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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 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…

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…

Fictional content is often written to present imaginary which may not be true. They are however important in deepening our understanding of other people’s perspectives about life. They also help the reader to have a different picture about the world. In this essay, we review Hemingway ‘Soldier’s Home’ with the intention of establishing how fiction…

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…

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….

The texts chosen for this annotated bibliography are “The Story of an Hour” and “How To Tell a True War Story”. These novels were at top choice because they presented a sufficient amount of evidence and detail as to how they correlate. Chopin and O’Brien effectively displayed their purpose for writing the stories with the…

In the Ted Talk, “The Dangers of a Single Story,” the Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, explains stereotypes, and how they make one story become the only story. She uses many smaller stories to create the main message itself. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie warns us that if we hear only a single story about another person,…

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…

The change that Jack London attempts to incite in the world, in his short story To Build a Fire, is the same approach that humankind takes to nature. It is very obvious that London has a certain respect for the power of nature and he wants his readers to understand it as a healthy fear….