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The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out onthe hills, resting. As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened, and began totremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors. It cast its eyes upon the roads, which were growingfrom long troughs of liquid mud…

Frankenstein: Humanity’s DopplegangerMary Shelley’s Frankenstein is widely hailed as literature’s greatest gothic novel, as well as its first science fiction work. Written by a young woman in answer to a challenge from a circle of male authors (which included her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley), the tale is drawn from her personal experiences as well as…

Oedipus Rex a Greek tragedy written by Sophocles in the early days of antiquity is based upon an even more ancient story in Greek mythology. Sophocles, however, knowing that his audience is aware of the outcome of the play utilizes that foreknowledge to create various situations in which dramatic and verbal irony play key roles….

“Young Goodman Brown”, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a story that is thick with allegory. “Young Goodman Brown” is a moral story, which is told through the perversion of a religious leader. In “Young Goodman Brown”, Goodman Brown is a Puritan minister who lets his excessive pride in himself interfere with his relations with the community…

Throughout Jane Austen’s novels she suggests marriages that are for wealth are more common as those for love. This idea is revealed in the course of her novels by the examples of marriages she provides. One example is Willoughby and Miss Sophia Grey in Sense and Sensibility, married not because of love, but because it…

A Deeper Insight of The Cask of AmontilladoIt is Edgar Allan Poes intense use of symbolism and irony throughout The Cask of Amontillado that establishes the short story as a candidate worthy of analysis. The skillful use of these devices are utilized by the author to create this horrific and suspenseful short story. Irony and…

Compare and Contrast Essay : Lord of the FliesLord of the Flies demonstrates a very subtle yet important message, mostly about the way that humans can turn almost any situation into an evil one. The novel is fully based on attempting to understand this message. Unfortunately the movie for various reasons does not do the…

New EndingAct V, Scene IIIVerona. A churchyard; the monument of the Capulets.Enter Romeo and Paris.Paris: This is that banished haughty Montague, That murdered my love’s cousin. With which grief, it is supposed that fair creature died. And here he is come to do some villainous shame to the dead bodies. I will apprehend him. Stop…

Emily Bronte was born in Thorton, Yorkshire, in 1918. Wuthering Heights wasBronte’s only book; however, she died in 1848 and never knew of the book’ssuccess. It is said by many to be the finest novel in the English language. Just before she dies, Catherine Earnshaw gives birth to a beautiful baby girlnamed Cathy. After Catherine…

sStatic and Dynamic Characters in Great ExpectationsJoe is a very simple name. So, in relation to that, Joe in Great Expectations is a simple, good and moral character. Joe does not change at all in the book. He begins the book showing his good nature and generosity when, after supposedly being robbed by the convict,…