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    The three topics I am considering on which I will write my research paper are time, existentialism, and transformation. The first topic, time, would primarily focus on synthesizing between the historical context of colonization and the events that occur within magical realist texts. In dealing with the historical context of colonization, I would mainly focus on Latin America; how did the indigenous people of Latin America (pre-colonization) perceive time? How did the indigenous peoples’ perception

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    Discuss the significance of the abject in Metamorphosis. Metamorphosis is a remarkable novel that has spanned numerous themes; from alienation to the absurdity of life. And one of the major themes is that of the abject. The abject, by definition, describes something brought low in position or condition, lacking in courage, or simply rejected. In short, the abject is a recurring theme throughout Metamorphosis – both literally; in the form of Gregor’s grotesque physical form, and metaphorically; in

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    Isata Keita Dr. Leah Thomas ENGL 202 5/2/2016 The Significance of the Robins and the Pigeons, to the Coming of Age. The significance of birds have varied from the representation of life and death, freedom, luck, messengers, coming of spring, etc. In Sula by Toni Morrison, the robins mirror Sula's character and lifestyle in that as she "flies" away from her home town so do they, and as the robins wreak havoc on Medallion so does Sula's presence in the town. In Edward P Jones's "The Girl Who Raised

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    grotesque. This story is about a self-righteous grandmother is shocked into spiritual awareness by the Misfit, who kills her family first and then her. The two main focuses are the grandmother’s spiritual conversion through out the story and the significance of the Misfit’s rejection of God and his reasons behind it. In “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, O’Connor painted a clear picture

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    Animal or Animalistic? In Franz Kafka’s novella, The Metamorphosis, Gregor Samsa’s transformation into a "monstrous vermin” can be seen as a window into the human psyche. Freudian psychology, with its focus on the human unconscious, was developed and becoming increasingly well-regarded around the time the novella was published in 1915. According to Freud’s theory, the component of the brain called the “id” was the subconscious concerned with pleasure and biological needs. While the “id” can be counteracted

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    completely removed from the stir of society” (Ch 1). Outwardly, this plain and insignificant statement characterizes the isolated position of the Yorkshire moors from the rest of the society. In closer examination, however, a reader might mark the significance of Lockwood’s remark in its relation to the characters in Wuthering Heights, who are indeed removed from the context of nineteenth-century English society, where people were able to take on the manners of the genteel with their achievements in

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    The Metamorphosis

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    human nature inherently good or evil? In Franz Kafka’s novella, The Metamorphosis, Gregor Samsa’s transformation into a "monstrous vermin” serves as a window into the human psyche. Through lack of obligations, decreased sense of shame, and increased sexual drive, Kafka reveals Gregor’s relationship to the outside world weaken, as his internal instincts grow stronger. Kafka utilizes Gregor’s transformation as a symbol to show the dangerous potential of the human “id”, a term coined by Sigmund Freud,

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    material and ideological conditions, one should also understand the significance of them. Firstly, materialistic conditions refer to the consumption possibilities of human beings. For instant, it depends on the economic wellbeing. On the other hand, an ideological condition consists of opinions or political beliefs of groups or an individual. In this case, we will not be comparing any of these two yet, we will be simplifying the significance behind it. Therefore, Polanyi, Heilbroner, Rinehart and Bendix

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    vermin”; and one cannot help but instinctively cringe in disgust at the idea of transforming into a creature as repulsive as a giant insect. In Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, Kafka’s choice of a vermin as an agent for Gregor’s transformation is not random. The significance of the bug is extensive as this symbol not only represents the meaninglessness and emptiness of Gregor’s life as a man, but also reflects the impersonal and dehumanizing treatment of Gregor by his family and society alike. Our

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    Segregation is not a foreign term since it had appeared many times in history. For incidence, in ancient China, the Ming Dynasty isolated itself from the rest of the world for the entire era of its ruling. Despite that, the Jewish population also experienced segregation constantly in its history. Moreover, North America was also familiar to the practice of segregation. In both Canada and United States, the country forced her citizens with Japanese background into internment camps during World War

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