In the epic, The Odyssey, the author, Homer, used symbolism in the description of Odysseus’ bed. He had carved the bed from a tree. The tree’s roots went deep which produced a sturdy, healthy, and long-lasting tree. Since the roots were a part of the foundation of the house, there is an implication that a strong family is fundamental to...
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The Holocaust was a extremely tragic event that occurred in history. Many of the tragic stories belonging to the jews throughout history were not told, and lost from generation to generation. Movies like Schindler's List or books such as Maus try to make sure stories like this will never be forgotten, and hopefully they won't. The movie Schindler's List was...
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Life is filled with adversity, lost dreams, and suffering. Thus, making life challenging and onerous. Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun” and Langston Hughes’s poems both use the themes of broken dreams, poverty, and determination to show the struggle that African Americans faced during the 1950s. The authors may have similar themes but their works explain them differently. A...
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The novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee takes place in country Alabama during the aftermath of the Great Depression in the 1930s. Gender roles and the marginalization of women are a recurring and significant element in the novel. During this time people began to examine their roles in society, one of which is the moral obligation of a...
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The characters in Things Fall Apart each have their character traits as well as gender roles that they are expected to follow. In Things Fall Apart symbols are used to describe the behaviors and traits of the characters in the book as well as their fears. Three major symbols are used throughout the book, such fire to show the sullen...
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The last words by Aldous Huxley were about William Shakespeare, not being surprising that he alluded to the playwright in almost all of his novels and essays. Huxley uses Shakespeare to analyze society, through art, passion, and progress. The pattern used in his novels is not just technical or structural, but one from a creative artist like Shakespeare. The title...
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In the introduction, here we can see ample movements in American literature because of Edgar Allan Poe's works. First of all, I want to mention what is symbolism. Symbolism is a literary method that uses symbols, whether it is words, characters, marks, places, or abstract ideas, to express things beyond the literal meaning. It first originated in France. However,- American...
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Introduction In F. Scott Fitzgerald's seminal work, "The Great Gatsby," the tragic death of Jay Gatsby serves as the climax of a narrative steeped in the complexities of human behavior and societal mores. The question of who is ultimately responsible for Gatsby's untimely demise is not merely a matter of identifying a single perpetrator but rather an exploration of interwoven...
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A crucible is a container used for melting and purifying materials inside of it. Salem, where Arthur Miller’s play took place, was ruled by a theocratic society with no tolerance for evil. It had served as a crucible that put many through a server test. This play is about a series of witch hunt trials that were started by a...
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Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel Maus has become engrained in the cultural consciousness since its publication in 1980. This is not only due to the content—the harrowing story of a man’s survival during World War 2 and subsequent life—but also the style in which it is presented. Spiegelman puts on a masterclass with his artwork, his utilization of speech and negative...
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To Langston Hughes, Harlem was much more than just a geographical location, for the author the city was an entity in itself. During the rebirth of Harlem, there was electricity, a resonance that was clear to those residing there. Harlem was the center of black life in New York City. It was alive with jazz and importantly the mood was...
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Langston Hughes’s poem Merry-Go-Round was published in 1942. During that time in the United States, many things were going on, to name a few, there was the race riot, the first published issue of the Negro Digest, the first African American to go to space, the United State Marine Corps allowing African American men for the first time (but in...
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Poetry has no true meaning. This means it is one of a kind to anyone. However, we can distinguish the difference between poetry and different literature. To me, poetry lets a person categorize their emotions and use literary devices to further explain their point of view to the reader. Poetry uses many different forms of multidimensional languages to connect to...
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Poetry conveys various universal human issues such as the journey of life, struggles, and making choices. Two poems that convey universal human issues include the poem mother to Son by Langston Hughes and The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost. The poem mother to Son by Langston Hughes is an uplifting, poem on never giving up. It is about a...
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'The conventions of modern poetry can also lend themselves to the voice of protest for the subversive minorities '. This statement is pointful because the Harlem Renaissance and Langston Hughes's poem, ' I, Too ' portrays a perfect example of how the conventions of modern poetry can also lend themselves to the voice of protest for subversive minorities like African...
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Maus I and 11 is a publication by Art Spiegelman that illustrates how his elderly father Vladek Spiegelman survived the holocaust via a comical representation of the holocaust. This comic has been crafted as a masterly art that is filled with truth and is emotionally captivating. It has essentially, portrayed the actual families that were lucky enough to survive the...
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Our society as a whole is composed of various, and even contradicting ideologies, within our source we explore whether leading a life alongside personal freedoms and choices as being the path to happiness or if having security, control over you, and fewer freedoms for the greater good of the group as being more beneficial. The film Brave New World (1998)...
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Night, however, is completely different from Maus and is an autobiography. Elie Wiesel talks about his encounters during the Holocaust, and how it transformed him as an individual. It doesn't skip around forward and backward between the past and the present and does not even have the comical feel that Maus has. Elie writes his story in chronological order from...
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Regarding “Brave New World”, contemporary readers were as unsettled by the portrayal of polygamy as they were disinterested in the scientific detail. The novel is thought to have hit society too close to the bone, taking in mind the Great Depression economy, the rise of Fascism in Europe, and the First World War that ended just in 1918. Maybe the...
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Still I Rise was written by Maya Angelou, an American civil rights activist in 1978. The poem communicates the extent of the oppression that black women face in America and is a critique of American society’s treatment of African Americans. Similarly, A Story Of An Hour was published by Kate Chopin in 1894 and also expresses the repression that women...
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Main Characters: Ponyboy Curtis: The novel's narrator who is fourteen years old and a greaser. He has 'light-brown, almost-red hair, and greenish-gray eyes,' and wears his hair 'longer than a lot of boys wear theirs, squared off in the back and long at the front and sides.' Darry Curtis: A muscular, tall man who has broad shoulders and dark brown...
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Dystopian themes where a future society is suffering is a thread that runs through the books ‘Brave New World’ by Aldous Huxley and ‘The Island of Dr. Moreau’. They both represent a dystopian nature. ‘Brave New World’ is a new society that has been shaped where there is a faultless human. However, an individual called Bernard Marx rebels against society’s...
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The text that my group chose was Maus by Art Spiegelman, which is a graphic novel about the experiences that the author’s parents lived through and after the war and Holocaust during World War II. Art Spiegelman interviews his father Vladek and gets his experience and own perspective of being part of the war and living through it and The...
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In 1992, an American writer and cartoonist, Art Spiegelman won the special Pulitzer Prize for 'Maus,' which was the first time a Pulitzer had been awarded to a graphic novel. Because the author abandons the traditional text and adopts the form of comics to present the holocaust which is narrated by his father with the animal image as the protagonist,...
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The ghost of the King of Denmark tells his son Hamlet to avenge his murder by killing the new king, Hamlet's uncle. Hamlet feigns madness, contemplates life and death, and seeks revenge. His uncle, fearing for his life, also devises plots to kill Hamlet. The play ends with a duel, during which the King, Queen, Hamlet's opponent, and Hamlet himself...
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Literary works serve to trigger more thinking of several timeless questions by transcending their settings and lending themselves to more generic universal realities and meanings. As such, readers can take away many messages and values from a novel that was written more than a century ago and reflect on our contemporary world, which is the case with Mary Shelley’s thriller...
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Introduction The short story "Death of a Travelling Salesman" by Eudora Welty offers a profound exploration of themes such as identity, isolation, and mortality. Set against the backdrop of the Great Depression, this narrative delves into the existential struggles of a travelling salesman named R.J. Bowman. Through Welty's nuanced storytelling, the protagonist's journey becomes a metaphorical exploration of life, reflecting...
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The question is would you ever hide the truth from a friend, relative, or relationship? Would you sacrifice your happiness for the truth? Or would you sacrifice the truth for happiness? If you had the option to create a world based on lies for the benefit of peace and happiness, would you? Aldous Huxley created a world of his own,...
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Hill and Darragh (2017) talk about how YAL represents how “most of the teenaged protagonists were actively engaged in improving their lives making decisions in their and their family’s best interest.” Esperanza in The House on Mango Street has always shown an interest in owning a house that she can call her own, not depending on lotteries, or her father,...
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The amount of shallowness a man can be is sometimes absurd. The novel, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald tells a story about a fictional cast of characters living in a town separated by West Egg and East Egg in Long Island. One of the characters in the novel is Tom Buchana who lives in East Egg. Tom is...
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