Writers Page 119

Hamlet’s Delay Everyone contains a tinge of Hamlet in his feelings, wants, and worries,and proudly so, for Hamlet is not like the other tragic heroes of his period. He standsapart from other Shakespeare’s heroes in his today much discussed innocence. Is thissupposed tragic hero maybe an ideal hero – one without the tragic flaw, which…

The Sound of the ShellThe opening chapter begins with two boys, Piggy and Ralph, making theirway through the jungle. We learn, through their dialogue, that they had beentravelling in an airplane with a group of British school children. The plane hadpresumably been shot down and crashed on a an island in the Pacific. It ishinted…

Venice was a famous, rich, mysterious place in Shakespeare’s time and it would have fascinated Jacobean contemporaries. Venice’s social structure and strict customs against intermarriage offers plenty of opportunities for dramatic conflict and character contrast. It makes Othello an outsider, someone different in nearly all respects from the Senators of Venice providing more dramatic contrast….

William Shakespearean “Romeo and Juliet” contains many different representations of love, some officio are based entirely on looks, and others seem to be more in depth. Love based entirely on looks is called lust. In “Romeo and Juliet”, impulsiveness is a tragic flaw present in the characters Romeo, Juliet, Lord Caplet, and Friar Laurence. Romeos…

In “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Scarlet Ibis” dark symbols and tones shape the plot, which allows man’s inhumanity to man, as a theme, to be expected. Both authors use imagery to allow readers to paint a picture of each setting in their mind. Also, each author adds in many symbols to make a…

The Robert E. Howard story “Marchers of Valhalla,” the first in his cycle of stories featuring the often-reincarnated James Allison, was recently published as a bonus for members of the Robert E. Howard Foundation, containing the existing typewritten manuscript drafts of the tale. “Marchers” is of interest as an example of the way Howard’s pioneering…

In the novel Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen forces the characters such as Elizabeth and Mr. Bingley and his company to move to different settings. When Darcy visits the town of Longbourn being a member of Mr, Bingley’s company, we see an uproar among the small town. When Elizabeth visits Darcy at Pemberley, we see the…

Analysis and Plot Summary of “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne The beginning of the story by Nathaniel Hawthorne introduces us to Young Goodman Brown as he says goodbye to his wife of three months. He tells her that he must go on this journey (although we still do not know where he is going…

The theme of marriage is seen from the very beginning of novel. Jane Austen makes her views on marriage known from the very first sentence. She opens her highly acclaimed novel with: It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife….

In the opening scene of the movie, Allurement’s starts with a prologue masked as a news broadcast on the television. This sets the scene of the play by illustrating the violence occurring between the two wealthy families, the Montages and the Capsules. In Ziegfeld’s film, the prologue takes the form Of a narrator, relating the…