Eudora Weltys short story A Worn Path is about Phoenix Jacksons trip to town to get medicine for her grandson The story is set in Natchez Mississippi during a time when money was scarce The theme of A Worn Path is overcoming physical challenges and discovering more about oneself along the way Welty reveals this theme through indirect characterization descriptive writing and symbolism The short story is about an elderly woman named Phoenix Jackson She has to travel into town one day to get medic
Doctor Faustus a play written by the well known writer Christopher Marlowe is written in a grandiose and tragic with occasional moments of low comedy under the idea of a few certain themes Sin Redemption and Damnation Power as a corrupting influence and the divided nature of man Contrasting to the tension created within the play with the issue of Faustus selling his soul to Lucifer and of the good and bad angel The effectiveness of characterisation within the play especially Doctor Faustus show
What thoughts come to mind when you think of The Lottery Positive thoughts including money a new home excitement and happiness are all associated with the lottery in most cases However this is not the case in Shirley Jacksons short story The Lottery Here the characters in the story are not gambling for money instead they are gambling for their life A shock that surprises the reader as she unveils this horrifying tradition in the village on this beautiful summer day This gamble for their life is
In the crumbling universe of Shakespeares King Lear a world in which evil and treachery is allowed to triumph for a moment too long and goodness falters under the dominion of the former a terrible irony is made resoundingly clear The ambiguity of the victory between the binary oppositions becomes one of the most unsettling themes of King Lear who truly triumphs Perhaps more importantly what become the cruelly conceived expenses of such a victory The prevailing question of cosmic justice pervade
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