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In William’s Shakespeare’s Sonnet 57, there are several lines that can be considered as ironies. The first irony can be found on the first several lines, “Being your slave, what should I do but tend, Upon the hours and times of your desire? I have no precious time at all to spend, Nor services to…

A Great Book Many books in the USA are banned in school curriculums. A couple of those books are currently active on our community. The school board wants to take our some of these books due to lack of meaning or offense to readers. One of these books is Of Mice and Men by John…

Eleven Eleven, written by Sandra Cisneros, explores the character of an eleven-year-old through the use of various literary devices. The first-person narrator, Rachel, is portrayed as naive yet articulate, as she recounts the events of her humiliating eleventh birthday. Despite her young vocabulary, Rachel effectively communicates the challenges of maturing with the insight of an…

In his novel “Arrow of God,” Mordaunt discusses how the Nigerian author Chinua Achebe addresses the issue of personal conflict. The protagonist, Ezeulu, is the chief priest of Ulu, the deity worshipped in the village of Umuaro. Ezeulu grapples with an internal conflict as he strives to retain his authority despite his old age and…

Many novels use images of contrasting landscapes or surroundings to symbolize the central theme of the piece. In Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, the contrasting depictions of Italy and Switzerland serve as foils that symbolize the book’s theme: the devastating impact of war on individuals. The descriptions of these countries are starkly dissimilar, representing…

The American dream is the belief that people through their struggle and toil in the harshness of life can somehow achieve their dreams. This belief plays a prominent role in The Great Gatsby. The American dream serves as a backdrop to the splendor and bustle of the Roaring Twenties. Nick Caraway is at first amazed…

Texts need to continually change and evolve to suit different audiences. This is evident in Shakespearian dramas such as Romeo and Juliet, which has evolved to suit today’s modern society and remain interesting to audiences around the world. Baz Luhrmann has changed scenes in Romeo and Juliet to make it appeal to audiences by using…

Like most Shakespearian dramas. “Romeo and Juliet” exemplifies Shakespeare’s amazing comprehension and ability to compose tragic dramas. The simplest definition of “tragedy. ” a serious catastrophe or a sad event. blatantly describes the hideous narrative of two “star crossed lovers. ” While reading the fatal narrative of Shakespeare’s novel. Romeo and Juliet. a reader indulges…

Mark Twain’s memoir, Life on the Mississippi, provides a firsthand account of the vibrant river life during the steamboat era. It also serves as a remembrance of that era after the Civil War. Born as Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Hannibal, Missouri, Twain grew up along the Mississippi River. Alongside his career as a journalist, essayist,…

Robert E. Howard’s hatred of the slave trade was unequivocal. His poems in this subject area are so vivid they could almost be used as part of the history of the slaves taken from Africa. It is one of the few subject areas in which REH shows no conflicting point of view in his poetry….