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    "War is like love‚ easy to begin‚ hard to end and impossible to forget”‚ a famous saying about war can express almost of the loss which wars cause for human being. From the very past of history to the present‚ even though many wars have proven to us the cruel‚ inhuman and violent they were‚ more and more wars still happen with more barbarous and fiendish. The higher in techniques we reach‚ the deeper we sink in wars. In the end‚ wars do not bring any efforts‚ benefits or rights and interest for people

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    Third Quarter Foreign Author Paper The foreign male‚ Luigi Pirandello was born on June 28‚ 1867 in Agrigento‚ Italy and died at the age of 69 on December 10‚ 1936. He was a person who played in plays‚ wrote many of novels and also did some drama plays. In 1934 he was given the Nobel Prize in Literature for all of the great work he has did over those years in between when he was born. He was a very good author that done many plays and poetry around in Italy. He never had it bad in life while growing

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    Pirandello - War

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    Literature Questions: “War” by Luigi Pirandello Name: ____________________________ 1. Identify the CONFLICT in this story. Is it primarily an external Man-vs-Man conflict‚ or is it primarily an internal Man-vs-Self conflict? 2. What/when is the CLIMAX of this story? How can you tell it is the climax? CHARACTERIZATION: Your book says: “[Pirandello’s] focus on the social masks that people wear has been a major influence on modern fiction‚ as well as on modern drama. …Pirandello was fascinated

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    Ana Rahmawati 090511100016 The Theme Reflected Trough the Characters’ Personality in Luigi Pirandello’s War CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION 1.1. Background One of the literary works that we have known so well is short story. The short story is comprised of certain identifiable devices‚ each of which contributes to the making of an integrated and unified whole. A short story has elements that create the story: characters‚ plot‚ theme and setting. Those elements build the story become real and interesting

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    in Search of an Author: Why the Play Was Worth Reading After All I must admit that reading Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello turned out to be a rather trying ordeal. The brief foreword in the textbook warned me that I was about to be introduced to "the self-conscious‚ reflexive theater of modernism"‚ adding that the author [Pirandello] expressed a particular "existentialist interest in consciousness" (201). Since I have never considered myself a fan or either modernism

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    Pirandello’s short story is that there is a pain intrinsic to war that cannot be placated. Pirandello’s story is so powerful because it thematically breaks through many of the common associations with war. It strips away nationalism or love of country as a part of the justification of war. It takes away the notion of war being a part of a youthful adventure that young people must endure. It strikes at the heart that lies at all war. There is only death. The fact that the bundled up woman weeps

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    Comparative Between Two Short Stories: War by Luigi Pirandello and Family History by Jacques Prevert Both War by Luigi Pirandello and Family History by Jacques Prévert demonstrate that people may avoid the reality of tragedies that result from war in order to help themselves cope with the emotional impact. As “Human kind cannot bear very much reality‚” (T.S. Elliot) one must face the harsh truths in life for one to truly understand and feel the tragic impact of war and death‚ no matter how devastating

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    1. b) The conflict in the story War is an internal conflict within the fat traveler. The fat traveler lost his son and tried to hide his lamentation by being judicious. In the story he gave a speech to the other parents who travelled on the train informing them how their sons were born not only for the parent’s benefits. “If country is a natural necessity like bread‚ of which each of us must eat in order not to die of hunger‚ somebody must go to defend it.” Here the fat man advises the parents that

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    Luigi one of the Fathers of Jazz dance Luigi was born in Steubenville‚ Ohio‚ on March 20‚ 1925. He was one of 11 children in his family. He was born with the name Eugene Louis Facciuto but‚ later was renamed Luigi by his mentor Gene Kelly because he told him “There are too many Genes!”Luigi’s brother tony taught him to sing and dance at a young age. Eugene began singing and dancing for pennies on street corners. He performed in local talent shows and toured as a singer with a performing orchestra

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    Like in Pirandello‚ in Samuel Beckett we can find similar themes. He was one of the greatest playwriters of the 20th century of the "theater of the absurd"‚ which is a new and original kind of theatre that breaking all the rules and structure of the classical plays‚ it intends to express the absurdity‚ and the meaningless of life‚ Beckett develop themes like the sterility of life‚ he lack of communication or the crisis of the individualism‚ which are all present in the Pirandellian plays. Like all

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