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"Farewell My Concubine" by Chen Kaige, 1996.
Examines 1993 Chinese film's story, characters, reflection of Chinese history & culture.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 4 sources, AU$ 63.95
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"Farewell My Concubine by Chen Kaige (1993) was one of the rare Chinese films that has made its way to Western audiences. it was acclaimed by Western critics and received awards from various critics organizations. The film also represented a shift in artistic opportunities in China. The film is an opportunity for Westerners to see inside China today, to appreciate the state of Chinese filmmaking, and to gain a different view of humanity from a filmmaker who has a strong command of the medium.
The story of the film covers a long period in Chinese history. The film begins with a prologue in which two of the main characters are preparing for a farewell performance of their best theatrical vehicle, a piece called "Farewell My Concubine." They are stage performers in the Beijing Opera, and much of the spectacle in the film derives from the way the opera in China is..."
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"Farewell My Concubine", 2007.
A review of the film "Farewell My Concubine".
793 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 46.95
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This paper discusses the 1994 Chinese film "Farewell My Concubine", which is set against a violent background of political upheavals. Beginning during China's warlord era of the 1920s, the film spans 50 years, and includes the Japanese occupation and the Cultural Revolution. In particular, the paper argues that despite its background, the central theme of the film is the love affair between the two central male characters, Duan Xiaolou and Cheng Dieyi.
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"It might be argued that the film is not so much about a love story as about Chinese history. After all, the film is one of the first to be bold enough to expose the "Cultural Revolution" for the fascist rampage that it really was. It also gives insight into what it was like to be an ordinary citizen during the most important historical event of the era - the establishment of the Peoples' Republic of China by Mao Zedong and his Chinese Communist Party in 1949. The film is certainly flooded with politics and traumatic events such as the Japanese occupation, and all of these events have a profound impact on the lives of the characters. However, it is argued that to the viewer the political details are much less important than the love story that takes centre stage."
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Hemingway?s "A Farewell to Arms", 2002.
A review of the book, "A Farewell to Arms" by Ernest Hemingway focusing on the complex relationship between love and war.
1,179 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 65.95
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This paper discusses Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms" and illustrates how the author broaches the brutality of war while juxtaposing it against the complexity of human emotions. The paper examines the tragic ending to "A Farewell to Arms" showing how it underscores the difficulty in finding meaning in life. The paper describes how Hemingway drives home the complex relationship between love and war and draws out their ironic similarities in his novel "A Farewell to Arms".
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"Hemingway broaches the brutality of war while juxtaposing it against the complexity of human emotions in his novel "A Farewell to Arms". Set in Europe during World War I, "A Farewell to Arms" is a classic American text that elucidates the role of women in the time of its publication as well as revealing the author?s own feelings towards the roles of men and women in society. The narrator and protagonist is a man conflicted about his position in the army and his position as a lover. Frederic Henry dismisses the philosophical nature of war and heroism, downplaying the loftier causes of the Great War. Mirroring his conflict about warfare is his relationship with Catherine Barkley. Catherine initiates their affair in a playful and frivolous manner, but because a genuine love and trust develops between the two, Henry?s character matures and his priorities are realized: romantic love usurps his desire to be a hero. Amid this background and setting of death and bloodshed, Hemingway introduces the theme of the fundamentally bleak nature of human existence, for in spite of their love, Henry and Catherine cannot find lasting happiness. The conflict between love and war and the universal struggle for meaning is played out against this backdrop. Frederick Henry?s internal strife parallels the bloody fights that surround him, and through his role in the army and his role in his relationship with Catherine, the character proves the primacy of love."
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?A Farewell to Arms?, 2002.
A review of Ernest Hemingway's novel ?A Farewell to Arms?.
1,446 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 6 sources, MLA, AU$ 76.95
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This paper examines Ernest Hemingway's novel ?A Farewell to Arms?, based on Hemingway's memories of driving an ambulance during World War I. Many of Hemingway's novels are semi-autobiographical and the character of Frederic Henry is in fact modelled on himself and part of the story on his relationship with his wife. It shows that while this is a novel of memory, it is also a novel of self-discovery, structured to show the self-exploration and self-discovery of Frederic who's character changes from the beginning of the novel to the end. It analyzes how the title of the novel has a dual meaning, for by the end of the novel the Frederic Henry will have been tested by arms, meaning the tools of war and he will have been held by the arms of his wife. He says farewell to both, to the war as he deserts and to his wife because she dies.
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"It is, of course, through his relationship with Catherine that his ability to care is brought forth most clearly so that it becomes a part of his overt personality. Catherine, for her part, is drawn to Frederic precisely because he is not deceptive, whether that is because he does not care enough or not. Catherine "defines herself as someone living life as fully as she can" (Hays 62), and "her love and devotion convert Frederic Henry from a selfish, uncaring individual to one who loves, who shares, and who serves others" (Hays 62). The relationship mirrors the one Hemingway himself had with Agnes, as noted, and he uses the story in the novel as a metaphor for his reality."
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"A Farewell to Arms", 2005.
Analysis of the theme of a loss of faith in Ernest Hemingway's war novel, "A Farewell to Arms".
1,339 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 71.95
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This paper summarizes and analyzes the plot and characters in "A Farewell to Arms" and explains how the book is ultimately a study in loss, a study in fate, and a farewell to false hopes and cultural constructions of honor.
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""A Farewell to Arms" is not a study of doom in the sense that it is a depressing book. It is not so much a study of what is gloomy about life so much as it is instead a study of fate. The book depicts individuals who find it difficult to live in society and according to strict societal mores. But Frederick Henry and Catherine, despite their inclinations are still forced to live by the moral and religious creeds of a morally alien world, and thus their fates seem doomed and dark."
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Hemingway?s ?Farewell to Arms?, 2004.
This paper discusses Hemingway?s ?Farewell to Arms?, a quasi-autobiographical novel, which echoes Hemingway?s life and serves as a commentary on the times and Hemingway?s character.
2,060 words (approx. 8.2 pages), 6 sources, APA, AU$ 103.95
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This paper explains that ?A Farewell to Arms?, a novel of war and love, consists of two parts. The part before his surgery and convalescence at Milan, including Frederic Henry?s wounding, and the part after he returns to the front. The author points out that Hemingway uses rain as a good or bad portent in almost every part of the novel, and it serves as a metaphor on numerous occasions. The paper relates that Hemingway was an alcoholic, and alcoholism plays an important role in ?Farewell to Arms?, thus showing a slice of Ernest Hemingway?s life.
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"Catherine Barkley, in the novel, has many suitors, including a Dr. Rinaldi, a physician assigned to Henry?s ambulance corps. Rinaldi, recognizing the extent of Henry?s feelings, backs away from his pursuit of Nurse Barkley. This way, Hemingway felt that he had complete ascendancy over Catherine?s very being. The love affair between Catherine and Frederic is not of mutual give and take. Catherine is completely giving of her body mind and soul. Frederic does not reciprocate any of this; indeed, he is constantly demanding. When he wrote the novel, Hemingway was older. He was married and divorced to his first wife Hadley. His real life wife, Pauline, was pregnant with his child and had a difficult cesarean birth around the time the novel was completed--almost a decade after World War I ended. This was the difficulty of childbirth that Hemingway forced upon the character of Hemingway attributed to his characters his feelings of that time. Catherine also combined the characteristics of both Hadley and Pauline."
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"A Farewell to Arms", 2002.
A paper which explores the imagery and metaphor of rain through Earnest Hemingway"s famous novel, "A Farewell to Arms".
1,700 words (approx. 6.8 pages), 0 sources, AU$ 89.95
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The writer shows how cleverly Hemingway weaves the image of rain throughout his novel, "A Farewell to Arms" to portray two major moods: One, a time of transition; and two, the emotion of the occasion.
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"The first mention of rain in the book occurs at the end of summer with Frederic's hospital stay; Frederic and Catherine have spent a day in Milan with friends. At the end of the day when they are together, the evening turns misty, the dampness turns to rain; it begins to rain hard. Catherine asks Frederic a very odd question. She asks him whether he would love her even in the rain. When Frederic, now curious, responds in the affirmative, Catherine reveals a startling phobia, "I'm afraid of the rain because sometimes I see myself dead in it." This first reference to rain portends of things to come, finally ending tragically."
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"A Farewell to Arms", 2007.
An analysis of the love affair of the main character in Ernest Hemingway's novel "A Farewell to Arms."
1,482 words (approx. 5.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 78.95
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This paper reviews Ernest Hemingway's novel "A Farewell to Arms." It particularly discusses the issue of love in a world of violence, that of World War I. The paper analyzes the main character, Lieutenant Henry and follows his love affair with a nurse in order to illustrate this point. The paper analyzes his language, as well as the circumstances he finds himself in and concludes that love does not turn out to be a refuge for Henry from violence.
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"Henry's love for Catherine and her love for him did not turn out to be a permanent saving grace for either of them. The violent birth of their stillborn child killed Catherine, and Henry reflects sadly that "it did not take her very long to die" (331). He attempts to find closure in saying goodbye to the dead Catherine, but is unable to because "it was like saying good-by to a statue" (332). Even the love the two had shared cannot be spared the violence, death, and destruction that was happening all around them in the war. Escaping the war turned out to be no escape at all for them. Henry's love made him happy while it lasted, but its end affected him far longer that the time it had actually endured. The future, too, was tainted by the fact that he could feel no affection or love for the tiny stillborn son. There is no suggestion that the love between Catherine and Henry will sustain him against a world of violence."
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"Farewell To Manzanar", 2005.
This paper discusses "Farewell To Manzanar" by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James Houston that looks at the internment of Japanese & Japanese Americans during World War II.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 63.95
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This paper examines "Farewell To Manzanar" by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James Houston. The book deals with the internment of Japanese & Japanese Americans during World War II and describes the impact this has on the author and her family. The paper discusses major characters in this book, which treats the issues of prejudice, racism, assimilation and identity.
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"Shortly after the United States entered World War II, the government interned Japanese residents of the Western states in ten internment camps, including Manzanar in California. One of the many children uprooted from their homes, along with their families and interned at Manzanar, was seven-year old Jeanne Wakatsuki, author of "Farewell to Manzanar" together with her writer husband James Houston, that tells the true story of the Japanese American experience during and after the World War I internment."
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"A Farewell to Arms".
This paper is a review of Ernest Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms" from the perspective that the bravest person is one who follows his or her conscience.
1,115 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 62.95
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This paper explains that "A Farewell to Arms" is a sad story, but it is even sadder because Hemingway shows the destruction of war, not only on the countryside, but also on the people. The author points out that Hemingway uses the character, Frederic Henry, to show the horrors of war; the abstracts of war are very different from the realities of war, and the abstract qualities of bravery are very different from the realities of bravery. The paper concludes that Henry is a hero, not because he served in the war and was wounded, but because he was strong enough to understand the war was wrong and stand up against it; therefore, the story shows that it is easy to do what everyone else is doing, but much harder to stand up and be different.
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" "A Farewell to Arms" is about an American ambulance driver fighting in the First World War named Frederic Henry. He enlisted in the Italian army simply because he was there, and he goes through many adventures in the book. He falls in love with Catherine, a British nurse, and is wounded during the fighting. He returns to the front, but the Italian Army is driven back, and he is nearly executed by angry troops who blame the officers for their retreat. He escapes, and returns to Catherine. They leave Italy and settle is Switzerland, leaving the war and its horror behind them."
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Ernest Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms", 2005.
This paper discusses the use of symbolism in Ernest Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms".
940 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 11 sources, MLA, AU$ 54.95
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This paper explains that Ernest Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms" is a love story built around a theme of good versus evil, set against backdrops of war and hospitals. The author points out that, in this morality tale, Hemingway uses this war and the hospitals, both places where individuals fight a life-or-death battle, to symbolize facing one's own spirituality. The paper relates that the love between Frederic and Catherine is symbolic of the good in life; however, Frederic's unclean way of living, the bad side of human nature, is symbolic of death.
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"Rather, Hemingway uses his brief service as a Red Cross ambulance driver on the Italian front in 1918, and his injury by a mortar burst as a source for realistic detail. Hemingway's wound was critical enough to be life endangering, and it has been observed by his contemporaries that this experience permanently altered his outlook on life. The author himself remembered the sensation of his life almost leaving him, "like you'd pull a silk handkerchief out of a pocket by a corner." The love story is based on his own affair with a nurse during this time, Agnes von Kurowsky. Although Hemingway was deeply in love with her, she did not regard the liaison as a serious affair, and left for Florence to care for a patient. While there, she became involved with someone else and broke the affair off."
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'A Farewell to Arms' by Earnest Hemingway, 2006.
A review of Earnest Hemingway's 'A Farewell to Arms'.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 0 sources, AU$ 42.95
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This paper reviews and analyzes the book 'A Farewell to Arms' to Earnest Hemingway. The paper studies the role of the leading character, Frederic Henry and how he handles war and violence.
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"Earnest Hemingway's purpose in 'A Farewell to Arms' suggests the undeniable cruelty and destruction that war brings forth in western culture. The aggressive and often masculine nature of Hemingway's lead character, Frederic Henry, conveys this aspect of war with a relentless series of violent events. By creating a book that would depict the reality of war, Hemingway sought to bring out the darkest possible scenario of what soldiers had gone through during the Italian campaign of World War I. This goal is achieved by recognizing the horrible reality of murder and mayhem, which strays from the ideological glory of war and the supposed rewards one gets from participating in war. In my opinion, Hemingway captures the stoicism and masculine hardness of reality, as Henry is not deterred from the ideological ramblings of the priest, Ettore Moretti and Gino."
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"Farewell to Arms", 2006.
This paper discusses the novel "Farewell to Arms" on WWII by Ernest Hemingway and explains what makes Hemingway such an excellent author.
1,015 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 4 sources, MLA, AU$ 57.95
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The writer studies Hemingway's novel, "Farewell to Arms" and shows how he uses symbolism and irony to enhance his novels. The writer first studies the title and presents the many layers of symbolism present just in the title. The writer concludes that each time one reads his books, they initially seem so simple, but become increasingly complex and this makes Hemingway such a noteworthy author.
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"Ernest Hemingway's Farewell to Arms is often called the best novel about WWII, because of the contrast between the horrors of war and the love shared between Catherine and Frederick. In addition, Hemingway is also considered to be one of the best writers in American literature, due to his vivid, detailed accounts and unique use of symbolism and irony. The title of the book, Farewell to Arms is a prime example of these literary devices. "The original "Farewell to Arms," comes from a poem by George Peele who lived in the 1500s in England. The poem, dedicated to Queen Elizabeth, relates to the great disappointment of a soldier who can no longer fight. "This helmet shall now make a hive for bees," he says forlornly."
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"Farewell to Manzanar", 2007.
An analysis of the themes presented in "Farewell to Manzanar," by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston.
2,021 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 103.95
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This paper introduces, discusses and analyzes the book "Farewell to Manzanar," written by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston. Specifically, it discusses several themes in the novel and analyzes the experience of living in the Japanese relocation camps in the US during World War II. It describes this experience according to that of the Wakatsuki family who lived in a relocation camp.
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"In conclusion, The Wakatsuki's experience in Manzanar changed the family forever. A once close-knit group of fishermen turned into a loosely knit broken family. It broke Jeanne's father, and gave her memories that it would take her a lifetime to remember and acknowledge. Her father was never the same man after the war ended and the family returned to Los Angeles. It was as if a different family returned home after the war. Jeanne becomes even more distanced from her family as she searches for herself as a teenager. She never respects or understands her father again, and the family never again gains the close relationship they had before the war. The camp tore them apart, put distance between all of them, and changed all of their lives forever."
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"A Farewell to Arms", 2002.
Discusses the religious conflict experienced by the character Henry in "A Farewell to Arms".
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 2 sources, AU$ 42.95
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The role of religion in Earnest Hemingway's classic novel "A Farewell to Arms" is often addressed as being fundamental to the course of the novel, where Hemingway created a setting in which his characters were directed in terms of their own desires and through what was arguably the influence of a higher power. This paper addresses the conflict between religious faith and an acceptance of life as is manifested in the character of Henry.
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Rain in "A Farewell To Arms", 2002.
A review of Ernest Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms", looking at the recurring theme of rain and water.
1,060 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 6 sources, MLA, AU$ 60.95
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The purpose of this paper is to introduce and discuss the book "Farewell to Arms" by Ernest Hemingway. Specifically, it discusses rain throughout the story. Rain and water are two recurring themes woven through the story. Hemingway uses water and rain as a subtle warning of the characters ultimate fate. The author illustrates how Hemingway uses rain and water elements as a vibrant and effective symbol of darkness and misery throughout the novel.
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"Just as rain turns a day dark and dreary, so does the rain in this novel turn people's lives from sunny to gloomy. In the one dissention from this theme, the rain "baptizes" the character Henry when he deserts the Italian army, thereby blessing his desertion and his "rebirth." Rain flows through the book in a never-ending river, and whoever it touches is never the same. Hemingway's powerful writing, combined with this compelling theme, makes this story tragic, and yet unforgettable."
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