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The document analyzes the characters of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in William Shakespeare's Hamlet. It describes them as marginalized characters with odd sounding names who engage in sycophantic and plot-driven dialogue lacking in skills. Their role is to right the moral order among Hamlet's mighty opponents, which is why Hamlet says "They are not near my conscience." The document also references Tom Stoppard's play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and discusses how the characters represent archetypes of human beings struggling with existential questions of power across the Elizabethan and postmodern eras.
Themes in "Oliver Twist"
The document summarizes some of the key themes in Oliver Twist, including the failure of the charity system as depicted through the Poor Law of 1834 and workhouses, the dangers of individualism as shown through Fagin's criminal gang, the struggle between purity and corruption in Victorian London, and the idea that virtue and vice may be hereditary traits rather than choices. The summary also notes brief criticism of Dickens for not providing more constructive social solutions or rising above superficial analysis.
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This document is a feminist and gender study of Mary Shelley's novel "Frankenstein" prepared by Khuman Bhagirath J. for their class on Romantic Literature. The summary analyzes how gender roles and the patriarchal society are portrayed in the novel through the characters of Victor Frankenstein and his creation. It also examines themes of parental abandonment and the monster's victimization due to the failure of his creator Victor to take responsibility as a parent.
Deconstruction
The document outlines the three stages of the deconstructive process: verbal, textual, and linguistic. It provides examples for each stage. The verbal stage examines individual phrases or quotes. The textual stage analyzes the relationships between different parts of a text. The linguistic stage aims to say the unsayable by challenging conventional understandings of language.
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Orientalism refers to how Western scholars have studied and described the Eastern world, especially Asia. It involves generalizing and stereotyping Orientals as irrational, uncivilized, and crude, while portraying Occidentals as rational, civilized, and sophisticated. This system justified ruling over Orientals and portrayed them as exotic in Western works. While Orientalism helped define the West, it did so by overgeneralizing about Eastern cultures and peoples.
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2) Theories such as contrastive analysis and error analysis were later found to have limitations as errors cannot always be predicted and learners progress through systematic stages of interim languages.
3) Research on the differences between conscious learning and subconscious acquisition led to theories like Krashen's comprehensible input hypothesis and Long's modified interaction approach emphasizing comprehensible input through linguistic adjustments.
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