Critical Lens – Cheat sheet! Your task: to write a Critical Lens essay using TWO of the characters from The Crucible. First‚ let’s review the task of the critical lens: Write a critical essay in which you discuss two works of literature you have read from the particular perspective of the statement that is provided for you in the Critical Lens. In your essay‚ provide a valid interpretation of the statement‚ agree or disagree with the statement as you have interpreted it‚ and support your opinion
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Critical Lens Book Report Fiction is an attempt to tell the truth about things we generally lie about. I agree because authors write books that tell every thing like it is and that it seems right but is very wrong‚ and they tell it with out censorship and make readers think is that the way friends‚ family ‚ and strangers think too because I can’t read their minds? The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds was about named Tille it showed all the hard
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Great Expectations Essay The story Great Expectations is best viewed through the class studies critical lens with a contrast between rich and poor. Miss Havisham’s estate and Uncle Pumblechook are comparable to the life of Pip and the family he lives with because they are upper class and lower class. In just the first 30 minutes of the story‚ the recurring motif of rich versus poor is expressed three times. First‚ when Pip is forced by Uncle Pumblechook to go to Miss Havisham so that his family
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Critical Lens Essay Quotations Chose one of the following six quotations to connect to your work of literature: 1. “Good Literature makes us aware of the potential that each human being has.” Anonymous 2- “The best literature may entertain readers or disturb them‚ but above all‚ it must make them think.” Anonymous 3- “Art is the lie that makes us realize the truth.” Pablo Picasso 4- “The best literature is about old universal truths
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Kris Dias Critical Lens Essay “The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance‚ and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.” - Albert Camus. In the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding‚ a group of British schoolboys become stranded on a deserted tropical island after their plane is shot down. Without the rules and structure of civilization the boys quickly descend into savagery. Some of the boys who are led by Ralph‚ the group’s
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Critical Lens An anonymous speaker once said‚ " In literature‚ evil often triumphs but never conquers." This means that in literature there is always a clash between a good side and an evil side. The characters on the evil side are usually illustrated as more intelligent figures and will appear to be winning the little battles with the good side however‚ in the end the good will always prevail. I agree with this quote because whatever happens good will always conquer as seen in both Macbeth by
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2/20/13 Critical lens. J.W. Van Goethe once said “no two persons regard in the world in exactly the same way.” This means everybody has different views of the world and responds physically and mentally to different situations. I agree with this quote because we all have different perspectives and we often debate about the way we view society. In the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck clearly shows how two persons are different
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Ms. Zivas Critical Lens According to an unknown author‚ “It is not what an author states‚ but what he or she whispers that is important.” In other words‚ every detail in every book or work of literature has a more complex meaning than what is on the paper. Two works that prove this quote true are The Odyssey by Homer and “Ithaka” by Constantine Cavafy. The Odyssey by Homer is a metaphor for life. “It is the journey that makes up your life” as said by Tiresias‚ a blind prophet in The Odyssey
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Critical Lens Essay Nicholas Cage once said that‚ “I like flawed characters because somewhere in them I see more of the truth.” This quotes means that characters are much more unrealistic when they are perfect. Characters with flaws give the reader a more accurate view of humanity because all people have flaws. The short story “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst and “The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe are two works of literature that support this quote. In both of these works‚ it is
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Critical Lens Essay According to Ernest Hemingway‚ “...all things truly wicked start from innocence.” This quotation means that everything that is evil was once pure. I agree with the quotation because when your are pure of anything contaminated‚ the environment can create evilness in a person. Through the use of symbolism in Lord of the Flies‚ and irony in Oedipus the King‚ William Golding and Sophocles shows the readers that corruption stems from innocence. William Golding uses symbolism in
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