Literature

CONTENTS Summary Written just two years after being driven from office as a diplomat, The Prince was originally intended to be part of a larger work entitled “On Principalities.” This short book is the only extent part of that original text, first published in 1532. Chapters 1-11 examine the various types of principalities or principates. The text offers examples of each...

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Summary As the story opens, we are introduced to Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, unmarried siblings who live on their ancestral farm in the rural town of Avonlea, Prince Edward Island in Canada. Matthew is now 60 years old and unable to properly work the farm, Green Gables. Matthew and Marilla decide to adopt and orphan boy to help them on...

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CONTENTS Summary of Gone With the Wind Set in the spring of 1861, Margaret Mitchell’s timeless classic Gone With the Wind follows the life and love of the beautiful Southern belle, Scarlett O’Hara. Scarlett lives on a large Georgian plantation and is admired by many. Despite her lengthy list of potential suitors, Scarlett wishes to be wed to a gentleman...

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In the Poem “The Mother”, it is of no surprise that the writer Gwendolyn Brooke speaks about the heart quenching topic of abortion. The narrator is an impoverished mother addressing the reader directly. She paints an image of how abortion leads to the absence of a handful of motherly experiences - both emotional and physical. The Mother BY GWENDOLYN BROOKS...

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Themes Ignorance Is Bliss Charlie is shown to be an ambitious man with the mental capabilities of a child. Charlie seems to live blissfully in ignorance before his intelligence as he believes his bullies at work are his friends and he thinks highly of them. He also seems to have suppressed his painful childhood memories of domestic abuse. After his...

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The Irrationality of the World It is important to remember that Camus was a philosopher who described the irrational aspect of existence. His belief is that there is no rational meaning or order to life. This tendency to deny order and meaning where there is none is central to Camus’s notion of the absurdity of life. Since humans find this difficult...

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CONTENTS “They stretched their beloved lord in his boat, laid out by the mast, amidships, the great ring-giver. Far-fetched treasures were piled on him, and precious gear.” (lines 34-37) From the opening lines of the poem, here is evidence of the declarations of loyalty to the founder of the Danes. As they send him off to a burial at sea,...

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CONTENTS Summary Written by Zora Neale Hurston, the novel and later turned movie Their Eyes Were Watching God is regarded as an important piece of history. While fictitious in nature, the novel is viewed as one of the first major publications ever written by a black woman. It follows the life of attractive and confident African-American woman Janie Crawford and...

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In “Red Riding Hood,” Anne Sexton conveys that there are many deceivers in the world who will give you the wrong information and persuade you to believe something which is untrue, with the purpose to manipulate and mislead. This poemwas included in her collection Transformations in 1971. Red Riding Hood BY ANNE SEXTON Many are the deceivers: The suburban matron,...

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Introduction The Handmaid’s Tale is a dystopian feminist and speculative/science-fiction novel written by the Canadian author Margaret Atwood in 1985. The novel is presented in a disjointed form that shifts from past to present and that allows for most of the events of the story to occur and be pushed forward through the psyche of the narrator and the main character of...

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