Four Great Classical Novels Essays

  • The History of Monkey King

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    Monkey King, also known as Sun Wukong, which is a main character in the Chinese classical novel Journey to the West. Monkey King can be found in many stories and adaptions. The novel Journey to the West or Monkey King tells of a simian’s revolt against Heaven, of its defeat by the Buddha, and of its later being recruited as pilgrim to protect the monk Tripitaka on its quest for scriptures in India (Lai, 1994). So far, Monkey King has become one of the most enduring Chinese literary characters, it

  • Life Of Pi Persuasive Letter

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    that some are trying to teach and have gotten put back in schools. I am here to address why the book should be taught and learned about in school, despite it including topics like religion and having vivid descriptions of violence in this book. The novel Life of Pi by Yann Martel talks about the obstacles of an Indian boy named Piscine Molitor Patel known as Pi, who survives a shipwreck and ends up on a lifeboat with a Bengal Tiger named Richard Parker. Pi and Richard Parker survive for a long time

  • Neoeclasstic Poetry: The Features Of Neoclassic Poetry

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    Smollett, Fielding, and Richardson were presiding over the sophistication of the novel; and finally the Age of Johnson(1750-1798), which, while it was subjugated and characterized by the mind and personality of the instinctive Dr. Samuel Johnson, whose sympathies were with the fading Augustan past, saw the beginnings of a new understanding and appreciation of the work of Shakespeare, developed by Sterne and others, of the novel of sensibility, and the emergence of the Gothic school — attitudes which, in

  • Analysis Of Don Quixote Suite

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    Telemann. This wonderful piece is based off of the famous novel, Don Quixote de la Mancha, which was created by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. This overture was created in the Classical time period and was considered to portray the novel’s Spanish setting, to demonstrate in the Don Quixote Opera. This piece is infused with aggressive and suspenseful style. Don Quixote Suite was composed by one of the most famous composers in the Baroque/Classical era, and he used many musical styles and interpretations

  • The Joy Luck Club

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    The Joy Luck Club retold the lives of four women who came from China and their four Americanized daughters. The protagonist, Jing Mei Woo (June) took over her mother’s place at the meetings of a social group called the Joy Luck Club. As its members play mah jong and feast on Chinese delicacies, friends of Jing Mei’s mother spin stories about the past and lament the barriers that exist between their daughter and themselves. In this paper, I will discuss briefly on cultural studies and the Chinese

  • Music Styles in the Renaissance Era

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    paper ... ...s inherently dramatic, and great composers found all sorts of ways to burst the boundaries of conventional sonata form in order to express great musical thoughts and emotions.” (Key Notes) Works Cited “History of Classical Music.” http://www.naxos.com/education/brief_history.asp http://library.thinkquest.org/15413/history/history-bar.htm “The Classical Era” October 14th. Feature-Classical” http://www.allmusic.com/blog/post/the-classical-era-3 “Musical Forms”. Rodrigo J. Alvirez

  • Renaissance Research Paper

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    appeared, citizens of Europe were quick to embrace it. Humanism is also present in many pieces of Renaissance art and literature which show classical study, critical

  • Human Creativity and Spirit

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    fall of waves of human creativity. Examples of such waves are classical music, the Italian Renaissance, the German Renaissance, Greek philosophy, Christianity, modern science. The concept of spirit is meaningful. Our experience of value requires it. What are the sources of value? What gives them their authority? Reason, social conditioning, biological drives based on natural selection have all been proposed as sources. There is a great deal of truth in these proposals. However, reflection convinces

  • Frankenstein Movie Analysis

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    classic literature piece becomes a movie, there is great anticipation for its arrival. It becomes watched intimately and with a skeptic’s eye. While watching a classic movie, a viewer is searching for parallel plot structure and character development of the same nature as the novel. What they are not anticipating seeing is a different cinematic experience than that of the experience revealed in literature. That saying, while contrasting the novel and attempt of a movie adaptation of Mary Shelley’s

  • The Relevance of Aristotle’s Poetics to the World Today

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    The Relevance of Aristotle’s Poetics to the World Today The Canadian novelist Michael Ondaatje, in his last novel titled In the Skin of a Lion, wrote that "the first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human" (Ondaatje 223).  Ondaatje noted that what makes a novel a novel is order or, as that order is sometimes referred to today, plot and structure.  It is that structure that we, as both the audience and the artist, rely

  • The Redemption of a Trickster

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    contrast to Odysseus in The Odyssey, who continuously worries about the safety and wellbeing of his men, and is more willing to serve as a cooperative leader than a stubborn dictator, Monkey very early on esta... ... middle of paper ... ...assical Novels of Chinese literature, Journey to the West) is a story of redemption. Although this goes beyond the scope of “The Monkey’s Story”, which ends with Monkey imprisoned under the mountain and condemned as Heaven’s worst criminal, through a “journey to

  • John Steinbeck Thesis

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    winner, was a writer of novels about the working class and was a major spokesman for the victims of the Great Depression. "The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in history of the industrialized world." (history.com). "Steinbeck's reputation rests mostly on the naturalistic novels with themes he wrote in the 1930's." (britannica.com). "Of Mice and Men is a novel set on a ranch in Salinas Valley in California during the Great Depression of the 1930's" (novels for students). "Both of

  • Fixed Ratio Schedule Training with Lab Rats

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    magazine training, and shaping on a fixed ratio schedule of reinforcement. These rats did not have any previous exposure to the operant conditioning chamber, or any training. These rats were to press a lever for reinforcement on a fixed ratio schedule of four presses by the end of the experiment. The data showed that there was a significant difference in the means. The main effect of fixed ratio reinforcement schedules in conjunction with the means suggests that behavior does in fact change as a function

  • 47 Ronin Assignment

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    swung his sword with two hands in a great swinging arc which snipped Kira’s head from his shoulders (page 241-242). This excerpt is from one of the many great scenes in “47 Ronin” a novel written by John Allyn. The story tells of how 47 samurai become ronin, or masterless, after an unjust seppuku is forced upon their leader. In the novel, these samurai devise a plan in order to seek revenge for the death of their master and bring honor upon his name. The novel begins with Oishi, the head samurai

  • Similarities Between 1984 And A Clockwork Orange

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    the effect of varying oppressive governments and the way in which it causes its people to lose their freedom and individuality by using the literature ‘1984’ by George Orwell and ‘A Clockwork Orange’ by Anthony Burgess. 1984, by George Orwell, is a novel about Winston Smith- a 39 year old man residing in the dystopian, totalitarian society of Oceania. The people in Oceania are constantly monitered, controlled and tyrannized by ‘The Party’; a group led by an ubiquitous figurative ‘Big Brother’. Free

  • History Of H. G Wells And The Fathers Of Science Fiction

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    Worlds , 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and Journey to the Centre of the Earth. Both of these famous authors have many influences, awards, novels and an interesting biography with some hidden twists. British Author H.G Wells wrote a famous book known as the Time Machine that had been described as an overnight literary sensation (Zohar). When Wells published the novel War of the Worlds Orson Wells broadcasted the book on the radio claiming aliens landed in New Jersey and caused a massive...

  • Dream Of The Red Chamber

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    (Chinese: 红楼梦), also named as The Story of the Stone (Chinese:石头记) is a masterpiece of Chinese vernacular literature and one of Chinese Four Great Classical Novels. The novel was written around 1749 C.E to 1759C.E during the Qing Dynasty. The book was originally written by Cao Xue Qin and then continued and finished by another Chinese writer, Gao E. This is not only a great literature, but also could be considered as an encyclopedia with a rich content. In this essay, we will first discuss the background

  • Essay On The Great George Gershwin

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    The Life and Music of the Great George Gershwin Abigail Hill, Chamber Choir In September of 1898, Morris and Rose Gershowitz (previously Moishe Gershowitz and Roza Bruskina) welcomed their second child, Jacob Gershwine(which would have been pronounced 'Gershvin') into the world. Preceding him was his older brother Ira, in 1896; born later was Arthur in 1900and Frances in1906. Gershwin came from Russian-Jewish heritage; his grandfather, Jakov Gershowitz, had served as a mechanic for the Imperial Russian

  • William Gibson's Idoru

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    for their millions of fans. The Idoru in Gibsons book has evolved into real-life 3D with the aid of holograms and eventually nanotechnology. It is very difficult to simplify this novels plot, as there are several subplots of typical complexity, each worthy of a summary. However the basic outline revolves around four groups (whoose lives eventually become more intertwined)of people each of them has their own interest in an entity, as yet unknown which is creating sharply chaotic imprints within

  • Epic Characteristics of Milton's Paradise Lost

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    decorum of the epic genre. On the whole, Milton has retained the formal motifs and devices of the heroic poem but has invested them with Christian matter and meaning. In this sense his epic is . . . something of a "pseudomorph"--retaining the form of classical epic but replacing its values and contents with Judeo-Christian correlatives. (Epic and Tragic Structure . . . 20) Steadman goes on to defend Milton's changes in the form of the epic, saying that "such revaluations are not unusual in the epic