In Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis,” Gregor, the main character, goes through a series of mental changes that symbolize how alienated he becomes from the humans of the modern world. Through t...
WHY I THINK ROSA SEES MAGDA AS FEELING ASHAMED The Shawl and Rosa both demonstrate Rosa as a woman who holds on to her past such that it haunts her and she seems like a mad woman who is always...
Dorcas Doyen, more popularly known as Helen Jewett, is at the centre of the book "The Murder of Helen Jewett" written by Patricia Cline Cohen in 1999. Doyen or Jewett as she is popularly known...
Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find" discusses human conduct in terms of moral codes. Morals are guidelines, which an individual or groups of people decide to abide with. The word ...
"Like Water for Chocolate" is a text that I believe should be used in a classroom context for high school students because of the emotions, changes and challenges affecting teenagers as they d...
In Oscar Wilde’s classic novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, imagery affects the story as a whole. One image that can be traced throughout the entire novel, is the actual portrait of Dorian Gra...
Over many years racism has been a disgusting, horrible issue in our world. Racism still exists today, although it is not as bad as it once was. In the historical novel, Roll of Thunder, Hear m...
The play "Master Harold" and the Boys", by Athol Fugard, illustrates life in South Africa under the apartheid rule. "It would mean nothing has been learnt in here this afternoon, and there was...
Oscar Wilde's farcical comedy "The Importance of Being Earnest" is subtitled "A Trivial Comedy for Serious People". The playwright himself penned this, so the reader is inevitably inclined to ...
Girl With a Pearl Earring, lies at the heart of Tracy Chevalier's novel, an historical novel that doesn’t read like an historical novel. The novel has a strong plot and engaging first-person n...