Oryx and Crake Book Review Margaret Atwood began writing in early childhood and by mid adolescence she knew that she definitely wanted to be a writer Margaret Atwood was born in Ottawa in 1939 Her father was an entomologist and eight months of each year he did insect research in the forest so she spent part of her childhood living in the wilderness of northern Quebec The novel was published in 2003 during the time when SARS was overspreading the world The book got extra attention and immediatel
THE SCARLET LETTER The Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne is an exceptional novel based on sin forgiveness and deception Hester the main character has committed the sin of adultery to an unknown man She lives in Boston and is a puritan which does not accept sin and lives by the strict Puritan code Hesters sin is unveiled when she bears a child by the name of Pearl and has no husband at that time Hester punishment is not death because her husband is gone and temptation over ran her he
The Scarlet Letter The Crucible Everyone makes mistakes its the way we handle those mistakes that determines how well we redeem ourselves Hester Prynne John Procter and Abigail Williams all committed horrible sins within their puritan societies but they did not all achieve the redemption they were looking for Hester Prynne committed adultery which nowadays is known as cheating and within her 1600s puritan society was a huge sin As her punishment she had to stand in front of the whole town for t
Gilgamesh In the beginning of the epic Gilgamesh is a tyrant and exploits his rights as king Hes arrogant spiteful restless powerful impulsive and does whatever he wants to whomever For instance Gilgamesh sounds the tocsin for his amusement his arrogance has no bounds by day or night No son is left with his father for Gilgamesh takes them all even the children His lust leaves no virgin to her lover neither the warriors daughter nor the wife of the noble The Bedford Anthology of World Literature
The situation of African American people in the USA has been a disputable issue since the abolition of slavery The treatment of African American people who were excluded from the rights and rules of the mainstream society began the fight for equality within the African American society One of the most remarkable African American authors is Toni Morrison Toni Morrisons novels represent the issues of class distinction among African American people and their individual characters represent differe
A Change in Character A hard exterior shell can sometimes cover a soft interior Man is not always as strong as he portrays himself to be The smallest thing can make him fragile and weak The beginning of the play deals with a thwarted couple and with the customary figures of a disapproving father and of the destructive villain At the beginning of the play Othello is a trusting persontoo much so The play dramatizes Othellos loss of trust and his concomitant loss of faith hope and lovehis loss of
William Shakespeare wrote the Tragedy of Macbeth in approximately 1606 AD He loosely based it on a historical event occurring around 1050 AD Macbeth is the story of a nobleman who while trying to fulfill a prophecy told to him by three witches murders his King to cause his ascension to the throne of Scotland After the Kings murder Macbeth reigns as a cruel and ruthless tyrant who is forced to kill more people to keep control of the throne Finally Scottish rebels combined with English forces att
There are many famous play writers from the Renaissance Times But not as famous as William Shakespeare William Shakespeare had many literary pieces that portrayed his expressions towards life He wrote literary pieces such as Romeo and Juliet Othello and Macbeth But the most preferred tragedy was Mabeth To begin William Shakesperare birth was April 23 1564 taking place at Stratford England Basically his life can be divided into three time periods The first 20 years he was still at Stratford In t
King Lear In King Lear the unnatural elements seem to always dominate the natural elements throughout the play There exists a reversal of order in the play where the evil prosper in the downfall of the good and where mans life is meaningless and arbitrary King Lear the tragic hero dies in the end despite the torment and agony he had to endure to regenerate and repent But it is the worthless destruction of countless other lives because of Lears own personal tragedy that supports the view of the
King Lear presents the audience with a bleak vision of society that is demonstrated through the dominance of nihilism to reveal a world devoid of justice morality or any good order This Aristotelian play depicts how a fatal flaw can catastrophically ruin a hero or heroine and lead them to their ultimate demise and induce total chaos within the society The Tragedy of King Lear has been subjugated to various different interpretations that each offer a particularly bleak view of human existence an