May wears a dress and and spectacles. . .geeky look. . .enters the stage,tensed. . .wiping her sweat. . .looking around here and there. . .she is suddenly wonderstruck by a poster on ureca. . .she stares at it while walking. . .and then trips over someone. . .Girl #1) Girl #1:Careful!!!!!!!!!! May:i am so sorry. . .i. . .i. . .(straightens her dress. . .pushes her spectacles up her nose. . .) Girl 1:hi i am rhea and you are. . . May: Hi,…(uncomfortably) I'm May. Girl #2: Can you guys believe ...
English Their Eyes Were Watching God: Pursuit of True Love and Happiness It is human nature to search for happiness. Some find it in materials, others find it in money, but most find is in love. Finding true love is a difficult task, especially now with all the cell phones, computers and expensive cars. In today's society, money and power play a huge role influencing people to want material possessions rather than the love of another human being. Although it is very rare, there are still case...
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...
As 'The Monkey's Paw' was published in September, 1902, by the author, WW Jacobs. Jacobs creates a sense of horror, suspense and tension very effectively in 'The Monkey's Paw' by using variety of literary techniques. It firmly abides by the Gothic Horror genre which can be defined as a theme which combines elements of both Horror and Romance. The story tells of a mystical object, monkey's paw which grants 3 wishes to 3 different people but holds the premise, 'be careful what you wish for'. Wh...
Dunstan Ramsay carries the weight of Paul Dempster's premature birth on his shoulders his entire life. If it was not for Liesl, an extremely elegant and intelligent woman confined inside a deformed and gigantic body, Dunstan would not have experienced happiness and ultimately a life well lived. Liesl's surname is "Vitzliputzli", which means "devil". In Jungian terms, one's "devil" refers to one's shadow, the "suppressed part of the personality, the dark or more primitive side of the conscious...
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a book of adventure and excitement for young Huck Finn, who takes a journey down the long, mysterious Mississippi River. He runs away from his home because he does not take kindly to the lifestyle of his host, the Widow Douglas, who is trying to civilize him. He is disgusted with this lifestyle, and is relieved when his father comes around and takes him away. However his relief does not last for long. Living with his alcoholic father gets lonesome when he...
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...
Research Question: how does male dominance, reputation, and responsibility lead to the downfall of Okonkwo's and other character's identity. My research paper has to do with the loss of identity of the main character as well as others. The conflicting battles they had with themselves and society as a whole. I believe this is important because within this novel, "Things Fall Apart", there are countless conflicts that mostly ended in disarray. My gist was that the underlying themes within this ...
The story, "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty is one of the most significant and frequently studied works of short fiction. This story is taken place in the South. This region is often characterized by their speech and habits. Eudora Welty's skillful use of tone and diversity in the story adds action to make it seem more real. Symbolism in "A Worn Path" shows Phoenix Jackson going through a series of obstacles that represent her struggles to achieve her goal. First, the time of year in which the s...
Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita depicts the relationship between a young girl and a much older3333 man. Humbert Humbert is in his late thirties and forties throughout the book and he talks the reader through how this relationship with Lolita made him feel and how it progressed as she got older and they moved around becoming closer as the months went on. Humbert Humbert narrates the entire book and he expresses to us how Lolita was in his words, but we never hear how it was for her, her side o...
