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They were clearing out his room; depriving him of everything that he loved; they had already carried away the chest of drawers, in which he kept the fretsaw and other tools; were now budging the desk firmly embedded in the floor, the desk he had done his homework on when he was a student at…

h Bell Jar EssaysMental Illness in The Bell Jar Mental illness and madness is a theme often explored in literature and the range of texts exploring these is tremendously varied. Various factors can threaten a character’s sanity, ranging from traumatic events which trigger a decline to pressure from more vast, impersonal sources. Generally speaking, writers…

Humanity in “A Hanging” by George Orwell In the essay “A Hanging” by George Orwell, there are distinctreferences to a deeper humanity of the situation, as well as a genuineawareness of humanity’s ambivalence. There are two powerful examples inthe essay that illuminates this contradiction. First, Orwell employsreferences to animal captivity, and provides a startling contrast…

Have you ever felt persecuted? That is the case for Anne Frank, a teenage girl and her family who were forced into hiding during the holocaust. In the play “The Diary of Anne Frank” by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, Anne teaches the reader about optimism, family, and friendship. In the story, Anne, The main…

The short story, The Metamorphosis, discusses how Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning transformed into a giant beetle-like insect. As a result of Gregors appearance, he faces many obstacles such as loosing his job, communicating with his family, and learning to survive as a bizarre creature. Throughout the duration of the story, the author displays…

This is a critical essay on Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart. ” This takes place down in a old cellar with a young man and a older man with a “vulture” eye. In the story the young man stalks the old man for 7 nights and on the 8th night killed the old man…

Journeying back to the early nineteenth century, when Nazi forces occupied Germany during World War II, the lives of those living in this territory was spent in constant fear and anxiety. The Diary of Anne Frank leads readers through the harsh times of a family trying to escape imprisonment in concentration camps by Nazi soldiers,…

“When he lifted his head a little, he saw his vaulted brown belly, sectioned by arch-shaped ribs, to whose dome the cover, about to slide off completely, could barely cling. His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, were waving helplessly before his eyes. ” Gregor Samsa has gone…

This play is a living tribute to the dignity, courage, and perseverance of the human spirit. It shows how the Franks and the Van Daans lived trying to keep these things alive. They did until the very end. This play starts off with a very courageous act, the Franks are leaving their home. Leaving everything…

The Tell-Tale Heart by Poe follows suit with the previous two stories that we have responded to containing plots of gruesome death, and a character that can be perceived as mad. Each author used different methods to bring one of their characters to death, as does Poe, by subjecting his victim to a slow and…