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Wilfred Owen’s ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ and ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’ are both poems that protest against and depict the subject of war. They both follow Wilfred Owen’s angst against those who encourage war and the savagery of warfare that he experienced himself. His poetry was devised to strike at the conscience of England during…

1997: Novels and plays often include scenes of weddings, funerals, parties, and other social occasions. Such scenes may reveal the values of the characters and the society in which they live. Select a novel or play that includes such a scene and, in a focused essay, discuss the contribution the scene makes to the meaning…

Ann Petry was born in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. She is white and was populating in a vicinity where the bulk of the people were black. Anyhow, Ann Petry when through her childhood without any biass against racial difference. It was merely subsequently that she encountered racism. Then, she studied and became a druggist but in…

When every pencil meant a sacrifice his parents boarded him at school in town, slaving to free him from the stony fields, the meagre acreage that bore them down. They blushed with pride when, at his graduation, they watched him picking up the slender scroll, his passport from the years of brutal toil and lonely…

In my sentiment a hero is person you can look up to and depend on throughout your life and follow their footfalls. I would hold to state my sister has been my hero throughout my life. If it wasn’t for my sister I wouldn’t be who I am today. My sister has ever been there…

In the memoir Night, Elie Wiesel uses a distinct writing style to relate to his readers what emotions he experienced and how he changed while in the concentration camps of Buna, during the Holocaust. He uses techniques like irony, contrast, and an unrealistic way of describing what happens to accomplish this. By applying these techniques,…

Edgar Allan Poe was a very dark and dramatic writer. All of his stories require the audience to reread his works of art because there are so many elements incorporated into them that it would be impossible to understand everything after just one reading. His stories drip with irony and reveal mysteries in an interesting…

Edgar Allen Poe’s last finished poem ‘Annabel Lee’, published posthumously, leaves the readers with the same sense of gloominess that sets the theme and mood of most of his poems. Environing around the theme of death coupled with love, the narrator recounts memories of his childhood love Annabel Lee – a character many critics propose…

            Russell Banks’ The Sweet Hereafter recounts the implications of a tragic and unexplained school bus accident that happened in a fictional town situated in the northern part of New York. The accident epitomizes the incomprehensible and absurd tragedy that reverses the natural order of events and transgresses the limits comprehension. What the narrative pinpoints…

Racism in Shakespeare’s OthelloRacism and discrimination against Africans has existed long before the times of anti- miscegenation laws and lynching in the Deep South. In William Shakespeare’s Othello, we can see that racism against those of color existed even in the 17th century. “Shakespeare’s play is the text that will at once unsettle and fill…