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In Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, the word blood has many different meanings. Its meaning seems to change from good to evil as the play progresses. It also is a reoccurring theme throughout the play. I think that it helps strengthen the theme of the tragedy. It’s about a young war hero with the dream of someday…

The Scarlet Letter is one of the many novels that is loved by some people but hated by others. I’m somewhere In between. It was extremely deferent from what I was expecting but it made me so confused at some points that I can’t completely say that I loved the storyline. I can say though…

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and Arthur Miller’s The Crucible are both distinctly different narratives of the Salem Witch trials. The Scarlet Letter is a novel and The Crucible is a play. While The Scarlet Letter deals mainly with the sin of adultery, The Crucible mainly deals with witchcraft. Both have obvious similarities like the…

Q. How does Dickens use language to set the scene and introduce us to the characters and themes in the opening chapter? Great Expectations was written in the Victorian era, a time of extreme poverty and deprivation, and where large families were crowded into small insanitary housing. This was the backdrop to the novel written…

Charles Dickens is a Victorian author and literary genius known for writing many classics, creating memorable characters, intriguing storylines, and rendering thought-provoking themes and messages in his novels and short stories; to many, he is even considered as one the greatest authors of all time. “Dickensian” is a term used to describe anything that is…

orioThe Divine Comedy (The Inferno and Purgatorio, in this matter) without Virgil would be like coffee without cream. Without Virgil, Dante would never have completed his journey. Without reason, Dante would never have the courage to go through his redemption. We meet Virgil in the Inferno just when Dante begins to lose all hope in…

The Navarasas are the human emotions in everyday life. They are extensively depicted in Kalidasa’s plays and also profusely used in all Indian dance-forms. Though the nine rasas are mainly used in Indian literature, they can also been seen in English literature. The Navarasas are, Shringara – love and beauty, Haasya – joy or mirth,…

Standard declares In his article the comparison between “The Rising Tide of Color against White World-supremacy’ and “The Great Gatsby” In a sense to signify wealthy “careless people” In Jazz age. Standard suggests that how white race was considered as the supreme race and Tom says “Have you read ‘The Rise of the Colored Empires’…

Explication Of UlyssesIn this poem, Tennyson reworks the figure of Ulysses by drawing on the ancient hero of Homer’s Odyssey. Homer’s Ulysses learns from a prophecy that he will take a final sea voyage after killing the suitors of his wife Penelope. Ulysses finds himself restless in Ithaca and driven by “the longing I had…

For my essay I chose to depict the visible radiation and dark motives in “Romeo and Juliet” . A motive is a term used to depict a transition in literature that has more than one cosmopolitan significance. It is used when a character or storyteller is comparing one thing to another. For illustration the light…