Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is a collection of 24 stories written between the years of 1387 and 1400 in Mid-Century England and runs over 17,000 lines. The question is “How is Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales an accurate representation of the middle class in the middle ages”? Canterbury Tales is much more than an interesting collection […]
The white paint and the Sambo doll are symbols in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man that emphasizes the futility of finding one’s identity in a world that forces their perspectives onto him. After following Dr. Bledsoe’s wild goose chase to look for a job, the narrator finds himself at the Liberty Paint Plant, which is a […]
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Humans perception on reality is very much varied. All of us are placed into specific lifestyles that end up playing a huge role on whom we become. Which makes every individual different therefore no one is the same. But each go through inner conflicts by themselves. Ginsberg noticed in the 1950’s that across our country […]
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe is being told by a narrator who is angry. The narrator tells all his motives from the beginning by addressing his issue of the old man’s eye to the reader. The story he tells is based on his view to defend his place even though he insists that […]
Edgar Allan Poe, a worldwide renowned author, lived a short, yet otherworldly life, and made a prosperous living writing his iconic themes of horror, murder, and mystery, all recognized throughout his famous short story, “The Tell-Tale Heart.” In Poe’s, “The Tell-Tale Heart,” he does not specifically characterize the narrator’s gender, contradicting the motive to kill […]
Insanity is a mental problem typically characterized by various abnormal behaviors. This abnormality can contribute to the violation of conventional behavior in society making the victim become a possible threat to himself and others. Individuals who bear this habit tend to pass a certain message to others about themselves. In Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart, the […]
Edgar Allan Poe wrote the Gothic fiction short story The Tell-Tale Heart in 1843 at the age of thirty-four. This story is about the insanity-driven murder of an innocent old man. The story only contains six characters, three of which are police officers. The story is told from the perspective of the murderer himself. It […]
Bah Humbug! Yes you got it I am talking about the one and only Ebenezer Scrooge. Which means that this book report must be about the revolutionary story The Christmas Carol. Well you are right my fine fellow very right you are. We have all heard of Ebenezer Scrooge before. Grumpy old man who has […]
In the novella, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, the main character, Ebenezer Scrooge is a tight-fisted, crotchety pessimist who despises everything that is Christmas. He has little patience or understanding of those who value human connection and the spirit of giving, over idolizing money and financial status. With a permanent scowl on his face […]
Act 1 Can your past life affect your present life? In the film of ‘A Christmas Carol’ Scrooge visited his past life and it affected his present. The film has a written script called the play. There are many similarities between the movie and the play but also differences. Some similarities and differences between ‘A […]
Franz Kafka wrote one of his best-known works called the Metamorphosis which was first published in 1915. It tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa that wakes one morning to find himself suddenly transformed into a huge insect and subsequently struggling to adjust to this new condition. It shows the readers how Gregor and his […]
In The Metamorphosis, Gregor Samsa, a travelling salesman wakes up from a dream and notices that he had transformed into a monstrous cockroach. Despite being a huge bug, he wasn’t shocked about his transformation. He just wanted to get up and get to work. Prior to his transformation, Gregor took on all the responsibilities of […]
In 1987, the novel Beloved came about. This post-civil war novel by Toni Morrison is a heartbreaking novel of battling with memories, your horrible actions, and the past. In everyone’s life, there is a moment that is so horrific and so heartbreaking that all you want to do is push it so far back in […]
Life of Pi is a novel by Yann Martel that illustrates man’s will to survive and an unlikely alliance that rises as a result. This is a story that plunges deep into every aspect of human nature, giving the reader an experience that is hard to forget. I recommend this book for those who need […]
The Fall of the House of Usher short by Edgar Allan Poe. Gothic literature is the gloomy side of romanticism. Gothic literature also honors emotions, imagination, nature, and supernatural events. Edgar allan poe saw dead as his muse for writhing. He also married his second cousin name virginia. Edgar Allan Poe’s short story The Fall […]
The ancient, decaying House of Usher, filled with gloomy furniture of the room-of the dark and tattered draperies, which, tortured into motion by the breath of a rising tempest, swayed fitfully to and fro upon the walls, and rustled uneasily about the decorations of the bed, (pg. 406) and set in a dull atmosphere is […]
Inferno is the first part of Dante Alighieri’s poem, Divine Comedy, which tells of a journey of Dante through hell, purgatory, and heaven guided by the ancient Roman poet Virgil. Inferno is about the experiences Dante faced on his journey of the soul towards God as he travels the nine circles of hell to reach […]
Inferno opens on the evening of fine Friday within the year 1300. Traveling thru a dark wood, Dante Alighieri has lost his course and now wanders fearfully through the forest. The sun shines down on a mountain above him, and he attempts to climb up to it but finds his way blocked via three beasts”a […]
A Tale Of Two Cities was written by Charles Dickens, Published in London, by Chapman Hall in 1859. One of the main characters, Charles Darnay, leaves his hometown England because of the cruel acts of his family the Evremonde. He then travels to Paris where he is sentenced to go to prison because of his […]
One of the most well-known books is A Tale of Two Cities. A novel that tells the devotion of a family while England and France are in a major war. There are many elements to this story, including the plot, characters, and quotes, and this story’s elements are very different than other stories’. The plot […]
The word sacrifice can be viewed differently based on perspective. The meaning of sacrifice can be either for the good or bad. Sacrificing something by your own will shall make you a better person in your own perspective. When something is so close to the heart that you can’t just devote your power over someone […]
In “Fences” by August Wilson, Troy has the internal clashes of managing wild conditions. Racial isolation and bad form for him and his family play a major effect on his life causing a great deal of challenges for the family. In such a significant number of ways Fences is such a customary story, to the […]
Fences People use fences to keep things out of their homes, but some to keep everything in. In many cases, a fence may represent more than a literal fence. It may represent how people may feel about life itself. A simple form of a fence can keep a person safe in their mind. They will […]
Who is the greatest writer of all time? It’s a broad question, however still to a lot of people, the answer is Samuel Clemens. If you’re not sure who that is, that’s understandable. Maybe the name Mark Twain will ring a bell for you. A writer who through up and downs achieved tremendous writing success. […]
A great man once said, The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.a quote from The Art of Authorship, pp. 8788 (1890). It was a quote by a man whose birth and death dates were marked by a passing comet, the legend himself, […]
Rachel Areche, “All Quiet on the Western Front” by Erich Maria Remarque Author Erich Maria Remarque wrote the novel “All Quiet on the Western Front” depicting a true war story. In which the main purpose of the book is to highlighting the events and how it impacts the people involved. Contrasting from other books that […]
The harsh realities of war force soldiers to undergo drastic personality transformations making them feel disconnected from their previous way of life. The war separates them from their past both physically and psychologically. In his novel All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque uses books, poplar trees, and butterflies to illustrate the life altering effects […]
Having decoded the Sphinx’s riddle and rescued the city of Thebes from destruction, Oedipus is named their king. Although a plague is devastating Thebe’s people, and many bird entrails and oracles strongly propose it is due to the murderer of the last king, Laius, still living in the kingdom and is unpunished. In order to […]
In August Wilson’s play Fences, Troy allocates similar characteristics as Oedipus of a tragic hero, they both presume they can conquer fate. Troy responds in rage when the truth deciphers.He believes he can outmaneuver his death by building a wall surrounding his house. However death still exist and he cannot avoid his fate.In Sophocles play […]
Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC) was a great Greek philosopher and scientist who defined the scientific system that became the framework for scholasticism and philosophy (Amadio). Aristotle was a great critic of poetry. Aristotle’s means of analyzing tragedies and comedies are still the methods used by critics of literature today. In his rules of […]
