THE BIBLE’S INFLUENCE ON ENGLISH-AMERICAN LITERATURE by Zhang Lanlan June, 2007 Xiaogan University Abstract As the sutra of the Christianity, the Bible has a great influence on both English and American literature and offers an eternal theme of their literary creation .English and American writers use stories of the Bible by three main methods. First, they quote person's names or stories of the Bible as the characters' names or plots of the creations from the
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The Great Gatsby Research Prospectus and Annotated Bibliography A prospectus is a summary of a proposed research project. The purpose of writing a short prospectus is to help you get a sense of your project and hopefully gain a starting point for your work. How to proceed? Start by reading and taking notes on 2-4 reference articles, review articles, or key research articles. You will most likely be using a search engine or online database. This initial phase is meant to familiarize yourself
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Through her transformation, Catherine’s character can be seen as being ‘double’ in nature. Emma Borg explores the notion of Catherine’s two sidedness and states ‘it occurs when she behaves in different ways surrounded by different people’8. It is particularly evident as Bronte expresses that Catherine had ‘no temptation to show her rough side’ around the Lintons and took care not to act ‘like a vulgar young ruffain’ as Heathcliff was termed9. Catherine ‘was full of ambition- and led her to adopt
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Adolescences is hard. Who can’t reflect on the trying times we experienced and wished we had someone in our corner, a voice of reason that wasn’t always nagging and criticizing our every mistake? When we meet Cal, we believe we’re meeting the man who will change Donny into the young man his inane parents Daisy and Matt have been looking for. There is an immediate positive change in Donny’s attitude and behavior at school that the teachers note and the principle shares with Daisy, his grades aren’t
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resurging classic, “The Great Gatsby,” written by F. Scott Fitzgerald all share a common factor. These analects not only render on how we are entitled to these essential American rights but how we are given the opportunity to practice them freely
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the future that many believe will be better. At first glance, many might say the American Dream is beautiful. But on a closer inspection, depicted by Kimberly Hearne, The American Dream hides the truth of reality. Based on a Marxist view of “The Great Gatsby,¨ F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays the American Dream as a false hope that people seek to obtain in order to escape reality.
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Choices dominate the world, the most prominent choice being the choice of groups. Within a lifetime, one must choose between liberal and conservative, pious and atheistic, elitist and egalitarian, and righteous and sinful, among others. Although affiliation with some of these groups may not necessarily seem as if choice is involved, the true choice comes from feeling a sense of belonging to one of these groups. Despite the apparent abundance of groups to choose from, there exist individuals who fail
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Compare and Contrast: Jay Gatsby and Dick Diver Griffin Gilmore Mrs. Clark Humanities 28 November 2012 In the novels Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night by Scott Fitzgerald the two main characters, Jay and Dick both face problems in achieving their dreams and face much adversity trying to achieve it. In both novels pursuing their dreams leads to their demise due to their failure to realize that success is from within, not from the superficial qualities that the society around them looks up
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Lewis Scott Mr. Serri 11/3/11 English 11-1 The Great Gatsby Character Questions It is almost impossible to grasp anything fully from one side. To truly understand a 3-dementional item you need at least two different angles. This is precisely what makes Nick Carraway the perfect narrator for The Great Gatsby. He is a stranger in a strange land, who sees the most eccentric part of the east coast. Therefore, the reader not only gets his own perspective on the situation but sees through
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society, often transpiring to intrinsic expectations. Ethical and moral justification emerges in ones actions often leading to infatuation and obsession in order to achieve society’s expectations. This is predominantly exposed within the texts “The Great Gatsby” by Fitzgerald and “Sonnets from the Portuguese” by Barret Browning. Within the Victorian era individuals were bound by strict moral code. This impacted the way literature was written evident in Barret Browning’s poems. Deontological ethics
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