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The novel “Night and Day” by Virginia Woolf explores various feminist themes. Despite being a more conventional work, it challenges traditional values and highlights the oppression faced by women during that time period. Although it is one of her earlier works, the deliberate use of a conventional structure in “Night and Day” serves to make…

creatureThe Beatles composed and sang many beautiful and timeless songs during their musical career. One song, however, captures the essence of Victor Frankenstein’s creation. Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein in 1818. The Beatles wrote a song off their The White Album entitled Blackbird in 1968. Generations apart from each other, these two artistic masterpieces are more…

Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth portrays how a once peaceful mind can be influenced by ones beliefs. The play was written at the time of the Jacobeans under the rule of James 1st, in which Shakespeare plays to his advantage. Shakespeare includes both contemporary events and the beliefs and obsessions of James 1st, which of course is…

Today’s society is cruel, and if one is something or does something they don’t approve of, they will ruin you. People are shunned, among other things, for their skin color, their religion, their sexual orientation, their income, and their education. One may also do something to have society shun them, whether they pesonally think it…

In the essay? Shooting an Elephant, ? George Orwell describes an internal struggle between his personal ethical motives and his responsibility to his state? furthermore, his responsibility to the white adult male’s repute. Orwell’s determination to kill the elephant is a direct consequence of subjugation. Oppression possibly goes deeper than the mean adult male would…

For centuries women have been forced into a role which denied them equal education opportunities. Virginia Woolfe expresses her frustration on why women were denied privacy in her novel , A Room of Ones Own. Where she compare the traditional lifestyle tailored made for the opposite sex and the sacrafices that came with it. Wendy…

On a cold day in April of 1984, a man named Winston Smith returns to his home, a dilapidated apartment building called Victory Mansions. Thin, frail, and thirty-nine years old, it is painful for him to trudge up the stairs because he has a varicose ulcer above his right ankle. The elevator is always out…

The Great Gatsby ? Chapter 1 ?Worksheet 1. How does Nick see himself? Nick sees himself as both highly moral and highly tolerant. 2. What does the Buchanan house look like? It’s elaborate, a cheerful red and white Georgian Colonial mansion overlooking the bay. There is a lawn started at the beach and ran toward…

Various writers have developed their own distinct writing styles which reveal their personalities and aid readers in grasping the tone of their works. In the early 20th century, a fresh America gave rise to numerous skilled writers with varied styles. Some authors, such as Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner, chose to adopt a realistic approach…

Revenge, it was a common theme among the plays, and works of literature published during Shakespeare’s time. It is only natural that it would be a topic that the writer himself would touch on. While not his most well-known play dealing with revenge the Tragedy of Titus Andronicus was likely Shakespeare’s earliest delve into the…