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…The Handmaids Tale is a science fiction novel based around two aspects of society, which Atwood feels, have caused the downfall of society. One aspect, which is what the majority of her works are based around, feminism. The other aspect is religion. Atwood seems…

…One of the foremost authors of the era between the two world wars, Hemingway in his early works depicted the lives of two types of people. One type consisted of men and women deprived, by World War I, of faith in the moral values in which they had…

…to the British government that brought him in contact with the works of Italian masters, Dante and Boccaccio. It is these two Italian influences, which are most evident in the Canterbury Tales. Although Chaucer never completed his immense plans for the Canterbury…

…A leading American playwright, Arthur Miller, b. New York City, Oct. 17,1915, has enriched the Broadway stage for several decades. Although Miller's dramas take place in familial settings, he has made a reputation for dealing with contemporary political…

…Tales. The Canterbury Tales were a collection of stories about a group of thirty people who are on a pilgrimage to Canterbury. Chaucer intended that each person tell two tales on the way to Canterbury and two on the way back. This idea made this project…

…testimony he had a brain lesion” (Woodberry). “While in New York City he published a long prose narrative, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, combining (as so often in his tales) much factual material with the wildest fancies, in 1838” (Woodberry 60…

…testimony he had a brain lesion" (Woodberry). "While in New York City he published a long prose narrative, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, combining (as so often in his tales) much factual material with the wildest fancies, in 1838" (Woodberry 60…

…tales, characterized by the very dark imagery and overall dark mood, that have ever been written by any man to graze the face of the earth(Ingram,pg.22) . In Poe’s fiction he handles the morbid and frightening aspects that he is so closely linked…

…A Tale of Two Cities In the fictitious novel Tale of Two Cities, the author, Charles Dickens, lays out a brilliant plot. Charles Dickens was born in England on February 7, 1812 near the south coast. His family moved to London when he…

…So starts this savage tale in the middle of a roaring Cadillac convertible speeding down a desert highway, occupied by two men filled to the brim with all the manner of exotic drugs. On assignment from Sports Illustrated to cover the prestigious “Mint…