Chinua Achebes Arrow of God is set in the 1920s before secularism became dominant It begins with the image of a mask when he tells his son not to carve the mask of a god for the white man The mask is a symbol of change The whole world is changing and the people who do not change will not survive The old priest Ezeulu desires change but he cannot do it He cannot force himself to leave the old ways behind and adopt the new ways Thus he sends one of his sons to learn from the white man He cannot d
In Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne Goodman Brown enters the woods young and innocent However the fact that he is making most haste on his evil purpose proves he has entered the forest of his own free will because of his curiosity about evil Accordingly this joinery that he sets out on so quickly portrays his naiveness and innocent perspective on the world that he thought he knew Therefore he makes an active choice by choosing to embark on this journey on his own free will to understa
Young Goodman Brown In the short story Young Goodman Brown the author Nathaniel Hawthorn used many literary techniques such as allusions imagery foreshadowing and antithesis But Young Goodman Brown is known for its evident symbolism throughout the story Hawthorn recreates the world renowned of innocence temptation guilt and sin The story we all know not as Young Goodman Brown but the story of Adam and Eve The author begins his prose with the symbol of the time of day sunset which represents an
In the novel Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys presents parallelism with the motif of fire The first occurred in part one when Antoinette was younger where she suffered from a weak identity because her mother closed her off and left her to emotionally deal with life alone The second fire occurred in part three where Antoinette finally came to terms with her purpose and knew what she had to do to set her free Both these fires have significant effects on the future and set Antoinette free on both occas
To the Lighthouse By Virginia Woolf To The Lighthouse is a so called stream of consciousness novel one of the particularities of this modern genre is that they have no real plot Plot always refers to action it indicates the special arrangement of its elements In the stream of consciousness novels however there very rarely is any action at all the few things that happen in the world around the characters are mostly only devices to influence the mental processes of the characters Written in a ful
The Yellow Wallpaper Analysis If walls could speak what would they say This is a question that several people have pondered and perhaps even feared The reason to this is quite simple every wall has a secret The walls of a cheap motel will testify to the affairs of a cheating spouse The walls of a neighbor would testify of domestic violence or perhaps even child abuse For years walls have been like tombstones holding within them ageing secrets that will never be told Some have painted them over
The Taming of the Shrew is a play that takes place in the renaissance era it happens to be a play inside of a play that starts out with a character Christopher Sly then goes into a play which Christopher watches but the book breaks into Throughout the entire book there is disguises in many shapes and forms Starting in the introduction Shakespeare shows the readers how important disguises and deceitfulness is in the book The disguises are important to the story because it shows how it unfolds Th
A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE NOVEL The Return of the Native looks at first like a typical nineteenth century novel long with several plots and set in a wide landscape But this tale is really very compact The major action takes place in a years time All of the characters live in the Egdon area and the outside world does not intrude we do not hear for example about the national problems of England All of the major characters are bound together in a dense knot of relationships The structure of this
The effects that contribute to the plot of the Pit and the Pendulum are the characters tone and setting First off characters effect the plot of the story because without characters the story would not make sense The characters help shape the story Tone in the story effect the outcome of what the reader thinks about The tone effects the mood for the reader in a sense The setting of the story takes place inside a pit or prison cell At this time it was the sixteenth century and the Spanish Inquisi
The Nymphs Reply to the Shepherd The poem The Nymphs Reply to the Shepherd is a look into the mind of a realistic or some may even say pessimistic person It was written as a response to the more idealistic poem The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe The Passionate Shepherd is the story of a man trying to convince the lady he loves to spend the rest of her life with him He describes the happiness that will surround them and the beauty they will live with the rest of their liv