in addition to his mother tongue. Victor got a little education in a small school. At the age of eleven‚ Hugo returned to live with his mother in Paris‚ where he got a little education in a small and where he also became infatuated with books and literature. By the time he was fifteen‚ he had already submitted one poem to a contest sponsored by the prestigious French Academy. There he learnt much from an old soldier‚ General Lahorie‚ who‚ obnoxious to Napoleon for the share he had taken in Moreau’s
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1. Why do we need to study literature? * Literature is filled with ideas that need to be explored. * Literature helps us to see our world in new ways. It brings us to a deeper understanding of life. * It is important to study literature since when we begin the study of literature‚we find it has always two aspects‚one of the simple enjoyment and appreciation and the other of analysis and exact description. Usually what happen when we go through literature in our classroom either by
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Literature; so much depends upon it Literature represents a language or a people: culture and tradition. But‚ literature is more important than just a historical or cultural writing. Literature introduces us to new worlds of experience. We learn from books and literature; we enjoy the triumphs and the tragedies of poems‚ stories‚ and plays; and we may even grow through our literary journey with books. In conclusion‚ we may discover meaning in literature by looking at what the author says and how
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Gerald M. Zinampan II-5 (Marketing) HISTORICAL BACKGROUND Long time before the Spaniards and other foreigners landed onPhilippine shores‚ our forefathers already had their own literature stamped in the history of our race. Our ancient literature shows our customs and traditions in everyday life as traced in our folk stories‚ old plays and short stories our ancient ancestors also had their own alphabet which was different from that brought by the Spaniards. The first alphabet used by our ancestors
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Miguel De Cervantes The son of a deaf surgeon‚ Miguel de Cervantes was born near Madrid in 1547. He became a soldier in 1570 and was badly wounded in the Battle of Lepanto. Captured by the Turks in 1575‚ de Cervantes spent five years in prison. He was freed in 1580 and returned home. De Cervantes finally achieved literary success in his later years‚ publishing the first part of Don Quixote in 1605. He died in 1616. For nearly his entire life‚ Miguel de Cervantes struggled financially. His father
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possess. Elaboration on the text is also done through exploring the characterization of King Ebain‚ Eufeme‚ Eufemie‚ and Silence herself‚ and the relationships these characters have with one another. In Jane Burns’ book Bodytalk: When Women Speak in Old French Literature‚ she addresses how Silence’s male identity helps her from being reduced as a person. When Silence first meets nature she comments on her gender‚ Burns uses the translation “I am silent about my female identity (a male appearance) or
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A tragic hero is defined in most cases as a literary character of great stature whose moral defect leads to tragedy but some self-awareness brings the character to make the right decision (World Literatures). That is why although Antigone portrays many characteristics of a tragic hero‚ the real tragic hero of this play is Creon. A tragic hero in the Greek world is very different from our perceptive of a hero in the modern world. When today’s society thinks of a hero they think of superpowers and
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The Tragic Story On April 15‚ 1975 at 2:00 am‚ the Quinlans received a phone call from Newton Memorial Hospital telling them that their daughter‚ Karen Ann‚ had been brought to the hospital. She was unconscious‚ and had slipped into a coma. Her state steadily deteriorated and very soon her coma was diagnosed to be irreversible. She was shortly thereafter transferred to St. Clare’s in Denville. Her condition was deemed a “persistent vegetative” state from which she would not recover. Unlike the
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An Uncomfortable Truth: Historical Institutionalism‚ Postcolonial Feminism‚ and the “Comfort Women” of World War II Historical institutionalism (HI) has often been used to discuss the sexual slavery committed by Japanese forces against Japanese‚ Korean‚ Taiwanese‚ Chinese‚ Southeast Asian‚ and Dutch women during World War II. “(D)istinguished from other social science approaches by its attention to real-world empirical questions‚ its historical orientation and its attention to the ways in which
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Chapter IX Joseph Andrews seems to break away completely from the original intention. Parson Adams‚ who has no counterpart in Pamela‚ runs away with the novel. He "is one of the most living‚ lovable‚ comical bundles of wisdom and simplicity in all literature." In the words of Edmund Gosse‚ "Parson Abraham Adams‚ alone‚ would be a contribution to English letters." He indeed is the hero of the novel‚ and not Joseph Andrews. Fielding was aware of giving a new literary form with Joseph Andrews which he
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