Frankenstein Humans have always tried to surpass each other and accomplish goals One of the greatest contests in history could arguably be between man and God if there is such a thing In Mary Shelleys Frankenstein Victor Frankenstein attempts to attain the greatest knowledge of life Victor attempts to surge beyond accepted human limits and access the secret of life Shelley portrays a man who obtained the powers of God and wrongfully used those powers Victors entire life was shaped and influence
Arthur Millers death of a salesman uses many motifs to make the story a much stronger piece of writing Many of these motifs play a big role in shaping the story to this Arthur miller uses the reoccurring action of biffs stealing extremely effectively Along with using stealing as an important motif he also encompasses illusion vs reality From the beginning biff had not been taught the difference between right or wrong miller uses this to his advantage as each time biff is shown to steal miller a
Death of a Salesman I believe that the meaning of the title Death of a Salesman makes it pretty obvious that Willy Loman is going to die at the end of the play After reading the play you realize that the Death of a Salesman was much more than about his death it was about his failure in his career and his betrayal to his family Willy Loman has a habit of hiding the truth about the success in his career and doing so he tends to insult everyone elses career and suggests that everyone should follow
In Rudolfo Anayas novel Bless Me Ultima the basic point of the novel in my perspective is the growth of the main character Antonio Antonio has three main dreams in the story and each one of them meaning something and showing something bout him In Antonios first dream he sees a baby being born but it was later in the dream when he realized the mother was his own Its quite amazing how Antonio can remember his birth and the events that happened that day He remembers that his fathers side of the fa
McEwans main character in Atonement Briony Tallis was only 13 when she sent an innocent man to jail Robbie Turner was convicted of raping 15 year old Lola Quincy He was sentenced on Brionys accusations alone there was no proof McEwan wrote Briony as a character with annoying personality traits to show she was the bad guy in the story Briony aspired to be a writer but later gave this up to follow in her sisters footsteps and become a nurse Briony did this to escape her family and spend her time
When you hear the words animal and farm the first thing that comes to mind is probably barns cows and pigs If you were to ask Eric Blair what those two words mean to him he would have a completely different answer His might be somewhere along the lines of dictatorship and domination In fact Blairs novel Animal Farm is all about the corruption that happened in Russia between the years of 1920 and 1950 One of Blairs goals in writing Animal Farm was to portray the Russian Revolution of 1917 as one
Charles Dickens is undoubtedly one of the greatest English writers of all time just take a look at his masterpiece A Tale of Two Cities The novel chronicles the years before during and after the French Revolution Dickens characters come to life especially the grotesque ones through their in depth portrayals The sorrow and horrors of the French Revolution are easily imagined through Dickens detailed and visual descriptions And most powerfully Dickens employs many metaphors throughout the story r
All My Sons and Dead Poets Society Comparison Despite the fact that the play All My Sons and the film Dead Poets Society are completely unrelated it is evident that there are numerous thematic similarities between these works Arthur Millers play All My Sons examines the morality of a man Joe Keller who places his narrow responsibility to his immediate family above his wider responsibility to those who rely on the integrity of his work On a totally different spectrum the motion picture Dead Poet
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
On The Road Not Taken It is not uncommon for a work to be misinterpreted or misunderstood from the authors true intentions One of the best examples is Robert Frosts poem The Road Not Taken For as long as it has been read The Road Not Taken has been interpreted as a important defense of individualism and as a justification of the idea of nonconformity The most commonly held interpretation of The Road Not Taken is a story of a man traveling in the woods He comes across a fork in the path and afte