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Tomas Hardy, a controversial writer in the Victorian era, lived for two centuries. Due to his family life and educational background, Hardy was familiar with many ancient Greek fairy tales and biblical stories. In his representative fiction, Tess of The D’Urbervilles, Hardy employs various symbols to reveal the tragic fate of Tess, parallel to Hamlet’s…

When the first settlers came to America many years ago, they found freedom and opportunity. With hard work and determination an average man or woman could be prosperous. This concept was not only revolutionary in theory, but has proven to be true for many successful individuals. This idea has come to be known as the…

In this essay, we explore the divergent interpretations and expansions of Shakespeare’s Macbeth by two film directors, with a specific focus on the portrayal of the witches. Although both films are rooted in Macbeth, they exhibit numerous disparities. The expectation in both films is for the witches to instigate troubles and foster malevolence, thereby establishing…

The Fantastic thing is that it’s painless,  he said. That’s how you know when it starts” ( Hemingway 3 ) . A deceasing adult male in the center of the African Safari, is the construct of Ernest Hemingways, The Snows of Kilimanjaro.  Hemingway, in this narrative more than any other of his plants, used himself…

INTRODUCTION: – King James I supported Shakespeare by paying for the performance costs of his plays. For this reason, the play ‘Macbeth’ contained several references to the Stuart dynasty. These include Banquo who was invented by a historian friend of Shakespeare’s, to represent the source of Stuart royalty. It was this historian friend, Rapheal Holinshed,…

Charles John Huffam Dickens was born in Portsmouth in 1812, the 2nd kid of a big household. His male parent was the boy of a pantryman and a housekeeper, and worked as a clerk in the Navy Pay Office. The household moved to London when Dickens was three and to Chatham in Kent two old…

Steinbeck employs various methods to depict Curley’s wife. The passage begins by highlighting the effect she has on men, as “Both men glanced up.” This introduction emphasizes her value solely in relation to men and signals that Steinbeck portrays her as a tool for their gratification. Shortly after, the text suggests that the interruption of…

“Mid-Term Break,” a free-verse poem by Seamus Heaney, delves into the speaker’s encounter with his younger brother’s death upon returning from boarding school. Within the poem, various themes such as time, age, family, pain, love, and death are explored. Death holds a crucial place in every individual’s existence despite being an unsettling subject matter. Our…

We should all be feminists explores the struggle against patriarchy as an essential part of the class struggle of oppression and inequality. The narrative does this by capturing the narrator’s personal experiences in patriarchal social spaces of entertainment, homes, and workplaces. Adichie uses different literary devices such as rhetorical questions, rhetorical ethos, pathos, and logos…

John Steinbeck was born in 1902, in California’s Salinas Valley, a region that would eventually serve as the setting for Of Mice and Men as well as many of his other works. He studied literature and writing at Stanford University, but disenrolled in 1925, after six years, without a degree. He moved to New York…