When it comes to the word “family”, many different things come to mind, especially the bond between children and their parents. For some, family comes to mind when they think of dinner every night together and how involved their parents are in their lives. Someone else may think of family as people living together, and…
Duality is the tension between opposites, and in Fifth Business, the author juxtaposes people and objects numerous times throughout the novel. This response will focus on the duality of characters and items specifically in the beginning of the book. Fifth Business begins with the comparison of Dunny and Boy. It is evident from the start…
In literature, authors use betrayal as a means for their characters to get what they want. Betrayal plays a significant role in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby. The first betrayal that takes place is Tom’s betrayal of Daisy. Tom betrays his wife Daisy when he has an affair with a woman named Myrtle.…
Short stories can be very interesting because many different things occur and develop in such a short piece of writing. Every word seems to have an important meaning and all the material is dense. It is amazing how authors can develop great stories in just a few pages. The short story “Magpies” by Thomas King…
Comparison of humans to animals has been an interesting and powerful tool that has been effectively used by many authors and playwriters. Shakespeare used it in many of his plays, and it is still used today. It is ever so influential and is very easily understood. In Shakespeare’s play Othello, beast imagery is used throughout…
Dave: father, small, wiry, quick tempered, values every nickel, poor Steve: son, twelve years old, big eyes, small, shy, worried POWER OF MONEY AND PRIDE: -Importance of money, very beginning, helps develop protagonist. Money come theme throughout the story. -Dave`s pride hurt from Mr. Hudson; who is a very powerful and wealthy ,man. Dave cannot…
One of the human’s most distinct emotions is fear, specifically that in which surfaces as the result of the unknown. Fear is an emotion generally associated with anxiety – a powerful feeling that is brought upon by worry, dread and trepidation. To dread something that is unknown is often the result of foreshadowing, which is…
Reason in madness, madness in reason; this double paradox is used throughout Shakespeare’s play, King Lear, and demonstrates the downfall of both the King and a family of greatness. Lear’s family and kingdom demonstrate a parallel as they are torn apart and conflicts arise immediately. When a person unfit to lead is given power, chaos…
Introduction Macbeth can be considered a Shakespearean tragedy because this play by William Shakespeare meets several of the most important criteria of such a tragedy. The plot moves from good to bad, as the tragic hero demonstrates hamartia, or character weaknesses that lead somewhat to his own downfall, and poetic language, prose and verse are…
Reason in madness, madness in reason; this double paradox is used throughout Shakespeare’s play, King Lear, and demonstrates the downfall of both the King and a family of greatness. Lear’s family and kingdom demonstrate a parallel as they are torn apart and conflicts arise immediately. When a person unfit to lead is given power, chaos…
The Count of Monte Cristo is a novel in which Alexandre Dumas tells the story of Edmond Dantes, how he was wronged, and his eventual plans for revenge. Although there are many characters in the novel, the main characters which Dumas presents are all preoccupied with their own personal pressing issue. When one is entirely…
The Roman Empire has been classified as perhaps the greatest empire of the ancient world. Some have even gone so far as to claim it is the greatest empire in the history of mankind. The Romans were unbelievably patriotic, and proud of their vast empire. This inevitably led them to compare themselves to those that…
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight combines three recognizable stories from the fourteenth century – the beheading game, the temptress and the exchange of winnings – into a new story which takes place in the familiar setting of King Arthur’s court. The main character is the courteous Christian Sir Gawain who is challenged by the…
he novel Oryx and Crake was written by Margaret Atwood in 2003. She classifies this novel in the genre of speculative fiction, this means that she observes the society of today and chooses to showcase the consequences of these problems in a future society. These issues in society form the historical context from which Atwood…
Shakespeare often has his characters speak in soliloquies during the course of his plays. Soliloquies are essential to the presentation of a story through the medium of a play because they provide the opportunity and chance to tell the audience specific pieces of information which cannot be disclosed through normal conversation. In his work, Hamlet,…
In the novel The Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan, Pearl Louie, learns about her mother’s past and about her biological father. Throughout the story the reader gets to know the kind of person Wen Fu was her father was. He had no heart or love for other people around him; he was evil, careless…
Minstrels, or traveling thespians, thrived throughout Europe in medieval times. The term minstrel referred to a professional entertainer of any kind from the 12th century to the 17th century. Minstrels were instrumentalists but were also often jugglers, acrobats, and storytellers. Although minstrels no longer exist, they played an important role in medieval history and, at…
T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” is a melancholy poem of one man’s frustrated search to find the meaning of his existence. The speaker’s strong use of imagery contributes to the poem’s theme of communion and loneliness. The Poem begins with an invitation from Prufrock to follow him through his self-examination. The…
Gabrielle Roy, the author of Windflower, shows us through her main character, Elsa Kumachuck, that isolation can have unfortunate effects on an individual and the people around them. We, as readers, are at the beginning given the impression that Elsa is a fit mother who is responsible and knows how to raise her child properly.…
Steve Delsohn’s, The Emmitt Zone, was a fascinating book. It gave insight into the life of an NFL player, as well as to the life of Emmitt Smith. It was a non-fiction book. Telling of Emmitts life ever since he was big enough to hold a football, to the present day. Emmitt Smith came from…