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The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, portrays the story of the Salem Witch Trials and the chaos brought with it. It illustrates how hysteria and lust for power can go out of control and create permanent change, along with damage. Throughout the story, we see how the empowerment of previously powerless individuals impacted the trials, along…

The Iliad and the Odyssey are two of the best Greek epics written by Homer. Despite their popularity, almost nothing is known about the author beyond the existence of his masterpieces. Surprisingly enough no concrete evidence of his existence is available; not even to confirm the same person created the two works. The authorship of…

The American Dream is something every American family strives to achieve some families push too hard to get to the place where they feel that they have achieved this dream; this is the case in the life of the Lomen family. The Lomen’s are the typical American family in the 1940’s. Willy and his wife…

Throughout the book “The Last Night of the World” by Ray Bradbury, there are a lot of vague generalizations that are left unanswered. Ray Bradbury is known for his descriptive literature and vast amounts of emotion and mystery; most of which is never completely understood by the reader. Ray Bradbury is well known for his…

A deepened appreciation of the beauties of nature. When Frankincense was dealing with the stress of the creature killing his family members, he found comfort in appreciating nature in solitude. A general exaltation of emotion over reason and of the senses over intellect. After Frankincense dies, the Creature is remorseful. He says that he let…

In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, there is a horrendous catastrophe that revolves around Hamlet, the prince of Denmark. Hamlet involves romance, disastrous events, and death. Throughout the play, Hamlet is a prince who fails to take action whenever he needs to, leads to everyone around him getting hurt and in the end, he himself gets hurt….

            It was said that nationalism brought Machiavelli in writing his  book, “The Prince”. With the unstable Italian state in his time, Machiavelli devised some methods in procuring a stable state towards progress and development with an established national identity. Based on this we can actually say that Machiavelli is not totally authoritarian, though the…

There are many ways in which Duncan is portrayed as a weak King in the short time he is seen in the play. His political naivety is one of the first issues brought to light in ‘Macbeth’. One of the worst things that could happen during a King’s reign is taking place; the country’s in…

Jacky Zou Book Summary and Analysis: 1984 by George Orwell. In the novel, Winston Smith is a low-ranking member of the Party in London, located in the nation of Oceania. He faces a life of oppression and control as the Party watches him and everyone else through “telescreens”. The screens display their seemingly all-knowing leader,…

The impact of internal forces that are influenced by external forces results in Macbeth’s tragic downfall. Macbeth represents a true tragic hero who’s downfall is caused by his internal tragic flaw of ambition. Our initial impression of Macbeth is a brave and capable warrior. However, The external forces that influence Macbeth internally are the Witches…