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A reverend’s constant struggle for decency, preserving life, and moving forward while escaping the past are among the primary thematic characteristics in Tennessee Williams’s “Night of the Iguana. ” By far one of the most personal shows I have seen, this play seems to speak to each audience member uniquely; I at least found this…

Since the beginning of time, people discussed and analyzed theconcept of the tragic hero in epic poetry and other stories. An epic poemconsists of a hero of high caliber whose actions affect a nation or a group ofpeople. The deeds of this hero must be exceedingly brave and havesupernatural elements. Many of these stories first…

It has often been said that Macbeth is a character of powerful contradictions. He is evil and all-powerful. Are his violent acts and his criminal activities simply the result of Macbeth’s ambition to be King of Scotland? Why is he willing to kill his king and his best friend with apparently no remorse? Are his…

At its best, James Baldwin’s fiction is lyrical, intense, poetic, outrageous, improvisatory, brutal, and transcendent. The first time I read his short story, “Sonny’s Blues,” I was sitting in one of those massive chain bookstores, drinking coffee and trying to block out the pabulum coming from the Muzak. Imagine my surprise when I suddenly found…

Harrison Bergeron’Everybody was finally equal. They were not only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. ‘; This is a short, but powerful excerpt from the short story Harrison…

Canterbury Tales: The KnightIn his prologue, Geoffrey Chaucer introduces all of the characters who areinvolved in this fictional journey and who will tell the tales. One of the moreinteresting of the characters included in this introductory section is theKnight. Chaucer initially refers to the Knight as “a most distinguished man”and, indeed, his sketch of the…

Desperation, a recent Stephen King novel, is not just a book, but an experience that leaves the reader frightened, paranoid, and questioning his moral beliefs. Picture, if you will, a lone, crazed Nevada policeman who pulls over vehicles on a lonely desert highway and forcefully takes away their occupants. Whichever of them he doesnt kill…

Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler is not truly indicative of his vast body of work: the protagonist is female, and the play is a character study. Oddly enough, though, Hedda does not evolve or progress throughout the entirety of the work. Rather, she remains a cold and manipulative woman. When this fact is realized, the only…

Mistreatment from the 1800’s is Still Reflected in Modern Day Society”The father’s explanations were to some extent the first pleasant news that Gregor got to hear since his imprisonment. ” (p. 1654) In the story The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka, the character Gregor undergoes a metamorphosis into an insect and experiences what it’s like to…

Huck is very responsive to the beauty of the natural world about him. He uses vivid imagery to describe nature in a peculiar way, which one can even consider out of character for him. His word choice, general attitude, use of literary devices, and the use of words which describe the sounds as they happened,…