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  • Commentary on Equality

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    Equality Essay Equality written by Maya Angelou is a poem that talks about and revolves around equality The poem is told from the eyes and view point of an African American woman during the times when African Americans were not considered equal and did not have the same rights as the white people The narrator in the poem is speaking directly to the white population in protest telling them that they can hear their voices but choose to ignore their words The narrator is also applying this to when

  • Death of a Salesman as a Modern Tragedy

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    Death of a Salesman is a play that has come to redefine the concept of modern tragedy The Greeks first defined dramatic tragedy it is evident that the Greek tragedies were a profound influence on Arthur Miller He was drawn to the Greek tragedies for their magnificent form the symmetry Aristotle wrote a significant thesis on tragedy in his Poetics His analogy was that there are four crucial elements that must be present in order to define a play as a classical tragedy Namely the play must incorp

  • Love in Cat in the Rain

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    Love is more love is more than just a word its an action its a way of life it is a way to describe something so fulfilling that every second is worth it Both Ernest Hemingway and James Joyce describe actions of love that step beyond boundaries to prove that love exists Ernest Hemingways short story Cat in the Rain takes place in a hotel room in Italy In the story the lady sees a cat outside of her window crouched under a dripping wet green table feeling sorrow for the cat she wants to go and ge

  • The Climax in Roman Fever

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    The climax in Roman Fever by Edith Wharton appears at the very end of the story however the author she has prepaired subtly for this shocking ending by using a series of foreshadowdings and hints before reaching the climax At the first part of the story the foreshadowings mostly concentrates on Mrs Ansley When Mrs Slade praised the Palatine for its beauty Mrs Ansley assented with so slight a stress on the me and a small break in the middle of the sentence It always will be to me And then the ne

  • Commentary on The Shout

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    Unvisible things make us think The aim of this essay is to analyse the short story The Shout by Robert Graves I am going to interpret this story by the understanding of my own pay attention to esoterical aspect and compare it with other similar stories In the same way this essay is going to deal with the question of self identity First reading The Shout it is important to not to lost in ones thoughts because the message this story brings is quite complicated and thinking about else would just m

  • The Uncany and Frankenstein

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    Essay Frankenstein by Mary Shelly based on The Uncanny It is a strange but yet stimulating phenomenon to justify and compare the inanimate and animate object by suggesting the impression of unconscious work behind the ordinary appearance of mental activity Throughout the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelly Victor Frankensteins character possesses knowledge feelings and experience in common with the self named monster he has created The monster is presented as both a human being and automaton whil

  • Imagery in Ethan Frome

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    Edith Wharton establishes patterns of imagery in her book Ethan Frome She associates the imagery and setting with three main ideas winter death and light When we think of winter we think of Zeena and more importantly Ethan When we think of light we always think of Mattie When we think of death we think of different scenes in the book To help support the three main ideas Wharton uses metaphors similes and other uses of figurative language Winter as the setting sets the tone of the story througho

  • Ethan Frome: Moral and Ethical Issues

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    Ethan Frome Moral and Ethical Issues Life is about making choices we all make different choices however the choices we make are restricted Some of the restrictions can come from moral and ethical issues Even though Ethan Frome is not a novel written about morality however moral and ethical issues are a key component of the novel because it affects the characters and it affects how they live their lives First of all the moral and ethical issues in Ethan Frome are actually derived from the person

  • Conflict and Tension in Dr. Faustus

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    Doctor Faustus a play written by the well known writer Christopher Marlowe is written in a grandiose and tragic with occasional moments of low comedy under the idea of a few certain themes Sin Redemption and Damnation Power as a corrupting influence and the divided nature of man Contrasting to the tension created within the play with the issue of Faustus selling his soul to Lucifer and of the good and bad angel The effectiveness of characterisation within the play especially Doctor Faustus show

  • Evidence Of a Gothic Novel In Frankenstein

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    Evidence of a gothic novel in Frankenstein Gloomy settings have been used for centuries by many authors to generate a Gothic novel Bram Stoker used this method to write Dracula the dreary tale of a dead demon who survives by drinking the blood of the living Stoker uses gothic imagery to enhance the horror of his novel Much similar to this Mary Shelley uses the same tactic to create her own tale of a monster In her novel Frankenstein she creates her own gothic novel by the classical elements of

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