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‘The pursuit of individuality and distinctiveness ultimately leads to conformity and deep feelings of failure.’ Good Morning/Afternoon, and welcome to this literary seminar at Hunters Hill High. My name is Obi Williams and I have prepared a speech on the Human Condition, its relevance in Post WW2, and how it is presented through Post WW2…

“Oedipus the King” is a tragic play which discusses the tragic discovery of Oedipus that he has killed his father and married his mother. The story of Oedipus was well known to the athenians. Oedipus is the embodiement of the perfect Athenian. He is self-confident, intelligent, and strong willed. Ironically these are the very traits…

Confessional poetry, its significance and merits, has held a focal place in English literary criticism. It is a term primarily given to the self-disclosure mode of writing and “use of intimate subject matter adopted and pioneered in America by Robert Lowell” in the late 1950s. (Drabble, M. and Stringer, J. 2003) My thesis proposes to…

This is the story of the journey on foot of an elderly Black woman, Phoenix Jackson, from her home to the nearest town. She makes the journey to go to the doctor to get medicine for her sick grandson. On the trip, she runs into some trouble here and there, with her dress getting caught…

Paraphrased and Unified Text: The poem “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning is a dramatic monologue in which a duke shows a servant the portrait of his deceased first wife, the duchess. Through this form of speech, the speaker unintentionally exposes his own personality traits, such as self-centeredness, arrogance, control, chauvinism, and extreme jealousy. Despite…

In Flowers For Algernon a main theme that is conveyed in the story is abuse of the mentally ill. Throughout the story, Charlie gets mistreated several times mainly from his co-workers or what he soon finds out his fake friends. As we know, Charlie is a mentally ill person. He tries very hard to make…

Magical Realism Magical realism is a genre of film where magic elements are a natural part in a realistic environment. However, it is most commonly used as a literary genre, magic realism can also apply to visual arts and obviously films. This type of genre began in the Latin culture and now is known world…

In this essay I will explicate what Ralph Waldo Emerson and Miguel de Unamuno independently understand to be the nature and function of humanism. American philosopher, essayist and poet of the early Modern period, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote an essay titled “Self -Reliance” in 1841. In his essay, Emerson focuses on thinking for yourself as…

There’s a universal knowledge that through pain comes the strength to prevail. One must endure suffering to appreciate the joys and wisdoms of life. This same view is believed by the Greeks that one shall suffer to gain knowledge and wisdom. The trials the characters in the Iliad, Odyssey, and Oedipus, the King faced are…

The two books I read were The Last Lecture, by Randy Pausch and Tuesdays with Morrie, by Mitch Albom. They’re both about how a professor has cancer: but that’s pretty much the end of the similarities. The Last Lecture is from the professor’s point of view, while Tuesdays with Morrie, is from a students point…