In the excerpt below, Coriat, an American psychoanalyst, presents one of the first fully developed psychoanalytic treatments of a Shakespearean character. Lady Macbeth, he argues, suffers from "a typical case of hysteria," presented by Shakespeare with "remarkable insight" and culminating in the sleepwalking scene. Coriat states that Lady Macbeth's ambition to be queen, for which she helps murder Duncan, is but a sublimation of her true desire for a child. She thus represses her natural cow...
Black Boy is an autobiography written by Richard Wright, an African-American who lived in the South during the Great depression. Richard is a young black man who encounters the horrors of the dominant white South and faces a crisis in his life in which he does not connect with the world around him. Throughout the autobiography, Richard has an itching fear biting at him that propels him to overcome the boundaries set upon him and allows him to find his own identity. The fear that Richard faces...
There are many things in the character Tom Sawyer that are didactic. The first lesson that can be learned from Tom is that every action will have consequences. After skipping school and later getting in a fight with another boy, Tom's aunt gives the harsh punishment of whitewashing a fence on a Saturday. "He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit" (12). Another lesson that can be learned from Tom is that playing pranks on others may no...
William Shakespeare was a late 15th hundred English poet and playwright who is and was highly respected; this is because everyone can appreciate his work because he created a diverse range for many people of all ages and different cultures. However, his reputation did not rise to its present heights until the 19th century. Between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the...
On the November 18, 1865 Mark Twain's "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" appeared in New York Saturday Press. It was titled "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog." The adventure has additionally appeared as "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog" and "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County". The setting for "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," is a gold mining town in Calaveras County, California. It originated from the ballad of the Gold Rush period, it was one of Tw...
He worked part time along with schooling at a Palm beach Yacht club as a dishwasher to support his mother in family earning as their parents got separated. From here he developed the interest in cooking and to make different sauce. He also use to cook at home. As he could not take education form culinary institute he got trained under a well known mentor named Roland Henin at the age of 22 in Dunes club. Under him he also learnt French classical cooking. As he did his training from Dunes club...
As the voice of a fictional and, sometimes, nonfictional literary work, the narrator is often the central feature in literary works and is given a number of responsibilities. Depending on how the narrator is attached to the particular story or book, these roles include helping to lend a voice to the author's thoughts as well as frame the story and ensure focus, deliver the plot, and provide perspective. Narration can be delivered by either indirect discourse or omniscient narration based on t...
Everything happened because of and during the storm. Without the storm Alcee wouldn't be out to need any shelter, Calixta's son and husband wouldn't stay at the store, leaving her wife alone with Alcee. It was a literal storm & a storm of passion. It was the storm that provokes them to have a love affair. In fact the thunder storm outside is in parallel with the beating of heart & the passion which leads to that love affair. Their passion climaxes & diminishes with the storm. The point of vie...
It's discouraging to survey the children of today suffering from stress and anxiety as they are burdened by homework and by principle forced to attend school. Too many children are conditioned to consider k-12 education is torture and they feel the need to play "hookey". It cost the government billions in resources to keep the schools in America operating, and some students take advantage of this, but for most students the learning is not occurring at an efficient rate. By obligating kids to ...
Dorothy Gale is a young girl who is trying to find her way back to Kansas to be with her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry. In the novel by L. Frank Baum entitled The Wizard of Oz, the main character Dorothy Gale is portrayed differently than in the films' adaptation by Victor Fleming. In the films' adaptation, Dorothy needs the help of her male friends to help her throughout the film she is not able to do many things without Scarecrow, The Tinman and The Cowardly Lion. Quite the reverse is true in the...
