The Theme of love in "the Storm" - Kate Chopin
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Play: Simply HeavenlyTheatre Company and Venue: Trafalgar StudiosDate of Performance: 1/11/2004 Simply Heavenly, a good choice for the name of this play as it fits in with the theme of love
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Consider the way that Chopin presents men in her writing. Is she consistent in her depiction of them?
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Consider the political implications of seeing and being seen in Nineteen Eight-Four and The Orchard, focussing on one passage or scene from each book, and one relevant image or written text you collect from print media.
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Orwell defended socialism in The Road to Wigan Pier.
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Is the Twentieth century American novel a medium for social criticism? (discuss at least two writers). Both F.Scott Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby and John Dos Passos's Manhattan Transfer
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The figure of the child, and the nature of childhood, as seen in the works of Lewis Carroll and Beatrix Potter
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One of the most striking elements of this passage, and indeed throughout The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is the conversational nature of the narrative.
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"Hilditch is mad, bad and dangerous to know" Does Trevor endorse this view in the novel? Discuss with particular reference to the narrative techniques deployed in Felicia's Journey?
"Hilditch is mad, bad and dangerous to know" Does Trevor endorse this view in the novel? Discuss with particular reference to the narrative techniques deployed in Felicia's Journey? Trevor uses narrative style to great effect on his novels, this essay attempts to show how Trevor uses narrative style to portray the character of Hilditch in Felicia's Journey as 'mad, bad and dangerous to know'. One of Trevor's most interesting narrative style's that he uses throughout this novel is free indirect style, he uses it for implication, not telling the reader too much all at once and occasionally not at all, but letting the reader think for themselves about the characters and events in Felicia's Journey. Trevor likes to leave his readers with just enough information to get them started. He then lets the story and characters develop without being overly descriptive or spoiling the freedom of interpretation that the reader is presented with in this story. 'Free indirect style gets us immediately close to Trevor's characters while keeping their deepest thoughts or fears unspoken. It is a means of concealment as much as disclosure.' (The Guardian, 10 July 2004) John Mullan said this about Trevor's narrative style in his collection of short stories The Hill Bachelors, Trevor also uses this style in Felicia's Journey, implying all and saying very little. Martin McQuillan in his book The
"Hills Like White Elephants" By Ernest Hemingway: speculation based on details, of the couples negotiation subjects. Basic characterization of the couple included.
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