On The Road Not Taken It is not uncommon for a work to be misinterpreted or misunderstood from the authors true intentions One of the best examples is Robert Frosts poem The Road Not Taken For as long as it has been read The Road Not Taken has been interpreted as a important defense of individualism and as a justification of the idea of nonconformity The most commonly held interpretation of The Road Not Taken is a story of a man traveling in the woods He comes across a fork in the path and afte
The Tragedy of Antigone The role of fate seems to have a heavy hand in many Greek tragedies Often at times it can be difficult to determine whether the protagonist is steering their own course or being pulled along by an unseen current From the beginning of this play however it is clear that Antigone is steering herself towards her own death In all of our lives we are faced with choices who we are and what we believe always serves to direct us down a particular path Antigones family had clearly
Herman Melvilles short story Bartleby the Scrivener was written for people used to conforming to others opinions to push the idea of individual thought and actions as opposed to compliance and to show the value of appreciation I will show how Bartleby shows individual actions and thoughts with the mere phrase I prefer not to When Bartleby arrives Melville uses imagery to create his character for the audience stating him as a motionless young man pallidly neat pitiably respectable and incredibly
Beowulf The Anglo Saxons were pagan people who believed in no life after death However they believed that you can live on forever in stories based on how you live Some Anglo Saxons attempt to achieve the goal of living on forever but in order for them to reach this goal they must become a great man Yet this was no easy task because they must have bravery courage and honor These are all features of hero and there are two types of hero called an archetypal hero and a epic hero In the Epic Traditi
Beowulf is an Anglo Saxon epic poem that portrays a story of an epic hero who seems destined to destroy all monsters in order to save a kingdom from death and destruction The major theme in this epic surrounds the concept of good versus evil Good versus evil has existed throughout time in that heroes have defended the righteous and villains were bent on destruction In this case Beowulf and Grendel represent the ultimate struggle of good and evil Beowulf represents the ability to do good and per
Birches Robert Frosts Birches is a poem that makes you think how fast time goes In the poem the narrator was flashing back to when he was a child how he remembered it to clearly After reading the poem you want to treasure your moments in life When I read this it connects heaven and Earth bringing heaven to Earth The poem makes you think about what great things lay for you in the future even after Earth Places better than Earth Id like to get away from Earth awhile and then come back to it and b
Bram Stokers Dracula is undoubtedly one of the most influential horror novels in western culture One is left to wonder what gives the novel its staying power Throughout the ages authors have created influential writing that has eventually gathered its dust been placed under some uneven coffee table and inevitably fallen out of the realm of lasting literature So what is it about Stokers Dracula that has resonated so powerfully with western civilization and inspired countless adaptations of vampi
Boo Radley Boo Radley is one of the harder to understand characters inTo Kill a Mockingbird and slowly reveals himself throughout the novel Arthur Radley also known as Boo Radley appears as a very quiet reclusivecharacter who only passively presents himself until the childrens final interaction with Bob Ewell Most of Maycomb believes he is a horrible person due to the rumors spread about him and a trial he underwent as a teenager It is implied during the story that Boo is a very lonely man who
Characteristic Restrained Misery Characters often cannot express their interior self because of their social and cultural restriction In the two different stories Araby and The Red Convertibles the authors used a significant way to depict characters conflict between an individuals social and interior self James Joyce is the author of the short fiction Araby which is about an adult narrator a character of the story who was confused with his thoughts and dreams of his younger stage Louise Erdrich
An author has six ways of creating characterization Geoffrey Chaucer is known to be the English poet The story is about a few people who tell their tales of pilgrimage In the story of The Canterbury Tales the Chaucer uses characterization to reveal the character of the knight and the wife of bath in three ways The first person to be revealed is the knight He is described in three ways his looks actions and personality are what set him apart and show what he is like The Chaucer first describes h