Essays on Lover

O’Brien says that stories can make the dead come back to life through remembering. O’Brien explains a story of about the first dead body he witnessed in Vietnam of an old Vietnamese man. Other people in the platoon to the dead man in a mocking manner: One man proposed a slice of bread to the corpse, but O’Brien would not participate. O’Brien says that the corpse reminded him of Linda, a girl she used to know, then O’Brien all over sudden segues into the story about Linda. Despite the fact that O’Brien was ...

Sustenance inclinations and way of life propensities of exercising are set up the beginning of life. Building an eating regimen with natural products and vegetables from a youthful age will help youngsters lean toward those nourishments for the duration of their lives. The above nourishments are rich in cancer prevention agents which help ensure against sickness and advance a fortifying standard weight. At the point when a veggie lover eating routine is built up really early, would it be able to give nourishing focal points, as well as advance empowering dietary patterns past puberty, to the high schooler years ...

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were built by the king of Babylon Nebuchadnezzar. The gardens were built in 600 B.C. They were built near River Euphrates in the modern Iraq. Exclusive art was involved in the construction as the gardens had been built 75 feet above the ground on a big brick terrace that was square in shape. The brick had been designed in a steps-like theater (Laliberte et al 35). King Nebuchadnezzar had designed the towering gardens with the aim of pleasing his lover. The art was meant to be romantic to Amytis following her admiration for the ...

Given the background of the story “The Lady or the Tiger?” by Frank Stockton, one can easily tell that the princess-barbarian is in quite an ethical dilemma. If she points to the right door – where a lady waits to be married to her lover – she loses. Of course, if she points to the wrong one – where a ferocious tiger awaits the unsuspecting youth – she still loses. If you put yourself in her position, it would be truly difficult to choose her barbaric nature over love and that the author points out. Still, if the young man she loves marries ...

Alfred Prufrock, the speaker of Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” and Nick, the protagonist of Hemingway’s “Big Two-Hearted River,” have certain traits in common but there are also difference between them. Both characters have are avoiding certain things; Prufrock avoids propositioning the woman he loves, and Nick avoids confronting memories from the war which still haunt him. Similarly, both characters suffer with anxiety. Prufrock is too anxious to speak frankly to the woman, and Nick suffers from PTSD and this affects him in everyday life. The two characters differ, however, in that Prufrock chooses ...

Essay Outline

I: Introduction & Thesis II: Why Mrs. Grierson Is Not A Sympathetic Character III: An Account of Mrs. Grierson’s Hardships IV: Mrs. Grierson’s Secret V: Conclusion

If there's an old saying that best describes William Faulkner's short story A Rose for Emily, it is that appearances can be truly deceptive. Almost always, there's more than meets the eye and this is true in the case of Ms. Emily Grierson that we soon find. So, the purpose of this essay is to argue that Ms. Grierson is not a sympathetic character because of the personal choices she has made ...

The novel ‘ABC Murder’ reflects around a serial killer, ABC, who kills individuals alphabetically. The killer, with an unknown identity, sends provoking letters to Poirot, who is identified to be a detective. However, ABC covers his act with Cust, whom he takes advantage of because of mental disability. He offers Cust a job on behalf of a stocking company and arranges for his presence at each murder scene. ABC, who privately kills individuals in different cities, is however identified to be Franklin Clarke (Christie, 2010). On the other hand, The Big Sleep features Marlowe, a detective, who is hired ...

Edgar Allen Poe wrote “The Raven” in 1945. The poem shows how lost love can lead to depression. Depression, and mental illness in general, is a topic common to many of Poe’s works, and he often uses an unreliable narrator as one of the primary means of showing such depression. Following the death of the woman he loved, a male speaker narrates “The Raven,” and through this first person account, the reader is allowed a glimpse of his descent into madness. Through the poem, Poe demonstrates to how the experience of losing a loved one can propel someone ...

A native citizen of Spain and a recognized king of bohemian Paris, Pablo Picasso was a bright example of versatile talent and fantastic commitment to his lifework. He continuously tried new styles and forms, looked for new color compositions, used unusual materials, and, when two-dimensional images started to seem him boring, founded cubism to give them a new dimension. Together with Georges Braque, Picasso massively determined art development of the twentieth century. The widely recognized ancestor of Picasso’s cubism is his painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (The Young Ladies of Avignon) created in 1907 during the African period of ...

Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 by design mocks the traditional love poems of Shakespeare’s times. More traditional love poems were rife with exaggerated comparisons that extolled the beauty of the beloved. Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 outright makes fun of such things in lines like the opening: “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;” (1). While much of his poem is spent describing her lover’s shortcomings, in the end he claims to love her. Shakespearean sonnets are fourteen lines long and consist of four parts (Kennedy n.p.; Owen 260). The first three parts known as quatrains each consist ...

Burns, “A Red, Red Rose,” analysis

This poem solely focuses on the type of love that is above everything even the earth. “A Red, Red Rose,” is a typical love that would compel the speaker to walk thousands of miles to meet with his lover with no issues. Red Roses are usually associated with love. The repetition of red depicts the paradigm of not just the seriousness but also the emphasis put by the man. The speaker introduces the poem with a simile: his love is like a recently sprung red rose. The poet also utilizes other literally devices such as alliteration. “And I will” ...

This paper will look at love, sex and gender within the backdrop of postmodernism, existentialism and orientalism in the novels The Women of Algiers in Their Apartment by Assia Djebar, Foam of the Daze by Boris Vian and The Lover by Marguerite Duras. In the novels love/ and sex are shown as something that a woman has no control over, something that destroys due to its intensity, and something that forever changes a person, respectively. While gender is seen as being something that disenfranchises women in a male dominant, unequal society and something that can destroy a man if ...

This essay is an analysis to Richard Ford’s “Under the Radar”. Ford’s story, despite short, conveys a deep and textured plot and along with perplexing characters. The story revolves around the theme of early marriage, infidelity among professionals and the consequences in the revelation of these actions. There is not a hint of happiness or closure at the end and it leaves the reader free to think up of the ending on their own, with the lingering opinions on mistrust and deception. “Under the Radar” starts off with a young couple, Marjorie Reeves and her husband, Steven ...

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In the play, A Doll’s House, different characters present varying characteristics that define their roles in the play. However, one of the key most impeccable characters from the play that creates some form of intrigue in terms of true identity is Nora Helmer. A review of the character projected by Nora indicates a significant shift in terms of character during the course of the play thereby highlighting some of the admirable qualities that one ought to expect from a woman in her status. In my view, the shift in terms of character projected by Nora during the course ...

Introduction

Oedipus Rex (c. 430 BC) of Sophocles is the story of the supremacy of the gods who command the fate of men, no matter their station in life. Oedipus, son of King Laios, who was abandoned by his father after having his feet nailed hearing a prophecy that he would die from his son, returns too Thebes to rule in the land which had just lost its King. He had killed an old man while on his way and manages to outwit the Sphinx with her cryptic riddles to enter the Theban walls where he is hailed King and ...

What does Bhakti esthetics reveal about Hindu religious life? Give some examples of your argument.

The aim of a true Hindu is to realize God. It can be possible with the help of Bhakti. Bhakti means “devotion,” “devoted service” and is the basis of all religious life in Hinduism that expresses emotional ties and love between devoted people (Bhakta) and God in different forms. Bhakta states that a human life is empty without love and its practice destroys people’s egoism and leads to beauty. It is easy to have a thing that is beautiful. God is the most beautiful. God is the beginning of all beauties. God is the embodiment of eternal beauty. ...

The Mask of Agamemnon

There are a lot of artworks that will always contain some secret concerning its true origin and authenticity. One of such sculptures is definitely the case with the Mask of Agamemnon. This artifact from the Greek Bronze Age was discovered by distinguished German archaeologist, Heinrich Schliemann, in Mycenae dated 1876. After the stunning discovery of the real location of the legendary Troy, Schliemann was next planning to find the final resting place of Agamemnon, the famous king of ancient Mycenae who headed the Greek troops during the Trojan War. All his grand triumphs and tribulations are eulogized in Homer’ ...

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3. How is the setting in the stories listed below essential to our understanding of the events in these works? The setting of the story, The Lottery, stirs the readers to the very core as it helps in setting up the ambiance that leads to the climactic sequence in the course of the narrative. The description of the beautiful day and the open space in stark juxtaposition to the final barbaric act in the course of the story makes one understand the dichotomy between the societal norms and logical outlook. Right up to the very end, one is unable ...

It needs to be taken into account that literature goes on to reflect the true nature of the society of this world. The stalwart literary artists have for long engaged in portraying the dynamics of the interpersonal relationships in their works, and the theme of domination and its subsequent subversion has come to find commonality in the works of many literary artists of the world. If one closely introspects on some specific works, it would be easier to gauge how the thematic content of domination has been portrayed in the literary texts over the span of the history of ...

A marriage union is anchored on faithfulness and a promise to withhold the fidelity of the house to one partner for a lifetime. Society has always held that infidelity is a wrong thing if not hurtful to the people. It tends to affect the marriage if it is discovered and if the marriage does not end peacefully, then the people leave in hate and fear of maiming or even killing each other. Sex is a pleasure, and past experiences with specific people tend to stick to the mind. There is a notion that states that individuals that engage in ...

Blow Up is a 1966 British-Italian film by Michelangelo Antonioni that tells the story about a London photographer who believes that he accidentally captured a murder on his film. The story in itself covers a day in the life of Thomas- the photographer whose lateness in taking some scheduled photos of different people leads him to having an adventurous but hectic day. The significant event that day is how he accidentally captured a murder scene as he photographed two lovers at a park which brings about Mise en scene to create plot and themes. Antonioni makes extensive use of ...

There can be no denial of the fact that the novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by the famous author, Mark Haddon, is one of the best literary works to be adapted in the cinematic form of expression. Indeed, the story in context has enormous scope of quintessential and aesthetic portrayal of the events, emotions, frictions, and mystery. The young teenager of the narrative, Christopher, is the hero of this story in context. The way he is portrayed in the literary narrative truly impresses the readers, and it provides ample scope for catapulting the affective ...

During ancient times, the Greeks would turn to the gods for advice and intervention when presented with a problem whether it was to bring the rain to save their crops so that their families could eat or in the case of Oresteia, to decide whether or not a person accused of murder was truly guilty. The goddess they often turned to for guidance was the goddess Themis whose “ability to foresee the future enabled her to become one of the oracles at Delphi, which in turn led to her establishment as the goddess of divine justice” (Swatt, “Themis, Goddess ...

Introduction

An open relationship is defined as a form of interpersonal relations where both the parties decided to be together, yet they agreed to have a non-monogamous relationship. That is, while they remain as partners, they still have the freedom to engage in a relationship with another person. Each partner is allowed to have a relationship with other parties either on a long-term or short-term basis, and it is settled that such will not affect the ongoing relationship between the original partners. An open relationship can happen between people who made a plain commitment with each other, or even between ...

Introduction

The novel, The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1850, has a protagonist named Hester Prynne who was forced to live in solitude for her act of adultery. The novel is phased in the era of 1960s which is almost two centuries prior to its year of publication and aims at explaining the plight of a woman who was forced to live with the imposed consequences by the members of the Puritan community in the city of Salem, Massachusetts. With respect to the analysis of her character in the novel, there are some stark contradictions affixed to her ...

A Lost Lady

A Lost Lady is a novel by Willa Cather that was published in 1923. It is a pure classic by all means at it captured the dynamics of a vastly changing society. The period between the late 19th century and early 20th century was characterized by tussles for power, World War I and a serious redefinition of gender roles and culture. For the first time, the debate about slave trade was reaching a climax, with a new rejuvenation of the blacks and a hope that they will be able to vote within a very short time. The changes were ...

Published in 1889, Laura Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate is set in revolutionary Mexico of the early twentieth century. At that time, society and the family institution exercised an authoritative and oppressive control on women’s activities and expression; in fact, such control had existed since colonial times, Up until recent times, women had been playing a subservient role from which even in the twenty-first century they are still struggling to break themselves free. Not only were women denied participation in society and politics as individuals with their own voice and identity, but they were mostly confined to ...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie brings us the fictional work entitled “Birdsong” in 2010, and as is usual for her, does so in a way that seems to be nonfiction. Reading anything by Adichie, the prominent Nigerian author, who frequently puts a 21rst century face on the Igbo people, is almost an invitation to reading the private diary of someone’s life, whether that life is that of a person living through a civil war, a person struggling to grasp American culture as she arrives from Nigeria in search for a better life, or as the girlfriend to a married man, ...

Love is a topic that has been written and sang about through ages because love is a key subject in life. Love is an emotion felt and displayed by people, with each individual expressing love in their own unique way. Zora Hurston was an African American woman writer whose work was criticized for her views on love. In her book “Their eyes were watching God, she demonstrates the lack of love in African American marriages, and the great lengths to which women have to go in search for love. Stevie Wonder was an African American singer who demonstrated his ...

Rap has entered the history of American art over a century ago. The people who have laid the foundations for rap as we know it today were the two big ethnical groups of the American society: African Americans and people from the Caribbean Islands. Folk artists of the mentioned origins were telling rhymed stories with the accompaniment of rhythmic music (drums and sparse instrumentation). This music already existed years before hip-hop was developed and became popular. Rapping is actually reading or chanting of rhythmic lyrics that were designed to set a beat. Many specialists are of the opinion that ...

The fundamental principles of utilitarianism are morality and the welfare of the majority. Utilitarianism believes that morality will make the world a better place to live in. Any act that produces a good consequence is considered as morally good. The nature or intention of the act is not important in utilitarianism. Human beings are expected to act in a manner that produces benefits to the majority. Utilitarianism places more emphasis on consequence and not on the intension. People are expected to put away self-interest for the sake of common good that benefits all. Common interests are given importance over ...

Titian’s and Peter Paul Rubens’s Venus and Adonis

The essay looks at Rubens and Titian version of Venus and Adonis and makes a comparison of their style. While Rubens and Titian version of Venus and Adonis, Rubens’s picture is typically Baroque. Rubens was greatly influenced by Titian and copied his version of Venus and Adonis. The story behind Venus and Adonis is derived from Ovid's Metamorphoses. The goddess Venus is shown clinging to her mortal lover, the handsome young Adonis, whom she is infatuated with. Venus attempts to stop her lover from going hunting. But hunting is a passion with Adonis and he knew that it ...

Love is a wonderful feeling, an experience that a human being cannot resist. The song entitled “Stereo Hearts” is a song full of questions, yet, it brings assurance to the one he or she loves. The writer is apparently inspired and adored someone whom he offers and expresses his or her love through his or her music and willing to give everything. A true love knows no boundary, willing to apologize, forgives, and forever protects a special someone. Both the figurative language from the lyrics of the song that says “My heart’s a stereo” (a metaphor) and “Hear ...

Summary of Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

The story of Madame Bovary is an undeniable piece of classical literature, which narrates the story of an infidel woman – Emma – whose behavior led to irreversible processes (Bart 14). Young doctor Charles Bovary first saw Emma when he was called to the farm of his father, who had broken his leg. Charles had already been married to an ugly and grumpy widow. Soon, however, the wife of Charles suddenly died. And after some time he married Emma. Charles was devoted to her, kind and hard-working, but Emma was missing something in him: she wanted her man to be strong ...

Nature has many aspects depending of the viewpoint of an individual. Different people have various opinions of nature, either in a scientific view, religious view or even cultural view. From the stars in the sky, the sun, the moon the landscape, the flora and fauna all have a deep meaning to various individuals or groups. The following is an analysis of three writings of writers who portrayed their views on nature. N. Scott Momaday through her article, “The Way to Rainy Mountain” explains the nature through her viewpoint while “The Solace of Open Spaces” by Gretel Ehrlich shows the ...

Shot in the 1970’s, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul and The Marriage of Maria Braun by the same director, the films reflect on the intercultural and interracial relationships and the society’s reaction to the phenomenon. Rainer Werner Fassbinder makes his audience face the uncomfortable dilemma and choose the side to support. Though the contemporary audience may not find anything bizarre in the storylines offered by the director, it is important to remember that the film were shot in the 70’s, and their audience was basically the society Fassbinder reflected in his movies. From the perspective of ...

“Hotline Bling,” a song co-written and performed by Canadian rapper Aubrey Drake Graham, known simply as Drake, rose to popularity in late 2015. While it was well known for its corresponding music video, it has also been critically praised for its emotional depth. Essentially, “Hotline Bling” is an emotional appeal from the narrator, Drake, to a former lover, who remains unnamed in the song. Throughout several stanzas that center around the phrase “ever since I left the city,” Drake uses the rhetorical devices of pathos and ethos in an attempt to compare and contrast his past and current relationship ...

The past is buried by newer and more beautiful memories which overshadow our past. The present can cease to exist as a result of people’s social obligations, materials and their authority. People should focus on the present life events and people as well as newer ways of handling matters instead of dwelling on routines. Death is a devastating side of life that is inevitable, yet it helps us to appreciate the present life even more. Gabriel Conroy, the husband of Gretta in the book “The Dead” by James Joyce, tries to control his wife’s feelings throughout their ...

“A rose for Emily” is a short story written by William Faulkner. The story is mainly focused on the character of Emily Grierson who may be considered as the protagonist of the story. Miss Emily may be described as a mysterious character that has a rather difficult life. She differs from all the other characters of the story as she doesn’t want to accept any changes throughout her whole life. Emily Grierson seldom leaves her house and doesn’t communicate with other people. When she is asked to pay taxes or is offered to install a new mailbox, ...

Poseidon was a great Greek god whose purpose was to protect all the waters of the earth and was also referred to as the god of the seas, rivers, lakes, ponds, streams and all water bodies . Myths have it that Poseidon had immense power over water and could cause natural disasters such as floods, storms, rough seas as well as cause water to spring from the earth. Poseidon used the trident as his weapon of choice and was considered the second most powerful god, a purpose he accomplished with his weapon. The term blue planet is used to describe ...

The Song Irreplaceable, which is sung by Beyoncé and the play A Doll's House written by Henrik Ibsen, share a common theme that is broken marriage or love. In the play, Norah, the protagonist leaves her marriage to seek inner peace and find out who she is because of her husband’s betrayal. From the beginning of the play, Mr. Trovald is in control of the marriage, and it never seemed that Norah could have the courage to move out (Ibsen 5). She leaves her keys and wedding ring and slams the door behind her. In the song, Beyoncé ...

In his work entitled, The Lover's Dictionary, David Levithan recounts the ups and downs of romance. Specifically, Levithan uses words to describe the aspects of the relationships. It is a quite revealing book in the sense that there is a unique structure to it whereby the words read like a dictionary. Arguably, the overall tone of the novel is similar to that of Drake's "Hotline Bling." The song, along with the music video remains a viral sensation because of the antsy and catchy dynamics that are woven within it. Lyrically, Drake tells the story of an ex, who has ...

One of the fundamental controversies around Carolee Schneemann’s experimental short film Fuses (1974) is its unique blending of filmic artistry with sexually explicit images that are typically associated with pornography. As B. Ruby Rich points out in their examination of Fuses, it is this sense of rescuing the film from a particular type of moral panic that she argues relegated the short film to the basement of obscurity: “Because Fuses uses a vocabulary of images shared by pornography, that whole Pandora’s box of moral-artistic fever has also come to plague the film” (Rich 27). In essence, the ...

) The text’s author suggests that Charles Darwin, author of the theory of evolution, actually possessed a romantic view of nature. If this so, what do the passages from The Origin of Species on page 212-3 tells us about what Charles Darwin (and Romantics in general) may have thought of nature. Gloria Fiero indeed suggests that Charles Darwin had a romantic view of nature. Before he authored the revolutionary but controversial theory of evolution, he had been exploring South America to the Pacific Ocean for a research on fossil. In his voyage, he had an intimate eye on every ...

Introduction

Francis Scott Fitzgerald characterized his main character as “great”, yet the author managed to insert several meanings into this notion. Gatsby is overwhelmed with money, luxury, parties, but this emphasis on the material things emphasizes another issue in the novel. It is possible to claim that Fitzgerald makes the main hero to disguise himself behind the trumpery of ongoing parties and mysterious reputation. The main purpose of Gatsby seems to be rather controversial, as he is clearly avoids fulfilling his mission to win his love (Matterson 5). It is difficult to find that notorious greatness in the character’s ...

The poem “Home-Baked Brad” is about femininity and it deals with the writer’s feelings towards cooking. There is symbolism as well because the role of women is depicted by bread. This product baked by women represents the warmth that only women have. The author of this poem, Sally Croft is trying to make the readers visualize the feminine desire and the sense of power as well as tenderness. The woman in this poem embraces her role of the caretaker in a household. She is a traditional woman and is good at cooking which is a way for her ...

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The Dubliner collection is an assortment of narratives by James Joyce, which he compiled at the tender age of only twenty-three years. The collection is composed of literary, influential and revolutionary stories covering different aspects of politics, and even social matters. The Dubliners is characterized by different themes. These issues revolve around terrorizing moments experienced by characters. The themes connected to death or mortality as referred in the text, includes suffering, isolation, and disappointments. These topics take on physical, mental, political and even spiritual anguish. The authors explain that the affected individuals are to some extent responsible for what ...

Dunya Mikhail is an Iraqi poet who exiled to America from her homeland. She is one of those poets who have been greatly influenced by Iraq- Iran war. This influence is reflected in her poems due to which she is also acknowledged among the war generation in the literature world. She has also experienced the consequences of the invasion of Kuwait and desert storm along with her fellow countrymen. In response to the criticism, she published an article in the Baghdad Observer, “reminding those critics that there might be no post-war generation, as the war seem be to be ...

The Philadelphia Museum of Art was originally chartered in the year 1876 as a museum of Art. It was mainly chartered to allow for the Centennial Exposition. The museum’s design started in the year 1876, and it was completed in the year 1928. It is situated in the Philadelphia' Benjamin Franklin Parkway in the region famously known as the Northwest Philadelphia. The museum is important because it contains several objects which add up to about 227,000. These objects originated from the Asia, Europe, and America. The objects range from the paintings, sculpture, drawings, photographs and other decorative ...

Throughout history, many homosexual individuals have held important positions. However, many more have lived quietly and harmoniously in their communities without support and without protection. Across the globe, most homosexual people are not tolerated or protected, if a hate crime were to occur toward them. Prejudice and Hate are not emotions we are born knowing; it is something we are taught. Society, including family, shapes children into becoming the next generation to fulfill the ideas of the previous generation, including how to either hate, fear, or accept each other. The idea to hate someone or something is based on ...

We would like to analyze three films of Hong Kong production and determine the presence of certain dreams in each of them. In addition to determining the so called “dreams”, we will discuss how the characters have chased it, which different approaches they used and what that dream actually meant for them. We chose to analyze the three following films: “Comrades, Almost a Love Story”, “Chungking Express” and “Durian Durian”. We will try as best as possible to understand the movie details and answer our own questions.       The next film is “Chungking Express”, filmed by the director Wong Kar-Wai ...

Ernest Hemingway, the author of the story ‘Hills like White Elephants,’ is a famous 20th-century American writer and author whose published works have created a niche of their own in the literary world. Hemingway is known for his autobiographical element. He revolutionized the idea of the American living in the 20th century. He was a very brief and straightforward in his work. He used short sentences and posed his ideas very vividly. His personal life was storming, and he married multiple times. He would fall in love even after his marriage, and he married four times. He suffered from ...

The film is an embodiment of life overtaking events encountered in the aftermath of the Sino-Japanese war. The Dai family remains the most adversely affected by the war and their ever prosperous family now is on the brink of collapse as Liyan wallows in hopelessness while pondering the events of the war and its ruining impacts on the family. It is indisputable that emotional concerns still linger in the minds of Liyan and Yuwen despite several years of the emotional lowdown (Daruvala 171-187). Their marriage has been immensely affected by the ponderous adversity inflicted by the disastrous war. The ...

Many have argued that O.J. Simpson, the NFL star should have been acquitted of a violent crime, though he was found liable in a civil suit for wrongful death over the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Simpson and her lover Ron Goldman. The case is considered one of the most talked about crimes of passion in the United States to date. It is alleged that O.J. Simpson brutally murdered his wife and her alleged lover on 12th June 1994, purely out of envy and anger. And after the bodies were found in Brown’s apartment five days later, Simpson ...

In today’s literary world, Robert Browning belongs to a club of great literary minds and is considered in retrospect to have been “one of the most important poets of Victorian England” (Martin 8). During his lifetime, however, his work received considerable criticism and was often not well-received. Much of the criticism was related to the unconventional form he took. Part of this unconventional form can be seen in Browning’s treatment of the aristocracy of his time. But before this can be discussed in terms of his work, it is first important to understand both Victorian England and ...

I chose William Faulkner’s short story A Rose for Emily for this essay. The work was first published in 1930. The movie I used for comparison appeared in 1983 and was filmed by Lyndon Chubbuck. Both film and story have similar main aspects. They describe a death and life of 74-year-old Emily Grierson who was a town’s heritage. People found that the woman killed her lover Homer Barron and lived with his body like with husband for many years. While Chubbuck saved the main idea, he made several changes that had impact on movie’s perception.

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It has to be reckoned that the art form of drama is surely one of the most effective and expressive ways of exuding and exploring relationships among individuals. The form of art provides the playwright with utmost scope of portraying affective charm and aesthetic quintessence so as to leave a mark in the minds of the avid audience or readers of the text. One can take into consideration the plays, The Normal Heart and Dog Sees God so as to delve deep into the intricacies of relationships and emotions that get portrayed via the characters and content of the ...

Analysis of James Joyce’s ‘Dubliners’

Quite a few of the short stories in the Dubliners collection of James Joyce are more of his personal memories as well as various sentiments that he holds. The Sisters, The Araby, and Evelin, are all stories which are more of a characterization of his later works. The narrators of all the stories of Joyce tend to disband into the language out of which they actually evolve. In these stories, rather than having speakers who relate themselves to the readers of the stories, the readers are actually seen being related to the language spoken by the narrators and the ...

Aeschylus’s tragedy, “Agamemnon” presents the return of the king from the Trojan War, and his death at the hands of his own wife, Clytemnestra, soon after his arrival. The readers find out early in the play that, in order to reach the battleground, Agamemnon had to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia to appease the gods. The chorus presents the sacrifice with many horrific details, in order to outrage the audience and to direct their antipathy towards the king. Later in the play, Clytemnestra murders the king, and his mistress, and claims that his daughter has finally been revenged. However, ...

The myth of the Cyclops Polyphemus has changed throughout different Greek and Roman depictions of him. In the Archaic Greek poet Homer’s version in the Odyssey, Polyphemus is depicted as a large, man-eating monster, which threatened the life of Odysseus and his men. In the Hellenistic Greek poet Theocritus’ version of the myth in his Idyll, Polyphemus was humanized. He is depicted as being in love, and singing a love poem to a water nymph and feeling as though he is not good enough for her. Roman poet Ovid mixed these two elements together in his poem, the ...