How far will an individual go to get what they desire regardless of the consequences Thanks to human beings obsessions selfishness and other factors various dreadful decisions are made throughout life Some of which can cause a complete alteration of ones future In British Literature the majority of characters is guilty of this offense and therefore has to suffer major consequences In the novel Silas Marner by George Eliot a character by the name of Godfrey Cass made a major decision that he eve
The way in which any story is told and who tells it can be an extremely influential part of the narrative More than simply whether or not the reader can trust the narrator to tell the truth without a bias the narrative lens can entirely shape the way in which the world is viewed The most interesting narrator as well as the most suspicious is the narrator who is also a character an active participant in the action of the story In such a case the narrator legitimately has both intimate and limite
Arthur Millers The Crucible vs McCarthyism Where choice begins Paradise ends innocence ends for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action stated by Arthur Miller author of the play The Crucible Miller wrote The Crucible during the McCarthy era which was a period of time in the 1950s where anticommunism occurred in the United States The United States government was engaged in a political repression of the Communist Party leaders and other were being suspected of being co
Dante Alighieris The Divine Comedy is a moral comedy that is designed to make one think about his her own morals The poem could have been used almost as a guide for what and what not to do to get into Heaven for the medieval people Dante journeys through the afterlife to express what could happen if all under God dont lead a devout life and makes one think about where they will go when they die and where they would like to go when they die Through his epic poem Dante tries to change the spiritu
Death of Reason and Birth of Beast Order and chaos of human nature in isolation in Lord of the Flies by William Golding Order and chaos the two initiated and have kept balance the way of the world since the beginnings of civilization Mankind then established the basis of our culture based on that delicate equilibrium yet to the author William Golding the universe is a cosmic chaos that resist simplistic patterning Friedman 14 We strive to appreciate but also dominate we try to create justice bu
Precis The Poisonwood Bible is a 658 page novel written by American author Barbara Kingsolver in 1999 The novel sets a stage of a missionary father Nathan Price that brings his family to Africa during the 1960s Nathan is on a mission to spread Christianity and convert American customs to everyday African customs Kingsolver shows a parallel in how a family is able to be torn apart by conflict and customs to actual occurrences of this in real life Is the expense of an innocent life worth the beco
In the Divine Comedy Dante goes through many changes as he travels through Hell on through Purgatory and ending in Heaven As the story progresses and Dante goes through hell he changes from being sympathetic to the residents of hell to being less sympathetic and believing more that you get what you deserve Not only does Dante change throughout the story but the style in which the poem is written changes Just like Dante the writing becomes more refined as the story unravels Right off the bat in
Jacob Arminius once said A good conscience is paradise Paradise is not always somewhere where one is physically well it can also be a place where one is mentally well In Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut Tralfamadore and Dresden are two places of mental and physical utopia for the novels protagonist Billy Pilgrim Vonnegut describes Tralfamadore as a planet existing in the past present and future To exist in all times simultaneously is utopian To know what happened what is happening and what
Israfel Israfel is a mesmerizing poem the beginning of which was first set down by Poe during his days at West Point College Allen 233 The poem itself is a direct contrast to Poes usual poetry which usually deal with death and dark thoughts or other melancholy Gothic ideas Poes idea of the death of beautiful woman being the most poetical of all topics is here nowhere to be found This proves that Poe when so inclined could indeed write about something other than opium induced nightmares and para
ENDINGS IN RENAISSANCE TRAGEDY Among the various definitions of tragedy the one most commonly proffered is a play that treats at the most uncompromising level human suffering or pathos with death being the usual conclusion According to Aristotles Poetics the purpose of tragedy is to show how humans are at the mercy of fate and to cleanse the audience by provoking extreme emotions of pity and terror The tragic actions on the dramatic stage cause the audience to experience these extreme feelings