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Jay Gatsby Is one of the pursuers of the American Dream and the mall character In the novel. For him the American Dream means: Rising from rags to riches, of amassing a great fortune that will assure a life of luxuriant ease, power, and beauty in an ideal world untroubled by care and devoted to…

Romeo and Juliet’s well know “star-crossed lovers” tale provides the basis of Stephenie Meyer’s The Twilight Saga New Moon. New moon follows the plot in which Edward Cullen, (a vampire) is in love with Bella Swan, (a human); thus making this love under normal circumstances, forbidden. This element as well as the conflict keeping Edward…

The poem Basking Shark, by Norman MacCaig is a poem which talks about the inequalities that exist in nature due to the overpowering spirit of man. To show this inequality the poet brings the Basking Shark and himself into the picture. The inequality is brought out through the various comparisons that the poet brings out…

The short narrative “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver displays one man’s new found apprehension and credence of a unsighted adult male over a comparatively short period of clip. The storyteller represents the story’s dominant subject of get the better ofing fright and bias of the blind through personal experience every bit good as common regard. The…

gs I Hate About YouChoose one of the various film versions of The Taming of the Shrew, the musical Kiss Me Kate or the recent film Ten Things I Hate About You, and critically evaluate the success or otherwise of this film as an appropriated text. The 1953 film of the musical Kiss Me Kate…

Throughout the world moral and spiritual corruption is found everywhere. Many fall victim to it but some use it as a learning experience. Both Aloud Huxley and William Shakespeare display the affect corruption has on societies through Brave New World and Hamlet. The want to be welcomed by others around drives characters towards decisions they…

Niccolo Machiavelli is an Italian who passionately supports the Florentine republic. He believes that a prince should possess qualities such as mercy, loyalty, sincerity, humanity, and religion, as stated in the book “The Prince.” Machiavelli is considered a genius in political strategy and manipulation, earning him the title “The Da Vinci of politics.” His philosophy…

Incidents In the Life of a Slave Girl: Stripped from Motherhood and Womanhood In Incidents of the Life of a Slave Girl written by Harriet Jacobs in the asses, Harriet Jacobs describes her life as a slave and how she and many of the other slave women were stripped of their motherhood and womanhood on…

In William Goldings Lord of the Flies the Conch represents power and order. Power is represented by the fact that you have to be holding it to speak, and Order is displayed by the meetings or gatherings that its used to call and hold. The Conchs power is presented in the very beginning on pg…

            The Odyssey and Gilgamesh are two of the world’s oldest epics.  Each involves a great hero, and modern scholars have found enough parallels between the two epics that they suggest that Homer was familiar with the older Babylonian epic when he composed The Odyssey.  However, the protagonists in each of these epics are very…