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My favorite British writer and his famous book ‘Treasure Island’ My favorite famous British writer is Robert Louis Stevenson. Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1850. Robert went to Edinburgh University to study law. Later on he decided that he wanted to be a writer, not a lawyer. In his early 20s…

creatureThe Beatles composed and sang many beautiful and timeless songs during their musical career. One song, however, captures the essence of Victor Frankenstein’s creation. Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein in 1818. The Beatles wrote a song off their The White Album entitled Blackbird in 1968. Generations apart from each other, these two artistic masterpieces are more…

How realistically and credibly does Stowe present slavery? Stowe presents slavery in the only way she knows how, by using the facts. Several sources of other works in American literature contrast on to how Stowe presents slavery in her novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” The elements of slavery are driven through the reflections of theme, characterization,…

In the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, the Youngers, an African-American family struggling financially in Chicago’s south side, are central. Each family member has their own dreams and aspirations; some dreams are so intense they threaten to overflow, while others remain suppressed. Regardless, every family member holds onto a dream. Walter,…

“Red Dress” is a short story written by Alice Munro, which revolves around a young girl’s initial high school dance experience. The dance was heavily influenced by the narrator’s home and school environment. In her unfortunate home life, she endured constant mental abuse from her mother, even in front of her friend Lonnie. This led…

Revenge, it was a common theme among the plays, and works of literature published during Shakespeare’s time. It is only natural that it would be a topic that the writer himself would touch on. While not his most well-known play dealing with revenge the Tragedy of Titus Andronicus was likely Shakespeare’s earliest delve into the…

On a cold day in April of 1984, a man named Winston Smith returns to his home, a dilapidated apartment building called Victory Mansions. Thin, frail, and thirty-nine years old, it is painful for him to trudge up the stairs because he has a varicose ulcer above his right ankle. The elevator is always out…

Elie Wiesel’s Night and Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz are both memoirs of the authors’ experiences in Nazi concentration camps, but they depict vastly different experiences and have different approaches. Where Wiesel’s is more humanistic, showing how his protagonist finds the spirit to survive, Levi’s account is more scientific, showing an almost Darwinistic milieu where…

The constituents of drama are recognized as the visual expression of feelings, the depiction of connections, and the illustration of various stages of human existence. Drama delineates diverse identities and showcases a vast range of emotions through its characters. Aristotle, a philosopher who wrote on various subjects such as poetry, theater, music, rhetoric, biology, physics,…

Despite the audience’s prior knowledge of the murder and Walter Neff’s involvement in it, director Billy Wilder effectively maintains a high level of tension throughout Double Indemnity. This film noir lacks no element of tension, as Wilder skillfully keeps it thick like syrup from beginning to end. In the opening scene, Neff confesses that he…