Dante's use of allegory in the Inferno greatly varies from Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" in purpose, symbolism, characters and mentors, and in attitude toward the world. An analysis of each of these elements in both allegories will provide an interesting comparison. Dante uses allegory to relate...
897 words
Lindo Jong is a member of the Joy Luck Club along with Suyuan Woo, An-mei Hsu, and Ying-ying St. Clair. Lindo Jong is a mother to three children, a divorcee, and a wife to a second husband. She grew up in China, and even though her children are American, she wants them to have some Chinese...
676 words
Medea: Insider vs. Outsider In the Epic myth of Medea, Insiders and Outsiders are treated differently. The outsiders are the people who aren’t legal citizens of the given town, while the insiders are the actual citizens of the town. There are many insiders and outsiders in Medea and there are ways...
893 words
One of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous short stories, ? The Tell-Tale Heart,'' was first published in the January, 1843 edition of James Russell Lowell's The Pioneer and was reprinted in the August 23, 1845 issue of The Broadway Journal. The story is a psychological portrait of a mad narrator who...
313 words
Characteristics of Melodrama in Uncle Tom's Cabin Melodrama is a play form that does not observe the dramatic laws of cause and effect and that intensifies sentiment and exaggerates emotion (893). Written by George L. Aiken, Uncle Tom's Cabin is an extremely good example for melodrama that emerged...
1 621 words
Catherine Barkley and Frederic Henry in A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway present a contrast in personalities: in the ways they are playing opposite roles, in Catherines maturity and leadership and in Frederics immaturity and ineptness, and in the ways they view love. Frederic Henry is the...
1 877 words
From a young age Charles Dodgson’s fondness for writing was already made apparent. He had made several contributions to some national publications in England as well as to two local publications in Oxford (Karoline 31). It was in one of his contributions to the latter where he used the pseudonym...
2 491 words
The folk epic Beowulf reflects many Anglo-Saxon values. The Anglo-Saxon epic stresses the physical world, fairness, boasting, love of glory, belief in wyrd, deep sense of loyalty to the tribe and the tribal leader, and the importance of generosity and bravery. The Anglo-Saxon value of fairness is...
345 words
In both Hamlet and Death of a Salesman it is the fates and problems of the central male figures that necessarily dominate our attention in the theatre. But the role of the women in both tragedies is central to their subject matter, themes, and narrative development. T.S.Eliot summarized Hamlet as...
2 502 words
Frankenstein Versus Prometheus What do a god and a crazy doctor have in common? Nothing right! Wrong! In the stories Prometheus and Frankenstein the protagonists are very alike in many ways. They both tried to play god, steal, and they both get punished for what they did. In the stories Prometheus...
654 words
Jane Eyre, a novel about an English woman's struggles told through the writing of Charlotte Bronte, has filled its audience with thoughts of hope, love, and deception for many years. These thoughts surround people, not just women, everyday, as if an endless cycle from birth to death. As men and...
2 064 words
The novel “Mansfield Park” is the most morally affirming novel by Jane Austen. In the book, the author touches many important themes (principles, social mobility, town and country, the evils of primogeniture, love, marriage, the home, memory and the past, rags to riches) and describes it with...
1 946 words
Power and control are the central ideas of Ken Kesey's One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest. There are examples of physical, authoritative and mechanical power in the novel, as well as cases of self-control, and control over others. Nurse Ratched is the ultimate example of authoritative power and...
1 930 words
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austin was a moralistic novel depicting the two main forms of attitudes at that time; the neo -classics and the romantics. The period in which it was written, nineteenth century England, was laden with social etiquette and customs imposed on people of that time; and...
2 263 words
Friendship is the most important thing in life. Taylor realizes this through Estevan and Esperanza. She learns that to get through tough times, you need friends to help you get through. Through Estevan and Esperanza, Taylor learns the love, loss, and loss of friendship. Love and compassion are...
324 words
The Iliad in Dante's Inferno Dante makes many references to Homer and the Iliad throughout the Inferno. The fates of favorite characters are described during the course of Dante's travels. Beginning with his vision of Homer in Limbo, continuing through increasingly gory levels of Hell until Dante...
422 words
Chinese Discourse Styles in The Joy-Luck Club The movie, The Joy Luck Club, written by Amy Tan, features many of the traditional Chinese literature discourse styles. Chinese symbolism, physical and philosophical development of stories, juxtaposed complements, among the many Chinese styles of...
942 words
John Steinbeck is the author of this text. His life dates from 1902 to 1968. He hails from Salinas, in a moderately well up family. His writing career dates from 1925. His first published work includes a series of humor filled stories about Monterey paisanos, widely known as ‘Tortilla Flat’. A...
1 972 words
I have recently read the short story entitled "The Tell-Tale Heart". This story was written in 1843 by Edgar Allen Poe. This is somewhat of a frightening and creepy story. I usually don't like these types of stories because they usually don't have a point. "The Tell-Tale Heart" is one of the...
349 words
Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin was the defining piece of the time in which it was written. The book opened eyes in both the North and South to the cruelties that occurred in all forms of slavery, and held back nothing in exposing the complicity of non-slaveholders in the upholding...
1 568 words
One measure of a powerful writer lies in her ability to write literature in which any passage can be set apart from its context and still express the qualities of the whole. When this occurs, the integrated profundity of the entire work is a sign of true artistry. Ernest Hemingway, an author of...
1 863 words
Lewis Carroll's works Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There are by many people considered nonsense books for children. Of course, they are, but they are also much more. Lewis Carroll had a great talent of intertwining nonsense and logic...
1 657 words
Ms. Jaworski AS English II 17 October 2014 Anglo-Saxon Values Demonstrated by Beowulf In Seamus Heaney's translation of the epic Beowulf, the protagonist, Beowulf, exemplifies the values of an Anglo-Saxon warrior and king. Beowulf is a Geatish warrior who uses his super-human strength to defend...
807 words
Discuss Willy Loman as a tragic hero: Based your understanding of what being a hero means. You are, of course, free to differ with the designation. No one has a perfect life. Everyone has conflicts that they must face sooner or later. The ways in which people deal with these personal conflicts can...
1 054 words
In Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, families are a very important part of the structure of the novel. Frankenstein's family is critical because the reason why the monster was created lies within the family. Almost every family mentioned in the novel was either incomplete or was dysfunctional...
1 456 words
Cinderella is a classic fairytale almost every person knows. Such recognition was earned through time and it's originality. Yet from this well-known tale, many stories have stemmed into their own interesting aspects of virtually the same plot with similar characters. One of the related stories is...
585 words
In Euripides' play, Medea, the title character progresses from distraught and slighted wife to inhuman Fury, the slayer of her own sons and the cause of her husband Jason’s downfall. Euripides delivers a woman’s existence filled with great passion, betrayal, disappointment and tragedy, and while...
1 977 words
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOOS NEST Ken Kesey's novel One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest takes place in a mental hospital. The main character, or protagonist is Randle P. McMurphy, a convicted criminal and gambler who feigns insanity to get out of a prisoners work ranch. The antagonist is Nurse Ratched...
1 087 words
Two sisters choose separate paths of how to handle the emotion of their hearts' deepest desires. One decided to follow their heart and the other was more "sensible", ignoring their hearts' pleas. Sense and Sensibility, a wonderful novel written by Jane Austen, presents a specific story of how some...
508 words
In the book The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver, there is a young girl named Taylor who did not want to be like the typical girls from Kentucky. She wanted to go and get out of the small town. She got in her old beat up car and traveled throughout the United States, until she landed in Arizona...
837 words
The Divine Comedy (The Inferno and Purgatorio, in this matter) without Virgil would be like coffee without cream. Without Virgil, Dante would never have completed his journey. Without reason, Dante would never have the courage to go through his redemption. We meet Virgil in the Inferno just when...
2 923 words
It has been said that America has no single tradition but rather is a melting pot of people from various backgrounds and ethnicities. During the 20th century a new wave of immigration to the United States took place bringing with it a new classification of American. However due to the intimidating...
1 415 words
The Odyssey and The Pearl: Loyalty Loyalty to another person or to a cause may be an admirable trait, but it can lead to either positive or negative consequences. In Homer's epic The Odyssey and John Steinbeck's novel The Pearl there are characters that show great examples of this trait. Penelope...
440 words
The Sniper vs. The Tell-Tale Heart Although the stories "The Sniper" and "The Tell Tale Heart" have comparable things in them, they are still different. In this paper I will show the comparisons and the contrasts of both stories. I'll explain these in the setting, the method of how the main...
634 words
The purpose of this essay is to explain the main historical themes posed in Uncle Tom's Cabin. The novel is an anti-slavery novel by the American author, Harriet Beecher Stowe, which was published in 1852. The novel had such a profound effect on the attitudes toward African Americans and slavery...
1 617 words
'A writer's job is to tell the truth' Ernest Hemingway. This quote means that it is a writer's job to convey some sort of truth or accuracy to the reader. I agree. This is shown in the novel, A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway through the setting and characterization in...
996 words
At the mention of the name Alice, one tends to usually think of the children's stories by Lewis Carroll. Namely, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass are two classic works of children's literature that for over a century have been read by children and adults alike. These...
1 257 words
Anglo-Saxon poetry, composed within the fifth century through the eleventh century, reflects many ideas of Anglo-Saxon culture and life. Poetry is a part of typical Anglo-Saxon culture, and is commonly passed through generations orally. Among many works of poetry lies the story of Beowulf, a tale...
664 words
Death of a Salesman: Symbols Many symbols are incorporated into the play "Death of a Sales man" and they in turn relate to both character and theme. The hose, tape recorder and the seeds are some of these symbols. The hose in Miller's drama directly relates to the theme of d eath. The hose is a...
520 words
<i>I saw a creature, naked, bestial, <br>Who, squatting upon the ground, <br>Held his heart in his hands, <br>And ate of it. <br>I said, "Is it good friend? " <br>"It is bitter-bitter," he answered; <br>"But I like it <br>Because it is bitter...
2 206 words
Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre embraces many feminist views in opposition to the Victorian feminine ideal. Charlotte Bronte herself was among the first feminist writers of her time, and wrote this book in order to send the message of feminism to a Victorian-Age Society in which women were...
1 795 words
Toni Morrison’s novels are, to a great extent, susceptible to an archetypal interpretation. Thus, Beloved has been considered, by the critical opinion, as having its roots in the myth of Medea which forms the subject of Euripides’ ancient tragedy. The story told by Morrison’s novel is the...
2 099 words
One flew East, One flew West, One died without a part of his brain. In my opinion the main theme of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is conformity. The patients at this mental institution, or at least the one in the Big Nurse's ward, find themselves on a rough situation where not following...
853 words
Graded Assignment ENG203A–B/204A–B: Literary Analysis and Composition II | Sense and Sensibility | Lesson 1: Sense Session 1 .cGraded Assignment Journal, Part 1: Sense and Sensibility The questions in this Journal Assignment cover readings in Lessons 1–4 of the Sense and Sensibility unit (Chapters...
948 words
David Arturi Period 8 English II H October 25, 2010 Necessary Bonds Make no mistake; the world today is not an easy place to grow up in. Hatred, poverty, and violence affect everyone. However, these are not the only problems. Every day we are all faced with adversity, ranging from simple tasks, a...
1 166 words
In The Inferno, by Dante, the main character operates on several levels. Dante serves as a Christian hero because he undergoes trials and tribulations in his search to find the souls true path in life. Dante also portrays himself as everyman. He does this by showing that he also suffers from sin...
313 words
"The Joy Luck Club" isn't what most men would rush to see at the box office. It is, by general opinion, a chick flick, an epic tear jerker directed towards the sensitive side of people. By just that extremely brief description, I would guess a great percentage of males already have lost interest...
866 words
In this article "The Pearls of Obedience", Stanley Milgram asserts that obedience to authority is a common response for many people in today's society, often diminishing an individuals beliefs or ideals. Stanley Milgram designs an experiment to understand how strong a person's tendency to obey...
635 words
In our mordern world, stories affect our life every day, but how do the authors of these wonders keep the reader exited and focused? This is when the type of writing called suspense comes along. Suspense is the type of writing skill authors use to give readers uncertainty about the conclusion of...
800 words
Uncle Tom’s Cabin By: Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin takes place during the slave period in the United States. It starts of with one setting and story line then breaks of into many different plots. It is about a slave named Toms who throughout the novel keeps up his faith in Christ and...
572 words