Alan Jay Lerner

Raeheth Sahni 5 November 2014 For Whom The Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economical understated style had a strong influence on 20th century fiction. He was greatly appreciated in the literary world and went on to win the Pulitzer prize for his work. Hemingway insisted with the WW1 ambulance drivers in 1918, however he was severely wounded and had to return home. In 1930 he went to Spain as a journalist and film production assistant…

"Known to everyone as Flo, recognizable everywhere in cowboy hat and pink sunglasses" (New York Times para 2). Florynce Kennedy was born in Kansas City, Missouri on February 11, 1916, to Willey and Zella Kennedy. Her father was a Pullman porter and waiter, but later in life owned a taxi business. Flo grew up with five siblings, all of them girls. (Encyclopedia of World Biography). Flo's childhood was relatively uneventful with one incident that she recounts in her autobiography, Color me Flo.…

Anglian fiction. Flood of fire is about a world of sepoys sahibs and rajahs who are travelling from Assam to Calcutta to Canton. “Vikrm Seth attained dizzy height of success with The Golden Gate (1986) and A Suitably Boy (1993). He stunned the literary world with his novel. Upamanya Chatterjee, with his novel English August (1988) was a great success”. Chatterjee’s tone was ironic and shown all the administration. Chatterjee brightly uses Indianised English in the novel. His contemporary…

The "American dream" from the Start - to take root and direct is the American nation ideal and pursuit of this, it has strong vitality, but why go to the disillusioned? Gatsby story tells us that if such a dream come true - has only the pursuit of material and to become a 'superpower' longing but lack of why wealth and have a wealth of survival after what some have the ultimate human significance of thinking about it, so that eventually come true a mirage, it also will be short-sighted and…

James Bond as a Representation of Normative Society James Bond, a character introduced in Ian Fleming’s novels, has been considered as being one of the most mass-mediated characters of the last century. He is a popular hero, an icon of adventure, a guru of male style, the last word in gadgetry, and a loaded symbol of sex and violence. However, these features and attributes are not necessarily a fixed part of the James Bond character. Throughout the last century one can see that the character…

And yet, when Winston returns from the woods, his awakening does not effectively translate into action. The novel that opened with a man’s bold words of dissent, “DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER,” —closes with the same man’s declaration of love: “he loved Big Brother.” How does this radical transformation occur in Winston Smith—and moreover, what can it tell us about the power of language in totalitarian states? To answer these questions, let us turn, once again, to Hannah Arendt. In The Origins of…

Title- What is it significance? The Great Gatsby is a man named Gatsby who went from being poor to being able to gain a large amount of wealth. Throughout the book, his qualities that are shown could be seen as great. Gatsby was known for throwing huge parties to attract the love of this life Daisy as well as being able to maintain his humbleness even when he became rich. The title can actually be ironic because Gatsby wasn’t even his real name and he became wealthy through illegal…

Almost every character of the play can be placed with or opposed to Lear’s rule. Likewise, the people who clash with the king have motivations that are largely incomparable to those of, for example, Edgar and Cordelia. Interested only in material wealth and power, the various antagonists of the play deceive their way through life whilst the main characters that the audience would most likely emphasise with are motivated only by good virtues such as personal insight, honesty or charity.…

Chaucer himself remarked on the language of a thousand years before him a famous passage from Troylus and Criseyde, (II.22-28) expressed that men long before spoke in so different manner from his contemporaries. Ye knowe ek, that in forme of speche is chaunge Withinne a thousand yer, and wordes tho That hadden prys now wonder nyce and straunge Us thenketh hem, and yet thei spake hem so, And spedde as wel in love as men now do. ‘You know also that there is change in the form of…

In this chapter, I here analyze economic aspects of Lee Child’s novel Tripwire. Here, I analyze Jack Reacher and other major characters. This thesis deals with American lifestyle and culture which offers different perspective to the field of literature. The perspective of my analysis is economic contract theory or in another word “Behavioral Economics”. I also focus on exploring evils of capitalism by discussing the ideology of “Economic Man”. Behavior of an individual is always mapped through…