Jean Anouilh’s Antigone attempts to escape fate just like her famous father does, but her fate is not the singular, individualized fate of Oedipus; Anouilh recreates Antigone’s story to make her a symbol of universal fate and in line with contemporary philosophic thought. Oedipus comes face to face with his fate from the Oracle at ...
At first glance, James Joyce’s The Dead appears to be a story about the annual Christmas party thrown by the Morkan sisters and their niece, Mary Jane. It goes into detail about several of the guests in attendance and describes the wonderful evening they all had, including singing, dancing, and a feast fit for a ...
The idea of a supreme being is something that is held at the centre of many belief systems and religions all around the world. The earth is constantly moving, our climate changes unpredictably, and human beings and civilizations are constantly developing and evolving. This begs the question, what is the cause of this? Some may ...
Women did not appear on the stage in England until the seventeenth century. The roles of women in William Shakespeare’s plays were often played by young boys. However, Shakespeare wrote quite powerful roles for the women in his plays. He tended to make male characters the primary protagonists, but the female characters held dominant supporting ...
Mark Twain begins The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn with the line “that book [The Adventures of Tom Sawyer] was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mostly.” (1) From the beginning, Twain established lies as a key element in the text. It becomes clear as we read that the lies in the ...
Born in Harlem, NY, in 1924, James Baldwin would go on to become an important author in American literature as well as in the Civil Rights movement. Baldwin spent most of his life having a strained relationship with his step-father (whose name he adopted). Baldwin never actually knew his biological father, and due to issues ...
It is a commonly accepted opinion that William Shakespeare is the greatest writer to ever live. Having written many of the most popular plays ever read, ranging from Macbeth to Romeo and Juliet, one cannot doubt the quality of his play Hamlet, which is considered one of the greatest plays, specifically tragedies, ever written. Shakespeare ...
George Orwell, perhaps one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, wrote Animal Farm to personify the failures of Stalin’s communism. In this book, Stalin clearly represents the character Napoleon, a pig who ceases power from Snowball’s true principles to bring about his own version of a utopia, which is not a utopia at ...
“The captain of all these men of death that came against him to take him away, was the consumption, for it was that that brought him down to the grave.”-John Bunyan: The Life and Death of Mr. Badman Tuberculosis, for a very brief time in history, became a symbol for a tragic beauty that marked ...
We all know how nasty public restrooms can be. No one ever wants to go inside one, but if you’ve spent the whole day shopping, sometimes it’s unavoidable. You may be able to get past the nasty atmosphere, the lack of toilet paper (women always have tissues in their purse), and the lack of paper ...
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