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…In his poem "Ithaca", C. Cavafy tells us that a journey is about the experiences and knowledge gained while travelling towards a destination, which are of greater importance than the destination itself; the latter simply facilitates the journey…

…Dickens in "A Tale of Two Cities" described the many injustices that resulted from oppression in France. Injustice during the French Revolution affected everyone touched by it because the revolution claimed many victims on all sides. French peasants suffered…

…, one of righteousness, can be depicted by the fruit that is produced from the love in one's heart for God. Pastor Miller can physically be drawn from extravagant, wool suit and tie. Suspenders tightly clamped to his matching dress pants. From his balding…

…-16, we are given a view to the bias with which the tale is being narrated. Although the Merchant claims that he "telle may namoore" about his own marriage, an underlying tone of bitter irony runs throughout the tale. The Merchant is not a particularly…

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…"A Tale of Two Cities" is one of Charles Dickens' most favoured novels that brings out the spirit of the late eighteen century and the outbreak of the French Revolution. The book opens in the year 1775 by contrasting Paris and London in "the best…

…Geoffrey Chaucer introduces readers of The Canterbury Tales to an assortment of characters, each with their own unique and notable features. Aside from the obvious differences, like their profession and their raiment, the characters described…

…didn't have the heart to let the stray cats take him on. She graduated that year, her boyfriend being a cat lover was not given the fish, (he had provided the second victim and was not found of Jack anyhow.) she passed Jack onto an animal-lover, who she hoped…

…Nikul Patel 17/11/03 Beginning with line 115, examine the ways in which Chaucer presents Alison in the Miller's Tale Alison is representative of many things in the miller's tale, for example she is a catalyst for much of the events in the book…

…Historical Book Review on Siddhartha Herman Hesse's 'Siddhartha: An Indian Tale' was published in 1922. It is considered to be Hesse's best work and is still very popular to this day. It is a fictitious biography and it records the passage…