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Although Franz Kafka’s ‘Metamorphosis’ and Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s ‘Chronicle of a Death Foretold’ are set in dissimilar social environments, they have a number of common themes, one of which is sacrifice. Both Gregor Samsa and Santiago Nasar are depicted as ‘sacrifices’, whose deaths ostensibly purify their communities from the sins of dishonor and alienation. The…

Friar Lawyer once also coziness this when he says, ” Holy Saint Francis! What a change is here! / Is Rosalie, that thou didst love so dear,’ So soon forsaken? Young men ;s love then lies/ Not truly in their hearts but in their The Friar emphasizes that Romeo is if cackle with his love…

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…

Background On 10 April 1919, the First Dáil announced a policy of ostracism of Royal Irish Constabulary men. At the time Sinn Féin official policy was against acts of violence. Boycotting, persuasion and mild intimidation succeeded against many officers. However others escalated their activities against republicans and in July 1919 Collins asked Dick McKee to…

D. H. Lawrence’s Piano shows a man experiencing nostalgia as he listens to a woman singing which reminds him of his childhood. The poem starts with the man hearing the soft singing of a woman which takes him on a mental journey down memory lane and he sees visions of his childhood flashing in front…

Alice Walker has written of unfairness in many manners ; Celia ‘s battles with her hubby in The Color Purple ; Olivia ‘s unfairness of female Circumcision in Olivia ; and the Old Woman in The Welcome Table. Her unfairness was non simply racial but besides classist. The Old Woman is a reminder to the…

There were quite a few tragic characters in Of Mice and Men such as Crooks who most likely dreamed of being free from having to work for others, Curley’s wife who wanted to be a movie star when she was slightly younger and we are told this whilst she’s talking to Lennie, but none of…

Every time I read the opening of Eliot’s “The Waste Land,” I am reminded of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. In Stravinsky’s work, the rebirth offered by spring is presented as being violent and painful, much like Eliot’s “breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land” (Eliot, lines 2-3). Indeed, the opening seven lines…

An era of advancement of human thinking was mainly personal as people started to learn a lot about themselves and about the world around them, and we began to understand how we came to be on this world. This is when we experienced the changes that the Industrial Revolution brought to this time. People started…

I believe that Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation of the nunnery scene was the most effective out of all the ones we watched. This is because he used symbolism in the setting, included the entire text of Hamlet, and emphasized the shifts in tone between Hamlet and Ophelia, which conveyed the subtle themes and meanings of the…