The first section of The Waste Land takes its title from a line in the Anglican burial service It is made up of four vignettes each seemingly from the perspective of a different speaker The first is an autobiographical snippet from the childhood of an aristocratic woman in which she recalls sledding and claims that she is German not Russian this would be important if the woman is meant to be a member of the recently defeated Austrian imperial family The woman mixes a meditation on the seasons w
An Analysis of the Loathsome Emma Bovary In Gustave Flauberts Madame Bovary the character of Emma Bovary is in a constant internal struggle between what most would consider a normal life and her overly romantic fantasies Emma is an amoral housewife in the sense that she pursues extra marital affairs out of boredom without ever taking into consideration the feelings of anyone around her Throughout her life Emma has developed slowly through a series of increasingly immoral actions from the school
The Charcter and Symbolism of Hills Like White Elephant In Hills Like White Elephants Ernest Hemingway relies on symbolism t convey the theme of abortion The symbolic material objects as well as the strong symbolic characters aid the reader understands the underlying theme The material objects that Hemingway uses to convey the theme are beer the good and bad hillsides and a railroad station between two tracks The beer represents the couples the American and the girls usual routine they do toget
In a typical novel the desire for power often drives the storys antagonist This obsession gives the story its focus as well as its obstacles But in putting the obsession in the hands of the central figure in the story the dynamic becomes warped completely Both Emily Brontes Wuthering Heights and Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness present the reader with this dilemma the driving force of both novels takes form in a character whos cravings overpower everything else albeit for graspable reasons Bron
In the book The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisernos the main character is Esperanzais Esperanza She is a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago Esperanza and her family move in to a small run down house on Mango Street She has a vision of what her dream home should look like She dreams of a house with a large beautiful backyard real staircase more than one bathroom and just a house that she is overall proud to live in Her house on Mango Street is the complete opposite to he