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Realistic Dual Natures in Alcott’s Little Women “Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual′s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is” - Carl Jung Each of us has the capacity for virtue or vice, and our daily actions reflect the combination of both.  In literature, however, people are sometimes depicted as being completely one or the other, giving us inaccurate views of human nature.  We identify better with characters who are more like us--neither

During the eighteenth and nineteenth century, American Literature was considered to be of insignificant quality compared to that of English Literature, and was rarely recognized in the literary world. However, this opinion did eventually change because of the success of some very creative American authors. Sojourner Truth and Louisa May Alcott were two women who not only produced unforgettable works of literature and presented powerful speeches, but also had a monumental impact on American Literature

The Cherry Orchard: Critical Analysis The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov is about a Russian family that is unable to prevent its beloved estate from being sold in an auction due to financial problems. The play has been dubbed a tragedy by many of its latter producers. However, Chekhov labeled his play a farce, or more of a comedy. Although this play has a very tragic backdrop of Russia’s casualty-ridden involvement in both World Wars and the Communist Revolution, the characters and

Cultural Shock in Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard     Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard projects the cultural conflict of the turn of the twentieth century of Russia. With a historical allusion, Chekhov exhibited the changing Russia with "slice of life" in his play. The Cherry Orchard is not only a depiction of Russian life but also an understatement of changing traditional value. Cultural conflict itself is an abstraction. To explain it, it is the traditional culture that is unable to resist

around them. An ignorant person is so confident they comprehend the truth, that they are blind to the greater truth. Anton Chekhov and Sophocles deal with the idea of this sinful pride that leads to ignorance in their respective works, The Cherry Orchard and Oedipus Rex. In each drama, certain characters are slapped in the face with the truth; the light is revealed. However, these characters make the connection when it is too late. Their destruction is already destined to become a reality, a horrid

What is life about? Just living, or maybe giving or something else. At this point the question goes differently just as all of us are different. All of us see life differently and as well the goals are different. Though there is something in common we all have. We all want to be happy in this world. Some people believe that love gives happiness, another wealth...All with different concept. They spend most of their time and energy to get it. But it does not give a guaranty of satisfaction. Meanwhile

Louisa May Alcott is the author of many novels written back in the nineteenth century. Her most successful books, and the books she is most known for is the “Little Women Series”. These books consist of: “Little Women”, “Little Men”, and “Jo’s boys”. In these books Alcott shows the same writing style and each of the different books share the same theme and ideas. In Alcott’s book “Little Men”, (one of the three in the Little Women series) the theme is that nothing is impossible. This theme is supported

Most people view conflict as a bad thing, but authors love to use it to benefit their writing. Conflict is common in writing as it is essential to plot and often many other aspects. In Louisa May Alcott's novel, Little Women, the main characters experience types of conflict. In this book, conflict is used to develop the characters and show their growth. The four main characters, sisters Amy, Beth, Jo, and Meg, experience Person vs. Self, Person vs. Person, and Person vs. Society conflict which leads

Louisa May Alcott was born on November 29, 1832 in Germantown, Pennsylvania. Her father was Bronson Alcott, and her mother was Abigail May. She also had three sisters, Anna, Elizabeth, and May. Alcott began writing at an early age, and the sisters would often act out her stories for their friends. Her father was the one who taught her until 1848, and she studied under family friends, like Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson. She spent most of her childhood in Boston and Concord, Massachusetts

Louisa May Alcott was a writer best known as the author of Little Women. Her family Louisa was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania on November 29, 1832. She and her three sisters, Ana, Elizabeth, and May, were thaught by their ather, wh was a philosopher and suffered hard financial difficulties, and Alcott worked to help support the family from an early age. She began to be successful in her writing in the 1860s. She not only encouraged young girls to believe they are not less important in society