Well women are used to worrying over trifles line 465 This quote from Susan Glaspells play Trifles defines the tone of the entire play The play is about a murder and how men and women will cover for their own sex even if it means lying about something important Therefore the tone of this play has a demeaning attitude towards women and this quote emphasizes this point of the author The play Trifles explores the idea that women might pay attention to small trivial things that could lead to solvin
Major Themes Good and Evil To Kill a Mockingbird is an exploration of human morality and presents a constant conversation regarding the inherent goodness or evilness of people Atticus father of Scout and Jem also plays the role of teacher for his children and his town Atticus believes that people usually contain aspects of both good and evil but that good will usually prevail Atticus teaches this to his children but also to the town as he works to defend Tom Robinson an innocent black man accus
Chapter 15 of Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe is a very significant part in the story It is important in showing how much Okonkwo has changed since being exiled from his village and going to live in his motherland We heard in the previous chapter of his first couple of days but this chapter is set 2 years later when he has become accustomed to the very different atmosphere of the village of Mbanta During this chapter is his first contact with Umuofia his old village which comes in the form o
The Yellow Wallpaper is the type of short story that intrigues the reader and isnt exactly what it seems like at first glance It is full of hidden meanings and leaves the road open to many different interpretations But one thing every reader will probably agree on is that the mental health of the narrator of the story seems to be deteriorating towards the end of the short story The author uses this to show exactly how she is being restricted by her husband and many other men in her life Times w
Crawl Behind the Wallpaper Swiftly surely smoothly she crawled around the perimeter of the room the horrid yellow paper peeling slowly in patches all over the airy room the chained walls shaken but unbroken mocking the women as they crawl crawl so desperately Why do they crawl so frantically as if an invisible force compels them to In Charlotte Perkins Gilmans The Yellow Wallpaper a woman isolated from society and work slowly spirals into insanity with her obsession over that horrid horrid yete
Prior to the twentieth century men assigned and defined womens roles Although all women were effected by men determining womens behavior largely middle class women suffered Men perpetrated an ideological prison that subjected and silenced women This ideology called the Cult of True Womanhood legitimized the victimization of women The Cult of Domesticity and the Cult of Purity were the central tenets of the Cult of True Womanhood Laboring under the seeming benevolence of the Cult of Domesticity
The Things They Carried by Tim OBrien expresses the importance of a story truth as opposed to a happening truth by use of literary elements in his writing The novel is about war and the guilt it leaves on everyone involved in the war The four literary devices he uses to express this are diction imagery juxtaposition and hyperbole All of these elements allow the reader to identify emotion that is expressed in each story as though that were the complete truth OBriens diction is descriptive OBrien
The Taming of the Shrew Shakespeares Taming of the Shrew is known as one of his comedies written about the courtship of Petruchio a gentleman of Verona and Katharina known and considered to be a shrew of her time Many audiences have speculated as to what Shakespeare may have been feeling when writing the play or whether he was trying to make a point or raise awareness on certain topics or issues dealt with during his time There is also the controversy of how this play may have been one of the f
The Taming of the Shrew written by William Shakespeare is a comedy that satirizes sill or unfair social customs often through farce The play engages the audience in a world of humour and sometimes humiliation The plays enthralling storyline and plot are extremely effective and interesting The play is set in the 16th century The action in the 5 act play takes place in various locations in Padua Italy Padua is in northern Italy about 30 miles west of Venice As the title of play suggests the play
The Stone Boy Isolated by his family betrayed by the community and silenced by an accident Arnold Curwing a child shot his brother by mistake and his actions touched everyone In the short story The Stone Boy Gina Berriault walks us through a twenty four hour period of Arnolds toughest time not the death of his brother but the neglection by his family and community What started as a good day for Arnold ended with his world shattered with him having to grow up Abandonment is one of the important