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    families having complete hatred for one another. In William Shakespeare's story Romeo and Juliet, the characters of Tybalt, Lord Capulet and Friar Lawrence contribute to the tragedy of the play because of their instigation, obedience and unjustified hope. In the play, Tybalt’s identity presents an instigative personality. His character throughout the play reveals an instigated feel based off his actions. He kept urging on Romeo through words and situations…

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    Humans, animals, objects: any one of these topics, along with anything else that something might see, hear, or smell, suit a compare and contrast argument. Compare and contrasts identify how ideas, people, or things share likenesses and differences. In Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities, one of the main characters, Charles Darnay, attempts to escape his life as a French nobleman during the eighteenth century French Revolution. Darnay’s heritage as a French aristocrat puts his life, as well…

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    the fiction headnotes section of Literature: A Pocket Anthology, defines and discusses the various elements of fiction. Short stories began by the influence of Italian novella. People trying to escape countries told novellas, which included stories such as frame tales. The nineteenth century is when short stories became a known literary genre because of the wide literature environment. Edgar Allan Poe was a very influential short story writer, with his idea of single effect. Most of Poe’s…

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    Gothic fiction or Gothicism is a genre or a type of literature and films that is literally a combination of horrors and fictions and even romance at times it also includes death and supernaturalism. It was known to be introduced by a famous Victorian writer Horace Walpole during the 17th century with his famous and well known book The Castle of Otranto also known as the Gothic Story. When he used the word gothic it literally meant something like ‘barbarous’, as well as ‘deriving from the Middle…

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    (1964) is based off the novel, I Am Legend, written in 1954 by Richard Matheson. This is the original film depicting Matheson’s book; which has been illustrated in two other films as well. The 1964 version starring Vincent Price (Dr. Morgan) is definitely the most well received of these films. Directed by Ubaldo Ragona, an Italian director. This movie is shot entirely in Italy, but it is clearly “set” in the United States. There are many aspects about this film that portray the Italian persona…

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    Don Quixote is an important literary piece because it is considered one of the novels that is the foundation of modern literature and gives an insight into the chivalric romances. One reason that Don Quixote is considered to be the foundation of modern literature is that it was the first work of fiction written in prose compared to other narratives such as The Iliad that are written in verse. Cervantes also provides one of the most loved characters in literature. Don Quixote was written as a…

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    The first time I saw this book online I thought it was a story about housewives and their kids,but i was mistaken.The Wicked Wives by Gus Pelagatti is a historical fiction novel based on a true story that happened in the late 1930's. The author first heard of these crimes as soon as he was eight years and overheard his mother gossiping about it. He had a career as an attorney,after which he started his writing career,focusing on writing fictionalized account of notorious crimes that made…

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    best books ever written by American authors. Most of the story 's written during this time where of happy and good times. The (book) talked about how the story was created and how the author came up with the ideas and put the story into action. The story called The Sun Also Rises is about a young woman named Ashley. The book takes place in the springtime in Paris. The story is supposed to be a romantic story because paris in the spring is very romantic. It also takes place in the fall and paris…

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    question)Michael Ondaatje’s 1987 In the Skin of a Lion is a historic fiction where Patrick Lewis recounts his migrant struggle during 1938 Canada, a period of significant class conflict between migrants and locals, finding solace as a “prism refracting” the stories of the marginalised migrants. His fragmented stories reflect mid-20th century postmodernist influence adopting a critical pose against the capitalist historical representation of Toronto, Canada that neglects credit towards its…

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    regularly require men who ambush their spouses to go to these projects as a state of their sentence. (“Domestic Violence”, 2017). Romance is a long work of fiction that is less reasonable than a novel. Most authors attempt to present life practically. Essayists of sentiment focus on recounting an engaging story. Many utilize incredible and powerful plots and characters. The significance of the term sentiment has changed ordinarily since the primary sentiments showed up in Greece very nearly…

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