In the short story The Birth-Mark Nathaniel Hawthorne brought to us several themes in this story, but the main theme we can see here in the passage is submission and sacrifices. The blindness obedience of women in the past to their husbands. Here the main idea of this passage is the wife’s wishes of being […]
Allegory is common in Hawthorne’s writing and his use of symbolism. His use of symbols not only forces the reader to dig deeper but it also causes readers to interpret his stories differently from one another. The different uses of symbolism in the story aid the reader in using the subtext to derive more meaning […]
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The next fence scene in the play involves Troy speaking and waring with Mr. Death. Troy spefifically said, I’m gonna take and build me a fence around this yard. See? I’m gonna build me a fence of what belongs to me (Wilson 2.2.41-42). After Troy’s mistress died from giving childbirth, he saw the mortality of […]
How does Alice Walker show that feminism and racism is equally used in the context of race in The Color Purple? He beat me today because he say I winked at a boy in church. I may have got somethin in my eye but I didn’t wink. I don’t even looks at men. That’s the […]
In the 1900’s, men and women were not as equal as they are today. For centuries African Americans have been fighting for fairness, equal rights and equal opportunities in a country and racist system that wants to keep them as lower-class citizens. Even with Heads of State such as Abraham Lincoln, John F Kennedy and […]
A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of the William Shakespeare’s comedy plays which is so profound in literally elements. The Duke of Athenian and Hippolyta, the four Athenian lovers and the actions surrounding these characters are the major components of the play. These comprise of the events of young lovers from Athens as well as […]
The Bluest Eye: Analysis In the book, The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison, writes about a young African American girl named Pecola Breedlove who is convinced she is ugly because she does not have blue eyes. Through Pecola Breedlove, Claudia MacTeer, and several other characters in the book, Morrison demonstrates the result of the Western’s culture […]
Based off the reviews and research other the novel The Color Purple, written by Alice Walker, the theme that was perceived was to know your self worth, to love yourself, and keep faith because regardless of the circumstances that are given it always passes. Alice Walker tells the story about a poor, African American women […]
“Ozymandias” is a fourteen-line, measured rhyming work. It’s anything but a customary one, notwithstanding. Despite the fact that it is neither a Petrarchan work nor a Shakespearean poem, the rhyming plan and style look like a Petrarchan piece more, especially with its 8-6 construction instead of 4-4-4-2. Here we have a speaker gaining from an […]
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was written between 1350 and 1400 AD by an anonymous author. In this timeless epic poem, the main character, Sir Gawain, after accepting the challenge of an ominous Green Knight, must travel through Wales to confront him a year later. While on his journey he encounters a castle where […]
In the book The Stranger by Albert Camus, he illustrates that isolation from society leads to being emotionally detached which results in what others may perceive as inhumane acts. Albert Camus illustrates this idea through the main character, Meursault, who happens to be a detached and indifferent person that does not care about anything except […]
Throughout the novel the Stranger, Camus beliefs of existentialism and the absurdity of life are portrayed through the protagonist Meursault’s. Existentialism is the belief that existence precedes essence and that there is no true purpose to human life. Existentialism is seen throughout Meursault when he shows no emotion to the death of his mother, when […]
Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome is a sophisticated period piece which places the reader in a poignant era of American history during the turn of the 20th century. Published in 1911, Ethan Frome can be considered a historical document that reflects the growing ideologies that came about as a result of the Progressive Era, in which […]
William Hurt Ms. McIntosh American Literature Honors 18 December 2018 , the main character in Edith Wharton’s most well-known work, Ethan Frome, is an incredibly complex and emotional character that we are able to unravel throughout the novella through the use of symbolism by the author. Wharton incorporates aspects of forbidden love, isolation, and even […]
A society brainwashed in its traditions. Having lost the ability to recognize the traditions for what they are. The community follows their traditions blindly. Even when the traditions hurt their own citizens. In this paper, I will argue the symbolism of this treacherous event. The event where a marked paper is pulled by a person […]
Fear is something we can encounter and which we can experience in different ways. In the movie The Village we come across many characters who all live in the woods isolated from the community. Those in the village are not permitted to step out of the woods because they believe they are surrounded by mysterious […]
How important is self reliance to me and my future? In Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Self Reliance, he wrote about the importance of self reliance and how it’s crucial to the way that we live our lives. In the essay Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson used diction, to show that society in bad for individuals. […]
All humanity struggles to answer the question: what is the purpose of life? And how does one achieve this purpose? Saint Augustine of Hippo, a prominent thinker of his time, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, an esteemed poet, both yearned to answer these questions. Using their life experiences, both men composed books with their own answers […]
The Hunger Games and Divergent are two thrilling movies, and they share many similarities and differences throughout the screenplays. Both movies have similar plots and follow the same plan as the stories unfold for the audience. The movies share a dynamic female as the protagonist who faces many obstacles as they fight for righteousness for […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
A tradition is an inherited, established, or customary pattern of thought, action, or behavior (tradition) that some continue for generations without realizing the potential detrimental effects. In 1948, Shirley Jackson published a short story titled, The Lottery and this story depicts how a small, civilized town can harbor a very uncivilized tradition. Every year the […]
Tradition is very necessary because it introduce our own culture. It is a strong believe what we would like to maintain and would like to follow in our society. Each and every society would like to follow some of their cultural rituals. According to the short stories, the lottery byShirley Jackson describes in her stories, […]
If one takes any occurrence and tries to make sense of it, there is always a philosophical theory to rationalize with it. Philosophy is all about different theories used to describe the nature of human thoughts, the nature of the universe and the correlation between the two. Regardless of what time period it is, the […]
Shirly Jackson was an American author whose stories took on horror and mystery. She wrote of her childhood and experiences that included memoirs, short stories and novels. One controversial short story she wrote was published in the New Yorker on June 26, 1948 called The Lottery. It depicted a rural community shackled by tradition with […]
“The Lottery” a short story was written by Shirley Jackson, is a fiction story about disorganizing norm. The setting takes place in a small community consisting of about 300 citizens. Each year, head of the family of this community hold a community-wide lottery in which everyone is to participate. Throughout the video, the viewer gets […]
Moral Ambiguity is defined as a lack of clarity about whether something is right or wrong, according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, this is often attractive to readers as they find them easier to relate to because a morally ambiguous person shows inconsistency in their morals. It is uncommon that someone would have consistent morals in […]
Deserts can be either hot or cold, but all are barren and hostile, much like society can be and much like Edith Wharton’s fictional town of Starkfield, the setting of her novel, Ethan Frome. Wharton’s iconic novel, Ethan Frome follows a tragic hero caught between the conventions of society and his own happiness. The tragedy […]
