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We can all be monsters in someone else’s view, but what makes you a monster? Can it be a certain creature from ancient literature, a mass murderer or an organization. In When Faiths Collide by Martin Marty, he states “these monstrous figures serve as a metaphor for the unfamiliar, strange, and often menacing faiths that…

Today, the definition of ‘man’ encompasses all of humanity. Therefore, what exactly is human nature? It refers to the usual patterns of behavior displayed by mankind. Every individual has both positive and negative traits. Sometimes, their kindness prevails, while other times, their evil side dominates. Different qualities like respectfulness, love, and selfishness define a person….

Toni Morrison narrates the main character in her novel by coming to the real source of his post-traumatic stress disorder (Ibarrola). Home is set in the aftermath of the Korean war (Brockes). Toni Morrison writes in the novel Home about a poor man named Frank Money. Frank is introduced as a man from the South…

Both lord of the flies and Cattle are speculative fiction texts which serve as a warning to mankind BY releases Lord of the flies written by William Gilding and Cattle produced by Andrew Niccole, 1997 are both speculative fictions as they forewarn humanity by creating a reduced but parallel reality to our own society in…

Literature reflects the society with which it was created. It is an interwoven account of relevant issues hounding or abounding in a specific place and time which not only describe the present but also embody the future. Short story, as a form of literature, vividly captures and broadens a single yet significant event into a…

Naturalist writers examine the idea that free will holds no importance, humans are on par with animals, and nature can be both hostile and indifferent. These themes are apparent in Jack London’s narrative, “To Build a Fire,” which emphasizes nature’s antagonistic demeanor. Despite the protagonist’s foolish choices, nature did not provide any assistance throughout his…

Revenge is most often defined as ‘the action of hurting or harming someone in return for an injury or wrong suffered at their hands’ (English Oxford Living Dictionary). It is often violent and ruthless. With this definition of revenge in mind, is Shakespeare’s Hamlet a traditional revenge play? No, Hamlet is certainly not a traditional…

“The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.” Hamlet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. Set in Denmark, the play dramatises the revenge Prince Hamlet is called to wreak upon his uncle, Claudius, by the ghost of Hamlet’s father, King Hamlet. The…

In The Odyssey and Beowulf, my opinion is that in both epics the two main heroes share some similar components of characteristics and different components of character traits. The stories also reflected on the importance of their cultures and how this shaped the heroes. In The Odyssey, the historical context of this epic is about…

The Scarlet Letter Pearls have always held a great price to mankind, but no pearl has ever been earned at as high a cost to a person as Nathaniel Hawthorn’s powerful heroine Hester Prone. Her daughter Pearl, born into a Puritan prison in more ways than one, is an enigmatic character serving entirely as a…