Politicians, religious leaders, and group leaders alike have preyed on the weaknesses of their constituents and taken advantage of their disposition to be persuaded easily into circumstances with the lack of rational thinking and reasoning. In his controversial essay “A Modest Proposal”, Jonathan Swift, through his use of satire and logos, expresses the dangers of relying on speculative reason to...
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Introduction Khaled Hosseini's novel, The Kite Runner, is not only a poignant exploration of personal redemption and friendship but also a vivid portrayal of the turbulent political landscape of Afghanistan. The story, which spans several decades, reflects how political upheaval affects the lives of its characters, shaping their destinies and moral compasses. Set against the backdrop of Afghanistan's transition from...
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The Historical Fiction novel “Of Mice and Men”, by John Steinbeck is about the journey of two friends George Milton and Lennie Small. The book takes place a few miles south of Soledad at the Salinas River. George and Lennie go to work on a ranch during the Great Depression. Throughout the book, one is able to tell that George...
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Oliver Twist, a novel written by one of history’s most well-known authors, Charles Dickens, shows exactly how brutal life can be for a person without a proper place in society. Set during the Industrial Revolution era of Great Britain, Oliver Twist is a boy born with no place in society and is cast off into one of the lowest rungs...
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Introduction Human behavior, a complex interplay of psychological, social, and environmental factors, has been a focal point of many scholarly explorations. George Orwell's dystopian novel, 1984, and the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment conducted by Philip Zimbardo in 1971, offer compelling insights into the malleability of human behavior under oppressive regimes and controlled environments. Orwell's narrative illustrates the extent of behavioral...
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If you haven't already been aware of the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, then you've been living under a rock. This classic follows the misadventures of Scout and Jem Finch the children of a prominent lawyer, Atticus Finch, in the greatly depressed Maycomb County, Alabama. The misadventures provide plenty of dialogue from characters to analyze. I found...
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Some people can find happiness in anything while others spend their lives seeking it and the later type of individuals often takes a path which can make them monsters in the eyes of our society. A very similar story is portrayed in the novel Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1886 and the...
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Compelling texts draw in the responder to confront new ideas regarding the inconsistencies within personal and collective experiences. The Merchant of Venice depicts the struggle of the individual against the imposed obligations of society, while To Kill a Mockingbird, explores the human morality where the distinction between right and wrong can be seen. Throughout The Merchant of Venice, assumptions of...
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In Sophocles’ “Antigone,” the main character, Antigone, displayed strong determination and loyalty to her family and god. However, I sympathize more with Kreon because he was a man of his words and he refused to break social peace and state laws. Throughout the play, Kreon’s character exemplifies the traits of a tragic hero. Creon was suffering from his actions without...
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Mark Haddon is an author that has won 3 awards in his lifetime from the book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime. This book has many characters that develop throughout the book such as Christopher Boone, Ed Boone, Judy Boone, Mr. Roger Shears, Sioban. Christopher Boon although autistic, is extremely gifted in math and science. The story...
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Voltaire’s work portrays a profound admiration for social and political English models. As a young man, he met an exiled Tory statesman in 1722, Viscount Bolingbroke who represented a form of cultural pre-eminence that thrilled him. This encounter and Voltaire’s desire to make a name for himself propelled him to his work that advanced English literature in France. By the...
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In the short stories “Superman and Me,” by Sherman Alexie and “Love Letters,” by Megan Foss, the similar symbol of survival in the forms of reading and writing is shared. Characters with little to no proper experience in reading and writing find that to be their lifeline in a world pitted against them. Though set back by skills, characters from...
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Who is more powerful in regards to affecting you ‘’the reader’’, Crooks or Curley’s wife? Some say Curley’s wife, others say Crooks. In the book Of Mice and Men Crooks is more powerful. The author Steinbeck created this character to show discrimination, to show who and what this character is and his lifestyle. In Of Mice and Men we are...
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‘Macbeth’ written by William Shakespeare and ‘My last duchess’ written by Robert Browning are two of the most common examples linked to toxic masculinity. In today’s car driven and busy city world, toxic masculinity can often go unseen. However, it is present more commonly than many think within men and women.Shakespeare’s representation of masculinity within his work during the Elizabethan...
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The Color Purple, by the American novelist Alice Walker, is not only intense and insightful, but a very thought-provoking book to read. By intense and thought-provoking, I am speaking about how the book touches and analyzes incredibly difficult and trifling aspects of the life of a poverty-ridden, African American woman under oppression in the early twentieth century. The book is...
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In J.D Salinger’s The Catcher in The Rye, the reader is presented to Holden Caulfield, a 17-year-old who’s retelling the story of him at 16 facing rough times. Holden starts off by telling us that he has been kicked out of another school, Pencey Prep. He from there decided to leave and head for New York City. He wandered around...
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Introduction Intertextuality, a literary device that shapes new texts with references to existing ones, plays a crucial role in Jean Rhys's novel "Wide Sargasso Sea". Published in 1966, this novel serves as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë's 1847 classic, "Jane Eyre", offering a revisionist perspective on the life of the character Bertha Mason, known in Rhys's work as Antoinette Cosway....
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Law’s first problem with evil is that if there’s an omnibenevolent God, then why is there any evil put into the world at all (Law, 1:45)? This is the logical problem while the evidential problem is that although there might be a world where evil and an omniscient God can coexist, why is there such a large quantity of evil...
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Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury and The Maze Runner directed by Wes Ball show how governments use their power to utilise conformity and individuality to maintain control of the dystopian societies in the two texts. Ray Bradbury’s 2008 republishes version of his 1953 novel is set in a dystopian society that burns books in order to control dangerous ideas...
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The Canterbury Tales was written by Geoffrey Chaucer most likely in the late 1380s and early 1390s. After Chaucer wrote The General Prologue, he continued to write more tales concerning the same characters’ stories. The General Prologue introduces the twenty-nine pilgrims and uses each character to represent how society was during that time period. In the narrative poem, The Canterbury...
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Wide Sargasso Sea is a novel that was written as a response to the text Jane Eyre in 1966. The novel was written by Jean Rhys, who wrote the text to give a voice to Antoinette Cosway, and provide a background to her story before she became ‘the mad woman in the attic’ in Jane Eyre. As such, one of...
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Genre and film in itself, is greatly influenced by the culture and time of production. Its an integral part of the media itself and can’t be ignored when viewing genre through a critical lens. Although genre is an encompassing mode of identification for films and media, it is fluid and constantly changing through different eras and cultures. A single piece...
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Introduction to Janie Crawford's Marital Journey Zora Neale Hurston’s novel Their Eyes Were Watching God tells the story of Janie Crawford, with Janie ultimately serving as her own narrators. Her story begins with a flashback to her life as a young girl and traces her path through three different marriages. Throughout the various pages, the book is perhaps most salient...
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Introduction The Magna Carta, a seminal document in the annals of English history, represents a pivotal turning point in the regulation of medieval England. Sealed by King John of England in 1215, the Magna Carta was a result of the mounting discontent among the English barons against the autocratic and often arbitrary rule of the monarchy. This document laid the...
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In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Minister’s Black Veil” and Jonathan Edwards “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” each author uses different styles in which they convey their meaning to the Puritan religion to the readers. A more persuasive way to get the meaning across, correlating with Edwards, is that nothing dealing with God’s powers will restrain you from Hell....
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The theme of power is explored in these two sonnets by contrasting the insignificance of human power in the face of God’s power. In ‘Ozymandias’, God’s power is symbolised as a time to emphasise the fragility of human power in comparison with God. The sonnet is told from the perspective of a traveller who tells of the ruins of a...
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Maus by Art Spiegelman is a graphic novel about a son listening to his father's experience during the holocaust. The story is a very serious subject, so drawing real looking humans can make people not want to read the book. This is why Spiegelman uses anthropomorphism. If a reader sees an animal, it won't look as bad and as serious...
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The phrase “grapes of wrath” is a Biblical reference, to the Book of Revelation. Passage 14:19-20, which states: “ So the angel swung his sickle to the earth and gathered the clusters from the vine of the earth, and threw them into the great winepress of the wrath of God”. John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath symbolizes various religious events...
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Have you ever thought about how hard it is to settle in a new place when you have never been to that particular place? Well, he explains the struggles of foreigners coming to the United States of America in The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. He uses various literary devices to explain to the reader how times in that time were...
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According to the renowned philosopher Plato, “Human behaviour flows from three main sources: desire, emotion and knowledge.” Yet what does it really mean to be human? Is it determined by your attitudes, values, beliefs or emotions? The definition of a human being is constantly questioned in modern society, defining the ways cultural assumptions, attitudes, values and beliefs are conveyed. The...
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