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PHILOMEL COTTAGE There are 2 characters who seems to be partners. One is Alix Martin and the other one must be his husband. We can assume they have a good relationship, because she goes out to the door to say goodbye. She's dreamy and probably in love. But she's not living in reality. She has recently changed, sth positive has happened to make her happy. She wasn't a happy person before (she didn't have an easy life) and she hadn't had any man in her life, she was taking care of her an her mother. The implication is her mother is probably dead. We don't have any information about the husband. Dick's brother is important because we can notice Alix is waiting for Dick to have enough money to be able to marry her. So, obviously, she is interested in him. Also, it's a common element between the two characters, sacrificing their live, hard working to take care of their families. But when Alix gets money from a cousin and they can get married he feels so uncomfortable about the fact of being the woman who pays for everything. He's too shy and conservative, so he had the hope of being able to marry Alix someday, but now she has money he feels sad because he won't be richer than her. Then she meet Gerald Martin, and we know he's going to marry her because of the family name. All we know about him is he's passionate, and he falls in love with violence (maybe a foreshadowing), and
Fast Food Nation
Fast Food Nation America prides itself in being the most diverse country in the world, but one of the things Americans have in common is the way they think about capitalism. Capitalism is about increasing money. Americans don't believe in labor as much as they do in capital. A free market requires just as many buyers as sellers. Although they get the same terms of trade and the same access to information, none have a big enough share in the market to influence prices. The triumph of the free market is basically taking money from the poor and giving it to the wealthy. Fast food has permeated every aspect of American society. Although fast food may seem like the foundation of American culture, it has some serious consequences on society. Rising in the fast food industry caused a noticeable increase in food poisoning, inhumane working conditions in meat packing plants and manipulation of children through television. Food poisoning has become a large concern in American Society. "In the United States roughly 200,000 people are sickened by a food borne disease, 900 are hospitalized and 14 die", (195). There is evidence that the risk of food related illnesses have risen and that the consequences are becoming way more severe. There are many factors that contribute to the rise of food borne illnesses but the main one is the change in how food is produced. E coli 0517: H7 is a new
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Matt Schenk Eng 112 Assignment 2 The Life of a Monster What if you were brought into the world that we know through some sort of unconventional scientific means? What if then, in the exact moment you came into consciousness, someone, being the one who brought you into this world, abandons you in the midst of horror? The creature from Frankenstein had just that happen to him. He did not ask to be created nor did he ever have the option to be a monstrosity or not, he was brought into the world the way his creator, Victor Frankenstein, brought him. And upon succeeding in this Victor fled from his "child" in horror and allowed him to wonder out on his own with no answers or guidance. Like a child, with the enormous body of a monster, let loose into the world to have to fend for itself and learn on its own. How much can one expect from the situation? How can one expect this to go smoothly and how can the creature learn to live and be happy in the world? So we find our "Modern Prometheus" becoming obsessed with his studies and the discipline of natural philosophy. His obsession as well as the death of his mother, which devastated our Prometheus, all aid in leading to his work to reanimate his constructed body. Victor works hard on gathering the pieces of corpses from various places and piecing them together to create his "monster. After a long process the creature is complete,
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Maureen McKenzie EH 273 Dawson 6 September 2008 A Turn of the Screw Response Paper: Option #1 Being a non-believer in ghosts myself I fall into the critical camp of the ghosts being figments of the narrator's imagination in A Turn of the Screw. I base this critical perspective in the fact that the ghosts were selectively seen by her and that her creation of this ghostly psychosis could be rooted to her fear of inadequacy in tending for the children. The beginning of the actual story creates a narrative voice that may be firm but is also easily convinced to take a job she is unqualified for and is unsure of due to the charms of the Master of Bly and his willingness to take anyone for the job who is willing and attractive. "She was young, untried, nervous: it was a vision of serious duties and little company, of great loneliness...on a second interview she faced the music, she engaged" (121). Once she chooses to take the job she of course is told that she will never interact with him again, putting her in a position in Bly Manor of great power and decision making that she is inexperienced with doing and won't have to answer to anyone if she makes a poor decision. Such a position of power and responsibility taken in such naïveté has many times over throughout history proved to create hardship and paranoia for the individual in power. (Just look at the history of any
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Enrollment No.A91606117031 Program-B.A English Name-Agnisekhar Ghosh Deparment Name-Amity Institute of English Studies and Research AIESRK Project Title- Study and philiosophical analysis of The metamorphosis Franz kafka As Metamorphosis opens its intrapsychic action, Gregor Samsa, a chronologically mature travelling salesman, finds his ego world flooded by a volcanic explosion of the repressed traumatic experience of the terrible mother and the castrating father. He is, or imagines himself to be, transformed into a huge beetle, an object of consternation to himself, his family constellation, and his superego or employer; he is "so tormented by conscience as to be driven out of his mind and actually incapable of leaving his bed." There is a curious condensation of affect in the beetle: in one sense it is a fantasy introject of the hated or castrating father, for it is the father who attacks the son with the symbolic apples; yet the energy impacted in the form of the beetle represents the amount of libido incestuously invested in the maternal imago, for it is the apple which is used for the symbolic castration, and it is the preoedipal (terrible) mother who appears at the end of the story to sweep out the remains of the desiccated beetle into which Gregor Samsa had been metamorphosed. In the concluding scene or movement the father image achieves phallic identity
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Diaspora in Junot Diaz's "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao".
0. Diaspora in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Diaspora is a term that impends on Caribbean history. Otherwise called immigration or movement of nations, it is entwined among the diverse origins of the Caribbean.1 The Dominican Republic has witnessed two major events of diaspora, which Junot Diaz writes about in his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. The first major movement brought African slaves to the area in the 16th century and the second mass movement of Dominicans to the United States was under the rule of Trujillo's dictatorship from the 1930s. Junot Diaz's novel tells the history of Dominicans with one fictional family, grandparent and parents living in the time of Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, and children living in the Dominican habited areas in the US. As a society, the Dominicans are essentially composed of diasporas. Aspects of Dominican culture agree with this statement, as The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao also presents curses, fukù, and other old beliefs tracing back to the slave trade that supposedly still haunt the children of their ancestors today. Even the language used in the novel, as well as in the Dominican Republic and areas habited by them, is multicultural. Using both English and Spanish, especially Spanish slang, Diaz creates a heterogenous environment for the reader and reminds that the linguistic borders, as well as
Science Versus Superstition in Dracula and Victoria England
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Utilitarianism Analysing the validity of its criticism in Dickens' "Hard Times".
Tutorial Assignment DevDutta Roll No. 0877 B.A. (Hons.) English Utilitarianism - Analysing the validity of its criticism in Hard Times In the beginning of the 19th Century, Jeremy Bentham gave a systematic account of the previously fragmented philosophy of Utilitarianism. His approach towards the social constructs that governed pleasure and pain, or reward and punishment, was founded largely in hedonism. He held that humans were ruled solely by pleasure (or the absence of it) and therefore all actions must be weighed in regard to acquisition of maximum amount of pleasure for the maximum number of people. Utilitarianism deconstructs every action and evaluates it with the help of logic and facts. It stresses the importance of an individual's happiness before others. This theory in principle was appealing to many. He set down seven factors for the weighing of pleasure - Intensity(the amount of pain/pleasure), Duration(duration of time), Certainty(how much an action is likely to cause pleasure), Proximity( how close the feeling would be to the action), Fecundity( how likely it is to cause further sensations), Extent( the number of people affected) and Purity(the amounts of opposing sensations involved). Bentham went further to suggest that fundamental morality must also be defined not from a socially ethical perspective but rather from an analysis of the consequent
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