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In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, composed in the late nineteenth century, the creator suggests that learning and innovation can be hazardous to people and all of humanity. In the conflict between morality and science it is less intense in the real world today than in the fictional world of Frankenstein. In today’s world knowledge and new…

The story “Everyday Use” written by Alice Walker, a famous African American author, is a story where the whole meaning of the story is completely dependent on how different these two sisters are. Often time children raised together in the same household, then logic may dictate that these children will most likely have a similar…

In Act 2, Scene 1, Iago presents himself as the most important individual on stage. Through his actions and his soliloquy the audience are clear on who is moving the scene along. Iago plays the role of bluff soldier in his exchange with Desdemona. This is shown as a mark of his power, and when…

It is in human nature to presume reality, as directly proportional to what individuals experience through their senses and things are visible to the naked eye It is human inclination for people to perceive reality in ways that caters to their ideals or interests even though it may appear out of their imagination, and imagination…

What goes on in a killers mind? This question wonders upon people in society today. Every day a killer has the intention of harming or murdering an innocent person. Many of Edgar Allan Poe’s stories are dark sided, Throughout the short story, “The Tell- Tale Heart“ by Edgar Allan Poe, the narrator produces a massive…

Mrs. Mallard’s heart trouble is ironically designed in the story. The first sentence of the story tells that she “was afflicted with a heart trouble. ” Readers tended to assume that she’s weak physically. But after reading the whole story, we realized that she was also weak emotionally. According to the doctors’ judgment, the “joy”…

In his short story titled simply ‘Elephant’, Raymond Carver focuses on the elephant both literally and figuratively. Literally, when the author used the word elephant as the title for his short story, he made me think of the narrator in the story as hardworking because elephants are hardworking creatures. The narrator works hard to earn…

The Robert Frost Poem “My November Guest” is a very dark and gray poem. The poem takes place in the month of November and the poets sorrow is talking throughout the piece. A man’s sorrow is misunderstood and that is the main focus of this poem Sorrow is a complex statement; it could mean a…

Compare and contrast Henchard and Farfrae as seen by Thomas Hardy In Thomas Hardy’s tragic novel, ‘The Mayor of Casterbridge’, the author creates a foil in the form of Donald Farfrae to emphasize and consequently accentuate the downfall of the protagonist, Michael Henchard. Henchard is shown to be an overly passionate man, who is prone…

Steinbeck presents the concepts of loneliness and isolation in the novel in various ways. He uses the characters, action and the setting as devices to demonstrate the loneliness in the novel. Steinbeck uses the setting of the book to show the theme of isolation and loneliness in the book. An example of Steinbeck using the…