The Theme of Isolation in Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea Compare and contrast the ways in which the writers present the theme of isolation to construct the characters of Rochester, Jane and Antoinette in “Jane Eyre” and “Wide Sargasso Sea”. The theme of isolation is utilised in English literature to shape the principal characters […]
The short story A Worn Path is one of Eudora Welty’s most notable fictional stories. A Worn Path takes place in the rural South during the 1930s in the beginning of winter season. The setting of this story plays a major role of the imagery set by Welty. The brilliant use of tone and imagery […]
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Get started“The Chimney Sweeper” by William Blake is one part of a collection of poems known as Songs of Innocence. William Blake communicates “The Chimney Sweeper” in the form of a first person narrative. While utilizing the AABB rhyme scheme, this poem consists of six stanzas of four lines also known as quatrains. There are multiple […]
In daily life, people tend to make a mix of selfish and selfless decisions. In times of conflict, decisions are more important and can be the difference between life and death. Anthony Doerr tells us that during times of conflict, it is human nature to pick a side of either selfish or selfless decisions. Doerr […]
The Hunger Games, a blockbuster hit directed by Gary Ross explores a dystopian world set in North America. One in which a wealthy, central elite (the Capital) exploits bordering districts into producing goods and services for the Capital’s consumption. The conditions surrounding the unrest in the Hunger Games can be extrapolated to real society, evidenced […]
The Hunger Games is one of the best selling novel which subsequently developed into one of the most viewed novel based movies. So what is the hunger games series? what makes the series so exceptional that it had the third highest grossing opening weekend in U.S history (Dubrofsky, and Ryalls, 2014) ? The film revolves […]
The eco-apocalypse movie that I have decided to do an analysis of is the first Hunger Games. I’ve watched the whole trilogy as well as read the first two books, so I’m familiar with the concept portrayed in the whole series. The movie Hunger Games was directed by Gary Ross, which is a direct correlation […]
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is based on a girl named Katniss Everdeen who volunteers to compete in the Hunger Games in exchange for her sister’s safety out of the game. In the Hunger Games 24 participants are chosen to fight to the death until only one participant is left. Katniss displays, but also […]
The novel The Secret Life of Bees showcases a girl named Lily living in the south around the 1960’s. Lily is a girl attempting to find out who she is and what kind of person her mother was. In the novel The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd illustrates the theme of how motherly […]
The Secret Life of Bees takes place in the 1960s and follows the incredible and emotional journey of fourteen-year old Lily Owens, a white girl living in Sylvan, South Carolina. Lily lives alone with her father, T-Ray, and her African-American housekeeper, Rosaleen. Growing up with an abusive father and a dead mother she barely knew, […]
A major highlight of the war between Great Britain and France in their respective bid to dominate North American territory originally occupied by the Native Indians is the massacre at Fort William Henry. Although some of the characters and events used by Cooper in his novel the Last of the Mohicans” were fictitious, he gave […]
William Faulkner was an American writer and Nobel prize winner. He was born in Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner wrote novels, short stories, screenplays, poetry, essays, and plays. Everybody knows that Faulkner’s fiction is alive wither sound of African American music. In Soldiers Pay, individuals first dance to a blues orchestra and then listen to the singing […]
Change from past to present: “”His mind is set on taking her to Jefferson,”” Quick said. “”Then he better get at it soon as he can,”” Armstid said. Anse meets us at the door. He has shaved, but not good. There is a long cut on his jaw, and he is wearing his Sunday pants […]
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway is a love and war novel about the love between lieutenant Frederic Henry and Catherine Barkley, an English nurse. Love plays a critical role in this novel. When Frederic and Catherine first encounter each other, they immediately become invested in eachothers lives. However, Catherine is skeptical about an […]
As we know, PTSD (Posttraumatic Stress Disorder) is a mental disorder that can develop after a person is exposed to a traumatic event, which is warfare for Frederic Henry in this novel. In A Farewell to Arms, Frederic Henry’s trauma and general breakdown in his life can best be understood in terms of PTSD, because […]
Circumstances can only shape a person’s life to the extent that they allow them to. The truth is that people’s lives are determined by their choices not their circumstances. This is not to say that circumstances like a tragedy that occurs in one’s life does not play a role in shaping an individual. However, an […]
TENTATIVE THESIS STATEMENT: Two themes of the utmost importance to highlight are the oppression of innocent children and the conflict of commercial values versus human values. Blake uses homophones, similes, and metonymy, a type of metaphor, as literary devices to develop and emphasize these two themes. A poetic analysis of “The Chimney Sweeper” for thesis […]
The Hunger Games is about the Capitol of Panem (government) and how they keep their control on the people (that make up the twelve districts) by forcing two people from each district (one male and one female) to compete in a televised event called the Hunger Games. Each of the tributes (the selected male and […]
Sublime in literature is something that sets everything away from the rest. It makes you really think about something and paints a picture in your mind. A sublime moment is something that puts you in complete awe when you read or see it. My sublime poem I read was ” The Chimney Sweeper” by William […]
In the book, The Secret Life of Bees. Written by Sue Monk Kidd she develops the relationship between Lily and Rosaleen through multiple occurances. This is important because throughout the story you see Rosaleen not as Lily’s maid ,but as her mother. Kidd uses many important events in the story to show the relationship between […]
Intro John Steinbeck was born in 1902, in Salinas, California, the setting of this novel. From The Grapes of Wrath to Cannery Row, he has given American Ethos memorable portraits of the dispossessed- immigrants, farmers, rural underclass and the like. Though not in grinding poverty, Steinbeck did not manage to publish a commercially successful book […]
The Antebellum Era in the American South lasted roughly seventy-five years, beginning in the late eighteenth century and ending with the outbreak of the Civil War. During this time, Southern society was deeply divided by wealth. Only 0.1 percent of whites owned more than 100 slaves, while 76.1 percent owned none at all. Even so, […]
People may hate you for being different and not living by society’s standards, but deep down, they wish they had the courage to do the same (Don).” The Native American people leave a legacy on the earth, by showing us how to think about others, and the future of the world. We can see the […]
The novel The Secret Life of Bees is about a girl that is named Lily Owens and is living with her abusive father which is named T.Ray. Her housekeeper, Rosaleen, is a person who cares for Lily and is more of a craetaker to Lily. Lily plans to run away from T.Ray and get Rosaleen […]
The key to improving the future is being able to understand and learn from the past. If the past is not studied, the likelihood of repeating the same mistakes over and over again is extremely high. Repeating the same basic mistakes, with new variations, that people many years ago made does not progress into the […]
The Sun Also Rises is a war novel published in 1926 by Ernest Hemingway. This book is inspired by a true story, and is one of the works that made him very famous in the nineteen-twenties. The Sun Also Rises is narrated in the first person from the limited perspective of Jakes Barnes, the center […]
In The Sun Also Rises, written by Ernest Hemingway, we are met with many problems faced by the lost generation after WW1, including the search for fulfillment, love, and the aimlessness of the lost generation. However, readers are also met with another and more problematic conflict. Dissociation and escapism which is presented through the main […]
The term contrapasso describes the relationship between a person’s sins and the punishment they receive in Hell. It determines a specific punishment for each sinner based off of their sins, rather than them just burning in Hell. The contrapasso is an important factor in Inferno from The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. Throughout Inferno, Virgil […]
Ignoring the detrimental issues of the world, does not cause them suddenly vanish from our own eyes, it only gives them time to flourish and expand into the beast that they aspired to become. Case in point: the decimation and near annihilation of an entire ethnic and religious group, the slaughtering of an innocent six […]
When exploring the concept of moral appropriateness in a text, one seeks out what could be considered as what would be right, judging the situation by hand. Generally speaking when seeking out the right in circumstances the decision comes from analyzing the physical and emotional outlooks on a character in text. In this case what […]
