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connection to O’Brien’s first love, Linda. He connects this concept to his past memory of his beloved Linda, who passes away at the age of nine, as he remembers her through stories to bring her back to life and be able to cope with the reality of her death. “Lying in bed at night, I made up elaborate stories to bring Linda alive in my sleep. I invented my own dreams… My dreams had become a secret meeting place, and in the weeks after she died I couldn’t wait to fall asleep at night. I began…

own destiny (Yalom, 2008), and he identified “four ultimate concerns” as the key to all human existence; death, freedom, isolation and meaningless, and stated, “The individual’s confrontation with these facts of life constitutes the content of the existential dynamic conflict” (Yalom, 1980 p. 8). Death is the central part of Yalom’s philosophy, as we are all aware death is inevitable, “death is always with us, scratching at some inner door, walking softly, barely audible, just under the…

allowed the power of these beings to be put in action” (254). We see night aiding the vampires and him being more powerful. Un-coincidently, Lord Ruthven is mostly seen during night parties. After his death he wanted his body to be “exposed to the first cold ray of the moon that rose after his death” (258). His desire to be laid in the moon light is an example of vampires getting their power from the night. It was as if the moon was able to rejuvenate his dead body so he could “live” again. We…

“Attack”, by Siegfried Sassoon, effectively represents a vivid and graphic view of the apathy of war by divulging into the minds of the soldiers, giving a more personal view to his poem. There are many such instances in which Sassoon’s clever diction. Instead of the norm of authors of his time, Sassoon did not emphasize the dramatics of war during the battle; he accentuated the pre-war stage. Firstly, Sassoon divulges into the fears of the soldiers. He does this by construing a grave scene.…

basically lost his life as he would now 'spend a few sick years in institutes' and eventually, at some point, die. We see how he is waiting for the dark in the first line. The 'dark' means death. He is too helpless to put himself in bed as he waiting for 'them' to come. The 'them' might refer to the nurses, or death. He has no choice. He is now not only physically, but also mentally…

In “My Year of No Shopping,” American author Ann Patchett (2017) assesses how one can sacrifice his/her desires in order to save money, time, and other valuable moments of life. The author here reveals how one can live without a year of no shopping. In order to support her idea, she describes two friends where one is convincing the other on how she is living without shopping. Inspired by her friend, the author also pledges for a year of no shopping. As time went on, she realizes how well…

“My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning is a poem written in the form of a dramatic monologue. In it, the speaker describes the portrait of his late wife to the servant of a prospective bride’s father. Throughout the description, the speaker’s sociopathy is made increasingly clear, with the heavily implication that he was the actual cause of the wife’s demise. Browning reveals the prideful, control-obsessed, and sociopathic character of the speaker through self-boasting, caesuras in the monologue,…

choice, which should not need to be made. In other words, unhappiness and prevention of progress occurs among this society, due to the control and lack of knowledge. Nonetheless, an example when the characters and conflict impact the author’s message, happens while Guy Montag is in the process of leaving the original town “After all the running and rushing and sweating it out and half drowning, to come this far, work this hard, and think yourself safe and sigh with relief and come out on the…

The Sardonic Use of ‘Playboy’ Christy, the protagonist, lands up in Mayo in a wretched condition. He was hungry and frightened. The crime of killing his own father has shaken him thoroughly and he is guilty for the same. Ironically, in the strange atmosphere of Mayo, where people are strangely invested with a quality of wild imagination, such heinous crime has been seen as a heroic act. And as a result of it a personality with self-confidence emerges of Christy and his shaken and shocked…

as a liar, and he decided to die instead of letting his name become trash. A tragic hero is a character who makes a bad decision that inevitably leads to his or her death. John Proctor is an example of such a character because he worked so hard to clear his wife's name, but the circumstances of the situation resulted in his death while still keeping his name. Despite the fact that John Proctor is not a status holding member of Salem, he is greatly respected by the people of the…