to break the spirit of Chinese resistance‚ Japanese General Matsui Iwane ordered that the city of Nanking be destroyed. Much of the city was burned‚ and Japanese troops launched a campaign of atrocities against civilians. In what became known as the "Rape of Nanking‚" the Japanese butchered an estimated 150‚000 male "war prisoners‚" massacred an additional 50‚000 male civilians‚ and raped at least 20‚000 women and girls of all ages‚ many of whom
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