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    The Flea Poem Analysis

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    In 1633, John Donne published a metaphysical poem titled The Flea. This poem consists of an erotic theme where a flea is used as a metaphor in order to demonstrate the affair between the speaker and their lover. In the same year, The Altar was published by George Herbert. This poem illustrates the religious notion of how one must sacrifice themselves to God through the use of an altar. In the following, The Flea and The Altar will be compared and contrasted in terms of the physical shape of the…

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    “The Scarlet Letter” was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1850, the actual story takes places in the 1600’s in a Puritan society. Hawthorne was an anti-transcendentalist. An anti-transcendentalist means that humans are naturally evil , society keeps them in check and nature is evil. Hawthorne used symbols throughout the story to represent his ideas, symbols are a representation of qualities or ideas. In his novel “The Scarlet Letter”, Nathaniel Hawthorne uses the symbolism of the wild rosebush,…

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    In the book Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor, Stacey Logan is trying to figure out who should be a better friend, TJ, or Jeremy. Stacey should be friends with Jeremy because T.J. lies constantly, doesn’t take responsibility for his actions, and he takes advantage of others. First of all, it can be true that Jeremy may not be trustworthy. But, it is easy to recall that TJ can be caught lying multiple times throughout the book. The text states, “When we got outside. T.J.…

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    In the novel, The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde, Wilde criticizes many aspects of the Victorian lifestyle. The constant criticism in the comedy is present through constant witty remarks and absurdity throughout the play. One aspect of the Victorian lifestyle that Wilde refers to frequently is writing and writers. Wilde conveys the message by using diaries and three volume novels frequently throughout the play that those individuals have dreams and secrets that they find dear to them,…

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    Color can influence our emotions, our actions, and how we respond to various people, things and ideas. Throughout literature, color symbolizes a variety of different things. In The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nick Carraway tells us a tragic story of a helpless romantic, Jay Gatsby, desperately trying to get his long lost love back. Gatsby does everything in his power, such as becoming rich and throwing parties every weekend, just to get back Daisy Buchanan, a married woman who he is…

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    Eric Birling is a seemingly less important character in J.B. Priestley’s thriller, An Inspector Calls, but upon deep analysis, we can see that Eric is a character of great significance and has a huge impact on the play. This can be seen through the structure and shape of this whodunit and some of the language and stage directions. Eric is a very effective tool that Priestley uses to keep the tension going; be it the difference of opinion he has with his father or the suspicious behaviour, or…

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    of masonic symbolism in the story, maybe motioning toward the Masonic-Catholic clash that cleared the United States at the season of the story's arrangement, and in addition the thematic gadget of walled in area, which Poe utilized as a part of numerous other stories, despite the fact that its essence in "The Cask of Amontillado" may imply the fame of live-entombment writing in Poe's period (Anna Sheets Nesbitt, 2000). Pride or Repentance: Pride is known as man's most noteworthy sin since it was…

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    .1. Background: Realism in Drama was a general movement that began in the 19th _century, as a reaction against Romanticism, and continued through much of 20th _century. Romanticism was the early phase of Realism which originated around 1800. As the 19th _century progressed, the romantic emphasis on emotion over reason and the senses over intellect had given way to a much more objective and scientific way of examining the human condition(1). A number of social, political ideas, playwrights, and…

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    Lal Singh is an Indian who is born into a peasant family in Punjab and he grows up in the peasant family in his village in Punjab. The situation of farmers during 1939 was that agriculture was a diminishing profession and industrialization was what the British Rule in India was aiming for claiming that India was an old civilization but it was a backward civilization. Lal Singh feels trapped in his village and in his religion Sikhism and eaves his village to join the British Army and serve as a…

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    An Author’s writings reflects his beliefs. One of the many examples of this is Paradise Lost, a poetic representation of the creation and fall of man in the Garden of Eden written by Protestant clergyman, John Milton. It is not a completely accurate portrayal, since many of Milton’s descriptions and theories do not coincide with the Bible. Instead, it is simply a peek into Milton’s imagination of what it might have been like. Paradise Lost, despite being fictional, is heavily based on Milton’s…

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