Assignment 1 Q1 THE CATCHER IN THE RYE After studying Holdens actions throughout the novel The Catcher in the Rye I believe he is incorrect in forming the belief that Mr Antolini betrayed him Holden jumps to the conclusion that Mr Antolini is a pervert based on an incident where he wakes up in the middle of the night to find his old English teacher patting him on the head This gesture which appears perfectly platonic and fatherly leads him to feel betrayed by one of the few people that he liked
A play must challenge its audience otherwise it is nothing more than entertainment In what ways do two of the plays you have studied challenge audiences Some people appreciate going to the theatre or reading a play passively in order to evade a reality that does not work in their favor But is passivity the key to a genuine appreciation of a piece of literature The key to answering this question is not simply by stating how two works are challenging but by analyzing why they were written in such
In The Scarlet Letter Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale is considered a very honorable person by almost everyone in the Puritan town Practically no one would believe that he would have the ability to do any evil much less the sin of adultery On the contrary Dimmesdale feels that he is a terrible person for committing this sin and not admitting it to the townspeople This fact affects him greatly yet unexpectedly increases his popularity by inspiring him to come about with more intensifying sermons Adve
Character Analysis of the narrator The Tell Tale Heart The narrator is the protagonist in the The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe This short story is about a man that wants to prove his sanity even though he has plans to compete murder upon the old man that lives with him He has a deep passionate fear of this mans blue eye which he feels is wicked and vulture like He speaks of love for the old man however the old mans vulture like blue eye is something that the narrator wants gone So he rati
Hahaha A Millers Sense of Humor Some time ago there was a rich codger Who lived in Oxford and took a lodger Chaucer pg 88 Even in the first lines of this tale the reader finds something to laugh at There are many representations of critical humor in The Millers Tale To begin with each character in The Millers Tale tend to have their own type of humor Absalon a character described to be the romantic character of the story is given a very sarcastic tone throughout the entire tale For instance Wha
Comparative Essay You are required to write a comparative essay You should compare the experiences of the outsider in the books The Curious Incident and Of Mice and Men In the two books The Curious Incident by Mark Haddon and Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck the feature of an outsider can be discovered Both books are skillful novels which deal with the theme of outsiders that is individuals who do not fit into the mainstream of society This feature is shown in many different ways in both of th
In the catcher in the rye the tones on sorrow and anger reflect the misguided structure of Holdens adolescent life Despite Holdens availability for a substantial all American teenager Holden destroys himself with self conflict Salinger still shows the hypocrisy between Holden and structured society even after anger and sorrow takes place into Holdens life Salingers diction brings out the isolation that Holden makes him self have with the social world Holden who goes to pencey prep with hot shot
Days Reality to Nights Imagination In Midsummer Nights Dream there is a lot of role playing a lot of juxtapositions that question the boundaries of ideas of people and of reality and truth The play overall uses several groups of characters set in two time periods night and day to show the progression of love As Shakespeare questions the validity of love within the play he broadens love to represent much of lifes greater truths and questions The periods of night and day are also important as Sha
Dracula Essay Bram stoker is way ahead of his time His mind is way more modern than the Victorian era Bam stokers Dracula is a criticism of its time in many ways and in different themes including the portrayal of women importance of status and money and having control Dracula criticizes the portrayal of women in various ways First example is when Mina finds Lucy in the churchyard after she had been sleep walking in the middle of the night wearing her nightgown When Mina is taking her home she c
Dreamland The morning of Caitlins 16th birthday she woke up to a very hectic household Come to find out her 18 year old sister Cass had run away in the middle of the night Neither one of her parents could understand why she had everything she could dream of Cass was supposed to be attending Yale this coming fall but her plans changed that night she decided to run away from home with her boyfriend When Cass left she also left a birthday gift for Caitlin behind it was a journal where she was to r