1. "The earliest origins of psychology can be traced back several centuries to the writing of the great philosophers. More than two thousand years ago‚ the Greek philosopher Aristotle wrote extensively about topics like sleep‚ dreams‚ the senses‚ and memory. He also described the traits and dispositions of different animals. Many of Aristotle’s ideas remained influential until the beginnings of modern science in the seventeenth century. At that time‚ Rene Descartes proposed a doctrine called interactive
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remembers that she has an assignment about Virginia Woolf and if she does not hand it in‚ she will very likely be expelled. The short story is written chronological and by an omniscient third person narrator but A GAP of Sky also uses the stream of consciousness. We are inside the head of Ellie and are constantly hearing her inner thoughts. For example on page 2 line‚ 36 “Should she do the essay first‚ print it in the morning? No. No time. Needs to be handed in at nine.” We are inside the head of
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Virginia Woolf to present works‚ like Mrs Dalloway: a novel based on one character‚ from multiple perspectives; based around one eighteen hour period‚ but shifting between past and present with the all the simplicities and complexities of a stream of consciousness based work. The nineteenth century bore the Realist movement in the arts. Realism sought to present the world as it is: truthfully and without artistic license‚ even if that view is dark‚ sordid and macabre. The world was introduced to working
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Chapters Characters involved Key points of important things Quotes Importance in terms of relationships 1 Dr Iannis‚ Pelagia‚ Dr Iannis has doubts in himself as a writer "This would never do; why could he not write like a writer of histories? Why could he not write without passion? Without anger? Without the sense of betrayal and oppression?" Pelagia appears a very dynamic woman who is ahead of her society "Papas‚ she said‚ it still is your day. You aren’t dead yet‚ are you? Anyway
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Artist as a Young Man Author: James Joyce‚ Irish born (1882-1941) Date of Publication: 1914 Genre: Kunstlerroman (novel of artist)‚ Bildungsroman (novel of education)‚ coming of age Writing style: stream of consciousness‚ Hallmarks of modernism (perspectives‚ thresholds‚ and stream consciousness) structure of epiphanies (1. Justice from rector (2. Idealization of sin‚ (3. Idealization of morality.)‚ The myth (Daedalus and Icarus)‚ structure of rebellion‚ structure within chapters (1. Physical
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similarities and differences between Joyce’s Epiphany and Woolf’s Moment of Importance‚ referring to A Little Cloud and The Mark on the Wall Joyce’s epiphany and Woolf’s moment of importance are both featured writing techniques dealing with stream of consciousness in fiction‚ and both of them share some similarities and differences. As for similarities‚ and first of all‚ both techniques are artistically arranged by their writers to represent their mental experience. For instance‚ Little Chandler’s
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seems to have employed some of the devices and methods that Joyce introduced in Ulysses. Contrary to the normal course of a novel‚ both Ulysses and Mrs. Dalloway take place in the course of a single day. In both works we dart in and out of the consciousness of many characters‚ but reside primarily within two in each. In Ulysses these are Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom and in Mrs. Dalloway they are Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Smith. But the main borrowing I’d like to focus on for a moment is
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A higher power’s divinity‚ as exemplified in "The Tyger" by William Blake and "The Goddess Who Created this Passing World" by Alice Notley‚ is seen as astonishing‚ and both speakers are full of amazement for the creation. The images used throughout the poems display the Creators’ divinity because they highlight how intricately everything is made. Although Notley’s feministic view of God sets the two poems apart‚ Blake and Notley’s poems perspectives can still be compared. In "The Tyger‚" the speaker
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Practice Commentary: The Black Lace Fan My Mother Gave Me Eavan Bolland’s “The Black Lace Fan my Mother Gave me” from her book‚ “Outside History” (1990) gives readers the first impression that the poem is about the value of a fan that has been passed down to her. However‚ based on the title‚ the term “black lace” raises a sense of mystery and darkness as black lace is not completely see-through‚ there are spots that need to be filled in. To illustrate the value of the black lace fan‚ the speaker
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that they do not matter. A person lives in the now‚ but every “now” was once the future and will become the past (22). Alexie makes extensive use of the period of five hundred years‚ as though that is a length of time perceptible to the human consciousness‚ if appreciated more by the
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