58 000 American lives were lost in the muggy jungle hell of Vietnam Mere children thrown into the rage of war expected to be strong to be men to be able to deal with the death and destruction were humping their way through the shrapnel and land mines for a cause even they werent entirely sure of Tim OBrien writes of such horrors in his short story The Things They Carried Through the things the soldiers carried OBrien tells a riveting tale of horror destruction duty and a shred of hope in a very
Typical childhoods consist of toy trucks lollipops piggyback rides and hide and seek It involves bedtime stories from mom and dad a day at the park with daddy giving underdogs and mommy sitting at the picnic table bearing peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and ice cold milk in a thermos All of these things grant a child a wonderful relationship with their parents and often lead to good decision making as they develop into young adults and further on But typical is not as common as it implies Ma
A Comment on Rip Van Winkle Rip Van Winkle is a short story written by the American author Washington Irving published in 1819 The story is set in the years immediately before the early to mid 1770s and after the American Revolutionary War the early to mid 1790s Rip Van Winkle a villager of Dutch descent lives in a nice village at the foot of New Yorks Catskill Mountains An amiable man whose home and farm suffer from his lazy neglect he is loved by all but his wife One autumn day he escapes his
CHAPTER I INDRODUCTION ALDOUS HUXLEY AND THE MODERN NOVEL It is rightly said Aldous Huxleys writings express the disillusionment of the 1920s the cynicism of the 1930s and the questioning of the 1940s 45 Paul W P S Huxley was the product of the times and his novel and essays are the expression of his beliefs and concerns Huxley was twenty when the First World War began in 1914 His book of stories Limbo was published in 1920 and his last novel Island in 1962 His work covers forty there years whi
We have all placed the blame on ourselves when it wasnt our entire fault or it wasnt our fault at all and have changed the way we do something in order to prevent it from happening again In Tim OBriens story The Things They Carried a group of soldiers are stationed on foreign soil and have to march for countless hours a day while carrying almost 100 pounds of extra weight in the blistering heat or pouring rain Cross is busy fantasizing about his love for Martha and while he is doing that Lavend
Commentary on Shakespeares Hamlet Lines 10 52 In this passage the audience witnesses a conversation between Laertes and Ophelia who are brother and sister This passage is an important one as it reveals something about the relationship between the two siblings and through this aspects of their character are also learnt Furthermore Shakespeare demonstrates aspects of Hamlet and how these two characters feel about him through their contrasting opinions There is also a lot of effective use of langu
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
Summary The Picture of Dorian Gray presents three intriguing characters all of whom represent in different ways the relationship between art and life contemplation and action beauty and ethics The worship of art and beauty may have its place but it proves to be an inadequate guide through the troubled maze of real human experience The Picture of Dorian Gray presents three intriguing characters all of whom represent in different ways the relationship between art and life contemplation and action
Sons And Lovers Sons and Lovers is considered one of the greatest English novels of the twentieth century Centred on the lives of an English rural family the novel explores issues relating to marriage family industrialism class and sexuality While the first sections of the book focus on the early marriage of Mr and Mrs Morel it is their second son Paul who comes to dominate the work Shy clever sensual and in many ways mirroring D H Lawrence himself Paul is an artist brought into the world as an
Ferdinand is not the most pivotal character in the play but he aids the progression of the play by adding depth to the character of Miranda Also he assists the development of the subplot of Prospero regaining his title as the Duke of Milan He is only seen to be good character within the play and is never seen as having any other intention than winning Mirandas love or being reunited with his father The character of Ferdinand is a slightly simple one on the surface as he falls instantly in love