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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…

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,…

Sequel After a few minutes of sobbing, the boys got themselves together and began looking at each other. Everyone was silent until the naval officer came back to where the barbaric boys were standing. “Chief Ralph,” said the officer, “Tell everyone to come abroad. ” Before, Ralph could turn around to tell them, a huge…

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…

Despite the decline in personal and societal morality over the past century, it is clear that every civilization still maintains a universal standard of ethics today. Similarly, communities continue to impose consequences on individuals who do not meet those principles. The severity of the punishment depends on the offender, the offense, and the society itself….

Regarded In literary histories and handbooks as: the architect of the modern short story, * also the principal forerunner of the “art for art’s sake” movement in nineteenth- century European literature. Life Poe was the son of professional actors who died before he was 3 years old, and he was raised In the home of…

            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…