Siddhartha By Herman Hesse Herman Hesses novel Siddhartha is about ones journey to search for spiritual enlightenment and the ability to be one with nature and spirit Almost anyone can relate or be influenced by this novel everyone is in search of life filled with self bliss to obtain happiness threw spiritual enlightenment and not threw materials Herman Hesse does a good job of showing Siddharthas journey using theme such as the search for spiritual enlightenment inner versus exterior guidance
Romeo and Juliet Fate plays an important part in the tragedy Romeo and Juliet The motif presents many examples to lead the star crossed lovers to their suicides One example is Count Paris wanting to marry Juliet around the timing of Juliets wedding to Romeo Lord Capulet who did not know about Juliets marriage to Romeo agrees to the Counts proposal in his daughters hand in marriage To avoid the marriage to Paris Juliet drinks the poison to set her into a death like coma to defy fate The letters
Washington Irving wrote Rip Van Winkle with the American people in mind At this time society was changing drastically America was attempting to go through a struggle with forming their own identity America was wanting to have an identity that would set them free from English culture and rule Irving uses his main character Rip Van Winkle symbolize America Rip goes through the same struggles that America was going through at this time before and after the Revolution Irving uses such great symboli
In Shakespeares play Othello Iago is one of Shakespeares most interesting villains But it is Iagos jealousy of anyone who gets anything that seems better than that which he gets himself which is the driving force of the play It is Iagos jealousy which enables him to provoke the same feeling in others to use them to his own advantage or at least to their disadvantage Shakespeare portrays Iagos jealousy through a variety of techniques such as the use of soliloquies and imagery which are both most
Heart of Darkness The journey to the heart of the Congo is a descent into the heart of darkness for both Marlow and Kurtz As they sail further and further from civilization into a land of savagery both Marlow and Kurtz begin to undergo significant psychological changes However the ways in which Marlow and Kurtz handle their descent into darkness are very different from each other Kurtz is at war with himself He is fighting his base instincts and desires with the civilization he had been raised
Dying is a part of living a natural progression Should I ignore the natural order of my life twist it to MY liking and thereby become something I was not meant to be Charles de Lint The Little Country Dandelion Wine is the story of the awakening of a young boy Harold Bloom being impressed with the novels evocative tone called it a nostalgic paean to childhood innocence and imagination Mass 65 In Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury the curiosity of aging and dying is a result of an educational but ma
Barbie Doll clearly displays a strong sense of feminism It specifically attacks the modern day pressures that women are faced with as far as appearance goes The author seems to have the opinion that women are pushed to make themselves perfect in the eyes of society I think this is why this poem has a very negative and almost angry tone to it Barbie Doll has a few main themes that can be easily recognized the main ones that Piercy addresses are the pressures of being a female and the desperate a
Araby Araby is about a young teenage boys experience of first love In the story the boy realizes the pitfalls that come with the emotions of love Love after all is an emotion that comes and goes It is an ideal that one tries to conform to but when faced with the harsh realities of life this idealism may fall apart This is at the core of the lessons in the short story Realities do present us a different side Such is the predicament the boy was in At the start of the story we learn that the pries
Why do gays travel to such extremities to live in a society where they live in denial about their sexuality Angels in America a play by Tony Kushner represents the the crude awakening of the reality homosexuals had to face This play not only represents the deteriorating disease of AIDS but it is also a dramatic play that critically gives an answer to thousands of Americans who lived a cruel reality A reality in which they questioned the difficulty in living in a society that particularity objec
A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND There are few superficial similarities between The Misfit and the Grandmother in Flannery OConnors short story A Good Man Is Hard to Find The true similarities between them are really beneath the surface and at once more profound These similarities however are fiercely debated among OConnors critics as most disagree with her that the Misfit is the good man in her parable McDermott J V 2010 It is only by considering that OConnor saw the world through a prism of Christi