This ignorance of and disregard for the law was rarely punished, as the US government at the time was not as powerful as it is today, allowing much personal freedom. One of these personal freedoms was women's ability to vote, through the implementation of the 19th amendment to the US constitution. Prohibition gave many people →
Mark Response to Literature: The Prince and the Pauper In the literary work, The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain. The author had placed a great emphasis upon the contrasting between the prince, Edward Tudor and the pauper, Tom Canty.
It is written about a young man named Nick, from the east he moved to the west to learn about the bond business. On the other hand, we had Nick chasing his American dream of learning the bond business. Through the process, he fell for Jordan and was the observer of Gatsby's life, which just →
Where others would shy away and save themselves, Proctor gives it all in service of a greater cause. The lead-up to Proctor's self-sacrifice is first developed early on in the play, with his internal conflict. This allows him to do what is right in his mind, and sacrifice himself for something greater, as is the →
And yet, Nick Carraway's description of the protagonist asserts that Gatsby seems curiously out of place among the ' whole damn bunch' which inhabits this lavish, showy world. Indeed, despite the aura of criminality surrounding his occupation, his love and loyalty to Daisy Buchanan and ultimately his capacity to dream, set him apart from the →
Through an effective blend of a personality naturally inclined towards success and the influence of others, Gatsby manages to reinvent his own image in the eyes of those around him, just as America has done in the eyes of the world time and time again. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.Ed.
While it is true that Atticus Finch caused dissension by defending a black man, he had no choice but to defend Tom Robinson, a man created in the image of God and therefore equal to his fellow white and black brothers. Although Atticus loves his family and would never want harm to come to them, →
Evidently, the Box plays quite a significant role in maintaining the traditions of the village. Similarly, Behr uses apples as a symbolic means to remember the heroic past. However, both taint their symbols to criticize the influence of tradition.
The discussion that follows considers Lee's use of literary devices to highlight the themes as well as the novels significance in the classroom today." Lee combines the narrators voice of a child observing her surroundings with a grown woman's reflecting on her childhood, using the ambiguity of this voice combined with the narrative techniques of →
Because she sets the story firmly in a specific place and time, Jackson seems to suggest that the story will be a chronicle of sorts, describing the tradition of the lottery. The specifics continue throughout the story, from the numerous rules Mr. The fact that some rules have remained while others have disappeared underscores the →
American Dream is the belief that if you work hard, you are creative and persistent; you will succeed and achieve prosperity. To my mind, the reason why the American Dream is not dead is that it works. Scott Fitzgerald paid a lot of attention to this in his Winter Dream and The Great Gatsby. At →
It is clear that Fitzgerald's formative years led him to become an author who would eventually live in New York City his early affinity for writing encouraged him to further explore his skills in college; his chance relationship with Zelda Sayre sealed his fate as a New Yorker, as Fitzgerald was compelled to make his →
In Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird Scout and Jem were told it's a sin to kill a mockingbird, but in some ways Tom Robinson and Boo Radely became Mockingbirds themselves. Tom was a mockingbird to Mayella especially because he always helped her when he passed by the house, and Mayella ended up accusing →
The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby is a book filled with twists and turns of events from beginning to end. Because of this, Gatsby is one to strive in being a people pleaser and a thoughtful host.
Everything except Janie" exhibits the way Joe stresses that Janie give the feeling that she is experiencing the white lady's fantasy of unwinding at home and being humanized, as that is the part directed by her sexual orientation and in light of the fact that it advances the his depiction as an intense →
Fitzgerald had a deep and personal affliction with the 1920s (most notably in the Eastern United States), and in both The Great Gatsby and " Babylon Revisited," he hones his conflicts into a furious condemnation. He is the absolute personification of the reckless actions and attitudes that characterize the era.
Truman Capote, along with his book, also drew a lot of attention to the photograph of Truman which was a provocative posture. Once Truman was done writing In Cold Blood, he got involved with a lot of drugs and became an alcoholic.
B Underwood, I strongly believe that Tom Robinson was not guilty of the crime and the sentence was untrue and unjust. I conclude that the sentencing of Tom Robinson was appropriate and just.
Arthur Miller keeps the audience in suspense by delaying Cheever's actions. Hale: " What signifies a poppet, Mr Cheever?" Cheever does not respond to any of the questions asked to him and it is as if he is in a trance. This is a very nerve-racking moment for both the audience and the characters as →
You see, he come to town the morning after the murder, and told about it, and was out with 'em on the ferryboat hunt, and right away after he up and left. So then they put it on him, you see; and while they was full of it, next day, back comes old Finn, and →
In a stage of life which is consistently recognized as a time of exploration, it is critical that we are providing insights into experiences which they are bound to encounter, so that students are given the opportunity to develop thoughts, opinions, and value-systems. Literature serves as a key into a new world which contains stories →
Though Gatsby has always wanted to be rich, his main motivation to reach his fortune was his love for Daisy Buchanan, whom he met as a young military officer in Louisville before leaving to fight in World War One in 1917. Gatsby's father was obviously proud of what his son has achieved and he seemed →
The symbols Fitzgerald uses in his novel are the green light and Gatsby's flashy, luxurious car to show what really mattered to Gatsby and how it affected him. Fitzgerald uses Nick, Gatsby's friend, to describe Gatsby indirectly by commenting on his car. The car symbolizes Gatsby's need for materialistic satisfactions and him appearing to be →
To Kill A Mockingbird Essay Introduction: * Thesis: In To Kill A Mockingbird, characters such as Calpurnia and Boo Radley are not who they are made out to be in the beginning of the play to both the readers and Scout.* Point 1: Jem and Scout learn that Calpurnia, their housekeeper, is not who →
My second point is the way in which Mr Gilmer threatens Tom Robinson at court. We find in this novel that at the beginning of the book we see the immaturity arise in Jem and of course Scout. In the court case and the few months before we see Jem mature and not be the →
He became found of using imaginary characters in his novels like he had used a character by the name Tom sawyer in his other book and made many readers fall in love with the character almost instantly but he choose to change his protagonist to Huck Finn in the other book as he saw Sawyer's →
Through the use of the lively, yet scandalous, jazz music from the 1920's, Fitzgerald reflects the attitudes of the characters in The Great Gatsby at the end of innocence and prevalence of carelessness within the elite of New York's society. Jazz music was created by African Americans during the turn of the century in →
The people in the story were not protected by the government and were forced off their land during the great depression. The familys farm is taking by the bank because they were not able to pay the bills due to the drought that caused everything to die (hints where the protection from the government would →
The storyteller approaches the pool that lies close to the house and looks down into it in order to analyze the modified impression of the house as opposed to the house itself. The name of the home, ' The House of Usher,' has come to allude both to the house itself and the family who →
Arthur Miller wrote ' The Crucible' to compare the injustice of America in 1950's to the witchcraft in Salem in the 1960's. They were accused of witchcraft. The only alternative for the people were to confess of trafficking with the devil even if the accusations were not true.
Having started with the announcement of her death, the author then reveals the main facts of her life from the point of view of the community of the city. Another crucial moment is the horrifying discovery of the corpse of her husband and the obvious signs of her lying in the bed with this body. →
On page 19 Daisy says to Nick, " You remind me of a-of a rose, an absolute rose." The red color of the rose represents his passion and care for other people. He looks out for all of the other characters throughout the book even while he struggles with his own personal →
The people in New York who end in an unsuccessful attempt to catch wealth, end up in a place known as The Valley of Ashes. The moral decay of the Valley of Ashes separates the two successful branches of New York, known as West Egg and East Egg. The physical divide of living locations, lifestyles, →
To Gatsby she is not only the woman he loves, but also the woman he has invested all his hopes and dreams in.' For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely →
In Arthur Miller's powerful stage play The Crucible, written in 1953 as a metaphor for the McCarthy hearings on communism in America, the idea of conscience is greatly emphasized in many of the main characters. Thus, this establishes that theologically, a minister is the ultimate decider of morality in the parish of Salem, Massachusetts, →
Have for most of us, and he found the same kind of intense significance in their manifestations of beauty that we find in the beauty of human belongs or of great works of art. The nature of this significance, he could not explain; but he could express it with enormous power in his art, →
The complex attitude of the speaker in For That He Looked Not upon Her using his form, diction and imagery to evoke the audience to question his enchantress. The title of the work For That He Looked Not upon Her gives a lot of suggestion about the meaning of the →
The poem " Horse" is a narration f the life of a horse with a connection to the life of Mexicans into the hands of Americans. The buyer of the horse did not describe in the poem but it represents the Americans because of the green money that was paid to the seller.
Milton's theology is different in that it forces the reader to think more critically about the character of Satan, and how he fits in with the story of the fortunate fall. Man is one of God's original and prized creations, but is also much weaker than any of the fallen angels. Satan is unique in →
In contrast, Odysseus's position as an Ithacan king affords his status and family a stability that prompts his unyielding belief in their continued immutability. Throughout the majority of his life, the institution of slavery prevented H from experiencing the kinds of family ties and pride in a community that define a true home. For Odysseus, →
Following The Rape of the Lock, Popes efforts were directed toward a mode of composition with which he is not usually identified: the elegiac verses Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady and the romantic psychodrama, Eloisa to Abelard. Here the couplet is used not only ironically to counterpose discordant images, as →
There was once a time that if a digital designer wanted to illustrate a story that was comparably epic to that of Homer's " Iliad and the Odyssey", to tell a tale of historic grandeur that feels as if it were translated from ancient Roman literature itself. Since then, it went from a typeface →
I believe that the " twinkle of a fading star," as Eliot mentions in line 44, that exists in that world is a symbol of the dreams and hopes from within because of which life truly becomes worth living. Eliot makes use of significant outright imagery, such as the desert, in order to express the →
Vertical Diagram for the book Ephesians Chapter 2 1 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work →
The images of gold and silk allude to royalty and the reader immediately realizes that her love is priceless. The structure of the poem is similar to that of a hymn that focuses on love. The use of similes in stanza one reinforces the idea that the love the speaker is feeling marks the start →
Two major works of literature, ' Oedipus the king' and ' The Odyssey', provide some of the best examples of how the role of female characters is portrayed in different ways and how these women influence the fate of heroes. The purpose of this paper is to review the portrayal of women and feminine influence →
Presentation and Analysis of two poems ' I wandered lonely as a cloud' by William Wordsworth and ' Sailing' by the writer of this essay Reflections on the nature, tradition and reception of poetry as formed upon the readings of William Wordsworth's ' Preface to the Second Edition of Lyrical Ballads' and T.S. The →
Lawrence although very often expresses his life experiences in his writings." Self Pity" is a very short poem but beyond the line Lawrence is telling a story. In " Self Pity" Lawrence is creating an image of a wild thing feeling sorry for itself. Lawrence stimulates the reader's thinking process." If never saw a wild →
Although food is positively associated with the Greek tradition of hospitality, Homer uses it in a negative sense in The Odyssey to represent the gluttony, lack of self-control, and lack of civility found in various characters. Upon docking their ship on the island of the Lotus-eaters, Odysseus' men engage in a gluttonous feast of lotus →
The Inferno is considered to be the most important part of the poem because it provides the description of hell. They are the main hero of the poem and his guide in the hell.
However, the background is different: one is dying and the other's already dead. In the poem The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner, Jarrell said, " When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose". Death is an extremely major issue of one's live. On the contrary, he wanted to terminate →
Emily Dickinson's " Success is Counted Sweetest" has been penned in iambic trimeter with the exception of the first two lines of the second stanza. The act of victory in such a stance of winning a battle is limited to the act of taking away a flag.
On the other hand, the poem, Harlem, by Langston Hughes depicts an African American who seems disillusioned by the state of national affairs and the waning of hope for a better life. In this critical analysis of the two literature works, I seek to assess the viability of how people respond when society tries bringing →
In addition to establishing the poem's verisimilitude, the imagery of a cabin surrounded by bean stalks begins to convey the sense of peace and tranquility which Yeats attributes to nature. Here, Yeats explicitly associates peace with the auditory image of a cricket's chirping so as to deepen the connection in the reader's mind between peacefulness →
By employing the use of intoxicating tone, varying diction and metaphors, Roethke alludes to his violent relationship with his father. In " My Papa's Waltz", Roethke's tone is obscure; he speaks utilizing a type of style similar to that of a lullaby, every other line ends in a rhyme." The whiskey on your breath... Nevertheless, →
Victor has the dream of bringing life into a creature. The thirst for power has poisoned and destroy everything he cherishes in life when he has lost his loved ones and his will to live.
The strong character traits of the main characters Odyssey and Job in the epic The Odyssey and The Story of Job help develop their plots from the beginning to the rise of conflict and their resolutions. In his pursuit of litigation, he wants God to intervene on his behalf. In both, the Greek Gods →
The women are seen as nothing but trophies for the dauntless works of men, but the roles that they depict play a crucial role in the development of the plot and storyline. In the Iliad, women are written with little thought put into the character, and they are thrown into the story merely for the →
One of the women in the story, Penelope, was portrayed as very wise but because of her gender she was expected to obey many of the men. In contrast to the other two women, Melantho was very malicious and was treated similarly to the men in the end of the book. To begin, Penelope →
The flames of glory, appealing to force and a desire for immortality, fuel the heroes Hector and Achilles of Homer's The Iliad. The two warriors, fused into one persona, epitomize the " Homeric hero" at the center of the epic The Iliad. Foremost a fighter, the Homeric hero embodies the beauty of force, which, according →
The Martian in the poem does this because he has a conceptual viewpoint. The first time we see a metaphor is in the first line, " Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wings".I interpreted this as somebody must have pointed at a book and called it a Claxton, or just referred to it as →
Like their European counterparts, the English Romantics reacted at first favorably to the French Revolution and saw their own cultural and literary program as revolutionary. William Wordsworth is the poet most closely associated with the Romantic Movement, and his lyrics ' Lyrical Ballads' published jointly with Coleridge in 1798, articulates some of the →
The speaker in Suicide Note uses much symbolism to try to express the extent of her sorrow; additionally, she articulates her own feelings of inadequacy while at the same time delicately portraying the futility of the entire situation. The very first simile in the poem, ? ink smeared like birdprints in snow.? →
This brings out the subject of the poem that the hawk is an idealistic [W2]and arrogant creature, suggesting that is Hughes is trying to challenges our perspective of being a human. As humans, many of us believe that we are the supreme beings in the entire world, that this world was created by God solely →
The emotion of resignation is felt throughout; like dust, rust, and formal work that is " Consecutive and slow," the poem appears to depict " crumbling" as something that happens so slowly and methodically that it cannot be avoided. The last two lines, " Fail in an instant, no man did/ Slipping is Crash's law" →
This is Icarus and he is almost as difficult to find within the painting as Waldo in a " Where's Waldo" book. Though Icarus is the only identifiable figure depicted in the painting, he is not given a place of visual prominence or attached importance. None of the men in the painting seem to notice →
The paper will also highlight the themes addressed in the poems, use of symbolism, and the message of the poem. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is an autobiography of Maya Angelou that he uses to explore various themes of racism, rape, literacy and identity. Maya uses his autobiography to →
The idea of immortality has existed through the ages, from the ancient Egyptian's views on the afterlife and rebirth, all the way through to the Common Era with the Christian belief of eternal existence within heaven or hell. The video documentary, The Odyssey, explains the legend of The Odyssey as written by Homer regarding →
The lack of clear lines and rhythm keeps the reader off balance, which befits the unsettling and confrontational nature of the poem. At its heart, the poem is about the couple, and how they behave and interact with each other given certain contexts a very human and modernist outlook. The man, instead of being sad →
The mysterious " it" she is referring to is not truly uncovered to the reader until later in the poem but as it continues it becomes obvious that the speaker is discussing her attempted suicide. In keeping with the rest of the poem, she is determined to be in control to fall when she wants →
Her father was Lyman Beechen, born in 1775, who was determined to have a powerful role in the shaping of the new republic. In 1856, Stows published her second anti-slavery novel, " Drew, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp," and then went on with a third, " The Minister's Wooing." Harriet Beechen Stows was →
The speaker of the poem titled " A Noiseless Patient Spider" by Walt Whitman is Walt Whitman himself. In this case, Whitman is observing the life of a spider.
Comparing and contrasting the characteristics of Odysseus, the main character in The Odyssey, an Epic Poem taking place in ancient Greek culture, and Percy Jackson, the main character in the novel The Lightning Thief, likenesses and differences within their character traits are easily able to be recognized. Odysseus and Percy shared the characteristics of loyalty →
In Fire and Ice Robert Frost uses the elements of fire and ice very symbolically. While he could be speaking literally of the destruction of the world by fire or ice, I believe he using the two elements to describe the two types of people in this world.
Therefore the uncertainty is the obsticle of hardship of his journey. Furthermore in the movie, The Wizard of Oz we distinguish Dorothy and Toto embarking on their journey. In relation to ' The Road Not Taken' and ' The Wizard of Oz' both texts, illustrate solitude, hardship, beyond the unknown and the uncertainty of choice. →
The hellish setting of the " Meatworks" is vicariously exemplified in thesynaesthesia of " the hot, fertilizer-thick, sticky stench of blood," denouncingthe industrial indifference to scruple shown in the degenerated standards, facilitating the confronting discovery of humanity's culpability. Graycriticizes the consumerism of the late 20th century as he delineatesthe extent of Australia's flourishing consumerism and →
This entails that mortals are the Greek gods' " puppets", any mortal that fails to follow the Greek Ethos may be eternally punished. Choice and fate both play a part in The Odyssey, but essentially it comes down to the choices that the characters make. This is implying that the Kyklops is asking Poseidon to →
This is consistently shown as a facet of Achilles' complex character in the Iliad, and it makes it possible for the reader to fathom his utter brutality with Lycaon. That is the role of the hero in a situation such as that.
These two lines reveal the good in the woman, as in ' pleasing' and the disadvantage of the woman as in ' short lived' and ' too soft.' This is the exact picture painted in the rest of the poem where being woman is limiting and the good of it is coated in ugly prejudice. →
Odysseus practices the art of storytelling in order to fulfill his image of a courageous hero once he arrives at home. Odysseus' confidence allows for his audience to be captured by his story. As a hero, Odysseus has the responsibility to assure Penelope that the reason he has not been home is for good cause →
Otto Plath died of gangrene when Sylvia was eight, which could have possibly been avoided by prompt treatment for diabetes and admission of the reality of his condition to his family. When Sylvia later writes in " Daddy:" Daddy, I have had to kill you. You →
The contrasting ideas of obedience in the two books is important and relevant for the reader today in the light that Genesis has become the cornerstone for a major world religion while the Iliad has remained only at the epic poetry level. In both Genesis and the Iliad the lack of foresight by those who →
Both poems also give rise to the definition of the true American Dream is, since both a wealthy person in " Richard Cory" and a suburbanite in " In the Suburbs" seem to be unhappy with their lives. The poets' representations of a suburbanite and a rich man defy the classic view that achieving success →
The poem's use of personification, together with a marked shift in tone and rhythm, provide an especially chilling presentation of man's powerlessness in the face of death's random schedule. In the poem, death is portrayed as a gentlemanly suitor, who collects the speaker for a carriage ride, and sets her down in " Eternity". →
Due to the minor key the notes are played in, the listener would not be happy about it, either, as it gives a sinister edge to the notes. The basic structure of the song is maintained by the acoustic guitar and bass. This helps acclimate the listener with the idea of the guitar as one →
Thus, instead of the " passing bells" that would accompany a church service, these soldiers are buried to the sounds of " the monstrous anger of the guns" and " the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle" where the alliteration gives the phrases an onomatopoeic quality. The poem gives us a →
The fantasy tone of this lyric with serve to give the readers a comprehension of the speaker's encounters inside the sonnet and the impact the events in the ballad had on him. Be that as it may, underneath this happy tone is a tone increasingly dismal, and Poe utilizes certain words and expressions that give →
The speaker notes the physical attributes of the city, which can be compared to a man: Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders". The city is personified as a hard-working and proud blue collar worker who may have to resort to underhanded dealings in order to survive. However, →
The authenticated methods that will be a review in this research will be exposition the rising action of the problem or the conflict, as well as the climax, the falling action, and the resolution. Through analyzing the various literal elements in two stories the climax to show the high point of tension that points out →
The 'it' to which she is referring is her attempt to kill herself. Although she sounds critical of their interest in the sensational aspect of her attempted suicide and the emotional pain it reveals, she also seems to welcome it as she says, " It's the theatrical / Comeback in broad day / To the →
Shelly and Keats use the ode form and other elements of Romantic poetry to develop themes and intuition into life and human nature. In John Keats' poem, The Ode to A Nightingale, the audience is first introduced to a disoriented, sorrow stricken speaker who yearns to listen to the Nightingale's euphoric song. Speakers in both →
The use of an egret for the bird that the boy kills is very apt, as it reminds the reader already of the word " regret"; it becomes a symbol for that regret the boy has in killing it and disobeying his father. In a way, the egret and the boy are connected by this →
The poems in this series depict how the women in the late 60's were able to live their life and how they were able to survive in life even after the horrific experiences. The author used this word to describe women nature and her demands in her real life.
Milton also presents Hell through Satan and his speeches, the first reference Satan makes to Hell is when he contrasts it with Heaven, the ' happy fields' of Heaven and the ' infernal world' of Hell. Throughout Book One of Paradise Lost Hell is presented as a physical place but Satan also portrays it as →
He is recounting the fall of Satan, and focuses on the battles that take place between the angels and rebel angels. In the beginning of the Book, dawn breaks over the landscape of Heaven as the angel Abdiel makes his way to God and his faithful legions.
Let us first analyze the personality of the mother, the Chippewa woman that the poet had reiterated. Right from the start, it was clear that the mother was alone and had no one to depend on but herself." Far from the Fort and far from the hunters, a Chippewa woman with her