Significance of tarantella dance in a doll's house
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The tarantella dance is a wild southern Italian folk dance characterized by swift movements and foot tapping. In A Doll's House, the tarantella dance symbolizes Nora's character and her conception of love and life. When Nora performs the dance for Torvald, it represents her last attempt to please her controlling husband and preserve their marriage, as well as her desire for independence and self-expression. The tarantella dance ultimately signifies Nora's need to rid herself of the poison threatening her life, like the letter from Krogstad that shakes her marriage.
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My attention was attracted by it almost as soon as I stepped out of Sydney airport and pretty soon I was doing it too—the Australian salute! The gesture consists of the fingers of your hand raised half voluntarily as if to swat away something occupying facial space and upsetting one’s mental equilibrium, but in the end the movement is obviously nothing more threatening than a half-hearted attempt to brush away the pesky, ubiquitous Australian fly. Indeed, I now realize I had seen it often in cricket broadcasts: Big Tony Greig, it is obvious, was doing it in the sidelines, while commentating, as was modestly built Rickie Ponting while taking guard, or brawny Bret Lee when darting in to bowl his lightning-quick balls. And my wife and I were going to do it again and again the three weeks we spent in Down Under Land whether in and around the cities of Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, or Brisbane, where we were to spend 21 pleasure-filled “high” Australian summer (late December to early January ) days!
The Australian salute! I was to see it in beaches, on mountains, outside houses as well as shopping malls, everywhere! It is almost an instinctive gesture, but also a conscious one, telling you that no Australian will attempt to hurt even so horrid, persistent, and irritating a thing such as the common fly. As a young boy growing up not so far away from the drains of old Dhaka, I had been trained to repel it by violent means, as an undergraduate at the University of Dhaka I had pondered the profound realization of the cruelty of nature reflected in Shakespeare’s unforgettable lines (“As flies to wanton boys are we to the Gods, they kill us for their sport “), but here in Australia I was to find out that the aggressive fly always has its way; Australians will not hurt it or “apply desperate physic” as some other Shakespearean somebody had said somewhere. And that is why in Australia I saw wild birds stroll listlessly or indifferently by or swans swim languidly or daintily past Man, not bothered and secure in the knowledge that He had never used a boomerang or a gun to destroy him for quite some time now.
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Representation of female character in some popular cartoons
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Objectives of the study
1. To study the representation of primary female characters in cartoons.
2. To analyze the gender discourse of the narrative of the popular cartoon shows.
Justification of the study
How some popular cartoons affect gender, particularly young girls
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Allusion in the hollow men
The allusion is an object or circumstance from unrelated context is referenced covertly or indirectly. Allusion occurs in literature when an author indirectly references another work, event, person, or place. The reference may be historical or modern. Authors and writers use allusions to express a similar sentiment to the object of the allusion or to evoke particular emotions. Eliot is known for quoting, alluding to, and sometimes borrowing from other literary and historical sources. He used Various kind of allusion in the poem “The Hollow Men”. His favorite source for borrowed expressions and ideas is the Italian poet Dante Alighieri, author of The Divine Comedy, ‘The Waste Land’, Heart of Darkness. Here, as in ‘The Waste Land’, Heart of Darkness is important.
Symbols in a portrait of the artist as a young man by nawrin akhtar
Symbols in a portrait of the artist as a young man by James Joyce
Symbols
Water
Color
Daedalus
Birds &Flight
Fire
Bridges
Music
Women
Hostel
Symbols in a portrait of the artist as a young man by nawrin akhtar
Symbols in A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man.
major Symbols are
Symbols
Water
Color
Daedalus
Birds &Flight
Fire
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Women role in1971 in a golden age
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Untouchable in the context of bangladesh by nawrin
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Impact of religion in south asian literature
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Use of Irony in Oedipus Rex by Sophocles.
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Feminism and media
Feminism advocates for social, political, and economic equality between men and women. However, media often portrays women in ways that objectify them or reinforce patriarchal norms. Advertisements frequently use women's bodies and images to sell products rather than portraying women in empowering or equal roles. Movies also tend to focus on male characters and depict women in passive, domestic, or sexualized ways to appeal to a male gaze. While media representations of women have improved in some respects over the last 30 years, full equality has yet to be achieved and women remain underrepresented in media content and positions of authority.
Struggling with soliloquy by nawrin
The Translated Language (TL) of the text entitled to ‘Struggling with Soliloquy’, originally written by Sadik Haque and translated by Ahmed Tahsin Shams is a target-oriented functional translation because it carries “ language –pair restricted area” (The Name and Nature of Translation Studies by James S. Holmes), “cultural –pair restricted ( Holmes). Thereby it is “domesticated” (‘The Hermeneutic Motion’ by George Steiner) to some extent. The source language (SL) went through “naturalization” (Steiner) to a great extent because the context of the original text is not “time and place restricted” (Holmes).
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