Context The most influential writer in all of English literature William Shakespeare was born in 1564 to a successful middle class glove maker in Stratford upon Avon England Shakespeare attended grammar school but his formal education proceeded no further In 1582 he married an older woman Anne Hathaway and had three children with her Around 1590 he left his family behind and traveled to London to work as an actor and playwright Public and critical acclaim quickly followed and Shakespeare eventu
A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE NOVEL The Return of the Native looks at first like a typical nineteenth century novel long with several plots and set in a wide landscape But this tale is really very compact The major action takes place in a years time All of the characters live in the Egdon area and the outside world does not intrude we do not hear for example about the national problems of England All of the major characters are bound together in a dense knot of relationships The structure of this
One of the major elements in Ironweed is Baseball These elements can come from different images metaphors Francis personal history reminiscences about past players games and ball fields Bradd Shore a professor of symbolic and psychological anthropology wrote an essay in Figures of thought about the major themes and metaphors of baseball in America These metaphors can be linked to Ironweed as a part of Francis life and the overall issues and themes of the novel Many Americans will remember the n
Dee is a selfish and egotistical character with a superficial understanding of her inheritance She characterizes the confusion and misguidance of young African Americans in the late 60s and 70s This is apparent in her interactions with her mother and sister Dee considers herself as cultured and beyond the abased quality of the lives lived by her mother and sister par 3 She makes her feelings clear when she attempts to take the quilts Mama had promised to Maggie Maggie cant appreciate these quil
A Rose for Emily is a story about a character named Emily who had a lot of issues that forever affected her life The story begins at her funeral and ends at her funeral The plot was a flashback of Emilys life in the south post civil war time She seemed to be a symbol of purity but really wasnt It seems like past issues of her life led to the reasons why she murdered her boyfriend Homer One reason why Emily murdered Homer was because her whole life she father thought that no one was good enough
Because Richard is growing throughout the book his character is always changing The small child we see at the beginning is a far cry from the seventeen year old at the end yet there is a fundamental core which remains the same He is a rebel and as such an outsider from the very beginning Through his descriptions of peoples reactions to him Wright gives us a sense of the impression he makes on others He offends most everyone not for overt acts of defiance against them but because of the attitude