Abel Meeropol

The classic story of Cain and Abel can easily be shown as a parallel to two sets of brothers and one set of women in East of Eden: Charles and Adam, Cal and Aron, and Cathy and Abra. These characters compare very closely to the famous Biblical characters not only by the letter beginning their names but by their behavior and the way they were treated. The ties between these character help us, as readers, see the true underlying meaning of this book and interpret the work as a whole in a…

Happy conclusions to books do not necessarily mean that they are the best endings for novels. Characters may lose their traits and development, the mood can become disconnected at the end, or it just does not fit the plot of the story. This may be true about Great Expectations, written by Charles Dickens. At first, the original ending had Estella with a doctor while Pip remained single. A revised ending was written after the author’s friend conversed to him about it. It ended with the…

Certainly the Bible says explicitly that Cain was a 'tiller of the ground ', while Abel was a "keeper of sheep '”.(Maccoby). This is one explanation of why Abel 's offering was accepted better than Cain 's however “If anything, tilling the ground was the more respected during the period of occupation of the Holy Land, came a time (in the post Biblical period) when sheep-raising…

How does Charles Dickens explore Pip's state of mind ? William Priddy, 1ere ES1 'Great Expectations', by Charles Dickens, presents Pip's constant moral evolution. This particular extract reflects Pip's state of mind in his adolescence, following the year he spent visiting Miss Havisham. These encounters have presented to him an alternate lifestyle that he would not have been aware of otherwise. He begins to reflect on his own life and sees himself as inferior to Estella and her education.…

A Bildungsroman Book The novel, Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens fits into many genres, one of which is called bildungsroman. A bildungsroman is a German genre which can be described as a coming of age novel where the young main character develops and grows throughout the book. In this story the main character Pip starts out as a young boy and finishes a married man, the bildungsroman genre is used by Dickens to convey the growth, mentally and physically, in not only Pip through his life…

which are often paired together due to their similar nature are the tales of Cain and Abel from the book of Genesis and Livy’s Romulus and Remus. The resolutions in these stories had outcomes which established ideologies on sacrificial violence and transformed the tales into founding stories. However, they are two very different kinds of founding stories which is never taken into consideration, with Cain and Abel being more of a founding story on morality, which condemned murder and sacrificial…

Taking Marting Chuzzlewit as the referent work for the present essay and the main features of Realism previously presented, it is possible to state that, Dickens reflects all these features in this novel making it one of his most characteristic works. Introducing the range of linguistic registers previously mentioned, Dickens places each character in a different social status depending on each character idiolect1. On this basis, it is also essential to point out the importance of Dickens' use of…

How does the poet convey his central ideas, themes and message in The Island Man-By Grace Nichols? The poem Island Man by Grace Nichols is about the struggles and the agonising transition for a man who lived all his life free and peaceful on a Caribbean island suddenly being forced to live in London, a big city that is noisy and busy all day long. He doesn’t even have good English (is there evidence in the poem to justify this?. He dreams of his homeland and the wonders that are there, finding…

characters. Joe Gargery, his sister’s husband, who Pip begins to resent once he starts living a wealthier life, but returns to loyally in the end; Miss Havisham, the vengeful old woman that Pip suspects to be his benefactor for the majority of the novel; Abel Magwitch, a convict, and Pip’s actual benefactor repaying him for his kindness as a child. All these characters play crucial roles in Pip’s life and shape him into who he is, but there is only one that arguably impacts him the most:…

have made him awkward” (Golding 6). He also has a charismatic personality which attracts the other boys: “there was a stillness about Ralph as he sat that marked him out” (Golding 10). This type of amiable characterization of Ralph is akin to that of Abel from the Bible whom “the Lord looked with favor” in Genesis 4:4 because of their shared protagonistic statuses (Fitzgerald 81). Comparatively, a character named Jack Merridew exemplifies qualities of Cain from the Bible. Unlike Ralph, Jack is…