Permit me to introduce myself; i am Charles Baker Harris, known to my friends simply as Dill

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Imagery of blindness and sight in Oedipus the King contributes to dramatic irony in three ways. The repetitive sight and blindness imagery is used by Sophocles to foreshadow the fate of Oedipus, create tension and expectation in the audience and increase our empathy for Oedipus. In Chronicle of a Death Foretold, we cannot help but feel sympathy for Santiago Nassar as his death is already revealed to the reader at

Compare the portrayal of death in ‘The Story of Zahra’ and ‘Season of Migration to the North’

In both ‘The Story of Zahra’ and ‘Season of Migration to the North’, many characters die as a result of their own actions. Some deaths are ambiguous, like those of the narrator and Mustafa Sa’eed in ‘Season of Migration to the North’, whilst others are more overt – such as the death of Zahra in ‘The Story of Zahra’ and that of Jean Morris. In all these events, characters have

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A prostitute is one who solicits and accepts payment for sex acts

A prostitute is one who solicits and accepts payment for sex acts, but this definition does not encompass all the aspects of prostitution that have been portrayed in the two texts. Nur and Firdaus are prostitutes in the two books: ‘The thief and the dogs’ and ‘Woman at point zero’. Both of them are looking love and belonging in their lives but destiny does not favor them and leads them

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The extract from line 129-159, Act 1 Scene 2 of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, forms to be the first soliloquy of the drama and therefore appears in the beginning of the play. A soliloquy is a literary technique where the character is left alone on the stage and is able to express his thoughts clearly and directly. This technique enhances the text and succinctly yet powerfully exposes the mental compositions of

The influence of Uncles and Stories on Alba and of the Wife on the Colonel

The influence of Uncles and Stories on Alba and of the Wife on the Colonel. Do these represent to the characters a shift towards or away from reality?In the midst of wandering souls, telepathy, dreams, tibetan dances, tunnels of book, pendulums, and vegetarian diets, Isabel Allende provides Little Alba with a talismanic, haunting and magical world to inhabit. These however, manage to survive the passage of time only through those

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While Sophocles includes physical blindness in his play ‘Oedipus Rex’, he also uses it as a symbol of one’s ignorance of underlying the truth. In The beginning of the play, Oedipus was rationally blind of the truth, he was trying to find out about it but he wasn’t able to. Later on, Oedipus finds out all the truth about his childhood and himself, realizing that he was blind. Then Oedipus

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