Paradise Lost and The Faerie Queene are two examples of epic poetry sharing similar epic conventions, but differing in the notion of how heroism is portrayed, such that one, The Faerie Queene, conforms to the traditional notions of heroism of knighthood and chivalry, whereas Paradise Lost undermines these traditions of classical heroism by presenting a hero that saves humanity without any act of violence or aggression. Milton's Paradise Lost is an epic poem showing the battle between G-d and Satan, good and evil. ... Paradise Lost gives the reader the sense that for Milton, a chiv...

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the lost of paradise Epic Characteristics of Milton's Masterwork, Paradise Lost By: Dani pic Characteristics of Milton's Masterwork Paradise Lost is one of the finest examples of the epic tradition in all of literature. ... Analysis of John Miltons Paradise Lost Analysis of John Milton's - Paradise Lost Paradise Lost is a monumental epic poem in twelve books of blank verse. ... Paradise Lost Paradise Lost The argument over who is the true protagonist of Paradise Lost, has been brewing for centuries. ... paradise lost Paradise Lost is an expression of John Milton's o...

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Satan: The Unlikely Hero The following references to Paradise Lost' means Book 1 only. ... The result was Paradise Lost'. ... This passionate religious perspective is the inspiration for Paradise Lost'. ... In Paradise Lost' Milton's beliefs are presented through Satan as he commands his army of fallen angels. ... Milton's Paradise Lost' is unsettling to the status quo of his readers because Satan is presented as a hero. ...

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A similar idea also occurs in legends of worldwide currency, the best known of these being the Greek, and the medieval Norse, Celtic and Arab legends that describe an earthly Paradise in the Western or Atlantic Ocean. ... This lack of female protagonists needs to be explored more closely. Feminist utopias/dystopias seem to form a distinct sub-genre of their own, mainly due to the reason that is near impossible to make a protagonist female without bringing with it the implication of a feminist agenda. ... It is not hard to see sci-fi feminist writers such as Ursula Le Guin, who began writing in...

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According to this God's judgment, the soul goes either into a "hell " or into paradise. ... There are people in the modern society who do not believe in God, and these people are called humanists. ... It is interesting that the author even thought about people who do not believe in God and accept Christ. ... Dante is guided by the Roman poet Virgil in these circles who supported the narrator and explained something to him. ... This sculpture depicts the scene of the "Inferno"" in Canto III when the protagonist and Virgil came to the Gate of Hell where different statements and imperatives ...

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Literature by Jack London 1900 The Son of the Wolf This book centers on the exploits of Malemute Kid, who dispenses crude but unerring justice through his cunning understanding of the people of this raw frontier territory. ... This novel is about a dog and a miner who explore the Great North. ... Life within the dog pack is harsh and lonely for Buck until he is traded to John Thornton, a kind man who becomes not just his master, but also Buck's best friend. ... London, dissatisfied with the rewards of his own success, intended Martin Eden as an attack on individualism of ambition; h...

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Many authors represented this "new life, but none better than Miguel De Cervantes and John Milton who both ironically wrote in two very different styles. ... Most of the works mentioned were books of chivalry, which is the protagonist's obsession throughout the novel. ... Cervantes arranges and uses words that convey a humorous suggestion about the protagonist who is very much insane. ... This might have affected the way the diction is used, because Starkie may have lost or changed the style of the diction that is being used. ... This idea is in a contrast to Milton's most famous...

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Lilliputians are chosen to public office by who can "rope dance" the best. ... Swift uses a small number of pages to describe his character Gulliver because the reputation of the protagonist in the reader's eyes is important to his evaluation of the book. ... The Houyhnhnms are thoroughly rational creatures who look like horses. He also runs into a race of creatures named the Yahoos who are have lost all powers of reason except a low cunning by which they further their brutal appetites and look unmistakably human (Gulliver 601). ... The Houyhnhnms evict him from their paradise as they ...

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He incorporated into his protagonist, Samuel Cramer, many of his personal beliefs and feelings. ... Baudelaire was among few poets who loved the city, regardless of how corrupt it was. ... A vast amount of his poetry refers to some sort of lost paradise. ... He further demonstrated this notion in the first poem of Les fleurs du mal, entitled Au lecteur, where he writes "C'est le Diable qui tient les fils qui nous remuent", or simply, "It is the devil who holds the strings that move us" [2 (pp 35-57)]. ... A poet who was unafraid to challenge the moral and social standards of his tim...

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When all seems to be lost, he awakes alone in the forest. ... He becomes a lonely person because he has lost his faith in the people, religion and God. Although there is one protagonist is obviously Brown, there are other characters that appear temporarily through the story. ... He is also described as one who "had an indescribable air of one who knew the world and who would not have felt abashed at the governor's dinner table or in King William's court". ... In this important part, the protagonist encounters more characters and have more experiences that make his faith to face wit...

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Woolf's narration of Clarissa Dalloway's day begins with her protagonist's preparations for a party she is holding at her house that evening, and it ends as the party is finished. ... Her husband is invited, without her, to lunch with Lady Bruton (who, Clarissa notes, gives the most amusing luncheons, which is very important for the woman from the high society.) ... "Masterly and dry and desolate he looked- "Gently the yellow curtain with all the birds of Paradise blew out and it seemed as if there were a flight of wings into the room-) Repetitions and alliterations appear qui...

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One such myth that has undergone this change is that of King Oedipus, the youth who had slain his father and married to his mother. ... Oedipus also is a study in ideology, paralleling itself with texts such as The Waste Land and Paradise Lost. ... The evil character Scar bears much resemblance to Creon, Jocasta's brother who became ruler by default and brought destruction to Thebas. ... These hidden agenda's are also the theme of many modern day literature and media productions, where the audience is aware of a characters heritage yet the protagonists remain oblivious. ... Sup...

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This runs parallel with Sarah Peter's critique of Dracula, who states that 'the most significant reason for the omission of the religious and superstitious elements of the gothic novel... is the theme of imminent and inevitable death.'6 The theme of temptation continues as the vampirized Lucy is described, 'The face became wreathed with a voluptuous smile... and with a languorous, voluptuous grace... there was something diabolically sweet in her tones'7. ... The temptation of protagonists is similarly presented in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, where the characters a...

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"At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote that a lost paradise The world evades us because it becomes itself again" (Sisyphus 14). ... Cottard is an unpopular and socially inept character in The Plague, who out of a guilty conscious and fear of his, unsuccessfully attempts suicide. ... The narrator of The Plague Doctor Rieux, who is also Camus voice, differs in opinion of the ordinary people during the plague. .....

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The first part one of this paper analyzes the character of Doctor Faustus who is the protagonist of Marlowe's play who was overwhelmed with the desire to possess power and the presentation of the character as a pure villain in the play. ... Finally, this section will also compare the two characters with that of Satan, the major character in the poem "Paradise Lost" by John Milton. ... This practice of necromancy is scary and the character is presented as the villain of the play who engages in occult forces and uses dreadful supernatural practices. ... In the opening soliloquy, Richard I...

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Her main character is Pretty Boy, a sixteen year old kid, who is struggling with a decision that would influence his life. He has attracted the attention of influential people, who want to recruit him for their "programme-. ... In the way Cadigan describes them, she creates rather "clinical- and "factual- characters who support the overall impression of the scene. ... In Pretty Boy Crossover it's the "Older Man- who is pulling the strings, but Cadigan is obviously aiming at the huge companies and corporations who have more and more taken control over people, governments and countries....

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He has been repressed and treated in contempt by his older brother, Oliver, who we find out is going to kill him. ... The forest is "a place halfway between reality and paradise" (McFarland 102) and a place of "testing and education" (Leggatt 190) and has no single purpose universal to all. For some of the characters in Arden it turns out to be a place where one can escape reality and try to reach paradise. ... He provides for the aged Adam and mercifully saves his brother, who openly stated his hate towards him, by battling and slaying a lioness. ... Jacques seams to be searching for a pla...

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These philosophies ideas about the healing powers of the mind became a crucial motif in much of her writing, most notably in A Little Princess, The Secret Garden, and The Lost Prince. ... CHARACTERS Mary Lennox - Once of the novel's two protagonists, Mary Lennox is a ten-year-old girl who, after the death of her parents in India, is sent to live with her uncle in Yorkshire, England. ... Colin Craven - The other of the novel's protagonists, Colin Craven is Archibald Craven's ten-year-old son and heir. ... Archibald Craven - The master of Misselthwaite Manor, who s...

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Book three portrays Gloria and Anthony who have totally lost their youth, their dreams, and every last ounce of love they had for each other. ... The "Jazz Age," which Fitzgerald is known for naming, reeks with empty, bored people who can never love or trust. ... The title suggests the protagonists' movement from the pampered life of the beautiful to the suffering of the damned. ... He is not the last character who will loose all and end up either dead or wanting to be. ... Fitzgerald sympathizes with his two protagonists. ...

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About point a), it must be specified that this Life after Death should have place in an another world like Valhalla, Ade, Paradise and so on. ... The gloomy state of near-life of this creatures, lost in a perpetual dawn of life, wandering forever in the world without any possibility of redemption or peaceful resting, struck poets' imagination. Moreover, vampires still remember their lost affects or lovers: they are the extreme heights of love desire, a desire so big and possessive to trespass in to a sort of cannibalism. ... Outside evil is more terrorising than inside evil: while inside...

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" When he learns what has happened on the island, the officer is reproachful: how could this group of boys, he asks-and English boys at that-have lost all reverence for the rules of civilization in so short a time? ... Now, when all he can do is struggle to stay alive as long as possible, a deus ex machina (an improbable or unexpected device or character that suddenly appears to resolve a situation) appears, at the last possible moment, in the form of the naval officer who brings the boys back to the world of law, order, and society. ... Others approached Lord of the Flies through the t...

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A Character Analysis of Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter Abstract Hester Prynne is the main protagonist and the most complicated character in The Scarlet Letter. ... There are four protagonists in the novel, Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, Roger Chillingworth and little Pearl. ... However, this scarlet letter does not flee from the horrible perception of Hester's husband Roger Chillingworth, who is a physician. ... As Calvin asserted: "Let the women be satisfied with her state of subjection, and not take is amiss that she is inferior to the more distinguished sex." ( ...

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