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Romeo and Juliet met at a Caplet’s ball and instantly fell in love. Despite being from rival families, their love prevailed over their differences. They decided to marry in hopes of bringing an end to the ongoing feuds between their families. However, upon Juliet’s return home, she discovered her parents had already arranged a secret…

Simply stated, pupils should analyze Shakespeare ’ s works in school because of the unbelievable value within them. In add-on to exposing pupils to a battalion of literary techniques, Shakespeare ’ s plays challenge the pupil with hard linguistic communication and manner, show a profound cognition of human behaviour and offer penetration into the universe…

Story response log 19 : “Wakefield” – Nathaniel Hawthorne Setting: In the city of London, England in a span of 20 years Characters: -Mr. Wakefield- A middle aged man, who one day decides to leave his home, and return many years later, as if nothing has happened -Mrs. Wakefield- Wakefield’s faithful wife, who awaited his…

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark” illustrates how one’s obsessions and moral weakness leads to another’s questioning of their self-image and drives the pursuit of perfection in our society. The main character, Aylmer, develops an obsession with becoming a world renowned alchemist, yet falls short when he sets his goals and cannot accomplish them. The unrealistic goals…

All of these scenes show that an individual’s inability to control their selfish desires leads o conflict. Conflict whilst selfish desire is in play, tends to get more aggravated as it is what a certain person wants. Juliet in her case has no care or intention whatsoever to follow her generations hatred. At the end…

Symbolism in The Lottery: The use of symbolism is imperative in revealing the deeper meaning behind a story and shedding light on concealed information. In The Lottery, the primary symbol that epitomizes the essence of the story is the black box. Serving as a significant symbol, the black box represents the unyielding tradition of the…

It is evident that several characters throughout the text King Lear written by William Shakespeare move from blindness to a clearer perception. It has been said that King Lear is about a tragedy of “man going sane. ” In Shakespearean terms, blind has a different meaning than modern English. Blindness is normally defined as the…

Madness is a prevalent theme in ‘Mrs Dallway’ and is expressed primarily, and perhaps most obviously through the characters Septimus Warren Smith and Clarissa Dalloway – however the theme is also explored more subtly in more minor characters such as Lucrezia and Mrs Kilman. Virgina Woolf’s own issues inspired her greatly, as she herself suffered…

Most of Shakespeare’s plays are conceived around a foundation in either tragedy or comedy, this polarity of themes allowing him to experiment with the full range of human emotions. Typically, an integral part of a Shakespearean tragedy is love, which is frustrated by a breakdown in order, or the character of the hero, due to…

Emily Dickinson, as a poetic writer, composed most of her works with the theme of death, the entirety of which can be categorised into three different periods of writings; the earliest mainly contained the themes of death and immortality, personifying death and elegiac poems and lacked the intensity and urgency of her later poems or…