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The rain on a cold night is not a pleasant memory for most people. In A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway used the weather not only for its dramatic effect, but also to convey meaning in the book. Rain is symbolic of the harsh reality and despair experienced by the characters, bringing them back to reality…

The short story A&P by John Updike, takes place in 1961, at a grocery store called “A&P”. Sammy, the narrator, is a cashier at A&P. One particular day, three girls came in they looked like they were fresh from the beach still in their bathing suits and did not have any shoes on, this was…

As a final farewell to theatre, William Shakespeare wrote The Tempest. In this tragicomedy, Prospero and his daughter, Miranda, have been stuck on an island for twelve years with their slave, Caliban, and Prospero’s secret servant, Ariel. To get revenge on his brother, Antonio, for overthrowing him from rule, Prospero concocts a tempest to bring…

In many productions of Twelfth Night, Act II, scene 5 represents a high point of the drama, even though it deals with what is really a sub-plot instead of the chief narrative. Malvolio enters, to fall prey to the traps set for him by Maria, Sir Toby Belch, and Fabian. From his “‘Tis but luck….

Both The Pianist and Maus offer different niceties about the functions of the Germans and the Jews in the Holocaust. Some may see merely the Nazis as the slayers in the Holocaust and non see other fortunes. The Pianist and Maus offer different cases to demo that confederates. bystanders and saviors provide a grey country…

    Life Expectancy opens, appropriately, with the birth of Jimmy Tock. In another room of the same hospital, just before, his grandfather is dying, but not before making dire predictions about Jimmy. Having just had a stroke days earlier, it’s a wonder he can say a single word, much less predict the time of Jimmy’s…

“I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel… ” Mary Shelley, Frankenstein Mankind differs from other species by being intelligent. Intelligence and creativity allows humans to survive despite their relatively inferior physical attributes. Besides these benefits, being intelligent has also inspired fear. Humanity has always been afraid of being the…

Macbeth was not a victim of the Witch’s misleading prophecies and he is guilty of committing murder not because of Lady Macbeth’s manipulation but rather his ambitions to be king and have power. The struggle Macbeth underwent was his desires to get to the throne of Scotland and know right from his rights and wrongs….

The play, MacBeth, is enriched with many characters; each categorized in different stages of Kollberg’s theory. Kollberg’s theory was about characters and their moral development through out the story. There were only seven stages in his theory, 0-6, zero meaning no morals, and six is being like Jesus. It is a short play without a…

Question Number One             In his introductory essay on Homer’s The Odyssey, Bernard Knox states that the term ‘odyssey’ refers to “a series of adventurous journeys usually marked by many changes of fortune” (3).Knox claims that this definition of the term was derived from the Greek word ‘odusseia’ which may be literally understood as “the…