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Samuel Johnson and John Keats both have work on criticizing Shakespeare. Both filled with an observation of how he wrote. Samuel Johnson praises Shakespeare’s work before he criticizes it. He praises Shakespeare by saying “[he] is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature, the poet that holds up to…

In William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, Antonio is saved from death, giving him a sense of release and implying that the old Jew received deserved punishment. Present-day American society deems it unfair to discriminate based on religious beliefs as we are all equal. In the 1500’s, Shylock was seen as a covetous Jew with…

Plot Summary Jean Louise Finch (Scout) starts out to be a very immature child not knowing the prejudice times that surround herself, her brother Jem, and her father Atticus Finch in the town on Maycomb. Scout must learn to mature as acquaintances accuse her father, a lawyer, of being a “nigger-lover” for defending a black…

Ray Bradbury’s 1953 Fahrenheit 451 contains a number of interesting stylistic devices. Robert Reilly praises Bradbury for having a style “like a great organ. …” (73). David Mogen comments on the novel’s “vivid style” (110). Peter Sisario applauds the “subtle depth” of Bradbury’s allusions (201), and Donald Watt pursues Bradbury’s bipolar “symbolic fire” (197) imagery….

EssaysBurning Questions in Fahrenheit 451 For an author to grab hold of their reader’s attention, demanding they listen and understand the meaning behind a work, they must develop the skill to understand their audience’s preferences or curiosities. Fulfilling these emotions in his readers, Ray Bradbury creates a unique futuristic society, consisting of distorted character personalities…

In Part One, I detailed my discovery of the 1923 Little Blue Book (or LBB), Theosophy in Outline, by Frederick Willis and how it appeared to be source for Howard’s use of theosophical themes in some of his early works, like “Men of the Shadows,” rather than the previously proposed source, W. Scott-Elliot’s book The…

Death is a shared human experience and therefore a universal theme in literature.  Poetry, fiction, and drama venture into the dark recesses of life by exploring the inevitable fate of everyone and everything that breathes. Death differs from person to person and the treatment of death in literature differs from author to author. Similarly intoxicating…

An unfairness can be defined as a misdemeanor of another’s rights. In literature. writers use the component of unfairnesss as the vocal point of the narrative. The importance of a vocal point is polar in a narrative because it is the skeleton of the piece. The narrative is founded upon the being of the unfairness…

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen marvelously portrays the life of a middle-class country family in England during the early nineteenth century. The family, the Bennets, is presently engaged in finding suitable (rich) husbands for their five daughters. The main character, Elizabeth Bennet, is an intelligent, witty, and opinionated young woman. She has already rebuffed…

Introduction “Look at me, so pail, weak and powerless. This can’t be me. I used to be so strong, so beautiful. Now, I feel so lonely and so near to my death. Section 1 I remember the day of my wedding, how could I even forget that day, the day that I was so foolish…