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the phrase, "Turning and turning in the widening gyre" (Yeats, Longman p. 2329: 1.). The reader can hear the voice of the poet describing his journey farther and farther from his once cherished center based on

it's new industrialization of society, brought to poetry and literature the fictional character, seeing the world from another's eyes.  It was also a time in which "Victorian authors and intellectuals found a way to reassert religious ideas" (Longman, p. 1790). Society was questioning the ideals of religion, yet people wanted to

possible. By 1914 the only states European nations did not control were Ethiopia and Liberia. (1) (Robert R. Edgar, George F. Jewsbur, Neil J. Hackett, Barbara S Molony, Matthew Gordan, Civilizations Past & Present - 12th Ed. - Vol. II (New York: Longman, 2007), 738) The scramble for Africa cannot be explained by just one cause. It looks indisputable that although the specific reasons that set forth the scramble were wide ranged throughout the continent the action was determined by a state of the

Even works of literature that intend to have a good message can be interpreted and read the wrong way. The novella, Oroonoko written by Aphra Behn, is a great example of this. Oroonoko is the story of the Royal Slave. It is written in the perspective of a white colonial woman in the eighteenth century. I found the novella to have a lot of subtle racial undertones despite the fact that during that time it was seen as an anti-slavery novel.(1) There have been debates on whether this novella is pro-slavery

Robert Browning was a brilliant writer. The Longman Anthology of British Literature says, “More than any other nineteenth-century figure, Browning shaped the poetry of the twentieth, influencing British and American poets from, Hardy and Yeats to Elliot, Pound, Frost, Lowell, and Stevens” (1322). One of Robert Browning’s specialties was dramatic monologues. In his dramatic monologues, Browning develops his characters really well. Throughout the monologue Browning shows the true character of the person

the narrator's perspective early on, the narrative distance moves further distant in the fourth stanza, zooms in, then out again.   The narrator is walking down a street and pauses, with his companion, "beneath the harlot's house"  (Wilde, Longman p. 2069: 1.3).  In the next two stanzas Wilde transitions to the inside of the house depicting a partygoers atmosphere in "Inside, above the din and fray"  (2.1) and shadows of the figures inside are projected onto the blind (3.3).  This movie projector

facilities, and drinking water filled with industrial pollution were a few of the daily obstacles each city dweller at that time had to endure (Longman 1791).  Dickens, like Bronte, wrote of his time and portrayed the environment he experienced daily. The city Dickens wrote of in his work, Manchester, was so named "because of the coal residue that blackened" it (Longman 1827).   Where Bronte characterized emotions through the weather Dickens used the destruction of nature to describe the concerns

among nations…” (Longman 42; lines 261-263). Beowulf is careful in everything he mentions, whether regarding his lineage or Hrothgar, to point to the great deeds and heroism of them, rather than himself. The warrior certainly knows how to speak with reverence and eloquence to the watchman to gain himself and his soldiers passage into Hrothgar’s hall, saying, “[i]t is with loyal and true intention that we come to seek you lord the son of Healfdene, guardian of the people” (Longman 42; lines 267-268)

According to Kathy Gallagher from in an article for the New York Times, “ I think showing respect is something that should never be ignored when teaching young people some of value their elders have had” (qtd. in Longman). Being in high school, students are expected to recite the pledge of allegiance everyday, but, still many do not. They figure the fact that there is men and women that risk their lives for others. Therefore, pledging the flag should be mandatory because it teaches the youth the

The Narrative Structure of Wuthering Heights and Heart of Darkness       Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte was first published in 1847, during the Victorian Era. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad was first published as a complete novel in 1902, beginning what is referred to as the Modernist Era in literature. Each of these compelling stories is narrated by an uninvolved character who is quoting a story told to them by a character who actually participated in the story being told. There are