Everyday people are faced with a countless number of decisions they must make Every decision has a different consequence whether it be good or bad All the Pretty Horses and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight alike had characters who faced many pivotal decisions that shaped their ultimate outcomes Throughout each heros journey choices not fate guided them Fate is beyond the contorol of mankind It was fate that the cowboy life was coming to an end All John Grady Cole knew was the farm and riding hor
Discuss the techniques Arundhati Roy uses to develop character and context First 3 Chapters of God of Small Things The novel God of Small Things is said to be the master piece of evocative writing by Arundhati Roy The novel is set in India and is a based on the various themes the most prominent of which is forbidden love One of the most striking quality of this book is that it focuses on two children and their viewpoint of the world and what goes around them The innocence contributed by them ad
Precis The Poisonwood Bible is a 658 page novel written by American author Barbara Kingsolver in 1999 The novel sets a stage of a missionary father Nathan Price that brings his family to Africa during the 1960s Nathan is on a mission to spread Christianity and convert American customs to everyday African customs Kingsolver shows a parallel in how a family is able to be torn apart by conflict and customs to actual occurrences of this in real life Is the expense of an innocent life worth the beco
Shakespeares Othello is a character who is thrown around throughout the play by the cruel minded Iago One would make a judgement about whether Othello did get what he deserved by analysing the relationship between Othello and Iago But firstly we must see all the things going against Othello Othello is an African black man living in Venice Unfortunately for Othello this means he is faced with a lot of racial slurs and judgements Throughout the text Othello is constantly referred to with beastial
Donnes Poem Death Be Not Proud In the poem Death Be Not Proud written by John Donne death is personified The personification of death creates a feeling that death is less powerful than we think Donne creates and image of death that is not mysterious not in control and a slave of low status He does this by undermining the idea of death as bound to the rules of fate chance kings and desperate men He insists that death is no more powerful than any mortal is Suggesting that death is not mysterious
Perception and reality have two very different meanings To perceive something is to attain awareness and understanding of sensory information It is a psychosomatic process strongly dependent on the position of the perceiving body Whereas reality relates to the ability to observe and comprehend something that is fact and true Perception and reality together play a vital role in gaining awareness of what is and what could be Robert Louis Stevenson masters the art of perception in his famous novel
Compare the ways in which Owen powerfully portrays the physical and mental consequences of war in Dulce et Decorum and Disabled Wilfred Owens Dulce et Decorum Est is a magnificent and terrible description of a gas attack suffered by a group of soldiers in World War I One of this group is unable to get on his helmet and suffers horribly Through his shifting rhythms dramatic description and rich raw images Owen seeks to convince us that thehorror of warfar outweighs the patriotic cliches of those
The Crucible is a play by Arthur Miller set in Salem Massachusetts in 1692 Several girls accuse members of the town of Salem of practicing witchcraft These accusations lead to what is known as the Salem Witchcraft Trials In the trials many people are convicted and hanged as a result of the accusations of the girls In the play there are many dynamic characters A dynamic character is a character that changes drastically throughout the course of the story Three characters that change the most thro
Dystopia Utopia and Handmaids Tale are significant stories that strive and link to together The two societies endure the reader in an epic way of living highly different than the ways we interact and inhabit our homes we call Earth Utopia is a place of remarkable way of peace and the great virtues of living but uniformly the dystopian society in Handmaids Tale becomes extremely fascist and totalitarian way of living The two sequestered civilizations Utopia and Gilead both have distinct chemistr
Israfel Israfel is a mesmerizing poem the beginning of which was first set down by Poe during his days at West Point College Allen 233 The poem itself is a direct contrast to Poes usual poetry which usually deal with death and dark thoughts or other melancholy Gothic ideas Poes idea of the death of beautiful woman being the most poetical of all topics is here nowhere to be found This proves that Poe when so inclined could indeed write about something other than opium induced nightmares and para