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This paper explores two rather unusual grief poems. The elegies are unusual in their mood (they are somewhat upbeat as opposed to the more subdued style usually found in such poems). The paper also shows how the elegies border on Romanticism and may be seen as very much tongue-in-cheek.

From the Paper
"Oliver Goldsmith is an Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist. He was born on November 10th, 1730, in Pallas, Ireland, the son of an Anglican curate. He received a general education at Trinity College, Dublin, and studied medicine at the universities of Edinburgh and Leiden. He subsequently wandered through Europe, supporting himself by playing the flute and by begging. Later, in England, he practiced medicine, taught, and eventually worked for various publishers, producing literary works to order."

Tags:death, elegy, grief, humor, romanticism, ireland, the, club, fiction, neo-classicism

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This paper compares and contrasts George Farquhar's 'The Beaux Stratagem' and Oliver Goldsmith's 'She Stoops to Conquer'. After providing the reader with adequate data, the author takes a position in conclusion.

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This paper shows that Oliver Goldsmith was concerned about the effects of the agricultural revolution then in progress, which were being hastened, by "Enclosure Acts or Laws."

Tags:goldsmith, deserted, village

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The paper relates that Oliver Goldsmith's play, "She Stoops to Conquer" was a directed by Max Stafford-Clark at the acclaimed National Theatre in Bath and on tour with the troupe. The paper examines how Stafford-Clark highlights the dysfunction of a "restoration" family, the Hardcastle's, while allowing the characters to be warm and witty. The paper shows how Stafford-Clark successfully leads the actors and the rest of the team to realize the artistic vision that Goldsmith intended with an integrated collaboration of design and acting. The paper asserts that Stafford-Clark has been one of the most important forces in British theatre in the last four decades and his contribution to "She Stoops to Conquer" is another example of this encouraging direction ("Professor").

From the Paper
"Oliver Goldsmith's play, "She Stoops to Conquer" was a directed by Max Stafford-Clark at the acclaimed National Theatre in Bath and on tour with the troupe. Stafford-Clark highlights the dysfunction of a "restoration" family, the Hardcastle's, while allowing the characters to be warm and..."

Tags:play, director, critique

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This paper analyzes the pitfalls of industrial reform as presented in two English poems. The first poem, from the English romantic era, is Oliver Goldsmith's "The Deserted Village", which is a reflection on the enclosure acts and agricultural reform of this period. The next poem, from the early Victorian era, is Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "The Cry of the Children", which is a response to child labor in mines and factories. Although these poems are from two radically different times, the paper concludes that both writers convey the same important message about the society in which they were writing: The public is afraid of industrialization and the changes that come with it.

From the Paper
"Barrett Browning's poem was written in another transitional period for both society and the economy. The Victorian Era brought about reforms for voting and marriage, a population surge, as well as an explosion of science and industry as the Industrial Revolution was in full force. Such inventions as the railroad, steam engine, and cotton gin made factory work a necessity. One striking consequence of the need for factory laborers is the topic of "The Cry of the Children;" young children were working in the factories and sacrificing their youth."

Tags:transition, melancholic, inventions, brutal, weeping

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This paper explains that, in Oliver Goldsmiths' "The Vicar of Wakefield'", several encounters with bad judgment, terrible luck and calamity result in the character Primrose finding himself under arrest and imprisoned. The author points out that, although this actual prison experience seems inaccurate along the lines of living conditions and morale of the time the novel is set, the prison sequence is included to show the inherent good in people and for justice to be served. The paper concludes that the prison itself is represented in a preposterous, unrealistic manner but is used to wrap up all the loose ends of the novel and create a fairytale ending.

From the Paper
"The man behind this appalling act is Primrose's landlord, is none other than Thornhill, the same man who has marred the elder Primrose daughter's reputation. Primrose does owe Thornhill money for taxes owed, but it is the resentment towards Primrose's decision to disapprove Thornhill's marriage to another woman that causes Thornhill to abuse his power and send Primrose to jail. Primrose simply will not condone the marriage because in doing that he would be "giving sanction to adultery"(Goldsmith 165) and setting up another innocent girl to be the victim of Thornhill's debauchery."

Tags:characters, morale, good, preposterous, fairytale

From the Paper
"The dichotomy between the real images of the objects of pleasure bringing out an inappropriate reaction is an episode of moral sensibility. The instance is taken deeper as the contrary emotion also brings about a reversal. The melancholy is seen to soothe the heart instead of decaying it. The spiritual sensibility seen in this passage then becomes a force that heals the afflicted. It is just not plot devices that bring about the acts of sensibility. Goldsmith insists on using the thoughts and actions of a man whose attitude is not popular during the period. Often the Vicar expects a moral reaction in an immoral world. The following passage is a perfect example:"This gentleman [the squire] he described as one who desired to know little more of the world than its pleasures there was scarcely a farmer's daughter within ten miles around, but what had found him successful and faithless. Though this account gave me some pain, it had a very different affect on my daughters, whose features seemed to brighten with the expectation of an approaching triumph; nor was my wife less pleased and confident of their allurements and virtue." (p. 34) "

Tags:clinker, humphery, journey, of, sentimental, vicar, wakefield

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This paper critically explores and analyzes the origins, defining features, and practical implications of Oliver Cromwell's vision of the English Republic. The thesis is argued that Cromwell's vision was defined not so much by ideology, belief or philosophy as by a conviction that compromise and moderation were central to the government of England during the particularly divisive seventeenth century. The paper contends that, only through an understanding of Oliver Cromwell's vision of moderation as key to the resolution of civil strife, can we be begin to understand his achievement in navigating the ship of state during this highly disruptive period.

Outline:
Introduction
A House Divided
The Divisive Seventeenth Century
Squaring the Circle: Resolving Cromwell's Contradictory Vision

From the Paper
" Critics argue that it was Cromwell's youth growing up within an England in which the commercial classes and local squires were growing in power that contributed to his vision of an English Republic: "To all this new idea of government by squires and merchants Cromwell was born; in all this he grew up; all this was native to him when he appeared, almost thirty, in the first of the new rebellious Parliaments" (Belloc 13). Indeed, Cromwell's behaviour during the Long Parliament gives us critical insights into how at this early stage in his political career - long before he rose to near absolute power - Oliver Cromwell perceived the English Republic."

Tags:Parliament, Civil, War

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This paper explains that, in the political docudrama "JFK", Oliver Stone asserts that Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone, that the F.B.I. had a vested interest in hiding important information from the public and that the C.I.A. had an active role in the assassination in hopes of fueling the military industrial complex of the United States. The paper further explains that, in the film, Stone attempts to make viewers conscience of the possible tampering of evidence and lack of investigation into the murder of the president. The author stresses that Oliver Stone does not want his viewers to accept all of the events portrayed in the film. Rather, Stone directed this film to act as a "counter-myth" in reaction to the "myth" he believes the Warren Commission Report fed the public. The paper stresses that Stone's accusation that the Archives somehow lost the brain, which it did not, affects the viewer's understanding of what actually happened.

From the Paper
"Perhaps the most shocking claim that Oliver Stone makes in his film in relation to the autopsy is that John F. Kennedy's brain has been lost by the National Archives. This particular claim arose in 1972 when pathologist Cyril Wecht was allowed to examine the Kennedy autopsy records at the National Archives. Wecht tried to open the footlocker where the stainless steel container and microscopic tissue slides were held, only to notice that they were gone. Wecht then blames the Archives for losing an important piece of physical evidence due to negligence and carelessness."

Tags:controversy, brain, counter-myth, warren, facts

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This paper reviews and discusses the idea of death in the classic, 'Oliver Twist', by Charles Dickens. According to the paper, 'Oliver Twist' contains dominant themes of social evils, exploitation of the poor and various characters' deaths, near-deaths or circumstances having to do with death.

From the Paper
"Oliver is (again figuratively) 'scared to death', at that key moment in the novel that that turns out also to define his fate (the extra gruel request scene) when he is selected by the other boys at the workhouse for that most terrifying, unpleasant task. Then, moments after he asks, Oliver becomes equally scared that his still not-quite-to-be-believed question has now caused (so-to-speak) 'all hell to break loose' inside the workhouse, among the comfortably well-off, incredulous, poorhouse administrators. These well-fed individuals in fact cannot fathom, at all, how any boy so "lucky" as to be boarded and fed at their workhouse could possibly be so ungrateful as to request more than his daily starvation-level ration of gruel. "

Tags:orphan, workhouse, criminal, sikes, Limbkins, bumble, gruel, hung, murder, manhunt, hanging