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‘Exceeding Honesty’ Investigating the Heroic trait in the Character of Iago in Shakespeare’s Othello Talking about Iago in his introduction to the play ‘Othello’, A.L. Rowse is of the opinion: He (Iago) and Othello stand out as two protagonists in the simple and haunting tragedy, Desdemona their sacrificial victim. (Rowse 271) In the four and…

Introduction  Slaughterhouse-Five; or the Children’s Crusade, a Duty Dance with Death is a personal novel that was written by Kurt Vonnegut explaining his experiences during the Second World War. Being an advance scout in the 106th infantry division, Kurt Vonnegut was a first hand witness to the Dresden bombing in February of 1945. It is…

The character of NICK CARRAWAY holds a special role in this book. By shaping the readers’ opinions of the other characters, Nick’s perspective influences their perception. It is common for people to confuse Nick’s point of view and portrayal of the world with that of F. Scott Fitzgerald, as the fictional world closely reflects the…

The main conflict in the Odyssey is Odysseus’s perseverance. Despite the death of most of his comrades during his journey back home from the Trojan War, he continues on. O Brother, Where Art Thou shares a similar theme of perseverance, as a group of men face obstacles and people trying to hinder their mission. There…

Of Mice And Men This novel is set on the Californian Grain Farms in the 1930s. The town is called Soledad and is four miles south of San Jose. The inspiration for the book probably came from a poem by Robert Burns. The poem was about the plans of mice and men going wrong. The…

During the summer of 1999, I selected Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens as my reading material. I believe that reading this book will enhance my understanding of global studies as it covers various regions and time periods that will be explored in class. Despite considering myself knowledgeable about this classic, I discovered numerous historical events…

Iago is clearly the most poisonous and virulent character in ‘Othello’ and one of the most distinctive villains in the entire Shakespeare collection. Act III scene 3 is the pivotal scene in which his villainy begins to unfold and this has a growing malignancy over Othello and his relationship with Desdemona. Act III is a…

In this chapter Machiavelli stressed out the importance of avoiding those things that makes a prince being hated or held in disdain by the people within his land. Its chief intent is to province and present Machiavelli’s thoughts on what makes a prince being prone to hatred and disdain. To show the reader a clearer…

When composingThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer( 1876 ) Mark Twain used a figure of techniques to depict the narrative. scene and characters such as initial rhyme. pun and onomatopoeia. Structure and symbolism is used in the novel to set together every facet of Tom Sawyer’s life. The novel is set in Missouri. Mississippi in the…

1984 is a dystopian novel written in 1949 by George Orwell. This novel talks about the story of Winston Smith and presents the world in the year 1984, after a global atomic war. This novel is placed in Airstrip one, a province of Oceania ,where everything is controlled by Great Brother and his party,and shows…