Invisible Man What does a novel need in it to be a great piece of literature There are the minor things like format punctuation and syntax Then there are the major characteristics which include being timeless and timely making the reader ask questions and having universal themes that make the story relate to all If you are judging by the classical novel standards then the book Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison is in my opinion an absolute masterpiece The book starts out in the end with the narrato
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison is based around a main character whose identity is never revealed throughout the entire novel Blindness and invisibility are ongoing motifs in the novel and Ellison cleverly displays how the motifs are related Ellison might be trying to say that when one becomes blind they are invisible to the truth of their own actions or of societys actions or that when becoming blind African Americans are subjected to the white mans rule Blindness forces an invisible identity T
Although Gertrude says the branch broke and swept Ophelia down the river the church denies her a full Christian burial on the grounds that she killed herself Prevailing wisdom is that one of two things is at work here Either an inconsistency in Shakespeares writing which is not uncommon his other works are fraught with them though Hamlet far less than most Or Shakespeare decided to up the ante on Hamlets guilt Gertrude could have not known the whole truth when she reported to Laertes and Claudi
Irony Scarletts self absorbed blindness to the truth of many situations leads to our seeing more than she does which in turn results in irony The chief irony of the novel is that Scarletts obsession with Ashley prevents her from appreciating that Rhett is the perfect match for her Paralleling this is the irony that Ashley only realizes how much he loves and relies upon Melanie when she is dying Similarly it is ironic that Scarlett hates and despises Melanie throughout most of the novel while Me
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction Pablo Picasso The book Frankenstein presents numerous topics of which one could discuss The topic that I have chosen to discuss pertains to the character study of Victor Frankenstein Throughout the book Victors personality thought process and emotions greatly differ when he is presented certain circumstances that always tend to lead to a reoccurring outcome His journey leads him on a roller coaster ride with the highest of highs leading to th
The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars But in ourselves that we are underlings Julius Caesar I ii 134 135 Published in 1896 Dracula is an immensely popular novel which has never been out of print has been translated into at least a dozen languages and has been the subject of more films than any other novel Only recently however have students of literature begun to take it seriously partially because of the burgeoning interest in popular culture and partially because Dracula is a work which r
Eudora Weltys A worn Path talks about a elderly black woman by the name of Phoenix Jackson Phoenix travels through the pinewoods all alone with her small cane and eyes blue with age She encounters many hardships including disrespect Phoenix does have a goal during her journey and it was to get medicine for her grandson because he swallowed lye The theme of the story was that Phoenix would go through many hardships disrespect and loneliness for the love of her grandson One major hardship would b
How Can Love be Foolish or Blind To many people love is believed to be beautiful romantic and passionate However often times love is considered foolish and blind as well In the famous play A Midsummer Nights Dream Shakespeare proves the foolishness and blindness of love through the conflicts between the characters When people are in love they tend to act foolish They begin to love everything about each other even their flaws As well they become foolish enough to devote themselves to each other
Aristotles idea for the tragic hero was a man who through fear and pity was able to provoke the audience to become more introspective and self aware One of the best examples for Aristotles tragic hero is Oedipus from Sophocles tragedy King Oedipus Through a framework of carefully selected preconditions Oedipus was a character who represented a great amount of suffering while serving a communal purpose to the audience as Aristotle intended The level of suffering for the tragic hero is contingent
William Shakespeare was a brilliant wordsmith and his uses of different types of literary devices crossed the spectrum from different sentence arrangements to double meanings from foreshadowing to metaphors Sickness is seen as the epitome of evil in some cases because it is a vile state treated by some rather cruel treatments to purge the soul of impurities It seems that if one had made mistakes in life ailments would ensue and you would be punished by getting sick Shakespeare does not use mala