...athletes surpassed my limited dexterity and I understood that you needed to possess at least some athletic ability to play a sport. Sports for me became more community oriented than skill oriented and adjusting this mindset was vital to my ‘athletic’ success. I thought, Maybe I am a “music person”? While attempting to discover my passion, I now believe it would have been wise for my parents to encourage instruments less disruptive than trumpet and drums. Even my singing was stunningly abysmal and I was forced to accept that I was undeniably not a “music person”. Nowadays, my musical talent is isolated to my car, Angus, where I luckily can turn the music up loud enough to block out my lack of tune. At seven I started my first company. “Bead Creature, Inc.” made, advertised, and sold a variety of colorful bead keychains to an unenthusiastic second grade class. Maybe I’ll be an entrepreneur? Undeterred by my shortcomings in the industry, at nine I became a magazine publisher and writer for the series "The Imaginary World”. Of course this career...
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...What do I want? Consider the role that the narrative/performance have in the questioning the true nature and real origin of the monstrous within the National Theatre’s 2011 production of Frankenstein. How? Dear’s narrative approach will be explored in relation to the problematizing and redefining of the monstrous; the shifting of the perspective to the created creature rather than that of the creator and the subsequent effects this has on an audience’s perception. The impact of the performance approach taken will also be considered: how the actors shared body of Frankenstein and his creature, the result of their alternating both roles, raises further questions creating various and yet carbon copies of the monstrous. The focus of this analysis...
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...Maninder Singh Prof. Cushner AMS-1A S21 02/05/2015 Journey of Mrs. Rowlandson in captivity by Indians (1675) In the narrative “A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson,” Mary Rowlandson discusses how her personal life was like in captivity in 1682. Rowlandson wrote this after the attack in Lancaster, Massachusetts when she was held prisoner by Native Americans during King Philip War for 11 weeks in early 1675. Her narrative consists of repeating words such as “food” and “remove” to indicate how it all lead to Rowlandson’s depression and anger. Throughout Rowlandson’s journey with Native Americans, she observes her understanding regarding God and the bible. She also connects her capture to religious purposes that...
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...Reading Between the Lines: An analysis of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or, the Modern Prometheus, using Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto as an example of male discourse about women Louise Othello Knudsen English Almen, 10th semester Master’s Thesis 31-07-2012 Tabel of Contents Abstract ................................................................................................................................................ 3 Introduction .......................................................................................................................................... 5 Historical Context .............................................................................................................................. 10 The View on Women and Their Expected Roles in the late 18th and 19th Century ....................... 11 - Mary Shelley disowns herself .................................................................................................. 11 - Mary Shelley’s Background .................................................................................................... 12 Women’s Role in Frankenstein ..................................................................................................... 13 Men’s Role in Frankenstein ........................................................................................................... 13 - Women in Society and Women as Writers .........................................................
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...The reader feels the intensity of the sun beating down at high noon, the image of discomfort felt by the creatures at the bottom, and the effort by these creatures to escape heat and light, metaphors for pain and discomfort. We are drawn Tullos 2 toward the analogy that the author himself is trying to escape the discomfort of a light shining into the dark corners of his emotions, revealing his pain and internal conflict. The reader’s sense that the well and the creatures escaping sunlight are a metaphor are reinforced by the next line of the passage which reveals the guru’s declaration that “In the same way, our deepest emotional wounds come into awareness when we open ourselves to the spiritual force of a real guru.” The simple vocabulary reveals the metaphor and brings the authors internal struggle into focus. This basic analogy frames a complicated issue in a manner which seems easier to comprehend, and makes the reader feel as if they are the ones to shine the light on the author’s struggles. This technique also creates a powerful visual image in the mind of the reader. We can really see the slimy creatures trying to crawl out of the light, and figuratively, we can feel their hurt and pain. In a metaphorical sense, we come to understand how we can become aware of one’s own hurt and pain when we truly allow ourselves to open up and allow...
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...The Tale of Two Creations: How Two Creation Stories Can Create a Singular Narrative Genesis sets the stage for the rest of the story told within the Hebrew Bible. It provides the foundation for who the Israelites are and who their God is. As the first book of the Torah and Hebrew Bible, Genesis recounts the creation of the world, the destruction of mankind with the flood, and the foundation of monotheism through Abraham. As Segal explains, “[the Torah] is a narrative, tracing the history of the world, humanity, and then focusing on a particular nation” (13). The Torah as a whole creates a compelling and rich account of ancient Jewish history. The creation of the world and humanity is the starting basis for the Torah, beginning with two separate...
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...more in Theology, Apologetics and Bible than the 30 years of going to my catalytic church and listening to the word of God. I feel the word of God coming in to my hart and I have no problem being vigilant about sinning. The Biblical world view I am going to talk to you about is Gods image from two sides. Frist I will share with you the view of the Old Testament and second I will share the view of the New Testament. The Theological world view on the Old Testament and the New Testament on Gods image there is no big contradictions if you understand how to read the narratives and understand the Bible. I will say that in the Old Testament narratives do talk more about man made from God image from flesh narratives then flesh and bone narratives except one passage. The characteristics of prophets in the Bible we will discover similar messages on the creation of man in Gods image. “After God had made all other creatures, he created man, male and female, with reasonable and immortal souls, endued with knowledge, righteousness, and true holiness, after his own image, having the law of God written in their hearts, and power to fulfill it; and yet under a possibility of...
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...Literary Standards Universality Literature - appeals to everyone, regardless of culture, race, sex, and time which are all considered significant. Artistry Literature has an aesthetic appeal and thus possesses a sense of beauty. Intellectual Value It stimulate critical thinking that enriches mental processes of abstract and reasoning, making man realize the fundamental of truths of life and its nature. Suggestiveness It unravels man’s emotional power to define symbolism, nuances, implied meanings, images and messages, giving and evoking visions above and beyond the plane of ordinary life and experience. Spiritual Value Literature elevates the spirit and the soul and thus has the power to motivate and to inspire. Permanence Literature endures across time and draws out the time factor: Timeliness – occurring at a particular time. Timelessness – remaining invariable throughout time Importance of Literature • •Studying literature is like looking at the mirror of life where man’s experiences, his innermost feelings and thoughts are reflected. • Through literature, we learn the culture of people across time and space•We understand not only the past life of a nation but also its present. • Moreover, we become familiar not only with the culture of neighboring countries but also with that of others living very far from us Literary Approaches Literary Approaches Moral or Humanistic Approach • Literature is viewed to discuss man and its nature. • It presents...
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...Personal Narrative I have never adored bugs. Grasshoppers are repugnant, and wasps are intimidating. Even butterflies seem to exhibit their refinement by quivering in your face. Lately, though I have come to notic that one insect cringes below the rest as the most devious of the six-legged biosphere. I have learned that I have certain animosity towards crickets. These bugs are way overly pleased for their own moral. Not only dark, smaller forms of the grasshopper, crickets are bosses of hide and seek. The dark bodies mixes perfectly into the shadows underneath a bush. Each brittle creature also must have a lessening ability. Hugging into fractures and cracks in walls, even the cockroach is mortified by the cricket. Once beating within...
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...London, 1816–1817 date of first publication · January 1, 1818 publisher · Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones narrator · The primary narrator is Robert Walton, who, in his letters, quotes Victor Frankenstein’s first-person narrative at length; Victor, in turn, quotes the monster’s first-person narrative; in addition, the lesser characters Elizabeth Lavenza and Alphonse Frankenstein narrate parts of the story through their letters to Victor. climax · The murder of Elizabeth Lavenza on the night of her wedding to Victor Frankenstein in Chapter 23 protagonist · Victor Frankenstein antagonist · Frankenstein’s monster setting (time) · Eighteenth century setting (place) · Geneva; the Swiss Alps; Ingolstadt; England and Scotland; the northern ice point of view · The point of view shifts with the narration, from Robert Walton to Victor Frankenstein to Frankenstein’s monster, then back to Walton, with a few digressions in the form of letters from Elizabeth Lavenza and Alphonse Frankenstein. falling action · After the murder of Elizabeth Lavenza, when Victor Frankenstein chases the monster to the northern ice, is rescued by Robert Walton, narrates his story, and dies tense · Past foreshadowing · Ubiquitous—throughout his narrative, Victor uses words such as “fate” and “omen” to hint at the tragedy that has befallen him; additionally, he occasionally pauses in his recounting to collect himself in the face of frightening memories. tone · Gothic, Romantic, emotional...
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...been treated by both his maker, who should have cared for him and looked after him, and by mankind as a whole? If the creature is inhuman, it is only because he is imitating the inhumanity of the human species. Therefore, I think that the novel presents Victor as being more inhuman. * Victor is alien in his society in the way that he removes himself from others, for example when he goes about creating the daemon/creation. Victor is very secretive and seems to like it that way... he doesn't really try to understand people like the creation does. The creation tries again and again to belong in the community, its his greatest desire. With Victor, on the other hand, there seems to be a gulf between him and the rest of society. * Justine’s trial testifies to the inhumanity of man. What is important to note is the way this links in to a vital theme of the novel, which is the presentation of the creature himself. He starts off innocent and wanting a relationship with his maker. It is the way that he is shunned by his maker and by humanity and treated cruelly that forces him into cruelty, but this cruelty is only paralleled by the monstrous nature of humanity as displayed in incidents such as the trial of Justine. We cannot expect the creature to be good when he has no model of goodness on which he can base his behaviour. * Frankenstein's lack of personal responsibility lead to tragedy? 1. Victor's decision to make the monster and then doing nothing to take care of him...
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...Labovian Analysis of Ernest Hemingway’s The Faithful Bull Ernest Hemingway and his love of bullfighting require no formal introduction, however his short story, The Faithful Bull, is less well known. It is essentially a fable having been written for the child of a friend and published in 1951. Twenty-one years later, the famous linguist, William Labov laid out a framework outlining the progression of oral narratives in a six-part structure. The advantage of this Labovian method of analysis is that it can also be applied to literary narratives in general, not just to oral versions of personal experience. Using Hemingway’s 700-word fable, written in his inexorable, economic style and applying Labov’s six-part model (abstract, orientation, complicating action, evaluation, result, coda), I intend to confirm the suitability of this form of analysis for the short story. The abstract of the narrative announces the initiation of a narrative and can, in effect, report the entire sequence of events, outlining the story. An abstract is not however an essential part of a narrative and can be omitted. A true explanatory abstract has no place in The Faithful Bull, it being a short story, but it does have a title. This three-word title does actually tell us very briefly what the story is about; a specific bull who is faithful and in this way, the title fulfils the norms of an abstract, albeit in a very transient way. It stimulates the addressees’ curiosity and focuses their attention...
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...Novels are criticized to see if the author creates a book that will stand the test of time. Jane Eyre and The Joy Luck Club both connect the maternal figure and use the narrative language to tell the stories of the women in both novels. Charlotte Brontë has created a novel that is referenced often and allows coming of age novels to spring-board off of her beliefs. Amy Tan’s coming of age novel could stand to be the test of time and can be modeled after Jane Eyre. Jane Eyre not only stands the test of time by showing the importance of women in society through Jane, but also first person to iterate the importance that Charlotte Brontë draws the reader into the narrator’s feelings. The Joy Luck Club uses the narrative language which can stand the test of time for the future similarly to Jane Eyre and develop characters through first person. Often times Brontë does not mention Jane’s mother, however, when she does elaborate on a...
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...tell a story you are creating a picture in another person’s mind, and you literally cannot do it without the verb “to be.” So if the verb “to be” is the verb of creation consider this: The reason we are called human beings is not to describe our existence as human, but to declare ourselves as Creators. The guys at South Park agree if the profoundly funny three-parter Imagination Land is any indication. (Very funny if you're into irreverent humour.) I think we’ve come to refer to ourselves as 'humaån beings' as an unconscious acknowledgment of ourselves as Creators. The implicit question And if you accept this interpretation the more interesting personal question for you becomes, "You are a human being … being what?" That’s the question we each get to answer. Being what? You fill in the blank. Unlike any other creature on this earth, a human being can manifest as any of infinite possibilities. TigerA tiger has no other choice but to be a tiger with all the associated behaviours of a tiger. His tigerness is innate. A tiger will not surprise us by eating grass and climbing trees, because that’s not what being a tiger means. But a human being could manifest as anything. Not physically of course, but in terms of our behaviour, moods, capacities, vocations etc., we are only possibility. That’s why we are curious to know one another. When we first meet someone they are an unknown and we want to know how have they answered that question. What have you chosen to be with...
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...numerous stories belonged to a prominent English novelist – L. P. Hartley “W.S.” The author was a highly skilled narrator and all his tales are admirably told. “W.S.” comes from “The Complete Short Stories of L. P. Hartley. ” A close study of the story for the purpose of examining its style involves a careful observation and a detailed description of the language phenomena at various levels. The text of the fragment is complete in itself and it is interesting from the point of view of its idea. The excerpt is not homogeneous: the narration is interrupted by the elements of description, inner thoughts and feelings of the main character are imperceptibly interwoven with the narration. The type of the narration is author’s narrative. Also we can observe non-personal direct speech. The type of character drawing is direct because while reading this very excerpt we get information about the character and it may be said that the author tries to thrust his opinion on the readers. The very structure of the story adds to the effect of implication but the actual meaning of what is going on is not clear at the beginning of the story as he feelings suggested by the writer are not precisely determined. The reader however feels that something had happened and the character is strained and full of hidden apprehension and suppressed emotions. What strikes one’s eye at the first glance is that the tension of the atmosphere in this excerpt is gradually increasing and gets its top at the end of it...
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