Edgar Poe is famous for his Gothic style of poetry. One of his most popular poems is ‘The Raven’. It is impossible to read this poem without wondering whether the narrator is insane or not. Insanity is exhibited as the narrator of the poem imagines a raven entering his room in December at midnight. The narrator proceeds to lose his...
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In the darkness, we show our true colors. Behind the walls when no one is watching, we do things we wouldn't normally do in front of others. This is greatly expressed in Oscar Wilde's quote that states: “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth”. For...
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Rather than respecting people for whom they are based on personality, society chooses to judge people based solely on looks. Given all they have been through as a group, why do the boys in ‘Lord of the Flies’ see Piggy as a nuisance? Piggy’s physical appearance leads him to be the subject of many jokes, and even after offering advice...
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Children need order and rules, and someone to enforce those rules. When no adults are present to enforce these rules, there has to be a leader. Who is the best leader? In ‘Lord of the Flies’ by William Golding, British schoolboys were going to Australia for safety because of the war. When their plane crashed and they were stranded on...
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In William Golding’s novel ‘Lord of the Flies’, Ralph is described as a leader, companion, and a civilized person, who runs on a democracy. That is why all the people from the island chose Ralph as their leader. Ralph also helps run the island. If the people had a different leader, I think that everyone's viewpoint would change. Ralph crafted...
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In Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel 'The Scarlet Letter', Hester is the perfect example of one who experiences alienation alongside her daughter from the Puritans she lives around. She separates herself from them to work and take care of Pearl. Dealing with the guilt from her grave sin, Hester grows to learn how to cope with a judgmental society, where everyone around...
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In the world of literature, Roger Chillingworth stands, somewhat unceremoniously, as a symbol of true evil. In ‘The Scarlet Letter’ he is the living embodiment of the Black Man, who is, in the Puritan faith, a representation of the devil. He shares similar physical features to the Black Man and even shares similar desires. In ‘The Scarlet Letter’, the Black...
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Chinua Achebe published his first novel ‘Things Fall Apart’ in 1958. Achebe wrote his novel in response to European novels that depicted Africans as savages who needed to be enlightened by the Europeans. Achebe presents to the reader his people’s history with both strengths and imperfections by describing, for example, Igbo festivals, the worship of their gods and the practices...
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To understand the theme of communication, two appropriate stories to use are Tobias Wolff’s short story ‘Bullet in the Brain’ and Flannery O’Connor’s ‘A Good Man is Hard to Find’. In Wolff’s short story, Anders communicates with a bank robber cynically and sarcastically until he gets shot in the head. During the robbery, Anders is continuously mocking the robber's choice...
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Have you ever wondered what makes people change how they can go from nice to mean, mean to nice? In ‘Lord of the Flies’, William Golding is trying to teach us that people change when put under server circumstances like how in the book the boys are stranded on an island with no adults. While Piggy and Simon are not...
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The short story ‘A Good Man Is Hard to Find’ details a family on a car trip from Atlanta to Florida. I believe the story looks at what makes a good person versus a bad person, and how people often believe they are more virtuous than they are. The grandmother in ‘A Good Man Is Hard to Find’ is the...
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The author intends to explain how the character rejects his mental state and appreciation of mortality. The character of ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ exhibits signs of mental issues through a series of events described by the author. In the short story, the narrator doubts his sanity from the beginning. He says, “…but why will you say that I am mad? The...
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‘Night Walker’ by Brent Staples is a personal narrative in which the theme is considered to be don’t assume who they are just on the appearance of a person. ‘Night Walker’ is about an African American man who has insomnia. To cope with this, he takes walks throughout the city he lives in to tire himself so that he can...
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Both 'America' by Allen Ginsburg and 'I Am Waiting' by Lawrence Ferlinghetti respond to their American mainstream societies through the use of anaphora, form, and allusions. To begin, both poems effectively use anaphoras found in their titles that greatly emphasize their sentiments and opinions towards the society they lived in. For example, Ginsberg uses the term 'America' at the beginning...
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It can be said that animals bring out the best in humans. Paul Muldoon when introducing us to his anthology ‘Faber Book of Beasts’ believes this, but also feels that poetry does, so it so no surprise that there are volumes of poems published where animals are used literally and metaphorically as an elaborate link between themselves and humans. In...
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The existence of paradoxical literature can be traced back to the birth of literature. However, there are works and instances in which paradox explodes and it is almost impossible to pass them. Virginia Woolf’s ‘The Death of the Moth’ is a paradoxical piece of such, and her analysis would obviously overflow the particulars of limits or descriptions of inventory. Based...
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In ‘The Death of the Moth’, Virginia Woolf creates three clarifications to the story, where it’s the world outside the window, the moth trapped between the window panes, and her observing everything as it’s happening. At the beginning of the story, she stated: “It was a pleasant morning, mid-September, mild, benignant, yet with a keener breath than that of summer...
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The goodness expressed in people influences their actions and behaviors throughout their life. Everyone has internal goodness and some form of morality that is shown throughout human culture. William Golding uses representations to display how the forces of internal goodness against disorganization and madness affect society as a whole. In his novel ‘Lord of the Flies’, Golding uses Simon to...
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Discrimination comes in different forms, it is a unique pattern of harming and humiliating others, specifically those who are in some way smaller, weaker, younger, or more vulnerable. ‘Lord of the Flies’ is translated by William Golding. In the novel, discrimination leads to Piggy’s abuse. Despite all of Piggy’s leadership qualities, his physical appearance, social class, and personality help lay...
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In the novel ‘Lord of the Flies’, Golding uses many symbols that foreshadow the boys, mirror them, and give a deeper meaning to the story. The conch is one of many in the story that has its own meaning and importance in the story as it is a symbol of order and hierarchy amongst the group and boys. Later, this...
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'Free! Body and soul free!' (Choppin 2) what did Mrs. Mallard mean by this? This quotation was said a few moments after she found out that her husband passed away in a fatal trainwreck. But why would she say such things after hearing her spouse has passed away? Mrs. Mallard was very determined to have her own way of life...
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A defining characteristic of the Shakespearean famous tragedy ‘Hamlet’ is the presence of a ‘tragic hero’, a hero with a prominent flaw critical to their eventual demise, or a ‘fatal flaw’. Illustrated almost as a narrative, the flaw was a testament that sin is a feasible route for all men in society if one remains unknowledgeable of their fatal flaw...
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Shakespeare’s tragedy ‘Macbeth’ presents the themes of ambition, the supernatural, and guilt and illustrates the consequences of regicide. Written for audiences of the 16th century, the Scottish tragedy shows how the Great Chain of Being would have been disrupted if the foiled Gunpowder Plot was successful. The purposeful killing of a monarch is often associated with the forceful taking of...
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Agree, the theme of love is foci around which all other themes revolved. The themes of the playwright ‘Romeo and Juliet’ intertwine with one another. William Shakespeare wanted to show that sometimes through love we can also hate. In this play, love is a violent, ecstatic, overpowering force that supersedes all other values, loyalties, and emotions. Shakespeare has held up...
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‘His heart skipped a beat’ is a common idiom used to describe someone after he has just experienced a moment of shock or surprise. It is often used in a comical sense with the subject of the line never being in any real danger. However, in “The Story of an Hour,” the main character’s heart skipped one too many beats...
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Self-identity is defined as an understanding of an individual that has been displayed to them. According to “The Story of an Hour” written by Kate Chopin, it states that “She was beginning to recognize this thing that was approaching to possess her, and she was striving to beat it back with her will--as powerless as her two white slender hands...
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If I were asked to write a letter to a person from the past about what awaits him in the future, I would simply attach a list of the most famous works of American contemporary literature. Modern American literature is an army of interesting authors and a sea of a wide variety of books. The individual and society, the sharp...
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Sartre once shrewdly said “Hell is other people,” in the short story “The Story of an Hour,” Kate Chopin presents us with a regularly unheard perspective of marriage. Mrs. Louis Mallard, the main character, experiences the elation of freedom other than the desolation of loneliness after she finds out about her husband’s death. Later, when she finds out that her...
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The Romantic movement in literature is not only one of the most prolific currents in the history of Western literature, but also one of the most misinterpreted in terms of motives, positioning, and objectives. While it is commonly associated with (comparatively) superficial emotional stories and flat descriptions of nature, critics prefer referring to it as the “reform movement” which came...
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Are all children born evil? In ‘Lord of the Flies’ by William Golding the main character, Jack, is an innocent young boy that slowly transforms into a complete savage. Throughout this novel, Jack and the other children get stranded on an unknown island. This slowly makes Jack a have progressive and obsessive desire for power and killing through the events...
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