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Throughout the crucible social status is shown as the most important thing to any man or women in the town of Salem, people of the town would go to great lengths to maintain a high status which would technically give them more control over the town. This can work towards someone’s advantage or disadvantage. Due…

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…

Although most of Edgar Allen Poe’s most famous works of short fiction are renowned for their unity of expression and the obvious craftsmanship of their respective narratives, Poe’s story “The Black Cat,” remains one of the most troubling and technically complex of his short stories.  Key to the story is the murder of the narrator’s…

Reputation plays a significant role in society every day, depending on actions, words, positions, and expected behavior. It can either be respected or diminished. Some individuals have reputations to uphold and specific guidelines to maintain their positions. In The Crucible, characters demonstrate their true selves and rely on their faith in God while others do…

Revenge, which causes one to act blindly through anger rather than through reason. is based on the principle an eye for an eye. In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the struggle between justice and vengeance consumes Hamlet and eventually demonstrates that the pursuit of revenge ultimately leads to tragedy. Throughout this play, Hamlet contemplates whether it is…

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe : “The Raven” is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. First published in January 1845, the poem is noted for its musicality, language, and supernatural dark atmosphere. It tells of a talking raven’s mysterious visit to a distraught lover, tracing the man’s slow fall into madness,The…

Benjamin Banneker wrote this letter to attempt to make the Secretary of State, Thomas Jefferson, aware of the oppressive and horrifying nature of the slave trade that Banneker’s ancestors had been in for generations. Banneker uses tone, ethos, logos, pathos, syntax, juxtaposition, and scheme to sympathize with Jefferson about former hardships to perhaps reach common…

T. S. Eliot wrote The Waste Land in 1921, as a response to the devastation he saw in society in the wake of World War 1. Critics at the time were divided: some believed it to be deliberately obtuse and unreadable, others “canonized the poem as the exemplar of a kind of high modernism that…

Social Issue, Symbols, and Themes of Blake’s “The Chimney Sweeper” Poems During the seventeenth century, people in England substituted burning wood with coal to use their fireplaces to avoiding paying hearth taxes. The burning of coal left soot on the interior walls of the fireplaces that needed to be removed to keep the fireplaces clean….

 The Spike was about George Rowel’s life while living in London. At this time Orwell was living in London in spikes, which are shelters. Times were hard, Orwell had no money, and he lived in a variety of shelters. You could only stay at spikes one night at a time. If you went to two…