...Hamlet's father, and then succeeding to the throne and marrying Gertrude, the King Hamlet's widow and mother of Prince Hamlet ("Hamlet”).” Shakespeare’s main objective was to impress his Elizabethan audience because entertainment through theater was extremely important to everyone in the era ("Elizabethan Theater"). Shakespeare successfully captivated an Elizabethan audience with this production (“Hamlet”). This essay will explain how an Elizabethan audience was targeted by Hamlet’s final monologue (act 4, lines 32-66). This speech effectively targeted and engaged an Elizabethan audience because its format, mentions of revenge and exciting nature caused the audience to sympathise with Hamlet’s decisions and feelings, and become enthusiastic and involved in the play. The format of this speech is a key factor which explains why the Elizabethan audience is effectively targeted. This speech is written and delivered in the form of a soliloquy. This means that it is an “uninterrupted speech delivered by a single character to the audience but not to other characters” (Jaber Al-Ogaili 48). Soliloquies are a literary device that is most often used as a technique to express the character’s inner most thoughts and feelings in a realistic and personal way. The audience feels connected with the character because they are sharing their inner conflicts and progression through crises with only them (Jaber Al-Ogaili 48). It is this format that allows the audience to get to know and understand...
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...A Separate Peace Essay Introduction John Knowles’ novel A Separate Peace is the story of Gene Forrester who struggles to come to grips with the guilt over his role in a traumatic event from his childhood. The novel, told as a flashback from the perspective of an adult Gene, looks back on his friendship with a private school classmate and Gene’s destructive feelings of jealousy, fear, and anger. Assignment Write a 3-5 page literary analysis that explores one of the attached essay topics. Structure You might want to think of a five-paragraph structure, but because of the length requirements, you may need to expand on that to adequately explore your topic. Intro: This should include a “hook,” background information, and a thesis. It should clearly lay out what you are going to discuss in your essay. Body: Provide analysis and supporting evidence. Mention several key events or moments from the novel. Include at least three carefully chosen quotes to help capture larger ideas from the novel. Blend them in with your own writing. Conclusion: Finalize your argument with final thoughts related to the main idea. Reminders: This is a literary essay so there should be no uses of “I” or “you.”Include an original title to capture interest. Requirements Your essay should have the following: ✓ A clear argument of opinion and purpose expressed in a thesis statement and introduction...
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...which the main character travels. The tale, which begins as a frame narrative on the Thames in London, chronicles Charlie Marlow’s descent from Belgium into the heart of Africa in search of Kurtz, the infamous chief of the inner station. As Marlow travels through Africa, we are treated to a wildly different view of Africa then we typically see in popular culture, with the book portraying the harsh realities of Colonialism while also creating an atmosphere of dread and horror. This atmosphere is incredibly critical to the way in which we view the story, which has been criticized both as a racist text and as the first truly critical account of Imperialism. The journey culminates at the inner station where Marlow meets the legendary Kurtz, a character so complex that critics are still analyzing his purpose in the story. Heart of Darkness, is certainly one of the most polarizing novels of the last few centuries, with critical essays singing its praises and damning its aesthetics being almost equal in sheer volume. The watershed of criticisms towards Conrad’s visionary novella burst with Chinua Achebe’s scathing write up of the story, with its famous defaming of Conrad as a “bloody racist” (Achebe 343), that ends with the suggestion that it be banned from student book lists. Achebe’s essay concerns itself largely with issues of race, noting the ways in which Conrad portrays the natives of the Congo as animals. While many have also criticized Achebe’s incendiary essay, it is an...
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...A Separate Peace Essay Introduction John Knowles’ novel A Separate Peace is the story of Gene Forrester who struggles to come to grips with the guilt over his role in a traumatic event from his childhood. The novel, told as a flashback from the perspective of an adult Gene, looks back on his friendship with a private school classmate and Gene’s destructive feelings of jealousy, fear, and anger. Assignment Write a 3-5 page literary analysis that explores one of the attached essay topics. Structure You might want to think of a five-paragraph structure, but because of the length requirements, you may need to expand on that to adequately explore your topic. Intro: This should include a “hook,” background information, and a thesis. It should clearly lay out what you are going to discuss in your essay. Body: Provide analysis and supporting evidence. Mention several key events or moments from the novel. Include at least three carefully chosen quotes to help capture larger ideas from the novel. Blend them in with your own writing. Conclusion: Finalize your argument with final thoughts related to the main idea. Reminders: This is a literary essay so there should be no uses of “I” or “you.”Include an original title to capture interest. Requirements Your essay should have the following: ✓ A clear argument of opinion and purpose expressed in a thesis statement and introduction. ...
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...The readings that this essay will go over are “Sonny’s Blues” & “How it feels to be Colored Me”; and more specifically, how music is used within the two. Music is something that transcends people’s preconceived notions, cultural differences and personal schemas; and for those reasons can be very beneficial to use as a literary device. While the two short stories have more similarities in how they use music, they are not without their differences. “Sonny’s Blues” and “How it feels to be Colored Me” both use music similarly in that they both use music to convey certain elements, albeit how the authors used music differed in the two works. Music is used similarly between the stories as something used to surpass words when it comes to expressing your inner feelings, as well as something the narrators use to show differences between two characters. In “Sonny’s Blues” music is a focal point of the story as it is exemplifying the difference between the narrator and his brother, as well as being the thing that ends up bringing the two together (Baldwin 148). “How it feels to be Colored Me” uses music in a similar way in that it makes Zora see the differences as well as the emotional distance between herself and her white friend (Hurston 3). While...
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...Essay A “One stair up” by Campbell Nairne The fragment describes how two youngsters, representatives of the working class, - Rosa and Andrew, went to the cinema. We see them in the hall of the cinema, after that observe them in the showing room. There is relatively little action in this story. The author’s attention is mainly focused on the details, so that we could see, smell and feel everything that surrounds the main characters. The text can be described as partially narrative and partially descriptive. The exposition is rather long. The author’s aim is to plunge us into the atmosphere of the luxurious salon: we can even hear the “soft whirring of fans” and “a cup grate on a saucer”, feel the “hot darkness” and draw a realistic image of the showing room. The complication begins with the Rosa’s question “This a comedy?” Now our attention is fully devoted to the leading characters, depicted skillfully by the author. Campbell Nairne reveals the nature of his characters through actions, details, dialogues, and, mostly, through showing their thoughts. He uses interior monologues to build up the thought patterns of both the main characters. The tension grows as we “hear” what Rosa thinks of Andrew, because her thoughts come in strong contradiction to his ones. The culmination takes place when Andrew breaks out, “forgetful in his excitement”. Full of delight, he wants to share his impressions with Rosa, but meets only cold misunderstanding. He...
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...The Veldt Craft Moves Essay Technology is something that people take for granted and it can take over their lives. In “The Veldt” the technology of the new world has taken over the kids lives and their parents lives. The kids have been taken over by the nursery and they have been acting weird and the parents try to fix it. Ray Bradbury focused on multiple craft moves such as descriptive language, foreshadowing, flashbacks, similes, and inner thinking to show what the characters are feeling and to make the reader think. The author uses foreshadowing to help the reader comprehend what will happen later in the story. Foreshadowing is a hint to the reader of what will come later. Sometimes it is used to show something that will be reiterated throughout the story. An example of this in the story is that the character hears a scream that sounds familiar and throughout the story that sounds comes back and they hear it many times. In the text it states, “Did you hear that scream?” This is something that the characters hear all throughout the story and it gives you a hint to what is next. The author uses descriptive language throughout the story to give detail and give the reader a good idea of what the...
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...Yellow by Peter Carty English essay by Caroline Frederiksen In this essay, I will demonstrate how the British journalist Jon, finds his salvation during a scuba-diving trip forced upon him by his executives. I will also analyze why Jon associates himself with the colour ‘yellow’, and what the meaning of the colour yellow is, and how his relationship to it changes throughout the story. The main character in the short story “Yellow” is a British journalist named Jon, who is visiting Egypt on a learn-to-scuba-dive trip and report back to magazine he works for. The trip holds no personal appeal for Jon, as he neither enjoys scuba diving or any other type of sports. “Jon hated anything active or sporty, yet here he was” (page 3, line 53) Jon was selected for the trip, as none of the other writers in the firm volunteered for the job. Jon was partly chosen because of his low status in the firm, but he also feels like a pushover, that will do what ever you tell them to do. Some may even call him a coward. He hides away from his problems, drowning his sorrows in duty-free alcohol and locks himself away in his hotel room. With an inner voice that is rapidly becoming more prominent, chanting that Jon is yellow, “You’re yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow!” (Page 3, line 61), Jon starts losing what little self esteem he once had. He no longer is in a loving relationship, and is finding harder and harder to keep up a conversation with his girl friend, his writing has little to significance...
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...Essay about ”The Guild” Summary “The Guilt” is a short story written of Rayda Jacobs. The story is about a confrontation between a young black boy and an old woman. At one day, she got tricked by the young black boy called William, who offered his work to her. She said no, so he asked about a donation, where after he got five rand. After this he were tricky and said, that he insist to work for the money. After he was done with the work he wanted more money. He said that the five rand were a donation and she now had to pay him for his work. But Lilian would not pay him and said that he should leave the house. After he would not leave the house Lilian took her pistol and threatened him and said that she will shoot him, if he came to her house again. Later that day, when Lilian was in her bed, she started to think about her dead husband so she started to cry. Characterization of the main characters The main characters in the story are the old woman Lilian, which also is a widow and the young black guy William, who try to trick Lilian. Lilian lives in a big house, she is not alone, because she has her two dogs, which are watching here. They work as a security man, so Lilian can feel safety. But she is not feeling safety enough; why else should she have her dead husbands’ gun in her bed. William Apparently “ The Guilt” might seem to be a story of an old woman’s crisis and its solution. But inner meaning, Rayda Jacobs has tried to reveal the eternal promises and responsibilities...
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...Cause and Effect Essay – Elizabethan Target Audience “Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible (Roff).” Hamlet is a dramatic production written by William Shakespeare. “The play, set in the Kingdom of Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle Claudius for murdering the old King Hamlet, Claudius's own brother and Prince Hamlet's father, and then succeeding to the throne and marrying Gertrude, the King Hamlet's widow and mother of Prince Hamlet ("Hamlet”).” Shakespeare’s main objective was to impress his Elizabethan audience because entertainment through theater was extremely important to everyone in the era ("Elizabethan Theater"). Shakespeare successfully captivated an Elizabethan audience with this production (“Hamlet”). This essay will explain how an Elizabethan audience was targeted by Hamlet’s final monologue (act 4, lines 32-66). This speech effectively targeted and engaged an Elizabethan audience because its format, mentions of revenge and exciting nature caused the audience to sympathise with Hamlet’s decisions and feelings, and become enthusiastic and involved in the play. The format of this speech is a key factor which explains why the Elizabethan audience is effectively targeted. This speech is written and delivered in the form of a soliloquy. This means that it is an “uninterrupted speech delivered by a single character to the audience but not to other characters” (Jaber Al-Ogaili 48). Soliloquies are a...
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...within a person, between two people, between a person and forces of nature, and even between a person and their society. Conflict is defined as the struggle that shapes the plot in a story (Clugston, 2014, ch.4sect.1 para.4). When reading a piece of literature, especially a short story, one should pay special attention to the central conflict because it is the key element of the story (Clugston, 2014). This essay will analyze “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin and “Sweat” by Zora Neale Hurston in terms of individual versus individual, nature, society, and self, symbolism, figurative language, similarities and differences. In the short stories “Sonny’s Blues” and “Sweat” both of the main characters deal with an internal conflict of some sort. Sonny in Sonny’s Blues has to refrain from turning back to drugs after his release from prison; he is also facing the piano again after not playing for a year. Delia, on the other hand has to live with an abusive, cheating husband that “done beat huh ‘nough tuh kill three women” (Hurston, 1926, para. 24). In both texts the main characters are described as humble people, for example in “Sweat,” the author writes “Delia’s habitual meekness seemed to slip from her shoulders like a blown scarf” (Hurston, 1926, para. 10). The word meekness lets the reader know that Delia is slow to speak. In “Sonny’s Blues” the author writes “he had wonderfully direct brown eyes, and great gentleness and privacy” (Baldwin, 1957, para. 3) here, the word privacy...
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...which the main character travels. The tale, which begins as a frame narrative on the Thames in London, chronicles Charlie Marlow’s descent from Belgium into the heart of Africa in search of Kurtz, the infamous chief of the inner station. As Marlow travels through Africa, we are treated to a wildly different view of Africa then we typically see in popular culture, with the book portraying the harsh realities of Colonialism while also creating an atmosphere of dread and horror. This atmosphere is incredibly critical to the way in which we view the story, which has been criticized both as a racist text and as the first truly critical account of Imperialism. The journey culminates at the inner station where Marlow meets the legendary Kurtz, a character so complex that critics are still analyzing his purpose in the story. Heart of Darkness, is certainly one of the most polarizing novels of the last few centuries, with critical essays singing its praises and damning its aesthetics being almost equal in sheer volume. The watershed of criticisms towards Conrad’s visionary novella burst with Chinua Achebe’s scathing write up of the story, with its famous defaming of Conrad as a “bloody racist” (Achebe 343), that ends with the suggestion that it be banned from student book lists. Achebe’s essay concerns itself largely with issues of race, noting the ways in which Conrad portrays the natives of the Congo as animals. While many have also criticized Achebe’s incendiary essay, it is an...
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...surrounded by lots of people, and this is exactly what the short story “A Gap of Sky”, written by Anna Hope, is about. In this short story we hear about a nineteen year old girl called Ellie, who is afraid of not living up to her teachers’ and parents’ expectations and this is what has driven her into a drug abuse. The short story gives us a portrait of a young girl, who is caught in between her desires and what is being expected of her. She is struggling with her inner demons and she is having an inner fight with herself about which decisions are ethically right or wrong. The short story is written as a 3rd person narrative. The point of view is limited to the main character Ellie and the text only describes Ellie’s thoughts e.g: “She remembers going out for booze. Did she get booze?” . The narrative technique that’s being used makes the reader come very close to Ellie’s personality and her feelings. This is also one of the reasons why there’s mainly one character throughout the story - we don’t need any other characters to get to know Ellie and what she’s going through, because we already know every thought that she has. When she feels unhappy or stressed, the reader can “feel” it by reading the story, e.g we have a situation where the reader can feel that Ellie is...
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...Characterization in Three Selected Works: A Comparative Essay In most pieces of fictional narrative or poetry characters are what drive the story. Characters reveal information, act out scenes and compel readers to keep turning pages with their ability to make an impression on the reader. Whether this impression is positive or negative well written characters connect the reader with the story in a way that is immersive. This essay will offer comment on how individual characters are presented and described by three different authors (Emily Dickenson, Kate Chopin and Nathaniel Hawthorne), briefly offering explanation of important nuances each character may possess. Where possible direct links will be made between characters and their authors to highlight how the authors reveal themselves through their literature to their audience. The first author to be touched on will be Emily Dickenson starting with her poem “712”. In this six stanza verse Dickenson describes an encounter with Death in which he helps her understand and accept her own passing away. What is unique about this poem is how Death is portrayed. Instead of casting death as a frightening reminder that all life ends, Death is personified as a gentlemen that simply wants to give her a ride that will take her from mortality to immortality. In her poem, Dickenson writes: “Because I could not stop for death/ he kindly stopped for me” (Dickenson 1214: 1-2) asserting that death as a phenomenon is not always untimely but...
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...novel I have chosen to read and discuss about in regards to my essay assignment, and the second novel is Looking for Alaska, by John Green. The topic that is relevant to the novels, deals with Personal journeys and self realization. This enlightenment that the characters reach at one point in the novel is the very essence that is desired by many men and women across the globe. Some may say that we are all wandering aimlessly, yet not all those who wander are lost..therefore, although we are not lost, we cannot exactly find what we are unsure we're looking for, resulting in our constant loitering. Although ignoring self discovery seems quite effortless and tolerable, it often will do more harm to...
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