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The Play: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare offers awonderful contrast in human mentality. Shakespeare provides insight into man’sconflict with the rational versus the emotional characteristics of our behaviorthrough his settings. The rational, logical side is represented by Athens, withits flourishing government and society. The wilder emotional side isrepresented by the fairy woods. Here…

In the 20th century, women are given much more freedom than they were in the 1890s. In the past, women were not as liberated as men and were not privileged to have proper education or the right to vote, nor were they allowed to be outside of society’s expectations. The short story The Story of…

Purpose, Audience, Strategy9/13/04 The first instance in which he sees the elephant he knows he should not shoot him. The whole reasoning behind the shooting was the village. The author was attempting to reason his actions, by blaming the people. He was willed to move forward and shoot the elephant. It seemed that he had…

The story of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is about a man who createdsomething that messes with nature, and nature came back to mess with himbecause nature is more powerful than man. Victor Frankenstein was very interested in natural philosophy andchemistry and basically tried to play G-d by creating life. When hefound the secret of activating…

Of Mice and Men was written by John Steinbeck in 1936. It was published in 1937. The novel was originally called “Something that Happened” but it changed later on. The novel is set during the time of the Great Depression in the 1930’s. It was a time when millions were unemployed and men wandered from…

“Young Goodman Brown” and “My Kinsman, Major Molineux” are stories of young men on journeys that are both real and allegorical. I have found that studying the two together can be helpful in gaining a better understanding of Hawthorne. To lighten your writing load, I am only requiring that you answer ONE set of questions;…

Blake Nichol Dr. Susan Jones Composition II March 20, 2011 The Suicide of Ophelia is a topic that is romanticized by modern women, underestimated by literary critics, and somewhat disregarded by the general public. The character of Ophelia in “Hamlet, Prince of Denmark” presents an intriguing puzzle – did she genuinely end her own life?…

William Shakespeares Hamlet is a play full of sorrow and excitement, its fullof gore and incest. The play has a large amount of betrayal and the personsupplying most of that is Claudius, the king and Hamlets uncle. Claudius iscold-hearted, full of hate, and a coward. He is the king but, the ironic thingabout that is…

Consider the experience of a young, insecure, black girl living in the South during the 1930s. She had to navigate through both physical and verbal discrimination due to her African American race. It’s crucial to recognize that this was before the African American Civil Rights Movement when racism and segregation were widespread. Living in such…

Death has been and always will be an interesting and compelling topic among poets and authors alike. Death sheds a mysterious vale over life and is often avoided or dreaded within people causing diversity among the reactions of modern poetry and thought. Mortality can be treated as a crisis, a destination, with significance or without,…