Tomorrow When the War Began shows us that war always brings out the worst in people War doesnt necessarily bring out the worst in people but it can make it necessary to commit acts that would be considered taboo in an everyday situation Good and Bad are only relative terms and dont apply to the same degree in war Because war can make it hard to accurately distinguish the difference between good and bad it can be easy to take advantage of the situation When we dont have set guidelines that tell
Priestly uses the role of the inspector to create tension on and off the screen What have the characters and audience members been forced to question about life though this mysterious man Refer to numerous stage techniques The play An Inspector Calls is a complex play using the inspector to create tension and question life and many things about the morals and ethics of society and the role of the upper class society Playwright John Priestly has used various stage techniques to demonstrate a poi
Analysis of Squealer from Animal Farm Squealer represents the chief minister of propaganda who uses trickery and deception to persuade the masses Squealers charismatic intelligence and unwavering loyalty to comrade Napoleon makes him the ideal propagandist for any tyranny Throughout the book Squealer acts as a spokesman for Napoleon justifying his actions and policies He succeeds because the animals fail to notice how he slowly twists the truth Squealer has all the characteristics of a successf
Analysis of Anton Chekhovs The Lady with the Pet Dog In the beginning of Anton Chekhovs story The Lady with the Pet Dog Chekhov begins with the simple line A new person it was said had appeared on the esplanade 192 This passage shows that the local residents of Yalta Russia have discovered an outsider a person they know nothing about Chekhov asks the reader to consider who she is with and why is she there The character of the sly womanizer Dmitry Gurov also asks these questions When first readi
Apply this quote to Hamlet A man who wishes to make a profession of goodness in everything must necessarily come to grief among so many who are not good Therefore it is necessary to learn how not to be good and to use this knowledge and not use it according to the necessity of the case This quote suggests that overall everything is not good Therefore a prince must possess certain qualities in order to fulfill his purpose Part of this duty is to harness the ability to abandon all that is good an
Atonement is to compensate amend or satisfy a wrong Briony is the one responsible for the wrong act that needs atoning A lot was running through this thirteen year old mind before setting out with this act Firstly she witnessed what seemed to her as sexual apprehension between her sister Cecilia and Robbie at a water fountain outside her window After seeing her sister stripped down to her underwear she misunderstood this as aggression on Robbies part As a natural human being one feels somewhat
Harper Lees novel To Kill a Mockingbird published in the year of 1960 is the American classic novel awarded the Pulitzer Prize in fiction as well as the Brotherhood Award of the National Conference of Christians and Jews The racism which is prevalent in many small American towns in the 1930s is illustrated with profound imagery in To Kill a Mockingbird Although there are several characters in the book the true main character is the young narrators father Atticus Finch a man of great integrity a
Courage as a Theme in To Kill A Mockingbird The Affect of Courage as a Theme in To Kill A Mockingbird Courage is defined as that quality of mind or spirit enabling one to meet danger or opposition with fearlessness According to Atticus Finch one of the main characters in To Kill a Mockingbird Courage is when you know youre licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what 124 No matter how one defines it Harper Lee clearly portrays the theme of courage in her no
In Fyodor Dostoyevskys The Brothers Karamazov there is description of baseness or the base of the soul that the Karamazov family seems especially affected by This baseness is put in the light of an act so that is simple and unyielding to human nature in its natural form Animalistic actions take place of rational thought while touched by this base feeling of the soul One might go so far as to imply that base actions are a sign of weakness in the human mind yet is not being base a sign of strengt
The Anglo Saxon society was constructed upon fixed values and morals on which the behavior of individuals was based and judged This society had a strong sense of community and treasured fame and success as a passageway to immortality By fighting with Grendel his mother and the Dragon not only assured the survival of the Danes but by doing so Beowulf legitimized his god like qualities through his heroic deeds Each of the monsters Beowful faced beared a level of symbolism in which Grendel represe