Commentaire de texte : The Oval Portrait‚ Edgar Allan Poe From Selected Tales‚ Penguin‚ Popular Classics The Oval Portrait‚ a short story from Edgar Allan Poe‚ lies in the fact that art and life are deadly linked. The passion for art and painting is described as causing death since the painter’s determination to make a portrait of his wife will cause her death. As in most of Poe’s short stories‚ the setting takes an important place in the story. We could say that it has even an influence on
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Edgar Allan Poe “The Oval Portrait” : THE CORRELATION BETWEEN THE MAIN STORY AND THE EMBEDDED ONE. “The Oval Portrait” is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe involving the harrowing circumstances surrounding a portrait in a chateau. The final version of the text is a revision of an earlier story known as “Life in Death”. Poe improved his novella by eliminating narrator’s penchant for opium and modifying the conclusion. It allowed him to achieve purely didactic piece of writing
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The Pen is Mightier At the end of my freshman year of high school‚ my girlfriend broke up with me. She was the only girlfriend I had ever had and it was an understatement to say that I was completely devastated. I had always written a little on my own and had done well in English classes‚ but I never wrote as much as I did that summer. I was hurt‚ angry‚ and feeling incredibly insecure. Writing was my salvation. It was the only way I had to express my feelings because I did not really have
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First written in the 1880s and extensively revised in 1908‚ The Portrait of a Lady is often considered to be James’s greatest achievement. In it‚ he explored many of his most characteristic themes‚ including the conflict between American individualism and European social custom and the situation of Americans in Europe. James proclaimed that “The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent reality.” Plot was for him but the extension of character. The novel must
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Report for supply chains of ASOS and Topshop Word counts: 1273 11th March 2013 Table of Contents 1.0 Introduction……………………………………3 2.0 Overview and Demographics 2.1 ASOS …………………………………………4 2.2 Topshop ……………………………………4 3.0 Supply Chain 3.1 Supply Chain of ASOS ……………….. 5 3.2 Supply Chain of Topshop ………….. 7 4.0 Conclusion ………………………………………9 5.0 Bibliography …………………………………..10 1.0 Introduction ‘Fashion
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International Journal of Service Industry Management Emerald Article: Service portraits in service research: a critical review Bo Edvardsson‚ Anders Gustafsson‚ Inger Roos Article information: To cite this document: Bo Edvardsson‚ Anders Gustafsson‚ Inger Roos‚ (2005)‚"Service portraits in service research: a critical review"‚ International Journal of Service Industry Management‚ Vol. 16 Iss: 1 pp. 107 - 121 Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09564230510587177 Downloaded
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Portrait photography What is portrait photography? Portrait photography is photographs of a person or a group of people that shows the expression‚ personality‚ and mood of the subject. Like other types of portraiture‚ the focus of the photograph is usually the person’s face however‚ the background and setting may be included to make the image more effective and meaningful. What portrait photographers main aims are to focus on the person’s face. They aim to give emphasis on the face of the person
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Human consciousness in Isabel Archer Isabel Archer‚ the heroine of the novel ‘The Portrait of a lady’‚ is a young American woman who must choose between her independent spirit and the demands of mid-nineteenth century European social conventions. She unexpectedly inherits a fortune‚ which in the beginning of the novel‚ seems to have freed her from the need to marry. After propagating her quest for independence‚ she rejects two suitors‚ Casper Goodwood and Lord Warburton
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Competitor analysis So who are the main competitors to TopShop? Ironically‚ Miss Selfridge from the same group is a key competitor but TopShop also view Debenhams‚ H&M‚ New Look Group‚ French Connection and House of Fraser‚ and of now that everything is gone digital there are extreme amounts of pressure put on topshop to stay in the lead with online stores such as asos and boohoo who try to replicate its clothes but at a more affordable cost High-street H&M Strengths
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Analysis As one of the shortest of Poe’s stories‚ "The Oval Portrait" consists of a brief one-paragraph story framed within a larger vignette whose main purpose is to establish the romantic Gothic mood in which the story occurs. The setting and basis of the plot are shrouded in mystery; the narrator does not explain how or where he is wounded‚ and with his servant‚ he enters an abandoned‚ decaying chateau that offers no more answers than the narrator. The dark gloom of a deserted house is a classic
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