The Great Gatsby & Enduring Love ‘Obsessive love has the capacity to drive a person to insanity‚ leading to irrational behaviour‚ alienation and despair’ Compare and contrast the ways McEwan and Fitzgerald present the complexities of human love in light of this comment. F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ian McEwanpresent obsessive Idealised love as deranged and harmful.Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’‚ published in 1925‚epitomises the euphoric atmosphere which permeated consumerist attitudes after
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How does McEwan tell the story in chapter 9? McEwan uses a different perspective to the rest of the novel‚ he uses a form of 3rd person narrative but solely Clarissa as his chosen subject‚ he also tells the reader this at the start‚ “ It would make more sense of Clarissa’s return to tell it from her point of view.” McEwan uses this to singularly show movements of Clarissa‚ because up until then Joe’s perspective has been the main focus‚ and not any other characters. This way McEwan is able to
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Salvatore on the hit show The Vampire Diaries‚ but that role is portrayed by a completely different person. Damon Salvatore the mean‚ bad‚ and sarcastic vampire is nothing like the real Ian Somerhalder. Ian Somerhalder is an amazing actor who has made it a long way from a cute boy from a small town in Louisiana. Ian Somerhalder was born on December 8‚ 1978. He was born and raised in a small southern town named Covington‚ Louisiana. Like any other family‚ both his parents had jobs and he had a good
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Chapter Four All four of the women finished dressing and met in the main entrance of the palace to greet their guests. The Grand Duke and the Grand Duchess of Baden were just arriving and stepping out of their carriage. Karolina and her mother stood behind the Princess and the Dowager Duchess as they curtsied and welcomed the royal couple while Theresia instructed the servants to take their baggage to their rooms in the palace. The Grand Duke acknowledged the Dowager Duchess and the Princess with
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COURSE: DEPT: ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROGRAMME: M.A ENGLISH LITERATURE (PART TIME) SESSION: 2011/2012 SEMINER TOPIC: TO WHAT EXTENT THE IAN MCDONALD’S THE HUMMING BIRD TREE REFLECT WEST INDIAN IDENTITY ISSUES. Introduction The western Indian literature has gradually gained prominence over the years. What we have today is corpus experiences of a group of people known as the west Indians which comprises of a group of island such as Trindad and Tobago‚ Jamaica‚ Antigua
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Consider the themes of passion and desire in Atonement by Ian McEwan‚ Othello by William Shakespeare and Perfume by Patrick Süskind. Fascinated by different passions and how people are driven by different passions‚ I am able to study this through different literature texts. The three characters I am going to study are ‘Briony’ in the novel Atonement by Ian McEwan‚ first published in 2001‚ but set in 1934-1999‚ ‘Iago” in the play Othello by William Shakespeare‚ first viewed by an audience in 1604
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Enduring Love Amy Duguid Viewing Philosophy Through Film Fall 2012 Dr. Mark Zlomislic Conestoga College‚ Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning INTRODUCTION The film Enduring Love deals with a number of different characters and their lives after participating in a traumatic event with each other. In this paper I will defend the thesis that the title “Enduring Love” is misleading; not only is it not love‚ but it is also not enduring. The tragic event that the
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Ian McEwan’s 1999 novel Atonement demonstrates the consequences of a false accusation as it progresses over three different time periods. Through a variety of literary techniques and devices‚ including intertextuality‚ symbolism‚ imagery‚ characterisation and metafiction‚ McEwan demonstrates the danger of an imagination that can’t quite see the boundaries of what is real and what is unreal. He explores the dangers of a falsified reality‚ while the suffering because of his protagonist Briony’s imagination
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Summary Section Pages 1 50 We start off learning about a Chinese American family by the eyes of Olivia‚ the main character. She talks about her full-blood family‚ and then she transits to her half-sister‚ Kwan. According to Kwan‚ she had "yin eyes"; she was able to see the dead. Olivia also talks about how her husband‚ Simon‚ is getting divorced‚ while Kwan tries to stop the divorce. Kwan also tells a story about a girl in China named Nunumu‚ describing her encounters and such. Pages 51
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MAGICIAN S. MAUGHAM Chapter 1. Arthur Burdon and Dr. Porhoet walked in silence. Arthur had just arrived in Paris. He was a surgeon at St Luke’s hospital‚ and had come to study the methods of the French doctors; but the real object of his visit to Paris was certainly to see Margaret Dauncey. He looked upon himself as a happy man. He loved Margaret with all his heart and he was sure of her affection for him. It was impossible that anything could disturb the pleasant life they had planned together
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