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Since I’ve been reading so much Shakespeare lately, I can’t help but think of the two playwrights together. Shakespeare and Chekhov are my two favorite dramatists (which makes me feel a bit conventional, but sometimes conventions come about for good reasons), and they both share a profound ability to create fully rounded, psychologically complex characters….

An Analytical Essay Introduction      The metaphorical presentation of people in different stories have long been used by authors to actually send their messages to the readers in a much indirect procedure. However, in the story of Kafka entitled “Metamorphosis”, the use of an animal is more of an actualization of the person, in fact,…

The Crucible and McCarthyism had the same core concept; however, McCarthyism was a genuine political era in America where Senator McCarthy aimed to instill fear that communism was infiltrating the government. On the other hand, the Crucible revolved around a group of individuals accusing others of witchcraft. Despite the Salem witch trials taking place in…

How is the abuse of power shown in the two works that you have studied? The works I have studied and will be exploring in this essay are Mary Shelly’s ‘Frankenstein’ and Joseph Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’. In ‘Frankenstein’ the abuse of power is most clearly exhibited by the protagonist of the story Frankenstein himself,…

Bismillah hir-Rahman nir-Raheem. Rhetorical Analysis: Amy Tan’s Mother Tongue” vs. James Baldwin’s “If Black English Isn’t a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?” In this essay, I have compared the rhetorical analysis of Amy Tan’s Mother Tongue” with James Baldwin’s “If Black English Isn’t a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?” In her essay Mother…

In 1955, L. Sprague de Camp published a posthumous collaboration with Robert E. Howard, Tales of Conan, consisting of four non-Conan stories written by Howard that were rewritten by de Camp as Conan stories.   This was followed by Conan the Adventurer in 1966 which contained 3 stories by Howard (edited by de Camp) and…

Feeling the “Misery” by Anton ChekhovMany great writers have been overlooked by students, who thought that literature was only homework in school. A lot of students, including myself, did not think that one can feel several emotions from a short story such as this piece by Chekhov. I guess we should always think that these…

Shakespeare wrote the play, Macbeth, which features the character, Macbeth who turns evil. Lucas made the Star Wars movies which feature the hero, Anakin Skywalker, who succumbs to the dark side. Both men have conflicting issues that lead to their downfall. Anakin Skywalker and Macbeth were both once heroes. Anakin Skywalker had done many heroic…

“Old Candy watched him go. He looked helplessly back at Curley’s wife, and gradually his sorrow and his anger turned into words. ‘You God damn tramp,’ he said viciously. You done it di’n’t you? I s’pose you’re glad. ’” Curley’s wife is a key character to ‘Of Mice and Men’ because she plays such a…

Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Mary Shelley’s Frakenstein are two authoritative pieces of literature that are deserving analyzing. This essay will discourse the thoughts and constructs of parenting in both books. While some features are shared between the two. there are besides differences. The specific subjects to be discussed are what makes a good…