Introduction William Faulkner, a luminary in American literature, is renowned for his profound exploration of the human psyche and the Southern Gothic tradition. His short story, "A Rose for Emily," serves as a quintessential example of Gothic literature, encapsulating themes of decay, isolation, and the macabre. In the realm of literature, the Gothic genre is characterized by its use of...
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Equality has been sought after by many and Americans have fought valiantly in order to bring equality within reach. The struggle for equality has been depicted by Harper Lee’s book, To Kill a Mockingbird, in the way the characters battle against segregation in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama during the late 1930’s. While combating segregation, characters in the book...
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In most cases, feelings, emotions, and passions don’t seem to have a proper role in the truth that logic aims to achieve. Various logical fallacies stem from them, making such human experiences a nuisance to the pursuit of objective truths. We lose sight of the actual argument and topic because of argumentum ad hominem, and misericordiam, baculum and appeal to...
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Introduction Hamlet life was affected by the series of events especially his personality. Hamlet went in the course of hard time through the passing away of his member of the clergy (Erikson, pg, 5). In a month afterward, he goes in the course of another horrible event, where his nurse Gertrude started an association by his uncle Claudius and planning...
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“The Stranger” written by Albert Camus is a story revolving around Monsieur Meursault, an indifferent man with a peculiar way of viewing life. “Waiting for Godot” written by Samuel Beckett is a play revolving around two characters, Vladimir and Estragon. Like “The Stranger”, these two characters are unordinary, living life in an abnormal way. This essay will be exploring how...
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'Chronicle of a Death Foretold' is amusing to its name in light of the fact that the historical backdrop of the occasions that prompted the murder of Santiago Nasar and furthermore chronicles the social surroundings where the occasion occurred. In the novel, the author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, reports through the depravity of the events that prevailed in Colombia during that...
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Written during the age of discovery, Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe is often regarded as an embodiment of British imperialistic values and is widely acclaimed by its narrative and realism in its depiction of the narrator’s psychological and spiritual development. In this essay, the major themes in this novel, that somewhat serve as divisions in the story, will be exposed and...
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Traumatic events and tragedies can heavily affect people and change the course of their lives. These traumatic events can be a result of a person’s fate or their lack of action taken to make it avoidable. Trauma can be experienced at any age, from childhood to adulthood. Some people handle trauma very well and come to terms with what happened,...
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The name Mark Twain is widely associated with being a very courageous writer, not fearing to go where many other authors will not go. In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain does an excellent job of showing the important historical issue of racial discrimination and the poor treatment of slaves in the Antebellum South by using two men of the opposite...
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Nothing in The Catcher in the Rye flag Holden's twist of the importance of adolescence and adulthood more decisively than the title itself. As he wanders around New York City, Holden thinks about what he sees as the uncorrupted honesty of kids to the pietism of development. He considers pretty much every grown-up he meets to be a fake, and...
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In this play, it all starts in a really creepy setting as if it is trying to tell a story in the beginning, but having some type of suspicion throughout the beginning. There is tons of fog that sets what the play is symbolizing in that moment and having some interesting music. This play tells about a tragic story of...
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Some think that life is a straight line. Two points, one point when you are born, and the endpoint is drawn when you pass away. Frankly, life is filled with several twists, turns and plunges. You never know what to expect next. Life is more like a rollercoaster. It’s unpredictable, scary at times, and inconsistent. There are times where you...
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The play “Othello”, written by William Shakespeare, is a tragedy story about a moor (General) “Othello” and his downfall between his newly wedded wife, Desdemona. The story begins in Venice and how Roderigo was gaining his affection for Desdemona. Roderigo is been paying Iago money to help him win Desdemona’s love and affection. Roderigo later found out that Desdemona been...
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W.H. Auden once aforementioned, “There is more than meets the eye.” suggesting that there could be a hidden or deeper meaning behind a person’s initial look. Lies, deceits and dishonesty is one of the foremost themes in Shakespeare’s play Othello. The character of Iago isn't any different from those deceptive individuals. Behind his facade of a trustworthy ensign...
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People might be blinded to reality, and may not understand what truth is, regardless of whether truth is remaining before them. They will never observe truth since they are incognizant in regards to it. In Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, it is anything but difficult to perceive how visual impairment influences the progress of the story. It is said that visually...
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Ernest Hemingway’s short story, “Hills Like White Elephants” is an examination of human connection, a comparison of talking vs. communicating. The story’s setting, repetition of words, spare dialogue, and use of cognitive verbs establishes a textual pattern that develops the narrative's dilemma. The text further explores the power of dialect crashing down between two people and how what is unsaid...
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Humans live in a world where you are stereotyped just by the way you walk. Humans live in a world where you are silenced by having opinions. Humans live in a world where you are called names because of your skin color. Humans live in a world where society follows what the leader does. In the novel, The Adventures of...
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In the book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, where a mentally distant protagonist named Lennie inadvertently strangles a woman putting his best friend George in a precarious position where he has to put Lennie down. Due to these circumstances, George made the right decision in saving Lennie’s life because he would have been locked up forever or killed...
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The word “utopia” comes from Greek and means “good-place/no-place”. A utopia is an imagined society with perfect qualities. There are no problems in a utopia and all desires are met. The opposite of utopia is dystopia, but dystopias can also be failed utopias. Dystopia basically means “not-good-place”. It is very scary and undesirable. The prime characteristics of dystopia are dehumanization,...
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I think we can all agree that heavy censorship as in Fahrenheit 451 is bad and not a society we want to live in. We see that when most individuals are limited in this way it brings not just themselves down, but the whole society and culture. This novel makes it fairly obvious what is happening. What is less obvious...
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Introduction For theme selection, I deeply researched on internet, magazines and design related books and then I finalized the theme by merging two themes, Strega fashion and gothic architecture. I merged these two themes because I wanted to add different elements in my final collection garments and I thought it will look great and different at the same time if...
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The works of William Shakespeare evince great fascination and entertainment for the overarching themes orchestrated by the plot and characters. The theme of illusion versus reality is employed in many Shakespearean plays, allowing for the saturation of dramatic irony. In this way, the audience becomes increasingly aware of the feelings, motives, and behaviours of each character and their situation as...
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Without the ability to successfully think or communicate, humanity becomes no different than a machine. In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, Montag represents the power of the Proletariats to rebuild a stronger society that values the freedom to express oneself. Bradbury’s intent of the novel is to demonstrate that the destruction, and the subsequent loss of freedom of thought, will be...
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The book “The Catcher in the Rye” follows Holden Caulfield as he faces the stage between childhood and adulthood. More specifically, the book describes the days after Holden gets kicked out of a prestigious boarding school (for the third time), and how he spends his days in the city before he tells his parents about getting kicked out. During his...
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Being able to express oneself is a quality that makes a person who they are and determines what role they play in society. In the beginning of the book Montag lacks individual self-expression which is why he is clearly unhappy. Bradbury writes “Nobody listens anymore. I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me, I can't talk to...
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Elaine Showalter suggests ‘In Jane Eyre, Brontë attempts to depict a complete female identity’ in the creation of the eponymous character of the novel (Showalter, 2013). The characterisation of Bertha Mason, however, provides a stark contrast to the autonomy Jane seems to possess over her life. Described by Mr. Rochester as ‘some strange wild animal’ that blurred the lines between...
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Throughout literature and history included in this world there are various examples to answer the questions of who are we and why are we here. This coming from many people of whom are struggling in today’s world. The readers explore the appearance vs the reality of expectations followed through the pieces “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald and “Hamlet”...
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Due to the unconventional way that Tim O’Brien writes his novel, The Things They Carried, many cannot decide which genre it belongs to. The debate lies in the argument of whether the collection of short stories that are part of the book are of fiction, or true to word memoir. While reading the book, the reader has no way of...
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Harper Lee’s classic novel, ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ was published in 1960. The novel is based around the 1930s around the time slavery ended but racism and discrimination was very much alive. This would have a been around the same time as the great depression where everyone didn’t have money. Kathryn Stockett film, The Help, was turned into a film...
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In the 1930s during the height of the Great Depression, mental disabilities were seen as a burden on an already struggling society. This was during a time when America did not have the time or resources to commit to people who were not deemed fit, and as such were treated less than human. John Steinbeck portrays this very well in...
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