In “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin use of details and figurative language to express how freedom from any form of oppression is beyond gratifying. Granted, the story was written in the 1800’s the concept still applies to everybody, today. It can be seen everywhere. Someone is always oppressed in some form or […]
In the novel Things Fall Apart, Okonkwo is willing to break the prohibition against suicide because he lost all hope when he realizes Umuofia will not support going to war with the missionaries. The statement that Okonkwo is making by committing suicide in the manner that he does is that he’d rather die on his […]
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Get startedThe battle of cultures is definitely one of the most universal themes seen in books. This cultural fight/disagreement can be seen throughout life and history anytime two groups of people hold different/disagreeing views that cannot live together. Even today, Western and Eastern cultures–the U.S. and China are one example; the Palestinians and Israelis are another–continue […]
“I am not afraid of work.”(21) Okonkwo the protagonist demonstrates his maturity in this statement. However, even with his hard bound illusion of what a man should be, he still has his draw backs like everyone else. He is still naïve in his old age. Chinua Achebe introduces Okonkwo as a determined, strong, and dominant […]
Oscar Wilde’s, “The Importance of Being Earnest” is a Victorian era play dealing with many themes and values that were often prevalent in Victorian artists work at the time. One of the themes that was ultra-prevalent throughout Wilde’s play was the element of duality in man. We as humans are dualistic in our nature, leading […]
September 11, 2001 was so scarring and life changing, that it leads to ask, have we as a country achieved acceptance? The unfolding process that one forgos in order to reach the stage of acceptance is an emotional battle. There are four stages that come before acceptance known as denial, anger, bargaining, and depression. When […]
The day of 9/11 is a day that will be in the back of everybodys minds for lifetime. On that sorrowful day four passenger airplanes were highjacked and ultimately crashed. Two of the airplanes crashed into each of the Twin Towers located in New York City. After the buildings burned for around 20 minutes they […]
“Hey, Sabrina, are you Japanese or Chinese?” I asked. Her reply, as it seems to be for many minority groups, is, “Neither, I’m Chinese-American.” So, besides her American accent and a hyphenated ending on her answer to the SAT questionnaire about her ethnic background, what is the difference? In Amy Tan’s enjoyable novel, The Joy […]
Personal liberty supersedes the constraints of societal conventions. This is the message of Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour,” which centers on Louise Mallard, a married woman who learns she is now a widow. Her sister informs her that her husband has died in an accident, causing her to break down into sobs. However, […]
The structure and style of writing play a major role in both Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” and Wolfe’s “The Far and the Near”. Especially, the use of the climax and anticlimax structure and emotional style of writing make these particular works very powerful. Chopin employs the climax and anticlimax structure to heighten the […]
In the play, The Importance of Being Earnest, the author Oscar Wilde uses a significant pun in the word “earest”. Separate from being the title of the play, there is a character whom goes by the name of Earnest Worthing in the city, but goes by the Jack Worthing in the country. The word earnest […]
As much as people prefer to see themselves as individuals, society controls us more than we admit or even recognize. Oscar Wilde’s lighthearted look at societal expectations in The Importance of Being Earnest ironically suggests that society provides pressure to appear perfect, but often this pressure warps or destroys one’s perfectly genuine self. In Wilde’s […]
This is my first time to read such a play. At first, I just felt ridiculous about their play. I didn’t think deeply about their play at that time. However after discussions in class between classmates, I started to understand what Wilde really wasted to convey. Wilde made this play funny, but after finishing reading […]
In the novel Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk explores the very real crisis of men: what makes a man? Through the very real representation of the narrator’s opposite side, Tyler Durden, we see what men feel pressured to be; the alpha male. Men can’t feel things, never mind show them. Men are expected to behave, dress and […]
