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Okonkwo, the protagonist of Chinua Achebe’s novel, Things Fall Apart, is one of the greatest examples of a tragic hero. A tragic hero, in literature, is a character who makes a judgement error or has a fatal flaw that, when combined with fate and external forces, leads to their suffering and defeat. A tragic hero…

The Catcher in the Rye, a novel written by J. D. Salinger is a story about a unique yet troubled boy named Holden Caulfield. Salinger masterfully depicts the story’s protagonist as a well rounded character who feels the full range of emotions. Holden is consumed by the desire to live in a world where he…

Written by Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour is a short story that unveils the reaction of a woman, Mrs.Mallard, in response to receiving the news of her husband, Mr.Mallard’s death all within the span of an hour. Taking place in the late nineteenth century in the period of time where women had little…

Introduction Classical scholars generally believed that Athens at the turn of the 5th century achieved one of the greatest zeniths of Western culture. But, on the other hand, the status of women was at its very low. Women were considered, as legal minors and their participation in political activities and intellectual life, especially in arts…

In the seventeeth century, women were not permitted to embrace in the power of knowledge. John Milton portrays the only female character in his epic poem, Paradise Lost, as a subservient creature caught in a seemingly misogynistic society. Milton states Eve’s location in the great chain of authority of his time quite clearly with her…

            Along with the other main characters in the play, King Claudius’ character is one of the significant establishments of Hamlet’s personality. King Claudius was Hamlet’s uncle; the brother of Hamlet’s father. Through King Claudius, Hamlet’s thoughts and anger were built. Though Hamlet did not showed the true meaning of anger and vengeance in the…

“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. ” This quote by Alexander Pope sums up Shakespeare’s view of love in Romeo and Juliet. In the play, two young teenagers meet, fall in love, and decide to get married – all in one night. Of course, this rash decision ends in disaster. Throughout the course…

The purpose of this unit is to heighten our knowledge of the restrictive nature of gender stereotypes, with a main focus n masculinity, so that we are able to recognizes and evaluate gender stereotypes when they are presented to us in texts such as ‘Touch Me’ by James Maloney, and the teen pick ‘She’s the…

Dyslexia is a specific learning difficulty which is indicative of people having difficulties in learning to read and write (Wood and Richardson, 2002). This is a complex condition which may manifest itself in different and varying degrees in each individual case although a number of core difficulties have been identified which may indicate a person…

” Aloud Quinoa’s Silent Study on the English and Persuasions on his Road to Abolish Slavery and Finding the Hidden Comparative Details between the New York Artisans and Gustavo Vass” When Quinoa’s autobiographical text was first published in England, 1 789, it was a big hit, as would say. It was mostly considered as “to…