Essays on Schoolmaster

Toni Morrison’s ‘Beloved’ is a violent, gritty yet deeply moving novel set during the slavery era and the terrible grief of the slaves. The novel touches upon a lot of subjects such as slavery, love, motherhood, racism, violence, guilt, loss and more. Sethe is the protagonist of the novel, her life shaped by her being a black woman and a slave. Sethe, her husband and few others work as slaves in the Sweet Home plantation. Although they are slaves, life is tolerable for them. Things however change when Mr. Garner, the owner dies and the schoolmaster, his brother takes over the plantation. ...

Introduction

Thoreau’s civil disobedience emerges from Thoreau’s refusal to pay church tax claiming that the church has no right to impose tax. His reasoning is that if all institutions were to present their tax bills to the government, then he would be bound to pay his; but, there is no justification for “taxing the schoolmaster to support the priest” (Thoreau 49). This implies that though the policy may be ethical, the underlying structure is disputable. His reasoning is influential; it stirs a logical query of every aspect of one’s own life, indicating a close connection between text and action. ...

Erich Maria Remarque’s classic novel All Quiet on the Western Front effectively eulogizes the sacrifice of Old World values and sensibilities on the killing fields of France and Belgium. Traditional European notions of chivalry, honor and patriotism were obliterated by industrialized, mechanized war and the trivializing of human life. Remarque’s story is, among other things, a scathing indictment of nationalism and the manipulation of human emotion. Fired by nationalist fervor, Paul Baumer, the story’s main protagonist, goes to war expecting glory and victory but is soon disillusioned by the horror of trench warfare and the aimlessness of ...