«The Earle Perry Charlton biography, the Charlton Story, is about one of America’s greatest entrepreneurs, in the early 1900’s. The book chronicles Charlton’s life from birth to death, and explains in detail his business relationships and tactics....» Document abstract
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SummaryThe Earle Perry Charlton biography, the Charlton Story, is about one of America’s greatest entrepreneurs, in the early 1900’s. The book chronicles Charlton’s life from birth to death, and explains in detail his business relationships and tactics. Overall the main topic of the book was how Charlton amassed an empire out of virtually nothing and how he became one of the five founders of the F.W. Woolworth Company.
«The definitions of theatre and, less specifically, performance, have been in constant flux since theorists set about trying to create them. Oscar Brockett, in his History of the Theatre, opens his text with the statement that “performative elements...» Document abstract
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SummaryThe definitions of theatre and, less specifically, performance, have been in constant flux since theorists set about trying to create them. Oscar Brockett, in his History of the Theatre, opens his text with the statement that “performative elements are present in every society, no matter how complex or how unsophisticated the culture may be” (Brockett, 1). Human beings are constantly performing: in personal conversation, at large social gatherings, as paid entertainers. Acting, and in a more general sense, performance, is truly a part of an individual’s life each and every day, and has been throughout time. Fundamental human behaviors have not changed since civilization developed, including the desire for attention.
«Edna Pontellier is a victim of the mother/whore duality, unable to escape the conditions of her culture that prevent her from being capable of self-actualization, and so walks into the ocean and never comes out again. This is the conclusion to Kate...» Document abstract
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SummaryEdna Pontellier is a victim of the mother/whore duality, unable to escape the conditions of her culture that prevent her from being capable of self-actualization, and so walks into the ocean and never comes out again. This is the conclusion to Kate Chopin’s novel The Awakening, in which she creates a character struggling to reinvent herself in the midst of oppressive expectation, to discover that such reinvention is impossible. It is easy to derive hopelessness from such a dismal ending, or a sense of moral redemption for Edna’s sinful character (as many critics of her time did), but it is important that Chopin’s readers instead consider how the story of Edna Pontellier lends itself to the larger discourse of and about women in a male-dominated society, as she both adheres to and strays from traditional depictions of women. It is through Edna Pontellier and the people in her elite sphere that Chopin makes room for dialogue about what women are up against in seeking liberation from male dominance by trying to level the playing field (sexually and otherwise).
«The explicit mention of fate occurs only once in regard to Dave Boyle in Dennis Lehane’s Mystic River, but the battle between fate and free will in his life is evident throughout the novel. Dave Boyle, a tragic character, has little free will to...» Document abstract
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SummaryThe explicit mention of fate occurs only once in regard to Dave Boyle in Dennis Lehane’s Mystic River, but the battle between fate and free will in his life is evident throughout the novel. Dave Boyle, a tragic character, has little free will to change the pre-determined forces that have shaped his life. The opening line of the novel “When Sean Devine and Jimmy Marcus were kids…” reflects the plotline and the characters. This opening fatefully situates Dave Boyle into the slot of a less significant person. Before he peaked as a baseball star in high school, he was the sort of kid who was only invited to the movies because he knew all of the lines and could recite them as entertainment, not because anyone particularly liked him.
«Throughout the course of American history, the literature of the nation has served to reflect the social climate of the time in which it was written. Society’s values in regards to both race and gender have thus been contextualized in history by...» Document abstract
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SummaryThroughout the course of American history, the literature of the nation has served to reflect the social climate of the time in which it was written. Society’s values in regards to both race and gender have thus been contextualized in history by American writers. In some cases, American literary works have served to reinforce existing social boundaries, while in many other works, writers have sought to blow those boundaries apart, calling dominant assumptions into question and thus re-shaping the situation of the subordinated in public discourse.The stories of Native American tribes preceded the formation of a colonized- American identity, but they nonetheless serve as a foundation upon which such an identity could be established. What was lost in translation, as well as how these stories were read reflects the clash of Native- and European-American ideologies.
«Very little endures in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse; by the third book most of the characters have died tragic and largely overlooked deaths, or they have disappeared almost without mention. Only two characters, the neurotic philosopher Mr....» Document abstract
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SummaryVery little endures in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse; by the third book most of the characters have died tragic and largely overlooked deaths, or they have disappeared almost without mention. Only two characters, the neurotic philosopher Mr. Ramsay and the lone artist Lily Briscoe are central to the entire book. They are also both set apart from the other characters in another way; they are both disconnected from other people by their work. Their work is so deeply a part of them that they take on the characteristics of and become representative of their representative callings. Their interactions represent not only Virginia Woolf’s views about the nature of art and truth, but also her feelings about the work itself.
«In “The Little Glass Slipper”, Cinderella is undergoing what anthropologist Victor Turner, in his theory regarding rites de passage, would regard as a transitional period between being a girl under the protection of her mother and a woman under the...» Document abstract
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SummaryIn “The Little Glass Slipper”, Cinderella is undergoing what anthropologist Victor Turner, in his theory regarding rites de passage, would regard as a transitional period between being a girl under the protection of her mother and a woman under the protection of a husband. During this transitional, or liminal, state, Cinderella is prepared for her new role by a series of instructors so that she may become what her culture views as an ideal wife. She is first instructed by her stepfamily, which teaches her through forced labor and maltreatment to become the ideal passive, hard working, domestic housewife. Once this training is complete, Cinderella’s Fairy Godmother further transforms Cinderella into the other womanly ideal, that of the pure, beautiful, desirable socialite.
«Milton’s Eve and Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus were duped into spiritual doom in pursuit of knowledge, both seeking knowledge bought power at the expense of their spirit. Doctor Faustus sells his soul to Satan, exchanging it for knowledge of magic, while...» Document abstract
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SummaryMilton’s Eve and Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus were duped into spiritual doom in pursuit of knowledge, both seeking knowledge bought power at the expense of their spirit. Doctor Faustus sells his soul to Satan, exchanging it for knowledge of magic, while Eve ignores God’s command not to eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge so that she may gain knowledge of good and evil. However, it is not only a thirst for knowledge, but the deepest pride and greed, which leads them both to spiritual jeopardy, for both seek not just knowledge to its own end, but rather hope to become godlike.
«In the Butcher Boy, Patrick McCabe paints a picture of the perfectly dysfunctional family in The Bradys, who are shown in stark contrast to the perfectly normal family, the Nugents. From the start, Francie Brady’s family was the epitome of unstable....» Document abstract
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SummaryIn the Butcher Boy, Patrick McCabe paints a picture of the perfectly dysfunctional family in The Bradys, who are shown in stark contrast to the perfectly normal family, the Nugents. From the start, Francie Brady’s family was the epitome of unstable. Francie’s father was an alcoholic who abused his wife, and she ended up going to a mental institution after a suicide attempt. The hero of the family, Uncle Alo, turned out to just be another phony whose stories were fabricated. Francie had no proper influences in his upbringing to tell him what was right and wrong, which left him to basically take care of himself. Francie wanted to be proud and honor his parents, but at the same time, the only reason he became alienated within the community was because of his family.
«The Sea is no doubt, a difficult novel to read. John Banville’s language can be quite strenuous, and at some times, enigmatic. No major events or plot points seem to occur in The Sea, that is, externally. There is not much of a linear plot, if any....» Document abstract
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SummaryThe Sea is no doubt, a difficult novel to read. John Banville’s language can be quite strenuous, and at some times, enigmatic. No major events or plot points seem to occur in The Sea, that is, externally. There is not much of a linear plot, if any. Almost everything that happens in the main character’s tale has already happened to him. The narrator of The Sea is an old man named Max Morden, whose entire life consists of his memories; even his present life in which we are introduced to him is infused with nostalgic pining. The Sea is a piece of literary fiction, which can often be described as putting prose before plot, or style before substance. Literary fiction mainly focuses on style, but that is not to say that The Sea lacks substance. The themes of past and present, and loss run rampant throughout the novel. Two memories prevail in Max’s mind, intermittent fragments of his lost love Anna, and reliving his childhood summers in Ballyless with the Grace family.
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