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In The Color Purple, Celie, the main character, expresses her emotions by writing letters to God. She turns to her “diary” as she lacks someone to confide in. Despite facing numerous hardships such as abuse from her stepfather and spouse, Celie demonstrates incredible resilience. The novel depicts a situation where Celie’s husband desires to marry…

Booker Taliaferro Washington was an African American who was inbred in slavery. His birth date was on April 5th, 1856 and died on November 14, 1915, due to high blood pressure. He worked as a slave on the Burroughs Plantation located in Hale’s Ford, Virginia. He had a total of 3 siblings. Two of his…

A dramatic monologue is a type of poem where a single character speaks to one or more individuals, usually discussing a significant subject. The main objective of most dramatic monologues is to give the reader insight into the character’s personality, either in a general sense or through an intimate perspective. A skilled poet can employ…

Aristotle’s ideas about tragedy were recorded in his book of literary theory titled Poetics. In it, he has a great deal to say about the structure, purpose, and intended effect of tragedy. His ideas have been adopted, disputed, expanded, and discussed for several centuries now. The following is a summary of his basic ideas regarding…

The identity of a man is the sole reason why he does what he does. The beginning identity of a man is naturally good. That is not to say that every man is good at the end of his life. It is what a man’s experiences are in life that affects his ending identity. If…

In the Lord of the Flies and in the Stanford Prison Experiment, it shows how the thirst for power corrupts people. According to the psychologist, Scott Barry Kaufman, power isn’t inherently good or evil, rather it’s the person who makes it evil. In the Lord of the Flies, William Golding is arguing the same thing…

Good Morning Fellow Artists for the Dramatic Arts! We all know the reason for which we have gathered here today and thank you for your enthusiasm in wishing to audition for William Shakespeare’s Othello! Now, to be able to convey a character perfectly, one must know the culture, society, personality, relationships and various other components…

Romeo and Juliet isone of Shakespeare’s plays about tragedy. It is about two lovers who commitsuicide when their feuding famillies prevent them from being together. Theplay has many characters, each with its own role in keeping the plot line. Some characters have very little to do with the plot but some have the plotrevolving around…

The rebellion against the humans for the start of communism “Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever” (Orwell pig. 29). The pigs end communism by having more power and having a meeting with humans. Animal Farm is a…

Edgar Allen PoeWho is Edgar Allen Poe? He was a 19th century American writer born to Elizabeth (‘betty’;) Arnold Hopkins and David Poe. (Internet source) Poe was an well-educated individual. He would attend a private school in London and then an academy in Richmond. Later being accepted to the University of Virginia, this however would…