Could you imagine a world where firefighters start fires rather than putting them out What if you lived in a society where the people do not read books enjoy nature spend time by themselves think independently or have meaningful conversations Instead they watch excessive amounts of TV on wall size sets drive super fast and listen to the radio on seashell sets attached to their ears This is Guy Montags strange world presented in the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury In Fahrenheit 451 Guy Mont
A passage to India The author of the novel A passage to India is E M Forster and the main character of the novel is Dr Aziz a Muslim doctor in Chandrapore and widower The novel is about the associations among the English and the native population of India during the colonial period when Britain ruled India The novel takes place primarily in Chandrapore a city along the Ganges River notable only for the nearby Marabar caves After he is summoned to the Civil Surgeons home only to be promptly igno
In The Giver there is an Idealistic Community in which a citizens life is chosen for them Everyone is an active member of the community in which they live They take care of it and it takes care of them The people are nave as to what is around them and look to the Elders for guidance In The Giver the community plays an important role in everyones life with the day to day experiences rules and education In the community of this novel there are many day to day activities in which the people are in
In Shirley Jacksons short story The Lottery there is a yearly drawing in which a person of the village gets stoned to death sacrificially in order to receive better crops The stoning is known as a ceremony to the people of the village Once everyone has gathered in the town square the head of the families choose a piece of paper Whoever gets the paper that has a black dot on it means someone from that family will be picked to stoned They then have only that family draw This ceremony has been goi
William Faulkners Absalom Absalom Analysis Out of quiet thunderclap he would abrupt man horse demon upon a scene peaceful and decorous as a schoolprize water color faint sulphur reek still in hair clothes and beard with grouped behind him his band of wild niggers like beasts half tamed to walk upright like men in attitudes wild and reposed and manacled among them the French architect with his air grim haggard and tatter ran Immobile bearded and hand palm uplifted the horseman sat behind him the
CHAPTER I INDRODUCTION ALDOUS HUXLEY AND THE MODERN NOVEL It is rightly said Aldous Huxleys writings express the disillusionment of the 1920s the cynicism of the 1930s and the questioning of the 1940s 45 Paul W P S Huxley was the product of the times and his novel and essays are the expression of his beliefs and concerns Huxley was twenty when the First World War began in 1914 His book of stories Limbo was published in 1920 and his last novel Island in 1962 His work covers forty there years whi
Aristotles definition of tragedy is Tragedy is a story taking the hero from happiness to misery because of a fatal flaw or mistake on his part To be a true tragic hero he must also elicit a strong emotional response of pity and fear from the audience Aristotle Creon fits perfectly into this description of a tragic hero There have been many controversies regarding the true nature of Creon in the play Antigone by Anouilh In this essay of mine we shall perceive Creon as a noble man rather than an
I have always heard about and read of women in Africa being treated unfairly and not being able to express their opinions This is the first time though that I have read a which book that really gave me an insight into what could be the innermost feelings of a woman in Africa who goes through what every woman must dread going through abandonment by her husband for another woman This is what the female protagonist Ramatoulaye goes through and more in Mariama Bs novel So Long A Letter In this essa
What do you find interesting about Shakespeares representation of different types of love in As you like it William Shakespeare paints the trials and tribulations of Rosalind and Orlando on the brooding canvas of the court and a jovial one of the country Rosalind and Orlando two ardent lovers segregated in the realms of the comedy which is characterised by mistaken identities deceptions and transformations There is a wide spectrum of the representations of love in As you like it the portrayal o
The opening scene of the play begins with Beatrices harsh words towards Benedick This immediately draws your attention towards the pair It begins to make you create questions in your head Why doesnt she like him Where is he now How does her know her Has he done something As Beatrice snipes behind Benedicks back it could mean that she truly does dislike him but by telling Hero and Leonato these feelings it makes them believe that perhaps these feelings are a cover up When the messenger asks Beat