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In Robert E. Howard’s story “A Witch Shall Be Born,” Taramis, the beloved queen of Khauran, is kidnapped one night by an identical twin sister she thought was dead, who imprisons and tortures her, and steals her identity, ruling in her name as a cruel tyrant. This evil sister is Salome, a name familiar from…

In short, The Odyssey is a story of the war hero Odysseus’ pain and suffering caused by the extensive separation from his family and home during the chronicle of events after the fall of Troy. In the unraveling of these adventures, the reader is immersed in a world of heroic feats, strange creatures and lustful…

But hear me Satan, no man ever made me admit defeat — I’ve reeled beneath a bloody moon, on buckling legs, with blood pouring from my battered mouth and mingling with the sweat on my chest and a scarlet haze shimmering before my eyes — and I’ve been smashed from gong to gong, but I…

In the Shakespearian play: The Taming of the Shrew, deception is one of the major concepts. A tangled web is created in the play through deception of character behavior and the change between clothing and class. Most of the deception in the play have particular motives behind them and create dramatic irony. Shakespeare has used…

Linda Loman is a flat, undeveloped character, a foil for the main character in Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” (1262). Linda, his wife, has stirred in her bed at the right. She gets out and puts on a robe, listening. Most often jovial, she has developed an iron repression of her exceptions to Willy’s…

Anthony Trollope ( April 24, 1815 – December 6, 1882 ) became one of the most successful, fecund and well-thought-of English novelists of the Victorian epoch. Some of Trollope ‘s favored plants, known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, revolve around the fanciful county of Barsetshire ; he besides wrote perforating novels on political, societal, and…

The Lion King tells the narrative of a immature greenhorn named Simba, his birth and manner of life, and the moral quandary ‘s he faces since his male parents decease. The narrative takes topographic point in the Pride Lands, where a king of beasts regulations as male monarch over the other animate beings. This king…

In Ray Bradbury’s “The Pedestrian,” the dangers of residing in a society where simply walking alone at night is deemed criminal due to its deviation from human interaction with the natural world are explored. The narrative takes place in 2053 CE and centers around Leonard Mead, who experiences the repercussions of his leisurely stroll that…

Analysis of Diving Into the Wreck There are many poems in today’s literature that are detailed and paint a picture for the reader. A poem that really stands out is Diving Into the Wreck by Adrienne Rich. Rich is a well known poet born 1929 in Baltimore, Maryland (Milne). She is a very influential poet…

            The movie, The Notebook, is a love story that is un-compared to others.  It tells the story of an older man and his wife who is dying of Alzheimer’s.  The movie is about Noah (the older man) telling Allie (the older woman) a story that is about the two of them as they met,…