Canadas: A Summary

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In this article, Canadas relates the works of Christopher Marlowe to James Joyce’s, Portrait, via similar characters and certain allusions. Overall, Canadas has an awful habit of using a lot of plot summary. The first portion of the article is based around summarizing the plot for what is assumed to be a necessary filler. An increasing use of plot summary has greatly weakened Canadas paper due to fact that it means that less analysis is capable of occurring and it would waste the time of the readers who have previously read the book in question. There is absolutely no reason to include a hefty amount plot summary when the time can best be spent analyzing. Canadas at one point defines “the term vocation” (18) is an attempt to strengthen the

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