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In the book Anthem, Ayn Rand describes a utopia where individuality is forbidden. All citizens live mundane, highly structured lives. The governing Council constantly teaches that men exist for the sole purpose of serving their fellow brothers to benefit society as a whole. Yet, one man, Equality 7-2521 defies these widely upheld beliefs. Equality discovers…

In the play Macbeth the main character Macbeth is a tragic hero despite the large number of people who would argue that he is not. Macbeth is a noble and highly renown which is one of the five characteristics of being a tragic hero. One example of him being highly renown is that at the…

Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s sonnet “How Do I Love Thee?” was published in 1850 in the collection The Sonnets From the Portuguese (Avery and Stott). The predominant themes of the poem are the love and the admiration the speaker feels for the unnamed lover. Similarly, the main themes of William Shakespeare’s poem “Shall I Compare Thee…

Nowadays, technology has been a crucial part of everyday life. It has consumed people’s lives and we hardly have any time for each other. Relationships have been affected by this, and this has become evident in the past decade. With the rapid, constant advancement of technology, this has sped up the process and has made…

Welcome to the next edition of ‘thoughts on Ian Johnston’s thoughts’ and this time the focus is not on “Hamlet” but the Hamlet spin off created by Tom Stoppard known as “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.” From the remarks Ian Johnston made on the play “Hamlet” as a whole with such unusual but elaborate opinions,…

At the heart of the human condition is the reality that we would rather be destroyed by praise than saved by criticism. It takes nerve to wake up and become who you truly are. There is no better tale about self-identity than Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The peculiar mind of Huck Finn is…

In The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka, Gregor Samsa is a regular guy, he goes to work, he supports his family, and he doesn’t complain. That is until he wakes up one morning and finds himself turned into a human sized cockroach. His whole life gets flipped around and his family doesn’t want much to do…

In Anton Chekhov’s 1899 short story “The lady with the pet dog”, married man Dmitriy Dmitrievich Gurov and married woman Anna Sergeevna meet in Yalta, getaway town by the Black sea. Chekhov greatly portrays true beauty and sadness of life through their romance. Gurov was able to connect with himself and transform from loveless, cynic…

When Mark Twain first published The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in 1885, the nation was still recovering from the aftermath of the civil war. Although equality had been codified into law, it general there was still sharp contrasts between the way whites and blacks lived, especially in the south. Naturally, the novel reflected this idea,…

Throughout William Shakespeare’s novel Hamlet, he presents characters like Gertrude and Ophelia to highlight the objectification and subjectivity of women set in the Elizabethan era. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the playwright constantly objectifies women in an attempt to highlight men’s oversexualization of women and their inherited feelings of superiority throughout society. The two main female characters,…