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        <title><![CDATA[what does the playwrighr want to bring to home from the play and why...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[what does the playwrighr want to bring to home from the play and why from the mouth of an alien?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[what could calling the wrong president say about kretons powers?
how...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[what could calling the wrong president say about kretons powers?
how could this defect be an example of foreshodowing? ]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Gore Vidal's play was written for television rather than the stage. For...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Gore Vidal's play was written for television rather than the stage. For this reason, the reader must be somewhat familiar with shooting jargon ('stock shot,' 'fade out...'), which often replaces stage directions.The main character Kreton uses both implicit and explicit metaphors in his speech. He refers to people as &quot;poor fragile butterfles - such brief moments in the sun,&quot; and later visualises their emotions (and the cat's) in...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[What literary elements are used in &quot;Visit to a Small Planet&quot;...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What literary elements are used in &quot;Visit to a Small Planet&quot; and how do they enhance the story? ]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Gore Vidal is famous for his biting criticisms of modern society. ...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Gore Vidal is famous for his biting criticisms of modern society.  Visit to a Small Planet is a play intended to satirize mid-20th century American society, a society that had lost itself to fear and the belief that a &quot;simpler time&quot; was something that could be reclaimed.  Vidal is eager to illustrate the foolishness of the American people by showing their behavior through the eyes of the aliens.The occupations and social classes of...]]></description>
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