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  • Henry James Piece
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    Henry James writings, particularly 'The Portrait of a Lady' I read this book out of interest for another Henry James piece, liking Daisy Miller so much. I found that this book, as in Daisy Miller, has a female point of interest throughout. Isabel Archer is a young American girl brought to Europe after her father has died in America. Isabel is an independent girl, easily noticed by many others in her circle. I felt that Isabel was a woman in her time, in that she took notice of things that she wo...
  • Thoughts Of The Lighthouse And The Ramsey
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    A lighthouse is a structure that warns and navigates ships at night as they near land, creating specific signals for guidance. In Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse, the Lighthouse stands a monument to motivation for completion of long-term goals. Every character's goals guides him or her through life, and the way that each person sees the world depends on goals they make. Some characters' goals relate directly to the Lighthouse, others indirectly. Some goals abstractly relate to the Lighthouse....
  • Mr Marollano From James
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    I see the three contributors that he mentioned to have a good point: Peirce - we should understand the effect an object will have for us, James - profitable, valuable and the likes and Dewey - ideas should spur and render growth; because like what James said in his implication of ethics, as complex as life is there is no single formula that could capture informatively. According to Mr. Marollano, ideas and beliefs should serve as a tool that we could modify our action in creative and satisfactor...
  • Symbolism Of The Black Clothing
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    The Symbolic Color of Black in The Turn of the Screw In The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, black clothing worn by the ghosts of Peter Quint and Miss Jessel foreshadows evil and darkness throughout the novel. Throughout the novel, James creates a character that is "in the dark". The phrase "in the dark" means to be without knowledge. The character "in the dark", Mrs. Grose, is the only character throughout the novel that cannot see the evil ghosts; Mrs. Grose's inability to see the ghosts play...
  • James's Realism
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    Realism, in the broadest of definitions, is the faithful representation of reality or verisimilitude. The realist is considered to be the "philosophical extrovert". Within the scope of American literature, 'realism's pans the time period from the Civil War to the turn of the century. Some claim that American realism was the product of a country shaken by war combined with technological advances and increased consciousness of nationhood. Realism, according to Weinberg, "denies the continuum of ti...
  • Alfred's Character
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    Enviornment Shapes Character A person's isn't just the concrete things around them. Someone's is the physical and mental conditions that surround them. The that someone is exposed to shape and defines his / her character. Alfred Brooks, in The Contender by Robert Lipsyte is greatly shaped and defined by his. From the neighborhood he lives in to the friendships he has and breaks, it all effects how he is. Alfred lives in a bad part of New York, Harlem. There is drugs and crime everywhere. Alfred'...
  • Cam Unlike Mrs Ramsay
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    'When Sometimes She Imagined Herself Like Her Mother': The Contrasting Responses Of Cam And Mrs. Ramsay To The Role Of The Angel In The House. Cam is a striking character because of both her resistance to her mother's promotion of the Angel in the House and her struggle to come to terms with her own identity as having been influenced by this Angel One way this meaning makes itself apparent in To the Lighthouse is through an analysis of the individual responses of Mrs. Ramsay and Cam to the role ...

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