A Double Life

“Jane, be still; don’t struggle so, like a wild frantic bird that is rending its own plumage in its desperation. I am no bird; and no net ensures me: I am a free human being with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you” (Bronte 216). In the selected passage, from the analysis taken it appears that Jane is expressing how she is finally free as she always dreamed. This was around the time where Mr. Rochester did not want Jane to leave him after figuring out he was a married man. He…

The natural landscape and the setting of the story serve as a metaphor for Ann’s sense of isolation. The location of John and Ann’s house is in an isolated setting, therefore miles away from any possible sign of life. The “snow” around the house, like an “impassable trap” encloses their house, confining them physically. The barren, unlively, “snowswept farmyard” further surrounds them every winter, leaving Ann and John to be each other’s only sense of human connection. Not only does the natural…

for two vastly different main characters; however, their overall drive and faith bring them to the same fate in the end. Beowulf being about a strong, brave, and faithful leader in the Anglo-Saxon period and Everyman being about a man who lived his life they way he wanted in the 16th century Christian period. Beowulf is like the idealistic version of a person and has such a strong belief in his faith he does not fear death; where on the other hand, Everyman in the exact opposite of an…

There are three elements which thematically link Robert Browning’s My Last Duchess and Prospice: love, marriage and death. Both poems follow the aftermath of a marriage brought to an end by the death of the wife. In order to comprehend the psyches of the husbands and the manners in which they cope with their partners deaths, a close analysis of their dramatic monologues is required, for it may reveal discrepancies between their words and thoughts. My Last Duchess follows a duke, implied to be…

stupid, reckless, and it disrespected the land he wanted to live off due to him traveling with very little resources, disappearing from his family, and eventually leading to his fatal death. Christopher McCandless went on adventure to find a purpose of life. His father expected so much from McCandless that he wanted him to go to college and so he did. McCandless was pressured to do what his family wanted and not what he wanted. Therefore, McCandless decided to leave his family and go into the…

Tan Le’s story was not just a tale of her immigration to a new country, but of how it shaped her life completely. From a young age she was pushed to do better for herself. Seeing how hard Le’s mother and grandmother had worked, in order to provide better lives for their family, gave her determination. This pushed her to do better for herself, when people would laugh at her or shout racial slurs she would whisper to herself “I will surpass you”. Le showed true perseverance and drive to push the…

Kabuliwala, a friend Life unfolds many mysteries one being someone people who come into the lives of others as an angel. Did you meet anyone like that in your life? Mini a small girl was one for a Kabuliwala called Rahim. Kabuliwala is a story written during the early 20th century showing the difference of opinions about caste, character and personality. Rabindranath by using Mini and an Afghan Kabuliwala Rehmun, portrays how society labels the people, how Mini being innocent enough was unable…

There are many things in a person’s life that can and will change a person’s life. These events can be different for any one. For me this event was when my house burnt down. It’s hard to believe that a night that started so well could have ended so terrible. It was the eve before Easter 2008. My family was visiting my aunt and uncle who lived on lake Zumbro, which is near Rochester, Minnesota. We were in their garage playing foosball. This is when we my sister received one of the biggest message…

Unbillable hours: A true Store, by Ian Graham, New York. Kaplan publishing. 2010. 320 Pages. Reviewed by Armen Tchapanian. Ian Graham was a Law Associate who worked at the law firm of Latham & Watkins, whom saved the rest of Mario Rocha’s life, and freed him from the murder of which he had no part in. In the book “ Unbillable hours “, written by Ian Graham himself, Graham exposed the story of Mario Rocha—a man falsely accused for murder. Rocha had been put behind bars for a murder, which he…

The photographer when developing his image sees an “half formed ghost”, the speaker uses a double entendre to conveys the conflict the photographer undergoes when remembering his past like the forming ghost and also he is able to decompress and release his emotions which otherwise was not possible. “He has a job to do. Solutions slop in trays…