Once in our lives, there is a minute that we may consider ourselves superior to somebody or something different. There may likewise be a moment when creating a choice prompts an incredible blunder in judgment. In the play, Oedipus the King, composed by Sophocles, both of these attributes can be found in the primary character. These qualities are called appalling...
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Anne Dillard’s, “Living Like Weasels,” offers a statement all throughout the entire piece contrasting the behavior of weasels with the behavior that all individuals ought to attempt to live by. Ordinarily, one does not connect the weasel with being intelligent or a good example among different species, however, the effortlessness and startling quality of the creature in this setting is...
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The Phantom of the Opera: The Phantom of the Opera or also known as The head of the fire is a ghost who haunted the Opera. His real name is Erik and most people thought he only was a monster who frightened people because he was frustrated at how ugly he was but there’s a tragic story behind it. Unluckily...
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“Sense and Sensibility” written by Austen is a book about two women named Elinor Dashwood, and Marianne Dashwood, and their families. In my opinion, the title means the relationship they have with their significant others. I think this because they show sense which means to have restraint and they show sensibility which means to give way to emotion. These two...
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Jeanette Walls' memoir, The Glass Castle, narrates Jeanette's unusual youth portrayed by tenacious neediness and the disarray and perplexity of broken guardians and their itinerant way of life. What is exceptional about Jeanette's story is that despite the fact that Jeanette's folks were untrustworthy, careless, and imprudent, they managed to ingrain in their kid's key admirable characteristics and raise composed...
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During the 19th century, the traditional values of the Igbo people clashed with the values of western culture (Osei-Nyame 149-150). More specifically, the ideas of gender roles presented in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart contrast how the Igbo people view the role of men and women. During this time period, western literature did not appropriately depict African culture, therefore, Achebe gave...
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A profound aspect that Tony Kushner incorporates throughout act one scene seven of ‘Angels in America’ is the manner in which he defies the logic of Harper’s hallucination. Despite Harper never having met Prior and stating that the mind “shouldn’t make up anything that wasn’t there to start with”, both Harper and Prior have specific knowledge of one another. Harper...
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It is often easy to suggest that ‘poetry makes a familiar world unfamiliar’ however, the world that the poet writes about is familiar to them. For example, Sylvia Plath’s poetry was highly influenced by her deteriorating mental health and her difficulty with relationships. The world that Plath’s poetry portrayed is a world that was familiar to her. Plath’s short book...
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Sonnet 18 was written by the English poet William Shakespeare, that articulates and emphasizes the sentiment of love. The poem expresses the poet’s endearment and perpetual devotion to his subject, and how the subject surpasses all tangible beauty. He explicitly expresses this notion through the manipulation and application of figurative language, poetic devices, and imagery. The poet discusses his subject,...
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According to Aristotle, “ a tragedy should arouse in the spectators the feeling piety and fear – ‘pity’ mainly for the hero’s tragic fate and ‘fear’ at the sight of the dreadful suffering that occurs the characters, particularly the hero. By arousing these feelings of pity and fear, a tragedy aims at the catharsis or purgation of these and similar...
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‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ (1895) and ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ (1890) both address women in different ways whether this be because of their class or because the genre of the individual texts changes the overall portrayal of the characters. The comedic nature of the play allows for the women to flourish as they continue to match the quick...
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Oedipus’ determination, in this case, to rule, can be seen as one of the main reasons for his downfall. In the story, The Sphinx presented the following riddle for those who sought to rule Thebes: 'What is it that walks on 4 feet and 2 feet and 3 feet and has only one voice, when it walks on most feet...
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The Greek philosopher, Aristotle, defines a tragic hero as a character having valiant traits that earn the audience's sympathy but also have human flaws that ultimately lead to their own downfall. Aristotle states a tragic hero's fortune should be not from bad to good but from good to bad caused by their own doing. A tragic hero's misfortune is seen...
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Thank you, Your Honor. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, thank you for your time as all the evidence was carefully presented. So, all the facts and evidence have been presented to you today and with that, I’d like to say the fate of Oedipus’ life now is within your hands. Oedipus has been convicted of committing an inhumane crime...
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Literature is an art that allows an author to exhibit the undesired primal aspects of humanity. The Picture of Dorian Gray written by Oscar Wilde is a prime example of this. Published in London in 1890, the gothic literature carries heavy themes of aestheticism, the superficiality of beauty, homosexual undertones, and hedonism which directly attacked Victorian society’s repressive nature for...
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Aristotle in his famous book 'Poetics' describes the traits needed to complete the tragedy. As in accordance to Aristotle, any tragedy is a perfect tragedy when the action has soberness, expansive, and ideal in it. Some of the important factors of a perfect tragedy are Peripeteia, Anagnorisis, and catharsis. King Oedipus of Greek mythology owns all the features of a...
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Literature is the basis of knowledge. Everything we know, or claim to know, has come from literature in one way or another. At some point, people realized, an oral presentation wasn't enough. To improve and develop as a society, people needed to keep records of ideas, experiments, and narratives. By writing down literature, people were able to transform renowned narratives...
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“I’m not happy and bubbly, I’m dark and cloudy” claims Dr. Meredith Grey from the hit drama TV show Grey’s Anatomy. Many people are obsessed with the show and the show's main character, Meredith Grey, played by Ellen Pompeo. Pompeo has had many interviews, but two online articles seem to surprise Pompeo’s fans: Sarah Grossbart's (online author for Enews’s )...
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Refugees are regular people who were forced to leave their homes because of safety reasons and problems going on in their countries. While fleeing their homes their lives turned inside out because they had problems finding a place to go, they were separated from family. Also, they had trouble finding safe solutions to be in. Soon their lives turned back...
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William Shakespeare is likely the most well-known literary figure in Western history, and thus an analysis of his works can deeply connect us to our cultural history. The beauty of studying Shakespeare is that any one of his works, such as “Sonnet 116” which we will be observed in this paper, opens our eyes to the lineages and trends of...
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This play is distinctively known for its comedic elements. One of the main elements that compose this text is the comedy of manners. This is basically deriding the upper-class society which could be interpreted as a mockery of the way heterosexual people have vilified homosexuals and treated them as an abomination. If we take into account the time period this...
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Claude McKay`s ‘If We Must Die’ is another example of a poem that criticizes racial injustice and gives a voice to those black people who are marginalized by systematic racism. McKay is famously known for his poetry in support of the Black community as he committed himself to fight against racial injustice, and this poem in particular displays the complexities...
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The book “Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe is a fictional story based around the cultural and social life of an African tribe of the lower Niger River region. It depicts the daily life of the tribe and its members. It additionally shows the culture and customs of the tribe. The book focuses on one of the tribe members, Okonkwo....
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Do many people wonder what is the meaning of life? What is our purpose? There comes a very important time in our lives when we must sit down and ask whether we are living our lives or if we are just being content with what we have. There are also times in our lives when our instincts will tell us...
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The whole poem consists of six stanzas, each stanza is three lines long and there is an alternate long and short sentence to express a rhythmic rocking sound. The rhythm of the poem is related to a lullaby where mothers sing it to their precious baby, which ties into the title of the poem. The poem's first line significantly captures...
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Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex is, according to Aristotle, the ideal tragedy. Various reasons influence Aristotle’s position on the matter. One of them is the peripeteia, which refers to a drastic turnaround. In Poetics, Aristotle defines the element of surprise that peripeteia denotes as “a change by which the action veers round to its opposite” (Cain et al. 98). He argues that...
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In the story Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck uses three stylistic elements. This story contains Imagery, Symbolism, and Allegory. Imagery affects the text by describing contents that have a feel on our 5 senses. For example, “You can hear the crunch of the fallen leaves as you walk through the scary forest.” Symbolism adds more depth to the story through...
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It is in the human nature of every man alive to develop an eager, as well as an exorbitant desire for power and supremacy. From this greed, arises the need of the individual to prioritize his own requirements in order to find the right actions to make, to then be able to obtain what he desperately wants. By working hard...
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The poem The White House written by Claude Mckay focuses on the hardships that black citizens have to face within the American culture. Mckay’s poem presents a poetic voice demonstrating the bitterness and suppressed anger that is being exposed to society. This limits the opportunities that African Americans have against political rights as they are being shunned against their race...
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During the Victorian period, the inequalities between genders were tense because the gap distinction was increasing instead of decreasing. Women were tired of the discrimination and the injustice that society was implementing on their shoulders. The frustration of pretending to be the submissive wife and hiding under male pen names to have their works published was pushing women to the...
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