The text I have selected is one that raises numerous themes and issues which are reiterated and developed throughout the play. Many of these themes are typical of the Renaissance period. In particular we see the notion of personal despair due to Faustus being denied salvation. This idea of personal despair, and the emphasis that Marlowe places on it, is...
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Based on the interactions and presence of secondary characters in the novel Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger, Holden’s character can be revealed as inauthentic and immature. The secondary characters in the book hold a small part overall but the effect of the characters reveals parts of Holden’s personality. After Holden gets expelled he goes to meet his history...
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Sue Monk Kidd wrote this novel based on a little of her imagination and childhood memories. Where she grew up, in the south, in effect Sue actually had no less than 50,000 honey bees living in the wall of her childhood home. Sue lived in her Sylvester home for 18 years. Sue Monk Kidd was born on August 12, 1948...
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When most people think of success, they think it is portrayed as pure talent, ability, and happiness. But that is not always the case, as struggles and uncontrollable circumstances come in as a large factor. Essentially as we’ve progressed in the novel Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell, we’ve come across many stories and studies that is used...
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In Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy's novel of conflicted romances, Vronsky, Karenin, and Anna tries to break free from the social atmosphere of the 1800's Russia to attain a love that is not accepted by the public. Things considered “normal” by society turn into a way of life, and those who do not accept these rules often find themselves lost, excluded,...
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Within John Donne’s love poems there are many unique ideas of love presented, his attitudes towards love are contrasting as love is presented as more physical rather than emotional. Donne’s presentation of physical love can be viewed as an attempt to glorify it. John Donne’s ‘the flea’ and ‘to his mistress going to bed’ could be seen as attempts to...
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The treatment of justice and mercy in Shakespeare’s play The Merchant of Venice is done throughout different layers of narrative. Firstly, it is done through the city itself. Venice’s economic stability heavily relies on foreign business. To protect the rights of these merchants, the city has economic laws in place. Although these laws are on Shylock’s side when he goes...
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The themes we will be analyzing are, “make the best out of every situation,” and “those who are truly kind-hearted will receive good fortune.” The two themes apply to actuality and are above board. The second theme is more engaging than the first considering it speaks a truth that most disregard or take for granted. The main character of the...
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This novella, The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka is about a man that completely transformed into a gigantic bug at the beginning of the story. The most remarkable thing is that Gregor, as a human being and insect, accepts the difficulties he faces without complaining. When his father's business collapsed, he accepted his new role as the money-maker in the family...
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Stephen King is a mystery novelist. 'Monsters and ghosts are real, they live inside us, and sometimes they win'' ( King, 2015). King struggled with alcohol, drug abuse and smoking excessively, but he overcame those hindering barriers. He has a family that helped him every step of the way, but at a young age, tragic events took place in his...
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A region’s citizens are important to how they will progress with their future. Although war helps to create jobs, it also carries drawbacks to helping the society progress as a whole. Having higher officials declaring war causes a disadvantage to having constant improvement because of many casualties and all the expenses that go into it. With war being more hurtful...
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Tennessee Williams’ play The Glass Menagerie acts as a memory that shows a dysfunctional family that has a hard time dealing with life’s pressures. The father and husband, Mr. Wingfield, abandoned his wife Amanda and both children Laura and Tom. This impacted them and created a deep fear in them. Children need both of their parents love and affection in...
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In Lorraine Hansberry's play, A Raisin in The Sun, she demonstrates a variety of human behaviors through the different characters. This play is based on an African American family in Southside Chicago, 1959. The father, Watler is a dreamer who wants to use his father's insurance money and invest in a liquor store, with the hope that it will get...
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The symbolism of different animals relates to specific characters in William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying embodies that character's inner feelings, thoughts, and overall mental state. Vardaman, who is the youngest of the Bundren family, is deeply affected by the death of his mother but he doesn't realize it until he compares his dead mother to a fish. In the...
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Shakespeare constructs Othello to be the perfect example of how jealousy degrades one’s identity and morals. Jealousy deconstructs the rationalism and nobility that he once upheld. Illustrating his fall from grace, succumbing to the archetypal possessive, patricidal husband that dominated Elizabethan society. Shakespeare portrays how jealousy is an innate emotion that can be triggered in anyone; Lago is used to...
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Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved used a number of theoretical perspectives including psychoanalysis. Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory of personality argues that human behavior is the result of the interactions among the three component part of the mind. These components include id, ego, and superego. Using the psychoanalytic theory, Beloved can be analyzed as a character, a source of displacement and defense...
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The term gender is socially created, and it distinguishes man and women. However, some people think that gender and sex are same terms. But they are not same. There is a difference between them. The term sex means when we divide the males and females based upon their sex organs. On the other hand, the term gender means that is...
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Nearly everyone experiences the loss of a loved one in their lifetime. And, this traumatizing experience can have adverse effects on adolescents, as seen through the life of Holden Caulfield. The Catcher in the Rye portrays the long-term consequences of such traumatizing events and living a life filled with the lingering effects of grief. Grief is a process with 5...
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The novel Heart of Darkness, written by Joseph Conrad, is centered around a skilled sailor named Marlow and his journey up the Congo River. Marlow was fascinated by the “darkness on the map,” and had a desire to explore. In his novel, Conrad represents time and history by using Marlow’s journey to Africa to expose the reader to a time...
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The catacombs that Fortunato is led through are damp and dark, giving an eerie presence. The ancient catacombs are covered in nitre, the “white web-work which gleams from [the] cavern walls” (1), while the floor is scattered with bones, the air even having a particularly putrid smell. Such a mood creates both apprehension and suspense for the readers in the...
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The presentation of relationships and marriage is a significant concept within literature and society. The writers of the texts; 'Wide Sargasso Sea' and 'The World’s Wife', investigate the male centric ideal that was upheld and strengthened by a social structure, wherein women had minimal political or financial force. They were financially, socially, and mentally reliant on men, particularly on the...
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The Ganaguli family lifestyle can be very different than others in America. Particularly, the Ratliff family. When Gogol meets Maxine, she invites him to dinner and mentions that she lives with her parents. Gogol asks if her parents mind, she laughs and responds with, “Why on earth would they mind?” (Lahiri 129). This displays the different morals between the two...
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Power is presented in Ozymandias by a king’s statue. The statue says a lot about Rameses II the king, his attitude, and how he ruled. Firstly, the phrase “vast and trunkless” suggests the statue was large but “trunkless” meaning that it’s without a body. This phrase shows that even without the body the legs alone are huge enough. Time has...
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The theme of sexuality and gender identity is apparent throughout the memoir, Fun Home. It introduces two distinctly different coming-to age stories of a father and daughter dealing with their sexuality. The novel highlights moments of struggle each character experiences when they discover that their identities differ from the expectations that are being promoted by their society. Much of what...
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Alice Walker’s Everyday Use, included in the In Love and Trouble short story collection, was published in 1973, a moment in history known as the ‘Black Power Movement’. This movement encouraged racial pride and equality. Everyday Use relates the struggles of African American women due to their racial identity, although the story is about the contrast between two sisters and...
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To provide context, culture is an integrated system of learned behaviour patterns, wherein meaning is transmitted from generation to generation. According to Fisher, it represents specific attitudes and feelings of any given groups of people, which put simply is a system of shared meaning (qtd. in Kocak 64). As structuralists would understand, the nature of language is akin to culture;...
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This summer all incoming freshmen were asked to read the book “A Separate Peace,” by John Knowles. Although this book would not be a book of my choice I did enjoy reading it for the interestingly developed plot, and intriguing characters that deal with real-life problems. The main character Gene goes through a period where his jealousy of his best...
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The dystopian scientific novel written by Kazuo Ishiguro serves as a testament to the power of memory. Throughout the novel, the protagonist Kathy confronts her life's losses by preserving her memories of her life at Hailsham and friends Tommy and Ruth after their death. Through the use of the first person from the perspective of Kathy whose life takes place...
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Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.” (Cassandra) .Poetry has always been the music in literature. A novel or a play would sometimes use poetry. Poetry does not restrict itself to romance. In fact, it can be a way to express our day-day activities or even the most mundane routines we dwell on. However, a...
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In the book 1984 by George Orwell, a place where all people who are apart or live in Oceania are surveilled by the administration at every moment and hold absolutely zero freedom. In today’s times, citizens of the United States and other nations are both similar but in different ways. Different technology has their individual ways with watching their country...
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