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Within the Crucible, there lies a complex narrative affecting the histories and occurrences environing the 1692 Salem enchantress tests in Salem, Massachusetts. Act 1 of the Crucible sets up the flowering of events which lead to hex accusals and increasing superstitious notion among the Puritan community. The Crucible reveals the intriguing and malicious character of…

The Enlightenment Period was marked by new ways of thinking. Enlightenment thinkers questioned many things, including the role of the government, religion, and the rights of man. During the Enlightenment Period, the role of an eighteenth century European woman was to be a mother and a housewife. Many Enlightenment thinkers, such as Jean- Jacques Rousseau…

Rationale Sigmund Freud created the exact technique of analyzing the human psyche, or the mind, which we now call psychoanalysis. In 1926, Freud emphasized the value of using the method when he stated in his book that “As a depth psychology, a theory of the mental unconscious, it can become indispensable to all the sciences…

The play Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller focuses on the events leading to the death of Willy Loman. Despite being a father to two men, they were not truly his sons. Once they were legitimate sons, but a significant incident changed everything. The family’s past has been obscured by a web of lies,…

This quote is often used by physicists and other scientists, and it holds true in various aspects. In literature, a character that contrasts and enhances another character is called a “foil.” When two characters serve as foils to each other, they have opposing views and personalities, but their presence together highlights their qualities. Chinua Achebe’s…

Loneliness is a disease. It eats away at people slowly, gradually tearing them limb from limb. It is a virus that send some people insane, some turn senile, I am lonely no friends, no one to talk to either. Crazy old world these days isn’t it when even a black Negro cannot have his own…

Iago, in my opinion, is the most interesting character in Othello. He is extremely complex and his wicked ways are somewhat compelling, drawing the audience into the story. Most criticism of Othello has focussed on the culpability of the two male protagonists. Thomas Rymer (1693), one of the earliest and most negative critics, has criticized…

Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s most dramatic tragedies, making the most tensed work that he’s ever done. The play was written during the reign of King James 1st, at a time where England was not an industrial, scientific and urban society as it is now, therefore the themes of the book have striking relevance to…

New Historicism & Marxist Literary Criticism on “A Cask of Amontillado” “A Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe was first published in 1846 in an American magazine. The historical context of this piece is as much about revenge as the plot in the story itself. During this time, Poe had acquired a bitter rival…

Anne Bradstreet and Mary Rowlandson were two influential women in early American literature. They were both women of “firsts”. Anne Bradstreet’s poems were the first published volume written by an American (110). I found it amazing that Bradstreet, a woman, was the first considering how women were looked upon in matters of literature and science….