He also joined the Communist Party, but his interest in the works of Marx and Engels was rather shallow. He would mix with more significant writers like André Malraux and André Gide. Camus suffered from tuberculosis all his life. In 1923 Camus won a scholarship to the lycée in Algiers, where he studied from 1924 to 1932. He later received a diploma in Philosophy from the University of Algiers.
“She observed in later years that girls and boys in her youth were not treated equally and that daughters were wholly neglected in point of Literature” (Baym). John was the son of a farmer from Braintree, now Quincy, Massachusetts. Unlike Abigail, he was well educated. John graduated from Harvard, and “taught until the relationship between teacher and preacher became too uncomfortable” (Baym). Law became his new study of interest, and John was admitted to the Boston bar in 1758.
The significance of authorial interjection line 59 – 78 in the Millers prologue In the Millers prologue the author plays mainly a narrative role until line 59 where the author, Geoffrey Chaucer, enters the text as himself in authorial interjection. His tone is apologetic (even embarrassed of the tale he is about to ‘re-tell’) yet detached . He seems to be ‘talking’ to a large, varying audience or group of readers. In a world or time where most writers and authors were anonymous the above interjection and way in which he partakes in the text was rather unique and could be seen as a completely new way in which a author interact with the story and audience. Chaucer is both apologizing and excusing himself in the excerpt (line 59-78) from what he is about to recount, this could be seen as a way to draw the reader forward to discover exactly what could make the tale into one of ‘ribaldry’ (crude stories) and that which should be taken as ‘game’ (humorous), or a manner of protecting himself from his readers that might indeed look down upon him for such crude stories.
Othello is the story of a Moorish general of Venice, whose life is torn apart through deceit and his own faults and insecurities, leading to tragedy. The presence of the devil is quite clear in Dr. Faustus; Faustus makes a deal with Lucifer, and has Mephostophilis, another devil, as his servant. However the presence is not quite as striking in Othello. However what I intend to look at is the possibility of Iago being a representation of the devil throughout the play. To do this I will look at the language of the play, looking at references to the devil and what they can show us.
Kosinski greets America in 1957. He then married an American heiress a few years before he became known for his best selling piece of American literature The Painted Bird. There is not a lot documented on the youth of Kosinski due to the fact that he did a lot of changing addresses and name changing. What is portrayed about his childhood comes through The Painted Bird, the protagonist in the novel is assumed to be Kosinski, an assumption that he did not clarify due to the fact that there Galloway 2 was no dialogue in the entire novel. If indeed Kosinski is the protagonists in the novel it is almost clear as to why he views life the way he does.
Compare and contrast the ways in which Miller in Death of a Salesman, Page 104 from ‘And I never got anywhere’ until the end, and Tony Harrison in Bookends, explore what is meant by alienation and ‘success’. In this essay I am going to explore the ways in which the two different writers use theme, character and language to comment on contextual issues. Also I am going to apply analytical skills in comparing authors’ uses of language and form in different genres. Death of a Salesman is a tragedy about people’s family dreams and values in contrast to their own real lives. This play was published in 1949 by a famous and well known author named Arthur Miller.
During that time he was married, then divorced and also joined and left the Communist party. In 1935, he founded The Workers’ Theater, a group formed to present plays for the working class in Algiers. He began his writing career with book reviews and occasional essays for a left-wing newspaper. Later he became editor of a paper for a short time because the newspaper closed down. He became critical of the government after that and was unwanted in the country and could not find a job.
At 11 he began writing, a talent that would grow into a hobby and eventually a career. Isaac Asimov’s parents raised him in the religion of Judaism; however upon adulthood he became atheist. While in the military Asimov received the lowest score on the conditioning test, but he scored the highest on the IQ exam (“Asimov Online Facts” 1). In 1947 Asimov married Gertrude Blugerman. The couple had two kids.
Kafka and Aira, Authors down the same road. “He took a step and thought: Why did this have to happen to me? Why me? There were hundreds of men, women and children milling around on the square and in the head of everyone, an iridescent brain seemed to be flashing out the mocking refrain, “not me,” “not me.”(p.10) Although separated by time, literary novices Franz Kafka and Cesar Aira have demonstrated their individual style through each of their work; making them a platform of influence for many authors to come. Each author is notorious for basing the characters in their novels off of themselves.
J.D. Salinger, a very influential writer in the 1920s, wrote Catcher in the Rye which became one of his most famous books. He shares a very unique and interesting story, and his beliefs of coming of age are reflected through the main character. He does not necessarily say it in a direct way, but he demonstrates it with the plot of the story and the tone and attitude he gives to the main character. Holden, the protagonist of the book, seems to be a typical teenage boy; he can be a rebel at times, does not really like adults, he goes out on dates, and it seems like he does not enjoy school at all, except for English which seems to be his favorite subject.