To‚ The General Manager‚ BSNL‚ Address Sir‚ I want to lodge a complaint about the unsatisfactory working of my telephone. Only last month a telephone set was installed at our residence. It has been a problem right from the day of its installation. Some times bell starts ringing and we rush to attend the call. By the time we lift the receiver‚ the telephone is dead. It is most of the time dead at the receiver’s end. When we telephone a person‚ he hears us all right but we are unable to hear
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A Doll House is a three act prose play which means that they resemble a short story rather than poetic verse which was written by Henrik Ibsen in 1879. The play opens up close to Christmas where Nora comes home and her childhood friend comes to visit to tell Nora that when her husband died‚ she was left with no money and no children and asks if Torvald would give her a job. Nils Krogstad then arrives and states that Torvald wants to fire him from his position at the bank. He then asks Nora to use
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arranged everything to suit your own tastes‚ and so I came to have the same tastes as yours‚ or I pretended to”. Likewise‚ Nora is treated as a possession of Torvald. Torvald relentlessly refers to Nora through the use of pet names such as "my little skylark"(Ibsen) and "my helpless little squirrel"(Ibsen). Torvald uses the possessive "my" often to reflect the notion that she belongs solely to him. Torvald treats Nora as if she was not important to him. She is his pet‚ his toy‚ and his possession. Torvald
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Torvald shows his power over Nora gained through the patriarchal society by the use of nomenclature. By calling Nora ‘my little skylark’‚ ‘my little songbird’ and ‘my little squirrel’‚ he diminishes Nora by relating her to a small‚ helpless animal and by continuously calling her ‘little’‚ subtly reminding her that she has little power compared to him. The obvious imbalance of power
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until 1870. Different from the classical ways of Neoclassical Age(1660-1798)‚ it relied on imagination‚ idealization of nature and freedom of thought and expression. Two men who influenced the era with their writings were William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge‚ both English poets of the time. Their edition of “Lyrical Ballads”‚ stressed the importance of feeling and imagination. Thus in romantic Literature the code was imagination over reason‚ emotion
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The Prelude: Timed Write Re-Write The preceding excerpt from William Wordsworth’s The Prelude conveys a sense of adventure‚ coupled with the downfall into the sublime‚ and presents a common day scenario in accordance with naturalistic motifs and dream-like ambience evident in romanticist poetry. The excerpt describes a snippet from Wordsworth’s lifean evening ride upon a lonely boat that grows into a fearful encounter upon noticing a peak beyond the horizon‚ ending with the narrator falling into
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different features present identity in prose‚ drama and poetry. The drama analysed is Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House”. Nora’s identity is shown through the language and the way Torvald talks to her. He calls her pet names such as “my sweet little skylark” (A Doll’s House‚ p.7). This shows Nora as a weak and submissive person. The imagery of the Christmas tree “stripped of its ornaments and with burnt-down candle-ends” (A Doll’s House‚ p.29) in the beginning of the act two shows Nora’s psychological
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keep their family together. At the end of the Story the relationship does not work out because the duty of law is put into place. Torvald was very upset with Nora for the forgery he states some very harsh words to her. Nora states “I was your little skylark‚ your doll‚ which you would in future treat with doubly gentle care‚ because it was so brittle and fragile” (Act 3)‚ in which she leaves Torvald for treating her as a “doll.” The reason it is an example of the duty to the law of the state is because
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Implied in the insurgents’ cry for freedom was an ambition to escape the bottommost class from the higher classes‚ especially economically. Therefore‚ the Third Estate became an easy target for insurgents to arouse rebellions. Despite anticipated hopes‚ the French Revolution failed to mitigate the financial crisis‚ but perhaps aggravated the situation with bloodshed. The imagery throughout A Tale of Two Cities reveals the unconcealable tendency toward violence and despair amongst the commons. In
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Through her poem‚ “Some Say Plants Don’t Speak”‚ Rosalia De Castro stressed the importance of respecting the natural world. She was a Spanish writer and heavily influenced the people of that culture. She believed that for a person o really connect with themselves‚ they should listen to what nature has to say through its naturalness. For example‚ she writes that “Stars and fountains and flowers‚ don’t murmur against my dream; could I delight in you without them‚ without them‚ could I live?” (Line
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