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Main Themes of the Novel The The Scarlet Letter

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In The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne tells the story of an affair between Hester Prynne and Rev. -Arthur Dimmesdale two members of the Puritan community of Massachusetts Bay Colony during the 1640s. When Roger Chillingworth, Hester's long-lost husband, arrives in the colony and discovers the affair, he is consumed by a desire for revenge. For Hawthorne, revenge is an all consuming...

Theme of Childhood and Adulthood in Catcher in the Rye

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Adolescence, a transitional stage of physical and psychological development occurs during the period from puberty to legal adulthood. Teenagers between thirteen and nineteen years of age, experience awkward increase in stage of their lives. During the teen years, teenagers reveal in some overwhelming external and internal struggles. In the novel “Catcher in the Rye (1951), J.D. Salinger uses the motif...

The Scarlet Letter: Societal Stereotypes and Identity

2 Pages 1037 Words
Our identity is fictional, written by parents, relatives, education, and society. Parents and relatives form children to follow their principles. Society demands that we present an identity that can be comfortably cataloged. We are no longer accepted for ourselves. Judgment based on culture, religion and a plethora of other expectations has created a world filled with formidable situations, filling the...

Influence of Surrounding Individuals in The Kite Runner

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Individuals are drastically shaped and impacted by the morals display by those they choose to surround themselves with. The novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is set in war torn, Afghanistan in the late 20th & early 21st centuries. The protagonist, Amir, lives in Kabul before and during the Taliban invasion and takeover when the rights of all citizens...

The Conflict and Message of The Kite Runner

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In the conventional Hero’s Journey narrative, the Hero overcomes adversity in order to obtain their resolution. It is in the face of this adversity that superior works of literature maintain a healthy confusion in which readers find both enjoyment and disquietude, and is in this confusion that readers are able to better connect with characters and find the incentive to...

Tradition in Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" and Jackson's "The Lottery"

5 Pages 2450 Words
Throughout the world People do things for various reasons. Belief, survival, religion, peer pressure, culture or tradition, are some of the reasons the people carry out things. People have various traditions such as Christmas, Easter Day and so forth. Some people have strange or out of the ordinary traditions. The two short stories The Lottery by Shirley Jackson and A...

Of Mice And Men: Mental Illness And Society

2 Pages 1010 Words
Do people who are treated poorly in society due to a mental illness, hold accountability for their own actions? Well this question is tested in the book Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck. The story takes place in the early 1930’s. Two men, Lennie and George are workers who dream of one day having their own farm. Lennie...

Interpreting Irony in Harrison Bergeron and The Lottery

6 Pages 2629 Words
Elizabeth Holmes, the former CEO of Theranos, was once valued at ten billion dollars for her idea of a revolutionary machine that could detect diseases including cancer, diabetes, and tumors from a single drop of blood. However she was a fraud, and her Silicon-Valley startup was a hoax. Even worse, some people knew, but never could speak up due to...

The Meaning Op Piggy Character In The Novel Lord Of The Flies

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A stereotype is a mistaken idea or belief many people have about a thing or group that is based upon how they look only on the outside. The character, Piggy, defies stereotypes by using his intelligence through his words instead of his actions. The novel, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, tells a story about a group of British...

Real and Fantastic World of Holden in Catcher in the Rye

2 Pages 1087 Words
The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, tells the story of Holden, a teenager who is searching for understanding in the world. After his expulsion from yet another boarding school, Holden runs to New York, where he spends the next few days. During his stay in the city, Holden constantly attempts to connect with others only to end in...

Why You Should Read Animal Farm

3 Pages 1391 Words
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in a communist society? George Orwell wrote Animal Farm using the metaphor of animals on a farm to talk about communism. Animal Farm is based on the Russian Revolution and many of its characters are based on real people. Some examples of this are Napoleon representing Stalin, Snowball and...

Gender Inequality in Emma & Great Expectations

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The roles of Pip (Great Expectations, Charles Dickens) and Emma ( Emma, Jane Austen) are both developed through the influences of social class, money, and the people around them. In the Novels, Emma by Jane Austen, and Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, the authors maintain a theme of limitations within gender equality, mostly the role of women in society at...

Journalistic Approach In Chronicles Of Death Foretold

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There are many different forms of narration that can be used in a novel; the topic of this essay specifically discusses the journalistic approach used in the novella, Chronicle of the Death Foretold written by Gabriel García Márquez, and how it enhances the major themes of the story. In this work, the utilization of the author’s journalistic experiences combined with...

Crucial Themes in ‘Waiting for Godot’

3 Pages 1285 Words
In the World War II, People lost their almost everything and the there is a gloomy life in thisperiod. Some play writers transferred this into literature by writing theatre, novel and poem. After all lived things, The Theatre of the Absurd showed up. The Theatre of the Absurd (French:théâtre de l'absurde[teɑtʁ(ə) də lapsyʁd]) is a post– World War II designation...

Character Dynamics in Waiting for Godot

2 Pages 1115 Words
Introduction Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, a play first performed in 1953, remains a seminal work in the theatre of the absurd, a genre that explores the futility and existential bewilderment of human life. At its core, the play revolves around two protagonists, Vladimir and Estragon, who await the arrival of an enigmatic figure named Godot. Their interactions and the...

Sense of Sin and Love in Scarlet Letter

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Sin and the meaning of sin is one of the main themes that appear from the first chapter since the discovery of history and the scarlet letter. However, sin not only means an act against accepted religious norms, but also a rebellion against social traditions. The passionate act of Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale that is deemed adultery, and upon...

Why Are Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn American Literary Classics?

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“For Goodness sakes, would a runaway nigger run south?” Mark Twain (1835-1910) is the pseudonym of the American writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens. He grew up in Hannibal, a city located in the state of Missouri. He based the most famous books of his career, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, in this town on the...

Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre: The Maturation Of A Girl Into A Woman

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Middle class women were brought up to “be pure and innocent, tender and sexually undemanding, submissive and obedient” to fit the glorified “angel in the House” (Thackeray’s The Angel in the House). Women were not expected to express opinions of their own outside a very limited range of subjects, and certainly not be on a quest for own identity and...

Totalitarian Hegemony in Brave New World, 1984, and Other Dystopias

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Since the 15th century, humans have been captivated by the idealism of achieving world peace and to live in a place of pure bliss where, “[…] all citizens are equal – rights, property, privilege – […] all sources of envy and conflict are eliminated; desires are satisfied because no unreasonable desires develop.” The tradition of utopian fiction dates as far...

The Elements of Feminism in Madame Bovary

2 Pages 1128 Words
To describe her globally, Emma Bovary is a bourgeois woman of the 19th century, which suffers from being a woman. Because of this suffering, she questions the gender that is attributed to her. Even if she is reduced to the state of object, victim of patriarchy and dependent on men, she is not passive, she tries to resist against the...

Beckett's Use of Pairs in Waiting for Godot

3 Pages 1180 Words
This essay will analyse and discuss the duality of pairing, doubling and binary oppositions in Samuel Beckett’s ‘Waiting for Godot’. Waiting for Godot is an ambiguity which permits for a variety of readings, the play consisting of many interpretations that can exist alongside one another without being jointly exclusive. Duality is an important part of the play as it permits...

The Themes and Ideas in 1984 and Brave New World

5 Pages 2326 Words
Introduction to Dystopian Visions: Orwell and Huxley's World In both Orwell’s ‘1984’ and Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’, authority attempts to obtain complete control over their citizens, through destroying their sense of identity. The novels present the battle between individual consciousness and the State’s wishes for society. When ‘Brave New World’ was written in 1931, between the First and Second World...

Franz Kafka And His Short Story A Hunger Artist

2 Pages 1136 Words
Franz Kafka is known to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Kafka’s grim writing style is known and recognized by many. Many of his works leave the reader questioning life and often taking away a pessimistic message. The dark nature of his short stories such as “The Judgement”, “A Hunger Artist” and “In The Penal...

Beauty and the Beast Characters

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Introduction and Author Description Author Description: Author Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, born in Paris in 1695, is considered the original author of the tale “Beauty and the Beast.” The story was drawn from fairy tales and folklore and was first published in 1740. The original book was 362 pages long but later abridged and republished by Jeanne Marie Leprince de...

Kafka’s Theme Of Isolation In A Hunger Artist

2 Pages 701 Words
Because of how Gregor was viewed resulting in his transformation, he was unable to be labeled as a member of society. He was treated as a “less than” and was no longer loved by his family. “The Hunger Artist” is about an artist who physically isolates himself via his cage, but he is also isolated from the world in that...

The Plot And The Themes In The Bell Jar By Sylvia Plath

6 Pages 2517 Words
Sylvia Plath is an American writer and poet. She did not live an exciting life as others will think. In fact, it was quite the opposite. She had struggled with depression and mental illness throughout various points in her lifetime. Her life influence her works with themes, such as self identity and female roles. It indicates how mental illness can...

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