... artist, it provided her with enough income to free her form an unhappy marriage and allows her to travel through Europe. In 1890 Burnett's first son Lionel was diagnosed with consumption and died that same year. By 1898, Burnett and Swann divorced by mutual consent, and she leased a country ... from the Christian Scientist emphasis upon the power and necessity of positive thinking. The Relationship between Health and Outlook - One of the book's underlying themes is the way in which happiness begets happiness, and misery begets only more of itself. For example, the fact that Master Craven...

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... Kim's sugar cane and the Lama's snuff ( ClassicNotes ). The dialogue in Kim played great role in the development of the story. He used native vocabulary throughout the story. His constant translation of the vernacular forces the reader to become involved in the dialogue of the book. Another striking characteristic ... and expansiveness that rapid language modification conveys as it assists us in the struggle to assimilate a new experience ( Bloom 110 ). To examine the themes in the novel we should approach it as an adventure story probably aimed primarily at adolescent boys, in which Kim...

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... chasing Shug Avery around town. Celie doesn't seem to mind this behavior; in fact, she too wishes she could see Shug. Harpo, the seventeen-year-old son of Mr. __, meets a girl in church and soon tries to court her. The girl's dad objects to his proposal, saying that he has nothing ... Celie who grows up as the adopted child of Samuel and Corrine. Adam: Adam is the son of Celie who grows up as the adopted child of Samuel and Corrine. Tashi: Tashi is the African native who marries Adam and returns with him to America. Mary Agnes (Squeak): Squeak is the girlfriend ... ; leaving her old lif...

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... because of its theme of hereditary syphilis. George Bernard Shaw, a champion of the Norwegian Ibsen, himself began to write plays on similarly controversial themes: MrsWarren's Profession is about prostitution. It was not allowed a full public performance until the 1920s, although it was privately performed in London ... Irishmen who, for the most part, used English subjects for their plays, staged in London, but there was also a very strong movement for native Irish drama. Sean O'Casey's plays are set in the city rather than the country, but have a similar intention: to portray, in real...

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... on many details from Joyce's early life. The novel's protagonist, Stephen Dedalus, is in many ways Joyce's fictional double. Like Joyce himself, Stephen is the son of an impoverished father and a highly devout Catholic mother. Also like Joyce, he attends Clongowes Wood, Belvedere, and University Colleges, struggling with questions of faith ... ironically, he feels he can accomplish only by leaving his native island behind. Apart from these questions about Stephen's life, the novel presents us a serie of themes that would be interesting to know about. So, we are now to centrate our intere...

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... the statement had a different effect on each of them. Sweetwater was interested by the thought, and he decided that he now had certain similarities with the son of God. Wonder Horse, however, was disturbed by the idea, and argued that he could not have been a good carpenter. He tried to make himself ... the narrator what it meant to be Indian; his father came to school and made his own dominance apparent to the professor. "You might be a Native American but you sure as hell ain't Indian." P.228 This distinction comes from the fear of the ultimate end of the Indian and eventual submission...

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... audience who could identify themselves in his plays. George Bernard Shaw points out how Ibsen's characters are people from our own society and his themes are universal. Ibsen " . Gives us not only ourselves, but ourselves in our own situation. The thing that happens to his stage figures ... fundamentally modern." Perhaps, this is the essence of his art - that which turns it into existential drama exploring many facets of life. The themes of injustice and falsity of middle class conventions regarding society and its upbringment and values were dominant in his dramas. Ibsen through his cha...

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... miles from north to south and often less than 100 miles from east to west. Its western border is a string of mountains known to the Vietnamese as Truong Son (Central Mountains). Beyond the Truong Son lie Vietnam's immediate neighbors, Laos and Cambodia. Its eastern border is the South China Sea. The entire country lies within the tropical zone. It is a region of ... Chinese, and the Chinese system of ideographic characters was adopted as the written form of the Vietnamese language. At the same time, much of the poetry, architecture and painting retained themes distinctive to Southeast A...

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... people are still very much connected with their European descent. Once again we deal with the characteristic feature of Irving's fiction, that is the usage of European, mainly German, folktale themes and motifs. Having introduced the life of the community, I shall devote the following paragraphs to the individual characters in these stories as I believe their respective fate is the key to ... what circumstances, he is punished by drowning. The punishment seems to be rather cruel as it is not only Cyprien who finds his death in the waves, but also his son who have done nothing wrong what...

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