In the Novel, The Travels of Dean Mahomet: An Eighteenth-Century Journey through India, Dean Mahomet represents a man in between cultures. Mahomet is presented as a complex, enlightened man that blurs the line between the cultures of the colonizer and the colonized by shortening the space between cultures by focusing on the shared culture and history. Dean Mahomet’s novel is a chronicling of his experiences over the course of his life as a collection of letters to a friend, in which he depicts India and reflects on his time spent in the Army. His journey begins as an eleven-year old boy following the death of his father and ends with Governor Hasting’s Lady and the remains of the great Irish Lieutenant-General Coote at Dartmouth, England. …show more content…
He provides descriptions of the land, noting strategic points such as wells, forts and the layout of urban centers. He provides information on economic practices and details of markets. He comments on the goods available in various regions. He catalogs flora and fauna. He provides information on the people, discussing cultural practices of the Hindu and Muslim elite societies he has had contact with and exposure to portraying them as moral (Mahomet 49) and virtuous (Mahomet 52), as well as treacherous (Mahomet 86-87) and decadent (Mahomet 88-90). His descriptions of the non-elite society, however, merely classifies them into “merciless savages,” (Mahomet 47) “licentious barbarians” (Mahomet 48) or “humane people” directed by an “all ruling Providence” (Mahomet 114-115). In his descriptions, Mahomet is exploiting the elaborate strategy of Utopian literature embodied in Milton’s portrayal of the Garden of Eden. Once Mahomet has created this alternative version of the landscape, his strategy is clear. In envisioning India as marked by plenitude, innocence, benevolence and sensibility, he is drawing upon the late Enlightenment stressing of sensibility and
An entrepreneur is an individual that organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking a greater financial risk to do so. They bring innovative products or services to the marketing world. They start a business on their own agenda and usually spend plenty of money supporting their company. Many entrepreneurs have characteristics of being confident, drive, and responsible.
Mann, Jill. "The Narrative of Distance, the Distance of Narrative in Malory’s Morte DArthur." The William Matthews Lectures 1991 delivered at Birkbeck College, London.
Critics of Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato have examined its narrative technique (see Raymond) and its position in literature as metafiction (see Herzog). Still other critics have commented on the motif of time (see McWilliams) and the theme and structure (see Vannatta). On the last point, critics find the structure of the novel is fragmented to reveal the nature of the United States' involvement in Vietnam. Unfortunately, this fragmentation makes the novel appear structurally weak. Critics have found no unifying element to the parts to affirm the sense of wholeness readers feel after completing O'Brien's novel. Nevertheless, the reader senses that the seemingly random construction of the novel serves to underscore the random nature of the Vietnam war. However, to lightly dismiss O'Brien's organization as simply fragmentary does great disservice to this American author. A critical examination of a traditional element found in American Literature since its inception--the symbolic use of Nature--unifies Going After Cacciato and places the work firmly in the Romantic tradition. Just as Romanticists have always relied upon Nature to unify and add substantial depth to their novels so, too, has O'Brien. Specifically, a different element of Nature appears in each of the sections of the novel. The novel divides into three distinct parts: the observation post chapters, the recollected history chapters, and the chasing Cacciato chapters. In the observation post chapters, Nature is represented by the sea. In the recollected history chapters, Nature is represented by the land and the fresh water. In the chasing Cacciato chapters, Nature becomes ...
Tom Brady is a very well known player in the NFL and a 3 time Super Bowl winner. He was also the youngest quarterback to lead a team to the superbowl and MVP at two of those Super Bowls. Along with that he is married to model Gisele Bundchen. There is no doubt that he has had a very successful life so far this is when his story begins.
For my book project I chose to read a book called, The First Emperor: China’s Terracotta Army, and was edited by Jane Portal. The purpose of this book is to answer mystery questions about the first emperor’s tomb and his under ground army of terracotta soldiers. And to discover more details about the emperor who built it and what he achieved.
Ziolkowski, Theodore. "Siddhartha: The Landscape of the Soul." Hesse Companion. Ed. Anna Otten. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1970. 71-100. Rpt. in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Ed. Thomas J. Schoenberg and Lawrence J. Trudeau. Vol. 196. Detroit: Gale, 2008. Literature Resource Center. Web. 25 Nov. 2013.
Calloway, Catherine. "How to tell a true war story: Metafiction in 'The Things They Carried'." CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 36.4 (Summer 1995); 249-258.
“I'm a pretty good winner. I'm a terrible loser, and I rub it in pretty good when I win”-Tom Brady (brainyquote.com). Tom Brady is the New England Patriots starting quarterback, and without a doubt he is one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL. In fact without him the Patriots would have never even went to a Super Bowl. Now that the Patriots have the legendary Tom Brady on their team they went to six Super Bowls and even won four. However Tom Brady wasn't always as good as he is now he started from the bottom like everyone else.
Pages100-115 of Ishiguro's novel describe the beginning of a journey to the west country taken by a man called Stevens, (a model English butler). Stevens narrates the novel and Ishiguro writes in such a way that the reader is able to examine intersections of his memory, national history, politics of the era, and the way language is used to express emotion or to conceal it.
Greenblatt, Stephen, and M. H. Abrams. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 9th ed. Vol. A. New York: W.W. Norton, 2012. Print
Two men, Reuben Bourne and Roger Malvin, have survived the battle and are trying to make their way back home. Both are wounded. As they stop in a forest by “…a young and vigorous sapling stood…,” Malvin entreats Bourne to abandon him and save himself (20). The men are familiar with one another and, at fir...
Greenblatt, Stephen. The Norton Anthology Of English Literature. 8th. A. W W Norton & Co Inc, 2006.
Calloway, Catherine. "`How To Tell A True War Story': Metafiction In The Things They Carried." Critique 36.4 (1995): 249. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 4 May 2014.
The setting for this novel was a constantly shifting one. Taking place during what seems to be the Late Industrial Revolution and the high of the British Empire, the era is portrayed amongst influential Englishmen, the value of the pound, the presence of steamers, railroads, ferries, and a European globe.
There are people bustling, merchants selling, Anglo-Indians watching, and birds flying overhead. How many perspectives are there in this one snippet of life? They are uncountable, and that is the reality. Modernist writers strive to emulate this type of reality into their own work as well. In such novels, there is a tendency to lack a chronological or even logical narrative and there are also frequent breaks in narratives where the perspectives jump from one to another without warning. Because there are many points of view and not all of them are explained, therefore, modernist novels often tend to have narrative perspectives that suddenly shift or cause confusion. This is because modernism has always been an experimental form of literature that lacks a traditional narrative or a set, rigid structure. Therefore, E. M. Forster, author of A Passage to India, uses such techniques to portray the true nature of reality. The conflict between Adela, a young British girl, and Aziz, an Indian doctor, at the Marabar Caves is one that implements multiple modernist ideals and is placed in British-India. In this novel, Forster shows the relations and tension between the British and the Indians through a series of events that were all caused by the confusing effects of modernism. E.M. Forster implements such literary techniques to express the importance or insignificance of a situation and to emphasize an impression of realism and enigma in Chandrapore, India, in which Forster’s novel, A Passage to India, takes place.