The following essay is a test paper I had to write for my advanced English class (foreign language class for me!!) in grade 12. Though I had not enough time to develop a really deep and completed ... the 90 minutes of the exam, I hope my paper will offer some useful impulses for those interested in the novel. Alan Sillitoe: Saturday and Sunday Morning A view on the protagonist Alan Sillitoe's novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, a sensational success when first published in 1958, is nowadays widely considered as a modern classic. Being one of ... environment where he spends Friday and Sat...

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... where he spends Friday and Saturday nights looking for superficial satisfaction. Although his affairs with married women have become a major topic of local gossip, Arthur focuses on himself and does not care much about the others. For the interpretation of the novel, we must point out that Arthur's excessive lifestyle (containing violent struggles, ... and a lot of drinking) is not only adolescent van-dalism but also an act of rebellion. Being an intelligent young man reflecting on every-thing, Arthur has come to his own particular view on the world. He does not consider himself a part o...

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... Station and a large supplier of ivory. Along his journey, he encounters a number of hypocritical and exasperating Europeans, pitiable natives, and a jungle that takes on a life force of its own. Conrad himself had personal experiences in Africa and states that the novel is "experience pushed a little (and only very little ... and tore back again. I noticed there was a hole in the bottom of his pail- (Conrad 20). This selection is a very cynical comment on how Europeans performed in the Congo surrounded by disease, natives, and the jealous ambitions of their fellow Anglo-males. The injusti...

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... . Eventually they brought in a clever tutor to help Tom understand Newton's principles. However, the experience had a negative and a positive affect on the impressionable boy. Because he was so disillusioned by the fact that Newton's sensational theories were written in classical aristocratic terms that were "unnecessarily ... things to himself through practical experimentation. Meanwhile, he developed a habit of gleaning whatever he could from the best publications he could find on given subjects and from knowledgeable associates, always remembering that they might be committed to "preco...

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... , his personality and his success as a king. The Minor Edicts is a summary of Asoka's instruction of dharma, which talks about the purity of thoughts, kindness, truthfulness, reverence, and other good morals of life. His concept of Dharma provided his people with a common, compassionate way of life and curtailed war and suffering. Asoka believed in practicing what he preached, he did not ... and allowed his people to worship freely. Dharma was very successful to the extent that the crime rate fell, peace and prosperity prevailed, and courtesy, piety and charity abound. Then on the other ...

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... was therefore not surprising that when the Papacy rejected Henry's claims for an annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon he should being to see 'nationalising' the Church as a quick way of not only resolving his marital difficulties, but of increasing his power and the security of the monarchy. However, Henry was no Protestant. Even after he ended the Church ... were in any way strong, and most were just comfortable retreats. Henry saw them as a source of income for himself, and for the creation of more bishoprics so he embarked on the restraint of the lesser monasteries in 153...

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... civil governments, and to argue for the legitimacy of revolt against tyrannical governments. Locke equated "the law of nature" with "the rule of morals." He wrote of a God who "show[ed] Himself to us as present everywhere, exhibiting Himself to the eyes of men in the regular ... the people as the ultimate political authority. But it need not be exclusively political. Tocqueville's well-known study of Democracy in America primarily focuses on American society, not its governmental or political system. Any implication he had made that a certain state, government, or society is truly democr...

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... and unsettle the spectator. I will also show how the audience's feelings of malaise are augmented by employing specific cinematic techniques and challenging established ideas on the gaze'. Furthermore, I will explain how Fassbinder, who believed that positive images are elaborate utopian deceptions and [ ] prefers an educative pessimism ... friends, albeit false ones. If Fassbinder's use of contradiction and contrast unsettles the audience, obliging it to reassess its own ethics and morals, it is precisely his extension and development of the Hollywood melodrama genre that facilitates thi...

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... subject matter and style" .Adrian Martin describes how expressionist mise-en-scene is where "general strategies of colour coding, camera viewpoint, sound design and so on enhance or reinforce the general "feel" or meaning of the subject matter" . Martin Scorsese often uses quite an expressionistic style of mise-en-scene, ... of expressionist mise-en-scene Scorsese manages to make a whole new character in the way he films the taxi, as Scorsese says himself "There's a man on the screen who's a fucking vehicle" . He manages to make the taxi so character like by filming close up shots of dif...

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... other works but it is obvious that there were influences that he drew from quite heavy. Dante believed he had been empowered by God to write the Commedia thus he gave a conscious effort to stylise the Commedia to the Bible, furthermore, he greatly admired the classical poets such as ... in hell however Dante (poet and protagonist) treats the classical poets as privileged and authorial characters, Contropasso in the Commedia is a concept based on the punishment fits the crime, the contropasso belonging to Canto IV of inferno includes mental anguish but an absence of physical torment. One ...

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... and the "self or person is not any one impression, but that to which our several impressions and ideas are supposed to have reference". However, a quick answer to this would be to quote " Observation collapses the wave function" - that by trying to observe the self, Hume could change it, and so ... we have come to understand the world. In today's terms, being unable to experience something directly does not mean it does not exist. His views on association of ideas are equally as determined by allowing only three types of association; resemblance; contiguity; and cause and effect. His obs...

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... become an outstanding figure in International Jewry as well. The man considered to be the founder of Hasidic Jewry never claimed himself to be the Messiah, nor did he ever write anything down dealing with his theological philosophies or anything else. He, however, truly captivated the public as a strong, able leader whose philosophies were consistent with that of the working class ... old, and he spent seven strange, decisive years of his life meditating in the Carpathian Mountains in Moldovia, where he stayed to work until his "revelation" at age 36. Later on, he held numerous minor ec...

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... stupid and confused, never giving them due credit that Shakespeare gives in his play. The French King is seen falling asleep while his son drones on and on with his speeches; the King is nudged by his wife to briefly give his lines and then falls back asleep for the rest of the ... seen as another soldier). There are no true battle scenes in the film, and no blood is ever shed. What little fighting is shown is quick and fairly painless for all involved (with focus, of course, upon the English glory). Much time is spent upon the arrival and welcome home that ... Nim, Bardolph, Pistol and...

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... race') theories, influenced by the racial theorist Count Arthur de Gobineau and the orientalist and cultural philosopher Paul de Lagarde. Wagner's essays on socio-political issues and art, for example Art and Revolution and The Ark-Work of the Future, show the influence of Feuerbach, left ... a fallen world'#. Heinrich von Stein was another other Wagner's disciples involved with the Bayreuth Blãtter, which he used to write for, mostly talking about literary and philosophical topics. Like Wagner he was interested in the writings of Schopenhauer, Goethe and other writers considered ... wo...

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... both praised by many for his literary genius and despised by the ultra-Nationalist Nazi regime - the latter held book burnings of All Quiet on the Western Front after exiling Remarque to Switzerland. Before it is possible to delve into the aforementioned themes of the futile agonies of war and ... , it is necessary to understand the political and social climate in which Remarque was writing. (All subsequent historical references from HI 30 class lecture on 10/7/2003.) The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, sole heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, may have lit the fuse of The Gre...

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... . He calls all black people their Christian brothers which appeals to pathos. King also gains sympathy by giving first hand experiences, so one can directly see the effect of segregation on an individual's life. Lastly, he appeals to logos by presenting facts and realities of segregation in a way that is clear, and hard to ignore....

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... that a political society as an essential element for achievement of provide the maximum security of property. Actually in my opinion this consensual statement is their contribution to the political tradition on the discourses of civil society and justice....

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... the clock gathering depositions of the family and from Great Benefit insurance. As the trial is about to begin, Rudy, who realizes his phone is tapped sets up a small prank on the opposing lawyers to make them believe that they are tampering with the jury, which results in an embarrassing situation for the head of the opposing council. Rudy learns all ... ...

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... his intentions to bring colonialism to light and support the foreign lands. His only way of getting his message across to the misguided invaders was to write this tale of truths. He knew the strength of the society from which he came, so fact based text would be his strongest ally. Marlow ... which he conveys the sheer brutality of colonisation to the western society that was so obviously in need of educating. Marlow's journey of self-discovery begins in London on the "Nellie, a cruising yawl" surrounded by "gloom"; this is the opening scene that begins Marlow's journey into the darkness...

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... people start keeping private treasuries of money. The transition from timarchy from oligarchy occurs because these leaders with their own treasuries start bending the laws relating to spending the money on themselves, until the constitution of the Just City is wholly destroyed, and gradually wealth becomes more important than virtue in measuring someone's worth. The oligarchic personality is defined by a disinterest ... ...

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... cracked mirror, the dripping spigots" (Cather, 216), but when we switch to a third-person narrator, we discover that he lives in a honourable middle-class neighbourhood, on "a highly respectable street, where businessmen of moderate means begot and reared large families of children." (Cather, 215) The fact that later in the story his father is ... his suicide is his mother's death. That event is stated twice in the story, but we never get details. In popular beliefs, a red carnation, when worn on Mother's Day, honors your live mother, while a deceased mother is remembered with a white car...

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... the stories of Ficciones that you have read. Borges's writing was seen for a long time not to be typically South American in its focus on the abstract and illusive elements of the Universe or delving into the nature of the human condition, instead of advocating changes in social conditions or ... be a good writer, he is doing his duty I am an antagonist of littérature engagée because I think it stands on the hypothesis that a writer can't write what he wants to- (Di Giovanni, 1973, 59) At first examination Borges's stories in the collection Ficciones can be perceived as based ... as a...

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... Finny. In retrospect, Gene decides that perhaps he did not reply because deep down, he truly did not feel towards Finny what Finny felt towards him. Gene places the truth on a level of emotion deeper than thought. Gene's envy climaxes and interprets Finny's increased studying as an attempt to even things out in the rivalry and increases his own efforts to ... the summer and actively tries not to be affected by the joyfulness and promise of the days because he knows there is hate around him, and he wants to dwell on that alone. Everything finishes the way a nature dictated: the days beca...

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... his own self and what he finds there. Both Marlow and Willard are forewarned about the dangers that await them on their journeys, but neither man is able to understand how truly powerful the impact the different elements of their expeditions have on them until they have met with Kurtz. Their meetings and discussions with Kurtz forever alter their personality, as both ... ...

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... Scottish poet whose cynical view of men the basis of Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men". For George and Lennie did have a dream, a dream though not very original, still spurred them on nevertheless. Steinbeck depicts the harsh reality and cruelty of the world, society at the time when the book was written. The best laid plans don't often happen, through the title ... like all that are around them. George may haps never fully put himself into the picture, but there were still small measures of hope that kept the dream alive. Lennie on the other hand, due to his limited mental capability, only...

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