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TIS PITY SHE IS A WHORE

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1776- A NOVEL

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IN A FEW WORDS AND POINTS- THE MIXED BAG

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TOPICS Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow The Bluest Eye Beloved Thomas Love Peacock William Hazlitt Philosophers, Thinkers and Reformers( Romantic Age) 1) TOMORROW AND TOMORROW AND TOMORROW Famous soliloquy in Shakespeare's Macbeth. Act 5, Scene 5, lines 17-28 Macbeth delivers this soliloquy in response to Lady Macbeth's death   2) THE BLUEST EYE   Written by Toni Morrison in 1970 The novel is set in 1941 in the backdrop of the Great Depression in Lorain, Ohio Centres around the life of a young African-American girl named Pecola who is constantly called ugly due to her dark skin colour leading to the wish for blue eyes. Narration- Claudia MacTeer and a third-person narrator Drunk Cholly, Pecola's father rapes her. Pecola's child dies prematurely leading to her insanity Due to controversial topics, there had been numerous attempts to ban the book   3) BELOVED   Beloved is a 1987 novel by the American writer Toni Morrison. Setting- Ame