The main purpose of the following work is to analyze two pieces of modernist literature “Mrs Dalloway”‚ by Virginia Woolf and “The Short Happy Life of Francis McComber” by Ernest Hemingway in the light of point of view and experimentation. Both stories are important references to the movement they belong to‚ and share the same modernist characteristics. It is possible to say that they both break with traditional narrative features by going into the minds of the characters and including new writing
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AP Language & Composition Art & Society “It is almost as safe to assume that an artist of any dignity is against his country‚ i.e.‚ against the environment in which God hath placed him‚ as it is to assume that his country is against the artist” (H.L. Mencken). It is safe to say that Mencken’s assumption on the artist against the environment is spot on. Artists are different than everyone else. Artists understand other artists. Normal people do not seem to understand artists. I consider myself
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Julia Kristeva’s quotation from Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia provides an interesting piece of observation in regards to the rampant depression apparent throughout literature. Kristeva points out that melancholy and depression can send writers into an “abyss of sorrow‚” (Kristeva). However‚ she believes that so long as a writer avoids collapsing into the “noncomunicable grief‚” (Kristeva)‚ extraordinarily powerful pieces of literature can rise from ashes of depression. The melancholy experienced
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Virginia Woolf was born in 1882 . When she was only 13 years old‚ her sister Julia died resulting in Virginia’s first nervous breakdown. In 1904 Virginia’s father died and three months later she suffered a second breakdown and attempted to kill herself . In 1912 Virginia married Leonard Woolf but in September 1913 attempted a second suicide. Since then she suffered constantly from fits of depression‚ diseases and several breakdowns‚ until she took her life in desperation in 1941. In his autobiography
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unification of art and life will be discussed from two approaches—Woolf’s life and her works;Lily and her painting. Virginia Woolf was born on January 25‚ 1882‚ a descendant of one of Victorian England’s most prestigious literary families. Her father‚ Sir Leslie Stephen‚ was the editor of the Dictionary of National Biography and was married to the daughter of the writer William Thackeray. Woolf grew up among the most important and influential British intellectuals of her time‚ and received free rein to explore
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Gypsies and Lesbian Desire: Vita Sackville-West‚ Violet Trefusis‚ and Virginia Woolf Author(s): Kirstie Blair Reviewed work(s): Source: Twentieth Century Literature‚ Vol. 50‚ No. 2 (Summer‚ 2004)‚ pp. 141-166 Published by: Hofstra University Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4149276 . Accessed: 12/03/2013 05:26 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit
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as Winston Churchill‚ John F Kennedy and Martin Luther King. Like John F. Kennedy‚ Adolf Hitler grasped a very charismatic Leadership style while containing inspirational traits like Martin Luther King and Winston Churchill. Hitler employed searchlights at his rallies‚ warm-up men before his speeches (principally his minister for culture‚ Joseph Goebbels)‚ and impressively turned-out SS guards - but he wore a deliberately un-dressy uniform himself. He also had a huge office in Berlin that he almost
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The short pieces Monday and Tuesday by Virginia Woolf and A Clean‚ Well-Lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway are both proper examples of Modernist writing. Generally‚ the two stories contain very ambiguous‚ or seemingly non-existent‚ themes‚ which complement their pieces. The authors both achieve this by not really having an obvious protagonist‚ having this character be without motive or a subjective opinion of their situation‚ and finishing the piece with unresolved ending and meaning. Virginia Woolf’s
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Patriotism Patriotism means genuine love towards your own country/ motherland. It does not mean hatred towards other countries as well. It is said that even if a mother loose her love towards her child a child should not lose his/ her honour towards her. It is patriotism which has inspired martyrs to give up their lives for the sake of their countries; in the service of their countries; in fighting for the cause and liberty of their country. Their names stand recorded in golden words in the history
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Thematic Analysis The two readings “A Room of One’s Own” by Virginia Woolf and “Homemade Education” by Malcolm X are completely different‚ yet they share a similar theme about education. Receiving an education has been difficult task for certain groups of people for centuries. “A Room of One’s Own” is set during William Shakespeare’s time period where women were not allowed to be educated the same way as men were. The idea of a women being able to write a play or be an actor in the theater was
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