I really liked the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton because it is one of those few books that gives you a new and different perspective on how we first perceived things to be. Every character from this story has a different experience but they all stick up for each other at the end, no […]
Earnest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises details the lives of the post war generation, otherwise known as the lost generation. The post war generation has suffered a lot during the war, and it has affected the way that they go through life, and the way they handle their relationships. Two of the characters from the […]
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The Sun Also Rises is a modernist novel written by Ernest Hemingway, which was published in 1926 and is widely considered to be one of Hemingway’s most distinguished literary achievements. This piece of historical fiction is about the life of Jake Barnes after World War I. He was in love with a woman, Lady Brett […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Symbolism represents ideas by the use of symbols and is not meant to be taken literally. It helps take writing to an insight and helps it to connect better with the reader. In The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd, symbolism is used throughout the novel. Kidd uses it to help the reader […]
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 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 […]
Margaret Atwood tells the story of a handmaid called Offred living in the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian and theocratic state that has replaced the United States of America, in her novel, The Handmaid’s Tale. In the theocratic Republic of Gilead, extreme conservative, religious ideology is followed a solution to societal problems. Doctors who performed […]
The Handmaid’s Tale Inequality is an occurring problem and Margaret Atwood is describing what she feels our country will turn into. Every time there is a step forward for equality to take two steps back. In Gilead, women’s obligation is obedience after transitioning from a time of extreme liberalism to radical religion. Women being […]
The Maus a Survivor’s Tale is a powerful book that portrays the Holocaust. With the use of comics, the pictures and dialogue create a powerful impact on historical event that’s occurring during this time. The use of animals to represent race and nationalities shows the controversial complexity of this part of history. Starting out we […]
The role of propaganda plays a crucial part in the encouragement of both the Polish and Jewish people to betray their neighbors, friends, and even their family members. Nazis used propaganda to shape their beliefs on the Germans; they used films, press and radios, because they wanted to flood the Germans with messages that were […]
Felix Mendelssohn was born on February 3, 1809 in Hamburg, Germany and died on November 4, 1847 in Leipzig, Germany. One of his most well-known works is the overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Mendelssohn completed the work in August 1826 and originally had it premiered in his private residence in November 1826. Felix Mendelssohn […]
Ay me! For aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth. Midsummer Night’s Dream has many different ways it shows what love is and what happens when two people are in love. Love is a very complicated emotion that is often […]
In act 1 scene 1 the plot starts with Theseus, duke of Athens, and hippolyta, His fiance. Their wedding is in four days under the new moon. Theseus was so impatient for the event and was in a joyous mood. Theseus called philostrate, his master of the revels, to stir up the Athenian youth to […]
Also known as Oedipus Rex, King Oedipus is an Athenian tragedy written by Sophocles that was first performed around 429 BC. In the play, there is a prophecy that claims Oedipus will murder his father and wed his mother. Oedipus tries to elude his fate but in the end the prophecy came to pass. During […]
The most well known and influential form of drama performed in theatres across ancient Greece is Greek tragedy. The play, Oedipus the King, includes a great deal of dramatic irony. The author, Sophocles, is a famous playwright in Greek tragedy. The play commences with the protagonist, Oedipus, unknowingly fulfilling his prophecy that he will marry […]
You called me blind but you have your eyes but see not where you live in sin (KO 37). In the play Oedipus the King, Sophocles tells a story about a man who blindly reaches his long-awaited fate. Throughout the development of this story, many tragedies occur. This play is recognized as a tragedy because […]
Democracy in Athens was very influential to the rest of the world simply because it is known as the first ever democracy with a sense of competitiveness and community. Competitiveness and community were two of the most valued things in Ancient Athens. Pericles, a notorious statesmen, was a leader and influencer of Athenian democracy. He […]
The story of Oedipus is a true Greek tragedy in that the main character, Oedipus, rises to power in the city of Thebes only to be told of a prophecy saying he, although unknowingly, committed fratricide and his wife, Jocasta, is his biological mother. When all of this information gets to Oedipus he is rightfully […]
The Awakening by Kate Chopin A historical connection worth noting is the rights of women during the 1900’s: the time period of this story. While America continued to push its own industrialization, lower class women were allowed to partake in some jobs such as factory work. Although the rights of women were improving, they still […]
In the book The Awakening, the author Kate Chopin utilizes compelling symbolism to portray the protagonist’s, Edna Pontellier’s, longing for passion and escape from the confines of marriage. In the late 19th century of New Orleans, Edna is unlike other women in the sense that the marital and maternal life doesn’t appeal to her. As […]
The Awaking by Kate Chopin portrays a character and her longing for freedom in the forms of infidelity and selfish desires. In this book the main character, Edna Pontillier is overcome by an awakening to her inner self and desires leading to a search for a freedom of sorts. This novel was written to allow […]
In his sonnet, Sonnet 18, Shakespeare illustrates whether or not his lover will live on eternally or temporally using a distinctive form of writing. Peaceful/frustrated tones, personification intertwined with metaphors, and descriptive imagery along with various poetic devices enable the reader to see from the speaker’s perspective. The speaker embraces his emotions to set the […]
In the novel Animal Farm, written in 1945 by George Orwell it is about a group of farm animals that live in England, and belong to a man named Mr. Jones. After years of being mistreated, shortage in food and very hard work the animals decide to take action and start a revolution in the […]
In the epic poem The Inferno, Dante conveys the biblical message of paying for your sins with a punishment that fits the crime committed. Essentially the eye for an eye principle can be seen as Dante travels, guided by infamous writer Virgil, through the circles of Hell. The effect religion has on Dante is evident […]
In The Inferno, Dante introduces three beasts, which each individually represent a different symbolic meaning. They do, however, share a collective symbolic meaning, too. The three beasts are the lion, the leopard, and the she-wolf. Collectively, these three beasts share a symbolic meaning in that they represent all of man’s sins. Individually, the leopard represents […]
When researching the ideal woman nowadays, every website provides scientific studies and cultural research, which all point to the same results: that men prefer a small waist, long legs, and a large chest, with nothing about the woman’s personality characteristics. One of the most compelling facets of the Inferno can be the portrayal of females […]
Many people yearn to have a meaning of life’, or why the world is the way it is. Why are there thunderstorms, or why are there rainbows in the sky after it rains? For people today, scientific research provides the reasons everyone craves. In ancient Greece, things were a little bit different. Myths were used […]
