James Joyces Development of a Young Artist As an account of the formative years of ambitious author Stephen Dedalus James Joyces A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man suggests by the title that the focus covers events in Stephens life relevant to his development as an artist On a moral spectrum Stephens development ranges from devout Catholicism to the depths of sin and as the driving forces behind this moral ambiguity shift him between the two Stephen eventually puts himself in the center of
A Rose for Emily William Faulkers A Rose for Emily tells the story of a young woman who is violated by her fathers strict mentality After being the only man in her life Emilys father dies and she finds it hard to let go Emily was raised in the ante bellum period before the Civil War This story takes place in the Reconstruction Era after the war when the North takes control of the South Like her father Miss Emily possesses a stubborn outlook towards life and refuses to change This short story ex
In William Faulkners short story A Rose for Emily we are guided through the isolated life of the newly departed Ms Emily Grierson This story is narrated in a unique point of view a collective first person The purpose of using we is to speak for the towns citizens as the narrator to create a sense of intimacy between the reader and the story and it allows the town to voice opinions or comments that reveal the values of the townspeople This particular point of view also contributes to the gothic
A Vision In I heard a Fly buzz Emily Dickinson expresses to her readers about the emotional instability she feels while on her deathbed She has written several poems about death but this one differs from her other poems because it is told from her perspective in accordance with her final moments The poem creates several powerful images that arouse various possible explanations It is easiest to understand how the poem and her death unfolds by reviewing the poem stanza by stanza However before ex
In the novel The Awakening Chopin uses personification sensory imagery and irony in order to reveal that the Pontelliers marriage is emotionally unstable unhealthy and unhappy A way in which Chopin is able to reveal the relationship of Mr and Mrs Pontelliers is through personification It broke like a mournful lullaby upon the night 43 44 Chopin gives the night human like characteristics when stating there was a mournful lullaby This line reflected Mrs Pontelliers mood at the time She is upset b
I heard a Fly buzz when I died I heard a Fly buzz when I died The Stillness in the Room Was like the Stillness in the Air Between the Heaves of Storm The Eyes around had wrung them dry And Breaths were gathering firm For that last Onset when the King Be witnessed in the Room I willed my Keepsakes Signed away What portion of me be Assignable and then it was There interposed a Fly With Blue uncertain stumbling Buzz Between the light and me And then the Windows failed and then I could not see to s
Antigone Literary Analysis Sophocles has written 125 plays but only seven of his plays are with us today Antigone was one that survived and is one of the most famous tragedies ever to be written In the background of Antigone the readers are informed about the two brothers Polyneices and Eteocles who went to war Polyneices sided with the enemy and both brothers died Creon king of Thebes gave Eteocles a proper funeral but forbidden anyone to give Polyneices a burial Hence Antigone begins Antigone
The Scarlet Ibis by James Hurst was first published in the July 1960 issue of the Atlantic Monthly magazine The story focuses on the troubled relationship between two young boys the narrator and his mentally and physically disabled brother Doodle It explores the conflicts between love and pride and draws attention to the effects of familial and societal expectations on those who are handicapped The perspective of Brothers pride becomes a negative and positive in his life Embarrassment is part o
The Canterbury Tales Geoffery Chaucers The Canterbury Tales is an example of an extremely complicated and wondrous piece of fictional work This story is a fourteenth frame narrative from Britain The main story lines plot is a contest between thirty pilgrims on their way to Thomas Beckets Canterbury shrine tell tales Harry Baily is the lead pilgrim and is identified as the host states that in order to win the contest the pilgrim must tell tales of best sentence and moost solaas this means that t
Hemingways title to his story Cat in the Rain carries more meaning than the literal cat in the rain Indeed the story talks about a cat stuck in the rain however this is not what Hemingway meant when he wrote the story His character the American Wife alludes to the title of the story by presenting elements of confinement similar to that of the cat We are first introduced to George and his wife the latter is referred by as the American Wife in the first sentence of the story This title lacks indi