Flannery O’ Conner’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find”
In Flannery O’ Connor’s short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find” a typical Georgia family go on vacation to Florida, but are murdered by an escaped convict named “The Misfit. In the following quote the...
View Article“The Metamorphosis” representing the Serbians in World War 2
I would like to propose a new meaning of “The Metamorphosis” quite different from those already stated. “The Metamorphosis” can interpreted to show the effect of the dying on a family but also...
View Article“Ktaadn” Thoreau’s Culture Shock
For anyone who has read Thoreau’s “Life in the Woods” Ktaadn seems to be written by a different person. “Life in the Woods” is written by an author so full of himself he thinks of himself as being...
View ArticleDarkness and Light in “Oedipus Rex”
The only ones who can truly see are blind. This is a popular theme through out Greek literature, especially in “Oedipus Rex” where Sophocles nurtures the idea that real sight does not require eyes but...
View ArticleEsquivel’s “Like Water For Chocolate”
To tell the truth this was one of the few books that I entirely disliked the style they were written in. It was not the magical qualities of the story that made it bad, the story was nice, but the...
View ArticleComparison of Cold Mountain and the Odyssey
“Cold Mountain” is the story of a confederate soldier named Inman and his journey back to his homeland after years of fighting in the civil war, along the way he meets many interesting personalities...
View ArticleChopin’s “The Story of an Hour” and Achebe’s “Civil Peace” as a Call for...
Chopin’s story expertly takes the average book and succinctly boils it down to two pages of rapid emotions and events. While the average writer would have felt a need to develop events prior to the...
View ArticleInterpretations of a slave in “The Heroic Slave” and “Benito Cereno”
There are three major interpretations of the slave in literature: the good human being who is forced to live their live as a slave, the slave who’s mind, body and soul are broken because of slavery,...
View ArticleReligion in “Silas Marner” by George Eliot
In Silas Marner George Eliot doesn’t specifically state that religion is bad or dangerous nor does she say that one shouldn’t be religious. Instead, she presents certain aspects of religion that she...
View ArticleCharacter analysis of Emma and Mrs. Elton
In Emma ((Page Numbers are for the Riverside Edition edited by Lionel Trilling)), Jane Austen presents characters who are uniquely human: each has their own rich personality and storied background....
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