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Arthur Miller’s play ‘The Death of a Salesman’ and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s film ’The Great Gatsby’ both address one linked theme, striving for The American Dream. This unrealistic idea condenses to a happy way of living that is thought by many Americans in which freedom...
Death of a Salesman American Dream
Jay Gatsby
Willy Loman
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Currently, depression and its impacts on society has become a mainstream concern. The development of depression has been widely debated with theories ranging from a chemical imbalance of neurotransmitters in the brain to a mental state created through an inability to accept faults in life....
Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman American Dream
Willy Loman
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Over the last one-hundred years, American culture seems to have overall, become less racist and prejudiced. As a whole, U.S. society has not yet reached a period of total racial reformation in which trial and reason are always applied to the happenings of everyday life....
Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird
Tom Robinson
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In The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the author, R.L. Stevenson uses the views of a repressive society and Dr. Jekyll’s conformity to show when people are held under harsh principles and expectations some are forced to find an outlet to compensate...
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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Stevenson uses many motifs in the novel, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. One of them that stands out the most is duality and opposites which are used throughout the novel in every chapter. Duality comes from the word “dual”, meaning it...
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was written by Scottish novelist Robert Louis Stevenson and was set in the 19th century during the Victorian-era London, where expectations are high and reputations are valued. This novella explores the dual characteristics of a Victorian...
Book Review
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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The novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson elaborates the ideas of the duality of human nature and the nature of good and evil. The story revolves around Dr. Jekyll and a strange character named Mr. Hyde. The...
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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In our world, values are communicated in an unexpected way. People in today’s society often ponder the easily overlooked details that satisfy them. Others feel the contrary way and that costs are the best approaches to live. ¨The Necklace¨ by Guy de Maupassant shows different...
The Necklace
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Society sometimes puts pressure on people to be something they are not, so that they be seen as this wonderful person. One book that shows this is “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant. The story is about a woman who is beautiful and has all...
The Necklace
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Envy can get us into all sorts of trouble. Envy is wanting something that someone else has for ourselves. In the short story “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant, the main protagonist in the story is envious of others social class. Mathilde Loisel had beauty...
The Necklace
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Anne Frank’s extraordinary diary, since it was unveiled in the attic where she had resided during the last years of her time, has been a classic book read worldwide, a compelling read reminding of the war and its horrors, being a tribute to humans. Through...
Anne Frank
The Diary of Anne Frank
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The Diary of Anne Frank is a powerful testament to the strength of human. From the secrets written to Kitty we can learn the other side of World War 2, a side which is rarely, if ever, seen. The diary gives us a glimpse into...
Anne Frank
The Diary of Anne Frank
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The Diary of Anne Frank and I Will Bear Witness are a must read for anyone who wishes to ascertain what daily life was like for Jews living in Nazi Germany. The non-fiction Diaries really help understand the insidious and incremental horror of what it...
The Diary of Anne Frank
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Room is a traumatic novel, of one young woman who aspires to keep her only child safe from the captor that imprisoned them both in a small shed for seven years. Donoghue’s writing is capable to place the reader within the terrifying experiences witnessed by...
Room
The Outsiders
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The book I had chosen for this very intense assignment was “Guns, Germs, and Steel – The Fates of Human Societies”, which was published in 2005 by “Norton” in New York. It has, including the index, 494 pages. The assignment stated to pick any 6...
Book Review
Guns, Germs and Steel
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Guns, Germs, and Steel sets out to tell the history for the last 13,000 years. It also aims to explain why some societies were much more successful than others. Some of this success can be given to population growth, immunity to germs, and animal domestication....
Book Review
Guns, Germs and Steel
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In Flowers for Algernon, Charlie has dreams that hint at sexual repression which upsets Charlie’s unconscious thoughts while disrupting his reality. Charlie’s mother represses his sexual thoughts at a young age, causing Charlie to have nightmares about women which distresses his mental state. When young...
Flowers For Algernon
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“A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows of hunger.” This’s how Charlie Gordon the main character of this novella views himself before he travels from ignorance to great intelligence, he always believed that his biggest ordeal...
Book Review
Flowers For Algernon
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Life of Pi and The Great Gatsby are both superb pieces of literature which can be exactly said with each of their respected films which embody each of the themes of the book with superb visual presentation in their use of colour scheme to the...
Film Study
Life of Pi
The Great Gatsby
