M ark Antony one of the three rulers of the Roman Empire spends his time in Egypt living a life of decadence and conducting an affair with the countrys beautiful queen Cleopatra When a message arrives informing him that his wife Fulvia is dead and that Pompey is raising an army to rebel against the triumvirate Antony decides to return to Rome In Antonys absence Octavius Caesar and Lepidus his fellow triumvirs worry about Pompeys increasing strength Caesar condemns Antony for neglecting his duti
A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND There are few superficial similarities between The Misfit and the Grandmother in Flannery OConnors short story A Good Man Is Hard to Find The true similarities between them are really beneath the surface and at once more profound These similarities however are fiercely debated among OConnors critics as most disagree with her that the Misfit is the good man in her parable McDermott J V 2010 It is only by considering that OConnor saw the world through a prism of Christi
58 000 American lives were lost in the muggy jungle hell of Vietnam Mere children thrown into the rage of war expected to be strong to be men to be able to deal with the death and destruction were humping their way through the shrapnel and land mines for a cause even they werent entirely sure of Tim OBrien writes of such horrors in his short story The Things They Carried Through the things the soldiers carried OBrien tells a riveting tale of horror destruction duty and a shred of hope in a very
The language used in the tragedy of King Lear encompass the development of plot and the definition of the characters in the play The literal and figurative meanings of the language reflect the inner workings of the characters and enhance the subtlety of the tragic tone that the playwright is trying to achieve At the beginning of the play language is inflated by Goneril and Regan who strive to outdo each other in flattering their father for the vain attempt of winning the love test devised by Le
Dishonor is demolishing ones pride and failure to fulfill ones duty is a form of dishonor Socrates who had a god given duty was chastised and eventually killed for his unintentional masterwork His alternatives to save himself could only bring dishonor to himself and humiliation to his followers Staying true to the identity one is given is above all because nothing is worth the dishonor and letting down the believers His legacy leads generations to come to stay true to their selves and trust in
A Hundred Years of Solitude Every society is known for having its group of activists or catalyst that change for the better However change cant happen until the problems have been identified and become visible to the public In Colombia the activist that speaks up and calls for change is Gabriel Garcia Marquez who successfully shows the Gothic contexts of the Civil War and the invasion of outside forces through motifs The motifs address the problems of the day in Colombia During the nineteenth c
The Canterbury Tales is a literary masterpiece in which the brilliant author Geoffrey Chaucer sought out to accomplish various goals Chaucer wrote his tales during the late 1300s This puts him right at the beginning of the decline of the Middle Ages Historically we know that a middle class was just starting to take shape at this time due to the emerging commerce industry Chaucer was able to see the importance and future success of the middle class and wrote his work with them in mind Knowing th
That my days have been a dream Yet if hope has flown away In a night or in a day In a vision or in none Is it therefore the less gone All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream A Dream within a Dream E A Poe 1849 The conscious mind gives us one way of making sense of our environment But the unconscious mind gives us other more supple ways 2011 David Brooks article on the Social Animal tells us that the cognitive revolution of the last thirty years has broadened our perspective in rel
Symbols and Motifs in William Faulkners A Rose for Emily In William Faulkners A Rose for Emily the setting and descriptions of physical surroundings serve to depict the passage and manipulation of time William Faulkner through the use of few literary devices plays with time and shows how his main characters such as Emily Gierson also wishes to play with time For Emily time is a subjective reality used to visit different moments in ones life She denies herself the ability to see time as linear o
The Da Vinci Code is a murder mystery set in modern times but its intrigue for many people has been its historical claims about Jesus and Mary Magdalene I wont summarize the entire plot here as it is familiar to nearly everyonethere are only six people in the English speaking world who have not read the bookand in any event there are numerous books written about it What Im interested in here is the portrayal specifically of Mary Magdalene which for many readers is the books most captivating fea