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The Not-Yet Child: Weaponisation of Motherhood in the movie Arrival
Examining the representation of gender and motherhood by discussing the portrayal and function of female bodies in Arrival and ‘Story of Your Life’; the essay ultimately argues that—contrary…
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Landscape and the Connection to Possible Selves
When a character is connected to the concept of the possible self, it provides context for the past and incentives for the future, creating a complex emotional map…
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Keats’ Astonishing and Poignant Imagery: Discover the Deep Emotional Impact
On his death bed, in a letter to his brother, John Keats wrote “I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death” (Keats, 1818). Keats…
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The Moment (of a Woman)
While looking up at the stars one night in February, Jane had the moment. The moment of clarity a woman has only once in her life, where she…
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Figurative Language in Wordsworth’s ‘I wander’d lonely as a cloud’
Mason (2010) describes William Wordsworth as, above all, someone who listens and watched his world (p. ix). In 1804, fellow poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1895) wrote that Wordsworth…
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Unnatural Order: Men Are Actually Equal To Mice
A central theme to Rousseau’s philosophy was to restore freedom to humans in a way that would reconcile who we truly are and how we live together within…
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Dialogue in “A Lovely and Terrible Thing” by Chris Womersley
Womersley cleverly uses action, rather than speech tags, to accompany dialogue in ‘A Lovely and Terrible Thing’, implying the delivery of lines without explicitly telling a reader
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Hate Your Characters: ‘Mouthful of Birds’ and Distanced Readers
Samanta Schweblin’s decision to use first-person point of view of a disconnected father figure in ‘Mouthful of birds’ builds a story wherein Sara is alienated from the reader…
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