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
Chapter 1 8 summary Emma Woodhouse is a beautiful bright well off young woman She is the youngest daughter of Mr Woodhouse Her older sister married years ago and their mother died even longer ago two events which left Emma as mistress of the house For sixteen years Miss Taylor lived with the Woodhouse family and she became a particular friend to Emma in spirit more a sister Miss Taylor had married the nice Mr Weston and she no longer lived with the Woodhouse family Mr Woodhouse is a hypochondri
F Scott Fitzgerald uses the theme of class in The Great Gatsby as a strong role throughout the story He starts off the book not even the story with a poem in the beginning that demonstrates the theme of class There is a wealthy man that is trying to astound a woman by drawing attention to him while looking foolish doing it Of course the woman falls for the man and his money Money is everything to the upper class Without money they think theyre lives are nothing The wealthy also lack many morals
In the Rime of the Ancient Mariner Coleridge presents a poem that is written as a frame narrative Coleridges use of the frame narrative was purposeful and used to add to his story By using the frame narrative Colerdige was able to enhance the meaning of his poem more easily relate to the reader and continuously remind the reader of the frame The use of the frame narrative by Coleridge enhanced the meaning of his poem Coleridge could have easily had the mariner just recite his tale He could of o
J D Salingers The Catcher in the Rye revolves around the experiences of a Mr Holden Caulfield and his struggle with isolation and maturity Holden expresses his desire to become the Catcher in the Rye a manifestation of Holdens inability to cope with the natural direction his life is taking and which can be paralleled to the themes of alienation maturation and his concept of phoniness Due to Holdens difficulty in relating to other people he has become emotionally isolated only remembering fondly
Commentary on I too am America The poem I too sing America is written by Langston Hughes and is set in the time of segregation On paper blacks and whites soon became equal but in reality blacks were still discriminated and treated with no respect whatsoever The poem is told from the point of view of an ordinary black person but he represents many others The poet has expressed himself all through poetry Throughout the poem Langston Hughes uses metaphors allusions personification and a lot more f
Almost everyone has dreams in their life at one point or another It is just human nature to want something that you dont have American Dreams can build magnificent people but it can also be a terrible force that will destroy even the strongest person In F Scott Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby and Arthur Millers Death of a Salesman Jay Gatsby and Willy Loman are characters controlled by their American Dreams Their dreams come from their pasts and are based mostly on themselves and a goal that they
F Scott Fitzgeralds use of settings in the novel The Great Gatsby amplifies the patterns within the story line that explain the lifestyle choices during the time period of the 1920s The main parties within the book the first being the one in New York and the second the garden party at Gatsbys connect to how the upper and middle class socialites would use every opportunity to celebrate a meaningless event Juxtaposing two scenes in a narrative allows them to be easily compared and contrasted The
In 1842 Robert Browning published a book entitled Dramatic Lyrics which was a famous work that contained a collection of dramatic monologues Two of the poems found in this book were Porphyrias Lover and My Last Duchess In Porphyrias Lover Browning introduces a powerful insight into the demented mind of an extremely possessive man while My Last Duchess tells a story about the Duke of Ferrara revealing to a guest the murder of his wife and the motives behind it The two speakers share similar qual
Penelope the wife of Odysseus is believed to be a very strong character in the book The Odyssey She shows the characteristics of a strong person in her role A strong character achieves many great characteristics She has perseverance faithfulness and respect What every strong character in any type of story needs She keeps her word in everything she had promised Odysseus before he left for his journey The three traits can be best described in these ways The first characteristic Penelope entitles