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evelina
... cultural, traditional belief that men and women are different from each other. Whatever its origin, this belief has persisted ... young man confessed to Evelina that that Miss Belmont was his former paramour. This meant that Macartney was Evelina's brother ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature
"Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe demonstrates Adaptability: The Study of Change in a Father/Son Relationship
... to the societal change, Okonkwo is so entrenched in his strict beliefs that he is unable to adapt. Okonkwo's suicide in the end ... the new political and religious orders because he feels that they are not manly and that he himself will not be manly if he ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature
George Herbert's Easter Wings and E.E. Cummings in Just-as Innovative Examples of Concrete Poetry
... is the Christian belief that humans were born into the paradise of the Garden of Eden, that they sinned, and that because of this ... the Christian belief that after Christ had been crucified, he rose from the dead three days later. The poet asks that he may ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature > Poetry
treatment of characters at psychological level in The Scarlet Letter
... repentance in her mind, but only to strengthen her romantic belief that an individual should be free to seek his or ... earthly punishment. With this thought, Hester persuades herself to believe that the torture of her daily shame would ultimately purify her ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature
How both "Vendetta" and "The School Teacher's Guest" deal with ideas of justice and revenge.
... that the woman share for their sons, this is what they base their anger and sadness on; but it is the cultures and their personal beliefs that ... soon be coming to an end. Indeed this shows that the only thing that kept her going after her son died was her ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature
What attitudes about War emerges from Chapter 2 and 3 of the novel "All quiet on the Western Front?"
... that they are still young and still pursues signs of youth, This is the use of paradox in this scenario which indicates the author's beliefs that ... the soldiers by relying on nationalism; assuming that young Germans will support their nation. After ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature
Finally Free
... husband. Edna defies the social normality by going against the belief that a woman obeys her husband as though she is his possession ... through a life of independence, but the fact is that Edna proves that her journey in breaking free was difficult and her ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature > Authors
Piri Thomas' "Alien House".
... and his family, should be ultimately banned. Racism is a belief that one race is the primary determinant of human traits and ... Rocky also recognized the fact that Piri needed his compassion and care in that instant, and that was exactly what he was going ...
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.
... emotions and beliefs like any other living human being which further evokes the reader's pity for the persona. He argues that his ... a pregnancy or any institution that is pro-abortion. The fact that the unborn foetus is ashamed to feel that he is a part ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature > Poetry
Essay on "Cloudstreet", by Tim Winton
... hold the belief that family and sense of belonging are acquainted. Australia has a strong Aboriginal heritage that was only ... characters and readers alike are constantly being unconsciously reminded that they are part of Australia, and Aboriginal people ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature