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    Different works may have different binary oppositions than Cixous already mentioned in her essay, but the principle is that in patriarchal binary thought the male is always the winner (147). The writer finds another opposition but has not mentioned by Cixous, it is “forgiveness and banishment”. In the novels, Lewis implies inequality of gender which always defends the male characters, just like Cixous states that male always the victor (147). Lewis more to give special treatment to male and more

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    How The Eustace Diamonds Changes Representations of Femininity in Vanity Fair Since Anthony Trollope published The Eustace Diamonds (1872), readers have associated Lizzie Eustace with Becky Sharp of William Makepeace Thackeray’s Vanity Fair (1848) (John Hall 378). Both Becky and Lizzie perform a femininity made all the more dangerous by contrast to the femininity of their idealized counterparts, Amelia and Lucy. Both novels involve a man’s choice between satisfying his sexual desire for the

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    Dawn Treader, we see the journey of Eustace Clarence Scrubb through the different levels of education in the land of Narnia. When his character is introduced he is almost snobby and looks down on the discussion of Narnia by Edmund and Lucy. Lewis writes, “…he loved teasing them about it. He thought of course that they were making it all up; and as he was far too stupid to make anything up himself, he did not approve of that.” As the story progresses you see Eustace changing as he experiences the magic

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    I couldn’t forget how Eustace turns into a boy-dragon, also the invisible enemies, a fearless mouse, an enchanted table and above all Aslan. It took me a month to read it, the details of every chapter is very descriptive, that is why I had I hard time of scanning dictionaries

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    C. S. Lewis was a celebrated academic in the field of medieval literature, first at Oxford University, then at Cambridge, where he held the first chair in medieval and Renaissance literature. He also was a noted convert to Christianity who in the 1940’s established himself as a popular Christian apologist with a series of wartime radio talks, later collected under the title Mere Christianity (1952). Between 1938 and 1945 he wrote a trilogy of science-fiction books (the Space Trilogy, consisting of

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    Bildungsroman From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search In literary criticism, a Bildungsroman (German pronunciation: [ˈbɪldʊŋs.ʁoˌmaːn]; German: "novel of formation, education, culture"),[a] novel of formation, novel of education,[2] or coming-of-age story (though it may also be known as a subset of the coming-of-age story) is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood (coming of age),[3] in which

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