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ry and its Consequences Crucible EssaysThe Crucible – John Proctor’s Adultery and its Consequences A topic of The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, is how John Proctor’s adultery eventually makes him a better husband. Adultery is voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and a partner other than the lawful spouse. First, John Proctor willingly commits…

Life of Pi Essay; Significance of the Flying Fish In Yann Martel’s compelling novel Life of Pi, the main character of the story, Pi Patel, undergoes intense hardships as he lives a castaway’s life on the Pacific Ocean, after losing his entire family and everything he held close to him when the cargo ship, the…

“With respect to language, the significance of metaphor is probably the single most analyzed aspect of Bradbury’s fiction” (Conner, 2004).  Ray Bradbury’s use of metaphor in Fahrenheit 451 is understood to be the battle of communism the world faced in the early 1950’s.  During this era the communist parties favored censorship to repress intellectual interpretation. …

Although the importance of family is an obvious theme, Handlebars intensifies the fact that those who are in severe poverty have to make hard decisions in order to survive. Rut’s decision to abort her pregnancy due to the fact that there is not adequate space or financial means for the new baby is the greatest…

Ayvazo and Ward make the very astute observation that traditional whole-group teaching styles rely on the abilities of one teacher to differentiate between the various learning styles of some 20-30 students at one time (2005).  It is because of these inevitable differences between students who are in one class together that the idea of classwide…

The theme in William Blake’s “A Poison Tree” is exceedingly interesting. From the very beginning the voice of the poem is under question. Whether it is from the Masculine or feminine point of view, even though he uses “he”, it could still be interpreted either way. Since Blake did use “he” it should be taken…

Henrik Ibsen portrays a microcosm of 19th-century Norse society in his drama “Hedda Gabler.” Hedda, the protagonist, exhibits a mixture of masculine and feminine traits due to her upbringing under General Gabler and the societal mores imposed upon her. However, although this society venerates General Gabler because of his military position, his daughter Hedda is…

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair was published almost century ago and it showed the Americans the problems that existed in the early nineteenth century, the industrialization timeline. Sinclair’s target was the workers who were mistreated in various workplaces, such as the meat packing companies in Chicago, so that they may be treated fairly. Sinclair wanted…

            Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Chronicle of a death foretold is a unique novel. Its uniqueness is its narrative and in the way it successfully unites all the elements of storytelling in a powerful inextricable web to recount how justice is rightly dispensed, in a story where the murder of the protagonist is known beforehand by…

“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.” – Jean de la Fontaine. This quote highlights how Oedipus, Jocasta, and Laius in Sophocles’ play Oedipus the King resisted a predetermined path outlined by the gods and oracles. Regrettably, their rebellion against fate resulted in tragic outcomes. Despite knowing that…