Critical Essays Analysis of The Prelude The Prelude is the greatest long poem in our language after Paradise Lost says one critic Its comparison with the great seventeenth century epic is in some respects a happy one since Milton was after Coleridge Wordsworths greatest idol The Prelude may be classed somewhat loosely as an epic it does not satisfy all the traditional qualifications of that genre The epic is customarily defined as a long narrative poem which recounts heroic actions commonly leg
A View from the Bridge A View from the Bridge is a play by Arthur Miller which is set in America in the 1950s The play is about a family unit which is disrupted by the arrival of two illegal immigrants The main protagonist Eddie Carbone is an over protective man who becomes obsessive with his niece Catherine When Catherine instantly falls for Rodolpho one of the illegal immigrants Eddie quickly becomes jealous of him and the entire household is destroyed by Eddies feelings for Catherine Through
Liam OFlahertys The Sniper conveys the distressed images of a sniper during the civil war on a dark June night in Dublin Ireland The authors effective use of setting imagery and characterization suggests that war creates chaos and turns brothers into enemies Nothing good comes out of a war and morally nobody wins The main character a sniper lies beneath the support that war not only demoralizes human beings to simple objects but has no boundaries and turns one brother against another OFlaherty
Moby Dick 1 is an 1851 novel by Herman Melville The story tells the adventures of the wandering sailor Ishmael and his voyage on the whaling ship Pequod commanded by Captain Ahab Ishmael soon learns that Ahab does not mean to use the Pequod and her crew to hunt whales for market trade as whaling ships generally do Ahab seeks one specific whale Moby Dick a great white whale of tremendous size and ferocity Comparatively few whaling ships know of Moby Dick and fewer yet have knowingly encountered
Jane Eyre is an orphan being raised by Mrs Reed her unkind rich aunt A servant that goes by the name Bessie give Jane with some of the little kindness she receives by reading her stories and singing to her One day Jane fights with her bullying cousin John Reed As punishment her aunt locks her up in the red room the room where Janes Uncle Reed died During the time she was locked in she believes that shes seen a ghost of Uncle Reed she screams and faints She wakes up finding herself at the care o
Jane Eyre a novel written by Charlotte Bronte takes place in the early 19th century and moves throughout five locations in England The tone is very romantic Jane searches for belonging and finds it in the end Jane Eyre the protagonist and narrator of the novel comes off as very smart and honest but she is a plain girl who has a lot of suffering in her life She meets many people who try to oppress her independence but she keeps her assertiveness and morals Jane becomes employed by Edward Rochest
Wonderland In the midst of the Victorian period the story of Alices Adventures in Wonderland emerged Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll invented the story as he told it Six years after the novel Alices Adventures in Wonderland was published in 1865 Carroll created the sequel to it Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Saw There Some years later in 1920 Walt Disney decided to make an animated film based on Lewis Carrolls story Finally close to 100 years later Tim Burto
By placing the fairy tale in a real time and place Gregory Maguire allows the reader to develop a completely different point view compared that of the fairy tale of Snow White fairytale Using this technique Maguire makes his novel seem to come to life The effect is enhanced when he uses real historical people such as Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia The reader also does not know what to expect while reading because although it is just a story like real life anything can happen Unlike fairy tales wher
The contrast is quite apparent throughout the story Lives of Girls and Women She had been brought back to Garnets homestead where he lived with many of his family members He came from a family that was not as fortunate and she was able to notice many differences then that of her own lifestyle The household that Garnet grew up in was run down and in dire need of repairs She had also been warmed up to by his family members making her feel comfortable Both of which are circumstances and situations
Walter Dean Myers wrote the book Fallen Angels It is about Americas experiences in the Vietnam War as told by the main character in the book Richie Perry Perry goes through a lot of changes and sees some of his good friends die in battle fighting for a cause that no one could agree upon The book has 4 other main characters Lobel Johnson Brunner and Peewee The book starts off talking about the experiences of Perry while he is serving in Vietnam His best friend Peewee becomes instant friends with