J B Priestley wrote An Inspector calls at the height of his powers as a playwright The plays purpose put over a pro socialist message to the audience The writer does this by using dramatic devices to convey his concerns and ideas to members of the audience It is a political drama aimed at the upper and middle classes since they were the most likely to see the play The message from the playwright is that each person in a community all have different responsibilities within society that we can al
Life and death are opposing forces of nature that one can not escape In the poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight the poet uses natures forces to represent procreation which is the giving of life and destruction which is the dealing of death The poet expresses through out the poem how these two forces life and death are interconnected In the beginning of the story King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table were celebrating the New Year until the Green Knight sent by Morgan Le Fay Arthurs sis
Portrayal of Life in India in Malgudi Days by R K Narayan In Malgudi Days although R K Narayan seems to present us with a bleak portrayal of India where life is very hard and there is very little human happiness he means to reflect the triumph of the human spirit over the cruel circumstances of life In India poverty and the lack of education are prejudiced against and people are discriminated against because they are poor In A Willing Slave Ayah is discriminated against and treated badly merely
Virginia Woolfs novel To the Lighthouse 1990 is structured in three parts and each to an extent displays a different use of time In this essay I would like to look at each of these and discuss the ways that the author represents not only the movement and affects of temporality but also how its is perceived and shapes peoples consciousnesses The first section of the novel The Window concerns itself with the Ramsey family and the various holiday makers on a small island in the Hebrides and as Ber
The Rise of Racism Maycomb County Alabama is a town against a black man Tom Robinson who is on trial for raping a white girl Mayella Ewell The whole Maycomb County is a good example of an influence to why kids show racism in To kill a mockingbird Cecil Jacobs is a bully at Scouts elementary school who declared Scouts dad a defender of a nigger in the school yard before the announcement of the trial Cecil Jacobs displays what Maycomb County adults and community is doing in spreading word and inf
Men and women occupy very different roles women are not only considered the weaker sex but are fundamentally defined by their relationship to men In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Janie encounters three different men named Logan Killicks Joe Starks and Tea Cake Each of Janies three relationships helps her to grow into the self actualized woman whom walked back into the town of Eatonville in Chapter 1 and endures the questions and gossips from the townsfolks on the
The Lottery The Lottery by Shirley Jackson is a short story in which the setting sets up the reader to think of a positive outcome However this description of the setting foreshadows exactly the opposite of what is to come Shirley Jackson gives the reader a sense of comfort and stabily from the very beginning It begins clear and sunny with the fresh warmth of a full summer day the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green 118 The setting throughout The Lottery creates a s