... and grotesqueness of hell, painting a moral and religious punishment in emotional and aesthetic terms. As Stephen is just awakening to the power of such emotions and aesthetics, Father Arnall's sermons have a particular resonance for him. Stephen's conversion to devout religiousness is, however, only temporary. The same tools Father Arnall uses to such a great effect in his sermons soon convert Stephen from a would-be ... recognize it, and it is not until he falls into the arms of the prostitute that he realizes what he has been longing for. The encounter with the prostitute awakens Ste...

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... is convinced by George's father to follow the way of heart. Just married, Lucy and George come back to Italy. 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. In Forster's opinion Italians are more joyful and spontaneous, so Lucy's awakening becames from the country's influence. 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 between Honeychurch's and Emerson's world or ....

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... is primarily white males it is limited to a small portion of the population. The rest of the population "women, blacks, Hispanics, those of Oriental descent and other "are excluded and their opinions are often overlooked. Until recently, Kate Chopin has been excluded from the canon so her masterpiece, The Awakening has been ignored. The tales of slavery written by former slaves or children of former ... slaves also have been excluded. The fact that the canon only has books older than a hundred years included in it mean that modern works are sometimes ignored ... , so the canon also makes...

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