Embedded within the delicate wings of a moth lies a story that transcends its physical form. The story of the moth is more than a tale of transformation and the pursuit of light; it serves as a metaphor for human aspirations, struggles, and the eternal...
Frank R. Stockton's short story "The Lady or the Tiger" has captivated readers for decades with its enigmatic ending that leaves the resolution of the narrative up to interpretation. This essay delves into the significance of the story's open ending, the author's intent, and the...
Katherine Mansfield's short story "A Cup of Tea" delves into the complexities of human nature and societal contrasts through a seemingly ordinary encounter. Set against the backdrop of 1920s London, the story follows the impulsive act of kindness by a young woman and the unforeseen...
Ernest Hemingway's short story "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" is a poignant exploration of the human condition, loneliness, and the search for meaning in an often chaotic world. Set in a quiet café late at night, the story delves into the lives of its characters and...
Introduction “The plough was already scoring the field opposite the window, and where the share had been, the earth was pressed flat and gleamed with moisture.” The book The Death of the Moth, by Virginia Woolf, is a high imagination book which has a lot...
Born from years of observation and a heavy dose of imagination, Brokeback Mountain is the acclaimed short story that would go on to spark countless conversations. It has wiggled its way into the thoughts of a multitude of people, old and young and those yet...
In multiple forms of literature, we see characters struggle to develop their personal identities. These characters often struggle to develop these identities because of conflicts against their environment, society or within themselves that prevent such change. The qualities or beliefs of a character may change...
Similes are quite often used within the short story, “Lamb to the Slaughter”. An example of this can be identified in the title, which can also be interpreted as: “Like a lamb to the slaughter” the lamb in the story is used as a symbol...
Suspense is dominant in both Poe’s and Shelley's novels. However, suspense is demonstrated similarly and differently by the two authors. Firstly, in the short story “The Tell- Tale Heart” Poe used the technique of suspense efficiently by employing frantic diction and first-person point-of-view to bring...
Setting Neil Ramsorrun’s short story “Dukwane’s Deliverance” is set in London and spans over a couple of days. Although the time setting is not mentioned, we can assume the events probably happen around the time the short story was published in 2010. Physical setting The...
Everyone has a dream in life, while on this path to make the dream come true, there can be many hard decisions to make. These decisions can make a big impact on your life, so you need to follow your own instincts. You will probably...
Charlotte Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” was written in a period when women were oppressed by men: they were meant to be seen and not heard. The story does not discuss what John is treating the narrator as an official diagnosis. “As the story progresses, the...
Marriage supposed to be beautiful and coping with each other. Where love is the main reason to still be together. The spouse’s can’t imagine life without each other. But what if it all turns upside down, death. The death of someone will impact the other...
In the 1890s, the prejudice against mental illness, especially in women, was reinforced by various physicians. They believed that if a woman was mentally ill, she was either insane or hysteric. They had little to no scientific basis to their theories of the women's lunacy,...
Nineteenth century society saw the concept of separate spheres being used in society to help women understand their place, the ideology rested on the definition of the ‘natural’ characteristics of men and women. Men were seen as the superior sex and women inferior, both physically...
In the novella of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, loneliness is a significant theme that considerably affects several of the main characters. George and Lennie avoid loneliness by staying together, Candy uses his dog to keep him company, and Curley's wife acts flirtatiously because...
Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wall-paper” serves as a perfect example of how women have been persecuted in the 19th century. Throughout the story, the main character, as she observes the house while in isolation, notices the true meaning in life, specifically for women. Gilman’s...
In “The Case for Animal Rights” Tom Reagan argues that seeing animals as resources created for human use rather than beings is fundamentally wrong regardless of how you decide to justify it. (value). In “An Animal’s place” Michael Pollan argues that the brutalization animals endure...
In this class, we have read “Yellow Wallpaper” as our first reading material. This is a tragic and devastating story. “Yellow wallpaper” uses the first-person narration, and the narrator records her mental torture and destruction in her secret diary. The narrator is a young mother...
Zora Neal Hurston was an American author, Folklorist, and Anthropolist. Zora published fifty plays, essays, short stories, and four novels. She was born on January 7, 1891 in Notasulga, Alabama, as the child of Lucy Ann and John Hurston. She was raised in a household...
Charlotte Perkins Stetson is recognized as one of the important figures in the social reform movement of the late 1800s to early 1920s. Pieces of her life experiences are woven into the plot of her most recognized fictional short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper”. Stetson’s short...
Author Charlotte Gilman in 'The Yellow Wallpaper' gives a personal tale about emotional wellness care during her time. This record is close to home, as the character in the story has encounters near what author Gilman had during her time of getting the 'resting cure'...
In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the author Charlotte Perkins Gilman uses symbolism throughout the story, which gives the story a deeper meaning. After recently giving birth to her child, the narrator, a writer, happens to find herself more and more depressed, as well as undefinably fatigued...
The fundamental behaviors of culture and human-nature have been debated since the dawn of culture in itself; in terms of how humanity’s manifestation of culture arose and if it is instinctive in behavior or not. Ambrose Bierce’s “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” cultivates this...
Charlotte Gilman’s literary piece “The Yellow Wallpaper” is set in a period where women were oppressed and restricted from their true potential. Gilman was a fervent believer in women’s rights. She believed that women had a right to exercise their intellect and talents that were...
The short story “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” Author Ambrose Bierce takes place during the time of the Civil War. Payton Farquhar is the main character and is sentenced to die by standing at the end of a wooden plank over the creek on...
In 1892, feminist author Charlotte Perkins Gilman published her short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” describing an intense summer vacation for a woman recovering from mental illness. The story takes the reader through the narrator’s erratic journal entries of a three month stay in a rented...
The Yellow Wallpaper written by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman was published in January 1892. The story begins with the narrator describing her marvelous summer home she shares with her husband John. While the narrator hopes to enjoy her summer, she begins to explain her...
The life of a woman wasn’t that easy back then in the 1800s. Gilman wrote a short story describing the point of view of the roles in society, the story was her way of bringing together women’s oppression to light. “The Yellow Wallpaper” is written...
A tragic culture is a fanciful society that builds up a severe, hopeless, and unfortunate presence for its residents. A popular American creator, Ray Bradbury composed numerous accounts that course around tragic social orders. Inside Bradbury's accounts, expectations on innovation and oversight are regularly shown....
Children in our society are often thought to be clean slates, innocent and free of any grim intentions. The idea of a child killing or feeling any need to kill, is not seen often in a civilized society. However, actions like these were seen in...
A symbol is a literary device that contains several layers of meaning. The symbol, is using an object or action that means something more than its literal meaning. Authors and writers use symbols to connect to the theme or themes of their work. Symbolism can...
A symbol is a literary device that contains several layers of meaning. The symbol is using an object or action that means something more than its literal meaning. In the short stories “The Story of an Hour” and “The Yellow Wall-Paper” both have it significant...
The Yellow Wallpaper story is based on the men dominated society in the nineteenth century. The story depicts the married life of narrator who is in depression and her husband. “Charlotte Perkins Gilman” tries to tell the readers about the mental harassment and physical abuse...
A collection of short stories titled The Thing Around Your Neck divulges a holistic expression of Position Two situation: “To acknowledge the fact that you are a victim, but to explain this as an act of fate…the necessity decreed by History, or Economics, or the...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie born on 15 September 1977) is a Nigerian novelist, writer of short stories and nonfiction. In this essay I am going to deeply investigate how are women represented in a particular way in six of Chimamanda Adichie's short stories and why this...
By definition, a candle is a cylinder of block or wax or tallow with a central wick that is used to produce light as it burns. However, the symbolic definition of a candle is a production of light in darkness; it symbolizes life being produced...
The conflict of interest between the upper-class Sheridan family regarding the death of their neighbour Mr. Scott seems purposely emphasized by Mansfield to shed light on the presence of prejudice to the working class living in modern communities. The social class division became coherent when...
This short story offers a Marxist reading as it employs the concept of social divisions and class constructs paired with the historic setting of society in the Victorian era. 1921 certainly portrays a time when appearance and style were much more important than substance, and...
In The Scarlet Ibis there are multiple witnesses throughout this story to support the narrator's innocence. The death of Doodle was a simple misunderstanding and can be easily defended by many symbols in the story. The witnesses that are called to the trial are Doodle’s...
'The Swimmer' by John Cheever and 'A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, both focus on magic realism in the way that people are never content. 'The Swimmer' is a story of how one man's ego can change his life. The...
The Scarlet Ibis: I chose the dying scarlet ibis from the end of the text. Just like Doodle, the birds' strength has become very little, and though it had overcome flying through a terrible storm it just couldn’t keep going in its weakness and loneliness....
In “The Masque of the Red Death”, Edgar Allan Poe artfully utilizes symbolism and themes of morality and inevitability to highlight the inescapable nature of death. Poe utilizes symbolism in this story through the decor of the abbey and the ebony clock. The rooms of...
In “The Masque of the Red Death,” Edgar Allan Poe says this story of aristocrat Prosper,” fortunate and dauntless and sagacious,” who, as those Red Death sweeps his dominios, gathers his closest friends into his magnificent castle, which he so seals off from the outer...
'The Masque of the Red Death” written by Edgar Allan Pole, is about a plague known as the Red Death that spreads through the fourteenth Century of Europe. Prince Prospero accumulated 1000 healthy young people, mostly nobility that covered up with him inside a stronghold...
An author that exclaims his love for gothic poetry and portrays it through his works is a man by the name of Edgar Allan Poe. His dark and domestic way of writing makes his short stories and poetry mysterious and extremely interesting. He creates an...
In the Old Bible in Titus chapter 1 verse 16 it saids “They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work”, this words utterly emphetazie with Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the message in...
When it comes to love we all have an idea of what love should be like and what love really is. In the short story of “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love,” by Raymond Carver, love is discussed in terms of three...
The short story that I have studied is A Temporary Matter by Jhumpa Lahiri. In this short story, communication and the secrets people keep from one another appear as one of the major themes. Following the loss of the couple’s stillborn baby, Shoba and Shukumar...
As I braced myself to meet the girl who would become a lifelong student and companion of mine, I clutched the sides of my long, brown skirt in fear that perhaps not even I, who had almost gone blind during infancy, would be able to...
Mark Twain was successful in his own story “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” was written in November 18th, 1865. This story can be said as a “first step” in his big career, helps him be famous not only in America but also in...
Conflict plays a very important role in the interlopers and it’s the main highlight of this story. In this story we can find many types of conflicts such as 🙁 man VS man, individual VS society, man VS nature, man VS self). In this essay,...
The narrator, in the short story “Greasy Lake” written by TC Boyle, learned a few hard lessons throughout the story. In the beginning of the story they believed they were dangerous characters and that it was “Good to be bad”. The narrator describes a world...
The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri is a collection of a variety of short stories that show the life of immigrants of India since the author is an immigrant novelist and writer of the Indian diaspora. In her collection of short stories, one element...
The term symbolism is nothing but a literary element used in literature. It helps the readers to understand a literary work. Symbolism is everywhere. Symbolism exists whenever something is meant to represent other meaning. In Greek mythology phoenix is a bird with long span of...
Tobias Wolff is a contemporary writer whose work is so understandable, mesmerizing, and a little weird at times, a reader wants to take it apart and find some simple way to describe it (Ansell, 2011). Although sometimes taking place in such foreign locations, Wolff's stories...
The immigrant writers can be categories from nationality of author. The major immigrant literatures are contributed by the writers from Indigenous, English, French, Asian, African, Caribbean and European nation etc. The immigrant writers have mostly dealt with hyphenation experience in the host land. It has...
Since all writers and artists are heavily influenced by the society around them, different eras in history have different literary periods; Modernism is one of those periods. “Modernism is defined as extending from 1880 to 1945, giving “priority to the prewar years” or “postwar years”...
Revenge, vengeance, retribution and malevolent all have one thing in common; the evil desire to inflict harm as retaliation for an injury or insult. When many people think of these words, they visualize a week, sadistic, and cruel person. In this circumstance, the short story...
Edgar Allan Poe is a name that has become synonymous with Gothic literature, and his exceptional talent is brilliantly showcased in "The Cask of Amontillado," a gripping and haunting tale that employs setting, symbolism, and character traits to create an atmosphere of horror and impending...
The Girls in Their Summer Dresses by Irwin Shaw is a short story about the beginning of the end for a couple. It documents the exact moment that both Michael and Frances, the main characters, realise that the marriage and bond they committed to each...
When the person is in the moment where the boundary between life and death just like a heavy rock hading on very thin hair rope, the unconscious part of the mind which used to be pain and suffering buried deep down in the grave of...
The three women from the short stories “Jury of Her Peers,” “Miss Brill,” and “The Chrysanthemums” are very much alike in many ways yet their stories are so different. The women all start out being distant from their communities, then events happen that change all...
Culture contact always affects one group than another because of the different economic and political situation. The dominant group colonizes, humiliates, and takes advantage of the minority group to elevate themselves. In worst cases, the superior culture enslaves other communities, as in the case of...
In this day and age, the conversation about mental health is growing. What once was an extreme taboo is now getting more and more light shined upon. For years, those with mental illness lived with the fear of their struggles not being understood by the...
'I don't want to take psychiatric drugs,' he [Ron Fleming] says. 'The vets call them 'the happy pills.' I don't want any of those, because they change you. I don't want to change.” (April Dembosky, 2017) From his interview with the National Public Radio, Ron...
‘Eveline’ is a fiction story wrote by James Joyce which talks about a young Irish girl and her strive to liberate her from the cold and dead life she lives to go live in the beautiful sunny Buenos Aires with the love of her life....
This assignment is on “Indian Education” by Sherman Alexie. It makes an analysis of rhetorical devices used in the short story. "Indian Education" is a semi-autobiographical short story written by Sherman Alexie, a Native American writer. The story follows the protagonist, Victor, from his first...
Dubliners, by James Joyce, is an assortment of short stories that all touch on the idea of maturity and coming of age. Joyce’s main idea for all the short stories that have been placed into the novel show a moment where the character has a...
Ficciones, by Jorge Luis Borges, is a collection of short stories that portrays different plots and themes. Borges is an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He brings the reader into his world of magical realism. In several of...
In the melancholic short story ' I Stand Here Ironing' by Tillie Olsen, Olsen uses the narrator's sense of guilt on her daughter's situation to progress the ideology that economic and physical hopelessness, leads to an unwanted lamentation of one's choices made in life. Olsen's...
In the short story, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”, James Thurber puts forth the idea of daydreaming as an essential human activity. It provides an arena for rehearsing social skills and can be used as a defense mechanism to escape from harsh reality. To...
The secret life of Walter Mitty, composed by James Thurber, fixates on the humorous and interesting fantasies of Walter Mitty a customary man, who lives in Waterbury, Connecticut, with his oppressive, pestering spouse Mrs. Mitty. All through this short story, Mitty is described just like...
In “Everyday use” written by Alice Walker, the story is mainly about two sisters and their mom role in their relationship. Dee, which is the educated sisters, traveled around the world while Maggie the simple sister stayed at home and follows the traditional ways of...
“Lamb to the Slaughter” is a short story written by Ronald Dahl. it is about two people who love each other, but the love is one-sided. One day, the man wants to get a divorce from the woman while she is six months pregnant. She...
In the three makings of Lamb to the Slaughter, they all tell their story in a different way. In the text comparison to the 1979 film color, one of the main differences was that Mary had a flashback of her killing Patrick instead of her...
The text I am adapting is a short story called “Lamb To The Slaughter” by Roald Dahl. In this text, there were a lot of things that interested me. In the story, Roald Dahl uses the themes of death and murder. Patrick Maloney is one...
Mary Maloney is the protagonist of Roald Dahl’s short story, “Lamb to the Slaughter”. She is introduced as a typical middle class housewife who is six months pregnant and is devoted to her husband, Patrick Maloney. She is described as beautiful woman, with soft skin...
Edgar Allan Poe’s stories are usually imaginary or a gothic tale. But however “The Cask of Amontillado” is not imaginary an imaginary gothic tale. The primary purpose of Poe writing this story was due to his literary feud with writers names Thomas Dunn English and...
Inspector James Pierce of the Scotland Yard examined the letter on his desk. It had been sent from a village in Italy, asking him to investigate a mysterious disappearance that had happened almost a century ago. Inspector Pierce did not take just any case, but...
Left for dead, drunk, in the deep catacombs, surrounded by six million dead corpses, perfectly stacked for two hundred miles. No one would want to be in this claustrophobic situation which would frighten anyone to death, let alone read about it. It might be easy...
Do you remember that thing you did, yeah THAT thing, that one you got away with? You get that sick feeling every time you think about it, that feeling is called guilt. You regret doing it so you blame the feeling on something else, but...
Flowers for Algernon is a short story written by the American writer Daniel Keyes. The genre of the story is science fiction. It was first published in April 1959 to “The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. The story of the Flowers for Algernon was...
As the plot of the sharp story unfolds, this thought is seen. To start with, Sergeant Morris hesitantly gave the paw of the monkey to Mr.White yet cautioned him of the impact. In the middle, Mr.White and his whole family wanted for 200 pounds energetically...
In Alice Walker’s short story ‘The Flowers,’ the author depicts the story of a ten-year old girl named Myop growing up in a day. The story begins with Myop's feelings of peace and happiness. Walker's descriptions depict Myop skipping happily exploring the forest behind her...
Winter Dreams, a short story written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, describes the story of a covetous man named Dexter Green. Basically, when he was a young boy at the age of just fourteen years old, he came across a lovely girl, Judy Jones. This encounter...
The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas by Reginald McKnight introduces a story about an African American boy named Clinton who goes through racial challenges. The story is set in the 1950s, where racism was still prevalent in the United States. Throughout the story,...
The two stories Fahrenheit 451 and Harrison Bergeron are similar in the that that there government and rules merge. They have laws that have been passed to confine what people can do. The legislatures keep citizens from considering and associating with one another in positive...
Have you ever heard of Dystopian Literature? Well if you haven't Dystopian literature is a genre of science fiction that tries to make up a horrible world or tries to predict a horrible future that we get to look forward to. In a Dystopian world,...
The Necklace is a short story by Guy de Maupassant that explores the theme of conflict in various dimensions. The story focuses on Madame Loisel, who is a middle-class woman with dreams of living a luxurious lifestyle. However, her aspirations come into conflict with her...
Ray Bradbury is known for his speculative fiction who turned his childhood dreams and nightmares in modern American literature. He has a very descriptive and colorful writing style where he enriches the perfect combination of mystery, tragedy, and scientific fiction to create a fascinating gripping...
I am analyzing the story called “Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot.” It was written by Robert Olen Butler, and first published in the New Yorker on May 22, 1995. It eventually became a part of his book “Tabloid Dreams” that was published by...
“Araby” by James Joyce is a short story whose basic external story is easy to follow. However, typical of Joyce, it is actually deeply layered allegorical story, with autobiographical themes and references to medieval, religious, and classic references. Though when the story is read for...
An author can change how a reader interprets a piece of writing in a number of ways. They can use gaps, motifs, and symbols to possibly bring the reader's attention to a potentially large message to internalize and seek its meanings. Nevertheless, the understanding of...
By labelling his story “a tale for children,” Gabriel Garcia Marquez leads his readers to consider traits of stories often found in children’s literature, and to contemplate how “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” satisfies, or rather manipulates, these expectant, inadvertent criteria. Perhaps most...
“A & P” is a humorous adventure story in which a young fellow acts in the name of romance and love. One might believe that this sensitive hero has been set free from a job that would lead him nowhere and a restrictive moral code....
Kate Chopin in her short story, Desiree’s Baby, depicts an abandoned mother and child seeking desperately to appease a stone-cold father and an unforgiving society. Upon reading this short story, it is said that Desiree was that of an unknown lineage and was adopted by...
In Richard Connell’s short story, “The Most Dangerous Game,” the protagonist Rainsford, a hunter, finds himself stranded on a mysterious island after accidentally falling off the side of his boat. He is welcomed at the door by General Zaroff, a noble Cossack who lives on...
To a young girl, her father will always be an essential part of her. To a father, their daughter will always be considered his little girl. In “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner, Emily Grierson is neither considered a friend or a foe towards...
Author Charlotte Gilman in “The Yellow Wallpaper” gives a personal short story about mental health care during her time. This account is personal, as the character in the story has experiences close to what author Gilman had during her period of receiving the ‘resting cure’...
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