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Hills Like White Elephants, written by Ernest Hemingway, is a story that takesplace in Spain while a man and woman wait for a train. The story is set up as adialogue between the two, in which the man is trying to convince the woman to dosomething she is hesitant in doing. Through out the story,…

Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’ and ‘Emma’, share many obvious traits. Both are classed under the genre ‘comedy of manners’, both centre around life and love in regency England, and both can teach us a great deal about the complex class structure of the time. Although Austen had neither the great wealth and status of…

We are the beasts. We, a group of schoolboys who crashed on this island, have been stranded here for an unknown amount of time. The fear of the beast has consumed all of us, causing our humanity to fade away. It is ourselves that we have been running from. We are like the sole Frankenstein…

In Othello Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists used language to establish and build dramatic atmosphere, to define time, place and character. But in Othello, language is not simply the medium by which the drama is conveyed: in this play language is action. Othello ‘falls’ because he believes a man whose every utterance Is deceptive. When the…

As its most central concept, the whole of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet revolved on the topic of love. However, despite the overexposure of the topic of love that often leads to numerous authors and poets to provide love a shaky and shallow framework, Shakespeare managed to provide a fertile ground on Romeo and Juliet…

Symbolism is one of the major leading and critical part of the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Each character in the novel represents different meanings and ideas. However, the main character who develops into an appealing symbol is Pearl, the daughter of Hester Prynne. Pearl’s representation changes throughout the novel, but she is…

            Pictures portray Emily Dickinson as a seemingly Puritan looking frail young woman with pale skin and a tightly drawn mouth.  Her portraits never exhibit any trace of life or happiness, much as her actual life may have been – empty, sad, and alone, waiting for death.  Dickinson is a noted poet on the subject…

In my previous posts (here and here), there were several unanswered questions. Now, thanks to a few city directories, I can fill in some of the blanks regarding Robert E. Howard’s cousin, Earl Lee Comer. As we have seen, Comer received training as a draftsman for part of his World War I enlistment. Following his…

Have you ever wondered if there would be another writer as influential as Shakespeare? Some may say it is a poet or novelist, but others, such as author John Lahr, say its Tennessee Williams. Lahr claims that Williams is influential and expresses talent in his works and that he is, “The world’s greatest talent since…

The narrative “The Happy Prince” has at least three subjects. The first subject of the narrative is that outward beauty is nil. It is merely a show. The existent beauties are love and forfeits. The 2nd subject is that love and forfeit are two salvaging forces. The 3rd subject is that there is great spread…