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They were aware of the reason why he didn’t do it: due to the immense size of the knife descending and penetrating into living flesh; because of the unbearable amount of blood (31). The analysis reveals that Jack is afraid of slaughtering the pig in chapter 1, a fear he conquers as he relinquishes civilization…

How Hester Changes Nathaniel Hawthorn’s novel The Scarlet Letter Is a story of love, sin, and self- realization. Hester Prying Is a beautiful young woman who commits adultery, and as punishment she has to wear a scarlet “A” on her shirt everywhere she goes. Her society shuns her and she can no longer have normal…

Maya Angelou paved the way for many of today’s black poets. She is famous for her poems and series of autobiographies. Angelou has had an interesting life filled with many accomplishments. Maya Angelou was born as Marguerite Johnson on April 4, 1928, in St. Louis, Missouri. (Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2nd Ed. ) Her parents…

What would it be like to lack a personal identity? The nature of humanity is inherently focused on accepting and understanding oneself. Without these qualities, one experiences feelings of inadequacy and being lost. This is specifically true for Biff Loman in “Death of a Salesman” as his father, Willy, is unable to accept him. Biff…

Compare Steinbeck’s treatment of the natural world with his depiction of the bunkhouse in the first two chapters of Of Mice and Men (1937) The first two chapters of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice And Men (1937) present the contrasting environments of a Salinas riverbank and the ranch bunkhouse. The natural world is depicted as a…

Introduction             Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell is a personal essay of the author about his experience in shooting an elephant that has gone amok while he was stationed at Burma as an Imperial sub-divisional police officer. In his essay, Orwell primarily wanted to show three things—the evils of imperialism, the concept of conscience…

Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem, “Ode to the West Wind” and Sylvia Plath’s poem “Mirror” both employ the poetic tools of apostrophe, the address to something that is intangible, and personification, the application of human characteristics to something inanimate. However, they form a paradox in the usage of these tools through the imagery they create. Both…

            How do you feel when you see flowers growing on the roadside?  To the author, William Wordsworth, in his immortal lyric poem, “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”, flowers and all of nature’s richness is a spiritual reality, bearing witness to the beauty and goodness of God.  The poem expresses the writer’s personal feelings…

The Statement of the Liberation of Women as Shown in A Dolls HouseIn reading Ibsens A Dolls House today, a person could find it hard to imagine how daring it seemed when Ibsen wrote it over one hundred years ago. A main subject of this play is the emancipation of women from the restrictions that…

Macbeth is a story with very universal themes, even to this day it presents themes that we can see and recognize in our everyday lives. In this essay, we will analyze the modern values / universal themes in the character Macbeth and how literature reflects society, culture, place, and / or history. Macbeth is a…