In the play, “Death of a Salesman,” Arthur Miller uses a number of literary devices to convey his overarching messages to the audience. His symbolism in particular allows him to shape the themes of this story by repeatedly emphasizing their importance throughout the duration of the play. In this play, Arthur Miller uses a number of symbols pertaining to Willy,...
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In this essay, I'm going to write about how Katniss’s role in her family affects her behavior in the games by giving examples from the novel The Hunger Games (2008), written by Suzanne Collins, and finishing the essay with a conclusion. The novel The Hunger Games (2007), written by Suzanne Collins has its main character Katniss Everdeen who is only...
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In the video of Tennessee Williams' 'The Glass Menagerie.' Tom is the protagonist and the antagonist towards himself, because of the conflict tradition and its illusion. Amanda, his mother is often the antagonist based off her dreams of a “gentleman caller”. She complains about everything Tom does such as not acting like normal people do and wanting him to take...
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What are human experiences? Well, people have different definitions of what a human experience is. In my opinion, a human experience is when someone does something that could be good as it could be bad, and by doing something they can learn if they should do it again or if it was a bad idea and not to repeat it...
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The existence of paradoxical literature can be traced back to the birth of literature. However, there are works and instances in which paradox explodes and it is almost impossible to pass them. Virginia Woolf’s ‘The Death of the Moth’ is a paradoxical piece of such, and her analysis would obviously overflow the particulars of limits or descriptions of inventory. Based...
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Edgar Poe is famous for his Gothic style of poetry. One of his most popular poems is ‘The Raven’. It is impossible to read this poem without wondering whether the narrator is insane or not. Insanity is exhibited as the narrator of the poem imagines a raven entering his room in December at midnight. The narrator proceeds to lose his...
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To understand the theme of communication, two appropriate stories to use are Tobias Wolff’s short story ‘Bullet in the Brain’ and Flannery O’Connor’s ‘A Good Man is Hard to Find’. In Wolff’s short story, Anders communicates with a bank robber cynically and sarcastically until he gets shot in the head. During the robbery, Anders is continuously mocking the robber's choice...
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The short story ‘A Good Man Is Hard to Find’ details a family on a car trip from Atlanta to Florida. I believe the story looks at what makes a good person versus a bad person, and how people often believe they are more virtuous than they are. The grandmother in ‘A Good Man Is Hard to Find’ is the...
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The author intends to explain how the character rejects his mental state and appreciation of mortality. The character of ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ exhibits signs of mental issues through a series of events described by the author. In the short story, the narrator doubts his sanity from the beginning. He says, “…but why will you say that I am mad? The...
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‘Night Walker’ by Brent Staples is a personal narrative in which the theme is considered to be don’t assume who they are just on the appearance of a person. ‘Night Walker’ is about an African American man who has insomnia. To cope with this, he takes walks throughout the city he lives in to tire himself so that he can...
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Both 'America' by Allen Ginsburg and 'I Am Waiting' by Lawrence Ferlinghetti respond to their American mainstream societies through the use of anaphora, form, and allusions. To begin, both poems effectively use anaphoras found in their titles that greatly emphasize their sentiments and opinions towards the society they lived in. For example, Ginsberg uses the term 'America' at the beginning...
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It can be said that animals bring out the best in humans. Paul Muldoon when introducing us to his anthology ‘Faber Book of Beasts’ believes this, but also feels that poetry does, so it so no surprise that there are volumes of poems published where animals are used literally and metaphorically as an elaborate link between themselves and humans. In...
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In ‘The Death of the Moth’, Virginia Woolf creates three clarifications to the story, where it’s the world outside the window, the moth trapped between the window panes, and her observing everything as it’s happening. At the beginning of the story, she stated: “It was a pleasant morning, mid-September, mild, benignant, yet with a keener breath than that of summer...
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In the world of literature, Roger Chillingworth stands, somewhat unceremoniously, as a symbol of true evil. In ‘The Scarlet Letter’ he is the living embodiment of the Black Man, who is, in the Puritan faith, a representation of the devil. He shares similar physical features to the Black Man and even shares similar desires. In ‘The Scarlet Letter’, the Black...
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All people are born evil. It is the environment and society that people grow up in that causes them to seem like they are virtuous and moral. However, in pressured situations, Golding claims that the natural evilness that is within people reveals itself. In his novel ‘Lord of the Flies’, William Golding paints the setting as an unknown island in...
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In the novel ‘Lord of the Flies’, Golding uses many symbols that foreshadow the boys, mirror them, and give a deeper meaning to the story. The conch is one of many in the story that has its own meaning and importance in the story as it is a symbol of order and hierarchy amongst the group and boys. Later, this...
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“Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us” (Golding, 89). In the novel ‘Lord of the Flies’ by William Golding, a group of schoolboys fights to the death to escape their fear of themselves. Golding uses the scene where Simon is murdered to show how fear can dehumanize a man. Throughout the novel fear becomes a much bigger idea...
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William Golding encompasses an abundance of symbolism in his book ‘Lord of the Flies’. From the island to each and every kid, all are symbolic representations of Golding’s notion of the true nature of mankind. Mankind, depicted in an allegorical novel of a couple of boys from England between the ages of six and twelve who have crash landed on...
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Although there is debate on whether ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ is able to properly critique all parts of Twain’s society, it successfully analyzes the immoral practices of his society through his descriptions of mob mentality. The most blatant way Twain critiques mob mentality is through the use of the character of Colonel Sherburn and the town’s attempt to lynch...
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Innocence is something people want to keep, especially during or after adolescence. Holden goes through this transition because of losing his brother, Allie, and struggles to accept it. To Holden, losing Allie is a traumatic experience that affects him greatly enough to manipulate his views on adolescence. From this, he makes the effort to save his and others’ innocence. Holden...
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The problem of mental illnesses has accompanied mankind for centuries. Many generations of thinkers, philosophers, artists, and doctors were analyzing the impact of mental illness on the mind of a human being and its various dimensions – psychological and physical – repeatedly emphasizing the relationships between them. Many authors have tried to use this subject in their works. Edgar Allan...
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The poem ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’ by romantic poet William Wordsworth, is in the form of lyric poetry and was first published in 1807. The poem describes a memorable day that the poet had and details how recalling that day brings him joy, even when he thinks of it at a later date. This essay will perform a...
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Chinua Achebe published his first novel ‘Things Fall Apart’ in 1958. Achebe wrote his novel in response to European novels that depicted Africans as savages who needed to be enlightened by the Europeans. Achebe presents to the reader his people’s history with both strengths and imperfections by describing, for example, Igbo festivals, the worship of their gods and the practices...
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In Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel 'The Scarlet Letter', Hester is the perfect example of one who experiences alienation alongside her daughter from the Puritans she lives around. She separates herself from them to work and take care of Pearl. Dealing with the guilt from her grave sin, Hester grows to learn how to cope with a judgmental society, where everyone around...
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In ‘The Black Ball’ by Ralph Ellison, the story’s themes are struggle, equality, hope, and connection, while in ‘Why, You Reckon?’ by Langston Hughes, the author uses two characters at the beginning to show peer pressure, poverty, and racism. In ‘The Black Ball’, Ellison discusses the relationship he has with his own race. For example, John’s son in the story...
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William Golding was a British novelist, playwright, and poet, best acknowledged for his novel 'Lord of the Flies', which turned out to become a huge success mainstreaming globally. Golding made it one of his main focuses to tackle many themes in his novel. One of those themes is Christian allegories, in which he puts emphasis on the fact that certain...
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If I were asked to write a letter to a person from the past about what awaits him in the future, I would simply attach a list of the most famous works of American contemporary literature. Modern American literature is an army of interesting authors and a sea of a wide variety of books. The individual and society, the sharp...
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Sartre once shrewdly said “Hell is other people,” in the short story “The Story of an Hour,” Kate Chopin presents us with a regularly unheard perspective of marriage. Mrs. Louis Mallard, the main character, experiences the elation of freedom other than the desolation of loneliness after she finds out about her husband’s death. Later, when she finds out that her...
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'Free! Body and soul free!' (Choppin 2) what did Mrs. Mallard mean by this? This quotation was said a few moments after she found out that her husband passed away in a fatal trainwreck. But why would she say such things after hearing her spouse has passed away? Mrs. Mallard was very determined to have her own way of life...
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The Romantic movement in literature is not only one of the most prolific currents in the history of Western literature, but also one of the most misinterpreted in terms of motives, positioning, and objectives. While it is commonly associated with (comparatively) superficial emotional stories and flat descriptions of nature, critics prefer referring to it as the “reform movement” which came...
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