Major Themes Good and Evil To Kill a Mockingbird is an exploration of human morality and presents a constant conversation regarding the inherent goodness or evilness of people Atticus father of Scout and Jem also plays the role of teacher for his children and his town Atticus believes that people usually contain aspects of both good and evil but that good will usually prevail Atticus teaches this to his children but also to the town as he works to defend Tom Robinson an innocent black man accus
In the poem The Odyssey by Homer Odysseus has too face many problems and challenges through his life Odysseus journeys through many difficult challenges that change him and build him into a better person because he gets experienced courageous and stronger in many ways Odysseus suffers many pains and hardships during his challenges but yet always overcomes them The Odyssey is an outstanding book that shows acts of courage endurance pride and vengeance Odysseus gets wiser more and more every time
Merchant of Venice Characters Analysis features noted Shakespeare scholar William Hazlitts famous critical essay about the characters of The Merchant of Venice THIS is a play that in spite of the change of manners and prejudices still holds undisputed possession of the stage Shakespears malignant has outlived Mr Cumberlands benevolent Jew In proportion as Shylock has ceased to be a popular bugbear baited with the rabbles curse he becomes a half favourite with the philosophical part of the audie
Though The Great Gatsby offers a clear image of what life was like in the 1920s it does not offer a definition of love or a contrast between love and romance but what it does suggest is that what people believe to be love is often only a dream The novel is set in a time when many Americans main objective was becoming rich and love was something to possess As a result all of the relationships in the Great Gatsby fail because they are based on materialism and not love Tom sees Myrtle as nothing m
Parents often sacrifice themselves for the benefit of their children In the novel The Chosen by Chaim Potok Reb Saunders a Hasidic rabbi sacrifices his relationship with his son Danny Danny doesnt want to follow in his fathers footsteps and become a rabbi and tzaddik After many years of struggling Reb announces to his sons friend Reuven Let my Daniel be a psychologist I have no more fear now All his life he will be a tzaddik He will be a tzaddik for the world And the world needs a tzaddik 280 R
The short story Sweat by Zora Neale Hurston is about the struggle of a woman Delia and her abusive husband Sykes In the story Delia states Sometime or ruther Sykes like everybody else is gointer reap his sowing Delia points out that Sykes deserved to die from the snake bite due to his abusive behavior There are three main root causes that led to Sykess downfall The first cause of Sykes downfall was his abusive behavior towards his wife Delia Due to the abuse Delia changes from a beautiful happy
Siddhartha and the Teaching River Herman Hesses Siddhartha a bildungsroman tells the story of the journey to enlightenment Siddhartha a Brahman that lives as a Samana becomes a rich man and then finds enlightenment as a ferryman The river which the ferryman Vaseduva teaches Siddhartha to hear leads him to enlightenment Siddhartha finds a teachers in the river and learns about how to love time that even in the darkest hours Om can lead to enlightenment and that the river knows all through Om The
Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare is a tragedy involving two young star crossd lovers The bounded love between them comes to an end as their tragic deaths will mend the quarrel between their two families both alike in dignity prologue which has a long running family feud In the beginning of the play we are acquainted with a scene of violence between the Capulets and the Montagues The prince stops the fight Romeo before he meets Juliet was in love with someone who didnt love him ba
Immaturity and Love Displayed in Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet is a timeless tale of lovers whos misfortune and immaturity was a cause of their own destruction The characters individually show immaturity and together demonstrate how ignorance of the world effects more than just their own lives Romeo and Juliet as expressed in the succeeding examples fall in love quickly as a result of their naivety Juliet is shown to be immature in a opening scene where her father tells the bride seeking Pa
Othello and Iago The tragedy Othello by William Shakespeare is a story based upon the revenge of two characters Othello and Iago These two characters help to prove Murpheys Law which states that if something wrong can happen it will for Othello it is the wrongful killing of his wife and friend for Iago it is getting caught for his actions and finally being tortured Many historians actors and readers would like to argue that Othello and Iago are very complex but at a closer look you will notice