Lord of the flies" by William Golding is the story of shipwrecked schoolboys, fighting for survival on an uninhabited island. The heart of the story is the struggles between the two impulses to act civilised and behave peacefully against the urge to establish their supremacy in the cruel pecking order and to indulge their present cravings, even using violence to gain what they require. The conflict between these desires is the force behind all the character's actions. Throughout the book Gold...
In the recent past, a hot debate has emanated on colonialism and post colonialism and what they stand for. It is an area that has attracted so many writers with a lot of criticism based on different opinions. Before colonialism, most countries were occupied by the original natives of the land. With the coming of colonialism and imperialism, everything suddenly changed and the imperialists soon took charge of what once was the property of the natives. In Australia for instance, the natives wer...
Robert Frost is a celebrated American poet and playwright exhibited primarily by the pragmatic depiction of the American rural life. His literal work is distinguished by the impressive domination of American colloquial language and speech which he clearly demonstrates. Exuding from rural life settings in England, His poetry greatly examines the social as well as philosophical themes prevalent in the society. Robert Frost is a force to reckon with in the literary field as he was popularly quot...
A. Title- The title of the book Brave New World comes from a Shakespearean play called The Tempest in Act V Scene I, and the title is ironic to the Shakespearean play because Huxley describes "the brave world" perversely with not only the undertones of conformity from 1984, but also with blatant sex with children. Shakespeare describes the scene as "goodly creatures….beauteous mankind" which completely contrasts with the ritualistic world of Huxley. Huxley chooses this title to show that th...
Every girl dreams to be beautiful one day. No matter how immature she is, she will finally understand her beauty and her sexuality. When the girl finds that out, she will utilize her sexuality somehow to pursue what she wants. In Sandra Cisneross The House on Mango Street, girls in those days are not as free as we nowadays. Moreover, their lives are miserable. Some of these girls are beaten frequently and some of these girls are restricted from what they want to do. Although they try very har...
Paulo Coelho's magical novel follows the adventure of Santiago, a young Sheppard from an Andalusian town who disobeyed his father's will for him to become a priest. For this reason Santiago can be described as a determined, curious as well as adventurous child as he leads his sheep through the unknown deserts. At the beginning of the novel, we see Santiago at an abandoned church, where he has been having reoccurring dreams of a hidden treasure found at the Pyramids of Egypt. Having no knowled...
A Freedom Writer named Maria entered class during the Toast for Change and was the first person to declare what she wanted to change in her life. Maria didn't want to end up pregnant at fifteen like her mother, end up in prison like her father, or wind up dead at the age of eighteen like her cousin. She wanted a clean slate, and a bright future, but she didn't want to start by reading Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. Maria felt she couldn't relate to Anne Frank, and on top of that she h...
In "Lady Lazarus" by Sylvia Plath, there are many different poetic devices that are chose to portray the speakers tone. Throughout the poem, the speaker seems to be talking about death at a glance it seems like she is happy with the though of death. But if we dissect the literary elements that Plath uses we can see that death is far from a happy topic, it is disastrous to her. The speakers tone throughout the poem tells us how depressed she is about the entire idea of death. Plath uses dictio...
Your country. How came it yours. Before the Pilgrims landed we were here. Here we have brought our three gifts and mingled them with yours: a gift of story and song- soft, stirring melody in an ill harmonized and unmelodious land; the gift of sweat and brawn to beat back the wilderness, conquer the soil, and lay the foundations of this vast economic empire two hundred years earlier than your weak hands could have done it; the third a gift of the spirit….. Would America have been America wit...
The world is divided into three parts: Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia, which are all at war with eachother. The story is told in London, which is in Oceania. The country is being watched twenty-four hours a day by the government trough the telescreens. Those are devices which see anything you do and hear any sound you make. Everything is controlled or forbidden, sex for example. It is brought back to only something dirty you to do when you want children, but in no way is for pleasure. If the T...