Towards the end of Shakespeares sonnets his preoccupation seems to be less with the fair young blonde and is steered in another direction towards that of a more mysterious dark lady Where sonnets in the fair youth section seem to be more straightforward focussing on beauty and its preservation against time The dark lady section however is far more thoughtful and takes a totally different angle on love in some poems dubbing it a maddening disease In Sonnet 130 Shakespeare instead of exaggerating
Courage At Its Best You gain strength courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face You must do the thing which you think you cannot do Eleanor Roosevelt There are ways of showing courage beyond a physical state In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee the main character Scout and her family learns this and shows true courage throughout their story They face people who judge them they choose not to fight back and they see what true courage
Courage Found In Those Labeled Weak One October day my cousins and I decided to go on a camping trip in Hocking Hills It was a lovely day the foliage could not have been more beautiful While hiking one day my cousins and I were so mesmerized by the woods exquisite beauty around us that we were completely oblivious to an enormous ditch ahead of us The next moment we realized we were all on top of each other in a ditch that was 15 feet below the ground The one who did not fall in was my youngest
Crime and Punishment When you think of the word superman what comes to mind Is it a hero with a cape and superpowers Well according to Raskolnikov his idea of a superman does not include a cape and is not very heroic Raskolnikov came up with a theory that there are ordinary people and there are extraordinary people In the novel Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky Raskolnikov believes that he is not an ordinary person but a superman Throughout Crime and Punishment this theory of a superior
Arthurs Guilt and Suffering People get guilt when they have done something they know they should not do and their conscience tells them it is wrong Suffering comes after the guilt when they do not do anything about it and the guilt builds up inside of them and physically hurts them In The Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in the mid 1800s there is a lot of sin and wrong doings which lead to guilt and suffering In the novel many of the characters feel guilt for the sins they commit a
Jo March as a New Epoch Woman In Little Women by Louisa May Alcott according to the novel Jo is portrayed as a new epoch woman through her role as leader of her family relationship with Laurie and pursuit of a career Jo is the second elder sister in her family but she plays an important role as leader of her family Jo gives out almost all of her treasures to support her family As soon as Jos father goes to the army her family becomes poor As a result of this situation Jo decides to find a job t
Criticism Perpetrates Resentment Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent free in your head Ann Landers Blood is thicker than water or is it Blood ties to parents should be sacred eternal and the foundation for the rest of our lives to rest upon In Art Spiegelmans Maus I and Maus II a major theme is one of resentment based on Arts feelings of resentment of his father for not having experienced the Holocaust for living while his older brother is dead and for not being the
The Crucible The Crucible takes place in Boston Massachusetts in 1962 This play is about a teenager named Abigail who is obsessed with a man named John Proctor Abigail accuses Elizabeth Proctor John Proctors wife of witchcraft but everything takes a turn for the worst Her little game ends up killing many innocent people just to satisfy herself In doing an epidemic broke out of witchcraft The character that evolved the most during the course of the play was Reverend John Hale of Beverly Reverend
For I See the Devil In Arthur Millers play The Crucible He stresses the fact of foils among a community The town of Salem begins to crumble at the foundation due to a young girl Abigail Williams claming she has practiced witchcraft Causing the death of several innocent town folk while in puritan religion if on has dammed themselves to hell all are dammed as well Know Compared to Abigail all look like saints but none due this better than her complete foil Elizabeth Proctor a pure puritan woman w
The novel One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey is the story of a man named Chief Bromden and his experiences on an extremely problematic ward of a mental hospital during the mid 1900s Early in the novel when it becomes evident that Chief is a classified schizophrenic it raises the question of whether or not anything in the novel is actually happening or if all the events that unfold are just creations of his imagination There are a large number of events that took place in the novel that