Critical Response The Ninny In the short story The Ninny the author Anton Chekhov uses the point of view from the employer to describe the sense control and power the man has and how easy it is to manipulate his governess The story begins with the boss settling his account with the governess By using the point of view of the employer the reader can see how the employer plays a trick on her by cheating her out of the money she had earned He makes up silly reasons for not paying the right amount
How does Steinbeck present the character of Crooks In the novel Of Mice and Men the character of Crooks is used by John Steinbeck the author to symbolise the marginalisation of the black community occurring at the time in which the novel was set Crooks is also significant as he provides and insight into the reality of the American Dream and the feelings of the people in the ranch their loneliness and need for company Steinbeck presents Crooks as a victim of racism and throughout the book he is
Curleys wife One of the most complex characters in the story She is an attractive and beautiful young woman By her appearance it is evident that she is out of place in the ranch where the people are rough and live danger filled lonely lives Whereas she seems to belong more in glitzy and glamorous world in an easy and out going life The ranch hands as seen from the fact that she is given no identity of her own as she is dubbed Curleys wife objectify her She is the only woman in the ranch which i
Money is very important in everyones everyday life Money is the foundation that supports people their living habits and expensive Often money can be the cause of many emotions it can bring you happiness but could be the complete contrary like sadness and stress Almost everything is related to money which may cause many arguments and disagreements on things In the play Death of a Salesman I believe that money is the main theme and which initiates many of the conflicts between characters Money ca
Shakespeare had to make recourse to a wholly artificial device in order to show Hamlet in action or inaction the soliloquy Another strain that goes through Hamlet and a disturbing one is the abuse by Hamlet of his former beloved and his mother Ophelia and Gertrude In his scenes with Ophelia Hamlet is relentlessly cruel charging her with a lustful nature a dishonest heart a dissembling appearance and so on He builds up in scene three to an utterly misogynistic rant beginning I have heard of your
The Ironic Depiction of Colonialism in The Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad extensively used irony in the Heart of Darkness To comprehend how saturated this novel is with irony one has to have an understanding of the concept of irony Merriam Webster defines verbal irony as the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning situational irony as incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result and Socra
Dickens Scrooge Dickens makes Scrooge appear as an excellent businessman but also as a cold hearted tight fisted selfish man who despises Christmas and all things that bring about happiness Dickens gives the reader examples of Scrooge being miserly mean and self contained Scrooge has no sympathy for the poor thinking the world would be better off without them decreasing the surplus population and he praises the workhouses His only act of kindness is to give his clerk Bob Cratchit the day off wi
Matthew Arnold wrote Dover Beach to express the real issues at hand with everyday life He describes life and how human contact truth love and meaning are important in everyones day to day life Mary Shelley also showed this theme in her novel Frankenstein a book of a creature and his creator both struggling to find meaning and friendship The creature displays the truth of this theme when he seeks revenge on Victor Frankenstein due to his loneliness and neglect from others In Black Boy Richard Wr
Dimmesdales Deterioration Every novel has a character that has potential for greatness but is doomed to fail This character is called the tragic hero of the story A tragic hero is trapped in multiple situations where he cannot win This character also has some sort of a tragic flaw which causes him to fall from greatness In the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Arthur Dimmesdale the towns minister possesses the same characteristics a tragic hero does Arthur Dimmesdale has an elevat
Do Sponges Deserve Sympathy The roles of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are relatively minor in the overall plot of Hamlet However the insertions of these two characters that ended their lives with tragic or absurd death by Shakespeare was significant as these two minor characters falls are not direct consequences of their actions to fulfill their intentions as They are neither political players in the Danish court who need to struggle or to conspire to get the grasp of power nor those people who