These are two poems written by William Blake The Lamb and The Tyger William was a very religious person biography online In these poems the ultimate question is how can God who is the creator of all that is great create two things that are so different from each other In The Lamb William Blake uses a biblical allusion to Christ being the lamb When we think of a lamb we think of something soft and gentle something that will not harm you You see Christ as such in the bible Christ was referred to
Analysis Greek tragedies are some of the most compelling and interesting works of literature The plot usually follows a common patten in which a heroic lead meets an unhappy or catastrophic end This end is usually brought about by some fatal flaw of character circumstances beyond his or her control or by sheer destiny In hippolytus a tragedy written by Euripides the focus is on conflict in human love spirit between stepmother and her son and the desire for revenge The story of Oedipus Rex writt
The value of money and material things in life is a moral concept that is seen in many short stories Having money in your life does not necessarily mean that you have everything or your life is happy but living a good life and appreciating what you have is the most important lesson In two particular stories The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara and The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant the main characters are subjected to how living a life based on having money and material items is not actually living i
Keatss odes on the level of superficial reading can be seen as a brilliant rendering of a scene a season or a mood the final perfection of English landscape poetry The two odes namely Ode to a Nightingale and Ode on a Grecian Urn appeal directly to the physical senses through a recognition of the physical reality of experience However such simplified conclusion is misleading as it disregards the poets complex thought process where sensuousness and contemplation get unified The central themes of
In Nathaniel Hawthornes Young Goodman Brown and Joyce Oates Where are You Going Where Have You Been most will recognize the similarity and differences that occur in the stories Young Goodman Brown is more of a religious story while Where are You Going Where Have You Been could be considered more secular The settings differ in various ways such as forests versus the mall However the main characters correlate with their authors Hawthorne a man and Oates a woman both understanding and pursuing the
Black shapes crouched lay sat between the trees leaning against the trunks clinging to the earth half coming out half effaced within the dim light in all the attitudes of pain abandonment and despair Conrad 14 Images such as these were not uncommon in the deep dense forests of the African continent during the empirical reign of Western Europe during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Ideologies that had very little fluctuation among these empires sought to gain territory through th
Contentment and Materialism in The Overcoat and The Necklace Two well written short stories that have remarkable similarities in moral and theme are Nikolai Gogols The Overcoat and Guy de Maupassants The Necklace Both of these stories revolve around material items that drastically affect their lives and they are both aptly named after those items While The Overcoat takes place in Russia and The Necklace takes place in France both capture the essence of each country during a historically unique
Courage Found In Those Labeled Weak One October day my cousins and I decided to go on a camping trip in Hocking Hills It was a lovely day the foliage could not have been more beautiful While hiking one day my cousins and I were so mesmerized by the woods exquisite beauty around us that we were completely oblivious to an enormous ditch ahead of us The next moment we realized we were all on top of each other in a ditch that was 15 feet below the ground The one who did not fall in was my youngest
Arthurs Guilt and Suffering People get guilt when they have done something they know they should not do and their conscience tells them it is wrong Suffering comes after the guilt when they do not do anything about it and the guilt builds up inside of them and physically hurts them In The Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in the mid 1800s there is a lot of sin and wrong doings which lead to guilt and suffering In the novel many of the characters feel guilt for the sins they commit a
Critical Essay An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge has received more critical attention than any other single work by Ambrose Bierce This is probably because it combines into one text the best ingredients distributed among much of Bierces fictionsatire irony manipulation of the reader the exposure of human self deception a surprise ending and a stylistic compression and tautness It may also be because something of the story still eludes its commentators leaving a