Connie's desire to be free is reflected in her behavior, attitude to parents, and her relation to personal sexuality, but when she is offered this independence, she understands that all she was searching for is [...]
Since her grandfather worked on the railway, the poet imagines that their household was similar to the untamed West of the past and that he never imagined that this would be the place where he [...]
He entombs the corpse in the basement of his house, and when the police unexpectedly show up at his house, he inadvertently leads them to the corpse.
Although the dark and horrific motifs of Frankenstein may appear to contrast with the bright tones and subjects of such poetry, there is a clear connection, as established in the text, between the poetry of [...]
Loureen is a victim of abuse, and the question of how to respond and react to it is posed within the play.
Apparently, the wide variety of themes that he chose for his writings also contribute to their popularity: the complexity of human soul, its ability to rise and fall, wisdom and vanity, purity and vice, the [...]
The writer used the name of the play as the name of the main actor while other characters in the play helped in development of the predominant theme in the main character.
So the scope of influence of language is both verbal and intellectual. Therefore, the progress and continuity of language are linked to the continuity of literature.
The main character of the story is Sammy, a teenager who tries to rebel against the system and structure of social norms represented in the text in the form of rules and standards typical for [...]
The main hero, Aeneas, is driven out of his home after the destruction of Troy and travels the world in his quest to reach Italy.
This promise is immature; Walter knows very well that getting the money to invest in his business remains a point of contention, yet he promises Willy that he would take the money.
A great variety of cognitive metaphors highlighted in the poem outline a great desire of a woman to be loved and gain respect on the part of a man.
The future is uncertain to Eveline but very hopeful, she ought to embrace the future and break the chain of problems in her family.
She imagines herself as "the milk-white maid, the "maid mild," her husband as "the Fine Prince," and the murdered teenager as "the Dark Villain" who wanted to defame her and ruin "the Happiness-Ever-After".
Her assertion is that science is equal to power, the power to create. Frankenstein reads like a warning to the modern world about the dangers of science.
To live in the Borderlands means you written by Gloria Anzaldua is a great example of love for culture and people.
The use of these devices is against the common Puritan practice that preferred the use of a simple and straight-forward language with the view of making the poems' divine messages more vivid to the audience. [...]
Contrary to the conventional wisdom, The Story of the Good Little Boy narrates about the boy who makes incredible efforts at being good to the surrounding people, although it brings in no recognition on the [...]
Laius is the rule of Thebes; he learns from oracle that his son Oedipus will kill him and usurp his throne.
At first glance, it may seem that this literary work describes the events of the future, in which people left the Earth to move to the moon.
As aforementioned, the plot of the two versions of this story is the same; the storyline of the two versions carries a clandestine love affair between Anna and Gurov with a happy conclusion where the [...]
The power blackouts lasted until six in the morning, affecting the hours of the most significant movement in the city between the time people left their offices and the transportation in buses and subways.
This seems to be the reaction of a badly abused child, and it may be that he has repeated his crime of shooting her.
Although Algernon's view on love and marriage is not known during the conversation with his butler, we get to know his thoughts on the subject in a monologue where he claims that marriage is an [...]
However, in the second part of the play, when Gertrude faces the truth of her first husband's dead, she immediately stands a reformed character, sympathetic to Hamlet's cause.
First, Hughes claims that he developed the plot of this play, did some characterizations and dialogues, whereas Hurston was supposed to recreate the atmosphere of Southern life as the action of Mule Bone took place [...]
One of Anne Finch's poems, "The Introduction," talks about female writers of her time in the first twenty lines of her text.
As for my personal opinions on the reading, I think that "When I Was One-and-Twenty" accurately and truthfully reflects the aspirations of the young generation to which I belong.
This is the technique that Jefferson uses in writing the Declaration of Independence. In using this technique Jefferson enumerates to illustrate the patience of an oppressed people.
He wanted to talk about his perception of death and framed the poem in a way that seemed like he was talking to death.
Stephen Crane's The Open Boat revolves around four shipwrecked men: the captain, the cook, the correspondent, and the oiler. Thus the danger of the wind and the waves natural forces are so awesome that without [...]
The tone of the poem is calm and meditative and Wordsworth describes the "landscape" and compares it to the "quiet" of the sky: "The landscape with the quiet of the sky"..
At the beginning of the story, he is portrayed as a disabled man who is not happy with his life and wants to become smarter.
It is a satirical play that highlights the life of Willy Loman, the main character, a traveling salesman who has worked for Wagner Company for thirty-four years and ends up a failure because it is [...]
The title of the book is derived from the heading of one of the poems that were composed by Jane Kenyon in her poetic life.
By cooking the "murder weapon", she has partially destroyed any evidence linking her to Patrick's death. First, she offers the detectives a drink, possibly alcoholic and bids her time.
Geoffrey Chaucer, the father of English poetry, was the first who started writing in English, not in Latin, as writers and poets used to.
The feminist critique is an aspect that seeks to explore the topic of men domination in the social, economic, and political sectors.
In other words, the two little people with their intelligence cannot accept and adapt to change easily, while the two mice notice the change, adapt to it, and move on to find new cheese.
One of the elements used in the poem is anaphora in the first three lines, starting with "If ever.."., making an accent on the beginning of the verse, attracting the attention of the audience.
The main character of the story, who is unnamed throughout the whole narrative, lost his love because of her disease. The end of the story reveals her unfaithfulness, and it is not definite that the [...]
It's ironic when Torvald says that he pretends Nora is in some kind of trouble, and he waits the time he can rescue her.
For example, the idea of prioritizing one's own benefits is discussed as the writer presents such characters as the miller and the reeve.
In the second part of the poem, the poet asks the rose to remind his lady love that she is still young.
King Lear and the other characters that were at fault in the beginning of the play are redeemed in the end by the tragic death of the most innocent character.
In the case of Hamlet, he surrenders his own life and future to the will of his father, albeit following significant hesitation, not to mention the passage of an entire play.
The use of horror and humor in "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe is one of the literary features that the author uses to constructs the story.
It has been argued that the Miller's tale reflects a fall in social status a from the noble intentions of the characters in the Knight's Tale, and their noble standing as well, in contrast to [...]
The disabilities of the younger brother do not prevent him from admiring the world, while the elder brother is inclined to show more pride, and these differences form the basis of the story.
Additionally, the huckleberry is a shrub that grows in the northern part of the country. Additionally, the author showed the prevalence of gender-based violence in the period.
The play Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe can be referred to the genre of the Morality Play because it uncovers the theme of the Seven Deadly Sins.
It is, therefore, easy to recommend Fahrenheit 451 as the book with the true reflection of the society people live in nowadays.
The first similarity between the 'The Yellow Wallpaper' and 'The story of an Hour is that the main characters in the stories are looking for freedom in vain.
The American dream makes it clear through its guarantee of the freedom and equality with the promise of prosperity and success as per the ability or personal achievements of every American citizen."Fences" reveals the obstacles [...]
This essay shall analyze the main scenes and the ending of "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" This is why realism and real-life cruelty are the things, which are inherent to this story [...]
With Eliot's description of Prufrock's thoughts and consciousness, the reader observes that Prufrock's personality and character are a representation of what most people experience as they advance towards old age.
The primary objective of fantasy is to provide a way of escape from the unexciting existence of daily living. In the case of Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, one of the purposes of fantasy is to [...]
One of the prevalent techniques Hoagland uses throughout the poem to explain his point of view is the metaphor, precisely the extended metaphor.
In this respect he declared the status of the American poetry as a means for cultivating the whole idea of living in the US."Song of Myself" characterizes Walt Whitman in his capability of using poetic [...]
The author presents a solution to this question by demonstrating through the main character, Rita, that education can upgrade the diminished position and status of women in society. Education is Rita's expedition of self-realization to [...]
On the one hand, it depends on the person who is telling the story; on the other hand, it is determined by the level of the narrator's awareness.
In the poem, irony is used to portray the wreckage and damage done in the city with repetition of lyrics from the song "White Christmas".
Langston Hughes, the author of the poem, was quite a significant person during the Harlem Renaissance a movement for the revival of the African American culture which took place in the 1920-1930s.
Although the play had a religious connotation, it highlighted the government's failure and the inherent struggle by the people which aggravated the leaders, thus leaving the country and becoming a French citizen.
Romantic literature is characterized by several key traits, such as a love of nature, an emphasis on the individual and spirituality, a celebration of solitude and sadness, an interest in the common man, an idealization [...]
This attitude of a hard-working woman, well-grounded in her Christian faith and yet longing for a change in her life, is illustrated through the imagery presented, the allusions to religious tenets and the changing meter [...]
The paper demonstrates the relevance of Othello to the contemporary audience by highlighting the existence of the major issues Shakespeare addresses in this play.
I find the ghost one of my favorite because of the hope and information he gives Odysseus."The ghost reveals to Odysseus that Poseidon was busy punishing and killing the Achaeans ". From the encounter with [...]
Because of this, Amir is constantly trying to live up to or prove his father's expectations of him as a son, and he does it by turning to his father, the father.
The story centers on the theft of a holy Muslim relic, which is characteristic of one of the main themes of postcolonial literature.
The poem is written as a couplet because most of the lines are of the same length that makes it melodic, pleasant to read, and easy to perceive.
In the end, Cinderella marries the prince in the ultimate triumph of her pious beliefs and acts of good over evil, and she goes to the very top of the socio-economic ladder.
I choose to analyze the poem from two perspectives that are; a poem denoting the life of Maya through the ups and downs of her life and from a bird's eye view, a poem describing [...]
The silence that the accusers in the Town Hall subject Claire to is deafening and a powerful ending to the story.
Maybe Loureen and Florence treat their problems a little differently depending on the fact of having children or the degree to which the husband's attitude can be tolerated. The general opinion about women and their [...]
The main difference between the film and the book is that the film is focused on the relationships between sisters in their romantic stories.
The title "The Shunammite" preempts the details of this particular short story because it is derived from the Bible in the book of 1 Kings 1:1-4.
The girl invents a story about her being on a swim team in high school to strike a conversation with Elizabeth, Kelda, and Jack-Jack and convince them that she has coaching skills.
At the end, the persona in the poem justifies the tittle of the poem that trying to conceal anger is like cultivating a poison tree.
Therefore, in this play, the sighted like Oedipus and Jocasta are 'blind' to the truth whilst the blind like Teiresias can see the truth.
This essay discovers the child's view of the problems of racism, poverty, incest, and the inability to love. Cholly's Projection of Pain Cholly is the father of the Breedlaw family and the one who took [...]
Both Geoffrey Chaucer and Dante Alighieri wrote in the Middle Ages and were the two most famous and most celebrated writers of that period."Both Dante and Chaucer were active in affairs of their times".
The misunderstanding between An-Mei Hsu and Rose Hsu-Jordan occurs due to their differences in the views on the roles of females in the family.
The title and the first stanza of the poem highlight the first symbol in the poem. Through the personification of the clouds, the speaker is able to express the extent or impact of his loneliness.
In the play, the supernatural things are central to the plot of the play as they provide a basis for action as Shakespeare meant them to fit in putting the play together.
Gawain is not aware of the plan but is wise enough to find his way out and by so doing he proves to be a hero again, as he is strong enough to avoid the [...]
The 'fearful trip' is an illusion to the troubles that the Americans including the president have to go through during the American Civil War while the phrase 'some dream that on the deck, fallen cold [...]
This is good evidence for the argument of the need to eliminate the issue of ableism. Language evolves gradually, and countering the issue of ableism is a long-term goal.
Olds uses enjambment to quicken the pace of the poem, and employs repetition both these stylistic devices are used to denote the rhythm of sex: "How do they come to the / come to the [...]
This essay will examine the key themes of the story and the historical context, provide a brief analysis of the main characters, and give an overall reader's opinion about the novel. The idea of friendship [...]
Wright, as she was sleep, the women in this play suspect that Mrs. Wright's death in Trifles are similar to those, which surrounded the murder of Mr.
The woman decides to place a petition and hence dresses to her best and moves to the king's palace where she encounters four men who were the senior person in the state and were in [...]
Therefore, the poet's intention is to foreground the element of time in love relationship and show the ambiguity inherent in it. The greatness of the poem is in its literariness.
The character of the boy is obliquely revealed in the opening setting of the short story. The boy realizes that he put all his optimism and love in a world that is not real except [...]
The monster then travels to Geneva and meets a little boy called William in the woods, where he hopes that the young boy who is not yet corrupted by the views of older people and [...]
The author personifies Imagination to describe best the state of mind that people experience when they are dreaming. Moreover, the poetess notes that Imagination can transfer people to places not available to the common mind.
Although the plot is different in each of these poems, both Annabel Lee and The Raven share the themes of death and lost love, as well as the symbolic language.
They are the symbolic image of Hamlet's father the ghost of the King, the flowers and Ophelia, the skull, and the grave of Yorick.
It is ironic in the sense that Abner is punished for his injustices to the wealthy yet the justice system does not consider the social injustices of the rich society to the poor.
While the old man with enormous wings seems to be the central character in the short story, he does not clearly appear to be the protagonist in the story.
The opening of the poem confirms this when Beowulf has to travel all the way to Denmark to set the Danes free of the monster.
In the poem, the author delivers the details about the theme by stimulating the reader's imagination, mind, and perception. In the poem, the author uses epithets and metaphors to stimulate the readers' imagination and describe [...]
The principal purpose of the deployment of metaphors and figurative language in the work of literature is to emphasize the emotional intensity of the characters' experiences.
Though it is hard to define one concrete thesis of Henry David Thoreau's Life without Principle, the point that this thesis somehow connected to money and its power in the world is evident."This world is [...]
His works are especially noted for the use of moral allegories tinted with Puritan inspiration and sharing the features of the great Romantic Movement, more specifically with the Dark Romanticism. Loss of innocence is the [...]
Introduction of internet to humanity has led to many changes most of which have a negative impact to the way of living.
The short stories The North Wind and the Sun by Aesop and The Dead Men's Path by Chinua Achebe show that persuasion and peaceful measures can be more effective than inducement and force.
Geoffrey Chaucer has also been able to write quite a good number of poems such as The Book of the Duchess, House of Fame, The Parliament of Fowls and The Legend of Good Women.
The theme of loneliness and isolation is prevalent in the story, as the two main characters, Mrs. The emptiness is seen in the few bus passengers and the isolation of Eliot's beach.
This fact adds to the already uneasy perception of Jun's death and shows that the guilt is not only in the lack of connection but in the absence of attempts to support his cousin.
According to the author the in the short poem the Dream of the Rood, the narrations of the poem is done in a manner to represent the horror fear as well as awe in witnessing [...]
The readers are encouraged to reflect on everlasting truths and the role of a common woman in her daily life as a mother and wife.
The theme of child labor is the red thread that runs through the white cloth of Frost's narration, causing the audience to become as horrified as the boy when he loses his hand.
The major plot involves the courtship and love dilemmas of Duke Orsino, Lady Olivia, and Viola. In a conversation with the captain, she learns of the courtship between Orsino and Olivia.
The Morlock live in the underworld and only to appear during the daytime to hunt for the Eloi and feed on them.
He feels that he is living two lives his real life and the other as a black man, struggling with a history of his own racial identity and the expectations of the society around him.
The abstracted and personified idea of "Mother Nature" has in the nineteenth century began to shift towards the image of a machine with fixed laws of motion.
However, at the same time, these breaks from the traditions incited a response reaction in favor of more traditional social roles in other areas, such as the refutation of male sexual relationships to the extent [...]
In the short story "The Guest" by Albert Camus, the theme of self-determination is represented in the actions of the two main characters, Daru and the Arab.
The first evidence to support their ignorance of McCandless is his lack of knowledge and experience to understand and survive the wilderness.