Writers

In Chapter VI of George Orwell's infamous political satire, Animal Farm, there are a plethora of themes Orwell expresses through his writing and thus, words. However, by far the most predominant theme…

In the late 1500s, the city of Verona portrayed many stereotypes and societal differences between men and women. Men were presented as masculine, tough and prideful while women were delineated as femi…

Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel written by Ray Bradbury, and it centers around Guy Montag, a fireman who starts fires instead of putting them out, because books are illegal. The novel portrays Mon…

Writers and speakers are effective for a variety of reasons. Martin L. King was a powerful and effective writer and activist in the Civil Right Movement. MLK uses many different examples of persuasive…

In the short story,"Masque of Red Death", people do not have much in common, but they do have one big thing in common, that is the fear of death. This short story was written by Edgar Allen Poe around…

There once was a war between two families. The feud happened in the book Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. The Montagues, Lord Montague, Lady Montague, and Romeo. The Capulets, Lord Capulet, La…

History has a tendency to repeat itself and shows us time and time again how power can corrupt people to the point where they betray their own morals. In George Orwell's novel, Animal Farm, the pigs a…

The use of first-person narration contributes to many of the important elements of this story, such as suspense, intrigue, as well as an understanding of Montresor and his emotions. This perspective a…

Love is a complicated idea just by itself, but love can drive people in different or wild directions. For example, in Romeo and Juliet, Juliet becomes more independent after meeting Romeo. Her parents…

Throughout the play, Romeo and Juliet, the characters' actions are more likely to be based on strong emotions and less on logic. This leads to extremely awful results. In the play Romeo and Juliet, Sh…

Why is it that certain people perpetrate horrific crimes and do not feel contrition for their measures of violence? All over the world, people commit evil actions and yet feel no remorse for them. In …

Is love or hate more powerful? As stated by Martin Luther King Jr. "Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that."(1963). Meaning that my stance on this is that love is more powerful. Love is mor…

When reading a piece of literature there could be any type of mood. In two stories "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "House Taken Over" there were two very different moods. The connotations of each…

George Orwell is often described as a man of strong opinions who spoke his mind freely and wrote about what he felt strongly about. Such themes as fascism, communism, and imperialism were a few of the…

Beginning with the Italian Renaissance, political transformations began to shape Europe. By creating strong central governments and shifting the focus to humanity, Machiavelli consequently utilizes Th…

Death has always held a fascination for humanity. It has been feared, respected, studied, and questioned by every culture and time period to exist, but no matter what we do, death is and will always b…

Do we have to be destructive in order to become constructive? In the novel Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury presents a dystopian society set in the future, where books are burned, and nobody does any thin…

In this novella, Curley's wife is not her own person, we can see through Steinbeck actions by not giving her a name throughout the whole story. She is a person who is mistreated just because of her ge…

In the Shakespearean tragedy, Romeo and Juliet, the characters Romeo and Juliet are inexperienced young adults flanked by their parents' ideas about love and marriage. Their admiration for one another…

Macbeth, as a play, is propelled forward through the Macbeths' ambition and their heinous acts formed through it. The play revolves around their actions to achieve their ambitious dreams of Kingship &…

"The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin tells of a woman who finds out about her husband's death and is then thrust into a whirlwind of emotions which all abruptly ends with her death as she is told tha…

John Steinbeck once said "Everyone in the world has a dream that he knows he can't come off but he spends his life hoping it may. This is at once the sadness, the greatness and the triumph of our spec…

"Guys like us that work on ranches are the loneliest guys in the world. They ain't got no family and they don't belong no place." Said, George. John Steinbeck wrote the award-winning fictional- traged…

The death of King Duncan, we know who is responsible, but who is to blame? In the story Macbeth by Shakespeare, Macbeth is told two prophecies by three witches. One, he will become Thane of Cawdor, tw…

George Orwell's 1984 Novel tells the story of a society that is considered communist by some school districts. In this terrible society, you are always being watched. The time of the story taking plac…

Powerlessness. Lacking power to act; helpless. The book 'Of Mice and Men' there are multiple themes. The theme I thought was most important was powerless. Because that's what the book is mainly about,…

The Greeks embraced the values of Homeric Society and commended those who sought out to be heroes. The Iliad exemplifies the values of honor, loyalty, bravery, and glory. Homeric society was deeply ro…

Nedia Cambell once said "what once was had, forever lost; thy fate is destined, thy love star-crossed". Shakespears Romero and Julliette revolves around Romeo Montague, the protagonist, who finds hims…

The definition of insanity is a deranged state of the mind usually occurring due to a specific disorder or mentally disturbed person also called a psychopath. The author of The Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar …

Power can often take over a person's life. This especially can happen when it comes to political power. The book "Animal Farm" written by George Orwell is a story about corruption and too much power. …