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Love in George Orwell's Novel '1984'

4 Pages 1731 Words
Love is a feeling everyone desires to have, but true love, in any case, it the one everyone hopes to possess and experience, it can define a person. Winston, the protagonist in George Orwell’s novel ‘1984’, didn’t know what love was, along with never believing he could ever experience love in the society he lived in. Winston always had a...
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Lois Lowry's 'The Giver': Book Review Essay

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In the book 'The Giver', the community is a perfect place, where everyone lives a safe and fun life, without feelings of pain or love. Jonas is our protagonist. A very brave, strong and smart man who undergoes a huge adventure for the good of mankind. In this world, instead of having an age, you just have a number, and...

The Swimmer John Cheever Analysis

3 Pages 1219 Words
The recent rise of suburbia in mainstream media has promoted the suburban lifestyle to be the most desirable and ideal way of life. However, when understood in depth, suburbia often hides a deceptive façade as a means to achieve a sense of social superiority. The short story, ‘The Swimmer’ (Cheever, 1964), explores the social and psychological repercussions of the constant...

Suetonius' Literary Devices in Portraying Caligula's Character

5 Pages 2158 Words
Suetonius uses a variety of literary techniques in order to portray Caligula’s character in a negative light, which primarily revolve around the establishment of superficial praise for Caligula, in order to more strikingly condemn him later. In order to demonstrate this, we must observe the way in which Suetonius structures the Life of Caligula to maximize this effect, before noting...

Literary Devices in William Shakespeare's 'Macbeth'

2 Pages 859 Words
‘Macbeth’, first performed in 1606, is an Elizabethan tragedy written by William Shakespeare. He details the anarchy that greed brings rise to, having Macbeth being driven by both himself and extrinsic figures to murder Scotland’s king, ultimately leading to his own anguished death. Shakespeare utilizes a myriad of literary devices to communicate the ideas of fate, natural and unnatural, and...

Katniss Everdeen Analysis ('The Hunger Games')

1 Page 561 Words
Hunger was Katniss Everdeen’s worst nightmare, creeping up behind her and pouncing, instantly shattering her peaceful life and challenging her abilities to support her family by herself. Discover how she overcomes hunger and her personal arsenal of character strengths which allows her to survive even in the most treacherous of situations. ‘The Hunger Games’ by Suzanne Collins depicts Katniss Everdeen’s...

John Steinbeck's 'The Chrysanthemums': Character Analysis of Elisa

2 Pages 685 Words
Imagine the life of a woman in a rural setting; the feeling of being isolated and underestimated by all men, even those that should praise the ground they walk on. This is the constant feeling of, not only Elisa Allen, but all women in a setting as such seen in ‘The Chrysanthemums’. The protagonist, Elisa Allen, is a degraded, isolated...

Sartre's 'No Exit': Ontology, Consciousness, Irony, Character

3 Pages 1356 Words
In the play ‘No Exit’, Jean-Paul Sartre implements the ideas of the philosophy of ontology and consciousness. In exploration of these philosophical ideas, like ontology, which is the ‘study of what exists’, the author works to emphasize the importance of self-awareness. Ontology, itself, categorizes the nature of existence into three states of being. These states of being include: being-in-itself, being-for-itself,...

Shylock: Villain or Victim in 'The Merchant of Venice'?

2 Pages 863 Words
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The Jewish people are scared. Frightened to leave their home every day and practice their own religion. They are frowned upon by all Christians and non-Jews. Being a Jewish person is like living in a foreign land. They must practice their religion in secret, they are segregated away from all other non-Jewish people and they are heavily discriminated. Shylock is...

Is Love the Strongest Emotion? Essay

3 Pages 1470 Words
Love is the strongest and most influential emotion because it causes people to make decisions that could potentially be life threatening that they otherwise would not make. Although understanding what’s going on to create emotions can be complex its vital for analyzing Romeo and Juliet. The reason for this is because one needs to understand the reasoning for many behaviors...

The Jewelry by Guy De Maupassant

2 Pages 1001 Words
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The short story, ‘The Jewelry’, by Guy De Maupassant examines the theme of life being full of irony and never knowing what you are really dealing with. One may perceive something and think it is amazing until they see the reality of the situation and then truly understand what they were dealing with and how the person or thing they...

Irony in O. Henry's Story 'The Ransom of Red Chief'

2 Pages 694 Words
In ‘The Ransom of Red Chief’, the characters’ actions are the opposite of what is expected, which creates irony. O. Henry, the author, develops irony through contrasting character points of view and uses irony to create humor and surprise. O. Henry begins the story with Sam, the narrator and kidnapper, discussing how he and Bill Driscoll plan to kidnap a...

Illusions of Love in 'The Great Gatsby'

3 Pages 1462 Words
What do we really desire in life? Your emotions and especially love can push you to do good things in life but sadly, can also push you to make negative choices or even become obsessive. As was the case for Gatsby in this novel. In the book, ‘The Great Gatsby’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald, love and desire are big motivators...

How Does Elie Wiesel Change Throughout the Book 'Night'?

1 Page 661 Words
The Holocaust itself was a genocide on a scale never before seen, with as many as twelve million people killed in Nazi death camps—six million of them Jews. Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, wrote a memoir called ‘Night’, which gives us a look on what he faced, what he went through, and what life was like being held against his will...

Hidden in Elie Wiesel’s 'Night'

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Throughout the presence of space and time, various incidents occur in which society gains experience from. Through those experiences things like articles and novels are made. ‘Night’ is a reiterated version of author Elie Wiesel’s experience during the Holocaust. He speaks about the ghetto he lived in, the suffering he endured, and the pain of it all. It raises the...

Gina's Unreliable Narration in 'The Forgotten Waltz'

3 Pages 1465 Words
Gina Moynihan is an unreliable narrator of her own story as she contradictions herself throughout the entire novel. She also does not conform to a basic structure and further points will explain how she states and makes mistakes when certain things took place and how they happened. Gina was infatuated with Sean yet looking back in the novel, that is...

Faith Can Not Be Lost According to the Book 'Night'

2 Pages 701 Words
Buddha, a teacher, philosopher, and spiritual leader, once said, “Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life” In Elie Wiesel's ‘Night’, the victims of the Holocaust lived with a highly spiritual life. They lived by their traditions. However, many felt as if their faith was lost after witnessing the horrors of the concentration...

Perception through Dickinson, Wiesel, Bruegel

3 Pages 1176 Words
Through the creation of differing backgrounds, contrasting perspectives among people shape how the system of human society works. Having to be raised in certain ways with distinguished experiences, it is evident that people have various views on concepts. These different perceptions can be expressed in the form of literature and artwork. For example, the poems, ‘Before I Got My Eye...

Personal Identity in Lawson's Our Pipes and The Drover's Wife

2 Pages 903 Words
The environment of an individual’s identity shapes the community’s identity due to isolation. When coming together everyone has so much to express and share as everyone has missed out on so much due to being Australian bush men or women. ‘Our Pipes’ and ‘The Drover’s Wife’ explore the culture, identity, and language on both an individual and community aspect. The...

Essay on Shakespeare's Image of Love in 'Romeo and Juliet'

2 Pages 1059 Words
Shakespeare depicts the love in ‘Romeo and Juliet’ in many ways. Their love is portrayed by images of light and dark and juxtaposed against death. Romeo and Juliet's love is associated with sight and appearances; love at first sight. After all, the love of Romeo and Juliet is portrayed as of another world and heavenly. They are ‘star-crossed lovers’, with...

Elie’s Relationship with God in the Book 'Night'

2 Pages 707 Words
Religious views can change depending on the things a person experiences. Some traumatizing situations could lead a person to question their belief in God. Elie Wiesel’s memoir, ‘Night’, talks about Ellie’s life as a Jew during the Holocaust and his relationship with God. From Sighet to Buchenwald’s liberation, Elie Wiesel’s faith changes from strong devotion to a cynical view to...

Elie's Identity Crisis in the Book 'Night'

2 Pages 1045 Words
Identity is what makes a person who they are and when one goes through trauma and dehumanization the way they see things changes, which causes their identity to reshape. ‘Night’ by Eliezer Wiesel is a Holocaust memoir where Elie narrates his life experience in the concentration camps during the Holocaust. Elie provides horrifying details of the atrocities he and the...

Dream Parents in the Story 'Dog' by Richard Russo

1 Page 570 Words
In the story ‘Dog’, we follow a kid named William Henry Devereaux and his treatment by his parents, who are both English professors who were ‘academic nomads’. Henry was a nine-year-old boy who wanted a dog for Christmas, but probably wants a dog to substitute the love and care that his parents don't give him. Richard Russo’s ‘Dog’ is a...

Dramatic Irony in William Shakespeare's ‘Macbeth’

2 Pages 730 Words
Shakespeare ‘Macbeth’ was written in 1606, it’s based on a man named Macbeth who wanted to become the king of Scotland (where he resides). The main theme of Macbeth is the spoiling nature of his unchecked ambition, which is displayed through his struggles against himself, his wife, and society all driven by the want of power. Dramatic irony is foreshadowed...

Techniques in Thornton Wilder's 'Our Town'

2 Pages 760 Words
The author Thornton Wilder uses dialogue in the play ‘Our Town’. There is a lot left to the imagination as the sets are simple and throughout the acts, the narrative provided by the Stage Manager sets the scene in what is known as the dream play technique. The stage set is very basic with only a few props, table and...

Dissociative Olympics: Swimming with Disorder

3 Pages 1141 Words
‘The Swimmer’, a short story written by American author John Cheever in 1964, is centered on the journey of a middle-aged man, Neddy Merrill, as he attempts to swim across country in various swimming pools he finds along the way. It emerges from a world in which Merill is an affluent member of society, simply reveling in life’s greatest pleasures...
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