The War Between Passion and Responsibility in Edith Whartons Ethan Frome One recurring theme in literature is the classic war between a passion and responsibility In Edith Whartons 1911 novel Ethan Frome set in 1881 Starkfield Massachusetts the protagonist Ethan Frome confronts the demands of a private passion with Mattie Silver that conflict with his responsibility to his wife Zeena Ethans anticipation of his night alone with Mattie his night in his study and his attempt to commit suicide reve
Lisa Haff Contemporary Literature Question 4 Passion is usually considered to be an exhilarating and desirable trait however when uncontrolled it can also lead to a dangerous and destructive path It can end up causing devastation and distress for oneself as well as others Salter and Coetzee captured the essence of passion through the characters in both novels Last Night and Disgrace Whether in the form of love hate lust or regret passion played a major role in these two works of literature Salt
In Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire he creates a philosophy of passion and death In the beginning of the play we are introduced to this philosophy The directions that Blanche was told to get to her sisters house reveals this She is told to take a streetcar named Desire which would be the passion and then take a streetcar named Cemeteries which would be the death Blanches fear of death is obvious in the play She has fears of aging and losing her beauty She refuses to tell anyone her t
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love The Passionate Shepherd to His Love is a poem written by the English poet Christopher Marlowe in the 1590s In addition to being one of the most well known love poems in the English language it is considered one of the earliest examples of the pastoral style of British poetry in the late Renaissance period It is composed in Iambic tetrameter four feet of unstressed stressed syllables with six stanzas each composed of two rhyming couplets It is often used for s
William Shakespeare intensifies the emotion of love and foolishness in the epic tale of four lovers and an enchanted forest in his classic Midsummer Night s Dream Early in this work we learn of two young maidens Hermia and Helena and their unfulfilled passions Hermia the daughter of a gentleman is cast into the burden of marrying a suitor Demetrius chosen by her father for which she does not love Instead she has fallen for Lysander To agitate further Helena is madly in love with Demetrius who t
The Lord of the Flies Savagery William Goldings novel The Lord of The flies presents us with a group of English boys who are isolated on a desert island left to try and retain a civilised society In this novel Golding manages to display the boys slow descent into savagery as democracy on the island diminishes At the opening of the novel Ralph and Jack get on extremely well We are informed Jack shared his burden and there was an invisible light of friendship between the two boys Jack changes con
Othello A Critical Review Othello A Critical Review Prof Niamat Ali Depatment of English Govt Islamia College Kasur Pakistan Shakespeare the crown of English literature can rightfully boast of his marvelous achievements as a dramatist His plays both comedies and tragedies have a sterling worth of their own The magnet of his plays pulls the iron dust of thoughts and the reader feels himself bound by silky ropes of interest and pleasure He maintains such an artistic balance in his writings as is
Themes are an essential part of any novel they can tell a lot about the book and set up the plot The Chosen by Chaim Potok has many themes some are hidden and some are very prominent and easy to pick out The themes that I found in the book are Choosing vs Being Chosen the Conflict Between the Religious and the Secular and Silence The first theme I will talk about is Choosing vs Being Chosen Danny and Reuven have a conversation on page 69 I have no choice Its an inherited position You mean you w