T S Eliot writes very deliberately including just the right details and organizing the poem so that each phrase and section is arranged in the most effective way possible The following passage is from Eliots The Waste Land There is shadow under this red rock Come in under the shadow of this red rock And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you I will show you fear in a handful of dust 25 30 This passa
The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara is not just a spirited story about a poor girl out of place in an expensive toy store it is a social commentary The Lesson is a story about one African American girls struggle with her growing awareness of class inequality The character Miss Moore introduces the facts of social inequality to a distracted group of city kids of whom Sylvia the main character is the most cynical Flyboy Fat Butt Junebug Sugar Rosie Sylvia and the rest think of Miss Moore as an unsoli
John Steinbeck wrote the The Grapes of Wrath in 1939 to rouse its readers against those who were responsible for keeping the American people in poverty The Grapes of Wrath tells the story of the Joad family migrant farmers from Oklahoma traveling to California in search of an illusion of prosperity The novels strong stance stirred up much controversy as it was often called Communist propaganda and banned from schools due to its vulgar language However Steinbecks novel is considered to be his gr
Jane Austen began her second novel Pride and Prejudice before she was twenty one It was originally titled First Impression because the appearances of the characters created the plot of the novel However because the novel is also concerned with the effects of the characters first impressions that is their prejudice Austen found the title Pride and Prejudice more appropriate Pride and Prejudice similar to other Austen novels is written in gentle or Horacian satire The main object of Austens satir
Of Mice and Men The importance of loneliness in Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is shown through different characters and their separate struggles and differences Whether they are mentally physically or emotionally alone it is obvious that this is a rapidly recurring theme in the renowned and prominent story Curleys wife has an underlying loneliness that she shields from the rest of the world She despises Curley and is restricted in her other relationships and friendships by him Lennie and Ge
Throughout the many required forms of literature we have read thus far in the curriculum there have been many significant differences between todays American culture and the culture of the ancient Greeks The most profound and significant differences in my opinion being the oppression of women in ancient Greece specifically in the tragedy Medea written by Euripides In this play it is depicted how poorly woman were actually treated through the story told by Medea I hope to portray the major diffe
Kingship with its potential for good or evil is a major theme in Macbeth Discuss In the monarchical society depicted in this play the King was regarded as Gods direct representative on Earth The universe was viewed as an ordered structure in which every creature had its place An offence against the King the head of this ordered structure was considered an offence against God and an offence on the ordered scheme on which human welfare depended The King embodied the moral and social welfare of hi
This essay analyses the importance of chapter 5 and the ways Shelley author of Frankenstein builds up the atmosphere describes the night the monster and Victors attitude There are three editions of this book The first published in 1818 the second in 1823 and the third and final one in 1931 Shelley was born in 1797 this being a critical time in Europe Some central developments were the French revolution and Rise of industrialism This fictional story is about the creation of a monster made out of
I am malicious because I am miserable Frankenstein or also known as The Modern Prometheus was published by Mary Shelly in March 1818 Mary had a life full of trouble and suffering Her mother died a few days after she has born and two years later her father married again At a very young age Mary married and had a baby which died a few days after birth The origin of the model Probably Frankenstein is born from a Marys anxieties abouth her role of mother from the death that surrounded her life but
Reasons Behind Frankensteins Monsters Anger In the book Frankenstein Dr Frankenstein creates a monster He later abandons the monster due to being horrified by the sight of it In turn the monster creates chaos for Dr Frankenstein The monsters anger came from rejection and lack of friendship Frankensteins monsters anger comes from rejection and lack of friendship He turned hearing a noise and perceiving me shrieked loudly and quitting the hut ran across the fields with a speed of which his debili