The hard structure of society in puritanical America and the spotless reputations of many good folk melt away to nothing in the fire of fear and trials caused by accusations of witchcraft. Miller uses the imagery of the crucible in the play also, in a quote from Mr. It is dialogue between Abigail and John, →
As the plot of the southern gothic story unfolds, the author uses certain symbols to show us the tragedy of human perishability. The end of the Civil War in 1865 brought many changes to the states of the South. It is noteworthy, however, that Miss Grierson's commitment to the old ideals is not accidental and →
Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye is set against the lavender scare and the sexual psychopath laws of the 1950's. Antolini's intelligence and wit to the virtues of his older brother DB, and says that Mr.
Steinbeck uses polysyndeton when describing these men show all wonderful qualities they possess, such as " understanding and knowledge and skill'" showing how highly Steinbeck regards these men; arguing that the men are of the highest order of human beings He then uses asyndeton to show the countless amount of plagues that the men's techniques →
Dahl's " The Landlady" and Faulkner's " A Rose for Emily" are remarkably similar, but diverge on key elements of the narrative, namely the differences between the love Miss Emily shows Homer Barron and the " love" the Landlady shows her victims. After comparing the environments where Miss Emily and the Landlady conduct their murders, →
The main sphere of the usage of the vernacular is the dialogue and monologue speech of the characters in the novel of or in the household and social novel. The modern English plays are enriched with vernacular too; they depict the life of workers. Here, on the one side, in the result of the situation →
Aubrey Binder's " Uncovering the Past: The Role of Dust Imagery in a Rose For Emily'" explains that the motifs of dust and decay are very important and prominent in Faulkner's story. While I agree with Binder's motif of dust, I do not agree with her arguments for the motif of decay, and I →
This is related to the situation of women in the historical era and reflects the attitude of American society towards women at that time. Daisy has her own rules of life and personality, but she lives in Gatsby's illusion. She is selfish and has no sense of responsibility and has the same monetary values ?? →
The Scottsboro Boys trial of the 1930's parallels many of the events in Harper Lee's Novel To Kill a Mockingbird. When the girls were questioned by the police, they claimed that the boys had raped them, which was the most serious offense imaginable during the time of the Jim Crow Laws. The →
Fitzgerald made a significant contribution to the club, by writing scripts and lyrics for the club's music, and contributed to The Princeton Tiger Humor Magazine and the Nassau Literary Magazine. Fitzgerald struggled with his academics and finally dropped out of the college of Princeton and joined the army in November 1917, where he was commissioned →
In these two distinct areas, Gilman offers two key assumptions about a patriarchal society: the value of the male mind over the " seemingly weak and foolish" mindset of the female, and the derivation of power in males, who direct the lives of females. Lane's analysis implies that the narrator's restricted writing and her disregard →
The Horror of " The Fall of the House of Usher" What is a horror? Every detail of this story, from the opening description of the dark tarn and the dark rooms of the house to the unearthly storm which accompanies Madeline's return from the tomb, helps in conveying the terror that is the →
An important element in the story is the cause of her worsening condition; the narrator attributes it to the way her husband and brother stifle her and prohibit her from writing and having stimulating friends visit. She writes it in the first person so that readers can experience a piece of her situation and be →
The reason why he lives anonymously is so that he can hide his unfortunate past, which is why he separated from Daisy earlier in life. Valjean of ' Les Miserables,' on the other hand, is an ex-convict trying to live beyond his dark past. Valjean's life contains a series of misfortunes in the sense that →
Mark Twain reintroduces the character of Tom Sawyer in Huckleberry Finn to act as a foil to Huck, and show the importance of thinking with one's heart as well as one's head. Huck, the protagonist of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is established as an emotional, morality driven character. Twain juxtaposes Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn →
In the novel Twain criticizes the mind-set of the Gilded Age, shows the lack of compassion in the white society versus that shown in black society and ridicules human greediness. Most of the decorations in the house look genuine on the outside but are actually fake on the inside, which demonstrates the attitude of the →
Therefore, in the case of To kill a mockingbird, the setting & mood is absolutely the most important of all the elements of fiction. At heart, this book is about racism and the nature of society in this time, with all core ideas dependent on the time, place, and social conditions thereof. →
The word " Mockingbird" in the title is a symbol of innocence, and Boo Radley is one of the innocents in Maycomb. Under the pressure and suffering of people's prejudice and ignorance after a long time of reclusion, Boo Radley is looking for hope and trying to communicate with society.
The story opens up a window into the life of the American People before the Civil War. Jim and Huck Finn are good friends and Jim is on the run too, so they both team up and build a more substantial fort on the island.
Within the first two chapters you are introduced to the green light, the Valley of Ashes, and the billboard from which the eyes of T.J. Eckleburg, to represent the characters corrupt pursuit of the American Dream, materialistic wealth and most of all happiness.
In the beginning she is portrayed as the victim but we see her true personality unfold throughout the novel. Daisy Buchanan is a beautiful woman who is the love interest of Gatsby in this novel. She just wants to keep her life the way it is and be taken care of.
As a result of Holden's mental breakdown in his transition to adulthood, he tries to prevent other children from experiencing the "" phoniness"" of the world and the forced corruption by society. Holden represents the coming of age prototype, as he develops from a naive boy, unsure of how to deal with his emotions, into →
The rand 18005, however, generatedtechnologythat helped to dramatically Increase profitability In the trade. Progressive methods of transportation such as the opening of the Erie Canal , inventions such as " stereotyping, the iron press, the application of steam power, mechanical typecasting/ typesetting, and ewe methods of producing illustrations created a revolution in →
The word " alone" is the opposite of her character and her purpose in the novel. When Rose of Sharon announces that she and Connie plans to go to town and leave the family, Ma Joad worries about the idea of splitting the family and is reluctant.
In " Young Goodman Brown" Hawthorne writes about the most significant of the contradictions: " Had Goodman Brown fallen asleep in the forest, and only dreamed a wild dream of a witch-meeting?". The nature of the reality is called in question, and it is difficult to understand, what really happened to young Brown. The myths →
Miss Caroline, the teacher, is horrified to discover a cootie in the hair of Burris Ewell, a hulking, angry boy who quickly reduces Miss Caroline to tears as he slouches out of the room, his first and only day of school over. That evening Scout is weary from the day's crimes and →
Scout learns that 'It Is not always proper to say bluntly what the truth is". As the chapter continued on, Scout realizes that Miss Caroline did to mean to offend her. In the beginning of the novel Scout, Gem, and Dill all see Boo as a bizarre man who never came out of →
Harper Lee introduces the theme of hurting innocents near the beginning of the novel, pointing out that you should not hurt something that only tries to help you, and does not harm anyone, like a mockingbird. In it, " He likened Tom's death to the senseless slaughter of songbirds by hunters and children.".
In the story itself, Rowe describes the narrator as, " a type for the narrative power of the female, capable of weaving in tapestry the brutal story of rape that leads to the enactment of a terrible revenge". The theme of revenge becomes evident in the poem, but while revenge is present throughout the story, →
Death of a Salesman is more confined to reality than The Great Gatsby in its strangeness of characters and in the structure in which the story is formed. The characters, such as Gatsby and Daisy, of The Great Gatsby are unrealistic ideas of themselves which easily fall apart or disappear entirely. Both Gatsby and Daisy →
The position the author had, knew the outcome of the story. If the story was written from a first-person point of view, the author might have added some emotions that would have watered down the story.
In John Steinbecks famous novel, The Grapes of Wrath, Tom Joad and the rest of the Joad family go through a wild journey in search of jobs in California during the great depression. It shows the important of family and how working together is extremely important in a time of need. In the beginning →
Bootlegging in the 1920's is the way many people got rich, including the main character in The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby. Prohibition is one of the pivotal ideas in The Great Gatsby, and is always something that seems to come back up in the book. In the novel The Great Gatsby, Jay →
This story displays how men use witchcraft as a scapegoat instead of admitting their own fault. The climactic moment that relates to a major external conflict is when John Procter is found guilty and sentenced to hang. This is when John and his wife argue about the situation with Abigail, this foreshadows a key scene →
Sometimes throughout the book, you will see Cal acting as a motherly figure to Scout -Dill- Dill is a young boy that Scout and Jem meet in the beginning of the book, he is very small for somebody of his age, he is weak. What happened to Jem and Scout on the way home from →
The coexistence of good and evil is portrayed in Harper Lee's " To Kill A Mockingbird" when the characters of Jem, Dill and Scout come across good and evil through Maycomb society. Jem is placed in situations where he is exposed to both good and evil in Maycomb. This is shown when →
Richard Watts Jr.describes the striking similarity between the Salem witch trials and the McCarthy Era as a " struggle between the rights of freeman and the mass efforts to destroy them under the guise of defending decency." All good writing conveys a strong message for the reader to take away, and effectively apply to →
Basing on the several evident parameters, for instance, the character traits, the behavior of prince and princess, and gender distinctions amongst others, Fitzgerald's masterwork stands out as a variation and sophisticated version of the fairy tale. The Great Gatsby characters exhibit traditional fairy tale traits through vividly intertwined with variations and sophistication of purely fairy →
Wisely, though, Lee manages to tie racial prejudice to the many other forms of prejudice we all face every day of our life. Remarkably, the novel begins by focusing not on the racial prejudice that dominates much of the story but, instead, on the kind of insidious prejudice endured by those who →
Abigail Williams manipulates an entire town to do her bidding, stemming from her want to save her reputation and to be able to finally have the man she lusts over. She shows no remorse for causing the death of 20 innocent people all because of her want for John and to save her reputation. Abigail's →
Huck brings out the person in Jim and reveals his feelings that Jim is just like him, like the rest, someone who is free and someone with a heart. As well as the showing of how a human being is worth a reward like when Jim was put up wanted and people thought he killed →
There is a need to point out that the author is deeply concerned about the role of women in society. In the following paragraph of the essay, The Yellow Wallpaper will be analysed in terms of its main literary devices. In other words, she allows us to understand that the house is considered to be →
This is evident in " There are things in that paper," where the ' things' are a clear example of the author's use of irony, as they represent both the mysterious woman that Jane sees and the disturbing ideas that she is beginning to understand. This is emphasised through the diary format in →
This suggests he regrets the affair and wants no more to do with Abigail. As an affair is more likely to have happened in the 20th century, the audience sympathise with him as the play is set in the late 17th century, so Proctor is a man ahead of his time. Act II is mostly →
Throughout the course of the novel, both characters are faced with their individual internal struggles; Huck in particular is faced with the pressing notion of whether or not he should turn Jim in to his rightful owner and do the " right" thing, or disobey the law and help Jim obtain his freedom. This is →
What makes this so tragic is the argument that Gatsby's love is not reciprocated and all his efforts of transforming himself into a rich man through crime, have been disregarded and unappreciated. Gatsbys mind is distorted by the idea that wealth will bring in Daisy, however their relationship remains as it was →
Holden believes he can hold on to his innocence and not transition to adulthood, but later realizes his time for youth is concluded. Holden tends to isolate himself and resists society as much as much as possible. Later on, he does realize adulthood is not a choice, and it does start coming to him.
He is determined to save his wife and in the end makes a dangerous choice to tell the truth. He goes to to the with a friend, Giles Corey to prove the innocence of those accused including Elizabeth.
In The Great Gatsby, Scott Fitzgerald documents these changes through an in-depth exploration of cultural changes such as the rise in consumerism, materialism, greed for wealth, and the culture of loosening morals in the 1920s American society. Thus, possession of material wealth was important for the placement of people in a given social class and →
In 1925, she moved to New York City, where she became an influential talent of the Harlem Renaissance, the blossoming of African American literature and art. While attending Barnard College, she satisfied the well-known anthropologist Franz Boaz, who persuaded her to study the folklore of African Americans in the South. She is attracted to Jody →
In Act 3 of The Crucible the Trial scene is set in the Salem meeting house, this scene is so important because it is the most intense scene in the play because everything is revealed, and timing proves to be one of the most important factors. Proctor realizes that it is critical for Mary Warren →
Douglass was born into a life of slavery and was not given an option to live a free life. He had many obstacles to overcome before he was able to be happy with the life he was living. As he got older he realized this was not the life he wanted, he was desperate to →
This paper describes Jay Gatsby's action and applies the utilitarian theory to establish whether Jay's action was ethical or not. As presented in the novel, Jay Gatsby was trying to win Daisy back because he firmly believed she was the love of his life. With such kind of uncertainty and dilemma, Jay decided to take →
In the movie, the family is depicted as one of the struggling families in the United States after the economic crisis of 1930. The first part of the movie is similar to the novel, but the second part of the film differs greatly with the book. While the author of the novel is pessimistic, the →
Poe gave his Bernice in the novella of the same title a diagnosis of epilepsy as a reason for a premature burial. However, there was a good deal of unlikelihood in this, and when he came to this theme in " The Fall of the House of Usher" and in " The Premature →
Because Scout likes to taunt her older brother, Jem feels the need to put her in her place and prove to her he is the cool older brother. Atticus realizes how much this meant to Jem that he agrees they should keep the blanket and maybe Jem can return it someday. At one point in →
He acquires the role of the liar and follows it to the end. He realizes that the society of people is not for him.
In " the Lottery", the mood is hasty, everyone is eager to wind up and go back home to their daily routine. The author uses several sentences and describes the events around to lure the reader into presuming that it is a normal community. In developing the plot of the story, the author foreshadows the →
Although both the novel and movie form of Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath are considered to be American classics, the novel provides a deeper understanding of the story's time and meaning. The interchapters in the novel form of Grapes of Wrath describe in detail the time period of the storyline, while the movie leaves the →
He wrote and published a number of stories and the narrative account Life on the Mississippi before finishing Huck's story. The story takes place in the Mississippi Valley " forty to fifty years ago," or about the time of Twain's own boyhood in Hannibal, Missouri, a town much like Huck's hometown, St.
The central theme of The Great Gatsby is the decay of the American Dream. Through his incisive analysis and condemnation of 1920s high society, Fitzgerald (in the person of the novel s narrator, Nick Carraway) argues that the American Dream no longer signifies the noble pursuit of progress; instead, it has become →
When the story begins, Brown is convinced of the righteousness of his father and grandfather until the old man, possibly the devil, tells him otherwise. Brown has faith in Goody Cloyse, the priest, and Deacon Gookin until the devil tells to him that Cloyse is a witch and Gookin is his assistant. Brown's estrangement from →
Using an apron, a head rag, a blue satin dress, and overalls, Hurston communicates how Janie grows and evolved as a person throughout her relationships with Logan Killicks, Jody Starks, and most importantly, Tea Cake. In the beginning of the novel, Janie's marries a man by the name of Logan Killicks, a →
Clemens in 1835, Mark Twain is widely considered the first truly American author. Why is Mark Twain widely considered the ' first truly American author'?
In To Kill a Mockingbird these justices and injustices are represented through Atticus, Tom Robinson, Arthur ' Boo' Radley, and through the prejudices of people. Inessay on to kill a mockingbirdAtticus Finch represents the epitome of justice, through his belief in equality. He has a great belief in the legal system, and →
The tax is chivalry because it is the only reason why Emily is allowed to live in her father's house. Emily and the person next to her, which shows a change in tradition.
The poem is easy to understand; at the same time, it is meaningful and deeply rooted in the miserable lives of the African-Americans. At the time of the Harlem Renaissance, out of the many changes that have been brought out in America through African-American culture, Jazz music was one of the rich cultures that the →
When the narrator describes the murder, he specifically only looks at the man's eye as if it is a seperate entity that he is after, even though the old man and the eye are one in the same. The narrator realises that this sound is the old man's heart, and as each moment passes the →
In To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Gem's definition of courage changes from the beginning to the end of the book. At the beginning of the book Gem's definition of courage is from an innocent perspective and by the end of the book Gem has an experienced definition of courage. Gem learns →
As soon as I ate breakfast I thought to my self that I have to teach the students of May-comb. And that girl that they call scout, after that I planed what I was going to wear to school I picked out a beautiful dress.
He was the first of four children, where his family was deeply influenced by their home state and the overall culture and lifestyle of the American South. Among other influences on Faulkner's writing are the region he resided in and his own family history.
As a character, Abigail was created to demonstrate power and manipulation tithing the play. It is possible to argue that for a short period of time, Abigail acts as God as she has the power to make anyone believe her lies, leading to the deaths of innocent people. Abigail became intoxicated by the power and →
Slinger, the protagonist Holder Coalfield is really unable to accept people for what they are and for those that he cant accept, he marks them as phonies and whomever he does not think is pure or true is a phony as well. A person that he claims is a phony due to hypocrisy would be →
There are multiple more instances in which Gatsby's character engages in other moments of vanishing, but Will addresses the important general prevalence of evanescence in the language The Great Gatsby the novel, as well as Jay Gatsby the character. However, language is not the only component of The Great Gatsby in which scholars explored the →
Gatsby could not stand the thought of Daisy going to jail and took the blame for it. Gatsby was the one who took the blame for Myrtle's murder and died because of it.
He resembles a mockingbird because of his natural desire to please the children with the gifts he puts in the tree and his tender compassion for them when they stand outside shivering in the cold watching Miss Maudie's fire. Boo Radley pours out his songs of joy or sympathy in a kind of blissful unawareness →
Fitzgerald's precise use of diction in describing the characters of Tom and Daisy Buchanan and in creating a motif of movement in this scene provides valuable insight into the relationship between Tom and Daisy in a way that Clayton's translation fails to do. In the reader's introduction to the character of Tom Buchanan in this →
After her husband Richards Mallard was reported dead after a train accident, because of the accident Louise was finally able to exit her marriage and she can start a new life. She now able to be free.the season spring had shown her she is able to have a fresh started of life.
And Maurice Ogden's Poem, " The Hangman," which takes place in an unnamed town." The Hangman" shows how the ignorance of the townsfolk gives a pathway to the Hangman which enabled to execute every single one of the townsfolk on his gallows-tree. Meanwhile intolerance also takes place in " The Hangman" which makes the Hangman →
In the novel, things may not be what they appear as shown by the illusion Gatsby lives, Daisy's attitude, and Tom's relationships. Gatsby lives an illusion that his wealth will lead to satisfaction and friendship. Tom's relationships, like the people in the novel, are deceptive. It is shown that →
At first, Scout does not understand the meaning of his words, but as she matures through the novel, her eyes are unveiled, and she understands what Atticus is trying to tell her. Over time, Jem, too, starts to see the meaning and depth of the statement. Dolphus Raymond is a character who is known by →
At the end of the novel, Holden does however find out that he has a problem but he still does not want to admit it which suggests that he is still trying to achieve is goal and believes that one day he will achieve it. Holden's view of society shows that Holden →
The short story was also the subject of debate when it was first written because it failed to fit in any particular genre at the time. " The Yellow Wallpaper" was mostly considered a horror story when it was first published because of the manner it unnerved readers at the time. The story depicts the place →
Through multiple characters, as well as the plot, sexism comes to the surface. As soon as the novel begins, it is evident the roles of men and women play a very big part in this novel: " Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in →
Whilst the use color is equally effective in both novels, it's function in ' The Great Gatsby' tends to be mainly for materialistic features in order to reinforce the theme of conspicuous consumption throughout the book, yet in ' The Grapes Of Wrath' color is used more to describe the atmosphere or the time of →
The ribbons constantly remind him of his ' faith.' Consciously, or subconsciously, it is the ribbons of the woman that refuse to release him. The staff of the devil is thus tempting Brown to see his own sexuality in a new light, one which he cannot completely comprehend.
The town may not want to hold her above themselves but they have to because of the code of duty in the old south. Faulkner also uses the sense of the importance of privacy to great affect as the narrator hints towards knowing that there was some suspicious activity between Homer and Emily, like the →
In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Atticus teaches us to look at other people's perspective of things by climbing in someone else's shoes and walking in them, allowing us to sincerely understanding their thoughts and actions. Climbing in someone's shoes and walking in them will give you so much power and →
These include The Angel of the Odd, The Tell-Tale Heart, Silence-A Fable, The Masque of the Red Death, The Fall of the House of Usher, and The Cask of Amontillado. It is evident that Poe likes to display a scary and dark mood in many of his stories, as he does in five out of →
Poe was alive during the romantic era which was evident in his writing, and he was one of the first gothic writers of his time. Her three kids were split up and Edgar Allan Poe was the only one of the three to not be formally adopted. Poe was put into foster care in December →
These traits are as follows: his obsession with the past, his unwillingness to see the problems of the present, and his desire to achieve a future no matter the cost. In essence, it can be seen that in his pursuit of what he thinks is his " ideal" love, Gatsby is, in fact, pursuing nothing →
Throw them harder!" Old Man Warner shouted above the crowd." No wonder the other towns quit the lottery," Nancy said as she covered her face, not letting anyone see the tears in her eyes. Old Man Warner, he was walking by, saw Tessie's hand and ran as fast as he could, even though it was →
This paper's main goal is to compare and contrast " The Lottery" and " The Rocking Horse Winner" and examines themes, characters, settings, and literary devices of the two stories. The tone of the work is significant in its terms as well because it creates the fleur of seriousness, light-mindedness, sadness or cheerfulness, introducing the →
At the end of the novel The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck, it seems as though the Joads have nothing left to live for, however Steinbeck shows signs of optimism through symbols and biblical allusions. At the height of their struggles, the Joads are without food, shelter, and their strongest →
The hollowness of the upper class is a repetitive concept that the audience sees in the film, and the meaning portrayed through this central preoccupation comes down to the context and Luhrmann's vision for the piece. Luhrmann uses the 2013 context to inspire his version in the way that much of the hollowness that can →
Throughout the book, readers begin uncovering how a man's ethics and activities conflict with those of the general public around him. Twain indicates authenticity in relatively every part of his composition; the depiction of the setting, that of the characters, and even the manner in which characters speak. Chopin's style differed from Twain's in that →