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Fitzgerald uses the similarities between the poor and the rich to enforce his opinion and his characterization of the upper class. The new rich represented by West Egg have newly accumulated wealth and lack any connections which they make up with lavish displays. They lack social grace and taste evidently seen in Gatsby flamboyant mansion…

What Ghosts Do Act one, Scene 1 Background As Horatio, Barnardo, and Marcellus confront and then discuss the ghost that has appeared to them, they demonstrate some superstitions and beliefs that they have about ghosts. Directions Reread the following lines and describe what assumptions the speakers are making about the ghost and ghosts in general….

In the spring of 1974, Second Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda of the Japanese army made world headlines when he emerged from the Philippine jungle after a thirty-year ordeal. Hunted in turn by American troops, the Philippine police, hostile islanders, and successive Japanese search parties, Onoda had skillfully outmaneuvered all his pursuers, convinced that World War II…

European world. In this novel the Europeans regarded themselves as civilized and cultured. On the other hand, Conrad embeds numerous dark intense images to describe this “enlightened” culture such as violent, death, brooding gloom, and more. While the Congo River represents the uncivilized native inhabitants that are described as “utter savagery’ (Conrad, 1990, p. 4),…

In William Faulkner’s, As I Lay Dying, Addie passed away and instructed her family to lay her to rest in Jefferson alongside her relatives. The family obediently transported her lifeless body by wagon, encountering numerous complex circumstances that pushed their boundaries of sanity. Out of all the siblings, Darl emerged as the most mentally stable….

It would seem the never ending hunt is indeed never ending.  Despite the recentflurry of Howard publishing, a number of Howard characters are either out-of-printor impossible to find in one or two books.  Some of these include Francis X. Gordon, Kirby O’Donnell, Steve Harrison, Dark Agnes and Wild Bill Clanton. For example, the Steve Harrison…

In the time ‘Dancing at Lughnasa’ was set Gerry and Chris’s relationship would have been extremely unorthodox and would have circulated a lot of town gossip. Having a child out of wedlock was extremely shocking and making the decision to then keep Michael even more so. In 1936 women had very few rights and with…

There are things we regret, Words we wish had gone unsaid, Beginnings that had bitter endings, Chances we threw away, Roads we should have never taken, Signs we didn’t see, Hearts we hurt needlessly, And wounds we wish could mend. The past can’t be rewritten, But it can make you stronger. Be thankful for every…

Romeo says he is falling in love with Juliet within minutes of meeting her after finding out that she was a Capsule. “With love’s light wings did I o’er-perch these walls; for stones limits cannot hold love out, and what love can do that dares love attempt” (2. 2. 66-67). Making impulsive decisions allows Romeo…

The Master Builder, by Henrik Ibsen, is a drama about individualism, morality, and ego. But beneath those really equivocal descriptions lies a drama with symbols that clearly picture the corporate unconscious. Through a careful psychoanalytical review of the text, the relationship between the symbolism and the psychological subjects can be discovered as they interact throughout…