Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.
Beowulf has been anonymously written. It is a poem of heroic proportions that includes many characters with opposing views, which Beowulf the protagonist felt inspired by. Many texts were published anonymously during the Anglo-Saxon era. In this period, it was …
It was difficult for Americans to return to normal life after the Second World War. Vonnegut wrote Slaughterhouse-Five. One of the soldiers was Billy. Billy was so affected that in the book, he says that an alien race called the …
The Canterbury Tales is Chaucer’s attempt to convey what he had seen during his life. The tales give a glimpse into the Middle Ages, a time of terror in history. The Canterbury Tales are full of hypocrisy, especially in religious …
What’s Puck’s motivation for A Midsummer Night’s Dream’s Puck? The legend that inspired Puck (also known as Robin Goodfellow) is contemporaneous to Shakespeare’s. Puck’s origins were as intriguing as his character. In fact, the Oxford English Dictionary refers to him …
Sense & Sensibility Summary February 2, 2018, Jane Austen’s Sense & Sensibility begins in Norland Park. This is where Mr. Dashwood just passed away, and has left his fortune for this nephew, John Dashwood. Fanny Ferrars (John Dashwood) looks down …
Wilde’s novel of 1891, “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, explores Wilde’s character and moral conscience. Wilde also uses location and setting to show the divisions in Victorian society. Wilde compares Mayfair’s rich homes to the East End’s poorest areas. While …
T.S. In “The Wasteland,” Eliot paints a picture of desolation and emptiness through his use of modern references juxtaposed with references to a more fruitful period. Eliot describes a fragile era that is rife in wars, sexual and physical, culturally …
As many Holocaust survivors and executions during the Second World War show, it was an extremely dark period. Night, Elie Wiesel’s memoir about his life, describes the hardships he and others went through and how they almost lost hope. It’s …
While it may seem absurd to wage war against family members over a dispute about politics, it has been a common occurrence in history. The Irish Civil War began as the Irish had no choice but to choose between partial …
Rehabilitating the sick with compassion
William Golding’s Lord of the Flies shows the boys left on the island. Ishmael Betah’s book A Long Way Gone depicts Ishmael, who was once human but had their humanity taken away by terrible circumstances. …