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Metamorphosis and Hybridity within The Firebird’s Nest by Salman Rushdie

Now I am ready to tell how bodies are changed

Into different bodies.

- Ovid, The Metamorphoses

Short analysis: The significance of gender in Milton's quest to 'justify the ways of God to men':

Gender as a corrupting influence within Paradise Lost

Can gender be a corrupting influence? Is all that is evil in Paradise Lost associated with the feminine? Or is Adam’s masculinity mirrored by Satan? This paper explores the extent to which Milton portrays each gender as corrupt and how he uses this to demonstrate God’s justice.

‘Drad was he never’: A re-reading of Sir Gawain

Gawain, hero of Arthurian legend and romance. A nephew and loyal supporter of King Arthur, Gawain appeared in the earliest Arthurian literature as a model of knightly perfection, against whom all other knights were measured.The lines below are taken from the anonymous poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, which is considered one of the masterpieces of Middle English literature.

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Annabelle May Hawkes

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