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Absence as Presence in William Gilding’s Lord of the Flies Author(s): Paula Laid Roy [(essay date 2003) In the following essay, Roy discusses how the lack of female influences in Lord of the Flies impacts the lives of Gilding’s schoolboys not only on the island, but also at home. ] William Gilding’s Lord of the…

Shakespeare’s use of imagery in act one enhances my understanding of the play. The opening scene creates a vivid image of the witches through strong graphic imagery. Shakespeare skillfully utilizes darkness imagery in order to convey the play’s theme and create a dramatic atmosphere. In act one, scene one, the visual dramatics are emphasized as…

The Crucible is a authoritative drama written by Arthur Miller, there were many characters, along with a alone plot line. There were 20 characters in the book that played separate but of import functions throughout. First there were the tree supporters in the book, John Proctor, Abigail Williams, and Reverend Hale. John Proctor was a…

Appearance and reality, along with the deceptive nature of things, are often subjective in various situations, both in life and in American literature post-Civil War. Authors including Mark Twain, Red Cloud, William Vaughn Moody, George Washington Cable, Koala-As, Howell, Chopin, and Garland explore the concept of things being different from how they appear. It is…

From the early death of her mother at age 13 to the sexual abuse from her own half brothers led to the many mental and emotional breakdowns that made Virginia Woolf, a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness. Most authors are highly educated to become a great success, but Virginia Woolf is not…

Power is a subject used by Shakespeare throughout the drama Macbeth. The secret plan involves Macbeth seeking to derive more power. Lady Macbeth attempts to convert Macbeth to kill Duncan so that he will go male monarch in his topographic point. Macbeth besides is persuaded to kill anyone who threatens his opportunities of being male…

New Criticism approach to Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf, was set in a time period shortly after World War I. An omniscient narrator narrates the novel and it gives the reader response full access of what is happening in the minds of the characters from different points of views. In the…

            Franz Kafka takes his place in the annals of Western literature as an author and unique mind responsible for some of the most surreal, yet socially conscious works in history.  His impact remains so great that in certain situations of severe alienation and social confusion, people often use the term “Kafkaesque” to describe the…

The play Romeo and Juliet tells the story of two young adults who fall in love, but are unable to be together due to a long-standing feud between their families. “Did Franco Zeffili’s film adaptation of Shakespeare’s play ‘Romeo and Juliet’ surpass the original?” Certainly, Zeffili’s film was an enhancement of Shakespeare’s play as he…

Couple had a nature within him to compose about his milieus, and he critiqued it through his satirical commentary. When the populace made this undertaking hard, he was forced to develop different types of masks for his sarcasms, his chief one being wit. That is one ground why Twain is widely regarded as one of…