...The Lais of Marie de France are a compilation of short stories that delineate situations where love arises. Love is presented as a complex emotion and is portrayed as positive, while at other times it is portrayed as negative. The author fluctuates on whether love is favorable or not as is described by the outcomes by some of the lovers in the story, such as lovers dying or becoming banished The author constructs stories that exhibit binaries of love to demonstrate. In the book, the author describes two distinct types of love, selfish and selfless. Selfish love occurs when a lover leaves their current love to be with another person for selfish reasons, while selfless love occurs when a lover leaves to be in a better...
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...and Evelin How does James Joyce reveal the inner life and the conflict of the characters in Araby and Eveline? Dubliners is a collection of short-stories from James Joyce. Both stories Araby ad Eveline belong to this collection of James Joyce. He was a original and influential writer of the twentieth century. During his lifetime his works were banned, confiscated and even burned in result of his influence in the word due his poems, plays and fictions. There are many connections and equalities in the two short stories. Both stories were written between 1904 and 1907; both Araby and Eveline are out of the first person reflective narrative and are presented as an epiphany. Evelin is a story about duty and family ties whereas Araby is about the material world a boy tries to grow up and understand the difference between physical and emotional love. Eveline is a deep story into the thoughts of the young woman who wants to run away from her life in Dublin and leave her family behind. She considers exploring another life with her lover, Frank in his home in Buenos Ayres. During the whole short-story she is in conflict with herself. Thru the story James Joyce uses foreshadowing for example the depiction of the priest. He writes as each word has a purpose in his work. In Eveline the inner conflict is about the decision of the young thoughtful woman, she has to decide if she wants to leave her family behind or will she go with Frank to his home in Buenos Ayres. In the process of her thoughts...
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... I noticed a woman lying on the ground of a produce department. A gentleman then approached yelling, “She slipped on a banana peel and fell. My wife is the anchorwoman for NEWSNOW, and we are going to sue you!” The woman did not look as if she was hurt, and it did not look like the lady was suffering from any pain. However, I still called the police and reported the incident due to the policy of the policy of our company. When an accident occurs, we are to report it immediately for the safety the customer. After reporting the incident, I then went back to examine the area where the accident took place. While studying the area, I noticed the banana peel the woman allegedly slipped on was yellow. The peel was laying on a ribbed rubber mat. Also, I noticed the woman was wearing five-inch heels. From the looks of the area, the accident, look as if it was forced and the man was fabricating about what happened. While searching the area, I noticed the banana that the man claimed his wife slipped was yellow, in other words the peel was fresh. From my experience in working in food service, I know that by the banana peel still being yellow it means the peel was just placed on the mat. Also, the peel was lying on top of a ribbed rubber mat which. These mats are we specifically used to prevent “Slip and Fall” accidents. The woman was wearing five inches and slipping on a banana peel would cause a lot of damage to the woman and cause a lot of pain. But as I stated the woman did not seem to...
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...relevance of the two works, and authors, as well as the differences. The formalist approach will be my choice of critical analysis of the two works, which will aid in forming my comparison and contrast of both works as well. “The poem of the Robert Frost, “Nothing Gold Can Stay” is discussing the beauty of life’s wonderful but short-lived treasures, as example chasing dreams and spending time with loved ones. It is illustrated by Frost those treasures in the world related to the nature through the use of metaphors, imagery, diction, and allusion. The poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” helps open one’s eyes to the harsh realities of nature’s path and although we must all succumb to the laws of nature, it is these unbreakable laws that make life so treasured (Shmoop, 2010). On the other side the literature “I Used to Live Here Once” is a somewhat mysterious story of a woman who seems to be a ghost visiting her childhood home. The narrator follows the woman on her journey from a nearby river and down an old unfinished road that leads to the home where she grew up. Once she reaches the house, there are two young white children playing outside and the woman tries to tell them that she used to live there (Deirdre,...
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...their love, their trust, their loyalty to their spouse? A woman should know that she is loved by her man and a man should know that he is trusted by his woman. In HEALTHY relationships you should not have to question you man or woman. I have 4 steps to a healthy relationship: Friendship, Communication, Trust, and seeing a future together. FRIENDSHIP is a good way to start out a relationship, and it’s been said that it is even better to start off as friends first. Can you see yourself being in a relationship with that you can’t even be friends with? Even though the “getting to know each other” process can be annoying, it’s worth the wait and you’ll know what you’re getting yourself into. Ask all you can ask. Instead of rushing the relationship, give it time so you can build something that will last, the longer the friendship, the longer the relationship, you’ll know what you’re in for. COMMUNICATION, some people think communication is what makes a relationship and it does but good communication is about sacrifices, and when I say sacrifices I mean being able to let each other know when you don’t want to be bothered or telling them when you want to spend time with your friends. A relationship with no communication is like a chicken sandwich with no chicken, useless. When communicating, be in tune with one another. Also, don’t put your relationship on a social network. There are some people that are looking to see you fall, so keep it behind closed doors. TRUST in...
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...Analysis and interpretation of Judy Troy’s ”The Order of Things” Sigurd Storgaard 2.e Everybody can fall in love. Even the most settled people with a wife and children can suddenly fall in love with another woman or vice versa. This is the order of things, but it may seem like a hackneyed truism that everybody at every age can abruptly in the middle of the hardships of the everyday feel the hair-raising feeling of being in love. When it happens to a settled person it causes him or her a lot of ethical consideration. But when the feeling is strong enough people, at least Carl and Lily, find it okay to cheat on their spouses. Carl and Lucy are the main characters in Judy Troy’s short story “The Order of Things”. It is a short story that among other things deals with the issues put forward. It is about a reverend, Carl, and a woman, Lily, who fall in love. They live in a small town called Worland and they are both settled and married. They have a romantic love affair on a trip, but when they come back it is hard for them to find the right time to see each other. After all, they start dating in the church on weekdays – they are in love like teenagers and they want to get married. But on the iciest winter day Lily dies accidently. Carl is left alone with a broken heart. Carl also seems like the subject of the narration due to the fact the narrator can go in and out of his internal thoughts. Everything is seen through his eyes, “Carl forced himself to say, although he couldn’t...
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...According to britannica.com Liam O’Flaherty was an Irish author that wrote short stories that had a mix of brutal naturalism, psychological analysis, poetry, and biting satire (2015). He wrote many short stories that got readers to think in a different way to solve what is going on in the story. Liam was considered a leading figure in the Irish Renaissance, for his novels “ The Informer,” “ The Neighbour’s Wife,” and “The Sniper,” just to name a few. These stories were all well known for their complexity and gruesome details. However, many people miss the little details that O’Flaherty implemented into his stories. The story starts off with a sniper on top of a building scouting for other snipers that are trying to kill him. The sniper...
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...Amariz Antillon Professor Evans En-123 Composition & Literature 7 April 2015 Let the Love Pour In The short story, “Regret,” by Kate Chopin portrays a woman struggling to accept her loneliness and regret of never having children. In this story, Chopin is saying that in order to experience life fully, a woman needs a child or children to love and care for, and, if the woman is not a part of mother hood, she will live to regret it. Chopin begins the story with mentioning how independent the main character, Mamzelle Aurlie, is and then, after watching four children, Chopin ends the story with how alone and full of regret the character is (Chopin). Although modern views of the definition of a woman may seem to be in complete contrast to what is being portrayed in “Regret,” there are also many ways in which “Regret,” reflects and has influenced the modern look at womanhood. Mamzelle Aurlie’s independence, her conflict of having to suddenly watch four children, and, in the end, her regret, develop the idea of womanhood and happiness being incomplete without a child or children in Kate Chopin’s story “Regret.” This story shows two different sides of a woman, an independent side and a dependent side. Chopin starts the story off with mentioning how independent the character, Mamzelle Aurlie, is by saying, “Mamzelle Aurlie had never thought of marrying. She had never been in love. At the age of twenty she had received a proposal, which she had promptly declined, and at the age...
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...John Adams once said, “Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.” This means that killing in war is most felt when it could have been avoided. Justification for killing in war is a very debated topic. Some deem it as necessary for freedom, but what is necessary about killing another human being? Liam O’Flaherty was a short story writer from the early to mid-1900s. The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica (2015) disclose that his various novels and short stories guided the course for other authors in the literary Irish Renaissance. In his story, “The Sniper,” O’Flaherty stresses the importance of the human feeling soldiers obtain when amidts battle. “The Sniper” takes place in Dublin, Ireland in the middle of a heated Irish civil war between the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and the Free Staters. An IRA sniper has been...
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...commitment can mean different things to different people. It can conjure up images of dedication to a task or mission, it can refer to an obligation to family, or it can relate to a person’s resolution to conform to what society expects of them. However, more frequently it is linked to the idea of love and relationships; and in Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” that is certainly the translation that is examined. Act 2, Scene 2 of the play in question is where the famous “balcony” scene takes place. It is the location where both lovers declare their mutual love for eachother and their desire to commit to eachother. Very quickly Juliet commits to “… follow thee my lord throughout the world”. In short she falls in love with him so entirely that the instantly commits to conforming to the role of a woman that was expected by society in Verona during the Shakespearian era – to become her husband’s “servant”. Of course by 2015 standards that would seem awful to most people, however, in the 15th century this was very much the accepted view. Juliet refers to Romeo as her “lord” for his duty to her once married was to provide for her, and offer her the security that her father’s wealth did not as women were unable to inherit their father’s estate. In return married women were expected to be grateful for the opportunity of marriage and were required to show this by baring her husband’s children (heirs), maintaining the home her husband provided her with, and to obey her husband’s every decision...
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...Jackson State University Department of English and Modern Foreign Languages English 105 Research Paper Rubric ____ I have included my title page. ____ I have included my sentence outline. ____ I have included my table of contents page. ____ I have included my five page body of my research paper. ____ I have included my Works Cited page. ____ I have checked my paper for grammatical accuracy. ____ I have been careful to give my authors credit for the sources I have used. Grammar and Mechanics ________of 20% The writer displays mastery of punctuation and mechanics adhering to grammatical rules. The student uses formal and Standard English avoiding slang and casual language. Content and Subject matter ________of 20% The writer has successfully created a paper displaying original, creative thought and content. There is no redundancy and the writer stays on topic creating an interesting essay for readers. Parallelism, unity, and coherence ________of 20% The writer’s work is clearly organized, and each paragraph adheres to the topic sentence. Additionally, the paper does not ramble and is easily understandable and rational using transitional devices. MLA formatting and documentation ________of 10% The paper adheres to all the strictures of the MLA format including in text citations, direct quotations, and proper Works Cited documentation. Thesis Statement and Application ________of 10% The thesis statement is present and concise...
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...James Madison H.S Literature Essay 05/20/11 The Death of The Usher Family and the Detective Styles of Dupin Edgar Allen Poe is considered to be the “father of horror” and the creator of detective fiction. Even though most of his stories fall under horror and detective, they each use different elements to show off gothic and romantic themes. Two of Poe’s short stories are “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” and “The Fall of the House of Usher.” Both of these short stories are written by Poe but they are however very different. “The Fall of the House of Usher” has a lot more gothic and romantic elements such as death and incest, while “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” included a lot more detective and analytical elements, so even though they are both written by Poe, they are very different pieces of literature. One literary element that these two short stories have in common is that they both use foreshadowing to help the reader see what is going to happen in the future. In “The Fall of the House of Usher” the Usher House has a fissure that starts at the bottom and is slowly making its way to the top. Surrounding the house there is a very gloomy and dark appearance and landscape. All of these details foreshadows what may happen throughout the story. From these few descriptions we can assume that the story is going to...
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...Truss-Linder 12/3/2012 2 When reading “The Story of An Hour” by Kate Chopin, I found myself very intrigued by both the author and the story. This short story is full of instances and characters the mirror Kate’s own life and tell volumes about the kind of woman she was. There was also quite a bit of the character development that really pointed to the historical movements of the time. I am impressed that the imagery is so complete and clear that the story really seems to come alive as you read. After careful consideration I decided that the best method to analyze this story and all of its components is through a Biographical/Historical approach. The Story of An Hour is a short story that describes a scene involving a woman whose sister has informed her that her husband was killed in a railroad accident. In this story, the young woman who suffers from a heart condition, immediately goes into hysterical weeping and retires to her bedroom where after a short time she comes to a realization that she is free to live her own life and that this could be a positive turning point for her and emerges a new woman, strong and ready to face whatever awaits her. It is only a short time later that she leaves her room and goes out to experience this new existence when to her surprise her husband shows up at the door unharmed and she falls dead. In the beginning of the story we meet a character described as the sister of Louise, who is the main character. This woman’s name is Josephine....
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...succession of choices” This short sentence characterises a lot of recent literature which is in many ways the opposite of traditional literature; rather than cantering on the good versus evil paradigm in an outwardly focused narrative; the story in which there is a protagonist who is kind, honest, humble and sincere, and an antagonist who is cruel, dishonest, arrogant and deceitful. Current trends in fiction take a more internal focus; the demons are no longer caricatures that seek to maim and kill for evil reasons but personal thoughts and desires. The short story: “Save as Many as You Ruin”, written in 2007 by Simon Van Booy, explores these themes through the narrative of a father, lover, cheater, widower and liar by the name of Gerard. The story takes place in a snow-swept Manhattan in the middle of a snowstorm: “At the end of each block the sidewalk disappears under a pool of gray ice water.” The weather plays a significant part and is often commented on: “It’s a blizzard now” “Flakes like clumps of fur ripped from winter’s back” The weather serves as a reflection of the main characters dark and sombre thoughts. The main character is Gerard, and what is most identifiable about him is that for every positive trait he has he also has a negative; he is a handsome man: “Gerard is handsome”, but he is too emotionally vacant to find a serious relationship: “Most knew he would never love them, so they kept a distance […]” He finds a beautiful woman to fall in love with: “[…] in love...
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...door. Nothing has happened, absent variations on the theme of 'slow' from the traffic surrounding, since you left the city, and nothing seems likely to happen for another few hours at least. She begins to sit back seriously consider falling asleep. Several similarly uneventful hours later, the bus gratefully exits from the highway, ironically accelerating something like five times on the less-trafficked road. A loose collection of buildings is visible on the eastern side of the highway; the driver is now moving towards them. She looks around, seizing anything to be interested in, and see that the town, while very small, still sports an intercity bus station and several motels of generically inferior quality within its line of sight. The other passengers mostly grumble about pointless wastes of time. The bus stops, and the driver says something distorted over the speakers, seemingly to the effect of "Here we are, does anyone care?" The name of the town is unintelligible. The doors open with a hiss of hydraulics; no one on the bus moves....
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