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The Epilogue of the Tempest by William Shakespeare is an excellent — if not the best — example ofShakespeare’s brilliance. In 20 lines Shakespeare is able to write an excellent ending to his play, whilespeaking through his characters about Shakespeare’s own life and career. Even more amazingly, heseemlessly ties the two together. In the context…

Introduction: The Poet Who Contained Multitudes Born in 1819, hardly 43 years after the United States had proclaimed their independence from Britain, Walt Whitman is considered the most representative poet of the America of the XIX century, an America where the growing States were not only struggling to develop their political entities and institutions, but…

In Toni Morrison’s Jazz, the character Violet Trace finds it challenging in her struggles to get used to life in the Harlem after she travels from the rural South to the North. Violet migrates to the North in Harlem as part of the African American Great Migration from the rural South. Violet travel to the…

One of the underlying subjects in Shakespeare’s drama. King Lear is the construct of the coevals spread. This spread is chiefly illustrated between the household. The older coevals is Lear himself. and the younger coevals consists of his girls Goneril. Regan and Cordelia. In the 2nd secret plan of the drama. Gloucester represents the older…

The significance of Act 3 scene 5 lies in the strong connection it forms with the audience in Romeo and Juliet. The emotions of Juliet have a profound impact on the audience, who are aware of the secret marriage between her and Romeo, in contrast to their parents: Lord and Lady Capulet, and Lord and…

The change in atmosphere in scene one is primarily attributed to Polonius. This is depicted at the beginning of the act when Polonius is recruiting a spy to monitor his son’s behavior. Initially, the scene is amusing and dubious as Polonius feigns trust in his son, but in reality, he is apprehensive enough to hire…

The Puritan society persecutes Hester Prying for committing adultery, while the persecutors themselves are guilty of hypocrisy. Hawthorne exposes the true two-faced mind-set of the Puritans through their regard of corporal punishment: “[The] society shall have grown corrupt enough to smile, instead of shuddering at it” (39). Hawthorne inserts his own commentary, averring that the…

Discuss about identities includes different ways of how people act, feel and think. People sometimes change their identities just because they want to join or fit in some groups, but they do not really act as how they are. David Berreby explains that in his article “It Takes A Tribes”. He explains how students try…

Introduction: Blacks vs Higher Education Slavery and discrimination against Black people were ingrained within society in America’s past. higher education institutions in America were no different, as there is a has a strong connection between universities in America and the slave trade. Two of the oldest and most renown institutions in America today, Harvard University…

In the stories “The Glass Menagerie,” “Death of a Salesman,” and “A Raisin in the Sun,” there are many things in common. The most common thing in all of them, I felt, was how all the families had “American” problems. In “The Glass Menagerie,” the “American” problem was a family dealing with an ill member….