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Reader Response Theory And The
<view this essay>.... role in the literary experience. Authors such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Wolfgang Iser, and Hans Robert Jauss are associated with the phenomenological approach to literature.
Because the reader response movement is built on the foundation that the audience is an essential part of the literary process, phenomenologists tend to show a great deal of respect for the reader. In fact, a major underlying theme of this movement is the idea that the reader should be granted freedom to interpret a literary work in any way he/she likes. Jean-Paul Sartre, in his essay entitled "Why Write?", describes this best when he says "the writer appeals to the reader's freedom to coll .....
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Paradise Lost
<view this essay>.... second, the “strongest and the fiercest spirit that fought in Heaven ; now fiercer by despair”. He tells the devils that they should have open war, for he is a person possessed with the lust for violence and someone who just wants revenge on God. As his speech goes on he get more worked up and irate. He whips up emotion by talking of the pain they are suffering and although he knows there will be no victory - they cannot beat God - they will at least have had some revenge. Moloch is seen as a towering pillar of strength but only by despair. Moloch is seen as an extremist. “which if not victory is yet revenge.”
The next person to speak is Belial, a fair person .....
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The Theme Of Diversity In Novels
<view this essay>.... different meals at once.... I
should jump up and down twenty different times? What am I, a workhorse?"
(Roth 4) The reactions in Brenda's house differ because they have a maid
and Brenda's Mom doesn't have to pick up a finger. Neal and Brenda's
families are obviously placed in different social brackets and this adds to
the conflict that the relationship is not equal.
From the readers point of view, the tie that Neil feels toward
Brenda is one of physical attraction. "She dove beautifully and a moment
later she was swimming back to the side of the pool, her head of
shortclipped auburn hair held up, straight ahead of her, as though it were
a rose on a long ste .....
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Darkness At Noon
<view this essay>.... of hell, also called Malebolge. This region of hell is divided into ten parts, or "pouches", where sinners of "ordinary" fraud are punished. In the First Pouch, the panders and seducers are whipped by horned demons. Here Dante encountered Venédico Caccianemico, a Bolognese who pandered his own sister, giving her to another man as a prostitute. These panders and seducers had forced other people to obey them, many times against their will, and had tortured them if they didn’t listen. As compensation for their sins, they are being held under the control of the demons, and are also being tortured continually. This continual suffering also .....
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Edgar Allen Poe's Symbolism Of Death In "The Fall Of The House Of Usher"
<view this essay>.... These tragedies might be the answer to why Poe wrote
in a way that confuses most of his readers. "Abandoned, misunderstood, and
broke throughout his life, few would have predicted that Poe would one day
achieve the fame and respect now offered him in literacy circles in America
and Europe—particularly France" ("The Fall of the House of Usher" -
Analysis, 5).
Poe is grouped with other writers in the Romantic period. Writers
of this period focused on life, emotions, and the existence of the human
race. Although Poe's work has many characteristics of Romanticism, "The
Fall of the House of Usher", falls into the Gothic category. "It is
usually admired for .....
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Heart Of Darkness - Ignorance
<view this essay>.... racism in a book. Achebe acknowledges Conrad camouflaged racism remarks, saying, "But Conrad chose his subject well - one which was guaranteed not to put him in conflict with psychological pre- disposition..." (Achebe, 253). Having gone back and rereading Heart of Darkness, but this time reading between the lines, I have discovered some racism Conrad felt toward the natives that I had not discovered the first time I read the book. Racism is portrayed in Conrad's book, but one must acknowledge that back in the eighteen hundreds society conformed to it. Conrad probably would have been criticized as being soft hearted rather than a racist back in his time. Conra .....
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Big Brother In The Media
<view this essay>.... regard Big Brother and its intent towards the public eye as being purely a sponsor bonanza, various throughout, as the show has mass ratings and everything revolving around the show is just sponsor driven. The media has various opinions on the show, both negative and positive. Some media items see Big Brothers stance within the media as a positive impact towards the public, as the ratings of the show have sky rocketed in the past months. Although the show has had all types of comments put forward about it, Big Brother continues is ride in producing a media frenzy for the sponsors, products, and companies that it chooses to promote. There will always be .....
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Extensive Symbolism Of The Sca
<view this essay>.... the settings of forest to make the characters -Hester, Dimmesdale, Chillingworth, and Pearl- into symbols in the novel in order to portray his moral and theme of: "Be true. Be true. Be true!"
The red letter A is presented but whose meaning has to be deciphered. What does the letter mean? It is a question every character in the novel repeats who confronts the blatant red token and who has to deal with it. The letter A manifests in a variety of forms and places. Not only does the A manifest in various forms, but it also acquires a variety of meanings. It represents more than just the sin of adultery. Even as the original mark of adultery, the scarlet let .....
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