The main character of the novel "A Room with a View " is Lucy Honeychurch, a young English woman who follows the social convensions of the Victorian middle class which she belongs to. ... They have a short love story in Italy which culminates with a forbidden kiss. ... The main theme of the novel is the comparison between the peculiarity of Italian people and of English people, between two different ways of living. ... Forster sees something deeply wrong in the puritan and merchant society of his time and he underlines that view in his novel: we could find a clear contraposition betwee...

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A Room With A View Romanticism is one of the more popular styles of fine art and literature. ... Edward Morgan Forster's novel A Room with a View is an excellent example of romanticism. ... The themes of Forster's 1908 novel A Room with a View demonstrate his beliefs in romanticism very well. ... A Room with a View is an excellent example of a romantic novel. ... A Room with a View. ...

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Providing a refreshing commentary on many issues present in society today, "A Room With a View"' by E. ... In the society that is portrayed in ˜A Room With a View', there are very strong expectations which dictate how a women should act, how a women should look and who a woman should be. ... Another significant theme included in the book is that of identity. ... The theme of growing up and maturing is integral to the novel, with the reader watching Lucy mature and develop emotionally. ... "A Room With a View" is an important piece of literature due to many different reasons. ...

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One major and obvious theme that is constant throughout the novel is obsession. ... The second theme that is continuous throughout the story is imprisonment. ... Part one ends with a chilling exposition of Lolita's situation "In the middle of the night she came sobbing into my room, and we made it up vert gently. ... One of these is the way he marks down the viewing of Miranda in his diary. ... He is also meticulous in his actions making sure that he never forgot a viewing of her. ...

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Woolf's essay also presents a common theme, stating that in order to write, a woman must have a room of her own - a quiet and secluded room where she can fully concentrate on her ideas. ... Another theme that works contiguously with both Jane Eyre and A Room of One's Own is the history of the assertive superiority of men. Throughout history, men were traditionally viewed as the overseers and protectors over women, while women were viewed as meek, incapable beings. ... "You are my sympathy - my better self - my good angel - I am bound to you with a strong attachment... Both Bronte&...

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The most prominent theme that I perceived was a longing to be free. ... These lines reflect how she is viewed in her household. ... "She wept as once, with a sudden, wild abandonment" and then retired to her room "when the storm of grief had passed." ... During her marriage, Louise viewed both body and soul imprisoned. ... While Louise is reaching her empowerment, Josephine is knocking on the door demanding admittance into the room. ...

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In these paintings I would think that the common theme is the love a mother has for her child. ... This painting shows that the mother and child are in a dark room overlooking a picturesque scenery view of a clear blue sky with beautiful mountains and beautiful light blue clouds and it also seems like the sun even though not visible is poring down into the room and lighting up the mother and child like as if they were angels sent from heaven. ... The painting is gracefully filled with harmony as we observe the child nourishing himself with curious eyes that makes us feel like he is wonder...

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Upon A Hill: Reflection of Langston Hughes" "Theme For English B" In "Theme for English B," the speaker is a student in an English class. Langston Hughes attaches the speaker's feelings of his place in society with three different views: the speaker in the class, the college, and where the speaker lives. ... The symbolism of "Theme for English B" is the paper the speaker has to write. ... The speaker lives up on a floor that requires his usage of an elevator to get to his room, and the usage of the elevator represented the speaker being placed above the other black people: "wh...

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Virginia Woolf's "A Room of One's Own" is a representation of twentieth-century feminist thought. ... Throughout the text, it should be noted that Woolf will often consider these themes, as she says, "inextricably mixed together." ... The focus now, in terms of the earlier discussion of the theme of "Women and Fiction", is women and what they are like. ... [And] "for anything written with that conscious bias is doomed to death." ... In response to this view, Woolf argues that women of genius have always existed, but...

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People think that he is a bad person because he spends all his time with black people. ... "(200) They do not think that people should hate him just because of who he lives with. That is one of the themes that are present in this book. ... One quote which shows this theme is, "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view ... until you climb into his skin and walk around in it... Ewell did not care that he did not do anything to Mayella, he was just in the room and he was black. ...

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English Literature Coursework Examine the settings that the writers have chosen for their stories in "The Signalman", "The Man With The Twisted Lip" and "The Red Room". ... The "Red Room" by H G Wells does not provide the reader with much information about the world beyond the castle where events take place. ... "On either side, a dripping-wet wall of jagged stone, excluding all view but a strip of sky" indicates that the signalman was also deprived of sunshine in that unearthly environment. ... The mystery of the red room is hinted at throughout the story and the narrator finds it "in a s...

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Third, the theme of the story and the film remain the same between both, the theme being the situation of never getting to know someone. ... This theme also portrays to the dead- there is no way of ever getting to know someone who is already dead. ... Last, Huston keeps the point of view the same as the story, as well as the shifts in the point of view. The story begins with a point of view of the party before Gabriel arrives, as does the film. ... This point of view changes yet again at the end of the story while Gabriel and Gretta are in the motel room, as included in the film. ...

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Firstly, History studies the world from the view of events that took place from the very earliest times to the present; Geography indeed helps that study's accuracy, since it describes the stage and location that this event took place. ... Location can be seen through two aspects; absolute location, which deals with the exact location that a place is situated, and relative location, which describes that location in relation with other areas. This theme helps historians in identifying certain areas where their study takes place in. ... This theme is of great importance to any historian ...

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With only one side showing commitment, it will not last. ... Death Cab for Cutie shares their view on the fear of commitment in a relationship through the use of figurative language and diction within the lyrics of a couple of their songs. A peculiar idea on the fear commitment is revealed in Death Cab for Cutie's "Your Heart Is An Empty Room" and "Someday You Will Be Loved" through the band's powerful use of figurative language. ... Distinctly, the speaker is talking to a person who found a girl he liked and ended up getting into a relationship with her, but then the person did not...

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A Room with a View is a social comedy themed around Forster's opinion of humanism. ... (Rose: p77) In A Room with a View Forster is able to explore the Victorian idea of love (Kelvin: 84). ... After George and Lucy marry, they return to her room with a view in Florence where they first met. ... In a Passage to India and A Room with A View the settings of the novels became a character themselves. ... (Website: kirjasto) His novel A Room with a View was allegedly one of his most difficult to write. ...

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They use characterization, point of view, and theme to convey why it is important to read. ... In passage one, Dillard depicts the adult section of the library and explains the enormous silent room with the marble floors. In this silent room she discovered the wonders of nature. ... Reading magazines, reading Gone with the Wind, and browsing the adult section were only some of the things she did while in the library. ... Both authors use characterization, point of view, and theme that show why it is important to read and visit libraries while still in children. ...

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Yet, when isolated in the room in the early 1900's Mrs. ... Alone in the room she had come to that conclusion and only by being alone in that room could she have come to that. ... The theme is best described in with setting because as earlier described women did not enjoy the same freedoms as men did during those times. Without the main theme of freedom and new life, combined with setting, there is no revolutionary thinking and purpose to the story. ... A third person point of view that places the reader into the thoughts of Mrs. ...

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Although she preferred the downstairs room, the narrator finds herself confined to the dungeon-like nursery on the second floor, appropriately equipped with rings in the walls. This imagery further develops the theme of confinement. ... These views reinforce the theme of confinement and isolationism; they can be seen from the room, but not touched or experienced. ... The exterior of the mansion is described as a series of closed-off sections, while the room she rests in, with its numerous barred windows and immovable bed, was probably formerly used to house an insane inhabitant. ... T...

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The Dreadful Yellow Wallpaper The theme of "The Yellow Wallpaper" is the narrator's sickness towards the yellow patterned wallpaper. ... John (the narrator's physician husband) has diagnosed her with a nervous depression. The narrator tells her story through first person point of view. ... In "The Yellow Wallpaper" the theme is developed through the use of a first person point of view, and by the use of symbolism. ... The narrator states, "The most beautiful place, the rooms are on different floors and have different setups in every room" (705)...

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The Dreadful Yellow Wallpaper The theme of "The Yellow Wallpaper" is the narrator's sickness towards the yellow patterned wallpaper. ... John (the narrator's physician husband) has diagnosed her with a nervous depression. ... In "The Yellow Wallpaper" the theme is developed through the use of a first person point of view, and by the use of symbolism. ... The narrator states, "The most beautiful place, the rooms are on different floors and have different setups in every room" (705). ... The narrator has a big airy room on the top floor, which co...

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The assortment of places the black box is stored the rest of the year also reflects the people's apprehensive view on the lottery tradition. ... The significance of setting, imagery and symbolism, as well as theme in this story will be discussed so as to better understandng its meaning. The room in which Jane lives is very spacious, consisting of mainly a bed, which is nailed to the floor, a few large windows with bars, and walls covered in partly peeled off yellow wallpaper. ... The room being upstairs and having bars around windows bring a far-off, jail-like feeling to it, maki...

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Juxtaposing the endocentric paradigm of the play with the promiscuous atmosphere in Venetian society, reveals how women become the centre of suspicion and the object of not only male desire, but male obsession with the threat of adultery. ... The characters of Bianca and Emilia give a holistic view of the spaces occupied by women in Venice at this point of time. ... The theme of adultery, which drives the plot progression to tragedy, is expanded upon by the role of Othello's handkerchief. Besides being Iago's manipulative tool, the handkerchief introduces the themes of marriage, fide...

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Mirror on Celluloid: 8 ½ Frederico Fellini's 8 ½: one of the first foreign films I ever viewed. ... Again, the hotel room is darkly lit. ... The 45 degree eyeline is tossed right out of the window at times: the women stare wave, and blow kisses right into the camera: this shot satirizes the role of the director; directing in general, again keeping with the theme that cinema and its subjects are often inextricable. ... She twirls an umbrella in-time with the music. ... It is often said that 8 ½ is a filmmaker's film: as an aspiring filmmaker I have come to agree more and...

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Authors frequently focus on the wicked, malevolent and dissolute aspects of life, often to expose to the reader their view of the man's true nature. ... In The Crucible, Miller uses his theme to reveal the adverse aspects of human nature. ... There is no room for deviation from social norms, since any individual whose private life does not conform to the established moral laws represents a threat not only to the public good but also to the rule of God and true religion. ... Dickinson also metaphorically states, "Assent, and you are sane; Demur - you"re straightway dangerous, and handled w...

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Partnered with her feminist views, "The Yellow Wallpaper" was written in part to show the negative effect that rest treatment has on many patients. ... He also contributed to her mental degeneration by forcing her to stay in the room upstairs. The room symbolized a prison in many ways- from the bars on the windows to the nailed down headboard. ... Most notable was of course, the bedroom with the yellow wallpaper. ... The theme was imprisonment. ...

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