Education and Ignorance in To Kill A Mocking Bird It seems that in todays society as well as in the past people who receive an education usually end up better off in life whether the persons success is with a career raising a family properly financially or even just being a good person in general In the book To Kill A Mocking Bird the author Harper Lee shares excellent examples of education and ignorance For example Atticus Finch a character from To Kill A Mocking Bird is a successful lawyer an
Effect of Death on Soldiers based on Erich Maria Remarque All Quiet on the Western Front Remarques All Quiet on the Western Front demonstrates the effects of war on soldiers The novel takes place during the last two years of World War I The three main events that cause World War I are the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the rise of nationalism and militarism Remarque tells the story of Paul Baumer and his school friends enlisting in the army through the influence of their schoolma
When it comes to delegating responsibility allocating power and demanding equality there always seems to be an underlying bias towards the masculinesector of society which allows an imbalance regarding gender equality Understanding where this way of thinking comes from is an essential part of trying to shift and completely erase the bias Throughout history a patriarchal pattern and way of thinking has been passed down from generation to generation what we fail to see is the reason for this patt
Elements of Romantic Comedies Romantic comedies have grown from everyday comedies to include very specific elements that distinguish them from the normal One of the main elements of romantic comedies is that the idea of love and its shift from the thought that women should love their husbands more than men love their wives as well as the belief that sex is something that the man should obtain whenever he asks for it because men are the bread winners of the home Instead romantic comedies are bas
An Analysis of the Loathsome Emma Bovary In Gustave Flauberts Madame Bovary the character of Emma Bovary is in a constant internal struggle between what most would consider a normal life and her overly romantic fantasies Emma is an amoral housewife in the sense that she pursues extra marital affairs out of boredom without ever taking into consideration the feelings of anyone around her Throughout her life Emma has developed slowly through a series of increasingly immoral actions from the school
Epiphany and Revival in The Dead James Joyce was born in Dublin he was the most prominent writer of English prose in the first half of the twentieth century Many critics maintain that his verbal facility equaled that of William Shakespeare or John Milton and his experiments in prose as a virtuoso redefined the limits of language and the form of the modern novel The Dead the final story of Joyces collection Dubliners is considered one of the most beautifully executed stories in the English langu
Works of literature are often examined thematically through characters settings and events This method of analysis enables the reader to obtain intimacy with novels or plays thus extracting their very essence The themes of survival and religion manifest themselves in Life of Pi by Yann Martel The first theme is survival Throughout the novel Piscine Molitor Patel who is referred to as Pi goes through many trials and extremities that demonstrate to the reader the shaping of his character hand in
Octavia Butlers Kindred tells a story of how a modern day black woman Dana is transported from California to the antebellum South to protect a man that would become her ancestor Her survival essentially relies on her ability to keep him alive She is summoned to a plantation in Maryland that her ancestor Rufus Weylin lives on Every time Rufus faces danger Dana would be called upon to protect him so that he can father the child that will become her ancestor Each time Dana goes back to the past sh
The novel Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton tells the story of Ethan Frome a man trapped in the small village of Starkfield Ethan desperately wishes to escape the dreary town and his equally dreary wife Zeena He has always wanted to be an engineer and to live in towns where there were lectures and big libraries and fellows doing things However Ethans attempts to escape his damnation and achieve happiness are only met with misfortune This conveys the theme that individuals are bound by powers that we
In Euripides Medea readers see Medea the allegedly monstrous wife of Jason hero of the Greek people Many critics have since held up Euripides play as further proof of Medeas monstrosity in her infanticide labeling her a Monstrous Mother However throughout Medeas interactions with other characters her mistreatment by her husband Jason and her interactions with her children the reader sees Medea in a new light she is no longer monstrous In fact the ideas of mythic and monstrous mothers no longer