Underworld is a 1997 novel by Don DiLillo comprised of several intertwining non-linear narratives with existential themes of nuclear proliferation and loss. Much of the book focuses on Nick Shay, a waste management worker who is searching for his missing father and has a troubled relationship with his wife. Other plot-lines include the story of Cotter Martin, a boy who catches a famous home run baseball that his father steals and sells.
The Black Cat From my infancy I was noted for the docility and humanity of my disposition My tenderness of heart was even so conspicuous as to make me the jest of my companions I was especially fond of animals and was indulged by my parents with a great variety of pets With these I spent most of my time and never was so happy as when feeding and caressing them This peculiarity of character grew with my growth and in my manhood I derived from it one of my principal sources of pleasure To those w
The Raven Edgar Allan Poes poem The Raven describes how the narrator in the poem was almost asleep while reading an old book and thinking of his dead love when he encounters a raven at his window The voice the bird reminds him of his love whom he will never see again Poe uses many literary devices like alliteration and rhyme throughout the poem He creates a mood which is somber throughout the poem The poem contains eighteen stanzas that contain the ABCBBB rhyme pattern The entire poem is mostly
The Odyssey In the epic poem The Odyssey by the Greek poet Homer the main character Odysseus shows signs of heroism The poem tells the story of Odysseus a war hero from Ithaca and his journey to redress himself Throughout the story Odysseus proves himself to be the hero through his masterful skills breathtaking strength and quick thinking To finally redress himself he needed wisdom from several of gods However Odysseus has good traits that an epic hero has but he also have bad traits too such a
Gilgamesh search for a way to live forever but ended up losing the closest thing to a brother he had ever had He so found way for Enkidu to come back to him Gilgamesh complains to Enkidu that various objects he possessed had fallen into the underworld Enkidu offers to bring them back Delighted Gilgamesh tells Enkidu what he must and must not do in the underworld in order to come back Enkidu does everything he was told not to do The underworld keeps him Gilgamesh prays to the gods to give him hi
The role of the gods and goddesses in the Aeneid The book of the Aeneid is a very interesting book in many aspects been one of them the relationship among the main character Aeneas the goddesses and the gods even though the book of the Aeneid was writing by Virgil which work was commissioned by the emperor Augustus Caesar 63 B C 14 C E to serve as piece of propaganda for the empire And although there is an underline political intention with this text there are other topics in the book that the
Heaven or Hell certain religions base their life decisions on whether or not they are going to these ecclesiastical afterlives Many strive to reach Heaven a place of angels and pure holiness the place closest to God Hell is a condemned locality the dwelling of those who chose to sin without forgiveness In many films literature music etc Hell is Satans kingdom Satan usually the antagonist is portrayed in a rather untraditional light in Paradise Lost Throughout the first few books of Paradise Los
Q 15 justify the title of the novel oliver twist In Oliver Twist Charles Dickens paints an effective picture of the lives of poor children under the highly bureaucratic parochial system and the lives of criminals that populated poor London He does this through the use of brilliant sarcasm to create interesting and lifelike characters at every of English society that is represented in his story The word lifelike in this sense means to act like a human being And human beings tend to grow as the y
Medea The socio political context of Euripides Medea reflects an Athens suffering the loss of democratic ideals The play reflects many different concerns of the Athenian people of the time One of the most prominent aspects is the corrupt ruling class that all characters in Medea have to endure in such harsh times after the Peloponnese War Jason and his abuse of freedom and power the aftereffect of Medea and her agonizing cries to make her and the ones she loves cry along side her and just all o
In this essay I am going to look at the stage and language effects Shakespeare used in Act 2 Scene 2 of Macbeth This scene is the most brutal of the play and is where Macbeth murders King Duncan In the previous scene the murder has been planned but Macbeth has been overwrought with feelings of guilt and thoughts of witchcraft Shakespeare has used great skill to create tension in his seventeenth century audience and now in scene 2 he uses these effects to capture their attention Will Macbeth hav