Abstract
This paper analyzes and compares the language, tone, character, and plot of 'Troilus and Cressida' and of 'King Lear.' The paper examines Ulysses' "Degree" speech and explains its relevance to Act 1 of Shakespeare's "King Lear" and particularly to the relationship of Lear with his three daughters.

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"Ulysses' speech in Troilus and Cressida is Shakespeare at his most political. It echoes the concerns of King Lear's Act 1 whilst hinting at the writers personal beliefs. In this way, the speech accentuates Lear's mistakes, while prophesising his ultimate, tragic fate. Ulysses takes the role of a political philosopher, diagnosing the ills of the Greek army. He describes the "hollow Grecian tents," tracing it all to the neglect of the importance of "degree" ignoring the glue that holds society together."

Tags:cordelia, plot, tone, edmund, gloucester, philosopher, goneril, rhetoric

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This paper is a discussion of two of the most popular and respected author's of modern times. This essay compares short stories showing how they reflect the literary tradition of the 19th century "mystery" genre. The stories examined are "The Judge's House" by Bram Stoker and "The Speckled Band" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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"In the 19th century short stories were of interest owing to three major factors: a high crime rate; scientific and industrial advances; and the serialization of novels into magazines. Public concern with high crime rates opened the door for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to publish his Sherlock Holmes stories owing to public desire for a successful detective. This was also a period of scientific and industrial advances. This led to a questioning of formal religious beliefs and increased interest in the supernatural and the afterlife. Bram Stoker s The Judge s House is trying to promote belief in God, Malcolmson s mathematics book missed the rat, the Bible struck. The short story format became popular owing to the increasing number of magazines. These were widely accessible causing big novels to be serialized."

Tags:judge, house, stoker, conan, doyle, speckled, band

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This paper argues for the fact that both these were intertextual novels. It explains that 'Foe' has strong intertextual links with 'Robinson Crusoe' as well as other Defoe novels. It shows how "Robinson Crusoe" also has its foundations firmly set in other stories, despite it being heralded as the 'first' desert island adventure.

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"Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe has often been heralded as the very first "desert island" adventure, much emulated and reproduced. Foe by J.M. Coetzee is just one of these pastiches, bringing an original and feminine angle to the Robinson Crusoe story. Foe is very different from the normal imitations of Robinson Crusoe, which usually just plant Daa different character in the same plight as Crusoe. In his take on the classic castaway story, Coetzee has actually planted his own character into the same situation as Crusoe the very same island in fact, with Crusoe still there. He has planted his own character into the story itself, not just a similar situation. Coetzee then removes a character from the original story (Friday) and plants him in a completely different situation (away from the island and into "civilized" life), inverting the usual treatment that writers give to the story. Obviously, Foe is a novel relying entirely on the plot of another story as its base and so is filled with intertextual references, however to what extent does Robinson Crusoe, the story that originated the genre of island adventures, contain obvious references to other books? As J. Paul Hunter begins his critique on Eighteenth Century Fiction: "No book comes into the world altogether naked, new, or alone. Every text has a past and a history of its own, and its friendships with people and other books identify the place it seeks in the world and establish its relationship with potential readers." (Before Novels, p.ix) Robinson Crusoe must therefore have absorbed some influences. No author writes entirely independently, without being influenced in any way by their society and the literature around at the time. However, it can be difficult to identify any single distinct influences. Interestingly though, some of the sources of inspiration for Defoe when writing Robinson Crusoe, despite it being acknowledged as the "original" castaway story, are easily identifiable, leading to the argument that although Robinson Crusoe was seen much as the first book of its kind, intertextuality is still very much in evidence."

Tags:alexander, barton, desert, island, selkirk, susan

Abstract
This paper explores two rather unusual grief poems. The elegies are unusual in their mood (they are somewhat upbeat as opposed to the more subdued style usually found in such poems). The paper also shows how the elegies border on Romanticism and may be seen as very much tongue-in-cheek.

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"Oliver Goldsmith is an Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist. He was born on November 10th, 1730, in Pallas, Ireland, the son of an Anglican curate. He received a general education at Trinity College, Dublin, and studied medicine at the universities of Edinburgh and Leiden. He subsequently wandered through Europe, supporting himself by playing the flute and by begging. Later, in England, he practiced medicine, taught, and eventually worked for various publishers, producing literary works to order."

Tags:death, elegy, grief, humor, romanticism, ireland, the, club, fiction, neo-classicism

Abstract
The writer looks at various aspects in both films including the film techniques used to create actual film, and the representation of society, how the general public of the early twentieth centaury behaved and what their ethics were. It looks at key areas including: production techniques, narrative, marketing and target audience and includes a conclusion.

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"Aims and Objectives We looked at the two film productions based on the sinking of the Titanic. The 1997 production directed by James Cameron Titanic and the late 50 s production directed by Roy Baker A night to remember . It was based on the No.1 bestseller A night to remember by Walter Lord, both book and film were based on factual evidence. They obtained information from ship plans, writing to survivors and many other valuable sources."

Tags:comparitive, films, media, study, titanic

Abstract
In this paper the writing style of Raymond Carver is analyzed with reference to three of his stories. The essay examines both the structural and stylistic elements of Carver's work and seeks to find the exact essence of what makes Carvers stories and writing technique so distinct.

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"The short story is a literary form that lends itself to the theme of change, as characters within these stories coming to terms with the nature and consequence of change can offer not only a vast source of inspiration, but also the necessary closure and resolution that is often so difficult to find in the creation of short fiction. Towards the latter end of his writing career Raymond Carver became especially fond and equally masterful at weaving short tales about changes that occur in everyday life. This motif can be clearly seen in his stories "Fat", "A Small, Good Thing" and "Cathedral". Whilst the characters and situations described within these three stories vary greatly: from a husband, to a baker, to a waitress in a restaurant, there are usually basic devices and character types that Carver implements throughout the course of his writing."

Tags:technique, writing

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This looks at how both poems are based on the theme discrimination and how they discuss different types of this issue. It shows how "You Will Be Hearing From Us Shortly" is based on various types of discrimination including age, appearance, accent, education, background and marital status whereas "Telephone Conversation" is about racism, in terms of color. For each poem, it discusses the subject matter, the impression given of each of the characters, the tone, the use of language and the form of the poem.

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"The poem "You will be hearing from us shortly" is about a person being discriminated against in an interview. The issue of discrimination is conveyed through the interviewer asking the interviewee firstly about his or her age. This is shown when the interviewer asks "Now your age. Perhaps you feel able to make your own comment about that, too?" This indicates that the interviewer and his company want someone who is younger and less mature. They may feel threatened if they employ an older person and it is also possible that they may have to pay them more money. The interviewer and his company can influence a younger more easily. The interviewer is against the interviewee's older age. In comparison, the poem "Telephone conversation" does not discuss any discrimination of age. Instead, the first type of discrimination shown is in terms of color."

Tags:prejudice, interview, colour, accent

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This paper draws comparisons and notes differences between two poems, "Ulysses" (Alfred Lord Tennyson) and "My Last Duchess" (Robert Browning). The paper shows how both Robert Browning and Alfred Lord Tennyson chose to express their work in the form of a dramatic monologue. Browning writes about the Duke of Ferrara, who is speaking to a servant of his potential father in law. Tennyson's poem concerns the Greek epic hero Ulysses, who, in spite of his old age,speaks of his wish to embark on one last adventure.

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"Robert Browning writes from history, referring to the Duke of Ferrara, who was suspected of arranging the murder of his wife. In Browning's poem, the Duke is looking for another wife. His interlocutor is the servant of a Count, whose daughter the Duke wishes to marry. By contrast, Tennyson evokes the epic tale of the eponymous hero, but was not inspired by Homer. He instead writes in correlation with the version of Ulysses life told by the Italian poet Dante in his poem Inferno. Ulysses is speaking after his return to Ithaca, and he tells the reader of his dislike of his more sedate retired life as King of Ithaca. Ulysses passionately expresses his wish for one last adventure, explaining Tennyson's view that old age is not necessarily a time to wind down and reflect on past glories."

Tags:oddyseus, poetry, victorian

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This essay analyzes the pessimistic and optimistic narratives of matrimony seen in George Eliot's "Marriage in Middlemarch" and in Bronte's "Jane Eyre," and concludes that the realistic approach of both epics advocates marriage as the only route English women had to happiness in the 19th century.

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"To understand the view of marriage in Middlemarch and Jane Eyre we must first acknowledge the 19th century perspective. Marriage was the center of the woman's role in society, and an independent woman such as George Eliot herself was extremely rare. The education a woman received reinforced this view of the marital institution. However, the role of the woman in society began to evolve over the 19th century, as reflected in the proposal of the Married Woman's Property Bill in 1856 (Nestor, Female Friendships and Communities, p10) which could give the widow the independence her deceased partner had enjoyed. Eliot's Middlemarch is written using such changes in society as the backdrop of provincial life, where although marriage remained of primary importance, such changes as the Property Bill still had their effect. Bronte's Jane Eyre, on the other hand, takes the autobiographical perspective of one woman's own experience, which tends heavily towards a personal view of marriage. Nevertheless, both novels share the same viewpoint on many aspects of this issue. In this essay I shall examine the imagery associated with marriage, the tendency for marriage to be an unhappy affair, and the arguably happy resolutions the female protagonists come to regarding matrimony. It will also be important to notice the ellipses of the marriage ceremony and children in both novels, and to examine the feminist debate on the value of the novels."

Tags:bronte, eliot, feminist, imagery, matrimony, narrative, nineteenth, novel, woman

Abstract
This paper is a comparison between the political theories of John Rawls and Robert Nozick and their opinions on distributive justice. Very emotive examples are utilised throughout this paper and the welfare state and the legitimacy of such a system is discussed. The Rawls' 'veil of ignorance' to legitimise the welfare state is described and the counter arguments of Nozick are reviewed. Finally, there is also a mention of morality and philanthropy.

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"Rawls's theory is based upon the view that there should be an equal distribution of the wealth of society among all individuals, where "everyone should have an equal share" (Clayton et al, 2002, p165). He believes that all individuals have an equal claim to these benefits and that individuals should not be "advantaged or disadvantaged by natural future or social circumstances" (John Rawls, 1971, p18) in their lives which they have no direct control over, such as family, social class, and physical and mental attributes. His view is that men are born into different positions within society and so they have different expectations of life determined, in part by the political system, as well as by economic and social circumstances and in this way the institutions of society "favour certain starting places over others" (Ibid, 1971, p7). "

Tags:Veil, of, Ignorance, welfare, state, Rights, liberties, Locke