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Shakespeare further emphasizes the conflict between love and reason, through the Lysander’s shift in focus from Hermia to Helena. At this juncture Hermia’s dream becomes reality with Lysander’s declaration of hatred.
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Change and progress is a major theme of Tony Kushner’s play Angels and Demons. In fact, the second part of the play is titled Perestroika, which is Russian for ‘restructuring’. Although the word has its origins in Soviet Russia’s political and economic ideology under the presidency of Mikhail Gorbachev, its use in the play is apt to some extent. Other themes explored in the play such as conformity within communities and the attitude of society towards homosexuality and AIDS relate to the underlying idea of transformation within the society and the individual.
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George Orwell is well known for the satire that is rampantly present in his literary works, by taking up grave and serious issues, such as war and death and destruction and presenting them in a manner that may border on sarcasm and black humour; 1984 is one of those novels.
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The Japanese medieval period (c.1200-1600) followed the coming of age of Japanese literature during the earlier Heian era (794-1185), which had been marked by the declining influence of Chinese literature. However, it was essentially during the medieval period that Japanese literature began to increasingly assume a Buddhist orientation with a distinct Japanese character.
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Essentially echoing the idea of Louis MacNeice in his poem ‘Prayer Before Birth’, where he states that by stripping or ‘freeze(ing)’ one of ones own humanity it ‘would dragoon me into a lethal automaton, would make me a cog in a machine, a thing with one face, a thing’. That’s essentially what the entire nation of Oceania is bound on becoming under the control of the Big Brother. Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. “Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty and then we shall fill you with ourselves.” (Orwell)
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Several theories have been advanced on language with the key theorists being Chomsky, Vygotsky and Piaget. These theorists agree that children start being good communicators around three years of age. Language theories tell us what factors lead to the acquisition and company in language as far as children are concerned (Tricia 2004).