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What is unknown is often talked about as being mysterious, perhaps even ominous. Naturally, many people become curious and want to find out what lurks about in the dark and be able to say that they know what others do not. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby, the main character, Jay Gatsby is quite enigmatic. Seclusion and isolatio...
A Crime of Fate In Paradise Lost, Adam and Eve commit the first sin, and from this point on, all other sins are mere copies of this. Alexander Pope uses this to his benefit when he depicts the crime in The Rape of the Lock. By alluding to Milton?s work, Pope is able to comically refer to the cutting of a lock of hair as a tragic and epic...
Soroush Blade Runner, I Think, Therefore I Am In Ridley Scott?s film, Blade Runner, the distinction between humans and machines, or replicants, is blurred. Throughout the film, those that appear human regard replicants as objects of possession. However, these replicants continue to question this image for the audience through their inte...
SONS AND LOVERS Relationships have, and always will contain many different levels. These levels can produce somewhat of a state of confusion in ones life, and have many different impacts. But when a change and a transformation takes place, one can reach a point of clarity and a new found direction. In the comparison of two novels, we se...
Brave New World illustrates a world where everything that is morally right in our society, is wrong. Monogamy is sinful, massive orgies are not. Serious thinking is unnecessary because life has already been planned out. Hardships and stress can be solved with a few tablets of soma. This is the world which John Savage and others in the novel...
The Glass Menagerie The Glass Menagerie, written in 1945 by Tennessee Williams, remains today as a great literary masterpiece. Williams gave unimaginable depth and uniqueness to each of his characters. Even though the play was written in the mid-forties it is timeless, in that the problems and troubles of the characters can be related to...
"THE GREAT GATSBY" ESSAY "The Great Gatsby ", besides being a great literary piece, is a metaphor for a whole society, the American society. As well, as a clich': "The party was over", which signifies a level of prophetic vision within the American society and its history. An essential part of this American characteristic of the novel, a...
Sanity for Independence A look at ?The Yellow Wallpaper?, by C.P Gilman The short story ?The Yellow Wallpaper,? by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is a woman?s cry for freedom. It is about a creative woman whose talents are suppressed by her dominant husband. His efforts to oppress her, in order to keep her within society's norms of what a wi...
In history, many extraordinary authors have written about struggles among two or more forces. Even in the earliest times, Homer, one of history?s greatest writer and philosophers, has written such pieces as The Odyssey, the fable of a common man who challenges elements he has no control over, and successfully overcomes them to achieve glory. J...
"Desiree's Baby," by Kate Chopin, takes place in Louisiana during the time of slavery. The story involves Desiree, a woman of an unknown past, and her husband Armand, a man from a powerful and wealthy family. At first, they seem to be a happy and loving family, but when their first child is born, things change. When their child is born, its...
provides the narrative voice of Mark Twain's novel, and his honest voice combined with his personal vulnerabilities reveal the different levels of the Grangerfords' world. Huck is without a family: neither the drunken attention of Pap nor the pious ministrations of Widow Douglas were desirable allegiance. He stumbles upon the Grangerfords in d...
Evil is like a cancerous plague, that does harm upon those who come across it. In the tragic play ?Othello? by William Shakespeare, Iago is a character that is malignant. His evil is exposed through his choice of words, his ability to manipulate people, and his opportunistic ways. First of all, Iago?s evil is shown through his choice of words...
Shakespeare?s Hamlet revolves around the title character?s undeniable obligation to immediately avenge his father?s death by killing Claudius. Yet much time elapses before Hamlet finally does slay his evil uncle, leading to a fundamental question: what causes the hero to delay before eventually managing to salvage some retribution? The answer i...
Mary Emeny's poem, 'Barbed Wire,' depicts war as a negative force, destroying every decent aspect of human existence. Written during the Vietnam War, the work displays Emeny's negative views on war. In one way or another everyone experiences and identifies with the presence of war. Although some wars are fought for justifiable reasons, every wa...
