(i loved the novel "Oranges are not the only fruit" so much that i had to include one of the blogs!)

Blog #11

“The truth of the life of Jeanette is not true at all.”
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Can moral principles be reversed?  Can moral interests supersede moral principles?  Although it is a contradiction in a person’s character, this reversal often occurs, especially in Stoppard’s writing.  As displayed in Anderson’s change of character in the end of the play, it is suggested that moral principles can in fact be reversed.  Although it ( Read more... )

     The Catastrophe Theory is a perfectly sufficient explanation for the actions of the play.  It fills a void left by the ‘one-sided view of change’; thus it permits us to make sense of seemingly illogical, inconsistent, or unnatural reversals of behavior.  Through this, readers are able to view the play in a less bias point of view, as well as ( Read more... )

Anderson’s final conflicting role in the play “Professional Foul” was inspired by his experiences in Czechoslovakia with Hollar.  In being exposed to the base of corruption of the Regime at the Hollar household; the need to help and attempt to change society became overwhelming in Anderson’s role.  In his speech, he causes disruption by speaking of ( Read more... )

This is a correction to my reading question for blog #7 that did not work for some reason:

1) Larkin

Aubade is a poem about lovers separating at dawn.  Before dawn there is a discussion between the two lovers: one saying that they must go, while the other retorts and refuses to leave.

Using Aubade, Philip Larkin uses this in his poem where the lover ( Read more... )

Blog #8

“My husband stood stock-still, as if she had been Medusa, the sword still raised over his head as in those clockwork tableaux of Bluebeard that you see in glass cases at fairs.”

The Bloody Chamber, p 973

Throughout the descriptive story “The Bloody Chamber”, and “Bluebeard”, the amount of suspense and ( Read more... )

Postcolonial Theory

-Postcolonial theory is based on written pieces in colonized countries that deal with the issue itself, or the effect it has on individuals surrounding it.

-It distorts the realities of an individuals experience in life

-Changes people’s identity based on the past.

-It is difficult for colonized countries to escape from this ( Read more... )

            In Derek Walcott’s “Ruins of a Great House”, the speakers’ struggle is displayed from history and poetry.  In the poems’ multiple metaphors, the speaker stands looking at the fractured remains of a plantation house, recalling the age in which the plantation was at its peak, and absorbed what the house represented.  The house’s symbol ( Read more... )

Throughout the references towards history and time in both Eliot a Yeats writings, an individual’s life time is determined by the illusion of eternal time, and the idea behind youth’s innocence.

Eliot’s representation of time-past and time-future are two completely different things.  You are only given on life; in turn, this life must be appreciated ( Read more... )

Daeledaus Nightmare History

Stephen Dedalus was James Joyce’s literary alter ego.  His surname references the mythological figure Daedalus, a brilliant artificer who constructed himself and his son a pair of wings to escape from an island where they were imprisoned by a king.  In the novel Ulysses, Dedalus appears as a parallel to Telemachus.

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