Literature

Full title: A Doll’s House Written By: Henrik Ibsen Type of Work: Play Original Language: Norwegian Time and Place Written: Rome, Italy 1879 Major Conflict: Nora’s continued struggle with Krogstad, who threatens to out her to her husband, provokes her path to self discovery and creates most of the dramatic suspense of the play. Nora’s main conflict, though, is with...

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The great Russian poet Anna Akhmatova gave a picturesque description of the simplicity of life, and how we can attain it in the easiest of ways. “I Taught Myself to Live Simply” is Akhmatova’s guide to finding happiness in the little things in life, instead of always being unhappy yearning for something. I Taught Myself To Live Simply BY ANNA...

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CONTENTS Important Themes The Aimlessness of the Lost Generation The generation of people who lived through World War I are often referred to as the Lost Generation. Lives were devastated and old values were revealed as pointless in the wake of the war. The characters in the novel cannot relate to the values and beliefs which guided the world prior...

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"Those Winter Sundays" is a story of a father’s unending love for his son and the son’s regret of not being able to understand and appreciate that love before time had run up for this. Here, Robert Hayden uses the coldness of the winter mornings to put further emphasis on the warmth of the father’s love. Those Winter Sundays BY...

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Important Quotes “Don’t you really know, Durbeyfield, that you are the lineal representative of the ancient and knightly family of the d’Urbervilles, who derive their descent from Sir Pagan d’Urberville, that renowned knight who came from Normandy with William the Conqueror, as appears by Battle Abbey Roll?” “Never heard it before, sir!” Taken from Chapter I, the local parson advises...

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Introduction Heart of Darkness, a novella written by Joseph Conrad, was first published in Blackwood’s magazine in 1899. It wasn’t printed in book form until 1942 in Youth: A Narrative, and Two Other Stories. Joseph Conrad set sail for the Belgian Congo in 1890, and wrote of his experiences in his novella, Heart of Darkness. On the surface, the story is similar...

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Summary  The novel begins as Goldman re-imagines himself and introduces himself as the narrator. William Goldman the narrator is a little boy who isn’t into sports and is somewhat of an introvert up until he develops pneumonia. During his illness his father reads to him “The Princess Bride” by S. Morgenstern and from then on his love for books starts....

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Important Themes Patterns and Codes This theme plays out through the entire book. In his early life, patterns and codes are the things which draw his attention and imagination. He loves them, and he invents his own. This tendency is what leads others to recognize his genius and particular talents. As he matures, patterns and codes become a subject of...

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The bulk of the novel is set in a fictional village based on Achebe’s birthplace of Ogidi. His actual village comprised an Igbo-speaking people. This was a society of independent villages united under the legal authority of a counsel of elders. Set in the 1890s, the events in the novel mirror the rapid transformation of Achebe’s own people and birthplace....

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Understanding the Nonfiction  - Definition Creative nonfiction forms part of writing as it incorporates all the literary techniques usually used in poetry and fiction. Creative nonfiction is another genre of the literary works and it is quite elusive. Nonfiction usually focuses on real stories as it gives accounts of events, places or actual persons. Being a story, it therefore, has...

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