In the book Animal Farm written by George Orwell the animals raise up in rebellion against their human masters in hope for a better life However the quote by Lord Acton a British historian describes it best Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely This is basically what happens The pigs realize their intellectual superiority and use it to their advantage When this happens they began to take advantage of the entire society of animals The pigs of the story sacrifice the good
Ode on a Grecian Urn is one of the most popular poems of Romantic poet John Keats It is one of the most widely read poems amongst Literature students and scholars alike The Ode is a form of Lyric poem which is divided into the Strophe the Antistrophe and the final Epode It is generally a poem addressed to someone and has an elaborate style of writing Ode on a Grecian Urn is an ode written by Keats which addresses a beautiful urn or a vase from Greece It explores the essence that attributes to h
Blake and Wordsworth in London London the capital city of Britain is often referred to as the setting for poems by many English poets in their poetical works But it is perceived from different perspectives We see a different London in William Wordsworths Composed upon Westminster Bridge than in William Blakes London Blakes London was first printed in 1794 in Songs of Experience and Wordsworths Composed upon Westminster Bridge first appeared in the collection Poems in Two Volumes in 1807 publish
I came I saw I conquered These were the famous words spoken by the Roman emperor Julius Caesar Caesars coming to power signalled the Roman Empire escalation in terms of economy citizen rights military strength etc Caesars leadership brought Rome many fortunes some historians credit his success to the fact that he was ambitious However becoming overly ambitious has often been the cause of downfall for the leaders of the past and Ceasars case was no different While ambition gives an individual a
In Hard Times Charles Dickens gives us a close up look into what appears to be the ivory tower of the bourgeoisie of his day yet these middle class characters are viewed from a singular perspective the perspective of those at the bottom of the social and economic system Though Dickens characters tend to be well developed and presented with a thoroughly human quality the stereotypical figure of arrogant and demanding Bounderby fails to accurately capture the motivations and attitudes of the typi
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
People have always had a need for a scape goat for someone to blame for their problems For Hitler it was the Jews who he accused of ruining Germany and in parts of British society today people accuse economic migrants for taking all the jobs During the period of the 1930s in the Deep South black people were the scape goats In fact they were treated so unfairly that racism was a natural part of every day life since slaves had been settled there This settlement of black slaves ensured that black
In the society described in Jane Austens Pride and Prejudice money was as much a social currency as it was a means of exchange for goods and services Money was often commensurate with social rank yet there was a feeling against parvenus who worked for their fortunes As the mark of an eligible bachelor or an avenue to gentility or a genteel Jane Austens Pride and Prejudice and Charles Dickens Great Expectations focus on the themes of money and social class In both novels money plays a significan