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Another Howard Days has come and gone, leaving behind a bevy of great memories. This year the theme was “Robert E. Howard in the Comics” and the guest was, appropriately enough, Tim Truman. Tim is a veteran comic artist and writer, who has been the creative cornerstone of the Dark Horse Conan series for the…

Charles Dickens, Charles Dickens uses foreshadowing to further the plot of the novel. Dickens foreshadows the plot in a number of ways. In Chapter Five of Book One, Dickens the wine that spills into the streets as a metaphor for the blood spilled in the revolution. Outside of a wine-shop, a wine cask is broken…

Shakespeare takes on the challenge of immediately captivating the interest and anticipation of his audience in Act 1 Scene 1. He achieves this through various techniques that effectively convey a sense of an underlying issue. From the very first line, there is an uncertain feeling as Barnardo asks, “who’s there?” This short sentence shows his…

This sonnet is the narrative a poet proclaiming the magnificence of his muse and his talentless use of her. The first line reads: “Whist I alone did call upon thy aid”, “Aid” here can take on several meanings for example: “help” or “a loan. ” One definition that Shakespeare is noted as having coined according…

The opening lines of “My Last Duchess” by Browning establish the Duke of Ferrara as the speaker who will recount the tale of his deceased wife to the Count’s emissary. This form of dramatic monologue allows for a merging of Browning’s identity with that of the character, enabling a dominant perspective from the first-person narration…

Compare the way in which the 2 films Frankincense and Edward Scissor Hands represent stories of the misunderstood outcast in society. The sass’s black and white film Frankincense by James Whale and sass’s film Edward Scissor Hands by Tim Burton are two movies about a misunderstood creation that is seen as an outcast and practically…

Analyse how a conflict was used to explore a theme in the written text(s) In ‘Macbeth’ written by William Shakespeare, the theme of the destructive nature of unchecked ambition and its negative consequences was explored through Macbeth’s internal conflict, which was between his moral values and his ambitious thoughts. Through the metaphor of sleep, Macbeth’s…

Iago plays a major part in the downfall of Othello and the tragic conclusion of the play by twisting the truth and lying to Othello to convince him of Desdemona’s infidelity. He works with the actions of the other characters to bring about Othello’s demise whilst letting Othello jump to conclusions himself, thus making it…

In this essay I will be comparing and contrasting two novels, “Of Mice and Men” and “The Pearl”, both by the American author John Steinbeck. I also will be considering how Steinbeck has interwoven the social and political concerns of that time. John Ernst Steinbeck was born on February 27th 1902 in Salinas, California. He…

The two short stories, The Chrysanthemums by John Steinbeck and Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway are similar in many ways, and are also different in several ways. Though the settings and plots vary, both are sufficient in capturing the importance of women. To begin, both stories take place in the early twentieth century,…