In Alice Walker's short story, âEveryday Useâ the theme is recurrent. This is one tough lady with a strong faith line. This story is represented in multiple ways. As the reader you can tell the narrator/main character has been through a lot. She has done it all on her own without a partner. The narrator does not like to draw attention to herself. The biggest way would be the harmony and the struggle and conflicts of the African-American culture. In...
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Since the beginning of time, females have always been perceived as objects who have only one job: to bear children. Men have oppressed, controlled, abused, and limited women in a countless number of ways because of the belief that women are inferior to them. Today, women possess many more rights than they have in the past but men continue to have power over them. In The Handmaidâs Tale, author Margaret Atwood portrays a future dystopian society in which women have...
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In literature, a pursued protagonist often serves as a central character around whom the narrative revolves, driven by external forces that constantly challenge and shape their journey. This archetype is often employed to evoke specific emotions and themes, and the pursuit of the protagonist can be analyzed through various rhetorical strategies to gain deeper insights into the narrative's intent and impact. Symbolism and Imagery The pursued protagonist is often subjected to a series of trials and challenges, which are symbolically...
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Gregorâs metamorphosis accomplishes several of his aims: First, it frees him from his hated job with an odious company by using disabling him from working; second, it relieves him of the requirement to make an agonizing desire between his filial duty to his parentsâparticularly his fatherâand his desperate yearning to emancipate himself from such responsibilities and dependence. It as a consequence allows him to âbug outâ of his loathsome constraints yet do so on a degree of aware innocence, with...
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The Walt Disney Company found on October 16, 1923, in Los Angeles, California was a corporation known as one of the best providers of children and family entertainment in the 20th and 21st centuries. Disneyâs first animated movie Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs was a big hit and since then Disney has had huge successes. Disney has made many popular movies like Snow White (1937), Cinderella (1950), The Little Mermaid(1989), Mulan (1998), Tangled (2010), Frozen (2012), and Moana (2016)....
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The glass menagerie is a critically acclaimed memory play written by Tenessee Williams. The story is heavily influenced by Williamsâ own personal life and follows the story of a young man named Tom, his mother, and his sister in their home in Wingfield apartment in Saint Louis. The play is set in the 1930s, in what is dubbed as the great depression, following the rampantly consumerist society of the roaring 1920s, known as the decade of optimism. The story of...
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âEvolutionâ is a word that means the gradual development of something, especially from a simple to a more complex form. When someone âevolves,â you can no longer go back to the person you once were, resulting in you diving deeper into your personal growth. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, John Proctor is portrayed as the male protagonist. He is mainly at the heart of all the problems going on in a town called Salem. In fact, he gets involved...
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Told by protagonist Montressor, a dance of long-sought revenge includes a finale as revenge finds its foothold at periods of the ill fate of his antagonist Fortunato. Edgar Allen Poe's work, The Cask of sherry, is perhaps a tale rife with satisfaction, greed, and demise; via symbolization, the writer exhibits the themes at some stage in this story. Body: Besides being at intervals, the story's title,e the wine, is reiterated sporadically and is considered the backbone of Montresor's revengeDifferentnt symboDifferente...
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Destined to be or not to Be Learnt Shakespeareâs famous tragedy âRomeo And Julietâ offers a timeless value that demonstrates his reflection on human nature and behavior, writes JENNY SU. Imagine not being able to express yourself through the 1700 words Shakespeare invented. The English language has developed throughout time, evolving many centuries impacted greatly by key events and figures such as William Shakespeare. Therefore it is essential that his literature be studied in order to influence a deeper understanding...
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Othello, the Moor of Venice is a tragic play written around 1603 by way of William Shakespeare, which addresses the encounters of Othello, the protagonist. Othello is a Venetian army commonplace who falls prey to Iagoâs devious schemes, which are precipitated by means of jealousy, deceit, and quest for power (Hundley 4). Othello, the Moor of Venice is a tragic play written by William Shakespeare around 1603 that follows the adventures of Othello, the protagonist. Othello is a typical Venetian...
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The play Macbeth takes place in Scotland during a time of turmoil and battle, in the tragedy Macbeth and his wife Lady Macbeth commit regicide to become King and Queen. This theme of ambition thrives in the play and is the main catalyst for the entire tragedy. Lady Macbeth is a significant character in Macbeth as she is one of the main protagonists, without her the play arguably would not be a tragedy and Macbeth might not have encountered his...
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All actions have consequences is something that has been drilled into every person's mind since the minute they first got into trouble. However, people seem to forget about this idea until after the deed is done and the consequences start to arrive. But, what a lot of people seem to forget is that consequences can be both good and bad. In the play Julius Caesar, the author shows that this idea does not only apply in the modern world but...
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In Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling, Lord Voldemort attempted to kill young Harry Potter and succeeded in killing Harryâs parents in order to stop a prophecy concerning the child. This plan backfired as Lord Voldemort could never succeed in killing Harry due to special circumstances involving Harryâs parents that occurred when Lord Voldemort first tried to kill Harry. This situation shows how the purposeful harm of others is not acceptable and will have unwanted repercussions that occur due to the...
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The Outsiders was written by S.E. Hinton. S.E. Hinton is an American writer who grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma and she was best known for her novel The Outsiders. This was one of her most successful books and she wrote it during high school. When I came across this book I did my research on the author and saw that she wrote books for young adults and that she wrote this when she was in high school. This grabbed my...
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Filled with paranoia in an unjustified Puritan society, Arthur Miller's The Crucible depicts the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 and its deeper meaning within it. In The Crucible, John Proctor is the protagonist and tragic hero of the story. John Proctor is a farmer and town leader whose downfall initially begins when he commits adultery, but the ultimate flaw is the moral sentiment that he uses to cope with the situation and the others that follow when he and his...
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A single protagonist or antagonist is difficult to identify throughout the play Antigone. The author, Sophocles, allows the audience to see all sides of the same story by relying on the neutrality of the Elders who narrate the plot. Considering the time period of the writing, it is surprising that two characters who compete for the spotlight are women. Antigone and Ismene do not represent the stereotypes associated with women, but instead, they work against the expectations set for themselves....
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Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice' is basically the story of how Elizabeth and Darcy overcame all obstacles, such as their personal failure to discover romantic happiness. Jane Austen cleverly attempts to manipulate the reader`s passion for the characters in her novels, using agents of frequently successful characterization of dialogue, action, and perspective. Here, I am interested in the character of Fitzwilliam Darcy and now I am analyzing his greatness and limitations from the novel. Jane Austen skillfully gave the reader...
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Electra is considered the best character drama in Sophocles. In his version of the play, Sophocles showed a detailed analysis of Electra's ethics and motives. Unlike Euripides 'Electra, Sophocles' Electra emerged victorious from his efforts. He successfully avenged his father's death without being completely engrossed in anger. One of the most obvious themes in the play is the question of revenge or justice. In the play, Sophocles emphasizes the social and religious problems of justice. Some argue that Sophocles proved...
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The novel entitled 'The Scarlet Letter' was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and was published in 1850. The story revolved around the American Puritan culture, which the author is very familiar with because according to him, he mentioned âin my native town of Salemâ (8) and âthis old town of Salemâmy native placeâ (14) so he was born in a Puritan family from Salem, Massachusetts. The protagonist, Hester Prynne, was found guilty of adultery and was outcasted by the community in...
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Death of a Salesman In his play Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller portrays a classic dysfunctional family, characterized by psychological conflicts. Willy Loman is the protagonist of the play, a sixty-year-old salesman who is obsessed with the desire to achieve success as a measure of perfection. Willy suffers intensely from self-delusion, which blurs his perception of a perfect life. His actions hurt his entire family, which further intensifies his self-delusion. Willyâs wife Linda being a housewife is financially dependent...
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The American Dream has changed over the years. Nevertheless, one idea that remains true today is upward mobility; in other words, it is oneâs ability to move onto a higher social class. In the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry and in the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald the authors relate social class and materialism to explore this idea of the American Dream. The protagonist of A Raisin in the Sun, Walter Lee, is...
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In the play âAntigoneâ, Sophocles at first portrays Creon as a just leader. He has good, rational reasons for his laws and punishments. By the end of the play Creonâs hubris, or excessive pride, has taken over him, which leads to his demise. He does not realize how badly his hubris has interfered with his dealing with problems until Teiresiasâs prophecy. By then it is too late. This is the path of a tragic character. The protagonist has a hamartia...
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The theme of love is recurring throughout the novel and is strengthened through the relationship of the narrator with the protagonist Desiree. Desiree is introduced to the reader as âthe postmasterâs daughterâ, (Mohlele, 2018: 5). Desiree was an important part of the narratorâs life, hopes, and dreams in the novel. The narrator describes her as âmy Disreeâ, (Mohlele, 2018: 5). The novel indicates that the narrator is hopelessly in love with Desiree; hopeless because he never realizes his hope and...
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Experiences refer to the nature of the events someone or something undergoes, and can either change a person for better or for worse. Throughout the novel, Fifth Business the protagonist, Dunstan Ramsay goes through many experiences that help make him the person he becomes by the end of the story. According to Jungian analyst Anthony Stevens, individuation is the âprocess, simple or complex as the case may be, by which every living organism becomes what it was destined to become...
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All narratives have standard structural elements of stages, a universal characteristic of all myths, legends, and even movies. The Protagonistâs Journey or the monomyth is a pattern in storytelling as studied by anthropologists and mythologists such as Otto Rank and Joseph Campbell. It is a standard stencil of a wide group of tales that involve an adventurous protagonist in a decision crisis who becomes victorious and goes back home transformed. A heroâs journey has twelve substages categorically put under three...
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Discuss how both the nature of desire and of guilt are intertwined with memory in Wintersonâs Written on the Body and in Barnesâ The Sense of an Ending. In your discussion make close reference to the texts. This essay deals with the work of the British postmodernist authors Jeanette Winterson and Julian Barnes and discusses how both the nature of desire and of guilt are intertwined with memory in Jeanette Wintersonâs Written on the Body (1992) and Julian Barnesâ The...
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People will have a lot of identities in their life. Those identities may relate to their power in many aspects. In âJumpâ, Nadine Gordimer describes a conflicted experience of a white person but lives with black people for a long time. In âHomageâ, which is also created by Gordimer, she describes the struggling life of a murderer who kills the president. In âJumpâ and âHomageâ, Nadine Gordimer talks about how changes of government influence people in different aspects. In her...
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The Invisible Man book report The title of this piece of literature is The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. I believe the title means that the main character is truly invisible or the acts he commits may look like it was done by an unseeable entity. The genres of this story consist of social commentary, African American literature, and Bildungsroman. Now Bildungsroman is a unique type of genre in literature as the main focus of it is on how the...
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âRevolution always requires that people shed bloodâ (Kim Chew Ng 123). This is the grim fact that the protagonist and his comrades had agreed upon prior to following a path of revolution. And after him and his comrades are convicted of conspiracy and treason, plenty of blood was shed, as his comrades were shot to death by a firing squad (Chew Ng 125). A childhood promise between the protagonist and his royal, cherished friend, allowed for the protagonist to evade...
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Coursework English literature Miller constructs protagonists who are destroyed by their obsessive need to defend their masculine self-image. How far do you agree this applies to both Willy Loman and Eddie Carbone? The 1950s, in the USA, was a period of radical change for men in the workplace, as academic attributes became increasingly appreciated and the white collar and corporate worker become a common position in society for men. But social critics of that era saw this rise as terrible...
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