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Close reading and analysis of "My Oedipus Complex" by Frank O'Connor
... accompanied by a hatred for his father. This is extremely evident throughout the story. In the beginning, the young boy displays signs of excitement and satisfaction when his father arrives unexpectedly on his visits from the war. His "pleasant musty smell" and "Santa Claus entrances and ...
A brief biography of Rudyard Kipling
... 1865 in Bombay, India (British Empire). When Rudyard was a young boy, he and his sister, Alice, had an Indian nurse who told them great stories about the jungle animals. These stories stayed with Rudyard throughout his life. When he was about six years old his parents sent him and ...
An analysis of Blake's poem "The Lamb"
... Lamb" " The Lamb ," written by William Blake, is included in the work Songs of Innocence, published by Blake in 1789. In the poem, the speaker questions a lamb, asking it who made it and brought it to life. The speaker asks the lamb who allows it to eat and ...
19th century Russian writers and how they dealt with the Western Influence of that time.
... peasants ("serfs") lead their miserable lives and were treated as the property of their feudal masters and could be easily bought and sold. However, they had a few more rights than slaves and gained their freedom only in 1861. Nevertheless, as state secondary school and ...
Discourse on chapter 19 of North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell.
... complex and brings doubts to Bessy's mind about her future. For how is it that some are made 'to toil and moil all their lives long.... Like dogs' and other to live for 'fine silks and ... writer uses is the employment of working class slang to illustrate the conflict and ... two worlds of masters and ...
How does John Boyton Priestley explore the issue of social responsibility in 'An Inspector Calls'?
... time of increasing prosperity' give the audience the impression that his views of community and social responsibility are misguided also. Every one of the predictions Birling makes are wrong; the Titanic sank on her maiden voyage, World War one broke out two years ...
James Joyce - His life and work
... and of sudden silence, Joyce was not always an easy person to get on with, yet he never lacked friends and throughout his 36 years at first. Joyce's almost life-long exile from his native Ireland has something paradoxical about it. No writer ...
What is the viewpoint that J.B. Priestley is trying to convey to the audience through the portrayal of the characters in "An Inspector Calls"
... working class people in his factory deserved the raise as they would be asking for more money the next year ... first time they met very well. He says that all of this is stupid and ... and millions" because he is saying that there isn't just one or two people like Eva Smith but that they are everywhere and ...
Argumentarea modernitatii romanului "Ultima noapte de dragoste, intaia noapte de razboi" de Camil Petrescu
... poarta titluri semnificative ("Ultima noapte de dragoste" si "Intaia noapte de razboi"), romanul ofera imaginea unui univers de viata complex , surprins in doua ipostaze existentiale fundamentale: iubirea si razboiul. Repetarea metaforei "noapte" sugereaza incertitudinea, gelozia pe care le sim0te ...
Wilfred Owen and the Horror and Futility of War
... and humanity. Reading through his poems has given me a personally valuable insight into the life of my grandfather who was also an officer that suffered injury and spent time ...