Kurtz is the known as the first class agent of the company and he is basically the best of the best in the business Kurtz is the number one agent because he collected the most ivory among all other agents Kurtz outstanding reputation travels fast and Marlow first hears about Kurtz when he embarked on his journey to look for this man The chief accountant has mentioned to him that he would someday meet this remarkable man Kurtz legend and reputation has somewhat start to alter or become less extr
Sarah Orne Jewett described an image when Sylvia and the cow followed the shady wood road lively Sarah used a string of verbs and adjectives such as let bare feet cool in shoal water twilight moths struck softly heart beats fast with pleasure birds and beasts say goodnight to each other in sleepy twitters soft and sweet air and escape from the shadow of the trees This string of verbs and adjectives takes readers into that gray shadow of shady wood road and moving leaves By reading this paragrap
The title of F Scott Fitzgeralds novel The Great Gatsby can be seen as incredibly ironic not only can the greatness of the eponymous character be vehemently contested he is not even named Gatsby In fact he is a criminal James Gatz who although he appears to be an epitome of the idealistic American Dream having grown from an impoverished childhood into a life of excess and splendour he has obtained everything through crime and corruption Indeed it has been said that The Great Gatsby is a parable
CHAPTER I INDRODUCTION ALDOUS HUXLEY AND THE MODERN NOVEL It is rightly said Aldous Huxleys writings express the disillusionment of the 1920s the cynicism of the 1930s and the questioning of the 1940s 45 Paul W P S Huxley was the product of the times and his novel and essays are the expression of his beliefs and concerns Huxley was twenty when the First World War began in 1914 His book of stories Limbo was published in 1920 and his last novel Island in 1962 His work covers forty there years whi
In the early American novel The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne expresses his transcendentalist view of sin and identity in a rigid Puritan society Transcendentalism emphasizes natural law and the individuals ability to determine what just Directly contrasting this view Calvinism is based on stagnate laws with severe consequences The protagonist Hester faces such consequence when she is prosecuted as an adulteress When first introducing Hester in chapter two Hawthorne vividly describes her l
Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson is an example of dramatic monologue which consists of the speech of the protagonist influenced by a critical situation directed toward a silent audience The narrator is the man in the title an Ancient Greek hero talking about his loathing of his regal position and his wish to travel again before his impending death In this poem Tennyson presents him as an old sailor a warrior and a king who is in retrospection on his experiences of a lifetime of travel Ulysses ol
Thoreau believes that society needs to forgo all of the cumbersome details of life and live in a much simpler life He believes we humans must be independent and self reliant and not adhere to public opinion and tradition and we also must attempt to understand or at least acknowledge the beauty and simplicity of nature Thoreaus beliefs have a greater relevance in the modern day than even in his own time yet in modern day society most of the public scoffs at his suggestions Thoreau asserts that h
Commentary on A Critical Study by Christopher Bigsby for Arthur Millers All My Sons All My Sons is a play in part about individuals responsibility for this own actions and in part about the obligations he has to society Though the play was seen as a study of a war profiteer it is equally the death of the ideal the failure of society as it is constituted of offer the meaning which the individual seeks In All My Sons though some of the characters think they have stopped the clock the play opens a
Irony Ironic Ironical Ironically Some famose writers are dealing with the ironic or unusual events in their stories because people want to figure the irony out by themselves and what it means It attracts peoples all minds and thoughts Moreover if you search for the famous quotes you can easily find out that most of the quotes are the ironic quotes This proves why the writers of The Black Cat and The Tell Tale Heart both put the fantastic and unusual situations in both of their stories In additi
The two poems that I be comparing and contrasting in this essay are Disabled and Mental Cases both by Wilfred Owen They are both poems that are about the after effects of the horrors caused by the First World War In Disabled Owen puts across the thoughts of a young man who has lost his limbs and been confined to a wheelchair after suffering injuries in the war Mental Cases on the other hand describes soldiers who had developed post traumatic stress after the war Owen used his own experiences to