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Daisy Buchanan, a character in The Great Gatsby, exemplifies moral ambiguity. She is Nick’s cousin residing in East Egg, and she is described as attractive and charming. Her captivating voice is likened to a “wild tonic in the rain” while Fitzgerald also characterizes her as vacuous. Initially, it is revealed that Daisy’s husband, Tom, is…

Since we now eve the ability to see a movie, the director had to change some of the story to help us visualize some Of the scenes. One such example is when, in the play, Table recognizes Romeos voice at the Caplet masked ball. When Table hears him, he becomes enraged. In the film this…

Journal Entry #1 Integrity is a virtue that has always been around and it is an important characteristic to have. In the play, The Crucible, Tituba finally confesses to who all saw the devil. When she fessed up, Betty, Abigail and Parris all joined in and were being honest to Mr. Putnam. This started a…

“The Old Man and the Sea” narrates the story of a courageous Cuban fisherman and his relentless struggle with a colossal Marlin, symbolizing the powerlessness of humanity against uncontrollable forces. The novella propounds crucial life lessons to its readers by emphasizing three central themes: friendship, bravery, and Christianity. The old man and the boy have…

Nathaniel Hawthorne, born on July 4, 1804, in Salem, Mass., had a grandfather who served as a judge during the Salem witch trials. His original surname was spelled “Hathorne.” Upon completing college, he altered the spelling of his name by appending a “w” to correspond with its pronunciation. Hawthorne possessed an aversion towards school and…

The Kreutzer Sonata, named after Beethoven’s violin sonata no. 9, is a novella written by Leo Tolstoy in 1889. As the anti-hero, Pozdnyshev, relays his life story to the audience on the train, he introduces a conflict between human nature and spirituality, what one is versus what one should strive to be, and challenges the…

“Isolation is a dream killer” (Barbara Sher). In William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies, a group of stranded kids on an island must learn to survive by hunting pigs and building shelters. As they engage in the process of hunting, the children’s behavior turns cruel and they descend into barbarism. Golding’s intent is to…

Romeo: The Tragic Hero Like most Shakespearean plays, “Romeo and Juliet” exemplifies Shakespearean astonishing comprehension and ability to write tragic plays. The simplest definition of “tragedy,” a serious disaster or a sad event, blatantly describes the horrific story of two “star crossed lovers. ” While reading the fatal tale of Shakespearean novel, Romeo and Juliet,…

At the start of the played are introduced to he family feud that dominates and influences the characters and their actions. This feud is a key obstacle for the two young lovers as they are from different families, the Montague and the Capsules. There are very few light hearted moments throughout the text and any…

In Nathaniel Hawthorn ’ s The Scarlet Letter, the Puritans invariably look down upon evildoers like Hester Prynne, both literally and symbolically. The usage of the three scaffold scenes throughout the class of the novel proved to be an effectual method in turn outing this theory and demoing how Puritan society differs from that of…