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    each author approaches the different problematics and personal feelings and struggles that their characters have to deal with all throughout their novels. The secret agent and Saturday night Sunday morning both address the issues of anarchy, masculinity, femininity and heterosexual relationships but in different time periods. The secret agent is a pre-war work while on the other hand, Saturday night Sunday morning is a post-war novel, which makes it interesting to compare and contrast the character’s

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    Conrad’s The Secret Agent is a before-its-time political masterpiece in the form of fictional literature that grips the minds of an audience who may or may not have ever thought to question the majority existence. After the occurrences of the terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001, scholars, educators, and the general public, in a desperate attempt to justify what was happening in the United States, took notice of an otherwise buried great work. The terrorist theme in The Secret Agent is initially

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    of conventional realism, a narrative method that appears deceptively simple. The Secret Agent holds great deal of the social concerns. It is considered supreme masterpieces, it is a brilliantly depicting an ironic narrative of London's seedy and dispossessed underworld of revolutionist and anarchists. He have been in Polish in exile, and having experience of working with revolutionists and espionage agents in Switzerland and Marseilles, Conrad is well-educated, sophisticated, intelligent

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    They, unlike past acquaintances, have no problem knowing me only as Tiffany. But I, secret agent Yoojin, have deceived them with my clever disguise as Tiffany! Socially, I am Yoojin to those who met me as Yoojin and I am Tiffany to those who meet me as Tiffany. Say either name to their respective groups, and the same person comes to mind:

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    first-floor front bedroom, there had been no more question of the young butcher” (Secret agent, ). Winnie’s mother was constantly reminding her that he was indeed a good man and that she needs to carry out all of his wishes regardless of her happiness just so they can have a better financial situation Another recurring theme in these two works is how masculinity and power are portrayed in the novels. In the secret agent, the author shares with the readers multiple points of views from different characters

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    Secret Agent Stereotypes

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    potential business to provide early warning and help to predict the moves of competitors, customers, and governments’ (Calof and Wright, 2008, p. 723; Gilad, 1996). Introduction Competitive Intelligence (CI) comes from shadows of company "secret agent (spy) vs. secret agent" stereotypes, but now present day CI experts are legally and ethically collecting, studying, and making use of information about the abilities, vulnerabilities, and intentions of their competitors, and tracking developments within the

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    Love is the one of the most powerful feelings one can experience. The other feeling is fear. When a situation combines the both of them, which will prevail? The passage chosen comes from Dai Sijie’s Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress where the Narrator experiences this struggle after being attacked and returning to an empty home. Only a fantasy about the Little Seamstress could remedy the gloom which hangs over him. The passage illustrates that the Narrator has a deep longing for the Little

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    In this paper, I will be deliberating the possibilities of meaning of the novel, The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad through an explication. I will do so by stating what I tracked, the patterns I saw that emerged, the interrelations of it all, then finally the possibilities of meaning. Things like novels, plays, art, and the like can be interpreted in more than a few ways; an explication is a tool available to help organize thoughts and interpret a meaning. I tracked any instance time that could

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    The predominant mode of discourse of this fragment of The Secret Agent is descriptive. In this text, we can differentiate different types of descriptions (moral, physical and topographical) mainly focused on the Professor. However, as this discourse is fundamentally devoted to describe the psychology of this character, it could be said that it is classified as an etopeia. In the following paragraphs, we are going to point out some features who characterised this kind of description. The main goal

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    “Karl Yundt, Comrade Ossipon and Michaelis, the lazy, ineffective anarchists who discuss their plan’s in Mr. Verloc’s shop. In The Secret Agent, the inanimate world’s refusal to submit to the ordering devices of the human mind…The piano, with its absurd exuberance, deafens the beer-drinkers, reduces the little professor’s dreams of power to ridicule, as he retires to the tune of ‘Blue Bells of Scotland.'". (Modern Imagination). Initially an emotional outburst following the association

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