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Anna’s primary role in Surfacing is to crystallize the narrator’s opinions about love, sex, and marriage. Anna’s constant chatter helps the narrator to better understand relationships. She asks whether the narrator takes…

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Peace of Augsburg (1555), Causes and Its Impact

During the 16th century, the religious unity of the Holy Roman Empire, which comprised a patchwork of territories in present-day Germany, Austria, and parts of neighboring countries, was shattered by…

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A short note on Anna’s character in the novel ‘Surfacing’ by Margaret Atwood

Peace of Augsburg (1555), Causes and Its Impact

A note on Shakespeare’s mixture of prose and verse in “King Lear”

Summary and analysis of “Goblin Market and Other Poems” by Christina Rossetti

What is Roman documentaire; Definition and examples of Roman documentaire

Sigmund Freud’s theory of Id, Ego and Superego

Pearl poem summary, themes and critical analysis

What is novel of sensation and its examples

What is historical novels and its examples

What is Pastoral Elegy?, its Examples , and its Characteristics