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Layton’s poem, “Rhine Boat Trip,” and Poe’s short story, “The Masque of the Red Death,” are vivid, graphic depictions of suffering coupled with avoidance of guilt and remedy.  Layton’s poem has few words, but powerful, bleak images and messages.  The imagery of the boat trip along the Rhine River, which meanders through Germany, is a…

They are marching through a long corridor and are wearing almost prison-style uniforms. The corridor has TV’s installed after every few steps and it seems the group is being taken to a large auditorium where they are addressed through a gigantic screen by the leader. At this point, a blonde woman running in bright clothes…

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…

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 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…

“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…

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,…

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…