As they struggle to survive through rationing of food and water, fighting off the exhaustion of body and mind, and contend with the sharks that come to investigate the boat, they continuously think about nature [...]
What he remembers is the slaying of mankind to which he acknowledges that he has attained and reached that extent of fear, after which fear itself has remained trivial to him.
John Cheever's short story "The Reunion" is considered an initiation story because the protagonist of the story shifts from the viewpoint of a child to that of an adult during the action of the story.
She is the perfect Victorian example of what Edna is expected to be, but Edna is incapable of keeping up the act, which is all her marriage and family really are to her.
This is like the letter Burns sent to his father before being a poet and there he stood and proved to all that He is a great writer who strikes in every thing he writes. [...]
In the novel, we see April and Frank Wheeler as a youthful, presumably flourishing couple who lives a contented life with their two offspring in a well-to-do Connecticut neighborhood in the middle of the 1950s.
The psychological stages of the pilgrimage of conversion and of progression in the spiritual life were described in detail by Mary Rowlandson, two of the greatest New England preachers of the first generation.
The play is made by the author in the way representing the memories of the main characters through the flashbacks along with the real scenes of the play.
Masood skews the balance of this relationship when the grandfather speaks of his dislike of the man, in answer to the boy's question: "He is an indolent man, and I do not like such people".
The analysis of the poem The Flea should be viewed through the author's personal style of writing and world look. The style of the poem writing can be characterized as lyrical and romantic as the [...]
It is not easy to distinguish the most important aspects of Eudora Weltys life, because all of them are closely intertwined, though, while analyzing her stories one should pay attention to her family relationships, her [...]
Ingersoll in his article "The Stigma of Femininity in James Joyce's "Eveline" and "The Boarding House" analyzes the image of Eveline from the point of view of feminity and oppression of women in those times [...]
The author of the book employed certain aspects that are interesting in nature and this makes the story capture the minds and the hearts of the most audience.
The story is not interesting to read and there is nothing left in the memory to share with others. The Beast in the Jungle is definitely not one of the stories to read twice.
The women characters in the short story tell each other a series of tales, embedded within the story at different narratives, about the enticements and dangers they face when they were young.
Her monologue or probably it would be better to say defense speech is the bright example of the transition that we have already mentioned.
In the pages of history and numerous literary canons in American experience there lies a terrain of societal upheaval and unrest that addresses the questions of segregation and racist philosophy underlying the mainstream dynamics of [...]
However, Shakespeare, being the absolute genius of an artist was able to conceptualize the basic norms of this sentiment and presented his villain of this play as a monster, for the jingoistic mass, and a [...]
In later years, a lot of his poems were directed through the style of using firm words to express his strong emotions and to depict the ideas of revealing and concealing the tone of his [...]
For example in the chapter on the Great Gatisby she narrates the dreams of people in regard to the future, the dangers associated with fulfillment of such dreams, and the frustration resulting from the dreams [...]
The lives of the Mother and daughter can be interpreted in terms of a river that has fully developed from the formation to the old stage.
The point about his defense is that he wanted to stick to the speech he had prepared and it was planned and was well prepared.
Occurring as it did from the middle of the 1700s to the middle of the 1800s, the Romantic Period was an age of tremendous change and upheaval.
The woman's role is depicted ever so poignantly in the works of Divakaruni and this also reflects the importance of reclaiming the understanding of the role of women in society.
Therefore, all real emotional response is suppressed and the perfect regimentation of the way of life in the One State is supposed to overcome this fatal human flaw.
The specific inspirations for the Oceania society from "1984" were The Soviet Union and Nazi Germany with their inherent propaganda, betrayal of the ideals of the revolution, concentration camps and misinformation.
They both post-war kinds of literature of America represent the revolutionary transformation in the world view of the literary figure and the employment of the most modern tools of interpreting the war-affected world.
Analyzing and comparing "Ashes" by Sedaris and "Silent Dancing" by Cofer the reader is enabled to understand the course of relations in two different families and to undertake the idea of two different life paths [...]
The poems "The Tiger" and 'The Lamb" discuss the meaning of human existence and freedom, liberty and relations with the world around us.
The honesty in which the poems of Semezdin Mehmedinovic were written might lay in the fact that for the whole period of the Serbian nationalistic siege he remained a citizen of Sarajevo.
The Vietnam War was perceived as injustice because of the discrepancy between the loose form it took and the form the soldiers had been trained to identify and label as such.
Wit starts with Vivian addressing the watchers: she is presently a patient in a central research clinic undergoing curing for sophisticated ovarian cancer, and she realizes that the prognosis is not consolatory."The Faerie Queene this [...]
In its most common use, the word torture refers to "the use of physical or mental pain, often to obtain information, to punish a person, or to control the members of a group to which [...]
In the same vein, Joseph Conrad's novella "Heart of Darkness," written in 1899, is about the struggle of two civilized Europeans, Marlow and Kurtz, after they ventured in to the wouldarkness' of uncivilized Africa,' and [...]
The symbols of nature are various, and have different meanings, depending on the context, but the key meanings of these symbols are life itself, and the beauty of the surrounding world.
The Harlem Renaissance, a period spanning roughly the decades of the 1920s and 1930s, is frequently referred to as a literary movement, but the movement also encompassed a great explosion of African-American expression in many [...]
The beginning of the poem reveals the narrator's feelings toward Annabel Lee, determining the theme and the mood of the verse: "a maiden there lived whom you may know by the name of Annabel Lee; [...]
In the first place, the point stated in the Manifesto is that human nature might, can, and even should subdue a regime of power in a country.
To begin with, it is necessary to emphasize that the central point of Thoreau's "Life without principle" is the necessity to have the aim in every action performed and do not chase the evanescent values.
Taking it upon himself to complete Yasuko's recollections of the dark days, Shizuma must rewrite the journal to bring to the reader an unmistakable account of the injuries, the horrors and the victimization that was [...]
It can be presumed that the three the madman, the ferryman, and her friend work according to the dictates of the baron.
The protagonist of the story is the man who "was a newcomer in the land, a chechaquo, and this was his first winter" and he is the prime tool at the hands of the writer [...]
Sammy's decision to quit his job is therefore based both on his rejection of the conservative and restricting viewpoint of his manager as well as the free and nonconformist lechery of the butcher as he [...]
In such an arrangement, there is a tendency to have the opinion that the development of one individual is a benchmark for the development of another, which eventually leads to laxity among some individuals.
If we match this to the last line of the poem, we see that he is "clinging" to his father's shirt as his father waltzes him off to bed.
Isaacs explains his belief that this portrayal of the American soldier in Vietnam is detrimental, saying that this contributed to the sense of much of the American public that the soldiers were responsible for the [...]
Jonathan Swift, the author of the famous Gulliver Travels, takes a dig at the Irish and British Bureaucracy in his masterful satire, 'A Modest Proposal,' which in the true sense is a mockery of the [...]
Sammy's powers of observation and discrimination are clear enough in his description of the leader of the bevy the one he instantly realizes is the 'queen', or, as he later refers to her, "Queenie": She [...]
It takes a short time to relax with the switching of scenes, but it is eerie to watch the scene unfold and realize that you could have been in the same situation.
When the Argonauts land at Lemnos and meet the women of the island, Queen Hypsipyle convinces the men to mate with the women so that they can repopulate the island, omitting the fact that the [...]
Sophocles makes use of all these elements in the Oedipus Rex and the fact that the audience is aware of the myth of Oedipus foreshadows his fate in the beginning of the play.
Despite Dee's overwhelming presence, Maggie is the first girl to be introduced in the story as it is she who has apparently helped her mother to make the yard "so clean and wavy yesterday afternoon....
Again, the original rhyme is lost, though much of the original character of the words are intact, due to the close resemblance of Latin and English in much of the inherited vocabulary from French, a [...]
Thousands of years ago people knew that the Earth is flat, hundred years ago people knew that the Earth is the center of the Universe, at present, people think that they may be not the [...]
The first two lines of the poem reveal the picture of an actual corpse being burned in the process and providing the readers with ideas regarding the subject of the poem; namely, Harrison's father the [...]
In Bacchae, the denying of the irrational as Pentheus did leads to the demise of personality and society since denying the irrational is denying life itself and encircling it in the 'second nature' which leads [...]
The "Bandersnatch" sounds conformable to a name for a monster, so the word "frumious" probably characterizes it as furious and fuming, therefore "Bandersnatch" may be a name for a dragon. These words are appropriate, as [...]
In case of the abovementioned Swift's work it is the problem of poverty and other social problems of Ireland of the 18th century.
In this example, death is in the middle of the circle, and is, hence in the power of the person because death settles on to impede, whether the person is pleased with it or not.
It comforts the reader by assuring that death is not the end; it is the continuation of Life. Death is the continuation of the journey".
We are not aware what happens at the moment of death or after it and seek to find the answers to the questions raised by Shelley in the poem "On Death".
She was introduced to the library of her grandfather and thus developed a fondness for books. Thus it is no wonder that one of the major themes of Sor Juana's work is knowledge and, in [...]
His pride in his role is evident in the words he speaks in which he seems to be almost condescending to them for appealing to other forces than himself in their burning of incense to [...]
Huck fears his father and apparently never knew his mother; a homeless waif, he sleeps on doorsteps or in hogsheads; he is troubled by no ambition and steers clear of Sunday school; his life is [...]
The use of language and stylistic techniques enriches the suspense and horror of the actions being described. For instance, in The Masque of the Red Death, the prince is depicted as a madman who enjoys [...]
Chueh-Hsin's younger brothers do not want to follow his example and try to break away from the influence of the family. He leaves the compound of his family to continue his rebel and to marry [...]
Finally, her description of the man she married as the model of her father indicates his deep cruelty because he has a "love of the rack and the screw".
In Carson everything is rooted in the everyday, so the destruction of Dresden evokes memories of a particular Dresden shepherdess he had on the mantelpiece as a child and the destruction is described in terms [...]
The characters of Louise Mallard in "The Story of an Hour" and the storyteller for "The Yellow Wallpaper" are representative of what the authors want to express about themselves and their current situation.
Fiction can possibly include the happenings of everyday life and is reliant on the person that narrates the happenings, the manner of its narration, and its composition.
The creativity of the novelists causes the reader to imagine living in the book and walking in the shoes of the characters of the book and changing it based on the individual's imagination and emotions.
It is worth noting that, in the novel Maps by Nuruddin Farah, the writer examines the problems of national identity through a gender-oriented interpretation of the history of Somalia.
Today, the lines are blurred as to determine whether it should be an east or west conflict as it could also be any form of war against one ethnic group by a whole nation or [...]
The "we" in the poem is the black folk collective, the speaker a Dunbar persona, or perhaps the real Dunbar lifting the mask to speak plainly and unequivocally about the double nature of the black [...]
It begins with supernatural such as the presence of the ghost and Hamlet attempting to glance into Claudius' soul, to the mystery of the crime and the need for revenge. The masterful use of style, [...]
That little plant is the symbol of hope for a family determined to escape the squalor and violence of the ghetto.
Anna's ability not to be jealous of her mother's constant attention to Kate distinguishes the girl from other children. Anna realizes that her mother is extremely tired of the life that does not stop to [...]
At the same time, Troy tries the best way he knows how to direct the course of his own son's life away from the negative influence of the boy's ancestors.
'Leaves of Grass' is a collection of Walt Whitman's poems to which he wrote a preface titled "Inscription: To the Reader at the Entrance of Leaves of Grass".
It is the story of the life of a man of great wisdom and spiritual strength in the early days of the colonization of Iceland.
A balance between good and evil is the main theme of this story with its focus on character development, both within the characters of the larger text as well as with Fenoglio and the characters [...]
The books referred to were "book 1-The Sword in the Stone, book 2-The Queen of Air and Darkness, book 3-The Ill-Made Knight and book 4-The Candle in the Wind, The author Terence Hanbury White who [...]
However, in this play, we can be witnesses to a fact that all of the pain that King Lear had undergone can be cathartic.
In addition to fighting for his king, Macbeth is quickly and well rewarded for his efforts as King Duncan makes him the new Thane of Cawdor in addition to his already holding the title of [...]
The theme of sin is depicted through emotional sufferings and experience of the main heroes of the novel: Hester Prynne, her husband Roger Chillingworth and Hester's lover, Dimmesdale.
The protagonist of the novel Emma Roberts is on the very edge of deciding to leave home, and she is feeling disturbingly emotional.
The short story "The Country Husband" by John Cheever reveals the darker side of Suburbia, "the side which traps its residents in a web of conformity," and the protagonist of the story Francis Weed, is [...]
The main accent of Empire of the Sun is Jim's growing and getting older from a boy to a man during the war.
But the problem is that her mental ill has put a veil on her and she is not longer Rose to anyone.
The poem under study entitled My Last Duchess has been written in the form of single stanza, where satire and irony determine the theme and mood of the poem.
Hester returns to Boston just before her death, in order to be buried in the same grave as Dimmesdale, with 'A' inscribed on their tombstone. Much to her son's anger and disgust, she marries Claudius [...]
The third grotesque view occurs {while Ruth is later dressing upstairs ostensibly to go with Teddy back to America} when Max and the others, realizing that Teddy's marriage to Ruth is in shambles, begin discussing [...]
On the ward, McMurphy proves himself to be a master manipulator, hustling his fellow patients in card games and persistently challenging the authority of Nurse Ratched.
Having already presented the boys as a group of older men in characteristic business behavior, this comparison serves to bring into focus the concept that while the speaker's son is ostensibly the 'king' of the [...]
Mansfield, who experienced the shift from the Victorian era to the Modern in the latter portion of the 19th century and early 20th century, used her writing as an outlet for thoughts and feelings that [...]
Most noteworthy in this poem is the importance of the gunner to the mission and the cleaning of the turret after the gunner has died.
Takaki, who states that racial identity crisis is caused by the inability of a person to join two separate cultures and racial values.
The main theme of the story is the love relations between Samson and Delilah. In spite of romantic scenes and love relations, these stories are a part of Lawrence's response to the war.
The stark contrast between the harsh reality and the peaceful setting of the novel makes the realization of rejection particularly striking. The novel starts with a strong plot line unraveling the drama between Gabriel Oak [...]
Eve is the central character of the narrative in Genesis 1-3 and one of the central figures in the Bible. In this regard, understanding the development of Eve is essential, including the analysis of her [...]
Overall, "The Souls of Black Folk" vocalizes the needs of African Americans and serves as their voice much more powerfully since the protagonist is African American, and since the conflict of the novel wraps around [...]
In Pastan's work, the state of loneliness and fear is depicted: the author is "learning to abandon the world", and she has already "given up the moon / and snow".
The latter is about a girl and her conflict with her family, which eventually leads her to leave her home and start living at the post office.
In retrospect, the cultural context of the play was that of a period of transition from the Victorian values to the new ones and the desperate search of the ideas that could constitute a new [...]
The titular bell jar In Sylvia Plath's eponymous novel is symbolic of Esther's condition because it serves as a metaphor for her depression.
The choice of words in the second stanza, the second last line, which reads "glowing at dusk, a shrouded welcome" is a further confirmation of the sorrow in the mind of the narrator.
The culture of consumerism that was unravelling and the rising popularity of television led to the development of the marketing industry as people know it today.
Due to the fact that Cannery Row tells a story of different characters with a range of aspirations it can be argued that Steinbeck showcases various aspects of the human condition in his work by [...]
In his sonnet, Shakespeare reflects the theme of time by mentioning various seasons of the year and comparing them to a girl's age and appearance.
Judging by the conversation of the King with a lady Camae, the King indeed is presented as a human being who had feelings, fears, and emotions.
The news spreads far and quickly, but the creature fails to live up to the expectations of the curious crowd and is soon forgotten. It is likely that the angel's stay was exactly as he [...]
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the prominent elements of fiction used in A Doll's House as the most vivid example of Ibsen's approach, analyze the applied dramatic techniques, and describe different layers [...]
While the play has comedic elements, the events that the characters of the play go through are highly tragic and ultimately lead to negative consequences for the majority of them.
One of the main reasons for the emergence of such fusion is the desire to show the unique character of the psyche and, from the other hand to emphasize the fact that all people have [...]
Happiness becomes accessible through product attainment, and even the opening of the story deals with the fact that the protagonist and his wife, Tom and Betsy Rath, want to live in a better house.
They call me the cancer stick; I am a gigantic straw, Crack of dawn in just a flick, pleasuring is what I draw, In an attempt so quick, I rip them out of the low, [...]
The theme of gender roles is consistently present in the novel, starting with character origins and becoming the central concept as they mature to defy archetypal perceptions of feminine and masculine expectations in order to [...]
The major theme of the poem is how the life of a person can be destroyed by the accidental loss of self-confidence.
The main theme of the poem is the relief that death can bring to a man who is finally freed from all the hardships of life.
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