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“If You Were Coming in the Fall,” by Emily Dickinson, illustrates how anticipation without certainty causes anguish and misery for a lover. The contrasting imagery and rhythm used in the first four and last stanzas emphasize this concept. Through the use of imagery, repetition of words, and ballad meter, the first four stanzas create an…

“What is Stony Brook University?” I said, as I read through my emails after a college showcase. As I was about to delete the email from the school I‘d never heard of, my mother stopped me. Her and my father both told me that I should never write off a school that showed any interest…

To what degree did Amir atone for his sins and gain redemption? “There is a way to be good again,” is a quote from Rahim Khan that comes up repeatedly throughout The Kite Runner. This story revolves around Amir, the protagonist, who tries to seek forgiveness and redemption after living twenty six years with unatoned…

The depression, racial issues, equality, morality and justice, are all complex issues that The United States of America still face in today’s society. ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ is a cleverly written Harper Lee novel that focuses on many issues surrounding life in the southern states of America in the 1930’s. Written from a young girl’s…

Throughout Shakespeare’s great works of classic literature, he often takes the sacred institutions of marriage, and corrupts it by allowing its passion-filled symbolism to create the seeds of its own destruction. Whether this is a result of Shakespeare’s own experiences or just a generally negative view of the custom and its ever-present importance to the…

From Achilles’ initial callousness and stubborn temper in the first books of the Iliad to his eventual humanization when he interacts with the grieving father of Hector, whom Achilles killed, the Iliad chronicles the maturation of the Greek hero during the brutal battles of the Trojan War. Achilles is a fully-developed heroic character with both…

The “Narrative life of Frederick Douglass” was more than an autobiography. It summarized historically, politically and legally what it was like to be a slave back in the 1 ass’s and on, but through Hess experience & journey also provided a much broader picture and detailed insight of what actually takes a slave to gain…

“Othello” by William Shakespeare is a classic tragedy that follows the downfall of the classic tragic hero Othello. Without the hero’s death, caused by his fatal character flaws, and the demise of those around him at the conclusion of the play, this quintessential tragedy could not be characterised as thus.The play’s five act structure coincides…

Simon Lee the Old Huntsman is a poem that occurs in Lyrical Ballads and was written in 1798, belonging, thus, temporally to the Romantic period (1780-1830). Romantic writing is commonly identified with some key elements, which concern imagination, nature, symbolism, and myth (although there have been writers of this period who were not as ‘mainstream’)….

Technology was used in ‘1984’ for nefarious purposes at worst, or, at best, as a way of suppressing dissent. Television as a Propaganda Machine Television, as it is known today, was utilized in ‘1984’ as a propaganda machine to subdue the masses. It was the medium that could best display what was good about Big…