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Arthur Koestler and Naguib Mahfouz, 2006.
Looks at the views of the 20th century through the eyes of authors Arthur Koestler and Naguib Mahfouz.
1,014 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 0 sources, $ 35.95
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In looking back on twentieth century world history, the novels "Darkness at Noon" by Arthur Koestler and "Midaq Alley" by Naguib Mahfouz are magnificent conveyors of the era's distinctive characteristics. The paper shows that there is an inherent similarity between these two stories of dehumanization and dejection, despite the notable difference in the settings. The paper shows that the parallels between the two novels are especially strong in that they both deal with the torment suffered by mankind as a result of war, betrayal and corruption.
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"The frustration depicted in Darkness at Noon can also be felt in Midaq Alley. The piety of Radwan Husseini, whom the inhabitants seek out for spiritual advice and comfort, is the only outlet available to relieve their unrelenting stress and confusion. Despite the fact that Husseini is the alley's most "positive thinking" inhabitant, he too has felt the sting of disappointment and anger over the loss of his children. Yet he has turned his back on bitterness, choosing instead to find faith and solace by continually seeking to uncover the true meaning of life."
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Naguib Mahfouz' "The Time and the Place", 1994.
This paper anlyzes "The Time and the Place", a collection of stories by Egyptian Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz: Themes of conflict between real and ideal and the mystery of life.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, $ 47.95
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"This study will provide a critique of "The Time and the Place", a collection of stories by Egyptian Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz. The critique will focus on an analysis of the main themes of the book, which center around the difference between the hopes and expectations of people, and the way life really is. Almost every story in the book focuses on this difference between the ideal and the real. Several stories have some mystery at their center, and the characters confronting those mysteries are often left puzzled and confused at the end. If there is a single message behind this theme, it is that life remains a mystery when all is said and done.
The book cannot be said to be social or political criticism, for Mahfouz seems to have accepted that life is way beyond the control of social, economic, political, or other governmental ... "
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Naguib Mahfouz's "Midaq Alley", 2002.
An analysis of the novel "Midaq Alley" by Naguib Mahfouz.
805 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 28.95
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This paper examines the novel "Midaq Alley" in light of the social reality that it depicts. The characters, Muslims in Cairo, and what they represent in terms of human needs, social class and economic status, are discussed.
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"The novel Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz is a portrayal of several individuals living within a particular section of Cairo. Almost all of the characters are Muslim. Several are middle class but others, the most striking of the narrative, are quite poor and simply struggle to survive. Through creating such variety of characters from different social stratum, whom all meet in the context of the alley of the title, the author is able to construct a novel that both tells a tale and yet is also revelatory on a social and on a political level. The book has often been called ?important? not just in terms of its humor and striking literary value, but because of the unsentimental social reality it depicts."
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Naguib Mahfouz, 2003.
Analyzes the Egyptian writer.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 7 sources, $ 79.95
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Provides a look at the pioneer of the novel in the Arabic language and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Discusses his body of work, literary devices, and themes related to family, religion, politics, poverty, drugs, and prostitution.
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"Naguib Mahfouz is probably one of the best-known writers and novelists in the Arabic language. As Michelle Hartman (1997) pointed out in her analysis of one of Mahfouz's novels, al-Liss wa'l kilub (The Thief and ..."
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Naguib Mahfouz's "Fountain and Tomb" and Gita Mehta's "A River Sutra", 2002.
A discussion on the concepts of physical and spiritual in relation to these two books.
1,420 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 47.95
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The paper uses the aforementioned books to illustrate the conflict between the physical and the spiritual. It looks at the significance that the two authors attribute to the spiritual world and at the relation of the supernatural sphere to the material world. Examples are taken from the two texts to support the writer?s points. The paper concludes with a comparison of the similarities and differences between the two texts.
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"In the two books ?Fountain and Tomb? and ?A River Sutra?, what strikes us the most is the persistent prevalence of something more sublime and spiritual in nature than the pleasures of this material world. But it is not exactly correct to associate the existence of this particular element to religion or religious beliefs alone, as most of us would be tempted to do in order to simplify the real purpose of the two texts. It is therefore important to bear in mind that while the two books do contain the ?extraordinary? elements of mysticism and differences , they are not exactly connected with one religion or faith. The reason it is critical to understand that the supernatural or spiritual world in both texts is not associated with any particular faith is because even slight misunderstanding can hamstring the real purpose behind the deliberate inclusion of these elements in the texts. The authors in both the cases have tried to separate the physical world from its spiritual counterpart with the latter occupying a more significant place."
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"Darkness at Noon", 2003.
An analysis of "Darkness at Noon" by Arthur Koestler.
1,882 words (approx. 7.5 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 60.95
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This paper discusses and analyzes the book, "Darkness at Noon", by Arthur Koestler. Specifically, it discusses what Koestler's novel illustrates about Soviet society in the 1930s. It explains that Soviet society in the 1930s was made up of fear and oppression, as Koestler's described in the novel.
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"Soviet society in the 1930s was a nightmare, which Rubashov's dreams signify early in the book, "Darkness at Noon." Rubashov has nightmares of being arrested, and this is how people lived under the "hard line" of Stalin and his ruthless ideals. Life in Soviet Russia in the 1930s was also a paradox. Stalin's propaganda wanted the world to believe that everything was wonderful and modern in the Soviet Union, but in fact, the people of Russia still relied on old technology and lived in cities that reflected the past, filled with modern buildings but with unpaved streets and no plumbing in many areas. "Beyond the corner the asphalt surface stopped: they were still in the center of the town; all around them were big modern buildings of nine and ten stories, but the roads were country cart-tracks of frozen mud, with a thin powdering of snow in the tracks" (Koestler 10)."
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Murder and the Power to Play God in Literature, 2006.
Examines this theme in four works by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Truman Capote, Naguib Mahfouz and Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
1,432 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 47.95
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This paper examines four books, namely: "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky, "News of a Kidnapping" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, "The Thief and the Dogs" by Naguib Mahfouz and Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood". The paper discusses the conclusion from all four books that murder is primarily based on man's innate desire to have power over others, or in other words, to "play God".
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"Influenced by the meek, Christian prostitute Sonia, Raskolnikov confronts irrational behavior and ultimately confesses. The antagonist within Crime and Punishment is Porfiry Petrovich, a police investigator, who knows of Raskolnikov's guilt. It is also in Svidrigailov, who commits suicide, that Raskolnikov sees his own potential for total degradation. It takes the whole length of the novel for Raskolnikov to search for the motive of his crime. And it is in murdering the pawnbroker that he has killed essentially the human in himself and truly become, in his mind, "God-like"."
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'Fountain and Tomb", 2003.
Discusses Naguib Mahfouz's book of Egyptian life.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, $ 39.95
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Discusses Naguib Mahfouz's book, which is set in Cairo in the early 20th century. Examines the impact of Western influence from the British Empire, the Muslim order of Sufis, symbols of knowledge, women of the period, and changes in Egypt's complex society.
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"Prepare for a long life of learning. You shall learn step-by-step until you become a civilized human being." (25) So the Father in this story admonishes his son and as the tales are woven we begin to see a portrait of Egyptian life in intimate detail ..."
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"Darkness at Noon", 2002.
A review of ?Darkness at Noon? by Arthur Koestler illustrating the issue of forced confessions.
724 words (approx. 2.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 25.95
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This paper discusses the Soviet phenomenon of forcing prisoners to confess, staging legal trials and finally executing the prisoner, regardless of his confession. Arthur Koestler's book, ?Darkness at Noon? is examined, ilustrating the insights provided by the author, into the logic of forcing confessions. The paper presents the scenario of how the state gains the confessions and uses them to undermine the cause of the dissidents.
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"One aspect of confessions is to implicate a person in a plot against the state. For example, the authorities are able to get a prisoner to use his confession against Rubashov. Ivanov explains to Rubashov, ?I told you. We have proofs. To be more exact: confessions. To be still more exact: the confession of the man who was actually to commit the attempt [to kill No. 1] on your instigation (90).? Later the reader finds out that the confessor is the son of an acquaintance of Rubashov. The confessor has been tortured over time until he will say whatever the authorities want him to say. The goal is to break down one person so they will supply information about another. Elements of truth in the information cause the accused to question there own memory of the setting. These doubts weaken the accused?s own recollection of what really happened."
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"The Beginning and the End", 2001.
An analysis of the book "The Beginning and the End" by Naguib Mahfouz.
1,050 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 0 sources, $ 36.95
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This paper examines Naguib Mahfouz's book "The Beginning and the End" and focuses on how the author has an art of making his characters seem realistic in any setting and location. Even though the story was set in Egypt, the writer claims that the book deals with situations which are applicable to most people.
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"In his novel The Beginning and the End, Naguib Mahfouz presents to us a world in which each character is startlingly familiar, even though the world that his characters inhabit is very different indeed from the reality that most of us live in. But we have all met these people before, all been saddened by women who find their self worth from sexual encounters with men; the person ? here the youngest son ? whose ambition blinds them to anything, even the harm that he (in this case) is doing to others; the person (here the middle son) who takes the reverse and yet in many ways equally psychologically dangerous course of always putting others (especially family) first so that there is nothing left of himself; and finally the lazy but ruthless person (in this novel represented by the oldest son of the family) who is only interested in money and will sacrifice everything to increase his fortune."
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Social Issues in Literature, 2006.
Introduces, discusses and analyzes Naguib Mahfouz's "The Answer is No", Chinua Achebe's "Civil Peace" and Julianne Maveaux's "Popular Culture and the Economics of Alienation".
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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This paper examines three different pieces of written works and gives a short summary and critique of each. The texts chosen are: "The Answer is No" by Naguib Mahfouz; "Civil Peace" by Chinua Achebe and "Popular Culture and the Economics of Alienation" by Julianne Malveaux. The first two are both fiction, short stories. The third text is an essay in a social studies work.
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"At the beginning of this short story by the Egyptian Nobel Prize winning writer we are introduced to a young teacher who hears of the news that her school is getting a new principle. She discovers that the man is someone whom she knew years ago when she was still almost a child. He used to be her math tutor and she respected his and loved him like a second father. She loved to learn and was grateful for his tutorage. She felt safe and comfortable with him. He took advantage of that and raped her. Although the story does not describe the event at..."
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"Midaq Alley", 2004.
Summary and review of Naguib Mahfouz's novel about the fascinating lives of real people living in a slum in Cairo.
1,194 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 40.95
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This paper describes the character of Hamida, the main protagonist in Naguib Mahfouz's novel, "Midaq Alley", and the life she leads in order to escape the poverty from which she comes.
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"Hamida is a very interesting and unique character. Her passion to attempt to escape the dregs of an impoverished lifestyle through the seamy world of prostitution is a behavior which is probably not unlike the actions of scores of young girls in third world countries all over the planet. And on the surface, when a woman tries to escape poverty by turning to street walking, she is really trading one evil for another. But because of her particular Arab cultural and physical environment, Hamida was inclined to do some radical, daring and even dangerous things, all of which helps author Mahfouz weave his web of dramatic and colorful events for her and her interacting characters."
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Myth of King Arthur, 2005.
A brief summary of the myths surrounding King Arthur.
2,547 words (approx. 10.2 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 77.95
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This paper tells the life story and myth of King Arthur. It looks at the period before his birth, the legends of his strength and power, and the impact he had on the region.
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Before King Arthur?s Birth
Aurelius Ambrosius and Uther
Uther, the King
Uther?s Death
Arthur Became the King
The Round Table
The Death of King Arthur
King Arthur?s Childhood
The Sword in the Stone
Rebellion Against King Arthur
King Arthur Is Lied to
Evil Sir Mordred
The Death of King Arthur
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"Aurelius Ambrosius and Uther did not let the murder of their brother, Constans, just passed by without revenge. When the two came to manhood, they started their revenge to Vortigern. They burned Vortigern?s palace. Along with it was Vortigern who was burned to death. The death of Vortigern paved the way for Aurelius to become the king. As the king, Aurelius fought the Saxons to drive them away of Logres. Horsa, one of the leaders of the Saxons, was killed in the battle while Hengist was captured and executed. Aurelius also fought with Octa, the son of Hengist, which led to Octa?s defeat. Aurelius? kingship brought about the re-establishment of Logres. He was soon poisoned by Paschent, Vortigern?s son. Aurelius was buried in a Stonehenge, a large circle which was built out of Merlin?s advice."
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Moral Conflict in Literature, 2006.
A discussion of the issue of moral conflict in Naguib Mahfouz's "Journey of Ibn Fattouma", "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe and Gao Xinjian's "Return to Painting".
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This paper explores the stories of three main characters in different books, namely Naguib's Ibn Fattouma, Achebe's Okonkwo and Xinjian autobiography. The author examines how the characters are faced with a conflict, whether to assimilate and accept the new culture enforced upon them or to oppose and reject it.
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"Gao Xinjian, author of Return to Painting took a unique approach to his cultural tension in that he utilized Buddhist principles intertwined with Western ideals in his writing and painting. Born in 1940, Xinjian grew up in Beijing, which at that time was under Maoist rule. During this time, political tension hindered the artist's freedom of expression, in fear of public humiliation and in some cases death. (People against the revolution were commonly denounced in a public setting until words of appeasement had been reached) Artists were being used to create propaganda, and Xinjian thought this demeaned the essence of art itself. Xinjian believed that art was solely aesthetic, a result of a painter letting go of emotional impulses, developing the piece until it fulfilled the desire to create. He believed that art was for expressions that words could not reveal, and with this mentality, created art that was disfavored by the new Chinese standards."
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King Arthur and the Round Table, 2002.
A paper which traces the history of written texts relating to King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.
850 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 30.95
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The paper shows that if there was an historical King Arthur he would have existed centuries before the era of knighthood, probably sometime in the sixth century. It discusses how the historical reality of Arthur is much in doubt and remains a controversy, though Arthur has his champions who believe the stories of his reign began with a real personage and then were turned into myth and legend by various writers, each treating Arthur differently. The author traces the history of the stories relating to Arthur, and analyzes some of these works such as Sir Thomas Malory's "Le Morte D'Arthur" and "The History of the Kings of Britain" by Welsh monk Geoffrey of Monmouth in 1135.
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" Many of the elements that would be part of the later tradition were missing, however. Arthur's court is not at Camelot but at a place called Caerlon-on-Usk, or City of Legions. Geoffrey contributed at least three new elements to the existing histories of Arthur--he supplied Arthur with a family tree, told of Arthur's association with Merlin, and described his burial at Avalon. Later chroniclers would use Geoffrey's account as a source and would develop more complex stories establishing Arthur as a king in the popular imagination."
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