“The Scarlet Ibis” which is a short story by James Hurst and the movie, Simon Birch by Mark Steven Johnson are stories about two boys that are born with heart problems and have to face adversity. Simon Birch is a story about a boy who...
In the novel, Kafka on the Shore, by Haruki Murakami, the protagonist Kafka Tamura, a fifteen-year-old Japanese, runs away from home intending to escape his father’s curse, which is that he will sleep with his sister and mather, then kill his father. During the escape,...
‘An Inspector Calls’ was written by J.B Priestly in 1946, just after the second world war. It focuses on the visit to the Birling family by a mysterious inspector. Priestley uses the character of Inspector Goole to represent a ‘god like’ figure who can also...
Abstract Anita Desai’s Cry, the Peacock portrays the trauma of a married woman inflicted by a male dominated society. She gets enslaved by the belief that her family male members are her protectors. Once she realizes that they cut her off from their family domain,...
J. B. Priestley represented a huge conflicts between representer of democracy and self-regulated in capitalism, when another one follows communistic ideas. One of his best known plays, ‘An Inspector Calls’ was written by British playwright John Priestley, in 1945, after the Second World War. Nevertheless,...
Sarah Orne Jewett’s nineteenth century tale “A White Heron” explores a temporary hindrance of a young girl’s relationship to nature. Sylvia, the nine-year-old heroine, maintains a simple life in the New England woodlands with her grandmother. With little to remember of her urban way of...
Reality is the state of being true and existent, whereas an illusion is a false idea or belief that is not true. Fifth Business portrays the battle between illusion and reality, which reveals the theme of guilt. Illusion and reality are portrayed by several characters...
Stephen and John Kumalo are brothers that play a major role in the novel: “Cry, The Beloved Country”. Throughout the story, we learn many different things about these two characters on how they react to different situation and their overall personalities. Unlike normal brothers, Stephen...
Religion plays a key role throughout the novel Fifth Business by Robertson Davies. As human nature forces one to believe in something bigger than itself in order to feel protected and in control. We need something to know that someone will always look after us...
It is in attribute that there is a lot of power in wishes, and there are a lot of corrupt actions one should attempt to attain it. In Shakespeare’s tragedy sovereign, a Scottish noble’s looking for power leads him to do to to terrible deeds,...
In Dalton Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun, the casualties of World War One are expressed through the eyes of the main character, Joe Bonham. Joe loses his arms, legs, eyes, nose, mouth, and ears after a bomb drops on him while fighting in a war...
Experiences refer to the nature of the events someone or something undergoes, and can either change a person for better or for worse. Throughout the novel, Fifth Business the protagonist, Dunstan Ramsay goes through many experiences that help make him the person he becomes by...
Bend It Like Beckham is a 2002 British-German romantic comedy-drama sports film produced, written and directed by Gurinder Chadha. The movie supports the idea that it is normal to be different and not be the stereotypical person that your family or culture demands. We are...
The novel Johnny Got His Gun was about a young man named Joe going through hard times. His life was always a struggle since he was a kid. Joe had many friends and worked to help his mom make money. Many conflicts occurred throughout the...
Flannery O’Connor’s “Good Country People” exemplifies characters’ defects ironic to the title. Rather than highlighting goodness, O’Connor focuses on the bad traits the characters carry. An ideology of Christianity is that one must have a healthy mind, body, and soul, otherwise one may be lacking...
The Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper’s most well-known novel, is one of the most best-selling and acclaimed books about the American Frontier. The story took place at the height of conflict during the French and Indian War. Interspersing with hatred and fights, interracial...
Guilt was a major recurring theme in the book “Fifth Business” by Robertson Davies. Reaction of certain characters to conflicts in the novel shows that the morals and values taught in childhood can reveal one’s true persona. Davies shown this theme at the start of...
Each of Jane Austen’s heroines provides a unique perspective and reflection of what it meant to be a woman in her society. Elizabeth Bennet, frequently cited as Austen’s most beloved heroine, and Emma Woodhouse, generally perceived to be her most disliked, have a similar narrative...
The novel Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy expresses how sticking up for others as well as anti-heroism can all come together to form the best character. Judge Holden is the best character out of the one hundred fictional novels since the 1900s because of his...
Many people come in many different shapes, forms and styles. Each person has a mental habit that can utterly impact their life, which is when people can stay quiet and make themselves feel sad and miserable. While other are willing to bringing themselves joy and...
“Lamb to Slaughter” by Roald Dahl and “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell are stories revolving two murderous women, Mary Maloney and Mrs. Wright (Minnie Foster), who murder their husbands under different circumstances. While the two women and guilty the authors manage to...
The desire for overcoming corruption became a battle for everyone living in those times. The passion that many had and the hope that wasn’t lost kept them stronger. Now, a day’s corruption is not the most popular subject but it’s still around in many places...
Moliére’s dramatic play “Tartuffe” is considerably one of his best written works of all time. The play Tartuffe, written in 1664 was set during the time of the Restoration period. During this Restoration period, women were expected to be under a man’s authority. Women were...
Children, similar to mirrors, reflect images of what happens around them. They reflect the gestures, wisdom, and personality traits of the adults at an early age, then later carry them into adulthood. This analogy proves that the character of Merlin has a significant impact on...
In the novel The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper, the author enlightens the reader on the history of a war in America and the “savages” who fought within it by introducing a cast of colorful characters and their journey through the bloody...
In John Green’s Looking For Alaska, Miles Halter proves to be an unreliable narrator. His emotions tend to cloud he how sees his crush, Alaska, especially after her death. As a result of grief, Miles romanticizes his relationship with her, thus altering the truthiness of...
Shakespeare’s play ‘The Merchant of Venice’ displays an array of human experiences, lived out by the characters. These experiences differ between people due to the context of the play. Set in Venice, the atmosphere is multicultural, exotic and extremely money and power driven. This text...
William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice has a big focus on many issues that are still prevalent in our 21st century, marriage and relational commitment being one, but it is portrayed as convenience or for an individual’s profit, instead of love. In the play, love...
Edmund Burke once said, “The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.” In today’s society, power is taken and used in manipulative ways by prominent people in the public eye. We see celebrities pay their way out of punishments all the time. Julian Hayden...
In the novel, Obasan, Kogawa uses Naomi’s character development to convey that early life racism, internment and abandonment from loved ones can lead to one feeling confused about their identity. The narrator of the novel, Naomi, goes through a series of traumatic events as a...
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