Greed has and always will be our most deceptive emotion In William Shakespeares Macbeth this thought was proven in most of the main characters There own greed blinded them played tricks on their minds and deceived them into death Sheer ignorance in the face of evil brought these characters an unexpected death The chief disturbance to our outlooks on life is security the way we react to the personnel around us In this play mortals are in most danger when amongst their closest friends It is the o
Imagine you have seen either a Feminist Marxist or Aristotelean production of King Lear You are to present a discussion of the Feminist Marxist or Aristotelean interpretation of the play and how it differs from your own When looking at King Lear there are many interpretations to consider One of these is looking at King Lear from a feminist point of view After seeing a production which focused on this interpretation I now have a greater understand of what quotes and language techniques show this
The novel Grendel represents a key conflict between chaos and order that are both portrayed throughout the entire book More commonly seen however was Grendels issue of creating chaos with his terrorizing of the Danes and his hatred for everything With Grendel random chance reigns due to the fact that Grendel had decided that nothing mattered but what he wanted thus creating a world of complete chaos which ultimately led to his downfall in the end Grendel lives his life trying to figure out who
The poem Birches written by Robert Frost is about a man reflecting on his life and when he was a child and how he wishes he could have that life back When he was young he could escape life by climbing the birches and be brought right back down by the trees flexibility 1 As he grew up the birches got weighted so much by other conflicts that he cant be brought up to how he used to be and could not escape adulthood and reality When I see birches bend to left and right across the line of straighter
The author uses dramatization in this segment from A White Heron to turn what would ordinarily be a dull and uneventful story into an exciting adventure Sarah Orne Jewett tells the story of a girl in awe of an old pine tree by configuring imagery diction and personification into her writing By using these literary elements she gives the story a sense of excitement and adventure The author also tells this story from a childs point of view using exaggerated details These details that may seem far
Sarah Orne Jewett described an image when Sylvia and the cow followed the shady wood road lively Sarah used a string of verbs and adjectives such as let bare feet cool in shoal water twilight moths struck softly heart beats fast with pleasure birds and beasts say goodnight to each other in sleepy twitters soft and sweet air and escape from the shadow of the trees This string of verbs and adjectives takes readers into that gray shadow of shady wood road and moving leaves By reading this paragrap
Langston Hughes in his poem Mother to Son has the mother give advice to her son about life and never giving up no matter how difficult life becomes Hughes uses a metaphor of a staircase to convey the message of the mother The mother tells her son that even though her life has not been a crystal staircase meaning comfort and ease but rather a wooden staircase indicating poverty she has never given up Although my life is not a crystal staircase yet and I have experienced difficulties and obstacle
A Separate Peace John Knowles is the writer of a Separate Peace It is a book written in a unique style its an old man coming back to his childhood school and the whole book is a flashback His meaning of writing it was to show friendship verses the evil nature of man and how they intertwine Gene and Finny had a intimate relationship Gene was a follower of Finny Finny was the most athletic daring handsome kid in the school he was training for the Olympics Jealousy overcame Gene one day and caused
An Analysis of Frank Kafkas The Metamorphosis In the metamorphosis by Frank Kafka there are significant actions and transformations which make the story sad and strange with a happy ending Explanations that are dramatic events that intensify the excitement of all these actions Reality and refection play and important role in this story because the events that happened could be applied and assimilated with modern society the story is very sad and realistic some of the things tha are related in K
An Interpretation of Emily Dickinsons Poem 315 Emily Dickinson had an interesting life and is a profound woman in the history of America and literature Emily wrote many poems Some are titled and many are given chronological numbers instead of headlining the main theme I am interpreting Poem 315 I read the poem and had to read it again and again As with most poems the meaning is always clouded from me and I need a little help to figure out the true meaning of the authors intentions In this case