The two main themes in Of Mice and Men are loneliness and dreams The themes interlock People who are lonely have the most need of dreams to help them through George is not lonely during the novel as he has Lennie Later in the book he becomes lonely without his best friend Lennie is the only character who is innocent enough not to fear loneliness but he is angry when Crooks suggests George wont come back to him George and Lennie share a dream to own little patch of land and live on it in freedom
In the play Macbeth William Shakespeare is able to make the audience sympathise with the main character even though he committed terrible deeds In the play a brave warrior is tempted by his wife and the witches to kill the reigning King After committing murder he takes place as King which makes him feel guilty As the play goes on he realises his mistakes but ignores them He ends up killing many innocent people and comes across as an evil butcher but is eventually slain by Macduff Throughout the
In this essay I am going to look at the stage and language effects Shakespeare used in Act 2 Scene 2 of Macbeth This scene is the most brutal of the play and is where Macbeth murders King Duncan In the previous scene the murder has been planned but Macbeth has been overwrought with feelings of guilt and thoughts of witchcraft Shakespeare has used great skill to create tension in his seventeenth century audience and now in scene 2 he uses these effects to capture their attention Will Macbeth hav
In Shakespeares play Macbeth one could argue that Macbeth was not solely to blame for his moral and political actions there was plenty of other people helping him and wanting to see him fail Macbeth all in all was a weak character despite his noble and honorable reputation Weakness would let him down in the end the weakness that allowed him to be seduced by the witches the same weakness that aloud his determined and power hungry wife to take hold of him It was ultimately this weakness that resu
Lord of the Flies by William Golding is an intense and gripping novel which follows the life of a group of English schoolboys who were evacuated during World War Two and their plane crashed on a desert island As many writers at this time were exploring the effects of such atrocities as the Holocaust the novel would seem to be Goldings attempt to discuss his theory that man is fundamentally evil and that it is only society that civilises him By placing a group of schoolboys in such a context Gol
Lord of the Flies Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man Henry B Throughout the novel Lord of the Flies there is a dramatic transformation from order to chaos Chaos extreme disorder Chaos Chaos easily can be turned into violence You should have seen the blood Golding 70 William Golding establishes a theme of order versus chaos in the classic novel Lord of the Flies through symbols such as objects and the actions of characters William Golding establishes his strong theme of order
If we were to chose between mercy and justice what would this due to our society In William Shakespeares play King Lear it shows many examples of deceiving people who deserve to be punished for their actions whether it is through justice or mercy If there is no real punishment such as justice for people who commit crimes the world will be full of criminals and dangerous people By just forgiving people for their actions it will never help out society or keep it safe By having justice in our soci
Harlem The poem I am writing about is called Harlem written by Langston Hughes This poem is very short however it tells a whole lot The poem was written in 1951 but dates back to the early 1900s At that time there was the Great Depression poverty among blacks and racism One would think this poem is about the city Harlem located in New York However it is about putting dreams on hold Putting their dreams off for a later time or maybe never The poem is asking one of many questions What happens to
Great wits are sure to madness near allied thin partitions do their bounds divide Although John Drydens words were not spoken in regard to William Shakespeares Hamlet these words closely relate to the argument of Hamlets questionable state of mind and whether or not he surrendered to insanity When a character such as Hamlet is under scrutiny it can be difficult to determine his mental state in particular moments in the play Nevertheless Hamlet merely feigns his insanity so that he can calculate
Hamlet appears to be insane after Poloniuss death in act IV scene II There are indications though that persuade me to think other wise Certainly Hamlet has plenty of reasons to be insane at this point His day has been hectic he finally determined Claudius had killed his father the chance to kill Claudius confronted him he comes very close to convincing Gertrude that Claudius killed his father he accidentally kills Polonius and finally the ghost of his father visits him These situations are enou