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    In the novel A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens presented many of the main characters as strong, educated, women who ended up holding the plotline together. These women provided life lessons and a true representation of how life was during France’s Revolutionary times. In this book, the women who made the most significant impressions are Lucie Manette, Madame Defarge, and the seamstress executed near the end of the book. Lucie Manette was a kind-hearted, breathtakingly beautiful woman who…

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    «The Wrath & The Dawn» is a young adult fantasy novel written by Renée Ahdieh. It is the first book in «The Wrath & The dawn» duology, first published May 12th 2015. The story follows the two main characters Shahrzad and Khalid and is a retelling of the classic novel «One Thousand and One Nights» (which goes by many names), written by Hanan Al-Shaykh. Renée Ahdieh was born in the United States of America July 7th 1983, and lives in North Carolina. Ahdieh is most known for her novel «The…

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    I never expected the events and the outcome of the story as it was unpredictable. The bizarre settings of the story and the peculiar characters in Wonderland burst out with each turn of the page, begin with a wondrous rabbit hole and the ending with an explosion of a pack of anthropomorphic cards. In spite of the fact that the story is slightly abridged yet vividly emerged into my mind…

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    Name:Maram Ahmed Fathy ID: 2014/00628 Faculty: Pharmacy Essay Spinsterhood Marriage is important but not very necessary as lot of people think. Some women marry because it is necessary to have children and for a stable life. Also woman may choose not to marry because she didn’t find the suitable man she dreams with , it is also expected that once the woman got married she has to leave work and care about her husband and children only. So spinsterhood is a wrong word for…

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    In Rethinking Democracy, Carol Gould points out the dearth of philosophical attention given to the question of what character traits people need to participate effectively in a democracy. Gould calls this constellation of traits the democratic personality. She provides one of the few serious analyses of the subject, identifying the following list of traits as significant for a democratic personality: initiative, a disposition to reciprocity, tolerance, flexibility and open-mindedness, commitment…

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    "A Doll's House is the first full-blown example of Ibsen's modernism." While looking at the unreconciled ending of A Doll's House, which sets Nora's need to be first and foremost a human being against her roles as doll or as wife and mother, and offends society's need for faith in the idea of the divine and the beautiful to survive". The celebration and self-fulfillment of women was atypical for this time Promotion of equal rights and liberties I would like to look at this play from the…

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    Comparison of Mr. Rochester’s and St. John Rivers’ relationships towards Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte’s novel Jane Eyre provides two masculine characters who show an interest in taking Jane to wife. Edward Rochester and St. John Rivers are the two men in Jane Eyre’s life when it comes to courtship and marriage. Both are interesting and different in their approach. In the process of meeting and getting to know the both men, Jane goes through a mental process of getting to know herself and her…

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    Introduction Manju Kapur is one of the most distinguished Indian English writers of the contemporary times. She has been able to make a mark with her five novels written in the last two decades. Her stories mostly hover over frustrations, refusals, retaliations and breach of conventional expectation. The Immigrant, published in 2008, is her fourth novel. With her profound understanding of human nature, Kapur discusses a wide range of issues in this work of hers. Commenting on the themes of…

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    In 17th century Spain, the Spaniard conception of honor is represented as being solely based upon social status and courageous acts that are deemed virtuous. In Spanish culture, honor is viewed differently when it comes to the sexes because men keep their honor through test of masculinity as well as women through chastity unless they are married. In Catalina De Erauso's autobiography, Lieutenant Nun, Erauso demonstrates how imperative it is to be born from nobility and what families in Spain are…

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    Last but not least, one of the most important shared themes between these two novels is individualism and collectivism. This theme appears vividly in every inch of both novels thus it indicates that although Orwell and Huxley imagined two complete different futures of their current societies, in some cases such as this, they had the same type of advanced point of view. In general, individualism and collectivism are two co-existing different ideologies that oppose one another. Individualism is a…

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