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    SHOT 17 15 Seconds Alone Again This long shot is the second longest of the scene. It is also the last time Ennis and Jack are completely alone before going up Brokeback Mountain. Since Joe’s arrival, all the shots have been four seconds or less with lots of large, quick movement such as his car arriving and his walk around the car. This contrasts to before Joe’s arrival, which include longer shots with smaller movements as Jack and Ennis are alone and looking at one and other. The camera faces

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    with national data and trends is important because it highlights the places that our societies fail in providing a safety net for deviant students and their peers. Newman begins her book by telling the stories of two different rampage shootings, at Heath High School and Westside Middle School. Once she establishes the shooters and the subjects of her study, Newman lays out her thesis and explains that her research shows that many factors contribute

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    Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, discuss the controlling power of supernatural forces. In The Return of the Native, Egdon Heath controls the lives of its inhabitants by exhibiting power over the supernatural force of fate. Clym Yeobright’s excessive pride in his ambitious endeavor causes his blindness which symbolizes his regression from the advanced society of Paris to the primitive nature of Egdon Heath. Similarly, Eustacia Vye’s pride in what she calls “passionate love” (Hardy 74) causes her death as she

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    Androgynous Characters in Thomas Hardy's Novels Androgyny may be defined as "a condition under which the characteristics of the sexes, and the human impulses expressed by men and women, are not rigidly assigned" (Heilbrun 10). In the midst of the Victorian Era, Thomas Hardy opposed conventional norms by creating androgynous characters such as Eustacia Vye, in The Return of the Native ; the title character in Tess of the d Urbervilles ; Sue Bridehead in Jude the Obscure ; and Marty South in The

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    | HAP (1865) | |   If but some vengeful god would call to me From up the sky, and laugh: "Thou suffering thing, Know that thy sorrow is my ecstasy, That thy love's loss is my hate's profiting!" Then would I bear, and clench myself, and die, Steeled by the sense of ire unmerited; Half-eased, in, that a Powerfuller than I Had willed and meted me the tears I shed. But not so. How arrives it joy lies slain, And why unblooms the best hope ever sown? --Crass Casualty obstructs the sun and rain, And

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    Compare Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Turned with Thomas Hardy's A Withered Arm The short stories "Turned" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and "The Withered Arm" by Thomas Hardy both have very different techniques and plots with which they aim to appeal to their audience. The opening of "The Withered Arm" immediately involves the reader. Adjectives are used to describe the initial setting, and so the image of the "eighty-cow dairy, and the troop of milkers, regular and supernumerary" becomes

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    Comparing The Signalman by Dickens and The Withered Arm by Hardy 'The Signalman' and 'The Withered Arm', are two short stories showing supernatural events. Authors, Dickens, and Hardy intrigue readers by using certain techniques. These techniques add suspense and mystery to the story, which makes the reader, want to read further on. The openings in both narratives begin with a short dialogue. The dialogue in 'The Signalman' begins with the narrator talking to the Signalman:

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    TEXT INTERPRETATION AND ANALYSIS The purpose of Text Interpretation and Analysis is a literary and linguistic commentary in which the reader explains what the text reveals under close examination. Any literary work is unique. It is created by the author in accordance with his vision and is permeated with his idea of the world. The reader’s interpretation is also highly individual and depends to a great extent on his knowledge and personal experience. That’s why one cannot lay down a fixed “model”

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    Disillusionment is one of the major thematic thrusts of literary enterprise from the time immemorial. This foregrounds the fact that man’s disillusionment is ontological. The study investigates the trope of disillusionment in Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure. The paper reveals different struggles that Jude, the eponymous character, passes through. Through Hardy’s explicit portrayal of life in Victorian society, Hardy condemns human institutions which endlessly perpetuate people in suffering, castration

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    HAP IF but some vengeful god would call to me From up the sky, and laugh: "Thou suffering thing, Know that thy sorrow is my ecstasy, That thy love 's loss is my hate 's profiting!" Then would I bear, and clench myself, and die, Steeled by the sense of ire unmerited; Half-eased, too, that a Powerfuller than I Had willed and meted me the tears I shed. But not so. How arrives it joy lies slain, And why unblooms the best hope ever sown? --Crass Casualty obstructs the sun and rain, And

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