Allegory

In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Golding provides an insight to the ironic nature of the Naval Officer “saving” the boys. In the beginning of the novel, Ralph idolizes his father with child like naiveté to the point where he does not understand the situation he is in. In the beginning of the novel while Piggy and Ralph discuss each other’s lives, Ralph makes a remark about their rescue, “I could swim when I was five. Daddy taught me. He’s a commander in the Navy. When he gets leave he’ll…

In the beginning of The Masque of the Red Death people were dieing from a disease that had killed over half of the princes dominions. The disease could kill you in half an hour and you could not get better. The prince then decided to seal one thousand of his light hearted men and women into one of his castellated abbeys. The prince had decided that the outside world could fend for themselves and that they need not to folly with the emotions of the death and despair. The prince then had the abbey…

Comparison between The Birthmark and Young Goodman Brown Nathaniel Hawthorne is one of the famous American writers of the nineteenth century, whose works belong to the genre of dark romanticism. In both the stories, namely The Birthmark and Young Goodman Brown, Hawthorne portrays the protagonists as idealistic. While Young Goodman Brown analyzes various themes, such as loss of faith in religion, proximity of temptation and societal ills performed by Puritan communities, The Birthmark emphasizes…

In literature, a majority of famous works have come upon social and political issues. In the novel, “Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood, the author uses literary elements to explore the social and political issues of the Republic of Gilead. Some of the elements used throughout the novel are imagery, foreshadowing, and allusions. One of the literary elements used in the novel is allusion. An allusion is an indirect reference. A large amount of the story has brought back the allusion of the…

The two main antagonists, Ralph and Jack, are very valuable and conflicting in the story and have broad types of specific individuals that they represent in their society when they are stranded on an island, but go through the difference of life that they experience like never before. The boys are excited about how they begin a new era in their lives, but when they realize that there were no adults on the island, they figure out and keep order about what the environment contained as an island…

Point of View in “To Build a Fire” and “Blues Ain’t No Mockin Bird” In “To Build a Fire” by Jack London and “Blues Ain’t No Mockin Bird” by Toni Cade Bambara, the authors explore the idea of human flaws through their storytelling. In each story, the author conveys the flaws of various characters and how they affect themselves and others. Although the narrators in “To Build a Fire” and “Blues Ain’t No Mockin Bird” are portrayed very differently, both stories achieve their objectives by allowing…

When one’s faith is tested the effects it has on the individual can ruin a person's view of humanity and life in general. In the short story “Young Goodman Brown,” Nathaniel Hawthorne presents a pious man named Goodman Brown whose faith is a large attribute of his character. Brown’s faith is put to the ultimate test when he had a dream that seemed so unimaginably real. Young Goodman Brown soon begins to doubt everything he knows about his faith. Brown comes to a realization that humanity is…

In William Golding’s Lord of The Flies, Golding introduces a story about boys who have crash landed in a plane on an unknown island before World War II. This story explains how children, who are civilized, turn into savages through isolation. Golding also wrote an article, “Why Boys Become Vicious,” which is about a cruel kidnapping. He explains what had happened to cause the kidnapping and his own thoughts about it. He also explains how there are certain “conditions” that cause people to…

The Major Effect of Literary Devices “God is a novelist. He uses all sorts of literary devices: alliteration, assonance, rhyme, synecdoche, onomatopoeia.” ( Lauren F. Winner ) as did William Golding with maximum effectiveness in his classic novel Lord of The Flies . Golding exhibited symbolism effectively with the use of the society of the boys and relating that to the real world and again when he relates savagery and inner demons to ‘the beast’. Golding displayed a vibrant use of imagery when,…

In Laura Hillenbrand's biography, Unbroken, reader's are introduced to Louie, a World War II hero, and two of his co-workers, Phil and Mac, find themselves in a life and death situation, after their plane just crashed in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Since the characters are all in the edge of death, they all have to learn how to solve the different obstacles in order to contribute to the survival of each of them. In Kendra Cherry's article, What is Resilience, she talks about the skills…