viewpoint and the cultural and social factors influencing the author. __________________________________________________________________________ Directions and Analysis Task 1: Analyze Literary Elements in Genji Monogatari Genji Monogatari‚ or The Tale of Genji‚ is a Japanese novel written in the early eleventh century that tells the story of Genji‚ the son of a Japanese emperor. Genji is considered to be one of the first psychological novels. Read the first four chapters of part I of Genji Monogatari
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Ulrich realized her only option was to dig deeply into the ones she had‚ to discover the unspoken realities of women’s lives written between the lines of Ballard’s diary. The result of Ulrich’s efforts was the Pulitzer Prize-winning book "A Midwife’s Tale‚" now a movie of the same name‚ made in collaboration with Ulrich by producer/writer Laurie Kahn-Leavitt and director Richard Rogers. The film recounts the day-to-day events described in Ballard’s diary and expanded upon by Ulrich‚ based on some careful
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David H.‚ and Canter Brown. "Tale of Angola: Free Blacks‚ Red Stick Creeks‚ and International Intrigue in Spanish Southwest Florida‚ 1812-1821." Go Sound the Trumpet!: Selections in Florida’s African American History. Tampa‚ FL: University of Tampa for the Florida A & M University Dept. of History‚ Political Science/Public Administration‚ Geography‚ and African American Studies‚ 2005. 5-18. Print. In David H. Jackson and Canter Brown’s book‚ Go Sound the Trumpet: Tale of Angola‚ these men talk
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going to the grave; One of them called the little tavern-knave And said “Go and find out at once—look spry!— Whose corpse is in that coffin passing by; And see you get the name correctly too.” “Sir‚” said the boy‚ “no need‚ I promise you; Two hours before you came here I was told. He was a friend of yours in days of old‚ And suddenly‚ last night‚ the man was slain‚ Upon his bench‚ face up‚ dead drunk again. There came a privy thief‚ they call him Death‚ Who kills us all round here
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? (Summary): The Cities of Tomorrow and the Cities to Come‚ by Noah Toly starts off with his search for the perfect place in Uptown‚ Chicago to meet with his students‚ talk about their days‚ and what they have been learning in school. He discovers‚ Alma Pita a little Mediterranean restaurant located in a very diverse community. After six years of meetings‚ Alma Pita closed and he was forced to begin his search again. Toly makes note of a huge variety of options for ethnic foods available just blocks
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Darren Jacob Mrs. Jones English 1B October 31‚ 2013 The Complex Commander Offred says to herself‚ “What do you mean? The Commander‚ it must be. See me? What does he mean by see? Hasn’t he had enough of me?”(99). In Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale‚ The Commander is a man who expresses several sides of his character and personality. Throughout the book the Commander shows character traits of someone who is emotional and sympathetic. In their society‚ the Republic of Gilead‚ the Commander is one
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Journal In the novel The Handmaid’s Tale‚ written by Margaret Atwood‚ there are a lot of displays of sexual acts against woman in efforts to belittle them. The prevalence of rape and pornography in the pre-Gilead world justified to the founders their establishment of the new order. The Commander and the Aunts claim that women are better protected in Gilead‚ that they are treated with respect and kept safe from violence. Certainly‚ the official penalty for rape is terrible: in one scene‚ the Handmaids
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Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale takes place in a post Cold War society plagued by infertility. Atwood presents the reader with “The Republic of Gilead”‚ the Christian theocracy that overthrew the United States government. Narrated by a woman renamed Offred‚ the reader gets an idea of a future in which women are no longer women‚ but are solely needed for reproduction. Atwood uses a system of vocabulary established under the Republic of Gilead in order to manipulate and dehumanize women and
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The central social hierarchy within the novel is the gender hierarchy‚ placing men in a position of extreme power. This is evident in every aspect of the book‚ as the entire Gilead society is male dominated. The Commander is at the top of the hierarchy and is involved with designing and establishing the current society taking control of a nation of women‚ and exploiting their power by controlling what is taught‚ what they can teach themselves and the words that they can use. Soon all of the women
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The Tale of Genji and the Tales of Ise‚ both being of the monogatari literature‚ share similarities in their theme of romantic courtship‚ presence of male protagonists famed for their romantic exploits and the presentation of courtly ‘miyabi’ aesthetics. Differences between the two‚ however‚ lie in the nature of their storytelling – while both texts incorporate poetic verses‚ the Tale of Genji is largely written in prose while the Tales of Ise is known as an ‘uta monogatari’ with waka poems being
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