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            Ernest Hemingway’s short story Hills like White Elephants is an instance of the ambiguous and reductionist style of the author’s prose style. With almost no artifice and no use stylistic embellishments, Hemingway captures the essence and the mood of a life scene in its full complexity. As it shall be seen, it is through…

The last lines of the poem such as “a dangerous idea that almost makes sense” is referring to the person who the song relates to thinking about committing suicide. This song goes along with one of the themes of The story of Romeo and Juliet in two different ways, one of the ways is because…

Berlioz, Goya and Poe: The dark side of the Romanticism movement The Industrial Revolution changed not only the way that the world functioned in its day to day proceedings, but it also inspired a new wave of creativity in art, music, and literature. This new wave ignited a yearning not only in those who created…

            In every painting, the artist leaves a signature.  This is a mark to distinguish that the artwork is his, an identification that such is a result of his talent.  Authors, on the other hand, do not provide a signature in every page they have written.  They do not have to; this is because sometimes,…

In “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” the story follows the narrator’s experience with life as he takes a beautiful ferry ride. The man talks about the meaning of his life to other people. In this crowd he brings together all of the strangers and finds a connection. His journey through “space and time” is focused on the…

Sudden, Unexpected Interjection “It is a tale told by an idiot,full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” At one point in hisshort story, “Big Two-Hearted River: Part II”, Hemingway’scharacter Nick speaks in the first person. Why he adopts,for one line only, the first person voice is an interestingquestion, without an easy answer. Sherwood Andersondoes the…

Is Shakespeare’s original description of Romeo and Juliet as star-crossed lovers sufficient to explain their ultimate tragedy? Shakespeare’s portrayal of Romeo and Juliet as star-crossed lovers suggests that their love and ensuing suicide were predestined before their birth. However, this concept of fate alone does not fully explain the tragedy. The factors that truly elucidate…

Many have argued that George did the wrong thing of killing Leonie and that this makes him a bad friend. George isn’t a great friend either. He’s grumpy and bossy. The way George behaves towards Leonie is just very horrible. ” if I was alone I could live so easy. .. No messes at all……

In this short story, William Faulkner expresses his hopelessness over man’s continuing destruction of the environment. Mostly through the eyes of a young boy, Isaac, the story progresses to finality that for Faulkner, marks the end of a time of unspoiled wilderness. The characters are Isaac, Old Ben, Sam Fathers, Lion and Boon Hoggenback. Isaac…

“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other, or ever so similar beforehand, It does not advance their felicity In the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better…