Themes Essays and Term Papers
Medea Vs. AntigoneThe two Greek plays, Medea and Antigone both exhibit opening scenes that serve numerous purposes. Such as establishing loyalties, undermining assumptions on the part of the audience, foreshadowing the rest of the play, and outlining all of the issues. Medea and Antigone share many similarities ...
| Save Paper - Premium Paper - Words: 814 - Pages: 3 |
The Outsiders, an exciting tale by S.E. Hinton, is an excellent story about the hardships and triumphs experienced by the Greasers and the Socs, two rival gangs. The author wrote the story when she was just 16 years old, in the 1950s. The book was successful, and it was sold, and still being sold, in many ...
| Save Paper - Premium Paper - Words: 870 - Pages: 4 |
The Crucible 2Back in the 1950's, when insecurity permeated the air, and people were ruled by fear, Arthur Miller wrote a play, which defined the line between insecurity and fear. The Crucible was a remade story of the carnal Salem Witch trials, in which many innocent victims lost their lives. Through this ...
| Save Paper - Premium Paper - Words: 1875 - Pages: 7 |
Animal FarmIn writing , George Orwell had two main goals in mind. His first goal was to write this novel as an attack on what he perceived as Soviet Communism. His other goal was to write it, as a satire on those who yearn for a utopian society, which he felt, was difficult, if not impossible to reach. He ...
| Save Paper - Free Paper - Words: 1566 - Pages: 6 |
DuneThe book has a science-fiction story line that associates two major
themes frequently in the book. The title and the setting of the book are used
to establish the bleakness and isolation of the planet Arrakis. The plot and
resolution bring together the multiple factions including the emperor ...
| Save Paper - Premium Paper - Words: 420 - Pages: 2 |
"Put Yourself In My Shoes"is one of the longest and most complex stories in the collection, and one of its finest. In addition, it brings together a number of the themes and images that have recurred throughout the book. For example, it depicts the kind of interaction between two couples that we have seen in "Neighbors" ...
| Save Paper - Free Paper - Words: 1319 - Pages: 5 |
Shakespeare's WorldAlmost every nation on earth reads, studies and performs the works of
William Shakespeare. No writer of any country, nor any age, has ever enjoyed
such universal popularity. Neither has any writer been so praised. As William
Hazlitt observed, "The most striking peculiarity of Shakespeare's mind ...
| Save Paper - Premium Paper - Words: 3162 - Pages: 12 |
Jazz By Toni Morrison, WrittenViolet thought it would disappoint them; that it would be less lovely than Baltimore. Joe believed it would be perfect. When they arrived, carrying all of their belongings in one valise, they both knew right away that perfect was not the word. It was better than that.
Joe didn't want babies either ...
| Save Paper - Premium Paper - Words: 820 - Pages: 3 |
Dover Beach Poetry AnalysisDover Beach is a very 'mood' evoking poem . We are first met with an appreciation for the sea and different emotions that is draws to the observer. However as the poem progresses we are gradually introduced to a large metaphor for love and like the sea is able to evoke many moods , and ...
| Save Paper - Premium Paper - Words: 783 - Pages: 3 |
Life After DeathAs the irritating, yet monotonous beeps of the life-monitor in the
emergency room began to slowly die away, George struggled to hang on. It's not
my time yet, he thought. Please, give me just one more day… The beeps soon
became increasingly far in between, while the doctors frantically bustled ...
| Save Paper - Premium Paper - Words: 2570 - Pages: 10 |
Lord Of The Flies: Golding's Reality - Fact Or FictionA recurring theme in William Golding's novel, Lord of the Flies ,
is that man savage at heart, always ultimately reverting back to evil and a
primitive nature. Golding believes that man has no control over his own
destiny because of fear. Golding uses properties of setting, characters,
and ...
| Save Paper - Premium Paper - Words: 1847 - Pages: 7 |
Tragedy Of Macbeth From MacbetWilliam Shakespear's Macbeth is a macabre tale of the downfall of a noble man who goes from being revered as "O' valiant cousin! Worthy gentleman!" (I,ii,24)at the beginning of the play to being reviled as "abhorred tyrant" (V, vii, 10) by play's end. The play unfolds this downward spiral from ...
| Save Paper - Premium Paper - Words: 1001 - Pages: 4 |
Scarlet Letter 2Scarlet Letter - Punishment and Death
Hawthornes The Scarlet Letter deals with many themes, among those
including punishment and death. Utilizing the theme of punishment, the
central character, Hester Prynne, was forced to wear an embroidered scarlet
letter on "her bosom" for the rest of her life ...
| Save Paper - Premium Paper - Words: 616 - Pages: 3 |
Of Mice And Men - Theme"A guy needs somebody--to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody. Don’t make no difference who the guy is, long’s he’s with you. I tell ya, I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an’ he gets sick." (Steinbeck 72-3). Being alone is one of the worst things I can possible think ...
| Save Paper - Free Paper - Words: 1002 - Pages: 4 |
Grapes Of WrathMatthew Sinrod Dr. Doyle Eng 102 5/5/98 Themes in "The " John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California February 27th 1902. He was the third of four children and the only son of John Ernst Steinbeck II, manager of a flour mill, and Olive Hamilton Steinbeck, a former teacher. Steinbeck said of his ...
| Save Paper - Free Paper - Words: 831 - Pages: 4 |
Scarlet Letter 2Similarities in the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Ambitious Guest is a short story bye Nathaniel Hawthorne that presents deadly irony. Residing in a notch in the mountains of New Hampshire, a cottage sits on the side of a steep mountain. In the house lives a family whose contacts with the rest ...
| Save Paper - Premium Paper - Words: 786 - Pages: 3 |
D.H. LawrenceAn English novelist and poet, was born September 11, 1885, in Nottingham, England. He was the son of a coal miner and a school teacher. His mother, the school teacher, was socially superior. She constantly tried to alienate her children from their father. The difference in social status between ...
| Save Paper - Free Paper - Words: 779 - Pages: 3 |
Beautiful Blueberries (About Into The Wild)Beautiful Blueberries Christopher McCandless' last journal entry before dying of starvation in the Alaska bush was simply the words "Beautiful Blueberries". Over the previous two years he bought a secondhand canoe on impulse and paddled to Mexico. Then he lived on the streets of Los Angeles with ...
| Save Paper - Premium Paper - Words: 659 - Pages: 3 |
The Byzantine Empire, the survivor of the Roman empire, flourished into
the oldest and longest lasting empire in our history. It began with Constantine
the Great's triumph of Christianity. He then transferred his capital from Rome
to the refounded Byzantium in the early 4th century, year 330 AD, and named ...
| Save Paper - Premium Paper - Words: 1177 - Pages: 5 |
An Analysis Of Poe's The Fall Of The House Of UsherThe Fall of the House of Usher is definitely a piece written in
Poe's usual style; a dark foreboding tale of death and insanity filled with
imagery, allusion, and hidden meaning. It uses secondary meanings and
underlying themes to show his beliefs and theories without actually
addressing them. ...
| Save Paper - Premium Paper - Words: 891 - Pages: 4 |
|
|