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James Joyce and Ernest Hemingway are two writers who chose to write stories about human nature and life with sincerity and clarity regarding their characters’ thoughts, emotions, actions, and relationships with others. In Joyce’s The Dead,” the main character Gabriel Conroy is portrayed as a detached man from the people he used to be close…

Writing to Clyde Smith on May 9, 1931, Howard mentions two new pulps, Strange Tales and Soldiers of Fortune, and states he will be submitting stories to both of them and suggests Smith write something for Soldiers of Fortune, a historical story magazine: I see where the Claytons are bringing out a new magazine dealing with weird…

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…

INTRODUCTION When someone told you there’s an earthquake going on somewhere in the country, you smile but you don’t quite know why. You giggled to yourself when a famous celebrity died with unknown reasons and you laugh hysterically when one of your close friend mysteriously commited suicide. It’s that kind sick fascination that had me…

            Frankenstein’s monster, perhaps, one of the most well known characters of fictional writing is seen to be the embodiment of a detached being with no propensity for caring and loving.  Much like this well known character, another character, Edward Scissorhands is also portrayed as a detached being who is uneasy with all human interactions…

For example, the conflict of the Capsules and the Montages is stated at the very beginning of the play. These two families are of equal noble rank, “[I]n fair Verona, break to new mutiny, where civil blood makes civil hands unclean “(Shakespeare pro 1-4 ). Both families obtain similar identities and wealth. Unfortunately, they are…

Pearl, the product of two people’s lack of obedience towards the community’s rules, is a constant reminder to both Hester and Timescale of their wrongdoings and deviant behavior. Both Hester Prying and Arthur Timescale suffer a sense of responsibility for their actions, however, their punishments are handled in different manners, one through public humiliation, and…

“Setting” is a word used to describe the place, time, assumptions and values of a society In a story. In the Scarlet Letter, the setting was in the Puritan town of Salem In Massachusetts Bay Colony circa 1640. Being that the era and location of the backdrop is in a 17th century Protestant Puritan village,…

Charles Dickens wrote Great Expectations, which was first published in 1861, just eleven years after the Great Exhibition in London. The Great Exhibition showcased the best of England and its empire to the world, highlighting Britain’s position as the greatest and most powerful nation during that time. The novel’s second book begins with the statement:…

The Iliad is one of the most prized pieces of Western Literature because of the illustriousness of the narrative. The assortment of the Olympic Gods in Greek mythology offers a figure of different personalities. Unlike the conventional definition of an omnipotent. omniscient and benevolent of God. the Olympians had their ain personalities and acted based…