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After reading the Shakespeare plays we were assigned this semester, one thing in particular caught my interest. It was the turnabout in the tetralogy; the turn from foolishness to wisdom and being changed by the choices made. The choices made become catalysts. The protagonist is broken down into base components and re-forged into a new…

The Road Not TakenEveryone is a traveler, carefully choosing which roads to follow on the map of life.There is never a straight path that leaves one with but a single direction in which to head.Robert Frosts “The Road Not Taken” can be interpreted in many different ways.The shade of light in which the reader sees…

In his novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald explores various themes, with the central message being the unattainability of the American Dream. Fitzgerald portrays two contrasting groups – individuals who possess seemingly perfect lives and those who are still pursuing their dreams of success. Tom and Daisy exemplify the former, as they enjoy a…

Both Odysseus and Aeneas are epic heroes, but their origins differ. Odysseus is from the Greek story The Odyssey by Homer, while Aeneas is a character in the Roman tale The Aenied by Virgil. Odysseus’s main objective is to return home after a long journey; on the other hand, Aeneas’s goal is to find a…

In the book the “Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne the character Chlorinating changes multiple times In the story, unfortunately he keeps getting worse and worse. Chlorinating turns from the knowable scholar, to a symbol of evil, to the point where he is even portrayed as the devil. In chapter 3 on page 53 it describes…

Understanding how the reader transforms a text is of utmost importance in reader-response theory. Our identity as readers is what transforms the text; we apply our own mental processes to the work and therefore gain further understanding. A fixed, stable response to a text is an illusion. According to Norman Holland, our response to a…

Robert Frost has written legion verse forms in his life-time. Of those verse forms there are two that standout in the topic of imagination and horror. These two verse forms are Design and House Fear. Some critics have mentioned that in these verse forms Robert Frost s poesy isfull of imagination. Frost fills the verse…

In ShakeSpeare’s Macbeth, Macbeth’s mental deterioration throughout the play is a result of Macbeth killing the king and disrupting the chain of being. The chain of being is a system of ranks, for example a king is above everyone else but under god. So the king serves under god but is responsible for everyone under…

Alice Walker has written of unfairness in many manners ; Celia ‘s battles with her hubby in The Color Purple ; Olivia ‘s unfairness of female Circumcision in Olivia ; and the Old Woman in The Welcome Table. Her unfairness was non simply racial but besides classist. The Old Woman is a reminder to the…

Animal Farm is portraying the dangers of a totalitarian Monarch government. It seeks to show how a society where all live completely equal has not been, and cannot be achieved. Orwell, through the use of the character Squealer, shows how propaganda can affect members of a communist society in a negative way. By drawing parallels…