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Semiotics And Intertextuality
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... in 'spoof' versions of the genre. Links also cross the boundaries of formal frames, for instance, in sharing topics with treatments within other genres (the theme of war is found in a range of genres such action-adventure film, documentary, news, current affairs). Some genres are shared by several media: the genres of soap, game show and phone-in are found on both television and radio; the genre of the news report is found on TV, radio and in newspapers; the advertisement appears in all mass media forms. Texts sometimes allude directly to each other as in 'remakes' of films, and in many amusing contemporary TV ads. ...




Literature - A Mirror Of Socie
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... people (Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia "French Revolution"). They wanted a voice in a stable government with a strong economy (Johnson 105) and a strong sense of individuality and independence within the people. (Moss and Wilson 180) Eighteenth- century literature was much like the society in which it was produced, restrained. Society was divided into privileged and unprivileged classes, (Leinward 452) with Eighteenth- century writers focusing on the lives of the upper class. (Thompson 857) These writers followed "formal rules"(Thorlby 282), and based their works on sc ...




A Rose For Emily 4
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... relatives in Alabama but they were pushed away by her father over some land that was left behind by a crazy aunt. The relatives in Alabama were the only were all she had but the old wound inflicted by her father was not going to heal. Then the worst thing happens after her father is gone. The man that she was engaged to runs off and leaves her all alone. She didn’t ever recover form this, she isolated her self in her house. The only person that saw her on a regular basis was a black man that brought her food when she needed it. The only man that her father must of approved of ran out on her. This must h ...




Hektor Is A Greater Hero Than
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... and even makes him more heroic than Achilleus. Hektor’s shows his heroism in Homer’s description of him as the greatest of the Trojans. Homer describes Hektor’s strength and greatness several times in the epic. In Helen’s conversation with Hektor in Book VI, she appeals to Hektor and makes several statements about him being the best man among the Trojans, much better than her husband Paris. Helen says, “I wish I had been the wife of a better man than this is”(book VI, ll. 26). The “better man” to whom she refers is Hektor. Hektor also receives praised at his burial ce ...




The Absence Of Truth Leads To
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... recognition of truth. Oedipus is incipiently shown to be an honourable and righteous king. He wants the best for his kingdom. He shows his distinction by listening to the needs of his people. Oedipus searches for the truth concerning the murder of the former king. He believes punishing the assassin will restore order. His admirable intentions are shown when speaking to the chorus, "You shall see how I stand by you, as I should, / Avenging this country and the god as well, / And not as though it were for some distant friend, / But for my own sake, to be rid of evil." (Sophocles, 138-141). Oedipus desires the best f ...




Do Not Judge A Book By It’s Cover
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... the generalizations associated with appearance begin? Why does a neatly dressed person propose they are high class? The cleanest, most intelligent person may have very bad manners. In Pygmalion, when Henry Higgins takes Eliza to the "at-home" at his mothers house he can not behave himself despite the fact he is of the upper class ranking. "Higgins: ‘Do you mean my language is improper?’ Mrs. Higgins: ’No dearest: it would be quite proper—say on a canal barge . . .(57, Act III)" The way he looks(dressed in a suit most-likely), may suggest that he is well-mannered, but proves untrue by his actions. Which ...




Emily Dickinson 3
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... to most of Dickinsons poems. Love and ecstacy are also primary in her poems and they are often cconcerned with celestial betrothal. In the poem "Death is a subtle suitor", Dickinson illustrates the love-death symbolism, an explicit rendering of deatyh as the lover who transports her in his carriage to be married in a proxy wedding. Dickinson uses the metaphor of a funeral as the wedding journey to eternity, setting up a system of correspondences between the changes brought about by death ans the changes in role of the unnamed partners in this spiritual love game. 'Death', to be sure, is not the true bridegroom ...




Oedipus The King: Free Will Vs Fate
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... were determined by fate, but what he did in Thebes, he did so of his own will. From the beginning of this tragedy, Oedipus took many actions leading to his own downfall. Oedipus could have waited for the plague to end, but out of compassion for his suffering people, he had Creon go to Delphi. When he learned of Apollo's word, he could have calmly investigated the murder of the former King Laius, but in his hastiness, he passionately curses the murderer, and in so, unknowingly curses himself. "Upon the murderer I invoke this curse- whether he is one man and all unknown, or one of many- may he wear out his life ...




Hedda Gabler And Phaedra: Death And The Heroine
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... first to hold in contempt. She makes every endeavor to overcome it. She convinces her husband to send her stepson into exile and in the later part of the verse she chose death rather than to disclose her secret to anyone. When confronted by Oenone, she relates her tale in a manner which convincing enough to interpret it as a curse, as she does so with shame and confusion. She even goes to an extent to call herself a monster. If one looks at the entire text of the verse, one does tend to notice that throughout the play she has not slandered or even made any accusations at or to anyone but has always implies so. Oeno ...




Story Of An Hour
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... fuel her writings and her disgust for contemporary society. Though she was born in 1850 into an upper-middle class family, they were Irish1. Being an Irish immigrant was the worst Ethnicity during the middle and late nineteenth century in America. This period was full of hatred towards the Irish always being depicted as thieves and scoundrels. This hate escalated to the "Molly McGuire" murders and the hanging of over one dozen innocent Irish immigrants. Furthermore, death plagued Kate Chopin throughout her whole life. At the tender age of five, her father, Thomas O'Flaherty died in a rail accident2. Seven year ...




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