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The Prince, Machiavelli’s Economy of Violence Machiavelli was an Italian historian, statesman, and political philosopher, whose amoral, but influential writings on power building have turned his name into a synonym for cunning and duplicity. I personally feel he is a genius. Niccolo Machiavelli was born on May 3, 1469, in Florence, Italy. He eventually became…

In 1936, regular readers of Weird Tales must have thought Robert E. Howard was having a good year. In the first seven months, Howard had serials or stories in six issues, of which two were voted the best story in their issues, and in July he had the cover, illustrated by Margaret Brundage. Even in…

An hour, once it lodges in the queer elements of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented by the timepiece of the mind by one second. -Virginia Woolf The purpose of this paper is to take a…

Some themes in the novel can also be applied to society as a whole, highlighting their significance. Gatsby represents the idealistic state of society during the time of publication, where wealth, greed, and recklessness were central to an ideal life. This theme adds two layers of meaning to the novel’s title. Firstly, it suggests that…

The play Macbeth depicts evil as a potent and ruinous force that inflicts harm upon both its adopters and their victims. Both the main character, Macbeth, and his wife Lady Macbeth are entangled in the clutches of this malevolence. Evil compels individuals to partake in unnatural and harmful deeds. Macbeth’s tragic flaw, his insatiable greed,…

The SupernatualThere was a strong role of a supernatural force in Macbeth. The witches supposedly had a power to see the future. Or perhaps they had the power to change the future. Then there was the three ghosts that predicted the future. And of course the bloody dagger that appears to Macbeth before is going…

The human condition follows the path of fate. Everyone makes choices out of their own free will which affects their life at that time, but will ultimately lead to their pre- determined fate. People inflict their own wounds during their life by the choices that they make. This applies in Romeo and Juliet and plays…

John Steinbeck is the author of this text. His life dates from 1902 to 1968. He hails from Salinas, in a moderately well up family. His writing career dates from 1925. His first published work includes a series of humor filled stories about Monterey paisanos, widely known as ‘Tortilla Flat’. A close look at his…

17 September – It is almost five years since Willy’s death but the pain and guilt still haven’t gone away. I still fell that I should have taken better care of him.24 September – Biff has given up looking for the job Willy always wanted him to do – an office job. He said that…

The Story of an Hour is a narrative of a adult female who, through the mistakenly reported decease of her hubby, experienced true freedom. Both tragic and dry, the narrative trades with the boundaries imposed on adult females by society in the 19th century. The writer Kate Chopin, like the character in her narrative, had…