The Landscape of London

The Landscape of London Both The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and The Picture of Dorian Gray deal with the notion of duality - Dr. Jekyll is the respectable doctor whose alter-ego is the dark and animalistic Mr. Hyde, and Dorian Gray is a beautiful young man whose portrait becomes aged and decayed through his immorality and corruption. The notion of duality is also evident in both novels' treatment of London as a city that is fragmented socially and geographically. In The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and The Picture of Dorian Gray, London is depicted in a manner that reflects the dual nature of the principal characters. At first glance, it would appear as if Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde were two distinctly different individuals. They also reside in two separate, contrasting parts of London that appear to reinforce their character traits and the binary opposition between the two personas. The respectable Dr. Jekyll is a "well-made, smoothed face man of fifty" (44) who lives in a house that "wore a great air of wealth and comfort" (42) in a middle-class, West End neighborhood. In contrast, the atavistic Mr. Hyde is "wicked-looking" (47) and "downright detestable" (35), and he is appropriately situated in Soho, a dismal neighborhood that evokes the worst stereotypes about the East End. Yet, these binary oppositions are interrogated and deconstructed. The

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Szcsenyi krisztina

Szécsenyi krisztina AN-246/g, Syntax 2 Batmunkh Temulun Comparison of the English and the Hungarian NP Budapest, 2005-05-09 In this paper I am going to examine Noun Phrases for that I will follow Radford's analysis. In chapter 4 of Radford's "Transformational Grammar" he looks at Noun Phrases. He argues that apart from word-level categories and phrase-level categories, there is also another level between this two. ( For instance: N-bar) In order to support his analysis, he considers English Noun Phrases. The aim of my paper is to try whether the analysis works for the Hungarian language or not. To achieve my aim I had translated all the examples from the chapter and in the end I have showed possible structures for Hungarian Noun Phrases. Redford's first example is: a) The king of England. b) The Hungarian equivalent is: b) Anglia királya There are two obvious differences in the Hungarian language: . there is no article before Anglia, because it is a proper noun. 2. the order of the words is different (the possessor precedes the possessed). To prove that the king of England is a Noun Phrase, Radford gives a genitive S inflection to it. The same can be done with the Hungarian Noun Phrase. a) The king of England's crown. b) Anglia királyának a koronája. In the English example there is no determiner in front of the possessed unlike in the

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With reference to the following quotations, discuss the ways in which Daphne Du Maurier moves between realism and romance in Rebecca.

Assignment B-Takeaway Exam Paper Section B ) With reference to the following quotations, discuss the ways in which Daphne Du Maurier moves between realism and romance in Rebecca. 'I thought of all those heroines of fiction who looked pretty when they cried, and what a contrast I must make with blotched and swollen, and red rims round my eyes. It was a dismal finish to my morning and the day that stretched ahead of me was long.'(Rebecca, Ch.5 p.44) 'It is not real and rounded individuals who are being presented and the endings are known to be a foregone conclusion. Romance offers instead of closure a postponement of fulfilment.'(Alison Light, "Returning to Manderlay":romance fiction, female sexuality and class', Feminist Review, no. 16 (Summer 1984) Daphne Du Mauriers novel Rebecca is very much related to the above quotations because the story moves between romance and realism. The first quotation has been taken from Daphne Du Maurier's novel where she uses the girl to portray to readers that heroines in romantic fiction look attractive even if they go through harsh conditions, the girl then describes herself as unlike these heroines because she looks unattractive when she cries and says 'it was a dismal finish to my morning and the day ahead of me was long' this tells the audience that her life is unlike the heroines. Daphne Du Maurier uses this girl as the heroine of

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Palestine's importance as the Holy Land made it an area of concern during the territorial distribution at the Paris Peace Conference.

Palestine's importance as the Holy Land made it an area of concern during the territorial distribution at the Paris Peace Conference. Historians interested in the Middle East are divided as to whether the intention of Sir Henry McMahon was to include Palestine in a promise between himself and the Sheriff Hussein of Mecca. The historians studied are presenting varying degrees of acceptance to the inclusion of Palestine. Isaiah Friedman analyzes the original documents in an attempt to prove Palestine was excluded from the promise whereas Charles D. Smith seeks to prove the opposite; Palestine was meant to be included in the promise. Finally, Arnold Toynbee is sympathetic to both views, but supports the inclusion theory. Friedman presents a detailed argument to prove that Palestine was indeed excluded from the promise made by McMahon to Hussein. Although he briefly addresses the opposing point of view that was popular during the nineteen thirties, it is clear that he favours the exclusion on interpretation. First of all, the British did not guarantee or promise anything beyond Arab liberation from Turkish rule (Friedman, 86). However. McMahon did make special recognition of the principle of Arab independence, but nothing more (Friedman, 86). Friedman does not hesitate to express his opinion openly: "Being under the firm impression that Palestine was excluded from Arab

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Putting a Ban on School Uniforms

Putting a Ban on School Uniforms As children progress from childhood to adolescence they are forced to deal with many emotions and obstacles. Starting high school poses tremendous stress. The need to fit in the "cool crowd" drives teenagers to do things they wouldn't want to do. They would buy the most expensive pairs of jeans or the ugliest looking shirt if it meant they could establish a good reputation. This takes time away from education. If teenagers could not find funds to buy expensive clothes they would either get a job or maybe even turn to illegalities such as robbing or selling drugs. Enforcing a uniform would take pressure off teenagers to attempt to impress their fellow classmates. This would especially benefit low-income students. Uniforms would cause a sense of togetherness and promote safety. A school with a dress code would be able to better manage its students. Enforcing school uniforms will destroy the divider between the haves and have-nots. Since all uniforms look alike, students will not be able to create fashion statements. Usually when teenagers express themselves they define their cliques by how expensive an outfit is. Low-income students will feel ostracized because they will not be able to fit in with the other students. This could lead to depression and sometimes dropping out of school. "There is more of a socio-economic balance among the

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Discuss the theme of perfection in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Discuss the theme of perfection in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight The unknown Gawain-poet's famous alliterative romance centres around the festive Christmas games in the Arthurian court in which the mysterious figure of the Green Knight challenges the knights of the round table to a Beheading 'gomen' or game, a game that the courteous figure of Gawain takes on. Gawain, a figure with a long history in chivalric romance, is considered in the poem to be the paragon of courtliness and a knight who aspires to perfection, symbolised by the pentangle on his shield and armour. The Green Knight's challenge is in effect a test of this aspiration, though disguised through the seemingly innocuous temptation of Gawain by Sir Bertilak's wife rather than the physical challenge of finding the knight himself. Although the protagonist and antagonist disagree on how well Gawain achieves his task, at a basic level the poem explores and tests the idea of perfection embodied in the five chivalric ideals of the pentangle which Gawain upholds with varying degrees of success. The theme of perfection in the poem is symbolised in the form of the pentangle, a five pointed star with magical and pagan associations, often believed to give protection against magical spirits and demons, but more commonly in the medieval era with Christianity. It first appears in the poem around the beginning the second

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James Douglas Morrison: A Case Study

James Douglas Morrison: A Case Study by Amber Merkel On March 1, 1969, Jim Morrison exposed himself to 13,000 people during a concert in Miami. The band left the country the next day on a planned vacation, but Morrison turned himself in to the FBI in Los Angeles upon his return. The press had a field day prior to his arrest while he was out of the country. Rolling Stone magazine put Jim's face on its cover as part of a wanted poster, while the stories more or less portrayed him as a drunken fool. I believed that while he may have been that, he also possessed an intelligence that had been overlooked (Hopkins, p.217). In 1970, a jury found Jim guilty of indecent exposure and profanity, but innocent on a felony count of lewd and lascivious behavior, and a misdemeanor charge of drunkenness. Jim Morrison was freed on appeal. Consider how Jim's life might have turned out if a judge, given his record, had ordered him to undertake individual psychotherapy for alcohol and drug abuse while he was on probation (Faris and Faris, p.168). Though there is little reason to believe that he would have sought such help, Riordan and Prochnicky report that Jim, on the urging of Pamela Courson's father, once had a few sessions with a psychiatrist (Riordan and Prochnicky, p172). However, he played games with the psychiatrist, plying him with a stream of intellectual and philosophical gibberish,

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The theme of Isolation Beloved

"Beloved" Set in post-Civil War Ohio, it is the story of Sethe, an escaped slave who has risked her life in order to wrench herself from a living death; who has lost a husband, buried a child; who has borne the unthinkable of killing her baby, and not gone mad. Sethe now lives in a small house on the edge of town with her daughter, Denver, her mother-in-law, Baby Suggs, and a disturbing, mesmerizing apparition who calls herself Beloved. Sethe works at 'beating back the past,' but it makes itself heard in her memory; in Denver's fear of the world outside the house; in the sadness that consumes Baby Suggs; whose childhood belonged to slavery. Sethe's struggle to keep Beloved from gaining possession of her present and to throw off the long-dark legacy of her past. Morrison attempts to show us the horrors of slavery through its affect on these characters. One way that she does this is by showing how desperate the characters are to get themselves and their loved ones away from that awful life known as slavery. Sethe shows this desperation when she sends her children away from Sweet Home, when she travels, alone and pregnant, from Sweet Home to Ohio, and when she attempts to kill her children to keep them from school teacher. Although she hardly can get on without them, Sethe, in desperation, sends her children to live with their grandmother, Baby Suggs, to keep them from

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Honor in White's 'The Once and Future King'.

Johanna Angelakos ENGL 400 Honor in White's The Once and Future King Each Arthurian story written or told usually tells a similar tale to the next one; yet, different authors' portrayals of each character seemingly fluctuate between stories. For example, in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Gawain is, for the most part, virtuous and true, directing sincere effort toward maintaining his own knightly virtues. In Le Mortre Darthur, however, he is one of the prime knights responsible for the deterioration of Camelot. The same knightly virtues are applicable to each story, where glory, success, faith, and honor are instrumental in the making of a worthy knight. There are, however, many knights in Arthurian legend that contradict these given ideals. The characters in T.H. White's The Once and Future King are no exception, as there is much betrayal and treachery that takes place throughout the duration of the four books. Specifically, White uses two loved and respected characters, King Arthur and Sir Lancelot, in order to portray the concept of honor in Camelot, or lack thereof. Arthur, known as Wart when a little boy, thinks that his destiny is to forever serve Kay as his squire, and therefore fears that he will never evolve to knight status. Merlyn, the magician who travels backward through time, allows Wart to brood and fuss over never reaching that knightly status,

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Adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray into a play

"Adaptation is always a form of interpretation" Consider the interpretative challenges involved in adapting The Picture of Dorian Gray into either a play or a film. In beginning an adaptation of any text, one opens to themselves a means for giving voice to their interpretation of said text. However, with this interpretation come certain challenges and responsibilities to the original text. Specifically, in attempting an adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (PDG)from its novelistic beginning into a stage production, these challenges include taking note of key differences between the theatrical and novelistic modes, characterization techniques, dialogue and speech, timing/pace, and the ideological circumstances surrounding the transformation. The responsibilities to the original novel include some form of honesty and loyalty to at least some of the themes, and the general idea of character and narrative. It is these challenges which warrant explanation and exploration. In adapting a novel into a play, it is important to consider the many key differences between the two, one of the most obvious being written narrative versus visual storytelling. One must consider how to portray Wilde's extensive descriptive language in a way that will not be too confrontational to the audience, such as a narrator simply reading the descriptions to them, which would

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