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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…

In both Shakespeare’s Othello. and Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. they pertain to racism and green-eyed monster. Racism goes about when person believes that they’re the high quality of a peculiar race. It’s handling people otherwise whether it’s positively or negatively merely based on the colour of their tegument. As for green-eyed monster. it’s more like…

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…

The Birthmark“Murdering a wife then getting away with it” is the way Judith Fetterley described the story of Hawthorne’s ‘The Birthmark’. It revolves around the obsession of the main character, Aylmer, to remove his wife’s ‘birthmark’. He considered the ‘birthmark’ to be a blemish to his wife’s perfection. Hawthorne argued that such obsession posed the…

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,…

“To Build a Fire” Essay Humanity is just a part Of nature; if it ceased to exist everything would go on as if it never did exist. Nature’s uncaring for humanity is displayed in Jack Loon’s “To Build a Fire” with the man and nature not doing anything to help him survive. This is shown…

The book To Kill A Mocking Bird, by Harper Lee, takes readers on a journey though Scout Finch’s childhood. In the book, Scout, who lives in a racist town in Southern Alabama with her father Atticus and brother jem, must learn to deal witht the unjust jerdict of a black man accused of rape, a…

In the novel To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee, Atticus teaches his kids many lessons. One of them is “If you just learn a single trick, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… until…

Frankenstein Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein has also been characterized as feminine book with feminist agenda. Earlier feminist critics have attributed various feminist themes to Frankenstein. They analyzed the whole novel in the feminist framework and tried to interpret the various themes associated with feminism. These expressions of feminist view clearly manifest that Frankenstein is an epitome…

The Scarlet Letter. written in 1850 by Nathaniel Hawthorne. is about a Puritan society in Massachusetts. The subject of this novel is mostly sin. and how the guilty parties were non every bit treated for the same wickedness or exposed for the incorrect that they had done in the eyes of God. Hawthorne describes misrepresentation….