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Nightmare Abbey Author Thomas Love Peacock Country United Kingdom Language English Genre Gothic  novella, Romance novella, Satire Published November 1818,  T. Hookham Jr. and  Baldwin, Craddock & Joy Nightmare Abbey. Dilapidated mansion in England’s Lincolnshire County; a former monastery whose state of sad disrepair reflects the plight of its residents, the deeply dysfunctional Glowry family. The house is not far from the sea, being separated therefrom by a tract of low-lying fenland dotted with windmills. There is nothing unrealistic about an early nineteenth century English family living in what once had been an abbey; many English religious houses became secular residences following King Henry VIII’s dissolution of England’s Roman Catholic monasteries in the sixteenth century. The abbey’s address reveals something about the Glowry family’s problematic social status—they are products of social upheavals that were still considered ...

Regret by  Kate Chopin This story was first published in 1897 when it appeared in Chopin's short story collection  A Night in Acadia .   Taken from her A Night in Acadie collection the story is narrated in the third person by an unnamed narrator and after reading the story the reader realises that Chopin may be exploring the theme of loss or at least the sense of loss that Mamzelle Aurélie feels in her life having never had children to love and cherish. It is also interesting that Chopin never mentions to the reader whether Mamzelle Aurélie has any friends.    The theme of commitment is self-evident in the story, most noticeably by the fact that all of Mamzelle Aurélie’s attention is on her farm. If anything at the beginning she considers the children’s arrival to be a hindrance to her daily duties and tasks. Though the more she grows fond of the children, the more she is able to show them the same commitment that she had previously shown to her land. I...

I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You Poem by Pablo Neruda I do not love you except because I love you;  I go from loving to not loving you, From waiting to not waiting for you My heart moves from cold to fire. I love you only because it's you the one I love;  I hate you deeply, and hating you Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you Is that I do not see you but love you blindly. Maybe January light will consume My heart with its cruel Ray, stealing my key to true calm. In this part of the story I am the one who Dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you, Because I love you, Love, in fire and blood. The poet expresses the true love the narrator has for his beloved. But the sad part is that this love is one sided. The narrator is deeply in love with his beloved but sadly his beloved does not love him back. The first stanza of the poem starts with the description of the love the narrator has for his beloved. He loves her from the...

  arablit.org 2018 have came! Everyone make their wishes and most of the renew their resolution in the new year. They hope that everything will be better than yesteryears in this year. Resolution is a firm decision to do or not to do something or the action of solving a problem, dispute, or contentious matter. Maybe some of you have not renewed your goals, or maybe last year you have not reached your goals successfully. Now, I want to give you solution to succeed your resolution and may will inspire you to renew you. To make a big change is not as easy as flip your hand. But something will be easy to do if we do it little by little. In example if you have the habit of eating junk food and you want to stop it, don't stop it immediately. Try to write the last date when you ate the junk food, don't eat junk food again after a week. After that try to extend the range, so on and on. If last year you have a workout program, but you don't finish it perfectly. Now, try to d...

Fire and Ice Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice. The purpose of this poem is to inform the reader of an opinion about the end or the destruction of the world. That the world will end in the embers of fire or the world will end in the ice. The rhythm is unchanged. The regular beat that is created suggests a simple tone, similar to that of a nursery rhyme. The rhythm is only interrupted by the change of meter. The change in meter is used to place importance on certain parts of the poem. Because of the brief dimeter lines, an additional use may be to force the reader to look back and interpret the preceding lines. The concept of fire and ice has a deep connotation that encourages memory of the sensitivity they embody. for example fire gives rise to heat and lightne...

The Indigo Spell (Bloodlines) The Novel starts with Sydney beginning by her history/magic teacher and asked a personal question. Ms. Terwiliger then drags her out to the middle of the desert so she can perform a spell, which she can't do herself because it has to be done by a virgin. Sydney is still resistant to learning magic, but does the spell anyway. Changing the subject, Sydney ends up telling him about Ms. Terwiliger and the desert spell, and the fact that she is supposed to find one neighborhood in L.A. At the wedding, Sydney is shocked by the strength of Ian's revulsion to the Moroi, who doesn't even want to shake hands with any Moroi. Sydney is the put on the spot when Adrian asks her to dance in a show of fostering good relations. She accepts, and Sonya and Rose comment on how good they look together, troubling Sydney. That leads to romantic interludes, including one that leaves her with a hickey. Sydney keeps telling herself to forget about them, and is in c...

Story of An hour In The Story of an hour written by Kate Chopin, tells the story of the life of a woman named Mrs. Mallard, she received the bad news that her husband had died from a train accident reported by her sister Josephine with her husband's friend Richard, Josephine was hesitant to say the sad news because Mrs. Mallard was suffering from heart disease, most likely the situation would get worse when hearing this news. At first he reacts with an emotional response, then he asks for permission on both and immediately heads upstairs. After hearing the news of the sadness, she opened the window, then looked at the blue sky as if to touch his soul. She just stared blankly at the sky without expression. It was as if she felt she could touch the sky so that it could pass through the sounds that filled the sky. Mrs. Mallard felt that her husband's death was a happy thing, as if she felt reborn into a world without pressure and suffering. This is contrary to the circumstances...