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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…

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…

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….

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…

“Remember” by Christina Rossetti and “Piano” by D. H. Lawrence are poems about nostalgic remembrance. They both have the same theme. This essay will compare and contrast two poems, bearing in mind the similarites and the differences between both poems. Thus, it will talk about the main themes of both poems (nostalgia for an idealized…

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,…

Introduction: Relatives are thought to be there for one another and whatever you have. The relations of nowadays are more or less typical but in the novel The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams the Wingfield family is very dysfunctional. The components of this family unit, Amanda (Mother), Tom (Son) and Laura (Daughter), make this family…

In this chapter, Boxer, despite having split his hoofs in the Battle OF THE Windmill, insists on working harder to build another windmill. Boxer adopts his personal motto “I will work harder!” (Orwell 18) after the first harvest following the rebellion. This motto remains with him throughout the book until he is sold by the…