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Flannery O’Connor: The Use of Humor to Deliver Meaningful and Complex Messages
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An 8 page analysis of four of Flannery O’Connor’s short stories (“A Good Man Is Hard to Find”, “Good Country People”, “Revelation”, and “Parker's Back”). The author of this paper contends that O’Connor utilizes humor to deliver deep and meaningful messages to her readers. Most often her message has deep and profound religious meaning but is made more palatable by O’Connor’s quick wit and phenomenal sense of human behavior. Her success rests to a large degree as well on the reader’s familiarity of the situations and circumstances. Without humor and without familiarity O’Connor would be a literary flop. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Flannery O’Connor: Biographical Outline, Characters and Themes Found in Her Work
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This is a 5 page paper discussing the writer Flannery O’Connor and the themes and characters in her work. The writer Flannery O’Connor was born in Savannah in 1925 to a Catholic family. She was highly observant of the religious zeal and injustices which existed in the southern states during her lifetime and incorporated these themes into her writing. In her work she used her characters to relate the unrealities which existed in the world and often portrayed those who were superior or religiously zealous as grotesque or harmful. In turn, she portrayed the innocents in her stories as more realistic characters and ones who required the patience and sympathy of the readers. O’Connor lived a relatively short life as she died of lupus at the age of 39 but in that time she wrote thirty-one stories and two novels in addition to her lecturing. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Flaubert Questions
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A 5 page paper that answers 9 questions pertaining to Flaubert's Madame Bovary. The questions particularly focus on the structure of the pivotal seduction scene in chapter 8. No additional sources cited.
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Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" as a Tragic Figure
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A five page paper looking at this heroine in Gustav Flaubert's novel in terms of the degree to which she fits Aristotle's definition of a tragic hero. The paper concludes that she does, particularly when her situation is viewed against the social backdrop of nineteenth-century French society. Bibliography lists three sources.
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Flaubert's A Sentimental Education
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This 5 page paper provides a detailed analysis of the protagonist and his friendships. The theme is addressed and various elements are discussed as it relates to the character's relationships. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Flaubert, Swift Comparison
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A 5 page essay that compares 2 works. Jonathan Swift penned his satirical masterpiece, “A Modest proposal in 1729. Roughly a century later, Gustave Flaubert wrote “A Simple Heart” (also known as “A Simple Soul”). While considerably time separates these two works, examination of the principal theme addressed by both Swift and Flaubert demonstrates that the attitude of the middle and upper class that was directed towards the common people had not appreciably changed over the course of the intervening century. The common theme is the way in which the European upper classes regarded the working class. Both Flaubert and Swift indicate that the upper classes tended to objectify those who labored on their behalf, as working people, the poor, and their servants were viewed as being less than fully human. No additional sources cited.
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Flaubert/Emma Bovary
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A 4 page essay that discusses the characterization of Emma Bovary in Gustave Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary. This novel recounts the life and death a beautiful young woman who is frustrated in her unrealistic search for romantic love. Flaubert portrays Emma Bovary as lacking in all the qualities that would have qualified her a true Romantic. She is concerned with appearances rather than inner values; sensual rather than spiritual; emotional but not with the accompany tempering quality of being warm-hearted. In the hands of a less-skilled writer, Emma might have come across as merely supercilious and shallow; however, Flaubert's treatment of her is much more sympathetic as the reader sees her against the backdrop of her era, which suggests that rather putting all the blame directly on Emma for her shortcomings, she is the logical outcome of her culture. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Flaubert/Emma Bovary
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A 4 page essay that discusses the causes for Emma Bovary’s unhappy life and eventually suicide. These causes include Emma’s convent education and her passion for Romance novels, which is a habit she continued into adulthood. Also in childhood, the death of her mother and the occupation of her father influenced her environment, as did the double standards of the nineteenth century in regards to the social opportunities and expectations of women and men. No additional sources cited.
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Flawed Leaders and Passionate Women
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This 4 page paper discusses two flawed leaders, Kreon and Agamemnon; and two women who fall in love with the wrong men, Dido and Phaedra. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Food and Drink in Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises”
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This 6 page paper examines the role of food and drink, emphasising alcohol, in Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises”. The paper considers how this is used and approached within the text and how this relates within the context of the book and the time it was written. The bibliography cites 8 sources.
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