Based on the story told by Erich Maria Remarque, the stories about the war then eventually being in the war ruined these soldier’s life before they even died. The major them that can be found in the book is brutality. Those events are praised out throughout the book. The novel centers on a young German […]
“In her short story, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Joyce Carol Oates tells a rather disturbing tale of a vain teenaged girl and a mysterious man. This narrative truly showcases Oates’s brilliant writing style and the characters in this work are deeply fascinating. All the main characters in this short story represent […]
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The story that will be evaluated is entitled, “”Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”” This story is by Joyce Carol Oates, published in 1966. The author is trying to get the audience to grasp concepts such as self-esteem, reputation, and a general mindset of how our decision making process can effect us heavily. […]
The stories, The Devil and Tom Walker and Young Goodman Brown, maintain numerous differences. Even though both stories were written by the same author, Nathaniel Hawthorne, both stories present different themes, plots, and characters. Throughout both stories, the characters encounter obstacles, but the decisions they make going to present the differences in their character. During […]
In the beginning of the story we are introduced to Young Goodman Brown as he says goodbye to his wife of three months, Faith. He tells her that he must go on this journey, and that he will be back by the morning. He never clearly states where he is going. After Goodman Brown finally […]
The main purpose of tragedy is to make the audience emotional in ways of fearfulness and sadness, and that is exactly what Oedipus has accomplished. Throughout Oedipus’ journey of finding the murder that killed his father, Laius, to lift the curse, Aristotle considers the character of Oedipus in Oedipus the King by Sophocles an archetypal […]
In life it is possible for there to be a fine balance between fate and free will. Free will depends on whether one determines to do something while fate is the destiny that is pre-planned for someone, however it is up to that person to do something with it. Sophocles’ Oedipus Rexan Athenian tragedy that […]
In “Oedipus the King,” goodness is shown through Oedipus Rex’s great qualities, as a man, showing goodness, and remaining consistent throughout his journey as a king. He illustrates his moral goodness in his prologue while giving his speech to the suffering people of Thebes. As a tragic hero, Oedipus, the ultimate protagonist in the “Oedipus […]
The genre of drama is wide and contains works of varied forms and subjects. The first drama, on which all later works are based, developed in Greece and dealt with religious and social issues. According to Aristotle, a Greek Tragedy must deal with a serious purpose, creating a sense of pity or fear in the […]
Sophocles took the power of fate over human lives very seriously, but he also believed strongly in freedom and human dignity. In Oedipus Tyrannus, both freedom and fate are major factors in the life of Oedipus and those around him. Sophocles never really clears up this apparent contradiction, any more than any of us completely […]
The character Oedipus from a play of the same name is a well-known example of Aristotle’s definition of a tragic hero. Aristotle defines a tragic hero as someone who is of noble birth, has a tragic flaw that leads to his downfall in the end, has a reversal of fortune that is brought about by […]
Kate Chopin uses symbolism and motifs in The Awakening as a way for Edna Pontellier to recognize her individuality and identity. In Chopin’s novel, the sea is the most important and relevant motif, it represents freedom and uses personal traits that it is given to guide Edna to her transformation, as she forms relationships and […]
Kate Chopin’s The Awakening is about Edna Pontellier, a younger married woman who begins a journey of self discovery. The novella is coated with the theme of freedom and the consequences it brings. Set in the 1800s, The Awakening takes place in both New Orleans and Grand Isle, where the Pontellier family lives and vacations […]
Major Events/summary Leonce comes home to his wife and kids. He checks on his kids who are asleep, and he finds that one of them has a fever. He returns to his wife to tell her, but Edna insists that he was fine before he went to bed. Leonce then tells her that she is […]
Throughout the novel, The Awakening, the protagonist, Edna Pontellier, has a revival in which she desires for her freedom and individuality. Kate Chopin uses the sea to symbolize this in Edna within the victorian society, where it’s viewed as wrong for a woman to express herself outside of the traditional gender role. Unfortunately, Edna had […]
Two of the most famous works of short fiction offer a compelling study in contrast. Washington Irving’s The Devil and Tom Walker and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown both concern ordinary men making a covenant with the Devil, but there are some notable differences worth exploring. From the beginning, both stories share similarities in themes […]
The author used third person point of view for this story. She described an un-named village that held a lottery every year. Whoever was picked from the black wooden box, was stoned to death. The position the author had, knew the outcome of the story. Therefore, she did not use perceptive on any of the […]
Motif is a recurring concept that has significance in literature. In The Lottery, there are two key motifs that support the concept of how dangerous it is to blindly follow tradition. The first motif, family, is significant to the lottery because it later emphasizes the killing’s cruelty since family members turn against each other so […]
In the short story, by Shirley Jackson, The Lottery, is about a small town that gathers everyone together each year for a big drawing. The drawing consists of a list, the head of families and heads of households that were usually the husbands, and if they are not present, the next in line, is the […]
Shirley Jackson, the author of The Lottery, insinuated many methods and mechanisms of writing into her story to build suspense. Two of those methods were setting and imagery. Jackson set the story during the summer and described the sky as bright and clear. The children were playing, and the adults were chatting. The author also […]
Human beings are ruled by traditions and rituals. People tend to follow the same pattern of doing their everyday things, it is a ritual. Every culture has rituals that are followed blindly, it is so ingrained in tradition that people don’t question them. The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson is a story of how the people […]
Transcendentalism is the way of thought that society corrupts the individual and to escape this evil, corrupting society, man must live off the land and be self-reliant in nature. In the investigative report, Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, Chris McCandless chooses to live as Thoreau did during Walden, engulfed in nature, with little outside […]
The ideology of conformity has been a prominent theme in American culture throughout history. Through the natural development of society, we are taught to live under the norms that are created by those in power. In Ralph Waldo Emerson’s argument within Self-Reliance, he claims that conformity is a parasite to society and that the only […]
Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most prominent essays in American history. Emerson has influenced and inspired many individuals through his notable points such as that one should not toss aside our instincts but rather others judgment in order to live properly. In Emerson’s essay Self Reliance he expresses that individuals need […]
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think(Ralph Waldo Emerson). Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American philosopher and spokesman for the American Transcendentalists. The Transcendentalists movement consists of a group of New England romantic writers, who believed that intuition was the means to truth. In other words, to be […]
Throughout The Old Man and the Sea, it’s evident that Santiago and Manolin have an interestingly deep relationship. However, the contributions that the old man and Manolin put forth into this substantially loving, strong, and caring relationship change as they both age. In the beginning of the old man and Manolin’s relationship, love is established […]
In The Old Man and the Sea the author, Ernest Hemingway, uses methods of characterization and point of view in order to help the reader better understand the story’s characters. In this novela, the old man, Santiago, and the boy, Manolin, have an inseparable friendship. Even with Santiago growing older each day Manolin still treats […]
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller provides a humorous yet insightful story of a soldier and his encounters during World War II. The author utilizes anecdotes and dialogue between characters to show the prevailing theme of lies and deception during war. The main character of the novel is Yossarian and is constantly trying to avoid the inevitable […]
When we are young, we are curious about life. We are nature’s first green. Young, carefree, and worriless. We lived happily without stress. This is not an easy thing to keep. Those days slowly become harder to have as you get older. We have responsibilities and more worries. This same thing goes on in the […]
Although the exact location is not specified, I can assume (after looking at Hinton’s FAQ and the online version of the book) that The Outsiders takes place in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This was Hinton’s hometown and the site of her high school (as stated by herself). In addition, Tulsa is considered a cowboy town. And several […]
