Twelfth Night is one of Shakespeares most popular comedies and yet it has the most complex of endings How much of this is due to the cruelty to be found interlinked with the comedy One would not think of Twelfth Night as a typical Shakespearean comedy Although the ending does have weddings they are very rushed and some of the newlyweds for example Lady Olivia and Sebastian hardly know each other Also at the end of a typical comedy very few or no characters are left alone or unhappy however in T
Capturing Cruelty in the Opening Scene of John Steinbecks Of Mice and Men The English author and historian Edward Gibbon once wrote that The works of man are impotent to the assaults of nature Nowhere is this philosophical perspective better captured than in the John Steinbecks Of Mice and Men The novel tells the story of two migrant agricultural workers George Milton and Lennie Small during the Great Depression in 1930s California A central theme in the novel is mans cruelty to one another and
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for ones country But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying You will die like a dog for no good reason Ernest Hemingway The novel A Farewell to Arms was written by Ernest Hemingway who was born in 1899 in Oakpark Illinois He entered World War I as a driver in the Norton Harjes Ambulance Corps After he was injured on the Italian front Hemingway was sent to a hospital in Milan where he meets an American Red Cro
A Child Called It paper David J Pelzers mother Catherine Roerva was he writes in this ghastly fascinating memoir a devoted den mother to the Cub Scouts in her care and somewhat nurturant to her children but not to David whom she referred to as an It This book is a brief horrifying account of the bizarre tortures she inflicted on him told from the point of view of the author as a young boy being starved stabbed smashed face first into mirrors forced to eat the contents of his siblings diapers an
Night by Elie Wiesel is an autobiographical book about the survival of a young Jew that is living in the times of the horrifying Holocaust The characters face terrifying accounts that takes place at the concentration camp Auschwitz Wiesel writes of his battle for survival and the utmost degradation of the human race What he sees and experiences as a young boy shapes his outlook on the world entirely The story is powerful and affecting through the negligence of the Nazis In Night the people are