Second Grammar Test answers

Writing as if he were a psychopath dm, the poem Porphyria’s Lover rom with quotation marks, by Robert Browning, is intriguing in its portrayal of love and murder. The speaker is expecting God to say something about the fact that he murdered his lover, cs however, God says nothing. Perhaps challenging Christianity, the poem written in the nineteenth century by a famous Christian poet. frag But Browning was not really exploring Christianity with his poem, cs he was exploring psychology and what it is to be human.

In fact, much of literature are s-v about the exploration of what it means to be human. Emma is on one level about learning to overcome ones poss presumed understanding of people around one; on another level it is about the political climate of the time. Having both levels of identity, the personal and the national, being worked out at the same time. frag This leads to a complex novel. Emma herself thus stands in for every young woman and for England: Englands poss reaction to the French Revolution is being explored. If Emma rom were to comprehensively understand split English politics, then perhaps she would also understand the best person for Harriet to be married to prep. The fact that Austen is able skillfully to conceal national politics in a love story is an indication of how complex human existence actually is.

Goldsmith’s “She Stoops to Conquer” ital and no quotation marks deals with politics as well, but not as completely as Emma. A five-act comedy mm, the main character of the play is ostensibly Kate. She, and other characters in the play, is s-v involved in a complex deception   fs she pretends to be someone she is not. The play, through her character, explores class differences, but mainly it explores the limited powers a woman may take upon herself to find a mate. There is alot sp of lying in the play, cs everything, however, works out in the end.

We have yet to read the novel “About a Boy,” ital and no quotation marks which is set in the late twentieth century. Perhaps conservative English principals sp will be upheld in the novel, but because the novel talks a bit about Kurt Cobain, perhaps it is more revolutionary than, say, Emma.