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"Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress", 2007.
An analysis of Dai Sijie's novel "Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress".
4,209 words (approx. 16.8 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 112.95
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The paper discusses "Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress", the story of two friends and the love that they find amidst the cruelties and harshness of the mountain that they are exiled to for being educated until high school. The paper demonstrates how the events that shape the plot actually reflect the events of China's Cultural Revolution. The paper describes the novel as a poignant, emotional story about relationships, the power of literature, love, and the need for spiritual uplifting despite the lack of all basic necessities.
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"The history of China has always been an interesting setting for wonderful and thrilling novels. The past of this mystifying country is cloaked in mystery and endless magic that it is almost impossible to not be entranced by the suffering and sacrifice that was brought about by this colorful but bygone era. Laced with a little bit of pain and distress as well as some victories and triumphs, one the oldest civilization in the world has managed to pass on to its offspring a multitude of rich ancestral culture and history. Aside from the adventures of people that existed in the time of kingdoms and dynasties, the experiences and wisdom gained by the population during the controversial Cultural Revolution become the subject of a whole lot graceful, beautifully written novels."
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?Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress?, 2002.
This paper reviews an unusual novel written in French by Dai Sijie, "Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress". He describes it as a playful, fable-like fairytale about life in Communist China.
1,365 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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This paper explains that Communist China is not at all a bad place to set a fairytale because there are several important elements to a good fairytale, including he ?once upon a time? element, the involvement of royalty, good and evil characters, magic, a problem, a happy ending, and the heroes and heroines are almost always living under adverse conditions. The author points out that the story revolves around two thoroughly modern, young bourgeois men placed in a re-education camp in Communist China. The paper concludes that one of the reasons that the novel works is that the world of the Communist China is shrouded in mystery to many of us in the Western world just as ?the beautiful palace that has been cut off from the world for a thousand years? terrifies us.
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"Another important element of the story, with regards to the setting, is magic in relationship to Communist China and the re-education camps. China is almost like the Arthurian Europe so many of Western fairytales. It is a place where palaces are still built, people labor in the fields. It seems to be unmoved and unchanged, from the perspective of outsiders. It is a place stuck in time, much like the settings of many fairytales. Case in point, Sleeping Beauty, the princess is asleep for one hundred years and the world around her has barely changed at all; only the characters change. Fairytales are set in places where time does not seem to matter. Communist China is one of those places. The bonus, of course, is that dragons, an important element to many fairytales, is still alive and well in China. Much of the magic that lives in the world of fairytales, lands that exist outside of time, has some how disappeared from the land where time seems to go by so fast. So in a place like Communist China, in a location like a re-education camp, magic is still alive and well."
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Urban vs. Rural Characters in Balzac's "Lost Illusions", 2000.
This paper studies the contrast between the Parisian and the provincial characters in Honoree de Balzac's novel "Lost Illusions".
1,276 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 43.95
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This paper focuses on Balzac's depiction of urban vs. rural characters in "Lost Illusions". The writer cites examples from the text to support the argument that Balzac believes that Paris is a corrupting influence on the way of life in the rural French provinces. The paper also examines the novel's main characters in order to support this argument.
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"The problem begins with the provincial characters? fascination with Paris. There is within the provinces a certain inferiority complex that leads its citizens to believe that everything in Paris is somehow better than anything in the provinces. In every realm of life provincials try to emulate their Parisian cousins. Thus, it is in an effort to duplicate Parisian society?s elitism with regard to persons from rural areas that Angouleme?s ?society? looks down on citizens from the lower-class town of L?Houmeau. When Lucien says that he has been invited to Madame de Bargeton?s salon, David responds in surprise, ?But there?s a wider gulf of prejudice between you and her than if she were in Pekin and you in Greenland!? Because they fully believe in the superiority of Paris to their own home, the provincials mimic the urban culture, oftentimes resulting in the degradation of their ethics."
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Balzac's Views on Family, 2005.
Describes Honore de Balzac's views on the family and how he expressed these views in his work.
2,176 words (approx. 8.7 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 67.95
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This paper looks at how Balzac used his works to express his views regarding French social life, particularly in relation to families. The paper examines "Cousin Bette", "Father Goriat", and "Lost Illusions". By using these sources, the paper demonstrates Balzac's belief that modern society, with its greed, corruption, and temptation, threatened the basic family structure, making families into monetary units of far less importance than they had been in previous days.
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"In Cousin Bette (Balzac, 1991), the main character, Lisbeth "Bette" Fischer, is a homely, middle-aged spinster who has lived her whole life in envy of her pretty cousin Adeline, who is married to Baron Hector Hulot DErvy, a prestigious military and government official who does not make a lot of money and is a complete womanizer. Hector has a slew of mistresses, despite his wife?s loyalty and devotion to him. Their daughter, Hortense, develops a crush on Bette?s "boyfriend," Wenceslas Steinbock, a young Polish sculptor, and marries him, convinced that his dreams of becoming a rich artist will someday come true. Bette, still wounded by her years as the homely cousin, decides that the Hulot family has upstaged her too many times and concocts an elaborate revenge scheme."
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'Zola and Balzac', 2005.
A look at how the novels of Balzac and Zola portray the experience of Parisian.
1,610 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 55.95
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This paper examines how the novels of Balzac and Zola portray the experience of Parisian life, by showing how the central characters' relationship to the city suggest broader social meanings.
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"To compare the Paris portrayed in Balzac's Old Goriot with the one portrayed in Zola's L'Assommoir is to engage in a multi generational project. Zola's text appeared roughly a generation after Balzac's death and nearly two generations after the earlier..."
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"The Seamstress: A Memoir of Survival", 2002.
Review of the holocaust survival story "The Seamstress: A Memoir of Survival" published posthumously by the author's daughter.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 1 source, $ 53.95
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Sara Tuvel Bernstein's memoir, "The Seamstress: A Memoir of Survival", is one of the most memorable of first-person accounts of survival during the Holocaust. The book is well-told by the late Bernstein and deserves a prominent place in the archive of Holocaust survival stories. In 1944, she was transported with her sister and two friends to the Ravensbruck concentration camp. In a moving afterward, Seren's daughter describes her mother's strong personality. Published posthumously, Bernstein's work evolved literally thread by thread as she worked in her sewing room, methodically recording her tale of survival during the Holocaust.
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Austen and Balzac, 2002.
A comaprison between the literature of Jane Austen and that of Honore de Belzac.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper analyzes why Jane Austen concentrates so much on dialogue and personal interaction in "Pride And Prejudice" whereas Honore de Balzac in "Pere Goriot" focuses on social description.
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Pere Goriot ( Honore De Balzac ), 1997.
Examines plot, characters & themes of novel critiquing French social class conflict.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, $ 39.95
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" In Balzac's P?re Goriot, the glittering world of the wealthiest Parisians is sharply contrasted with the poverty of those who live at the Maison Vauquer. But this is not a contrast between two unconnected phenomena. Between this house and the most fashionable quarter of Paris, the Faubourg Saint-Germain, stretches a range of invisible but clearly understood steps. The two locations are the opposite ends of the phenomenon known as Parisian society. In P?re Goriot, Balzac exposes the connections between them and the struggles of his characters to gain or retain positions on the rungs of the social ladder.
Of course, thousands of people in Paris were poorer than Madame Vauquer's lodgers. But her house represents the lowest point on the economic scale for those who had, or hope to have..."
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"Eugenie Grandet", 2008.
A review of the novel "Eugenie Grandet" by Honore de Balzac.
1,232 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 41.95
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This paper discusses how in "Eugenie Grandet", Balzac demonstrates an extensive knowledge of social and historical trends as well as a genius for metaphor, imagery, and insights into human nature. It examines how Balzac depicts provincial life in France as backward and out of touch with urban trends while Paris is portrayed as an advanced commercial society and how this historical pattern represents much more than mere contrast between urban and rural, and becomes a symbol for the context in which Eugenie is situated.
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"The person who exhibits the courage and stamina to oppose Grandet is his daughter Eugenie. In order to portray this opposition, Balzac used the analogy he introduced at the beginning of the house in ruins and desolation. The impetus for Eugenie's emotional awakening is her cousin Charles, and the symbol used is the Garden. First of all, Eugenie is initially portrayed as docile and as corresponding to the most traditional social expectations. A painter of the period would have observed in Eugenie "a typical example of Mary's celestial purity in this world, who expects all women to have those modestly proud eyes perceived by Raphael" (Balzac 57). "
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Illusions, 2002.
This paper discusses the theme of illusions in two texts, "Jude the Obscure" by Thomas Hardy and "Lost Illusions" by Honore de Balzac.
1,790 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 57.95
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This paper introduces, discusses, and analyzes "Jude the Obscure," by Thomas Hardy and "Lost Illusions," by Honore de Balzac. Specifically, it compares the theme of illusions in these two texts, citing textual evidence. The author discusses how the two protagonists, Jude and Lucien, are spurned into action because of their illusions; however, along their journeys of becoming a poet and a scholar, Lucien loses his illusions, whereas Jude does not. The writer concludes that although there is nothing wrong with illusions, the works both seem to say that when you use them to dominate and rule your life, you will ultimately fail.
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"Poor Jude, he is a tragic victim of his illusions from the first page of "Jude the Obscure" until the last. Everything he has sought in his life has been nothing but an illusion. From the moment his teacher leaves Marygreen and tells him about the university in Christminster, Jude is doomed. He longs to study at the university, and this is his first illusion, that Christminster is the wonderland where his future will become complete. His aunt adds to the already growing illusion, by telling him he should have gone with the schoolmaster, and education runs in the family."
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Realism, Romanticism, and Naturalism, 2006.
A comparison and analysis of the works of Honore de Balzac, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Gustav Flaubert and how they reflected the literary movements of Realism, Romanticism, and Naturalism.
935 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 33.95
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This paper summarizes, compares and analyzes works by Honore de Balzac, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Gustav Flaubert. The paper explains that all three authors wished to encourage their readers to live their lives more fully and in a more heightened fashion, by becoming more conscious of the details of the world around them, but that each author had his own unique approach to doing this. The paper illustrates their different approaches through analysis of a work from each of the authors.
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"To teach the reader to be a more critical reader of society, throughout Balzac's story, to underline the realistic nature of the tale, Balzac functions as an authoritative commentator on the society and behavior of the world he creates for the reader: "I forgave her stifled laugh." (Balzac 4) Even a reader unfamiliar with the society of Balzac's Paris can appreciate the spectacle of pampered daughters kept by an ugly and social-climbing man, daughters whose manners are taught and forced, rather than natural, although at times Balzac's presence as a narrator can feel oppressive, rather than merely instructive."
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"Le Pere Goriot", 2002.
An analysis of the link between love and money in Balzac's "Le Pere Goriot".
2,227 words (approx. 8.9 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 69.95
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This paper examines how "Le Pere Goriot",set in Paris in 1819, is often lauded for its frank portrayal of the stark realities of contemporary French society. It looks at how it paints a dark portrait of a society preoccupied by wealth and social standing, with little care for love and selflessness. It discusses how Balzac appears highly cynical in his conception of love, suggesting that love is often offered at great financial expense, sometimes as a mere token of gratitude and that true love is an all too rare phenomenon. In particular, it examines how the different relationships within the novel symbolise the themes of love and money.
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"Aside from parental love, one must also consider love in terms of passion and desire, and it is Vautrin?s plot to enable Rastignac to profit from Victorine?s new found wealth that perhaps best shows the characters? love and desire for money, and how they are willing to use pretensions of love in order to gain wealth. Vautrin convinces Rastignac that should he marry Victorine and her brother be murdered, he would find himself the potential recipient of a huge dowry and inheritance: ?Une jeune femme ne refuse pas sa bourse ? celui qui lui prend le coeur?(p.146). Yet, what is perhaps most interesting is to observe that it is not just a criminal such as Vautrin who expresses these sentiments."
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The Museum of Modern Art - An Analysis of Works, 2002.
Several works from The Museum of Modern Art, New York, are described, analyzed, compared and contrasted.
2,787 words (approx. 11.1 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 83.95
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This is a comparison/contrast essay discussing several works from the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Two representational works are analyzed - Gustav Klimt?s "Hope II" and Pablo Picasso?s "Girl Before a Mirror". Two abstract works compared and contrasted are Jackson Pollock?s "Full Fathom Five" and Mondrain?s "Broadway Boogie-Woogie". Finally, two sculptural works are compared and contrasted - Rodin?s "Monument to Balzac" and Boccioni?s "Unique Forms of Continuity in Space". A thorough discussion of applicable artistic elements is offered in the paper.
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"In observation of Picasso?s Girl Before a Mirror (Marie-Th?r?se Walter) one is struck by an obvious statement being made. The theme of his painting is reflection and seeing beyond what is on the surface. The lines of the bodies are flowing and erotic. The background is geometric and regular except for the startling bright colors. The woman is defined by her sexual components which are exaggerated in bulbous breasts and enlarged wombs. The style is cubism expanded with elements of surrealism infused with color that seems meant to surprise and shock. The use of the reflected image encourages thoughts of how form can change and calls forth questions regarding what constitutes beauty. Depicting female form constructed from circles and lines is in accord with the aims of analytic cubism which stressed the breaking down and analysis of form. The overall effect is more sensual than serious. Questions of inner beauty versus outer beauty may be suggested. The curving lines, bright colors, and rounded erotic shapes suggest harmony and pleasure, reflecting Picasso's delight with his newest love, Marie Th?r?se Walter."
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