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This paper is a discussion of the struggle for political power as portrayed in both novels. It looks at the themes of power of the individual against the machinery of history, dehumanization, and re-humanization.

From the Paper
"Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude and Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita are both novels which concentrate thematically on the relations of power between humans, and the violence of authoritarian control. Both contain characters in the midst of, and at the mercy of 'great history', and both portray the dehumanising effects of ideological struggle."

Tags:american, borders, bulgakov, comparative, dehumanisation, frontiers, gabriel, garcia, latin, literature, magical, marquez, mikhail, political, politics, power, realism, russian, struggle

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The essay compares the poetic and narrative devices used by the authors to create a typical or atypical piece of the great canon of First World War literature. The pieces are discussed in terms of thematic and poetic contents and their relation to other pieces written about or during WWI.

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"Extract A is a poem by Charlotte Mew; 'The Cenotaph' was written in 1919, a year after the war and explores a female perspective on both public and private mourning. In the extract, she describes the monument, the cenotaph, which was built as a lasting reminder of the Great War, some see it as a glorification, perhaps Mew's perspective and others as a reminder of the human cost of war. The chosen form of the poem marks this poem as a more typical piece of war literature in its style as the poem is the style most often associated with War literature perhaps due to the well known poems by Sassoon and Owen (e.g. 'Dulce et decorum est' Owen). "

Tags:soldier, death

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This paper compares an extract of "Jane Eyre" taken from chapter 16 and one from "Wide Sargasso Sea" from part 3. The extracts are chosen because they feature elements of self deception predominantly, but also because of the elements of feminism, post-modernism, generic conventions of the gothic/bildungsroman and many other literary devices and figurative language examples. The paper attempts to show that in both extracts, the theme of self-deception is key, although they differ within the context in the reasons the characters deceive themselves, and in the way they deceive themselves.

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"In Wide Sargasso Sea Antoinette too attempts to reflect herself. Though Antoinette reflects with what she used to be, rather than other people. This may show her struggle to join her English and Caribbean identities: "Long ago when I was a child and very lonely I tried to kiss her. But the glass was between us -- hard, cold and misted over my breath." Her reflection shows one identity and her attempt to kiss it symbolises Antoinette trying to unite them. However, the mirror is a motif of the "Wide Sargasso Sea" metaphor that separates Antoinette's two identities and heritages. Self deception may be used by Rhys in order to establish the loss of her Caribbean identity. This interpretation is reinforced through Mr. Rochester replacing her name to bertha. To Antoinette, names are a very significant part of a person's identity "Her name oughtn't to be Grace. "

Tags:Blanche, Ingram, Antoinette

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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

Abstract
This paper discusses Virginia Woolf's narrative technique and the novel's main protagonists in comparison the Shelley's narrative technique and presentation of Frankenstein and his monster.

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"Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway are novels which, despite obvious surface differences, contain many similar themes and motifs. They are both concerned with two main protagonists, one of whom is a doppelganger figure of the first, and both, through portrayal of these characters, explore the themes of life and death, regret, sanity and insanity. In each novel, narration is divided mainly between the two protagonists, and readers are presented with two vastly different viewpoints. It is through these differing narrative techniques that we gain different levels of insight into the characters, their relationships, and develop different levels of sympathy for them."

Tags:characterisation, compare, comparison, consciousness, contrast, dalloway, frankenstein, mary, modernism, narration, narrative, narrators, shelley, stream, technique, unreliable, virginia, woolf

Abstract
This paper examines how the four texts, "A Dead Boche" by Robert Graves, "The Soldier" by Rupert Brook, and Vera Brittain's "Letters from a Lost Generation," are typical of World War I literature. It analyzes the three texts in terms of language form and structure and the way the writers use the genre of their choice to express their thoughts and feelings. The influence of the time of composition and the significance of the gender of the writer is also discussed.

From the Paper
"Graves employs various literary techniques in A Dead Boche to emphasize the brutal reality of the First World War. By addressing the poem to the reader in the first stanza, "To you" the reader becomes instantly involved with the poem and is forced to reconsider their attitude to war and to confront the real atrocities of a truly total war. By 1916 many soldiers were disillusioned by the war and particularly by the continuing demand for patriotic poetry which talked of "valor," "honor" and "sacrifice" and which in the style of the Victorian poets like Alfred Lord Tennyson, glorified death with chivalric language. Graves speaks directly to those who think of war with ideas of "blood and fame" and to those who, for a long time succeeded in ignoring the horrible reality of the war in their willful ignorance and hypocrisy."

Tags:brittain, brooke, graves, robert, vera, dead, boche

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This paper discusses how love is portrayed in Canadian author, Michael Ondaatje's "In the Skin of a Lion" by using another of his works, "The English Patient", to compare and contrast it with. By critically analyzing these two works, the paper finds that, although they appear quite different initially, the novels share many of the same processes, literary techniques, themes and syntax.

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"The English Patient's taboo love comes in two forms. First, there is the adulterous relationship between the married Katherine and Almasy. Second, there is the unusual relationship between the white American nurse and the British bomb expert of Indian origin. In both cases, as well as in the relationships in In the Skin of a Lion, the taboos or socially unusual situations are overcome by passionate love and are rendered - at least by the lovers themselves - meaningless or, at best, side-issues."

Tags:british colony, passion, wwii

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This paper provides a brief introduction to the stream of consciousness and its history in literature. It looks at Woolf's narrative technique and her employment of the stream of consciousness and in particular, how external objects encourage shifts in the narrative and convey that all minds are joined to one another. It also analyzes the character of
Clarissa.

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"The image of "icy claws" fixing in Clarissa could be the cold shiver of a sneaking suspicion crawling up her spine and sinking its jagged claws into the base of her skull. It is realisation gripping her. This image could also relate to Peter's perception of Clarissa, describing her as "cold" and unfeeling. "There was something cold in Clarissa, he thought." Woolf compares time metaphorically to water droplets, each second trickling away "as if to catch the falling drop..." The motif of water recurs as Woolf describes Clarissa "plunging" into the depth of the moment. The description of Clarissa's appearance as "delicate pink" is symbolic of her interior. Despite the contradiction of her sharp, "pointed", front she is a delicate, reflective character. "

Tags:bruton, clarissa, cymbeline, death, imagery, lady, oppression, peter, poetry, sea, septimus

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This essay looks at T.S.Eliot's famous poem "The Wasteland" and "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad, and discusses how both text show examples of the features of the modernist movement in literature.

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"Modernism is an aesthetic term. It describes the period of 1890 to around 1939 (although some would call it a "timeless concept") in which literature and art dramatised the breakdown of the boundaries that defined the nineteenth-century world. It began to reject the ideas about colonialism, empire, patriarchy and Christianity set out by the nineteenth-century consensus, and instead turned towards feminism, atheism and a disbelief of progress and order.

Tags:individualism, literature, modernity, movement, period

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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