Allusion in The Sound and the Fury acts as a dense and interpretable device within the structure of the novel. The allusive references are almost completely referencing the bible, particularly the structural components of the New Testament. The four chapters of the novel correlate in several ways to the four gospels in the New Testament ...
Lesson Plan Topic The application of the various tragic literary terms discussed to the tragic play, Oedipus Rex. Lesson Plan Objectives 1. After having discussed to various critics’ definitions of tragic hero and tragic flaw, the students will understand and identify the differences and similarities between the various critics’ definitions on a short answer quiz. ...
Industry and the urbanization of the American landscape had taken a stronghold by the early twentieth century. By the 1950s and 1960s, technology formed the American way of life. The union of man’s technological inventions with an American wilderness is metaphorically represented in Wallace Stevens’s poem, “Anecdote of the Jar.” The poem contains a modern ...
Why you should study Literature: Have you always loved to read and to write and do you have more books than can fit into your book shelf? Do you refuse to eat or to do anything else before you finish a book? Are your favorite places to hang out the library and the book store? ...