At the end of February 2008 I started to read Life of Pi as part of my literature course I did not know the author nor the story but the fact that it won the Booker Prize in 2002 made me believe that I was going to like this book Firstly let me tell you briefly what the story is about Piscine Molitor Patel known as Pi Patel is the son of a zoo owner He is an exceptionally bright young man and shows his maturity quite clearly when it comes to religion He is a Muslim a Hindu and a Christian all a
The Empire of Deceit In the play Julius Caesar written by the playwright William Shakespeare the characters Brutus and Mark Antony each recite a speech in the market place after Caesars death These speeches exemplifying parallelism verbal irony and witty use rhetoric expose the true intensions of these characters From these speeches the reader can understand the true intensions of these characters and thus conclude for themselves whether or not the slaying of Caesar was one of justice or one of
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction Pablo Picasso The book Frankenstein presents numerous topics of which one could discuss The topic that I have chosen to discuss pertains to the character study of Victor Frankenstein Throughout the book Victors personality thought process and emotions greatly differ when he is presented certain circumstances that always tend to lead to a reoccurring outcome His journey leads him on a roller coaster ride with the highest of highs leading to th
A Separate Peace Summary In A Separate Peace by John Knowles the story takes place during a time of war but at Devon an exclusive New England prep school two friends face a greater war of their own Gene Forrester is sort of an outcast much unlike his best friend and roommate Phineas who he is perilously jealous of The saying our greatest enemy is ourselves is shown in A Separate Peace by John Knowles The novel takes place during a time of war but at Devon an exclusive New England prep school tw
William Faulkners A Rose for Emily A Gothic Horror Tale William Faulkner is widely considered to be one of the great American authors of the twentieth century Although his greatest works are identified with a particular region and time Mississippi in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the themes he explores are universal He was also an extremely accomplished writer in a technical sense Novels such as The Sound and the Fury and Absalom Absalom feature bold experimentation with shi
In A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner members of a southern community are telling us the story of Emily Grierson The communitys view of Emily is that of a noblesse oblige 508 They see her as a fallen monument 505 and she is a constant source of gossip for the townspeople She views the community as a part of the towns setting and they see her as a duty and a care 505 Their thoughts and actions are of no consequence to Miss Emily Grierson 505 The community is highly concerned with maintaining t
The Character of Emily Grierson in Faulkners A Rose for Emily Miss Emily Grierson a woman worshiped by the town of Jefferson a woman with a terrible secret a woman with all the pomp and circumstance that the south could allow She began life as an isolate and controlled child and ended life as a lonely woman who had taken final control of the man she loved Most people would just say that she was warped but there is an underlying reason for everything Being controlled and isolated as a child warp
Few characters in the Shakespearean canon have provoked as much violent debate and as many varied readings and theatrical and filmic interpretations as Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew For one nineteenth century male critic he is a madman in his senses a very honest fellowa character which most husbands ought to study unless perhaps the very audacity of Petruchios attempt might alarm them more than his success would encourage them William Hazlitt The Characters of Shakespeares Plays 1817 ci
A Rose For Emily Necrophilia typically means a sexual attraction to dead bodies In a broader sense there also describes a powerful desire to control another usually in the context of a romantic or deeply personal relationship Necrophiliacs tend to be so controlling in their relationships that they ultimately resort to bonding with unresponsive entities with no resistance or will in other words with dead bodies In William Faulkners A Rose For Emily Emily seemed to be isolated and out of touch wi
A Shrew or Not a Shrew In my argumentative analysis of the Taming of the Shrew pieces I will be presenting proof of a character that has been debated interpreted and discussed into different forms Katharina the shrew was she tamed open minded or just a good enough actress to make everyone think she was in fact tamed I will present arguments for and against each of these points using the actual play and the BBC television production of The Taming of the Shrew In this first paragraph you will be