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The apparition in the opening scene of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet establishes a creepy and unsettling atmosphere, signaling a theme of death. Along with the death theme, the presence of the ghost sheds light on the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of Hamlet’s father, the King of Denmark. In literature, the appearance of a ghost often…

2. Atticus is overall a great father, as he supposedly doesn’t keep his children in the dark about anything they want to know, and gives them the respect, privacy, and trust he would an adult, while aware that they are children and that there’s stuff they do not know yet, and shouldn’t know. He is…

Edgar Poe was born on January 19, 1809, in a boardinghouse on Carver Street in Boston Massachusetts. His father deserted his family and his mother died of tuberculoses in 1811, orphaning Poe, his brother William Henry Leonard, and his sister Rosalie. Poe was taken in to the home of the Allans who had no children…

Chinu Achebe’s Things Fall Apart is a novel that contrasts sharply to Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. In Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness he presents Africa in a very bad light and as an uncivilized country. In contrast, Achebe’s Things Fall Apart is a story about civilized Africa and their traditions. In Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness…

The novel ‘Animal Farm’ by George Orwell illustrates the ease with which leaders can become corrupt and how it affects the various characters in the story. Power, although easily corrupted by tyrants, possesses both moral positive and negative aspects. Old Major, in his lifetime, wielded power for the benefit of his fellow comrades. Following the…

Introduction. Relations are an important part of human lives as they shape an individual’s character and thoughts. Among these relations, the most influential one is the relationship between parents and their children. It is commonly believed that a child is more attached to its mother than its father. However, as the child grows up, it…

The ext day, they are secretly married by friar Laurence, with the assistance of Julies maid. After the wedding, the lovebirds plan to meet later and Romeo walks around the town. Soon a fight breaks out between Gullet’s cousin, Table, and Romeos best friend, Mercuric. Since Table is Romeos new family, he chooses not to…

Sampson and Gregory, who are Capulet servants, express their dissatisfaction in Verona and state that they will not tolerate any insults from the Montague family. Abram and Balthasar, servants of the Montague family, confront each other and engage in a quarrel. Benvolio, nephew of Lord Montague, attempts to intervene and stop the fight. However, Tybalt,…

The Homeric poems are a representation of reality- nature, animals, and men. We may reach Homer by inquiring into the picture he gives us– by seeing how true and imaginative it is. One researcher, Paolo Vivante, concludes that By Homeric imaginatition I mean that sympathetic insight whereby objects and events were first rendered by the…

Myths of the American Dream Exposed in Arthur Miller’s Death of a SalesmanWilly Loman, the lead character of Miller’s play, Death of a Salesman, believes in “the myths of the capitalistic society”(DiYanni 412). This essay will examine the impact of the capitalistic myths on Willy Lowman. Willy believes in the myth that popularity and physical…