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Fly Away Peter by David Malouf:"Jim saw that he had been living, before he came here, in a state of dangerous innocence... He had been blind."
... life; it charts Jim's loss of innocence as he confronts the brutality of war and the truth of human nature. On his arrival ... glaring reality that he was so distanced from in the lush, shady paradise of the sanctuary. It is the story of how each of ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature > Authors
An Analysis of the poem 'Homecoming' by Bruce Dawe
... to contrast the traditional universal implications of the word, with the shocking reality of dead soldiers flown home from Vietnam to ... the tragedies of war, the return of the young bodies of the soldiers from the Vietnam War and the lack of respect that ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature
Comparison of "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest", "The Picture of Dorian Grey", "All Quiet on the Western Front", and "Balzac" and the "Little Chinese Seamstress".
... reality of the war. Dorian Grey, unlike the characters of the other three books, chooses to isolate himself from everyone else, whether directly, or by means of ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature
Kenneth Slessor, A Great Australian Poet
... of the bodies rolling in the surf and the constant "Sobbing and Clubbing" of gunfire. Slessor purposefully wrote this poem to describe the tragic reality of war ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature > Poetry
Comparison of Glass Menagerie, The Yellow Wallpaper and A Rose for Emily
... her never-ending retelling of romantic stories of her youth, and her failure to face the realities of life she stifles her daughter ... War. She symbolizes the old Deep South of the Delta cotton-plantation nobility. She is a survivor of a bygone age of romance ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature
"Outsiders are victims of themselves and society" What is your view? use the texts you have studied ("The Floating World" by John Romeril and "Death Be Not Proud" by John Donne)and one other text.
... this. Romeril portrays Les as a victim of society's materialism and of the effects of war. John Donne paints death as an outsider ... Shakespeare does in "Macbeth". Romeril does this to examine how reality and society can cause people to go 'insane'. His ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature
In speaking for those who have no means of speaking, Bruce Dawe has succeeded in writing poetry that has universal appeal.
... of a healthy foetus. And in Homecoming Dawe questions the validity of war as he speaks of the untimely death of ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature > Poetry
"The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith" by Thomas Keneally
... of war on white society through the slaughter of its women provides a particular view of war. It is contextualised within the preoccupation of ... this novel is perverted to underscore a more brutal reality. The relations between black and white are tainted ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature
Yukio Mishima - Confession of a Mask
... say that confessions of a mask is a fascinating book that focus on the character studying. The reality of phenomenon of society was showed ... anemia. In chapter three the year before the end of the war, I graduated from the school I had attended ever since ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature
Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima
... say that confessions of a mask is a fascinating book that focus on the character studying. The reality of phenomenon of society was showed ... anemia." In chapter three "the year before the end of the war, I graduated from the school I had attended ever since ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature