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Although most of Edgar Allen Poe’s most famous works of short fiction are renowned for their unity of expression and the obvious craftsmanship of their respective narratives, Poe’s story “The Black Cat,” remains one of the most troubling and technically complex of his short stories.  Key to the story is the murder of the narrator’s…

“The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” by Ursula K. Le Guin is a tale that depicts a part of our reality. It is a story about a Utopian society called Omelas wherein happiness of the entire society is made possible by the sacrifice of one child for the sake of the group. It is…

Social Issue, Symbols, and Themes of Blake’s “The Chimney Sweeper” Poems During the seventeenth century, people in England substituted burning wood with coal to use their fireplaces to avoiding paying hearth taxes. The burning of coal left soot on the interior walls of the fireplaces that needed to be removed to keep the fireplaces clean….

T. S. Eliot wrote The Waste Land in 1921, as a response to the devastation he saw in society in the wake of World War 1. Critics at the time were divided: some believed it to be deliberately obtuse and unreadable, others “canonized the poem as the exemplar of a kind of high modernism that…

Benjamin Banneker wrote this letter to attempt to make the Secretary of State, Thomas Jefferson, aware of the oppressive and horrifying nature of the slave trade that Banneker’s ancestors had been in for generations. Banneker uses tone, ethos, logos, pathos, syntax, juxtaposition, and scheme to sympathize with Jefferson about former hardships to perhaps reach common…

The poem ‘Colour Bar’, by Oodgeroo Noonuccal, explores her downright disgust towards racial prejudice. As a former Aboriginal rights activist, she evidently displays her hatred and dislike towards racism and prejudice through her descriptive poem. The use of poetic techniques assists in conveying her message. Visual imagery and metaphorical language conveys Oodegeroo’s judgment that racial…

 The Spike was about George Rowel’s life while living in London. At this time Orwell was living in London in spikes, which are shelters. Times were hard, Orwell had no money, and he lived in a variety of shelters. You could only stay at spikes one night at a time. If you went to two…

In A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen focuses on the importance of women’s roles and freedom in society. Widely regarded as a feminist paean, the play features two major female characters; the most prominent of whom, Nora Helmer, shatters her position as a subservient, doll-like female when she walks out on her husband and children with…

The theme of Alice Munro’s story “How I met my Husband” is Social expectations mold individual circumstances. Edie, a fifteen year old housemaid in the lower class of society has qualities and talents that demonstrate a skill set of aristocracy. “Have a house without pie, be ashamed until you die” is a quoted statement that…

William Shakespeare frequently utilizes imagery in his plays during the 16th century. This is a common practice that authors adopt to evoke emotions from their readers or audience. Being a proficient writer, Shakespeare heavily incorporates imagery in the majority of his works. Macbeth, one of his renowned plays, is no different. In fact, Macbeth consists…