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Beyond the Socially Acceptable There are many things that can be said about Decadent poetry. It’s central themes are numerous, from aestheticism and beauty for the sake of it, to paganism and the urban, there are a multitude of angles one can take when analysing and interpreting the work of the poets of the fin du siècle. One of those themes is the idea of transgression; going beyond the limits and the law, exploring what is socially acceptable and more importantly what isn’t, and the…

The Crucible, seen as one of the most exquisitely written plays ever has many interesting parallels to McCarthyism. The Crucible is a hyperbolized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem Witch Trials that went on in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the years of 1692 and 1693. The interesting thing about The Crucible is that it was written during the height of the Red Scare. That is why comparisons are able to be drawn between the two subjects. That is also why the word McCarthyism is a…

Life often positions people in our lives who will be blessings or lessons, sometimes those lessons come in the form of betrayal. Betrayal from the people we least expect it from, and those who we are the closest to. That betrayal can cause damage that can be permanent such as in the book, Of Mice and Men. In John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men, a huge betrayal is what completes the whole meaning of the work as a whole. The betrayal becomes the falling action of the story and it illuminates…

In Franz Kafka’s, The Metamorphosis, the reader is presented with an underlying theme of alienation. This state of alienation or estrangement is seen by the isolation of the main character from a group or activity and their loss or lack of sympathy. Gregor Samsa loses his identity through the estrangement of his obligation to financially support his family and his duty as a traveling salesman. This estrangement is initially somewhat apparent by his physical transformation and later on thoroughly…

In the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller has fear , hysteria , and revenge . In this play Abigail is a evil & flat static character who gets revenge at people in the play but does it in the worst way & she doesn’t feel bad for her actions . Abigail is evil throughout the whole story . At this point in the story Paris is now talking Abigail which is his niece , he is talking to Abigail about what he seen in the woods & she is denying all alligations she is dishonest with her uncle Paris. “ I…

Being Kidnapped seems like a situation that would be terrible to be in. For one kid, it was the best few days of his life and he did not want to leave. “The Ransom of Red Chief” by O. Henry, is a fictional short story. Bill and Sam are the two main characters in the story. With much work they plan to pull off a fraudulent town-lot scheme in Western Illinois. To do this they need two thousand dollars. These two men decide to kidnap Ebenezer Dorset’s child and offer a ransom. Bill and Sam take the…

The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a play about early America during the witch trials. In the Crucible a antagonist, Abigail Williams, had accused and had deadly sins and her dark heart blam people of witch craft, she also wanted to have an affair with a married man. One of the most responsible deadly sin in this play was lust and greed. Both play a key role in the story. Lust is what Abigail had, greed is what a lot of people had in Salem and some had lust and other deadly sins. Lust is an…

The defendants in The Crucible are the young women in Salem who have all been accused of working with the devil. Although it is not explicitly stated, all the women are found guilty and are not given much of a chance to prove themselves innocent. Arthur Miller writes, “ But, Mr.Proctor, they will not hang them if they confess.” (Miller 58-59). It is seen that once any woman is accused of being a witch in Salem, it is highly unlikely that she does not either get hung or serve time in jail. We…

Sylvia Plath clearly embeds the story of Esther Greenwood into the political situation of the time. The Bell Jar introduces its setting by referring to the execution of the Rosenbergs. In the summer of 1953 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were accused of and electrocuted for espionage. It was believed that they had passed secret US military information on nuclear weapons on to Soviet Intelligence. The fear of the so-called “red scare” was omnipresent, and it was believed that more and more people…

How does one learn life lessons while on a dare? In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, we see Sir Gawain go through just that. While on a journey to keep his word, we witness Gawain be faced with countless trials without his knowing. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was created back in the late 14th century. We witness much of the culture that was featured during that time, in this story such as knights, kings, magic etc. In this story we witness a self-depreciating knight of the round table…