George Orwell grew up a devout and dedicated socialist in the British colonies of India and even when he eventually studied and lived in England He was loyal to the beliefs and followings of socialisms fathers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels the authors of The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital However when Orwell saw the ideals of Socialism turned into vicious Communism taking advantage of and abusing the lower classes that it was intended to help he could not turn a blind eye to the cruelties
Revenge Revenge is a very eminent and significant element that is portrayed in the epic Beowulf and is shown in several ways throughout the story Events in the annals of the epic trigger anger and hatred therefore also leading to the desire for revenge and counter play When Beowulf listens to stories that are shared when many people abound in Hrothgars mead hall Herot he becomes angry and displeased thus leading to his ambition to slaughter the humans who enter there The men in the mead hall ar
Consider how Shakespeare presents the changing relationship between Lady Macbeth and her husband and analyse how the relationship contributes to Macbeths tragedy A Shakespearean tragedy always contains a protagonist The protagonist of the play always has a fatal flaw which leads to the characters own tragic demise Each play contains an element of hope that is disappointed or a certain ambition that is frustrated Macbeth is the protagonist in this play Macbeths ambition leads him to murder Dunca
The first impressions of Telemachus Homer makes on the reader are of Telemachus complaining and whining and yet not taking any actions to seek the fate of his father who could eliminate the problem of the Suitors In book 1 line 184 Telemachus makes a comment about the suitors leeching off the wealth of the Ithacan palace and whining about having no hope left because the great Odysseus had died an unfortunate death He has no hope and never even considers the idea of he himself taking control and
In Arthur Millers The Crucible the beginning of colonization in America had just begun The Puritans modeled their lives after their very own beliefs Just like the Egyptians they dismayed change but little did they know what sorts of trouble aroused them In the colony life of a typical Puritan there were no secrets hidden from others including no secrets adventures or what not So when a couple girls were spotted dancing naked in the woods witchcraft would be the only excuse The only problem is n
The Ironic Depiction of Colonialism in The Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad extensively used irony in the Heart of Darkness To comprehend how saturated this novel is with irony one has to have an understanding of the concept of irony Merriam Webster defines verbal irony as the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning situational irony as incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result and Socra
Shakespeares Macbeth was written during a time of great superstition demonology and the ideology of the divine king A king was more than a figurehead of power but a man who is appointed by God as a deputy on Earth with absolute power Kingship was part of the natural order and one could not upset this order in the eyes of God Demonology and superstition were part of Elizabethan life and affected the way many lived The fact that a man of such power as King James I was known to believe in demonolo