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Hero’s Journey basically defines itself. You may think that there is no meaning behind the words “Hero’s Journey”. Though there is a whole other meaning to this, the main important stages are The Ordinary World, Call to Adventure, Refusal of the Quest, Accepting the Call, Entering the Unknown, Supernatural Help, Talisman, Allies/Helpers, Tests, Supreme Ordeal,…

            Robert Frost’s 1914 poem “Mending Wall” is less about an actual wall than about the divisions between people, and how civil relations with one’s neighbors depend heavily on how they mutually define their space and work to maintain the separation.             The context is rural New England; indeed, Frost spend much of his life…

A French philosopher once said that the greatest tyranny of democracy was whenthe minority ruled the majority. Upton Sinclairs The Jungle gives the readera great example of exactly this. A man who earns his living honestly and throughhard work will always be trapped in poverty, but a man who earns his livingthrough lies and cheating…

“Chronometer” to designate the Spatial-Temporal matrix, which governs the base condition of all narratives and other linguistic acts. The term itself can be literally translated as “Time-space”. The term is developed in Backhand’s essay, “Forms of Time and Chronometer In the Novel”. Baking in his essay says that “a literary work’s artistic unity in relationship…

The central theme of A Doll’s House by Ibsen is the emancipation of women, which is evident throughout the play. Ibsen explores the theme of women’s emancipation by highlighting the issues stemming from a doll-like marriage. In Act I, various hints suggest the dynamics of Nora and Torvald’s relationship. Nora appears to be a puppet…

The central message of Lord of the Flies is that human beings do not naturally possess a moral nature. All individuals have the potential for evil within them, and their moral principles are merely superficial. However, it is crucial for individuals to uphold their moral integrity in order to behave ethically, maintain societal order, and…

The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald is an American novel that reflects the impact money has on society. F. Scott Fitzgerald exemplifies certain protagonists establishing their power through money and utilizing the wealth to manipulate others. In the Great Gatsby, money is the foundation of power which allows certain protagonists the privilege of…

In William Shakespeare’s tragic play “Hamlet”, Shakespeare highlighted the question of sanity and the range of sentimental feelings of Hamlet regarding his father’s death in order to illustrate potential conflicts when one’s reality is another’s illusion. In this Conversation with the audience, Hamlet considers the invented reactions of an actor to the pretend circumstances of…

The novel was written as a historical fiction and romance tome, but it holds immense symbolic significance as well. The most familiar symbols found in the novel are the scarlet letter, the town scaffold, the meteor, Pearl, and the rosebush next to the prison door, but probably the most recognizable of those are the scarlet…

The Salem Witch Trials, which were depicted in Arthur Miller’s book “The Crucible,” were driven by corruption and gullibility, resulting in panic and fear in Salem. The story revolves around a group of girls led by Abigail, who engage in dancing in the woods. Their activities were discovered by Abigail’s uncle, Samuel Parris, who is…