By reading the novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte I can see that Bronte organizes her novel by putting its element like characters and places into pairs Catherine and Heathcliff are closely matched in any ways and see themselves as identical Catherines character is divided into warring sides For instance the side that wants Edgar and the sides that wants Heathcliff Catherine and young Catherine are both similar and different The two houses Wuthering Heigths and Trushcross Grange represent
Even Santiagos dreams have a heroic theme While struggling with the marlin and experiencing great physical pain Santiago dreams of Joe DiMaggio the greatest ballplayer of his generation and of lions playing on the beaches in Africa This association with the king of ballplayers and the king of beasts adds to Santiagos heroic proportions Santiagos heroism is also personified by the fact that he is alone when the great trial comes his battle with the marlin Although he repeatedly wishes the boy we
Comparison of Gardners Grendel to Beowulfs Grendel There are many differences between Gardners Grendel and the Grendel in Beowulf but all of them are ultimately just a product of perspective Beowulf uses an omniscient narrator while Grendel is told in first person from Grendel himself This difference in perspective creates two remarkably different characters While the two Grendels do have similarities I believe this was only done to make the character recognizable and qualify the book as a take
Have I done well or ill This is what Steinbeck says will be the question looking back at the end of our lives In the telling of the story of the Trask family the author goes through the generations showing the patterns of their similar struggles Cyrus Trask the patriarch of the Trask family and father of Adam and Charles favors Adam over Charles which drives Charles into a deep rage filled jealousy and he tries to kill Adam like Cain and Abel Adam then relieves the story of Cain and Abel with h