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The Scarlet Letter – Symbolic charactersSymbolic characters are very important in most powerful novels. One classic that uses characters as symbols is The Scarlet Letter. This novel is about a woman in Puritan society, Hester, who commits adultery with her minister, Arthur Dimmesdale. She has a daughter, Pearl, and is forced to wear a scarlet…

The Crucible may be old but it can still relate to our society today. The themes of love, rejection, and guilt are a common theme between The Crucible and society today. My first theme is love. In The Crucible Elizabeth and John Proctor are married. Although John had an affair with Abigail Williams at the…

Edgar Allan Poe, who was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston, experienced an unstable childhood due to his orphanhood at the age of three. He was then sent to live with the Allans in Richmond, VA, where he remained until his marriage to his cousin Virginia Clemm at the age of thirteen. However, his…

The blinding sunshine, the delineation of pride and bravery, veins straining from the bulging muscles, dodging every obstruction, when men cower in fright, a figure of illustriousness and a leader of bravery strives to return home. In Homer’s heroic poem, The Odyssey, Odysseus, the central character of the epic, applies his strengths, leadership skills, and…

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, and Paradise Lost by John Milton both show how large the function was by adult females to lend to the ruin of adult male. Each of these writers portrays adult females s actions in different ways. Chaucer, in his female pilgrim’s journeies thought of adult females has holding an…

Out of all of Blake’s verse forms. the one I found most interesting is The Tyger. In the first stanza after seeing the tiger he asks him what sort of immortal being could perchance do something so evil/scary yet beautiful at the same clip. The whole verse form fundamentally consists of him continuously oppugning how…

About the Author Joseph Roth is a well-known novelist who had been able to similarly picture the mirrors of history through the characters of his story. Most often than not, the characterization of the major part takers of his narrative presentations of history and the different human values that govern the said eras. In his…

The theme of the double is a recurring motif in Frankenstein. Merriam-Webster defines a doppelganger as the ghostly counterpart or evil alter-ego of a living person. Mary Shelley employs this concept to describe and depict her characters in the novel. Victor’s dark side is embodied in the Creature he brings to life, serving as his…

Winesburg, Ohio, also known as the Book of Grotesque is a modern American classic by Sherwood Anderson. He came to be known as the “Father of Realism”, as he left his mark on literature, being the first one to portray authentic moments in American life. He tells the stories of many “faces” he saw in…

This event was caused by Romeos and Gullet’s respective families’ poor choice to engage in the battle. When the story started, the two families were already quarrelling. Then Mercuric and Benevolent further taunted and provoked the Caplet family by “biting their thumbs” at them. This caused the Capsules to become enraged and battle the Montages….