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“They are not your husband” is a short story written by Raymond Carver. The story is written in the third person and is about a man called Earl Ober, who is an unemployed salesman, and his wife (Doreen) who works at a twenty-four-hour coffee shop. After a night out drinking (as usual) he decides to…

Mid-term Break Seamus Heaney’s ‘Mid-Term Break’ is a shocking and heart-rending poem about a schoolboy going through the after effects of the death of his four years old younger brother. It shows the reader the emotions and events that the boy has to go through, and explains what the words ‘Mid-term Break’ really mean to…

The play The Importance of Being Earnest brilliantly exemplifies the concept of satire. Through the clever deployment of satirical devices like irony, sarcasm, and farce, the author ridicules the Victorian society. Wilde frequently targets the societal norms that were disregarded, while also critiquing the upper class for their self-perception as the patriarchs of British society….

The lines of poetry I have just recited are stanzas 1-3 of Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening. In this poem Frost conveys the idea of a man stopping by some mysterious woods on a snowy evening and absorbing the quiet, beautiful scene. Frost reveals the temptation for the protagonist to stay for…

In the story Frankenstein, Mary Shelly explores the theme of revenge. Initially, the monster embodies kindness and innocence, but as a result of Victor’s abandonment and mistreatment, as well as the prejudice he faces from the De Lacey family, his neighbors in the woods, he becomes driven by revenge. Understandably, the monster seeks retribution against…

In the Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare, the map of Feste the clown appears inconsequential, but in actuality his function has immense significance in the overall educational development of the other characters. During the seasonal vacation revelry in which this drama takes topographic point, the buffoon is used as an independent perceiver that exploits the…

When Dr. Maya Angelou read her verse form. “On the Pulse of Morning. ” written particularly for President Bill Clinton’s startup in 1993. the ‘best kept secret in literary circles’ was thoughtfully revealed to the whole universe. She is arguably the most influential adult female of her race. but there is more to Maya Angelou…

Throughout William Shakespeare’s second sonnet the conflict between age’s faded beauty and youth’s pulchritude is illustrated. While the man who the poet is writing to wears “youth’s proud livery, so gazed on now”, it will someday be a “tatter’d weed, of small worth held” (lines 3-4). While he is young, he still holds the beauty,…

“What is there about fire that’s so lovely?… It’s perpetual motion; the thing man wanted to invent but never did… What is fire?… Lets real beauty is that is destroys responsibility and consequences… Clean quick, sure; nothing to rot later. Antibiotic, aesthetic, practical” (Bradbury 1 15). This section of reading is without argument dominated by…

This is the primary description of a characters house throughout the novel, meaning that there is a greater impact of the house?s size and perhaps greatness in comparison to other residences. Also, the word ‘colossal’ when used as a description Of this particular house seems to create an air Of it seeming too large and…