CUSTOMS AND BONDS A piece of writing as in every form of art is a manifestation of its creator Authors include fragments of themselves their history and their experiences for either personal motive or simply to establish a moral connection with the reader In The Custom House Nathaniel Hawthornes introduction to his novel The Scarlet Letter an unnamed narrator establishes a connection with the reader through personal anecdote history and emotion This anonymous customs officer is not Hawthorne hi
In the story The Night the Ghost Got In there was two characters that stretched their credibility throughout The grandfather and mother of the narrator were continually raising eyebrows because their actions were almost unbelievable Additionally their actions were funny because they were very unlikely The personality of the mother is very caring and protective since she would not allow her sons to go downstairs to call the police Also on that note she told the narrator not to go downstairs to l
M ichael Henchard is traveling with his wife Susan looking for employment as a hay trusser When they stop to eat Henchard gets drunk and in an auction that begins as a joke but turns serious he sells his wife and their baby daughter Elizabeth Jane to Newson a sailor for five guineas In the morning Henchard regrets what he has done and searches the town for his wife and daughter Unable to find them he goes into a church and swears an oath that he will not drink alcohol for twenty one years the s
The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock is a poem by T S Eliot about a neurotic socially awkward man J Alfred Prufrock is a middle aged man that projects his life onto the images around him He seems to be able to compare every aspect of his life to some inanimate object This makes me wonder if he believes that he himself is also as insignificant and overlooked as the inanimate objects around him That is the effect that his comparisons give to the reader The yellow
Things Are Not Always What They Seem The underpinnings of Shirley Jacksons famous post World War II story The Lottery demonstrate that the work is far greater than the sum of its parts The date of the lottery its location and the symbolic or ironic names of its characters all work to convey a meaning that is even more disturbing than the shock created by its well known ending namely that despite assurances during the late 1940s that it couldnt happen here a microsomal holocaust occurs in this s
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson is a story that has and will continue to be a quality piece of Literature for decades This short story has all of the key elements that any story would die without a good plot dozens of Characters whether they be major or minor a good theme and so much more Also the fact that this story is based on facts and events that actually did occur at points in time makes it so much more disturbing and interesting The Lottery is a story that shows a time in the past that ha
Oscar Wildes purpose in writing this passage of the play The Importance of Being Earnest is to reveal the idiocy of the emphasis on appearance and rank in Victorian society which in the case of this passage has led to a fabrication of identity in order to further the characters interests and allow them to do what they want Wilde is stating the importance of being true to yourself and to other people because a lie meant to impress others or to get ahead in society is unsustainable As illustrated
In this drama an uncommon woman is classified in many different ways An uncommon woman can be classified as a woman who stays under wraps and keeps her business to herself or a woman who goes against the foundations of the village In this story Bernarda is an evil woman who treats everyone with such disrespect and vileness that eventually karma comes into play and in the end her life takes a turn for the worse This story has about eight uncommon women but if I had to choose one it would be Adel
The Crucible is not a powerfully dramatic play Do You Agree The Crucible written in 1950s set in Salem North coast of America the play is based on events that occurred during the Salem witch trials between February 1692 and May 1693 When Miller wrote the play most Americans believed in The American Dream everyone has the chance to be happy successful and rich if they worked hard The US were in the middle of the cold war with the Soviet Union a communist country but some people thought that the
The Cask of Amontillado The narrator Montresor opens the story by stating that he has been irreparably insulted by his acquaintance Fortunato and that he seeks revenge He wants to exact this revenge however in a measured way without placing himself at risk He decides to use Fortunatos fondness for wine against him During the carnival season Montresor wearing a mask of black silk approaches Fortunato He tells Fortunato that he has acquired something that could pass for Amontillado a light Spanis