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William Shakespeare’s play ‘Macbeth’ and James McTeigue’s movie ‘V for Vendetta’ explore the conditions which lead to one’s demise. Macbeth’s character is a kinsmen who kills the current king to become king. Furthermore, he continues to kill any being who may be a peril to his crown, but loses control of himself and becomes so…

The gentleman caller in Tennessee William’s “The Glass Menagerie” does represent the hopes and dreams of all we wish for.As Amanda wished for a gentleman caller for Laura, Laura also wished for a gentleman caller to provide her with an escape from her current life.Laura was not desperately trying to get away from her situation…

Can success happen all in one day in someone life? The book Outlier written by Malcolm Gladwell tells the story of success and how people overcome many difficulties. Gladwell states different stories of different types of people that have succeeded in life. Everyone in the book had their own path to their opportunities. The book…

Winston Smith is one of many people in Orwells prediction of the world in the future but is todays past. The world appears as a dark and fearful place where the only rhyme or reason is created by Big Brother, ruler of the state and the head member of the Party. All of the above…

            Raymond Carver’s short story Cathedral and Dudley Randall’s poem Ballad of Birmingham are very different in terms of form and of the literary techniques used. Cathedral is written in a bare and colloquial style, meant to correspond to the point of view of the narrator. Gradually, the style and the tone of the story…

The Nipponese action film Battle Royale is slackly based on the book Lord of The Fliess by William Golding. In the film a category of Nipponese pupils is chosen for the Battle Royale plan. The aim of this “game” is that the childs are taken to a deserted island and given 3 yearss to kill…

“There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge. ” ? Banks Shakespearean play Romeo and Juliet is set in a time when revenge and violence were very common. We live today in what some would say, are very violent times. The reasons that people seek revenge and why they commit violence has…

The Tempest demonstrates fortune as a theme throughout the story. It may be difficult to see how this play demonstrates luck, but if looked at from the right angle it can be found. In the play there are many times when things look bleak, but if you look for the silver lining then you can…

Nathaniel Hawthorne an American romantic author. whose literature is known for its Anti-Transcendentalism. wrote Young Goodman Brown and The Scarlet Letter. Nathaniel Hawthorne is a author during the American Romantics. where the bulk of authorship is focused on nature. supernatural elements ; one’s psychological science and the unfavorable judgment of society’s “norm” . Nathaniel is…

Robert Browning’s verse form “My Last Duchess” is a glorious achievement within the format of the dramatic soliloquy, a poetic form in which there is only one speaker. Because there is only one speaker, we, the readers, must carefully consider what the Duke is telling us, and we often have to read between the lines…