By describing the people as “blond, fresh-faced, and midwestern” a sense of relatability and trust is immediately built between the author and reader. Those who call these square states home are ordinary people who are “the folks presidents talk to when times require.” This “Heartland” of the United States is what “holds down the center of the country,” and even if the land is not a vacation destination, The Midwestern states are essential for the well being and unity of the American people, and Marquart captures this idea perfectly in the body paragraphs of her…
Living in an all-American town created a desire to escape reality in O’brien and played an important role in his career and passion for writing. From the early times of his youth, Tim was taught that storytelling and writing were effective ways to express…
Brooks says that, “The community is for Faulkner typically a small town or rural community. Like Wordsworth, he is not really at ease in the great city. Wordsworth’s agrarianism-his conception of the good life lived on the land and his distrust of industrialism.” (Brooks 1999 p43) The characters of Faulkner enjoy nature but nature doesn’t become a solace for them.…
Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet, features a philosophical depiction of life and death, leading to a tension between reflection and action. Set in the late medieval period, Hamlet as the main character renders a melancholy, contemplative and desperate aura to the entire play as he struggles to avenge his father’s murder by the present King, Claudius. Although this literary piece of Hamlet was written in the 17th century, its timeless plot gives it longevity as its central themes of madness, revenge and the overall mystery of death and the afterlife can still be applied to present day. Franco Zeffirelli’s “Hamlet” portrays a contemporary and naturalistic interpretation, designed to suit a modern audience. By incorporating and omitting scenes and dialogue,…
The infamous quote, “The choices we make dictate the life we lead: to thine own self be true.” (Hamlet, Shakespeare). The quote affects the lives of all the characters in the movie, shows how it can be interpreted, and apply to others. We all have a story and the way we carry ourselves, is also affected by the decisions we choose to make everyday. The characters who are in the class are there, because they made decisions, and must suffer the consequences for that.…
In Hamlet, there’s interest classic story as tradition playing stories that Shakespeare wrote. Maybe in the modern time, people won’t scary for classic story as compare to the past time. Then the place where's the place take in platform before the castle during the guard’s on duty at night. I think the guards tried to figure out who's the ghost as if that place have a horror story. The mood of Act 1, Scene 1 was horror and mystery.…
Her vivid descriptions of this ‘Leave it to Beaver’-esque setting bring to mind many traditions of American culture in the 20th century. From the women wearing aprons to the men being ‘the head of the households’, readers are reminded of the oft-times glorified and simple traditions of ‘old-time’ American life. Because these images are firmly within the American cultural lexicon of yesteryear, we see no issue with them. We may even find comfort in this idealized view of such suburban life. However, in the story, there are other traditions that the town has.…
The drive over to Comstock seemed never-ending. Looking out the window, I noticed that the environment was becoming increasingly rural. A few miles before arriving at the cabin we would be staying at, we stopped at a tiny restaurant called J&J Holley's Place for dinner. It was difficult to believe that anyone could possibly be happy living in such an isolated place, but the family that runs and lives in this restaurant showed me otherwise.…
In the short stories “Barn Burning” and “A Rose for Emily,” Faulkner shows how people with two completely different lives, can share the same kind of problems. And both try and solve their problems in the same way. When both characters have bad things happen to them, their defensive side kicks in, and the only way to protect themselves is to create their own way of life. By doing this, they lose their connection to this society and their values. Both Abner Snopes, a rebellious sharecropper, and Emily Grierson, an unmarried woman from a prominent family, are isolated from their communities, and both find themselves in a kind of social dilemma.…
Every time she experiences change, she practices the tradition of creating home. However, she is not the only in the memoir who does. Her mother does as well, within the poem “Ohio Behind Us”, Woodson illustrates her mother’s own struggle of understanding where she feels at home. “When we ask, she tells us this is where she used to belong but her sister, Carolina, out aunt Kay has moved to the North, her brother Odell is dead now, and her baby brother, Robert, says he’s almost saved enough money to follow Caroline to New York City. Maybe I should go there, too, my mother says.…
A critical lens is a perspective that the reader uses to examine a piece of literature. Different lenses look for unique details and aspects in the text, and help the reader find new information that may have never been discovered had the piece only been read through one single perspective. The archetypal lens is a critical viewpoint which allows the reader to identify places in a story which follow or deviate from universal patterns, also known as archetypes. Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, is a character who, as before mentioned, both follows and deviates from the archetype of the Hero’s Journey.…
The soliloquy of act 2 scene 2 is focused on inner struggles with revenge. Earlier in this scene, Hamlet asks the actors to recite the story of Priam. While viewing this play hamlet realized the flaw in all that he has been doing, or hasn’t been doing, to act revenge on Claudius. Claudius killed Hamlet's father and stole the crown and hamlet is the only one who knows so he hatches a plan. He has made a few attempts of Claudius' life but failed.…
Annotated Bibliography Working Thesis: In the complex and intertwined themes of the revenge tragedy, Hamlet, William Shakespeare effectively expresses what it means to be human through Hamlet’s struggle to explore the human conditions of mortality, deception and morality, social expectations, and contemplation versus impulsive actions. MacNamara, Vincent. “The Human Condition.” The Call to be Human: Making Sense of Morality.…
Hamlet: A State of Mind Shakespeare’s Hamlet, is one of the most profoundly developed characters ever created in a fictional masterpiece. William Shakespeare, an English, sixteenth-century actor and playwright, captures audiences with his detailed attention to human feelings. These sentiments dramatically affect the heroes of his literary works. Even in modern times, one can relate on a personal level to each one of his characters in his dark comedy, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.…
Hamlet 's indecision and continuous delay of Claudius 's murder until the end is explained through several concepts of psychology, delving into his innermost thoughts which act as the driving forces behind his behavior, actions, and attitude towards other characters. From a psychological perspective, Hamlet’s lack of action towards his intended goal is not surprising, especially from a person who shows many symptoms of major depressive disorder including inactivity, thoughts of suicide, frequent or recurrent thoughts of death, agitation, anxiety, and hopelessness. Despite being dead set on getting revenge for his father after he met 'his ghost ' in act 1 scene 4, Hamlet soon began contemplating suicide in his ‘to be or not to be’ soliloquy…