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“This patient romantic hopefulness against existing conditions symbolizes Gatsby” – Edwin Clark, 1925 for the New York Times “The queer charm, colour, wonder and drama of a young and wreckless world”- William Rose Benet, 1925 “Their idiotic pursuit of sensation, their almost incredible stupidity and triviality, their glittering swinishness—these are the things that go into…

Additionally, this is the first occasion in the entirety of the play where Hamlet is aware of the truth conveyed by the ghost and his subsequent actions are rational. Hamlet deliberately portrays himself as mad and behaves foolishly (such as killing Polonium) as a result. Hamlet hopes that Alerter can comprehend that he is not…

Circe and Odysseus engage in a heated argument over the fact that Circe transforms his companions into pigs. Circe refuses to reverse the spell unless Odysseus sleeps with her. During their dispute, Odysseus declares, “How dare you ask me to treat you warmly? You, who changed my men into swine in your own abode, now…

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) explores the themes of love, friendship, and loyalty in his plays A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1600) and King Lear (1603-1606), presenting them with inconsistencies that can be better understood by considering the historical context in which he wrote. During the Renaissance, Shakespeare’s critical examination of these themes was significant for understanding the…

Theft; the act or instance of stealing ones good without their consent. It is a bad habit that is often acquired and is insidious. Once developed one often justify it with fallacious reasoning to convince themselves that it is indeed normal. This was complex Marya, from the short story Theft by Joyce Carol Oates went…

HAMLET’S FATAL FLAW:  THE ROLE OF OEDIPAL COMPLEX, IDEALISM, AND INDECISION  IN SHAKESPEARE’S HAMLET by Khai Nguyen Paper #2B: Research Paper.  Draft #2 Prepared in Partial Completion of Requirements for English 201 with Professor Floren at MiraCosta College 6 October 2005 Table of Contents Thesis: His idealism in combination with his repressed desires for his mother…

Major Works Data Sheet Details of the setting (include changes in setting) Significance of setting to the meaning of the work The Scarlet Letter is set in Boston in the mid-sass’s. There are a number of different settings inside this, including Timescale and Clownishness’s quarters, the scaffold at night and day, Hester cottage, the Governor’s…

On the date of July 21, 1899 Ernest Hemingway, a now known brilliant writer, was born. Hemingway was conceivably the only writer to achieve the combination of international celebrity and literary stature in the twentieth century. Hemingway was brought up in the village of Oak Park, Illinois, close to the prairies and woods west of…

Nathaniel Hawthorne uses many people as symbols throughout The Scarlet Letter. The characters of Hester Prying, Arthur Timescale, Pearl, and Roger Chlorinating all represent sin. However, these four symbolize different aspects of sin. Through the character of Hester Prying, Hawthorne shows how sin can make a person stronger. When Hester commits adultery, the Puritan punishment…

“Now we have an American masterpiece in its final form; the original crystal has shaped itself into the true diamond.”(James Dickey)The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald is deemed to be a trueclassic in all terms. The Novel is a timeless masterpiece that any era throughouthistory can relate to. “Though written in the 1920’s…