Speak Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson is about a teenage girl who has to overcome one of the hardest challenges of life Melinda was raped at a party and has to deal with it on her own because it seems as though she has lost her voice By the beginning of her freshman year she has no friends because she called the police on the party she was raped at so she feels like an outcast a nobody Anderson shows Melindas stages of well being through an art project that was assigned to her by her art teacher
Romeo and Juliet is a story of revolt against authority Discuss Much of Romeo and Juliet involves the lovers struggles against public and social institutions that either explicitly or implicitly oppose the existence of their love Such structures range from the concrete to the abstract the evident adherence to kin law and the desire for public order the familial power of the father the social importance placed on masculine honour and religion These institutions would result as a battle between t
La Belle Dame Sans Merci La Belle Dame Sans Merci is written in 1819 by one of the most important romantic poets John Keats He takes the title from a medieval French poem by Alain Chartier and it means The Beautiful Woman Without Pity It talks about a seductive woman who makes men fall in love with her and then leaves them This poem is written in form of a ballad which is type of narrative poetry that uses repeated words and phrases including a refrain to advance its story Keats debates the ide
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
In literature the actions that characters commit have serious effects Shakespeares play Macbeth displays acts of killing and betrayal Macbeths obsession with power and fear of death leads him to commit actions that neither he nor his mind can control What he does cannot be the effect of one person but that of what many people have contributed to These actions sprout from the seeds of others seeds that others plant seeds that manipulate his mind into taking drastic measures These people drive Ma
Macbeths Downfall Macbeth is at complete fault that lead to his downfall Instead of waiting to see if the prophecies and apparitions came true Macbeth decided to take fate into his own hands and paid with his life Although the witchs prophecies and apparitions were quite startling he could have waited to see if they were telling the truth or not how far can you really trust a witch One prophecy told Macbeth that he would be thane of Cawdor He did not interfere with that prophecy Not only did it
Lord of the Flies by William Golding explores a pessimistic and dark reality that focuses on the overall fragility of civilisation He offers an insight into a potential breakdown of society and what happens when man is left in isolation who ultimately returns to his primitive roots Societys fragility is exposed through Goldings portrayal of his characters in an allegorical manner together with usage of successive symbols and imagery Golding looks at the darkness of a mans heart and the simple t
A Metaphorical View into Kindred In Kindred by Octavia Butler Dana is subject to many different wounds all over her body the more involved Dana becomes in the story the more damaging the wounds are to her everyday function These wounds their severity and their position represent certain emotional and mental scars in Dana made by her travels into the 1800s The most severe of these wounds and the driver of the book since it is the opening chapter and we are awaiting for this scene throughout the
Succumbed in the Illusion of Symbols Sunglasses block light letters revive elapsed emotions and briefcases provide a compartment to clasp onto vital items incapable of letting go Symbols in Invisible Man play meaningful portrayals throughout the novel Author Ralph Ellison writes about an innominate mans journey during one of Americas darkest times in the Jim Crow South desiring to identify a resemblance to truth The narrator encounters many figures like Dr Bledsoe the last hope for many African
In the book Grendel by John Gardner Grendel is portrayed as a lonely character that is misunderstood and is disliked by everyone During the course of the story Grendel meets many people whom change the course of his destiny Three characters that have impacted Grendel the most are the Dragon the Shaper and Beowulf each playing a role in either inspiring or destroying him First off the dragon has one of the biggest impacts on Grendel because he changes his perspective on life itself and also gran