Great Expectations a satirical fictional novel based in Victorian England by Charles Dickens is about a Phillip Pirrip also known as Pip who deeply desires to improve himself socially and morally Great Expectations takes Pip on his heros journey to win his true love and find peace with his conscience Dickens writes Pip as a failed hero experiencing successes and failures Often Pip faces difficult obstacles concerning pure evil Dolge Orlick a man who bitterly resents Pip for being favored is rot
Edward Said once stated Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience In Cormac McCarthys The Road the main characters are forced into a different type of exile The main characters experienced separation from humanity and a deep sense of inner struggle This provided a unique example of exile but also gave the characters an opportunity for enrichment The novel contains two main characters the first character being the father and the second being the boy When the story b
Explore the presentation of psychopathic behaviour in John Fowles The Collector and Iain Banks The Wasp Factory Both John Fowles The Collector and Iain Banks The Wasp Factory present characters whose behaviour can be described as psychopathic Psychopathy can be described as chronic immoral and antisocial behaviour In The Collector Frederick Frederick behaves in an obsessive evil and psychopathic way when he imprisons Miranda eventually leading to her gruesome death In The Wasp Factory Frank Cau
In the crumbling universe of Shakespeares King Lear a world in which evil and treachery is allowed to triumph for a moment too long and goodness falters under the dominion of the former a terrible irony is made resoundingly clear The ambiguity of the victory between the binary oppositions becomes one of the most unsettling themes of King Lear who truly triumphs Perhaps more importantly what become the cruelly conceived expenses of such a victory The prevailing question of cosmic justice pervade