Write a critical analysis‚ focusing particularly on what makes your chosen passage a piece of Modernist writing. Unreal City‚ Under the brown fog of a winter dawn‚ A crowd flowed over London Bridge‚ so many‚ I had not thought death had undone so many. Sighs‚ short and infrequent‚ were exhaled‚ And each man fixed his eyes before his feet. Flowed up the hill and down King William Street‚ To where Saint Mary Woolnoth kept the hours With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine. There I saw
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pilgrims‚ the Knight‚ the Parson‚ and the Plowman‚ do what they are supposed to do. The rest of the pilgrims vary from slightly bad to morally apprehensible. The Pardoner‚ a pilgrim from the Ecclesiastical group‚ falls under the latter category. Chaucer uses each pilgrims appearance to symbolize their personal qualities. The Pardoner‚ as one of the morally apprehensible pilgrims‚ is rather ugly‚ shown by the lines "And he had a bulging eye‚ like a hare" (ll. 671). He wore a small cap on his head
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Edmond Dantes‚ the protagonist in Alexandre Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo‚ credits God for being very important in his life. Since the beginning of time‚ religion has been a foundation in many people’s lives. Because of this‚ people adopt rules based on not just their religion‚ but on the beliefs of the Gods involved‚ promising to value and stand firm in adhering to such beliefs. These beliefs are subjective‚ leaving the role of the Divine in people’s lives to be up for interpretation. Two roles
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you go the more serious the offense. The first eleven cantos seem to mirror the seven deadly sins found in the Catholic faith. The next eleven address murder which you’d think would be higher on the list but Dante feels very strongly about Fraud being a major sin. I feel the punishments Dante assigns to the crimes are appropriate. My personal belief is that heaven or hell isn’t a physical place you go to when you die. I don’t happen to have an answer for where you go when you die but what I do believe
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The person of Interest could be referred as the modern day literature which consists of many different universal themes such as journey‚ brotherly love‚ love‚ death and power. The themes that are listed are very much alike in comparison to Monte Cristo. The characters may have been expired or made up from past literature works in reference of them. Speaking of characters you have one who has played in both Person of Interest and Monte Cristo. Jim Caviezel we know him as the character that played
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he was smart. Despite being unkind‚ he was a good leader. I personally believe that he would have been a good mentor as long as one could get on his good side. In modern times he reminds me of the actor I chose to play him‚ Johnny Depp. I think Chaucer wanted us to know exactly what I just explained. The skipper was a tough‚ unkind man‚ but he was very smart and was a great
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large painting by William Bouguereau depicts a scene from Dantes inferno. It is set on the banks of the river Styx which formed the boundary between earth and the under world. Dante is with Virgil who is his guide through the nine circles of Hell. The circles are concentric‚ representing a gradual increase in wickedness‚ and culminating at the centre of the earth‚ where the devil himself is held in bondage. This painting depicts Dante in the fifth circle which represents Wrath and sullenness
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Geoffrey Chaucer expresses present day realities throughout his novel The Canterbury Tales. Throughout the Wife of Bath’s prologue‚ the wife illustrates her actions to be equal to those of a feminist. The wife pleads to stand out without conforming to societal standards. Feminism is defined as the doctrine advocating social‚ political‚ and all other rights of women equal to those of men. During the 14thcentury‚ it was likely that the Wife of Bath was thought of as a destructive rebel. In modern times
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wants to unleash a deadly virus. Another influence is the famous quote “Abandon all hope‚ ye who enter here”‚ which appears throughout modern culture. It appears in the film “As Above‚ So Below”‚ the book Gone Girl‚ and the tv show “Jessica Jones”(Dante Today). The imagery and the poetic side of Dante’s Inferno is what seems to appear in modern culture. Either the idea of hell is referred to or the meaning behind the story of
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section. You will be scored only on the test-response section. A. Discuss the use of frame narrative in The Canterbury Tales. What does this narrative device bring to the audience’s experience of the work? What does it allow the author‚ Geoffrey Chaucer‚ to do? Use examples from the readings to support your answer. B. Consider the following quote from the Wife of Bath’s prologue: "Experience‚ though no authority / Were in this world‚ were good enough for me‚ / To speak of woe that is in all marriage
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