Goodbye Mr. Chips In the novel Goodbye Mr. Chips‚ James Hilton shows through Katherine how one person can make a substantial change in somebody’s life present or not. Goodbye Mr. Chips is a sentimental story of a gentle aging schoolmaster and his long‚ close association with the school in which he taught. The two main characters that appear in this book are Mr. Chips the English schoolmaster and his lovely wife Katherine. Mr. Chips’ life covers the second half of the nineteenth century and the
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James Hilton’s novel Goodbye‚ Mr. Chips is the story of an English schoolmaster who dedicated his entire adult life teaching young boys. He was a somewhat shy person. Nevertheless he was a competent school teacher‚ professional and attractive in many different ways. Although his first teaching experience was not successful‚ he was determined to become a good schoolmaster. After coming to Brookfield‚ he began to warm up to his students. But more important he brought discipline to his school which
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New Criticism approach to Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway Mrs. Dalloway‚ by Virginia Woolf‚ was set in a time period shortly after World War I. An omniscient narrator narrates the novel and it gives the reader response full access of what is happening in the minds of the characters from different points of views. In the close reading of a particular excerpt‚ it shows the relationship of a husband‚ a WW I veteran‚ and his wife. The text can be found on page 23 of the novel. “For she could no
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Dear Mr President: Oral Draft Pink‚ is an American singer-songwriter‚ musician and actress‚ she has been singing since 1995 to present. Pink was born on September 8‚ 1979 in Abington Township‚ Montgomery County‚ Pennsylvania‚ U.S. Pink began her career with her first single‚ "There You Go" off her debut album‚ Can’t Take Me Home in 2000. The song Dear Mr President was recorded in 2005 and released on December 21 2006. It was written by Pink and Billy Mann. Dear Mr President has won a Gold
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The Talented Mr. Ripley Insanity is a behavior that is often judged by our society. If one behaves in a manner that contradicts the societal norm‚ he is ostracized for his inappropriate actions. Insanity however is not to be confused with irrationality. Tom Ripley’s many immoral acts‚ namely‚ murder‚ forgery‚ and deceit could be perceived as insane; however‚ when one takes into consideration the calculated motives behind them‚ it is evident that they are merely irrational. Tom’s irrational‚ yet
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Woolf tells us in the introduction to the 1928 eidtion of her book that Septimus is intended to be the double of Mrs. Dalloway. Indeed‚ she first thought that he might live while Clarissa would die. As a result‚ many critics understand his death to be a substitute for Clarissa‚ for if he dies for his war experience (especially the death of his friend) and his inablility to adjust to life‚ she is able to live‚ to adjust to the confinements of her married life. Clarissa’s meditation on Septimus’s
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Analysis the use of stream of consciousness in Mrs Dalloway BY Qian Jiajia Prof. Zhang Li‚ Tutor A Thesis Submitted to Department of English Language and Literature in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the degree of B.A in English At Hebei Normal University May 8th ‚ 2009 Abstract As one of the representative writers of novels of stream of consciousness‚ Virginia Woolf has made important contributions to the development of the technique of stream of consciousness
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Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway is a modernist novel‚ which shows new techniques to express a different point of view with regard to the notion of time. It is not without importance to note that the novel has no chapter headings. Nevertheless it is immediately obvious that the interest of the novel is not only in the form but also in the content. The action takes place in a single day of June in 1923 and what is interesting in the structure of the book is that simultaneously with the story of this
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1. Introduction Mrs Dalloway‚ published in 1925‚ is widely accepted as a major work of 20 th century English literature‚ because it introduced new stylistic approaches to writing and set basic aesthetic standards for the further development of literary modernism‚ thereby establishing Virginia Woolf as its leading female representative. Besides‚ the novel offers a subtle insight into the atmosphere in postwar London society‚ which was characterized by a feeling of overall destabilization and increasing
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Literature Between Wars Critical Commentary of Virginia Woolf’s ‘Mrs Dalloway’ The very first sentence in this extract gives an insight into how Woolf has set to present her main character‚ Clarissa as someone who is lighthearted and somewhat pretentious‚ as she concerns herself with such a trivial matter as buying flowers for her upcoming party. Claiming that she will buy the flowers herself and alleviate the burden of her servant Lucy who has enough to do‚ it is also ironic
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