Carey A Morris Introduction to Literature Denise Lance January 10, 2009 Theme of Love in Literature What is love? What causes one to fall in love? How does love relate to the physical world of law and reason? These questions are broached in all their complexity throughout this play. Although love...
C HAPT ER 2 Middle English Literature: 1066–1500 Contents The new writing Handwriting and printing The impact of French Scribal practice Dialect and language change Literary consciousness New fashions: French and Latin Epic and romance Courtly literature Medieval institutions Authority Lyrics...
Question A (Essay 1) The subtle layers of evil; appearances against reality Perhaps what brings to mind when we are reading fairytales are that the good always triumphs, and the villains suffer their just end by the conclusion of the story. However the evil nature of the villains is hardly ever studied...
Beowulf - a prose adaptation - online resource. • Child, Clarence Griffin, Beowulf and the Finnish Fragment. 1932, Houghton Mifflin (Riverside Literature Series) - prose • Gordon, Robert Kay, translator. Beowulf. 1992, Dover Thrift Edition (available from Amazon.com) - no notes - prose. •...
THE ESSENCE OF LITERATURE IS IN THE TENSION BETWEEN EMOTION AND INTELLECT We often blame our mistakes on irrational decisions – things done in the heat of the moment. We say that ‘our emotion got the better of us’. But realistically we would be nothing without our emotion. Without emotion, life becomes...
can do almost everything we set our minds to do. But Ernest Hemingway went to the extreme, beyond the imagination, and created a picture as vivid as never before to get the meaning of persistent, endurance and success against all odds, a picture of defeat going through victory. Ernest Hemingway...
African literature , the body of traditional oral and written literatures in Afro-Asiatic and African languages together with works written by Africans in European languages. Traditional written literature, which is limited to a smaller geographic area than is oral literature, is most characteristic...
“Torture is an evil so profound that nothing could morally justify its use”. Discuss. Introduction This essay will discuss issues relating to torture and investigate the proponents for torture and their arguments for justifying torture in a range of circumstances as against my argument that in no...
The only novel by Oscar Wilde, one of the well-known characters of British literature, The Picture of Dorian Gray, is a brilliant work from the end of the 19th century containing horror features. The narrative is set in London and the main characters are: Dorian Gray, a handsome young man, who wishes...
Lucca The quotation “Evil triumphs but never conquers” holds true to many predicaments that have happened in our world today. In our world during the rough times it seems as though evil has won, but after some time you come to realize that good wins the war over good verses evil. In our everyday lives...
and exhausting which is why she has braced herself against a chair before venturing into her new world of light and hope to achieve that which she never could before due to the small dark box filled with negative thoughts and low expectations she had made for herself, but she is now free, free to experience...
eventually recovered, largely through the initiative of Safie, …Yet we are not allowed to end with this fiction of the isolated triumph of domestic virtues. Elizabeth Bennett can remove herself to Pemberley away from her family's pride and prejudice; but we follow...
Presentations of God in Children’s Literature: His Dark Materials and The Chronicles of Narnia In recent years no series of children’s books have caused quite so much controversy as Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy. While also gaining attention for the success of the series (having sold...
denial of the reality of virtue. Mandeville was aware that his arguments were taken in this way and he explicitly repudiates this interpretation : “I never thought that there were no virtuous or religious Men; what I differ in with the Flatterers of our Species, is about the Number” (41). Mandeville’s analysis...
the earliest Greek myths were part of an oral tradition that began in the Bronze Age, and their plots and themes unfolded gradually in the written literature of the archaic and classical periods. The poet Homer’s 8th-century BC epics the Iliad and the Odyssey, for example, tell the story of the (mythical)...
the expression “necessary evil” is commonly understood as something that has undesirable qualities but is preferable to its absence. in other words, we hate school but we have to go because it will be better if we do than not. then again, these nasty thoughts about school often come up when we’re upset...
Poe’s Women: His Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance By Tonja Cox Edgar Allan Poe’s writings embody what appears to be his lifelong obsession with what he termed mournful and never-ending remembrance of those taken too early by the cruel claws of death. Many of his poems and tales depict striking...
science point our way? Or is it God who intervenes, keeping us safe? For all his bluster, it is the sad province of Man that he cannot choose his triumph. He can only choose how he will stand when the call of destiny comes. Hoping that he'll have the courage to answer. This force, evolution, is...
and Quotations. Here was a true "reader's companion," I realized, to have at the ready when reading-or even carefully re-reading-so many works of literature belonging to the Western tradition from Classical Roman Antiquity down to our own time. Not only professors, teachers, and students outside the ...
opposing sides, good and evil. These polar opposites are everywhere. They are in superhero comics, books, history, news, and your life. People come across these two terms all the time, but their definitions are highly subjective. Some would say good is an act that they agree with, and evil is an act that they...
243-1,248) Nowadays, people go to sleep without worrying about wars breaking out or having their house beleaguered. Another element of literature that this particular section has is alliteration. Alliteration is used throughout Beowulf and creates a certain rhythmic flow to the story. “Higlac...
To what extent does literature force us to question the plan laid out for us? In our colloquy discussion we had a discussion on the topic of success. Justin said that “when I was young I did not care much about success, but when I entered high school my parents expected me to become successful through...
Questions on American Literature Question 4 on P16 Describe briefly how Poe characterizes Montresor and Fortunato as contrasts. “The Cask of Amontillado” best explains Poe’s literary theory on short story writing that literature creates beauty and shows intensity of emotion as he characterizes...
"Shipwreck". Though artists such as William Adolphus Knell have tried to imitate this painting and adopt different features to it, their works will probably never be able to be similar to those of Turner. By each color and stroke of his paintbrush, Turner invoked much symbolism and meaning in his masterpieces...
Kaley Young Mrs. Merola British Literature 10 October 2009 Grendel’s Monologue (Grendel enters his lair from the right and begins to shout for his mother) Mom! Mom! (His Mom does not hear him. Grendel begins to talk to himself.) How dare he! How dare the Geatish lord hurt me when I did nothing...
climaxes, the plot being based on a secret that is known to the audience, and a particular style of acting. The strict dichotomy between good and evil is perhaps the most characteristic, as personalities mediating between the two polar extremes are rarely seen, allowing virtue always to overcome...
and Evil: An Interpretation Who is God? What is evil? If God is morally good, just, righteous, knowledgeable, and all-powerful than why is there evil in the world? To begin, let’s examine what the definition of good and evil are. Good is the inclusion of morally positive acts, while evil denotes...
as though his is just an act in a great tragedy, with the world as a stage and with man as its players, all subject to some ethereal, ubiquitous, often fickled force. Though their relationship does become severed and Ophelia is taken from him, Hamlet realizes from his revelation...
American Literature can be classified in many forms from oral presentations to well known historical writings. History has taught us that literature can come in different forms and languages. When speaking of American literature one must always remember to consider the tales, legends and songs of the...
serve in such a difference..." (III.vi.73-77). Hamlet believes that even if his mother were absolutely psychotic, she would have made the decision never to marry Claudius. The marriage absolutely shocked him, it was too sudden and unexpected as he, and his mother, had little time to grieve fully, the...
Explain how Irenaeus accounts for the existence for moral evil. Irenaeus came out with the claim that God is partly responsible for moral evil in the world. He said he did this by making the human creation imperfect, this is because we are always striding for perfection but are not always able to reach...
place particular emphasis on the themes of power, purity, health, beauty (in particular the beauty of a powerful and healthy human body). While Sontag never offers anything close to a list of necessary and sufficient conditions for a work to embody fascist aesthetics, some of her remarks certainly bring...
Literature and History compliment each other when used to create novels, fictional and non fictional books. Literature promotes a critical insight to historic events and can be used to engage readers on a personal level by making real life events clearer and more heartfelt. History, when used in Literature...
had a passionate belief in man’s power, the power to conquer, to discover, to restructure the world. - He dreamt of national and personal glory, of unlimited riches, of a vast English empire far surpassing the Spanish. - Raleigh had never given up the idea of Guiana. - He had an utter reliance...
author of many fantasy books as well as his famous Christian fiction novels, writing close to one hundred poetry, fiction, and non-fiction pieces of literature. Although growing up in a Christian family, the avid atheist began to view Christianity more as a burden than a relief. Also, studies he made pushed...
distinction and then set an example for others to follow. Since drastic changes can often overpower average people and suffocate accomplishment, leaders set short-term objectives so that people can accomplish small triumphs as they work toward the long-term goals. Inspire a Shared Vision - Leaders fervently...
(1862-1932) who was a professor of the bible, in Berlin tried to analyze the language of the psalms, by saying it was written as a relevant love literature, but he was clear about his explanation that the writers used their thoughts, emotions to express the words in an extremely traditional customary...
opportunities etc Resolve the problem with the character figuring out how to get out of the situation or getting out of it: Love triumphs / good conquers evil / honesty is the best policy / united we stand These other story elements may help begin or further the action: Hook. A thrilling...
and studying the meaning and messages that lies behind the signs and their effects to individuals as they interact in the society. In discussing literature, however the term “symbol” is applied to a word or phrase that signifies an object or event which in turn signifies something, or has a range of...
Stephen Moore 3-24-2010 The Garden of Evil In the short, “How to tell a True War Story” from The Things they Carried (1990), author Tim O’Brien list of several ways that a reader or listener can tell if a war story is true. His insight suggests that, “you can tell a true war story if it embarrasses...
to 30 years in age, with the overwhelming majority being white males. However, there have been several known cases of female serial killers. Most often, serial killers' choices of prey are white females who are strangers to the offender. Serial killers come from different professions and socioeconomic...
conventions and reverse this tradition (to reveal the ogre as good and the prince as evil)? Traditional fairytales, I believe, are simply representations of what people wish life was like. Therefore, what they entail is often unlikely, unrealistic, and completely wishful thinking. For example, almost every...
Victorian era these ideas would never have been accepted in society. This is clear in the novel “pride and prejudice” written by Jane Austen, where women were obliged to stich, draw, knit, sing, play piano, dance and marry an honourable man. It is not only women who were often expected to live up to the...
conversely, not having done something one believes one should have done.’[1] There are many different forms and causes of guilt and they are often represented within literature, however, in order to demonstrate the aforementioned I am going to discuss three short stories, one from each of the following authors:...
response, the term tragedy often refers to a specific tradition of drama that has played a unique and important role historically in the self-definition of Western civilization. (Williams 1966, pp. 14–16.) That tradition has been multiple and discontinuous, yet the term has often been used to invoke a powerful...
ability of the audience to identify with the characters in Othello– this is of primary importance. M.H. Abrams in The Norton Anthology of English Literature attributes the dramatist’s universality to his characters as well as to the relevance of his themes: One preliminary document in the First...
Literature Surrounding Us All “What is literature?” Literature is defined as the written works, especially those considered of superior or enduring merit. Although literature can be defined, it has no single implication. Literature is a written language with its own set of rules and regulations...
Evil exists both in the souls of humans and in the souls of fictional characters such as Hedda Gabler from Henrik Ibsen’s play Hedda Gabler and Mr. Roger Chillingworth of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. Both do inconceivable things, some things more subtle than others, to people that they claim...
Realism Realism in literature is when a writer, as for example Charles Dickens in Oliver Twist, writes in a way that reflects real life without idealizing it, meaning that you don’t leave out parts that could seem cruel or harsh, instead writing the cold hart truth that is in everyday life for some...
Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox Joey Kaye British Literature Summer Reading Project The Time Paradox, One of the most confusing things to wrap the mind around. In Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox; Artemis Fowl, the protagonist in the story, finds out that his mother has contracted a deadly disease...
The Possibility of Evil Evil is an ever present force in our society. It can’t be stopped or altered. It spreads like a cancer by the media and is embraced by the disenchanted and disenfranchised members of our society. In the story The Possibility of Evil, by Shirley Jackson, the protagonist,...
Sweat L.A. White April 26, 2007 Religious Themes Found in Young Goodman Brown and Sweat When a person faces a crisis his faith is often tested. It is usually during these times that his true character comes out and one is able to tell exactly how strong his faith is. The struggles...
lifetime of Ultra Lights? Swap them out for spares […]” (Benedikt 2007: 1). This might be what many people think in films or novels like ‘The Island’ or ‘Never Let Me Go’. The history of cloning, however, goes back quite a few years. It started when the German biologist Hans Dietrich succeeded in splitting...
unexpected ending. The story is about the madness of the mind, and the values of life; it is about sins, such as envy and anger, and about love that conquers everything. The narrative takes place at an asylum, where insanity is not of rare occurrence, from which I immediately realized that it is not just...
tragi-comic, allegorical, symbolical or what have you), it stands a fair chance to become noteworthy, even to stand out in the context of world literature. Of course, the recent novel should be conceived as morphologically complex and thematically diverse. David Lodge describes it as ‘ … a new synthesis...
witches to abuse this power and feed his avarice. Building on the foundation of his inherent ambition, both the witches and Lady Macbeth pressure his evil decisions. Before Macbeth has even come home Lady Macbeth is criticizing his morality when she says, “Yet I do fear thy nature; It is too full o’ th’...
put off from Poe by the décor of his writings- the settings of his tales, the often grotesque style of his prose, what Aldous Huxley objected to as the vulgarity of his verse. His excrescent Gothic conventions which are often on the verge of self-parody, seem willfully remote from any possible reality...
logic, characterization, language, and plot. Although absurdist theatre appears completely opposed to the realistic ideas of naturalism, the work is often founded on very precise observation of human nature and behaviour. The origins of the Theatre of the Absurd are rooted in the avant-garde experiments...
Zeus' triumph singles him out as an archetypal dragon-slayer. The giants, OTUS [oh'tus] or OTOS and EPHIALTES [ef-i-al'teez], in a separate attack, failed in their attempt to storm heaven by piling Olympus, Ossa, and Pelion, one upon the other. The Titanomachy and the Gigantomachy are often confused...
reoccurring style in two of his most famous books: Animal Farm and 1984. Orwell's style is one that is used frequently throughout his literature. Authors often utilize these types of literary devices in their writing to ridicule or satire the society around them, or to provide a warning against what...