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Realists: Mark Twain and Henry James
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A 3 page paper which examines how Mark Twain’s and Henry James’ characters were realists, or not, as they appear in Twain’s The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and James’ The Real Thing. No additional sources cited.
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Reality in C S Lewis' " That Hideous Strength"
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This 5 page paper looks at this adult book which mixes myth and fantasy in order to ascertain the depictions of reality. Reality may be seen as a perspectives, yet in this book we see how reality is viewed from many different perspectives. By setting the book in the twentieth century, but calling on Arthurian legend there are many interesting contrasts before the ultimate reality can be discovered. The bibliography uses quotes from the book to emphasis the points raised. The bibliography cites 2 sources.
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Reality in Literature
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This 12 page paper summarizes the plots lines of four different stories and shows how they are reflections of perceptions of reality. The stories considered are Mrs Dallaway by Virginia Wolf, Nightwood by Djuna Barnes, Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett and Jazz by Toni Morrison. The bibliography sites 4 sources.
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Reality in The Great Gatsby
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There is no doubt about the fact that The Great Gatsby can be considered to be literary realism. Author William Dean Howells, in his book "Criticism and Fiction" (1891) wrote "Let it portray men and women as they are, actuated by the motives and passions in the measure we all know; let it speak the dialect, the language, that most Americans know the language of unaffected people everywhere". This paper explains how The Great Gatsby does just that. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Realization of Two Women Characters in Mrs. Dalloway
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This 7 page paper discusses the realization of the characters Clarissa Dalloway and Lucrezia Smith, wife of Septimus Warren Smith, in the novel "Mrs. Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Reason & Passion in Wuthering Heights
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A 4 page essay/research paper on Emily Bronte's classic novel. The writer argues that despite a hundred plus years of study and criticism, this elusive narrative still defies close analysis, as there are so many details that simply do not "fit" in what most people take to be a tale of thwarted romance. For two people who supposedly love each other passionately, Catherine and Heathcliff treat each other abominably throughout their relationship. An examination of Bronte portrays it is a mental connection, rather than a physical attraction, that provides the passion of their relationship. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Reason Versus Passion: Comparing Three Stories
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6 pages in length. Reason and passion are two significant components within the literary world; however, it is not often that the two intersect amidst a singular work. When examining three diverse compositions – such as Matsuo Basho's Narrow Road to the Interior, Moliere's Tartuffe and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz's Reply to Sor Filotea de la Cruz – the student will gain a much better understanding of just how the elements of reason and passion can establish their own particular literary essence. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Reason vs. Desire/Examples from Literature
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A 5 page research paper in which the writer examines four texts in order to determine the way that the conflict between desire and reason has been handled by authors across the centuries. The texts are Swift's "Gulliver's Travels," Chaucer's "The Pardoner's Tale," Aristophanes's "The Frogs," and Sir Thomas More's "Utopia." No additional sources cited.
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Reason vs. Emotion in Dickens and Austen
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This 4 page paper examines “Hard Times” by Charles Dickens and “Sense and Sensibility” by Jane Austen and argues that it’s better to be emotional than to be dedicated solely to reason. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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REASONING FALLACY IN A ROSE FOR EMILY BY FAULKNER
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This 4 page paper discusses the type of reasoning fallacy that the character of Emily in William Faulkner's short story, A Rose for Emily, employs. Examples given. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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