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In Act 2, Scene 1, Iago presents himself as the most important individual on stage. Through his actions and his soliloquy the audience are clear on who is moving the scene along. Iago plays the role of bluff soldier in his exchange with Desdemona. This is shown as a mark of his power, and when…

In his short story titled simply ‘Elephant’, Raymond Carver focuses on the elephant both literally and figuratively. Literally, when the author used the word elephant as the title for his short story, he made me think of the narrator in the story as hardworking because elephants are hardworking creatures. The narrator works hard to earn…

Revenge causes Hamlet to act blindly through anger and emotion, rather than through reason As the play begins, Hamlet is in a grieving period over the death of his father, To make matters worse, his mother marries his uncle, the deceased King’s brother. Hamlet does not approve of this relationship and distances himself from hert…

In the inspired kingdom of Springfield, the fallen-in-love family of Simpsons loads on a ship yet on the second comical adventure. With their whimsical charm and wit, they are brought over to the mystic story of the mysterious exhibit known how “Paw of Monkey”. This episode offers a wonderful mixing of humour and vagueness, as…

Honor: honesty, fairness, or integrity in one’s beliefs and actions; this is the definition by which these two characters, Hector and Achilles, ought to be judged. By taking this definition to heart, Achilles is far from honorable. Throughout the Iliad, Achilles acts on rage and revenge. “Rage-Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus’ son Achilles, murderous,…

The Robert Frost Poem “My November Guest” is a very dark and gray poem. The poem takes place in the month of November and the poets sorrow is talking throughout the piece. A man’s sorrow is misunderstood and that is the main focus of this poem Sorrow is a complex statement; it could mean a…

In the first stanza of ‘Hitcher’ shows the reader that the narrator is seeking a more relaxed lifestyle, and is unable to deal with the arduous tasks of everyday life. He states that he had been ‘tired, under/the weather’, but not especially ill, and therefore should not be taking time off work. He ignores all…

Compare and contrast Henchard and Farfrae as seen by Thomas Hardy In Thomas Hardy’s tragic novel, ‘The Mayor of Casterbridge’, the author creates a foil in the form of Donald Farfrae to emphasize and consequently accentuate the downfall of the protagonist, Michael Henchard. Henchard is shown to be an overly passionate man, who is prone…

How is loneliness and isolation explored in Of Mice and Men? ‘Of Mice and Men’ by John Steinbeck is a novella comprising of many themes; the two most prominent are loneliness and isolation. The 1937 text explores the lives of itinerant individuals who strive to achieve their American Dream – “livin off the fatta the…

Imagine if you could live in a perfect world. A world where there was no crime, no diseases, no evil and where people could live eternally. What if you could live in utopia? In Kurt Vonnegut’s short story, 2BRO2B, people are immortal, and the people in this society cannot have all the children they want…