A coward is one who lacks courage in facing danger difficulty opposition or pain In the piece Shooting an Elephant the author George Orwell outlines the contrast involved with imperialism The narrator and protagonist is a British police officer situated in India that helps maintain British imperialism over the Burmese people Although he is completely against imperialism he continues to participate in it Faced with the task of taming an elephant the officer is forced to deal with the reality of
Explore the ways a central character is affected by external influences in the texts you have studied In both texts I have studied Macbeth and A Christmas Carol both central characters are affected by a number of external influences which in turn leads them into drastic characteristic changes What is meant by this is that the plot and story of each texts would not have unravelled if it wasnt for these significant and controlling influences which caused and put pressure and emotion on these Char
The extract from Great Expectations is a scene where the character Pip is giving his perspective of the other character Jaggers who is a lawyer and his office and Pip very much sees Jaggers room as synonymous to Jaggers character The atmosphere of the room is best described by the repeated descriptive adjective Dismal Dickens writes from Pips perspective through 1st person His impression of Jaggers room is not a positive one and as Pip searches through the room it develops and this little world
F R Leavis claimed that a habit of self approving self dramatization is an essential element in Othellos make up Do you agree with this description of Othellos character Many critics have disagreed over whether Othello ever actually experiences a catharsis and acknowledges his own culpability This debate dates back to T S Eliots view of Othello as only cheering himself up and not thinking about Desdemona only himself and although Eliots argument is focused on Othellos final soliloquy Leavis ech
Faced with a Choice In Ernest Hemingways story Hills Like White Elephants Jig is faced with a difficult decision of having an abortion or not In 1927 the right to have an abortion was still a very touchy subject even though women were finally beginning to have rights Abortions did happen though Back alley abortions were common they were abortions done in run down clinics by people that werent even licensed Dr s some women even took it upon themselves to give themselves an abortion like with a c
Lazarus of Bethany is the subject of a miracle recounted in the Bible where Jesus restores Lazarus to life after four days of being dead Plath sees herself as the female Lazarus who has been raised from the dead three times and thus a miracle Like the sense of miracle Plath sees her deaths like Lazaruss for they dont fall into the category of usual deaths Sylvia Plath completed her masterpiece Lady Lazarus in the days before her suicide in 1963 while in a condition of disturbance suffering and
Science fiction is a very popular theme in todays society Many see science fiction in books movies and TV shows However few know that this genre has its own motifs repeated ideas in a story Science fiction motifs include freedom of the mind unnatural creation and utopia dystopia Ray Bradbury is a great science fiction writer who utilizes all three of these science fiction motifs In his novel Fahrenheit 451 Bradbury uses symbolism to prove the idea that a utopia is impossible to create Books are
In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 1953 members of society focus only on entertainment immediate gratification and speeding trough life If books are found they are burned and their owner is arrested If the owner refuses to abandon the books he or she often dies burning along with them People with interested outside of technology and entertainment are viewed as strange as possible threats The authors three warnings to contemporary society are technology mass entertainment replaces literacy and fa
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury teaches that the voice of a people cannot be quieted or controlled There will always be those that will stand up to authority even in the face of grave danger Bradburys use of fire throughout the novel symbolizes the protagonists Montag journey of enlightenment from its ability to take as much as it can be used to give In the beginning of the novel Montag sees the world like everyone at that time Fire was meant to strike fear in the hearts of people but yet Montag
Fahrenheit 451 takes place in an unspecified future time in a hedonistic and rabidly anti intellectual America that has completely abandoned self control and bans the reading of books Anyone caught owning them is at the minimum confined in a mental hospital and has the books confiscated and burned At the maximum the penalty is a sentence to immediate death People are now only entertained by in ear radio and an interactive form of television The protagonist Guy Montag is a fireman certain that h