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Eliot's Use Of Contemporary Political Events In Middlemarch, Sara Winstead
Eliot's Use Of Contemporary Political Events In Middlemarch, Sara Winstead
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
In the consideration of most critics and scholars. Middlemarch by George Eliot is a catalog of the Victorian era, depicting with clarity the concerns of the period as they appeared in all levels of social, economic, and political life. Although the form of the book is that of the novel, dealing primarily with the development of characters and their relationships, the author includes a sufficient number of references to contemporary political events to merit in-depth study of the purpose of these references. This paper locates and explains the references to contemporary political events in Middlemarch, it discusses the ways …
Three Of Faulkner's Aberrant Women, Ginny Powell
Three Of Faulkner's Aberrant Women, Ginny Powell
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
Because human nature is so often irrational and passional, William Faulkner many times offers portraits of people who are the antithesis of rationality and morality. Thus, it is not surprising to observe Faulkner's extensive use of aberrant, or deviant, characters, especially aberrant women, since the author generally associates this group with the volatile, passional elements in life. These disturbingly abnormal women possess as a group certain characteristics that become a remarkably consistent pattern in the Faulknerian canon.
Faulkner's aberrant women invariably have at least one trait in common: they become destructive forces that bring about the ruin of others and …
"Fair Terms & A Villain's Mind:" Shylock In Perspective, Montreva Calhoun
"Fair Terms & A Villain's Mind:" Shylock In Perspective, Montreva Calhoun
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While The Merchant of Venice has long been one of Shakespeare's most popular plays, it has also been one of the most controversial with Shylock being the hub of the conflict. Critics have long been arguing whether this great character is a tragic hero or a larger-than-life villain. Those opting for the first often believe the playwright guilty of anti-semitism, and those following the latter consider Shylock the embodiment of evil. Very few critics have viewed this character as three dimensional, possessing human dignity as well as a capacity for evil.
The first chapter reveals the many sources for both …