Through symbolism, O'Connor was able to convey the characters' unique features with their names, connection to parents with Hulga's wooden leg, Joy's mindset with her glasses, and Pointer's non-religiousness with the hollow Bible.
While The government is the system that makes laws and ensures that they are followed, it is the person who wields power who is responsible for the equality and impartiality of its enforcement.
George Orwell's Politics and the English Language is an essay in which the author has criticized certain techniques that make the language redundant, the message unclear, and people confused or manipulated into believing in insincere [...]
The use of this tool by the author is observed at the beginning of the book to create a special atmosphere. In The Alchemist, this tool is perceived as an appropriate element to add to [...]
The name The Storm symbolizes some of the characters' lives, and Calixta and Alcee end up marrying other people. Therefore, the two storybooks are related in the sense that one is the continuation of the [...]
In order to offer the reader a better comprehension of the story, the environment is described in great detail. The power to choose the true meaning of the story is what actually distinguishes it.
Moreover, the children do not seem to listen or even obey their parents, and as if to make the situation worse, the parents are unbothered by their show of disrespect.Mr.
Imagery, similes, and alliteration are essential elements in Spencer's work that help him reach the reader and explain his concept of love.
When the neighbors begin to repair the main symbol of the poem the wall both the narrator and reader begin to inquire about the overall necessity of the wall.
In this case, the use of the tense suggests that the story is told by a person who is currently in the city and the one who can describe the site in detail.
The book describes the American soldiers during the Korean war, with some of the main struggles being not even the battles but events in between.
The semantic load of the poems of the poetess gives an opportunity to take a closer look at the woman's attitude to love.
To make such an argument regarding the poem, one would need to have a deep understanding of the cultural context of the poem and the lives of the Natives.
As soon as it appears clear the fact that the play's author is engrossed in the action the audience experience the first display of tension.
The poem suggests that the life of a person who could be represented by this poem is far from perfect. As Brooks starts her poem with a positive note, it is immediately understood that the [...]
In Neruda's "Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market," arrow, missile, and bullet are some of the three motion features that describe the fish's movement.
Through the poem "My Last Duchess," the poet deeply explores the mind of such powerful dukes of the Victorian era and the dark aspects of life, especially for women living in those days.
She must have felt regretful about coming to call her brother for dinner."Leaped out at the boy's hand," the writer personifies the saw to show the fatality that befell the brother's sister.
Moreover, the author switches between the description of events from the side of the first, then from the side of the second protagonist.
This is the best description of the person vs.society conflict; it allows the reader to understand, analyze the handmaid's feelings and emotions, and come to a logical definition of the subject of this confrontation.
Starting from the explanation of neo-liberalism, Harvey draws the reader's attention to the "naturalization" of the neo-liberal approach and the reasons behind the global neo-liberal turn.
The text of this work demonstrates a short episode from the life of a mother, clearly showing the massive number of worries that women have to deal with every day.
The point is that the lives of children can blossom in the hands of parents, but to assert the child is "mine" is to defend one's ignorance.
However, in my opinion, "The Gift of the Magi" is one of the most powerful pieces of writing I have encountered.
In her memories, the mother is talking to her back when she was a little girl and teaching her the ways of what she considers a woman's work.
Therefore, a critical analysis of the two poems shows the difference between Taylor and Bradstreet in their use of language to convey their ideas.
As it is shown in the book, she attempts to convey her sense of isolation to the reader and the implication of solitude in the individual's life. In the end, Esther is recovering and she [...]
As for the irony, the author uses this device to draw the readers' attention to the injustice of the situation described in the poem.
It is that the murder is a reason for the fifty-two years-old disappearance of the respected Fortunato, and the Montresor's guild is undeniable".
The figurative language closely intertwines the entire plot of the story of Andy and sets the overall tone of the novel.
Following one of her dreams, Ruth is surprised to discover previously unseen pages of the diary, which point toward a happier ending for Nao and her father.
Contextualized by the male gaze of the narrative hero of the short story, the girls in A&P, the story written by John Updike, are being observed from their very first appearance.
When he requires his community to clear the weeds from a common division in readiness for a ceremony, he starts the task and is supported by others who prepare most of the business.
The speaker and nature in the poem communicate through the rapidly changing times. I connect with the poem at a personal level as it speaks to my heart about the truth of my life.
Even though Frances Harper and Robert Hayden enjoy American liberty and accept the blessings of the nation, they would seek the real meaning and existence of various terms such as freedom, liberty, love, and equality [...]
The Europeans took advantage of the disunity among the native tribes to grab their land and exploit them. The author explains that the Native Americans designed a similar language to the Europeans to communicate with [...]
For Kitty, it was in a growing sense of homosexuality as well as a rebellion against the constricting accepted occupational goals open to her gender.
Published one month before the death of the writer, The Bell Jar is the novel that depicts the main struggles experienced by Plath during her lifetime by highlighting the impact of societal norms and stereotypes.
However, the world of wizards or wizardry that Harry lives in is secretive and is unknown to the non-magical people or the Muggles.
A sense of entitlement can arise from the way a person is treated or from their temperament and as such, it is a dangerous attitude to acquire or encourage because it may lead to disparaging [...]
Classical realism, which can be viewed as the basis for the development of the rest of the approaches in question, has developed significantly, yet the links between different states of realism remain basically the same.
Consequently the idea of respect and submitting to patriarchy is even seen in the human level. This is a parable for women to behave and obey the rules of the patriarchal society.
Iacocca's ability to work with a team or to listen as much as he talked was the key to his leadership agenda.
It is not a very active story because the woman, Elisa Allen, spends her day engaged in very simple activities and only leaves the space of her garden and home toward the end of the [...]
The notions developed at that time romanticized the Middle East formulating the ideas that are still persistent today: that Arab men are overly sensual and easily become angry, females are beautiful and submissive, and the [...]
A review of the scene in which Jean Morris, the main female character in the story, tells Mustafa to "come with her" while she is on the verge of death gives a concise view of [...]
Introduction The play of William Shakespeare Twelfth Nightis one of his most performed pieces. The romantic comedy tells the story of a woman who disguises herself as a man and thus changes the foundations of gender roles and romantic relationships. The central themes explored in the piece are love, disguise and deception, and gender confusion. […]
He only joins the conversation to let Robert know that he is still in the room and not upset his wife.
As positions of men and women in society changed significantly over time, literature gives the readers a unique opportunity to see the differences in the treatment and perception of the two genders centuries ago.
When his mother gets insurance for ten thousand dollars after his father's death, he decides to take a risk and invest a part of the money in a liquor store.
The importance of the cartoons in the book is attributed to making Junior closer to the reader as well as using illustrations as a tool to facilitate the depiction of both serious and comedic situations.
The fact that Clifton included this poem in one of the crucial parts of her memoir, which discussed her heritage showcases her response to Whiteman's words.
One of the main issues raised in the story is the indignation of the older woman by the behavior of her granddaughter who "is not like my daughter Natalie, or like me".
The tales of the Grimm brothers hold a very special place in the pantheon of the world's renowned collections of stories for kids.
The story "The Drover's Wife" written by Murray Bail and Henry Lawson has several similarities and differences in the way the "wife" is presented.
Consequently, the author of fiction has to consider the impact he/she can produce upon the reader through the plot of the story.
In the modern world of high technologies, in the world in which a book is replaced by a computer, by television, or by the internet, a person losses his or her individuality.
It is also known that vampires typically rest during the day only to rise in the light of the moon. Thus, to my mind, the image of Poe's Ligeia is strongly associated with a vampire [...]
In 1837, he made his debut as a novelist and released "The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club". Constant quarrels with his wife and illnesses of his eight children led to the fact that he [...]
The main characters of the story observe and relate to others through judgment leading to their perceptions and blind belief in certain ideas to be fundamentally challenged.Mrs. The arrogance and judgment of Mrs.
Hamlet's assessment of his issues is accurate in the sense that he already associates Claudius with problems, but the prince is too quick to judge his mother.
Marco's and Raju's mother's characters are to be considered further in order to research the differences in western modernity and Indian traditional values.
However, in the poem Death be not Proud, John Donne's somber narration describes death as a temporary sleep; and Emily Dickinson's poem, Because I Could Not Stop for Death, describes a journey symbolically in the [...]
Lord Byron was the one to create a perfect model of the romantic hero for his contemporaries and next centuries. And though the romantic hero is the caring one, Byron made his character a representation [...]
Furthermore, the names of all the characters in both films are the same except for a little twist in the spelling of names like Mcbeth and Mcduff.
In Homer's The Odyssey, Odysseus ventures to Hades, in Virgil's The Aeneid, Aeneas goes to Orcus and in Dante's Inferno, Dante ventures into the realm of Christian Hell.
The paper under analysis is based on the comparison of Othello by Shakespeare and A Raising in the Sun by Hansberry through the manifesting of the theme of the racial segregation and the nature of [...]
The foremost feature of postmodernism - challenging Enlightenment - that arouses in the text is the attempt of the author to show the subconscious behavior of the characters.
For example, Ivan demonstrates his relationship with The Universe through his views that God's love is refuted by the unnecessary suffering that humans endure.
Gradually we get to know about the powerful influence of globalization on the century and its culture in general, about the relationships between Islamic world and the Western culture; and the most interesting is how [...]
The abstraction of the female body is represented by a sign of a geometric sense of sexuality, which is a sign of male imperialism and domestication of a woman in a society that is rigid.
The writer uses first-person narration to illustrate how Ralph is writing a memoir in response to the muddled uproar that is rampant in the setting of the novel.
This approach explores the motivations of a writer, his characters, and that of the audience, drawing on Sigmund Freud's theories and other psychoanalytic theories to understand fully the meaning conveyed in such text. The characters [...]
As a result of working continuously in the steamboat on someone's payroll, the author is astonished at his failure to appreciate the marvelous qualities of the great river since he was being desensitized to its [...]
These were people who had never moved to the city and had spent their lives in the village. They had starved and the family had had to stay for days without food.
The first part of the story depicts the attempts of the machines to answer the first question of the paragraph under analysis, whether the men were broken down.
This paper will also look at the biographical information of the author Edward Abbey and its relation to The Best of Edward Abbey.
The power of this image lies in the dual nature of the image: a long and painful process of drying and an eventual concentration of the sweetness.
The "discerning Eye" that sees through society's "Madness" is certainly the poet's and, implicitly, belongs to certain other naysayers as well."I felt a Funeral, in my Brain" articulates a state of consciousness that follows the [...]
Adler had threatened to send the picture on the public announcement of the mutual intention of the King and his fiancee to marry.
The story 'The Tale of two Cities' written by Charles Dickens is considered to be dedicated to the disclosure of French Revolution period; it is the classic work representing the archetypal characters through the concepts [...]
The fact that Japanese people idealize aesthetics explains the particulars of Japan's history and provides us with the insight onto why, after being thoroughly defeated during the course of WW2, Japan was able to quickly [...]
The author points out that it was due to the foolishness and lies of President Johnson's government actions that the country got sucked in the unwinnable war.
In this case, saying that she was in contact with Williams; showed that she was able to speak to the spirits of the dead.
In the poem, The Larynx Alice Jones tried to use a serious and at the same time informal tone in order to show all the significance and the necessity of the larynx.
Somehow, I knew it was too late to help her."A perfect day for a car crash", I thought."It is a perfect day to do something good.
The author further takes the point of view of a third person character in narrating the story; as he tells the story from an invisible point of view where he is not one of the [...]
In the novel, Life of Pi, by Yann Martel, the protagonist is found in a state where the realm of self-awareness and human consciousness fails to make the difference between reality and illusion.
This line also exposes her fear of social ridicule which is preventing her from doing all the things she would really like to do.
The old and the new, the Christianity and Islam, the East and the West are shown closely interconnected for example in the description of the two ancient cemeteries in Istanbul and in the development of [...]
This paper is an attempt to analyze Hamlet's actions and inactions to prove the authenticity of the application of these maxims to the protagonist.
Set in deepest and darkest Africa, the pace and narration is quite compelling and bears a richly descriptive and evocative style - a style that is needed to consider not an image of Africa, but [...]
'Stylistic' is one of the most widely accepted literary terms in linguistics and it is the study of differences of language whose properties locate that language in various contexts. After detailed analysis of the story, [...]
Consequently, the work is aimed at the analysis of the interconnection of the way of expression of the themes and content of the poems with the form and figurative language of the poetry.
The first time the reader encounters the Martians is in the chapter "The Cylinder Opens" and this encounter suggests the evident difference of appearances of the Martians and men.
In this respect, it is of paramount importance for us to mention the symbol of the beast, or some sort of threat.
It is through his adventures living as Tyler that the Narrator truly explores the dark side of his personality, living not by the laws of society but in direct contrast to them, until the Narrator [...]
Economics shifted from an agrarian, land-based economy to one of business and commerce; socially ingrained concepts of class and position were eroding, allowing commoners to quickly escalate to the wealth and power of the elite [...]
In the second and the third verse: "That from the nunnery2 Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind3" The author uses figurative language to describe his mistress, where by using such words as nunnery, chaste, [...]
When the novel "Death Comes for the Archbishop" begins, one can see that the setting is the Great Rome in 1848 where the cardinals and the American missionary Bishops were indulged in a talk about [...]
In this case, it is assumed that the ghosts are not real and are just figments of the governess's imagination and the 'evidence' she sees in the behavior of the children regarding the ghosts' existence [...]
In Homer's Odyssey, the noble nature of the hero is made clear in the way that his servants speak of him and strive to behave as he would expect.
One of the main peculiarities of the Muslim religion is the treatment of women. Fatima Mernissi wanted to tell the world about the real state of things in Muslim harem, about the real life of [...]
The character Pearl is considered a perfectionist, and when the father deserts the family, she is challenged in her attempt to hold the family together as strongly as it used to be.
The story is very intriguing and covers many aspects of human personality, Emily is the most important character in the story and she takes her revenge in the story by killing Homer.
'Great Expectations' by Charles Dickens deals with "the aspirations and ambitions of the protagonist and narrator, Pip, to improve his status in life and create conditions for better living"..
The present paper is intended to discuss and compare the ideas of women's position in Republican China as illustrated in the novel "Red Sorghum" by Mo Yan and the corresponding gender attitudes in the traditional [...]
Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and the carnival elements in the play are widely discussed topics in the literary world. When analyzing the gradual development of the plot of the play A Midsummer Night's Dream [...]
However, in plays such as "The Miser," he also demonstrates he had a fine sense of the comic and had justly earned his contemporary reputation as France's jester."The Miser" is considered to be a romantic [...]
In the end, the good doctor loses his life in abandoning himself to the strength of the monstrous evil portion of his being thus fulfilling the promise of the doppelganger.
Steinbeck manages to capture the isolation and sexual frustration of Elisa Allen, the reason for her tears, through his characterization of her while she is tending the chrysanthemums, the interaction that occurs between Elisa and [...]
The birthmark of Chikako which Kikuji glimpsed in his infancy is at once a symbol of the ugliness of the body and of human desire, of demoniac frustration and of man's obsession with life.
The Trojans were the ancestors of the Romans according to the Aeneid, and their enemies were the Greek forces who had besieged and sacked Troy; yet at the time the Aeneid was written, the Greeks [...]
Sonnet 141 is also dedicated to the topic of love to a woman that does not notice the love of a man.
In the New Jersey-based stories, the narrators, all of whom may or may not be Yunior, share Yunior's sensibility: the suspicious watchfulness and defensive stance, the blighted relationship with the father figure, and the uneasiness [...]
Tiger is one of the best students in spite of the fact that both of her parents are mentally ill.her grandmother is one of the best friends her helps and supports her.
Anne tasted success with her book Interview with the Vampire in 1976 which was followed by The Feast of All Saints and Cry to Heaven.
As DuBois is a female character, her tragedy is also to be seen as a result of her helplessness to transform her desires in a male-dominated world.
These soliloquies are dramatic and ironical, Harold Wilson submits, with an irony that is implicit and eloquent in the extravagances of Hamlet's rhetoric.
The three poems written by Langston Hughes, namely "Negro Speaking of the Rivers", "Democracy" and "The Negro Mother" show the depth of black people's sufferings and the immensity of their desire to obtain freedom and [...]