Ghosts is a play about a choice forced upon Helen Alving, the administrator of a charitable orphanage ostensibly dedicated to her husband. It is soon revealed that Alving's husband was a drunk and a philanderer whom Helen was forced to stay with to avoid scandal. Helen discovers that her son Oswald has inherited syphilis from his father and is wooing one of his father's bastards, his own half-sister. The play ends with Helen making an unknown decision as to whether or not she will euthanize her son.
A characters strength and pivotal existence in a play is often determined by his or her reoccurring presence throughout the text and the amount of lines that are allotted to this specific character In Hamlet by William Shakespeare however young Hamlets father returns in ghost form and though he is only noted twice in the text his apparition wields enough strength to create political and royal mayhem The devolution of King Hamlets power is conveyed by his differing capacities during his two visi
The title of this novel is A Christmas Carol which is written by Charles Dicken In this novel the main character Scrooge has a callous personal He doesnt recognize poverty kindness and love During nights he faced the four ghosts who were trying to teach him life lessons After that he realizes money is not the only thing that matters in the world Scrooge learns a great deal about himself and the world him as a result of the visits by the spirits Marley is Scrooges former business partner but he
In order to establish how J B Priestley communicates his message within An Inspector Calls we must first establish what is the central message within the play The central theme that Priestley is trying to communicate is very similar to that which Dickens communicates in A Christmas Carol in which a series of ghosts appear to show Scrooge the error of his ways Marleys ghost tells Scrooge that he has been cast into purgatory for eternity because he has concentrated too much on business and profit
Explore the ways in which Priestley communicates his message in An Inspector Calls In order to establish how J B Priestley communicates his message within An Inspector Calls we must first establish what is the central message within the play The central theme that Priestley is trying to communicate is very similar to that which Dickens communicates in A Christmas Carol in which a series of ghosts appear to show Scrooge the error of his ways Marleys ghost tells Scrooge that he has been cast into
By reading the novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte I can see that Bronte organizes her novel by putting its element like characters and places into pairs Catherine and Heathcliff are closely matched in any ways and see themselves as identical Catherines character is divided into warring sides For instance the side that wants Edgar and the sides that wants Heathcliff Catherine and young Catherine are both similar and different The two houses Wuthering Heigths and Trushcross Grange represent
Books Reading and Learning in Wuthering Heights In Emily Brontes book Wuthering Heights books reading and learning seem to play a pivotal role in each characters persona Heathcliff and the elder Catherine seem to despise reading Catherine does say after all that she took her dingy volume by the scoop and hurled it into the dog kennel vowing I hated a good book Chapter III page 26 The real objects of their resentment however are the moral and religious lessons that are forced upon them via books
Kingston Maxine H The Woman Warrior Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts New York City Vintage Books 1975 Throughout the lives of the early immigrants from China to America there have been many hardships resulting from the transition to an American style culture The traditional Communist culture of their Chinese homeland is too difficult to shed and alter so that the American culture can be obtained In this case that forms an oppressive system of living for the Chinese Americans The story of Maxi
The True Villian On the surface Henry James Turn of the Screw has all of the qualities of an innocent old fashioned ghost story but underneath there is much more The use of ambiguity appears frequently throughout the novel and the reader is left to decide a lot on their own Are the ghosts real Who can actually see the ghosts Which characters can the reader really rely on These questions can be answered in a variety of different ways but who is to say which answer is the correct one The biggest