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Dystopian Literature depicts worlds in which parts of it are as bad as possible, in most cases it’s impossible for the system to benefit the majority. These societies are often similar to our own yet somehow have reached some stage of ruin. The reader’s investment in how the world got to this point must be…
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I hate coffee. Yet it’s too scary to break the norm, break past what this body has been saying and doing for years. I am just an observer. Even if it means spending £2.50 on pretending to be someone else in a room full of strangers. Masking is so deeply ingrained into me. I hate…
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Arthur could not deny his feelings for his manservant. A sort of tender affection that blossomed in his bosom causing him to act irrationally. It cost him his judgement on many an occasion this time almost costing him his servant. This was deplorable behaviour, if news of it were to ever reach the king, he…
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The students shuffle to their designated seats, eyes blank. I pick at the unfamiliar uniform, trying to remember my spot. We have so many classes, so many rooms and I have to remember which spot is mine? In all of them? It felt, impractical to say the least. I already have so many rules to…
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Dualism is when Haruki Murakami displays two things as mirroring each other, almost a reverse of what’s happening but at the same time sharing a commonality even if they are opposing ends of the thing, for instance male and female are both genders but opposite. In After Dark to separate certain aspects. For instance, Eri…
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He laughs, there’s no malice but I feel so small, I was so stupid, how could I be so stupid, why was I.. “the best kind of people.” He finally affirms. Broken out my thoughts I smile a little, “yes. I think I have some. What form do you want it?”
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“Come on, I’m sure you’ll find him most agreeable.” “I wont,” Heather pokes me, “I mean, that would be the greatest misfortune of all! Do not wish me such an evil.” “Well I have, and you must take it with dignity,” she smirks, “now step in there,” she nods her head at the door, I…
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What an amazing accomplishmentTo be so refined.To wait and be patientTo dress so elegant What an awful appearanceTo claim refinementTo claim patienceTo cry and caw You see this as accomplishment?This elegance maskedTheir only cries claimsClaiming shiny objects for the nest What is accomplishment?If this great effortAll fails under youWhat would work What effort would it…
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Trapped in some kind of time loop. You’re new here. You might be new to the time loop and understanding how we function is alien to you. The text here might hold the key.
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Characterisation in a Christmas Carol is what makes the work so timeless. In my own work, I aimed to save the core of Scrooge’s character but change his motivation to kindness. This challenges the idea that Scrooge must act kinder to solve his problems. In A Christmas Carol, Scrooge is portrayed as, “stingy, cold, abusive,…
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