A Rose for Emily, by William Faulkner, is representative of the southern gothic as the themes of love, lost, death and murder are included in the story. Gothic nature was hinted in the story by the descriptions of emily's house and the poison she purchased. Emily, who is the protagonist, was a perfect young lady, who was wealthy and lived a happy life with her father. Times have changed and now she is currently an elderly woman living alone in...
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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 face many problems that are out of their control, just as Americans do in the fight for equality. America has...
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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 desire are all fallacies that are inappropriate methods of supporting a claim. Each one of these fallacies abuses a human’s...
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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 these books intertwine with each other through the similarities they share; however, they also contrast from each other due to...
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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 time. Marquez utilizes the social foundation and morals as a clarification for the murder of Santiago Nasar. Along these lines,...
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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 examined more closely to give an insight on Robinson Crusoe’s ‘hidden’ messages. Survival, self-awareness, spiritual growth, self-sufficiency and colonialism; these...
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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, which helps them redeem themselves, resist failure, and keep themselves motivated to move on with their lives. On the other...
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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 colour to tell his story. In Huck and Jim’s story of their escape to freedom, Mark Twain shows the depth...
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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 over and again expresses his dread of transforming into a fake himself. The line about a catcher in the rye...
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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 may struggle, but that’s all a part of learning. Being a teenager especially is hard to handle. The struggle of...
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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 or what is unspeakable can define and disconnect individuals. Hemingway exhibits deficiency in language by the use of unnamed characters...
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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 Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain puts our world to shame with his brilliant mind. He judges the world with fat mouth...
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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 by someone else. Lennie could be a possible threat to maybe himself or others. Due to Lennie’s mental deficiency, he...
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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 is that in today’s Google Search dominated world, and a world where everyone is staring at their phone, we are...
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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 the thing that makes humans disappear. In the novel, Montag begins to have feelings of uncertainty and wants to bring...
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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 stay in the city, he faces many ordeals and is forced to evaluate his life and the shift into adulthood....
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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 my wife; she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe...
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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 ‘beast or human being’, Bronte’s attempt to depict realistic, representative female characters does not extend to Bertha. Beyond Jane’s description...
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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” by William Shakespeare. In these selections the readers analyze how both Hamlet and Gatsby explore the aspect of our humanity...
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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 knowing what is real and what is made up as they are exposed to a way of writing that is...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, a great famous writer in the United Stated, was born a serious Puritanism family, his ancestors are prominent in the Puritan theocracy of 17th New England, thus readers can know Puritanism in his work. However, he expressed his different viewpoint in his works like The Scarlet Letter, the book’ plot develop in accordance with a beautiful wife derailed to a much-admired brilliant young clergyman, then the crime of adultery violate the mainstream consciousness of the society at that...
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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 in 2011. The film is set in the 1960s when African Americans were still being discriminated and treated differently and...
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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 Of Mice and Men through the character Lennie, who has to prove to the society around him that he is...
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The problem with surviving is feeling a responsibility to live a life in a way that is “worthy” for those who passed away in their presence. The novel The Catcher in the Rye demonstrates shows a teenager trying to be true to himself while facing the issues of growing up, his self-destructiveness, and most importantly, accepting the death of his younger brother Allie. Phoebe, Holden Caulfield’s little sister, who serves not only as a guide for the readers when Holden...
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Get up with the melodious music played by smartphone. Drink a cup of coffee produced by the automatic coffee maker. Then enter the office by passing through a gate with facial recognition technology. Technology has already become immersed in everyone’s daily life. In the society, technology has become increasingly important and also an indispensable part of running the society normally. However, technology development has harmful negative side effects, if it is overused because it can make relationships between humans farther...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel written by American writer, Mark Twain. It was published first in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. “Mark Twain” however, was only the writer’s pen name. Along with “Josh” and “Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass.” His real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens and he was born and raised in Hannibal, Missouri. This is significant because it is also where his story “Huckleberry Finn” takes place. Mark...
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Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, despite being one of the best selling and top-rated books has brought about a lot of controversies that have stirred mixed emotions among his readers. One of the most popular controversies about his book is the character Jim, who provokes the strongest reactions from readers. Some readers argue that Twain’s characterization of Jim portrays him as racist and that his purpose of creating such a character was/is to ridicule Jim and all southern slaves...
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Puritans aren’t anything like Americans today and there are many reasons as to why. Hester Prynne, a young Puritan unlike the rest, committed the sin of adultery. Throughout the book, “The Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the story of Hester unfolds. The struggles Hester faces of heartless punishments and publicly being shamed by wearing a letter on her chest for the rest of her life is emphasized throughout the book. Nothing like this could ever happen in society today. American...
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Charles Dickens is considered by Dr. Diniejko of Warsaw University to be England’s first “great urban novelist” (par. 1). When the Poor Law of 1834 was established, poverty escalated in the streets of London and the lower class citizens were forced to work in the egregious conditions of the workhouses. Through his traumatic childhood experiences, social involvement, and understanding of Industrial England’s flaws, Dickens was able to expose the “economic, social, and moral injustices” of the Victorian Era by drawing...
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The ‘Human Condition’ is used to reference the qualities that comprise the imperatives of human existence. Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart,” is one of literary merit, attracting readers worldwide for its use of universal themes. “Things Fall Apart” takes readers into Umuofian society, where Okonkwo is initially regarded as a warrior of the clan. As the story develops forward and into the changes that meet the traditionalistic clanspeople, Okonkwo is proved to be comprised of many fatal flaws, creating a...
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