In addition to making him and his creature be isolated, Viktor does not accept the idea of duty and responsibility for his actions because of his inability to understand what it means to be responsible [...]
The issue of racism is prevailing in Gaines's novel A Lesson Before Dying, wherein the author casts a shadow on the generalized attitudes toward black people in the American South of the post-WWII period.
To emphasize the stop and to draw the readers' attention to it, Conroy uses the present tense, and the readers become involved in the situation because of observing it through the eyes of a boy [...]
The atmosphere that is created, very much adds to the general theme and the relationship between the characters and the surrounding environment."Heart of Darkness" is a story where the setting plays a great role in [...]
When looking at the relationship between the monstrous and the human in Odyssey, it can be seen that monsters represent, in many instances, the darker side of humanity.
The substance of ghosts in the novella was a result of James's careful use of the people's resistance to rational reduction, and thus be sympathetic with the issue of ghosts and haunting.
The role of a detective in the story is the main one, but the readers' focus is on the process of solving the mystery.
In this paper, I will show that in light of the deliberate choice of diction, the metaphorical significance of the funeral, the interaction of the content with structure and form, the utilization of personal voice [...]
Therefore, the fact that, while sitting by the fireplace with his wife, Updike felt suddenly amorous, cannot be thought of as a proof of him being a romantic individual, but rather an indication of the [...]
However, in a quick and dramatic twist of events, he is soon established as the cock of the walk in the rural area of Qinghe.
The frozen in time quality of the setting, combined with the images of "coquettish decay," underscore Miss Emily Grierson's inability to free herself from the memory of her father and of the past.
He is considered one of the most influential agitators for change in the social order in the history of activism in America. The poem highlights the plight of the Negro in the USA.
This is one of the main issues that can be singled out since it is important for understanding the actions of the protagonist who wants to understand the reasons why she is reduced to the [...]
Focusing on social and economic aspects of the narration is essential because it allows the reader to conduct a comparative analysis of Wells's perception of the future with the current economic and social situation.
He worships the goddess of "hunting and chastity, Artemis and ignores Aphrodite, the goddess of love". Hippolytus is the favorite of this goddess as he prefers hunting and staying chaste and rejects worshipping the goddess [...]
He is regarded as the brains behind the launch of the Centre for Ecoliteracy in Berkeley, California, given the significant role that he played in launching the institution and serving as the first director.
The style is quite appropriate in the poem as it is used deliberately to advance the poet's motive. Whitman's use of symbolism is also notable in redefining the self to the modern times.
Although the death of his father signifies his own downfall, nonetheless, one could argue that Oedipus acted in self-defense, in that he was attacked unexpectedly while travelling alone and out of fear of losing his [...]
A poem that deals with family relationships and explain the poem's meaning The poem is heavily based on the relationship between the narrator and Lenore with their affection being the subject of the whole poem.
There is even more to it the deployment of stream-of-consciousness technique in The Dead, was also meant to encourage readers to consider the possibility that, contrary to the philosophical conventions of the 19th century, the [...]
For example, Sarty feels that he cannot keep hiding from the law and the wrath of his neighbors in the rest of his life.
As well, an action is "wrong" if it results in the opposite of happiness to the people. Mill's utilitarian theory can be used to assess the ethically of Jay Gatsby's action, as presented in the [...]
Depicting the difficult times of the economic depression in 1893, the poem shows the plight of the commoners who could not afford to meat and had to be content eating bread.
In the poem, What it's like to be a Black Girl, Smith explores the issue of racism in a jagged society.
Before the woman could notify the buyer about the blemish in the cake, the buyer acknowledged before a crowd that she had baked the beautiful cake.
Blackie is the leader of the group and believes that power is the ability of an individual to lead. In the given context, the idea of breaking the house down can be viewed as getting [...]
One of the reasons why many critics refer to Sherman Alexie's novel Reservation Blues as such that constitutes a particularly high literary value is that in it, Alexie was able to provide readers with the [...]
In fact, the way of life in the world is substantial and the meaning of life is exposed through events that are being experienced at that particular time.
In this case, the visit to the supermarket reveals Jack's true nature as an American who is proud of his way of life, and the satisfaction he feels after buying goods from the supermarket.
He claims that since the clergy is not willing to listen to them and give them their rights, they have to show the importance of the matter by holding non-violent demonstrations.
The authors managed to observe and expose the apparent follies and the corruption of the morals in the society for the period of the neoclassical era.
Drawing facts from the novel, Human Toll, the Western society presents men as the beneficiaries of the gender bias since the male folks engage the females in endless conflicts, and the women are the ones [...]
The novel is considered to be the so-called extension of Modernist literature which appeared at the beginning of the 20th century. The window which is the first part of the novel is set in Ramsey's [...]
In most of the lines he has continuously given negative descriptions of the woman, but close to the end he changed his manner of description. In the last part of this poem, the persona gives [...]
Auden uses the motifs of mourning and the loss of the sense of life after the lover's death for representing the idea similar to that developed in Bradstreet's poem.
Magic In the opening of the play Prospero is the one who, had conjured the storm in a desire to entice his, brother Antonio and the king of Naples, Alonso.
The two works by the authors are related in that one work is the rewrite of another or almost the duplicate of another and therefore almost all the themes are the same in both books [...]
Raising the issues of de-colonization and the consequences of the political and cultural dependence of the colonized territories, the postcolonial writers criticize the racist inclinations of colonizers and the colonial rule in general.
Henry does not know how to live with the burden of war in his heart, and can not imagine his further life. Henry is the victim of the war, who can not adjust to his [...]
According to Kant's Moral Theory, the act of killing Richard is morally right since Matt's intention was to get justice for the murder of his son. Even though is aware of the guilt of Richard, [...]
Ha Jin is a Chinese novelist currently living in the US and the author of the book Saboteur, Saboteur is about a young man, Mr.
In his speech, he talks of the 'carnal, bloody and unnatural acts', basically he is referring to the killings that took place when his friend Hamlet tried to retaliate his father as well as the [...]
The use of foregrounding is evident in this line and has been used to draw the readers' attention to the subject matter and his stance on the issue.
The meaning of the title and of the poem itself is one of the most captivating issues, which have to be analyzed in this work: Eliot tries to unite past, present, and future into one [...]
The act of confession is one of the central themes in Crime and Punishment, since it is the climax point of the novel signifying crucial changes in Raskolnikov's mental and physical state.
Unfortunately, he does not have the courage to handle a gun; consequently, he uses the gun for the wrong reasons and shoots a mule dead as he practices how to pull the trigger.
It discusses the stories of 12th century and the main focus is the transition of Chinese and the Japanese. This is the initial stage that the belief of the Japanese is portrayed.
Firs, as one of the main characters depicts various stages of the play's development, his fate is associated with the fate of the orchard and the attitude of people to his is almost the same [...]
Norton is "blind" as he cannot see the real side of the life of the Afro-Americans in the United States. In spite of the fact that Mr.
Wes Moore, his hewing, is the person who lived in the same neighborhood as the author of the story, he went the same school, and it can be said that he experienced all the life [...]
The themes and the underlying meanings of the poems encompass the problems of human existence, human feelings, desires, and even the world perception. The aubade is the kind of lyrics devoted to love and the [...]
The three questions that the theatre asks are: what the play is, why it is the way it is and what the characters learn during the play?
The experience has been such a major part of her personality that she carries it with her always, and it makes her character unique because of this.
The very movement brings back the fleur of the England of the XVIII century, to "Southern-Gothic imp of Poe-etic perverse" with all its ideas of Gothic culture and the features that are due only to [...]
The intertextual dialogue between the short story Afra by Emilia Pardo Bazan and the zarzuela La Bruja which is reflected in the parallelism of the principal characters, the similarities of setting and plot lines helps [...]
In this paper, we explore the elements of literature used to describe Pip and Fleece and their relationship with Ahab and Stubb respectively.
The writers came up with books and articles that tried to warn the society about the effects of their actions, while others tried to educate the society on what it needed to do to better [...]
Irrespective of a writing style, authors share baseline ideas on the society and often form the alternative voice of reasoning into what is occurring in a society.
Proposals to the queen and the execution of the king are two coincidences in "Oedipus Rex". On the other hand, as Cohen notes, "the death of Willy is a tragedy while the failure of his [...]
Wilson is successful in displaying is perspective on what issues experienced by women who are attempting to attain their dreams as a kind of equality and acceptance in the community.
To understand the role of Ultima in the formation of Antonio's perception of the world, it is better to consider the final Ultima's words, "I bless you in the name of all that is good [...]
Nowadays, the word "habit" is used in order to indicate an action or emphasize the tendency of doing something, while in Shakespearean context, word "habit" is not an action.
Religion in Gilead is the similar to that of the current American society especially, the aspect of ambiguity which has been predominant with regard to the rightful application of religious beliefs and principles.
In the first place, Levin found that one of the major reasons why the Russian peasant did not want to invest their labor in their land was "due to the consciousness of his vocation to [...]
The decision that Sula takes is contrary to the black community because of the discrimination they faced by the white community.
In the first stanza, the departure of the lover marks the end of their love, while the second stanza uses the dropping of sand as symbolic to the passing of time in an hour glass.
Achy Obejas provided the readers with her own vision of the controversial situation in Cuba in 1990's with the help of vivid depicting of the character of Usnavy, the protagonist of Obejas' Ruins.
The author of A Voyage to Lilliput, which forms the first part of Gulliver's Travels, introduces the reader to a brief historical account of his own life encounters coupled with his own family.
In the 20th Century, it is a recognized factor in Australia, and all over the rest of the world, that there was neglect of Aborigines since the settlement of the first western civilization, and for [...]
Edna Pontellier and her family spend their summer in the Isle resort belonging to the father of Robert Lebrun. Edna seems to survive in the relationship because of the society and her two sons "Think [...]
Ethan's morality is put under test when he decides to hang back at the end of the dance to find out the identity of the young girl, who turns out to be Mattie.
The Biblical conceptualizations of the origin of man provide an excellent form of a myth in the antiquity while the relatively new myth of the Superman offers the best illustration of a myth in the [...]
Raju uses Rosie, her lover to reach the final goal of his life through her art of dancing. Raju as a Sadhu is not suppose to work, but rather pray to God in order to [...]
According to Sarah, therefore, the only true love that a woman can be sure of is the one between her and God.
This paper offers a brief analysis of appeal of logos as expressed in Dahl's 'Lamb to the Slaughter.' A perfect appeal of logos in Roald Dahl's 'Lamb to the Slaughter' is well expressed by Mary [...]
All these aspects observe the truth in the writer's perceptions through the words of the grandmother that "a good man is hard to find".
Dee and Maggie do not interact, it is only as the story ends that Dee speaks to her angrily as she is leaving; this ending portrays the relationship of the African and American heritages.
Quitting the marriage, better known as divorce in the marriage institution, is the best answer for majority of the victims of such a situation.
Good is usually thought to be the will of God and in this case the Franks are deemed to represent good since they are moved by the will of God while the Saracens are seen [...]
Thoreau mentions a dawn or a morning but he was neither referring to the sunrise we know of nor was he referring to the early hours of the day we call morning but rather he [...]
Although the mother's speech to her daughter seems motivated by love and she provides her child with information she believes the girl will need in order to survive as a women in the Western Caribbean [...]
This essay demonstrates the linguistic, thematic, and cultural importance of Beowulf from the eyes of Grendel's mother, an antagonist in the novel.
Theseus- He is the Duke of Athens and is getting ready to marry Hippolyta at the beginning of the play. Lysander- He is Hermia's lover and in the end of the play, the two marry.
In "Play-by-Play", the omniscient narrator poses rhetorical questions as the narrator watches a group of men playing softball and analyses the secrete sexual thoughts and desires of the women nearby, as they secretly admire the [...]
With his incredible ability to see the truth under the thick layer of lies, Thoreau managed to notice that despair is the integral part of what makes a man.
Making a choice is always a real challenge for the speaker leading him to the analysis of the meaning of darkness, which is often associated with uncertainty, ambiguity, and the unknown.
Unfortunately, the book failed to sell as he had anticipated and therefore in the end, he remained with many copies, which were a great loss to him both in terms of money used in printing [...]
It was the wakeup call for revolution at the beginning of the 19th century and a sound of establishment at the close of it.
Bronte's original story narrates Jane's story as an orphan who finds joy at the end of the story but Stevenson's film tells the story of Jane as a person who went through a lot of [...]
The other part of the poem that assists the reader to get the poetic meaning is the first sentence in the fourth stanza, "Or rather he passed us".
He had a very strong army because of his courage, influence and prowess and managed to defeat the ruler and hence he was made the ruler of the Empire.
In an analysis of Chekhov's first play the Seagull, Bloom views Chekhov's portrayal of the characters in the play as well as the overall script to be magnificently written the famous playwright.
The company that the woman gets from the man is the root cause of her death. As the woman enters the house to find the man dressing, she assumes he is leaving and gets annoyed [...]
In Carver's story, we learn the emotional isolation experienced by the narrator almost immediately, through his description of his own wife's attempted suicide, and his description of the death of Robert's wife.
Sarah then decides to drop the matter because she knows that it is not her place to go against the wishes of her husband.
Again, the calmness of the voice and the soothing quality of the language underscores Dickinson's view of death as a pleasurable, desirable state.
Climax in the play is realized when Walter is made to understand by Bobo that Willy, the man entrusted with the money to start a liquor business has run away with the money, this thus [...]
After considering the evidence that Brown uses in the 'Da Vinci Code', especially the gospel of Philip, I am of the opinion that although Gnostic gospels rejected by the early church portray Jesus as more [...]
As of today, a clear correlation can be seen between the quality of living in every particular country and the extent of citizens' sense of religiosity the higher are the standards of living, the lesser [...]
In a typical way of people in modern world, Oedipus goes on to question the credibility of the Oracle. Oedipus has to pay for all his sins and face humiliation in front of the very [...]
He feels privileged to have such a creature in his room and the fact that the raven answers his question of what its name is with the word "Nevermore", adds to his excitement.
While it is often times criticized as being akin to a form of self loathing what must be understood is that this form of poetry uses the pain of the writer in order to capture [...]
In addition, Clutter is known by the neighbors in the surroundings to be a kind boss who ensured that his employees were responsible; hence, they served a good example to the Americans.
She attempts to use her academic qualifications to conceal the truth that she has cancer but she finally decides to face the truth. In the course of the treatment, it is clear that Vivian is [...]
The significance of Othello's race and pigmentation work hard to expose racial prejudice in the Elizabethan era. Shakespeare is using the Moor to challenge the ideologies of race, sex and miscegenation in the Elizabethan period.
The issue of love has been explained in the actions of the father during the winter seasons. The poem shows the negative and cold thoughts of the son against the warm and positive feelings of [...]
One of the best examples of the author's techniques is the poem "Acquainted with the Night". One of the interpretations, that we are going to provide in this paper, deals with the explanation of the [...]
By the end of her little 'binge', she is aware that she will have to return to her married, maternal role, out of which she stepped, if only for a few hours, and accept the [...]
However, when Kira learns the truths in her society, she decides to strive and save the villagers from their horrible way of life and superstition. The village is primitive and a scary place to be [...]
The author tries to achieve this purpose by describing the main character's relations with his family and his friends, on the one hand, and his servant Gerasim, on the other.
The living conditions that the slaves had to put up with were also appalling, as seen in Drought, where an entire family is forced to live in a tiny cabin.
Frank spent nearly all of his early days in the slums of Ireland until he got to the age of 19 and went back to the United States The kind of life Frank was raised [...]
To my mind, Winter Dream is a perfect example of the American Dream, since the main hero, Dexter, implemented each point of it, he was persistent and very hard-working, he was a very sensible and [...]
He believes that the government is not doing much to address the issue of the working poor. Although there are laws set up to protect the working poor, the process of implementing them is very [...]
The structure takes the character of young Alex as the narrator as well as the criminal protagonist with the main aim of showing the importance of allowing people to make their personal decisions regardless of [...]
The poem depicts the heroic deeds of the warrior Beowulf and captures the Anglo-Saxon culture of the medieval period. Next, in the part of the poem which depicts Beowulf's battle with Grendel's mother, the character [...]
The striking of the clock to mark the beginning of the day and the crying of the newly born baby began concurrently.
The main plot of the fairy tale is that two scammers arrive in the capital of the emperor, who lavishly spends money on clothes to the detriment of state affairs.
Even though the theme of love intends to represent happiness and peace, it cannot always be achieved in life because of the complexities of social lives and the pressure of relationships that individuals in the [...]
Further on in the poem, Gorman uses vivid imagery to describe the hope and resilience of the American people. Her imagery highlights America's challenges and the strength of its people in overcoming them.