The Red Convertible A Brother in Arms Louise Endrichs short story The Red Convertible is about how even the bonds of family and friends may not be enough to subdue the trauma caused by war The story begins in 1974 as our narrator Lyman a Native American retells the story about his brother Henry and the red convertible they both owned After buying it impulsively both of the brothers spend the summer driving around the Dakotas Montana and taking a hitchhiker back to Alaska When they return home H
Arthur Millers The Crucible is an over the top and irrelevant piece of drama Discuss this comment with close reference to the play Arthur Millers The Crucible is a piece of drama that involves a dilemma affecting the town of Salem The drama can be in some cases viewed as over the top and irrelevant because of the language used the superficial characters and an outstanding increase in tension Arthur Miller highlights these themes by using a range of techniques like melodrama metaphors and differ
Awakening Essay Freedom In The Awakening by Kate Chopin Edna Pontellier is bound to a life of perfection and social status Her husband Leonce Pontellier controls her life and expects her to do everything he asks Leonces expectations arent unreasonable because in that era wives were suppose to make their husbands look good which meant tending to everything and doing whatever their husbands requested Edna has an awakening and realizes that the strict social life is not what she wants Being free a
Siddhartha By Herman Hesse Herman Hesses novel Siddhartha is about ones journey to search for spiritual enlightenment and the ability to be one with nature and spirit Almost anyone can relate or be influenced by this novel everyone is in search of life filled with self bliss to obtain happiness threw spiritual enlightenment and not threw materials Herman Hesse does a good job of showing Siddharthas journey using theme such as the search for spiritual enlightenment inner versus exterior guidance
Siddhartha and the Teaching River Herman Hesses Siddhartha a bildungsroman tells the story of the journey to enlightenment Siddhartha a Brahman that lives as a Samana becomes a rich man and then finds enlightenment as a ferryman The river which the ferryman Vaseduva teaches Siddhartha to hear leads him to enlightenment Siddhartha finds a teachers in the river and learns about how to love time that even in the darkest hours Om can lead to enlightenment and that the river knows all through Om The
In the novel of Siddhartha by Herman Hesse Siddhartha is called on to the heros journey to find enlightment The novel is about Siddhartha going to the shramanas the Buddha samsara and the river with the ferryman to find the enlightment and find within himself Like every heros journey he comes across trials and temptations Before Siddhartha began his journey he grew up with Brahmins and already had reached the OM which is perfection but within himself he does not feel that he has reached fully e
When I think of the sea I picture the cool breeze blowing on my face the peaceful sound of the waves or the sun setting in the background However when I read the newspaper a different picture of the sea has been painted There are reports on the Tsunami splashed across the front page or how a ship has capsized due to the furry of the sea In the poem Seascape by Stephen Spender we come face to face with this two faced nature of the sea Spender has described the two contrasting views of the ocean
Romeo and Juliet brought out many types of love throughout the play romeo and juliet by william shakespeare There was the cruel superficial love Romeo had for Rosaline the bawdy physical love Shakespeare expressed through Nurse and Mercutio the contractual love Paris has for Juliet the compassionate and paternal love Capulet had for Juliet and finally the emotional and physical love Romeo and Juliet shared In the opening scene of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare Romeo is lovesick He is i
Some writings are enhanced by myths and others are built upon them Pygmalion the play written by George Bernard Shaw is a prime example of a literary work that has been built upon a myth and in fact the play would not attain the literary merit it has if not for the myth Metamorphoses In the myth Pygmalion a sculptor falls in love with his scuplture In the play Henry Higgins a phonetics teacher falls in love with his pupil However Pygmalion marries his creation and Higgins does not Shaw uses thi
In Othello by the ever insightful Shakespeare the rise and fall of Othello is portrayed in fantastically painful clarity Initially he displays characteristics of integrity intelligence honesty faith and passion All of these traits are challenged almost forthwith His integrity is tattered when he does not even attempt to excuse his physical abuse of Desdemonda the valued intelligence is assaulted by Iagos managing to convince him of the increasingly far fetched his honesty to himself in that he