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Despair, or the loss of hope and expectation, is when one gives up and feels hopeless, lacking motivation or energy to keep trying. It commonly occurs in those who have experienced or are experiencing traumatic events. Additionally, despair can lead to a loss of identity. Elie Wiesel’s novel Night depicts this loss of hope through…

Across the first seven chapters, Dickens presents Mrs Joe as the main antagonist. Whether she is boasting about raising Pip “by hand” or deliberately inflicting pain on him and others, it becomes clear that she represents everything opposite of the Victorian ideal woman. The character “Mrs Joe” is referred to as such throughout these chapters,…

“Nelly, please help me get dressed appropriately, as I am going to behave well. Heathcliff, in a desperate plea for salvation, spoke these words to Ellen Dean, his nurse and confidant, during a time when his life had hit rock bottom. Despite being an abandoned child from the streets of Liverpool who endured cruel treatment,…

Although Napoleon continues to modernize and revolutionize he farm, these projects are not for the benefit of the animals and go completely against the original decrees. With each new technological project, one Of the very few remaining strands Of respect towards Old Major and the commandments is plucked away. These advances cause the pigs to…

The study of the book of daniel is the study of prophecy, and as such, deals with the future. In studying these, we, as christians, can gain a better understanding of the bible and of god. Through this study an understanding is obtained of the battle between the forces of good and evil, and the…

Scyld Shefing: He is known as one of the first great male monarchs of the Danes. Upon his decease he is given a singular entombment at sea. Finally he becomes the great-grandfather of Hrothgar, king during Grendel’s onslaughts upon the Danes. Beow ( Beowulf ) : He is the boy of Scyld Shefing, and a…

“How have Virginia Woolf in Mrs Dalloway and Michael Cunningham in The Hours manipulated form to develop the characterisation of Mrs Dalloway in their respective novels? ” Name: Nelissa Nezamuthdeen Candidate Number: 002592 – 011 Subject: English A1 Word Count: 3892 Abstract 300 words The purpose of my extended essay is to compare and contrast…

            “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us.  It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther…” (Fitzgerald 9).  These words were written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in the last part of his novel “The Great Gatsby.”  In…

In on of his novels, The Adventures of Houck Finn, Twain presents s with the idea of conformity and society versus nature, and what people might actually desire. Both authors characters are similar, Houck and Thoreau seem like they want the same thing, however have different approaches to what they want. These two people are…

Understanding how the reader transforms a text is of utmost importance in reader-response theory. Our identity as readers is what transforms the text; we apply our own mental processes to the work and therefore gain further understanding. A fixed, stable response to a text is an illusion. According to Norman Holland, our response to a…