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LOVE Attitudes towards love in The Great Gatsby and Elizabeth Barrett-Browning’s poems are greatly at odds in general terms (Fitzgerald presents love as a destructive power born of the past, whereas EBB regards it as a redeeming hope for the future), but within these differences parallels can be found. These include: Love is personal and…

Louise Mallard vs. Eveline Calm, careful, and trapped, three adjectives that could describe the two women in these short stories. “Eveline’ by James Joyce is the story of a woman who struggles with the idea of leaving her family and going off to live with her future husband Frank. She says, “Then she would be…

The role of the family in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman;Introduction;Arthur Miller’s play Death of a Salesman (1948) can be seen as a play that depicts a portrayal of ‘the American Family`. Willy Lohmann, the main character, and his family – wife Linda and sons Biff and Happy – represent all aspects of the…

Although love may occasionally show itself as a muse of Romantic poetry it has very little to do with Romanticism. Romanticism is considered to be an international artistic and philosophical movement that redefined the fundamental ways in which people in Western cultures thought about themselves and about their world.(Brooklyn College) The early Romantic period begins…

The discrimination of adolescents has increased over the years. Adults and media of modern day society discriminate all adolescents’ behavior based on a small minority of teens. This is due to the behavior of adolescents, the media’s perception of teens, and as a result, the only way to end this madness is a compromise. First…

The play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is filled with elements of fantasy that can be seen throughout the entire story. These fantastical aspects have connections to the real world. However, it’s important to note that in this play, the fantasy and real worlds remain separate and never overlap. The inhabitants of the fairy world are…

Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, thedescendent of a long line of Puritan ancestors, including John Hathorne, apresiding magistrate in the Salem witch trials. After his father was lost at seawhen he was only four, his mother became overly protective and pushed him towardmore isolated pursuits. Hawthorne’s childhood left him…

The common theme of greed is shared among all three short stories by Anton Chekhov, Guy de Maupassant, and Leo Tolstoy. In “The Bet,” a man’s own greedy nature leads him to spend fifteen years in isolation. Similarly, in Maupassant’s “The False Gems,” a man becomes consumed by greed after discovering his wife’s infidelity. Lastly,…

Color symbolism is often used by authors to convey deeper meanings in their writing, and this holds true for Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald clearly incorporates a range of colors throughout his work, with yellow, white, and green being particularly prominent. However, there are additional colors like silver, blue, and red that may not…

Immortal Men of the Pages: A Study of Homer’s Odysseus and Shakespeare’s Prospero             The places of Homer and Shakespeare in the history of the world can no longer be debated.  Their collection of written works has echoed through the times to influence literary movements until the present day.  Enshrined in their immortal pages are…