Brave New World Universal happiness is the key to stability and in the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley the World State ensures its citizens get exactly what they want all the time Community Identity Stability 1 The citizens of this world seem to be genuinely happy due to ignorance and blindness This reoccurring theme is important because it emphasizes the idea that happiness and truth cannot coexist The World State begins at making people happy right from birth or more creation They gene
Shakespeares play The Tempest revolves around the theme of power A duke is usurped a conspiracy to kill a king is made and everyone seems to have a different notion of power But there is one belief they all agree on Calibans inferiority including Caliban himself While it is certain that Caliban has more to his character than what is superficially portrayed he is still considered the lowliest creature This is the manifestation of the social hierarchy that existed during the time this play was wr
Alienation J D Salingers novel The Catcher in the Rye represents the life of a teenager dealing with his personal issues The main character Holden has a record of poor grades and has been kicked out of four private boarding schools Phoebe Holdens younger sister seems to be the only person in the book that Holden can have a mature conversation with without thinking the person in not genuine Another extremely important character in the novel is Sally Hayes Sally is a love interest of Holden who p
Twelfth Night a comedy by William Shakespeare is well known for its remarkable use of dramatic irony This play takes place in a town named Illyria and it gets its name from the Epiphany feast in the Christmas season The play features a variety of characters a winding plot as well as an extremely tangled love triangle One of Twelfth Nights most infuriating characters is Sir Toby Belch He is a middle aged knight who is portrayed as a coarse drunken man Sir Toby at times is a very carefree charact
Courage Found In Those Labeled Weak One October day my cousins and I decided to go on a camping trip in Hocking Hills It was a lovely day the foliage could not have been more beautiful While hiking one day my cousins and I were so mesmerized by the woods exquisite beauty around us that we were completely oblivious to an enormous ditch ahead of us The next moment we realized we were all on top of each other in a ditch that was 15 feet below the ground The one who did not fall in was my youngest
Many of the characters in the poems novels and short stories set for this subject are outsiders who see differently to those around them With reference to one or more texts from the subject discuss what ideological and or aesthetic function these characters serve New literary eras demand different interpretations of the texts While in the Shakespearian time the plays that have been identified as tragedies usually involve a royal character He either is driven mad or he dies in the timeframe set
The society Henrik Ibsen lived in when he wrote his play A Dolls House in 1879 was oppressive and sexist Women were treated worse than second class citizens and were regarded by men as their possessions A woman had no power and no legal standing in society Ibsen saw the problems in his society and he knew that this was not the way people should be treating one another He believe that it was time for social change so he set about writing a play that would challenge the current structure in socie
Youthful Emma Woodhouse whose long time governess and friend Miss Taylor has just married Mr Weston takes some solace in being left alone with her aging father by claiming that she made the match herself An old friend of the family Mr George Knightley does not believe her but in her certainty she decides that she must also marry off the young rector Mr Elton Among her friends and acquaintances in the large and populous village of Highbury she begins to notice young Harriet Smith the pretty ille
Epiphany and Revival in The Dead James Joyce was born in Dublin he was the most prominent writer of English prose in the first half of the twentieth century Many critics maintain that his verbal facility equaled that of William Shakespeare or John Milton and his experiments in prose as a virtuoso redefined the limits of language and the form of the modern novel The Dead the final story of Joyces collection Dubliners is considered one of the most beautifully executed stories in the English langu