The vast number of Shakespeare’s sonnets alone lends itself to an array of ideas and perspectives within the collection. These differing insights can be viewed as the embracing of a spectrum of views on sexuality and gender as well as a challenge to the biblical and cultural concept of love. The string of characters within the sonnets also convey differing...
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Introduction to Symbolism in 'A Midsummer Night’s Dream Society fuels the idea of how people should live their lives through many vessels, including the likes of social media and advertising. People positioned higher class or celebrities display lives that everyone holds on a pedestal, as a building block to live up to, meaning everyone wants to advance to their level....
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Many playwriters use Symbolism as of technique in their plays to obtain a dramatic affect and allow playwrights to give their audience a more meaningful understanding of the play on a different extent; this makes the play more fascinating. Symbolism can be used to add tension to a scene, to foreshadow certain events in a play or even to give...
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A Tempest is a postcolonial revision of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Although they revolve around the same characters and plot, for the most part, there are several differences between The Tempest and A Tempest written by Aime Cesaire. The most significant difference is the way in which Caliban speaks. Compared to The Tempest, Caliban’s speech is different in A Tempest,...
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While we always like to believe that we are rational and logical, we are commonly and constantly influenced by constant bias in our lives. Sometimes these biases are easy to recognize and sometimes they are far more difficult to notice. Bias affects our decision-making process throughout the entire day and influences how we think, how we feel, and how we...
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While observing the Wingfield family in “The Glass Menagerie,” it is quite apparent that all members of the family exhibit the quality of “crippled.” Amanda is a very demanding mother with a crippled sense of reality, Laura is a crippled young woman who is very fragile both physically and emotionally, and Tom is a young man full of crippling guilt...
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In the tragedies we read, the downfall of the tragic heroes was due to their fear of weakness and the consequential justice that lead to their deaths. Death, a common trait in all tragedies, shows that as humans, the protagonists’ folly leads to drastic consequences in the unforeseeable future. Examples of fear and justice in tragic stories are that peripeteia...
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The storyteller of the Odyssey conjures the Muse, requesting motivation as he gets ready to recount to the narrative of Odysseus. The story starts ten years after the finish of the Trojan War, the subject of the Iliad. The entirety of the Greek legends with the exception of Odysseus have come all the way back. Odysseus mulls on the remote...
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W.E.B Du Bois can be described as a man of many faces. During his own lifetime he is what would be described as a “Renaissance Man”, playing the many roles of the Scholar/Academic, the Writer, the Activist, the Historian, the Sociologist, the Educator, the Social Critic; the list is seemingly boundless with the things he was able to accomplish in...
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Throughout the many stories we read and the few movies we’ve watched this semester, there have been forms of violence in every one. I found that in most of the stories we read, men have been the offender of this violence. There have been some female offenders, but I’ve noticed that the reasoning of their violence is due to the...
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In a society where sex is consistently consumed in our daily media, it’s hard to conceptualize a time period when sex was a taboo conversation spoken only behind closed doors. From the late 1800s until the mid-1900s, sexual promiscuity was a subject not often spoken aloud. It was considered “dirty” and “perverse” to speak of such things, yet, authors, playwrights,...
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In the novel The Hate U Give by American author Angie Thomas, sixteen-year-old Starr Carter leads a double life. She is the only black girl attending Williamson Prep, a primarily white school, and lives in an impoverished black neighbourhood Garden Heights. Starr tries to balance those two lives, but they will eventually collide when she witnesses the murder of her...
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Thomas Edison, an American inventor, and businessman, once said, “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time” (brainyquote.com). In Shakespeare's King Lear, Lear is guilty of being quick to give up on others, one of them being his daughter, Cordelia. In a similar fashion, Gloucester acts upon...
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Introduction to 'Young Goodman Brown' and Its Themes The short story “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne may show that the people who appear represent morality have secrets to hide and overall wickedness exists in every human. My thesis may be misinterpreted; I do not mean to explicitly state that everyone is mischievous. Hawthorne himself frequently said that there is...
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Introduction Body image is the perception that a person has of their physical self and the thoughts and feelings that result from that perception (McShirley, 2015). In our lives today, technology, media in particular, plays a very important role in the decisions we make on a daily as it clearly gives us an overview of how things should be and...
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In Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, the author begins the novel by recalling an instance in which a talk show host asked what it meant to “lose his body”. Unbeknownst to the host, this particular question was a tired one. Coates expressed disappointment at this disconnect of not only the host, but also the audience because to...
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One of the most significant traits of being human is convincing ourselves or others of what we want to believe. This trait generally occurs when a person has experienced death. You may also see this trait develop with fear, control, manipulation, and regret. With fear this trait usually develops in humans in their early stages of life. Some fears are...
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In literature, horror fiction aims to stir fear within readers. Horror itself has many sub-genres, the style of gothic being one of the more common ones. Gothic literature effortlessly blends horror with aspects of romance. Although, the romance in gothic literature hinges on sensibility with a far more dreadful path. Anne Rice successfully indicated horror and the gothic style within...
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In the famous novel “Beloved” by the well-known author Toni Morrison, I have come to realize that the theme touches on many different themes. The main themes it focuses on is the key concepts of slavery, masculinity within men, motherhood, freedom, and memories. The work of literature starts off with two important characters, Sethe and her daughter Denver. It is...
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Edgar Allan Poe was an American author, writer, pundit and proofreader most popular for suggestive short stories and ballads that caught the creative mind and enthusiasm of perusers around the globe. His innovative narrating and stories of riddle and awfulness brought forth the cutting edge criminologist story. Poe, as an essayist, artist, supervisor and a basic author affected American writing,...
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The supernatural cannot be explained by science and can help characters develop throughout the text. In the play, Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, he uses the supernatural to develop complex characters better than J. R. R. Tolkien does in his book The Hobbit. Shakespeare uses the supernatural to pull out the worst in human beings, show the struggles the characters face...
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Charles Dickens' holiday classic is made over in 'A Broadway Christmas Carol' with parodies of famous musicals such as 'Phantom of the Opera,' “Annie,” and “Chicago.” What a brilliant idea! I attended the musical 'A Broadway Christmas Carol', which is produced by the University of Colorado in Boulder, at the CU boulder theater on Saturday, December 7, 2019 7:30 pm....
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The Faustian Bargain has not changed since the Early Modern period. The Faust character has not either. As time goes on and humans progress in society. We have adapted and accommodated ourselves, for an “easier life”. We have gained a deeper understanding of information that Doctor Faustus in the text would be intrigued in, but even so, with the knowledge...
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Out of all the mental health struggles that Alison goes through throughout Fun Home, I wish she would have explained her obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) more. She later refers to it as her “obsessive-compulsive year”, and she is never shown to seek treatment for it through medicine or therapy, so it was not a major part of her life; but as...
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Fun Home: a family tragicomic is a graphic memoir written by Alison Bechdel. This graphic memoir is about Bechdel’s childhood from 8 years old to her early 20s and during the process, she discovered her sexual orientation/own lesbian sexuality, as well as some dark secrets of her father(Bruce). When people first see Fun Home, would probably assume Bechdel using the...
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At some point in life, we realize the simplest things mean a lot to you In the short story “Everyday Use,” by Alice Walker contrast the characters Maggie and Dee and their connection to their family towards the heritage of the quilts, details took place in the early 1950s and 1960s in the yard that they call “An extended living...
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Regarded as one of William Shakespeare’s greatest creations, the novel Much Ado About Nothing clearly illustrates to its readers the unjust and discriminatory society that was in place during the Elizabethan era. Shakespeare explores the themes of social class and snobbery in this novel in order to achieve his main goal for the novel which was to explore the irony...
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The poem “On The Beach at Night” was written in 1856, five years before the start of the civil war. Whitman can characterized to be patriotic in this poem as he uses the father in the poem to represent the founding fathers while the child is the new nation- America. Walt Whitman uses different figurative language and techniques like astrological...
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Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance and Between The World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates are similar, but there is a great deal of comparison between them. In the following paragraph I will discuss key points that will compare and contrast Coates and Vance’s history, and the difficulties they went through. Both authors experience some moments of intervention that changed the...
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In both Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me and J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy contain an underlying theme of feeling as if both J.D. Vance nor Ta-Nehisi Coates do not belong in the place they were raised. However, one is more mental the other is more physical. In both books, Mr. Vance and Mr. Coates do eventually come to terms...
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