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In King Lear by William Shakespeare Lear, Cornelia, and Generic understand love in three different ways; it is not a universal belief. Lear has a limited understanding of what love can bring him. He understands it as power. He thinks when one loves him he can control them. That is why he will only give…

Mid-term Break is a poem by the Irish poet Seamus Heaney. In this poem I will explain how the poem is very effective at conveying the complex emotions of how Seamus Heaney feels when he loses his younger brother in a road accident. I was surprised that in the poem he doesn’t show any sadness,…

In the novel, “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, the narrator is in denial of his own madness and claims throughout the story that he is not insane. The theme of this story is dark and can be attributed to the tragedies Poe experienced in his life. Right from the beginning of the story…

Arthur Dimmesdale, the priest and holy figure in The Scarlet Letter, captivates me as the most intriguing character. Despite his revered status, he carries the burden of a hidden sin that consumes him from within. Irony prevails as he passionately condemns this very transgression in his sermons. Hester’s husband, Chillingworth, continuously inflicts pain on Mr….

Colors symbolize a great deal in The Great Gatsby, and different colors symbolize different meanings and motifs. In the book, the color gold presents money and even more, “Old money. ” In the book, Nick Caraway talks about how even the turkeys at Gatsby parties were, “bewitched to a dark gold. “ Also, Jordan Baker,…

Quoted Passage for Commentary: “If he’d caught a sound form one of us, just a moan, he would have crushed out heads and ship timbers with one heave of another flashing, jagged rock!….I called back with another burst of anger, ‘Cyclops, if any man on the face of the earth should ask you who blinded…

In Charles Dickens acclaimed classic ‘Great Expectations’ the character of Magwitch portrays a sense of evil and kindness towards a blacksmiths son Pip formally known as Philip Pirrip. The novel helps to incorporate the conditions experienced by many people in the nineteenth century. These conditions were especially harsh on criminals, punishments were a major factor…

How does Shakespeare present marriage in the Taming of the Shrew? In The Taming of the Shrew Shakespeare is using Kate and Petruchio’s relationship to present marriage as something women should not aspire to, this is different to the conventions of other comedies, for example; in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing the two characters dislike…

            The short story entitled “Of Shooting an Elephant” is centered on the theme of living the life of a stranger. The story was about the experience of a sahib, narrated by himself, in the land of the Burmese he called “men with the yellow faces”.  At the beginning of the story, I would say…

In “The Scarlet Letter”, Nathaniel Hawthorne portrays the hypocrisy of the Puritan society of the seventeenth century with the story of the downfall and redemption of Hester Prying. The hypocritical Puritan society punishes Hester for committing adultery. However, In her own mind, she does not see her actions as a sin because she acts out…