In the Glass Menagerie play by Tennessee Williams, he explains three characters, their fantasies and the discordant realities they face as life goes on. Tennessee Williams, use of symbolism computes depth and better representation to the play. The Glass Menagerie itself is a symbol to display the unsettled lives of Tom, Laura, and Amanda Wingfield […]
It is a common theme that authors highlight the values of a culture or society by using characters who are alienated from the typical social norms. A primary example would be Tennessee Williams play, The Glass Menagerie, where Williams depicts a character named Laura as very isolated from the world and those around her. Laura […]
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Communication is defined as the exchange of information between multiple individuals. A sense of isolation is instilled in certain individuals who possess the inability to communicate with others. In Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis, the lack of communication within the family following the events of Gregor’s transformation cause Gregor to become enveloped in a world of isolation, […]
Austrian writer Franz·Kafka ( 1833 – 1924 ) is one of the greatest writers in the history of German literature in the 20th century, the originator of western modernist literature, the representative figure of expressionist literature and one of the founders of postmodern literature. U.S. playwright W H Auden said before: ” As far as […]
Our ancestors have inhabited this planet through times of evolutionary adaptations for the past six million years yet throughout vast changes in civilization, one harmonic factor has been deeply neglected over time- the need for coexistence and interdependence between the individual, the collective, and the environment they inhabit. The persisting and preexisting disregard for other […]
An author in the late 1700s, Franz Kafka, who would base stories off his own internal conflict with not only himself but also his father wrote a novella, The Metamorphosis. In this novella, he tells of a traveling salesman who awakes one morning as a giant cockroach, which his family disowns, all except his sister. […]
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka begins with Gregor Samsa. Gregor is a traveling salesman; one morning he wakes up from his bed to find himself transformed into a large unidentified insect. He reflects on how dull and depressing his life is as a traveling salesman and how if he had things his way, he would […]
1. What does Gregor discover when he wakes up in the morning? When Gregor wakes up in the morning, he discovers he has transformed into a human-sized bug. He has many legs and a hard shell for a back, like a beetle. 2. How does Gregor feel about his job? Gregor does not like his […]
Franz Kafka’s, The Metamorphosis, is a story about Gregor Samsa, a man who does everything to fulfill the needs of his family. Isolation and alienation is a huge theme of this story because he changes in his sleep into a giant beetle symbolizing those things. Kafka’s perspective on the meaning of life is drawn through […]
Art Spiegelman, the author of Maus, interchanges between the past and the present to provide an in-depth accounting of his father’s memories, his own childhood, and the present struggles between the father and son. This recounting from his father emphasizes the impact and trauma experienced by second generation survivors such as Art himself. The author […]
While Art sits at his drawing board, a pile of emaciated Jewish bodies lies below him, seemingly unnoticed while reporters and businessmen climb over them, (Maus II.41). These bodies represent the grave nature of Spiegelman’s subject matter, the millions of dead Jews demanding that their story be told, and that their trauma not be downplayed. […]
Today there are many mediums in our society that are used to convey information. Newspapers, such as the Washington Post or The Wall Street Journal, are great sources for information around the world. Websites such as CNN are also useful for the same purpose. But there exists one method of communication that society has long […]
The drawings in Maus (I and II) can be split into categories, reproductions and interpretations. Reproductions are real photographs, they are reproduced in the book exactly as they appear in real life with human faces intact. Interpretations are basically just hand drawn versions of real photographs, which translate images into the comic’s style and replace […]
What’s not better than reading and watching fairies and parents getting in the way of true love? Who doesn’t like seeing people get turned into donkeys? Everyone loves a good fight and a happy ending right? In every play there is a debate with the book and movie. One is always gonna be better the […]
Do you know the real story behind love? Love can be a great thing but it’s not always as magical as it seems. Love can be a dangerous game you just have to figure out if you’re willing to play. In the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the characters seem to get their magical happy […]
In Truman Capote’s true crime novel “In Cold Blood”, it recalls the gruesome murders of the members of the clutter family, a much loved family that were huge members of their tight knit community in Holcomb, Kansas. The book begins from the family’s perspective and gives us insight to the lives they lived. It showed […]
Device Quote Analysis Juxtaposition He did not believe that Hickock and Smith would be caught in Kansas City. They were invulnerable. (198) The second umbrella, blue and bearing the command Tan with Coppertone,’ sheltered Dick and Perry, who for five days had been living at the Somerset, in a double room renting for eighteen dollars […]
There is a thousand to a million dollars being spent to put someone on the death penalty and to see it out. Truman Capote is against the death penalty you can tell on how he writes about it. I agree with Truman Capote, to be against the death penalty. Truman Capote does not really say […]
George Orwell wrote Animal Farm soon after resigning from his job at the British broadcasting corporation in 1943, otherwise known as the BBC, while working as the literary editor for the Tribune, in London. George Orwell didn’t write a single novel during the three years he was working at the BBC, and was having a […]
In the drama perpetuated in Trifles by Susan Glaspell, there comes the sad story of Mr. John Wright, who was strangled to death using a rope when he was in bed. His wife Mrs. Wright was also present during the incident but never bothered to wake up to see what was happening. This play was […]
Susan Glaspell founded the Province Town Players with her husband and wrote plays for the group. She wrote her first play, Trifles in the empty theater one afternoon, she based it from a similar murder trial she had covered as a reporter (Kirszner 876). Trifles, written in 1916, was a time before Women’s Suffrage when […]
In the 20t century women lived a very different life than they do today. They were looked at as just housewives who should do all the chores around the house, while men work then come home and get pampered. As a result of women slaving around the house, many of them turned into very sad […]
The two best words to describe women in the 19th century were housewives and mothers. Some may ask why so? In the 1900s, men were the head of all marriage which transform the role of women during this era. As a woman in the 1900s, they mostly stay at home to cook, clean, take care […]
In the same way as other of Edgar Allan Poe’s different works, “The Tell-Tale Heart” is a dull story published in 1843. This specific one spotlights on the occasions driving the demise of an old man, and the occasions thereafter. That is the nuts and bolts of it, yet there are numerous profound implications covered […]
The short story The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, starts with the narrator muttering to himself and the audience. The narrator begins to talk about the old man with a vulture’s eye (evil eye) who makes the narrator’s blood run cold. The narrator very gradually comes up with a plan to kill the old […]
If your like the rest of us humans, you must have felt so guilty about a situation that you had to divulge about what you did. Edgar Allan Poe, American writer and poet, illustrates in his story The Tell-Tale Heart, how an obsession can drive you to do things that you will only regret in […]
I have been reading The Tell- Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe, published in 1850. When I first read Tell-Tale Heart, my very first thought was this man is insane. He states that he killed an old man, he did not kill this old man because he pissed him off or because he wanted his […]
In the 5th panel it shows how they are playing in the playground. In the playground the kids are using there veils for jump ropes and in the bottom right there are two girls playing piggy back with the veils. Also, When marji is a little girl she rebels the western idea of her home […]
Persepolis is a graphic autobiography written by Marjane Satrapi that depicts her childhood and adulthood in Iran, during the Iranian Revolution, among other places around the world. Throughout Marjane’s story, we are introduced to many of the topics that were introduced to us during our class. Because of this, I was able to understand her […]
The book animal farm talks about a group of different, diverse animals in a farm under one leader who makes rules for them to follow in order to keep the farm in check. One day Old major was giving a speech then suddenly one of the humans tripped off the gun, and fired it on […]
