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What begins as an open and shut case of murder soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors’ prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other. Based on the play, all of the action takes place on the stage of the jury room. Written by pike “1 2 Angry Men” focuses…

sA Changing Character In the short story “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin a schoolteacher from the city of Harlem struggles with life and figuring out how to helped his troubled brother. All though named Sonny’s Blues the main character is actually Sonny’s brother who is the narrator and goes through his life and how he…

Dee exploited her heritage as a materialistic object, as evidenced by her selfish behavior throughout the story. As a child, she always demanded “nice things”. For example, “A yellow organdy dress to wear to her graduation from high school; black pumps to match a green suit she’d made from an old suit somebody gave me….

“The Sailor who fell from grace with the sea” is a story set in contemporary Japan, where cultural conflict is widespread. The narrative centers on three characters’ tragic lives and is split into two sections: “Summer” and “Winter”. The contrasting settings of land and sea are also vividly portrayed, highlighting the stark contrasts between Western…

Background of the Study Leadership is a human subject and as such is a complex matter. Leading others is not simply a matter of style, or following some how-to guides or recipes. Ineffectiveness of leaders seldom results from a lack of know-how or how-to, nor it is typically due to inadequate managerial skills. Leadership is…

The main problem for contemporary audience interpreting Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter” is the need to abandon ethical conventionality peculiar to society, and to look at the book and its heroes through the eyes of Puritan author. This statement becomes indeed important in the analysis of Arthur Dimmesdale, the most controversial character in the novel. Indeed,…

In the Greek play Antigone, both Creon and Antigone can be considered tragic heroes. Creon, who became king after Oedipus Rex abandoned the throne, is Oedipus’s brother-in-law and was given the kingship because Oedipus’s sons, Eteocles and Polyneices, died while fighting for the throne. Antigone, on the other hand, is Oedipus’s daughter and Creon’s niece….

Volpone, written by Ben Jonson, is about a wealthy con artist who is conned by his ‘parasite’ servant. It can be argued that his servant, Mosca, is the true comic hero of the comedy on account of him being imperative to the cons. The traditional comic hero is one who is able to make the…

The story of Coriolanus is a very unique Tragedy, for instance unlike other Shakespeare tragidies where the plays are littered with deaths; in Coriolanus, Coriolanus is the only character to die. This is not the only reason, I believe, that separates Coriolanus from all of Shakespeare’s other tragidies: Coriolanus is the most unique tragic hero,…

            The novel “The Red Badge of Courage” by Stephen Crane depicts the story of a young man who enlisted to become a member of the regiment during Civil War. Henry Fleming, the “young feller” and the main character of the novel, dreams of becoming a hero of a great battle and be recognized by…