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Question: In Othello, it is the representation of intense human relationships that captivates audiences. Evaluate the significance of at least one intense relationship in the play. Othello is a Shakespearean tragedy written by William Shakespeare in the early seventeenth century. The play aims to contrast, through setting, staging, and language, the social order imposed by…

Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION Background of the Study Nowadays, almost everyone connects through social networking sites. I¶ve heard people tell an acquaintance, ? Yeah, I think I¶ve seen you in (insert site here)!?. Surprisingly, that gets the conversation going especially if you share the same interests as your New Found Friend (Villaraza, 2007). Nowadays, online networking…

“Holden remains at the end what he was at the beginning: cynical, defiant, and blind. ” Do you agree? The Catcher in the Rye is a novel written in the 1950’s by J. D. Salinger. Sixteen-year-old Holden Caulfield, the novel’s narrator and protagonist, addresses the reader directly from a hospital in southern California, recounting the events…

“The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave,” is Frederick Douglass’ first autobiography that explores the concept of slavery and the significance of freedom in pre-Civil War America. According to The Free Dictionary (freedictionary.com), slavery refers to a state where one person has absolute control over another individual’s life, liberty, and wealth….

Jack Merridew is a symbol for savagery. From the very beginning, he seems to harbor emotions of anger and savagery. At first, he is the leader of his choir group, who become hunters as the book progresses. Finally, his savage personality and ability to tell people what they want to hear, allows him to overtake…

Macbeth is a really exciting narrative incorporating all sorts of secret plans and slayings. The characters that are killing and are be aftering slayings are all really deceiving and unreliable. Two of the most unsafe felons in this drama are Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Together they perpetrate the most awful slaying by killing the King;…

When it comes to defining blindness, there are various interpretations. It can refer to the absence of sight or entail a more intricate understanding. In his book, Blindness, Jose Saramago demonstrates and depicts the sudden deprivation of one’s visual capacity. In this novel, blindness symbolizes perceiving the truth beyond our own biased opinions. Saramago’s novel…

The epic poem Beowulf is a much beloved classical story about a hero and a monster. Hero meets monster, monster is destroyed and then hero goes on to defeat yet another monster. Finally hero dies a heroic death and he is buried, but never forgotten because his faithful followers always remember him and continue to…

Most well-known voices in African-American literature tackle themes related to the plight of their people. This includes their uprooting from their original African homes, decades of slavery in adopted lands, and continuous struggle for acceptance and equality in society. The works of three writers – Gwendolyn Brooks, Zora Neale Hurston, and Maya Angelou – echo…

Born May 17, 1939, Gary Paulsen is one of America’s most popular writers for young people. Although he was never a dedicated student, Paulsen developed a passion for reading at an early age. After a librarian gave him a book to read, along with his own library card he was hooked. He began spending hours…