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William Shakespeares Hamlet is a play full of sorrow and excitement, its fullof gore and incest. The play has a large amount of betrayal and the personsupplying most of that is Claudius, the king and Hamlets uncle. Claudius iscold-hearted, full of hate, and a coward. He is the king but, the ironic thingabout that is…

            Tao Te Ching or Dao De Jing is a classical Chinese text written in 6th Century BC. It was written by the scholar known as Lao Tzu, record keeper of the Zhou dynasty. The text is a renowned source of inspiration and considered an influential text inside and outside of East Asia. The collection…

The Scarlet Letter: RevengeRevenge is the act of retaliating in order to get even with someone for the wrongs they have done. In the novel “The Scarlet Letter,” the author, Nathaniel Hawthorne, uses Roger Chillingworth to reap revenge on Arthur Dimmesdale for his affair with his wife, Hester Prynne. Chillingworth becomes so devoted to revenge…

    The story Holes appeals to children because it allows them to live out one of their worst fears, being imprisoned, without actually having to experience it themselves.  Children can relate to Stanley Yelnats because he was blamed for something he didn’t do (an important pair of shoes fell on his head) and sent to…

In the Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare, the map of Feste the clown appears inconsequential, but in actuality his function has immense significance in the overall educational development of the other characters. During the seasonal vacation revelry in which this drama takes topographic point, the buffoon is used as an independent perceiver that exploits the…

Winston Churchill’s speech ‘we shall fight them on the beaches’ is one of the defining speeches during the second world war. Power and authority is shown in several ways. Churchill’s speech is confident. He is trying to motivate the British people. Within the speech there are several persuasive techniques used making the speech powerful. Churchill…

The year of Pygmalion’s London premiere, marked tremendous changes in British society. Social roles in the Victorian era were viewed as natural and largely fixed: there was a fixed and accepted social order. In the aftermath of WW1 this fixed order was becoming more elastic. Shaw was first and foremost a playwright but he was…

A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings Garcia Márquez’s A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings takes into account the supernatural existence and human response to it through various thematic expressions. Magic realism manifested through two supernatural characters in the story shape the plot, setting and style of the story. Supernatural characterization not only moves…

Both the poems are based at periods of War, but the difference being is that ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ depicts the very physical suffering of the soldiers in the muddy, bloody trenches of the First World War, (The Great War), and is written for the purpose of educating those on the home front, who are…

The story of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is about a man who createdsomething that messes with nature, and nature came back to mess with himbecause nature is more powerful than man. Victor Frankenstein was very interested in natural philosophy andchemistry and basically tried to play G-d by creating life. When hefound the secret of activating…