Portrait of a Lady

History Boys discover that he is homosexual after falling in love with Dakin. Although the endings of their life are miserable, both Einar and Posner use an open-mind and brave attitude to deal with their struggles after the trigger point of dress in a lady and fall in love with Dakin respectively. Einar tends to use an affirmative attitude to face them while Posner is stand still in the past and don’t move…

In “Dharma”, we are introduced to Major General Jehangir Antia or Jago Antia, a man “Famous for his stare, for the cold blackness of his anger, for his tactical skill and his ability to read ground, his whole career from the gold medal at Kharak vasla to the combat and medals in Leh and NEFA” (1997:5), but with a missing leg. He was forced to save his life through a terrible act of self- mutilation: SHAKTHI Subramaniam’s second story is titled “Shakti”, the basic premise of which seems to be,…

After this meeting, word of mouth spread across the country, all curious about how this talented boy met the monarch. “The British public were now fairly excited” about little Tom Thumb (261). He and his portrait were in the newspapers all over the country, which sparked additional interest. Barnum’s flamboyant personality mirrored his advertising when they went a tour of France and bought “several traveling carriages, including one covered wagon on springs…

In Gustave Flaubert’s story, A Simple Heart, the character of Felicite has a vacillating life in regards to love and life. Felicite’s life can be more readily viewed as a decline, which can be best seen when examining the objects of her affection. From going to a lover, who is a man which would have been an appropriate match, to a stuffed parrot, the reader can examine the gradual decline of Felicite’s life as the object of her affection changes, as well as her status of grieving for the lost…

story, the phrase means that even though Eddie’s earthly life is ending, he is getting ready to experience the most wonderful thing anyone could ever experience which is heaven. One good example of this happening in my life is when I “graduated” Our Lady of Fatima to continue my education at St. Patrick’s. Even though I was sad to leave the place that I had spent six years of my life at, I was happy to go on to St. Patrick’s. Just like the phrase says this was a new beginning in my life that I…

The main female characters of Christopher Marlow’s The Jew of Malta and William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice serve the same purpose in their respective plays. Despite their power differences, Abigail and Portia fulfill the same function of humiliating the Jewish main character. These women also perform comparable actions which feed into the execution of their implicit main purpose. These actions and consequences include the following: going in disguise to protect financial statuses when…

Indeed, the demise of the relationship between Ernest Hemingway and one of his most instrumental supporters, Gertrude Stein, was parallel to the influence she had on both his life and his writing. Gertrude Stein was inarguably one of the most influential mentors in Hemingway’s life, and the ups and downs of their relationship, both literary and personal, involved many complications and conflicts. The turbulent relationship of Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway began in 1922, after an arranged…

girl, the first man presents to her a diamond necklace which costed him nothing nothing compared to his fortune, the second man presented her a rare albino tiger that was almost impossible to capture, but the third man is a carpenter and crafts the lady a pure wooden heart made from an oak tree he cut down himself, the woman leaves with the third man and the other two men were baffled. Brucker’s The Horatio Alger Myth is the true key to successfulness in how even a poor kid could become one day…

Che Guevara Hidden within the forests of Bolivia, laid outlaw Ernesto “Che” Guevara. As he laid, asthma tearing his lungs and burning, only but a basket of eggs, and not salvation in sight, the outlaw had been captured by the Bolivian Army. Che was considered a rebel, an elusive man, showing the most amount of defiance in the face of rebellion. Che Guevara. A hero, they say. A criminal, they say. Who is Che Guevara? Che Guevara, born originally as Ernesto Guevara, was born into a middle class…

The Code of the Medieval Knight (Discuss the concept of chivalry according to the texts: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Song of Roland, Perceval: The Story of the Grail, Morte d'Arthur) Chivalry has always existed in a sense, but has been defined uniquely depending on the culture. Most military forces had a code of ethics they were to follow. During the twelfth century in Europe the medieval chivalry code is "best defined as an aristocratic ethos that prescribed what qualities and…