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Short Stories by Alice Munro, 2004.
This paper analyzes "Short Stories" by Alice Munro and discusses how the author portrays parenting in some of the stories.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 23.95
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The paper discusses how in stories such as "Ounce of Cure," "Wild Swans," "Prue" and "Miles City, Montana" as well as in longer works such as "Lives of Girls and Women," Alice Munro presents a picture of parenting. The paper explains the author's suggestion that while the adults in a family believe that they are setting the course for their children and molding the lives of the next generation, those children are at the same time fundamentally affecting the parents as well, writing the stories of their parents' lives.
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"For Alice Munro, one of the central questions that she feels compelled to address as a writer is the ways in which children and parents come to define each other."
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Change and Age in Alice Munro, 2004.
An examination of notions of age, class and gender in the short fiction of Alice Munro.
1,997 words (approx. 8.0 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 63.95
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This paper looks at two selections of short fiction by Alice Munro - namely "Chaddelys and Flemmings" and "Hold Me Fast, Don't Let Me Pass" and examines how the author perceives the evolution of age, class and gender from a feminine perspective. Particular attention is paid to how the women in these stories ultimately break free from social notions of vanity and thereby reconnect with and reconcile aspects of their respective pasts.
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"In ?Hold Me Fast, Don?t Let Me Pass,? Hazel, a widow, is confronted with the task of trying to reconstruct a portion of her dead husband?s life while serving time overseas during World War II. As Peggy Martin points out, ?No one in Scotland remembers Jack, and Hazel?s struggle to construct his story challenges seemingly unchangeable connections among materiality, morality, and femininity? (Peggy Martin 87). At the Royal Hotel she occupies during her time in Scotland, Hazel is immediately acquainted with her Antoinette, the once young woman Jack used to meet outside the hotel during his time in Scotland. She sees in Antoinette?s obsession with preservation of her physical attributes a pathetic attempt to avoid social oblivion."
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Alice Munro, 2007.
An analysis of the impact that growing up in small town had on Alice Munro's stories.
716 words (approx. 2.9 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 25.95
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This paper examines how growing up in a small town influenced Alice Munro's stories in many important ways. It looks at how at times it disempowers her characters, at other times it motivates them so much that the town itself becomes a major factor in driving the plot. It also discusses how on a more complex level, the setting impacts the story in the sense of being a foil against which Munro can juxtapose the more bizarre elements of her stories, as her characters reflect their author's alienation from their prosaic settings.
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"For example, Fowler points out that in Lives of Girls and Women, Del escapes the prosaic reality of the small town Jubilee in which she lives, by inventing a world based on the novels she reads, and keeps her fragmentary novel inside a copy of Wuthering Heights. We see Del facing challenges that must surely have beset Munro, such as trying to decide how her heroine can drown at the height of summer, when of course there will not be enough water in the river. Thus, the impact of the small town setting is to set up imaginative challenges for the protagonist. "
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Alice Munro, 2002.
A brief discussion of the Canadian author Alice Munro and some of her short stories.
1,091 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 7 sources, $ 38.95
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This paper discusses specifically how Munro portrays women and men and their contrasting features in her work. It also discusses her popular short stories like "Wild Swans", "Open Secrets" etc. This paper also shows how, through her unique techniques as a writer, Munro captures the attention of her audience and provokes great thought.
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"Alice Munro in her stories show the aspects of love and loss, the ambiguities of memory, the unintended consequences of change, the conflict between sexes, generations and classes. She endows these time-honored themes with so rich a resonance, so burnished a patina, that the stories are genuinely enduring (Cryer, 1996). She examines women, especially the roadblocks thrown in their way, with unusual sensitivity."
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Alice Munro's "Wild Swans", 2002.
This paper describes "Wild Swans" as a story about the sexual violence that is perpetuated against women that passes so subtly in our society.
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 1 source, $ 71.95
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This paper reports that Rose is sitting on a train ride during which a self-described minister gropes her throughout the ride. She cannot take a stand against him, because she knows that the abuse is hidden and that her outcry will be deafened by an indifferent society.
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"Alice in Wonderland" and "The Color Purple", 2002.
This paper deals with the notion of fantasy in Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland "and Alice Walker's "The Color Purple".
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 53.95
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This paper discusses that there is a strong theme suggesting that fantasy is used as an escapism from the impossibility of personal change. The author points out that, in the end, a liberation is gained through fantasy.
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Lewis Carroll?s "Alice in Wonderland", 2005.
This paper analyzes Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland", which explores the nature of reality using logic, philosophy and mathematics.
2,330 words (approx. 9.3 pages), 11 sources, MLA, $ 71.95
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This paper relates that Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" is the quintessential portmanteau allegory with themes ranging from evolution, growing up in an adult world, class structure in Victorian society, meaning and manners and human sexuality; however, the glue that holds these themes together is the plasticity of reality and the subjectivity of meaning. The author points out that in "Alice in Wonderland", the device of the rabbit hole, which establishes the entire underground setting of the book, replicates the cave in the "Allegory of the Cave" from Plato's "Republic" because control, enlightenment and freedom are all prominent in both allegories. The paper explains that many of the bizarre images in Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" are actually literal--or actually figurative since they involve figures--expressions of figurative expressions, which are actually literal because they involve letters and words. Long quotations.
Table of Contents
Alice in PlatoLand: The Allegory of Wonder
The Cave
Properties of the Forms
Forms in "Alice in Wonderland"
Factor of the Mathematical Pun on 'Remain'
From the Paper
"An allegory employs a literal story to convey a figurative meaning. Through allegory, a more complex subject or idea is described in terms of that of a lower which is made out to resemble it in properties and circumstances, the principal subject remains obscure leaving the reader to make the connection between the secondary and the primary subjects. The subject of both Plato and Carroll's allegories is appearance and reality---or the good or the true."
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Authority Figures in "Alice in Wonderland", 2001.
This paper examines the significance of authority figures and the hierarchy of authority in "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll.
1,700 words (approx. 6.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 55.95
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In Lewis Carroll?s novel, "Alice?s Adventures in Wonderland", Carroll creates a satirical impression of human authority. This paper explains how he portrays seemingly powerful characters such as the King and Queen of Hearts as shallow, idiotic, and farcical, while characters such as Alice and the Cheshire-Cat are depicted as knowledgeable, witty characters who possess the real authority in Wonderland. Carroll, through exaggeration, displays the King and Queen of Hearts as somewhat of a parallel to the top of the hierarchy of authority in the real world. The paper looks at how these characters are presented to the reader as abusing power they don?t really possess. It explains how, in the end, Alice, with the help of the Cheshire-Cat, develops as the true figure of authority in Wonderland and symbolizes young children everywhere, showing them that they too can make a difference in the world.
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"Lewis Carroll develops Alice as a prominent authority figure throughout her tenure in Wonderland. Alice?s authority increases in her own mind as she realizes how farcical and illogical the important figures in Wonderland really are. This is quite evident at the mad tea party when Alice is arriving and the Mad Hatter and March Hare claim there is no room but
Alice indignantly says, ?there?s plenty of room!,?(Carroll, 60) and sits down in a large armchair
at the head of the table. Alice, here, is showing the characters of Wonderland that they do not intimidate her and she is trying to enforce her own sense of authority over these idiotic beings. The Hatter and the March Hare try to belittle Alice with their remarks but Alice replies to their snide remarks with polite, intelligent responses. This can be manifested when the Hatter and the Hare are rudely commenting on how Alice could use a hair cut and Alice replies, ?you should learn not to make personal remarks . . . it?s very rude.?(Carroll, 60). Although the Hatter and the Hare don?t realize it, Alice is establishing herself as a teacher, or leader, that provides a helpful example to children readers with respect to manners and temperament. The idea of Alice?s authority in Wonderland is further developed to the point where she can be recognized as the supreme authority figure in Wonderland near the end of the story at the trial regarding the stolen tarts. Alice, at this point, has grown back to her normal size and has no respect for, or fear of the Queen or King of Hearts any longer."
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?Alice in Wonderland?, 2003.
Compares Lewis Carroll's "Alice" books to Walt Disney's cartoon adaption.
1,808 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 9 sources, APA, $ 58.95
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This essay examines Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" series ("Alice?s Adventures in Wonderland", "Through the Looking-Glass" and "What Alice Found There") and then compares it to the Walt Disney cartoon adaptation. The paper focuses on the differences between the two, such as the added morals to the Disney story and looks at the genre and medium of the two.
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"The only characters that seemed to have been made visibly nastier by Disney are the flowers that attack Alice both verbally and physically for being different. First the flowers accept her for thinking she is a strange flower, just like in the book, but when they discover she is not a flower they shoo her away and want nothing to do with her (unlike the book where they do not seem to realise that Alice is really a little girl). Alice is quite indignant about this and it is one of the nastier, or maybe even the nastiest scene in the Disney film."
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Alice Walker & Ralph Ellison, 2006.
A review, discussion and analysis of the lives of two African-American writers, Alice Walker and Ralph Ellison.
3,565 words (approx. 14.3 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 99.95
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This paper reviews and discusses the literary forces that influenced the lives and work of two African-American writers, Alice Walker and Ralph Ellison. The paper further compares the similarities and differences between the work of these two authors.
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Introduction
Alice Walker, During & Post Civil Rights
Alice Walker's Literary Influences
Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
Pre-Civil Rights; Ralph Ellison's Literary Influences
Conclusion
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"The mutual appreciation and love between the two was made permanent when Walker wrote Langston Hughes: American Poet, and explained in the "Author's Note" that in Hughes' books, she "encountered a spirit very like my own: a spirit that loves people, enjoys variety, hungers for diversity and change." She liked his poetry, she wrote in "Author's Note," but "even more compelling for me was his autobiographical writing, especially The Big Sea and I Wonder as I Wander" (Walker 36). The literary world is full of writers who "are reluctant to write about how hard it can sometimes be to understand parents and society and the way the world is organized," Walker explained, "but not Langston." And moreover, because Hughes wrote "so honestly about his struggles with his parents, and the often-puzzling cruelties of other human beings," Walker continued in her "Author's Note," she believed she could "trust him as a writer who still remembered the world of childhood."
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James Kincaid's "Alice's Invasion of Wonderland", 2004.
Review of James Kincaid's article on Louis Carroll's children's classic, "Alice in Wonderland".
1,961 words (approx. 7.8 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 62.95
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This paper describes Kincaid's more cynical view of "Alice in Wonderland" in which he talks about the subversive and brutal elements of the classic story. The paper also compares Kincaid's reading of "Alice in Wonderland" to more traditional readings of the story.
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"Yet another traditional reading which Kincaid references is that which says Alice is ?the reader's surrogate on a frightful journey into meaningless night [where] practically all pattern, save the consistency of chaos, is annihilated." (92) Kincaid says that in this reading, Alice learns to reject chaos and the darkness of unlimited imagination and return to the ?sane madness of ordinary existence.? (92) This is the sort of reading which might suggest the story to be not only about children learning to navigate a foreign and nonsensical adult world, but also about the way in which children filter out the nonsense of their own fantasy lives and learn how to grow up and
chooses to reject chaos and also imagination and take part in the ?ordinary existence? of adult life. These first two readings can be reconciled by saying that Wonderland represents the fantasy of a very young child?s nonsensical imagination transposed over a sort of archetypal structure that is adult life (hence making adults seem absurd) -- and that what Alice is doing is rejecting the fantasy aspects while learning to make sense of the reality-based adult aspects."
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Alice Walker and Oppression, 2005.
An examination of how Alice Walker explores the oppression of black women in her works.
1,205 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 41.95
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Alice Walker unfolds the oppression of the black woman in her literature, perceptibly illuminating the roles they have been given to fill but to which they do not belong. This paper examines how through her characters, Alice Walker embodies the struggle of a double minority and leads them to find what so many black women have struggled and searched for a sense of identity separate and individual from what has been pressed upon them. The paper looks at works such "The Color Purple" and "The Third Life of Grange Copeland", among others.
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"Celie, from The Color Purple, is an excellent example of a woman that frees herself from an oppressor and with enormous courage discovers her own individuality. Celie is locked in a brutal relationship, barely surviving in a hollow existence where no love exists. She is a wife/slave to the nameless Mr. He controls her life with an iron fist until she finds solace and strength in another woman's arms. Shug, the other woman, helps her find her powerful voice hiding within. For the first time she is able to denounce Mr. and every evil thing he had done to her. She left brutality behind to move on and find her own place within this world."
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"Alice?s Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll, 2002.
This paper discusses Lewis Carroll?s "Alice?s Adventures in Wonderland" as a story that is not only nonsensical but also logical.
1,865 words (approx. 7.5 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 59.95
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The paper discusses that the reader may discover insights about himself and the world amidst the gobbledygook of ?Alice?s Adventures in Wonderland?. The author believes that Carroll uses language, such as puns and linguistic play, as a tool with which he introduced the reader to ideas often times overshadowed by nonsense. The paper explains that nonsensical events such as the Mad Hatter?s tea party and the Knave?s trial, have a deeper meaning in "Alice?s Adventures in Wonderland".
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"Through the character of Alice, Carroll provides readers with knowledge of Victorian people, as well as our personal struggles to mature and find our true identities. Amidst the madness in Wonderland, Alice remains her rational self, concerned with reciting her lessons so that others will appreciate her being well educated. However, what she recites is ??not quite right . . . [because] some of the words have got altered?? (Carroll 49). Alice?s fretting over saying her lessons correctly is Carroll?s way of satirizing Victorian education. One critic points out that Alice?s swimming in the pool of tears she has wept is ? . . . [Carroll?s] making an astute observation on Victorian education, notably that the acquisition of knowledge and guilt over assumed transgression often accompany each other . . .? ."
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"Alice in Wonderland" and "The Tempest", 2002.
This paper compares Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" and William Shakespeare's "The Tempest".
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 53.95
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This paper considers the meaning of Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" in light of William Shakespeare's "The Tempest". The author analyzes the characters of Alice and Miranda .
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The Cheshire Cat in "Alice In Wonderland", 2002.
An analysis of the psychological premise of the cheshire cat scene in "Alice In Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper will discuss the book "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll and seek to understand a particular scene in the book in relation to dream psychology. By looking into the psychological value of the scene, as Carroll has created, we can understand the how the world of Alice, is quite different from that we ourselves live in, it is in essence, a world of psychology to be studied.
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