Burning Love

The story begins with a description of the scene. There is an underground Cave and inside of it, there are prisoners whose hands and legs have been chained since they were born. Behind them, a fire is burning. Between the prisoners and the fire, there is a sidewalk, where different statues are placed. These statutes are manipulated by another group of people. As a result of the fire, blindsided prisoners watch the shows these statues’ shadows play out…

girl’s clothes went into the fire. On page 118, Carter states, “The thin muslin went flaring up the chimney like a magic bird and now came off her skirt, her woolen stockings, her shoes, and on the fire they went…” The image of not just her clothes burning, but floating off like a magic bird, reflects the way they were used as identification and restriction earlier in the piece. As she burns her former identity, she becomes naked and vulnerable, creating a new one in her exposed form. It…

Treatment of women in society shashi Desponde’s selected short stories A Liberated Woman and It Was the Nightingale Shashi Desponde , an Indian woman writer in, was born in a small town of Dharward in 1938. Her father, the famous kannada playwright, was described as ‘the Bernard Shaw of the ‘Kannada theatre’ .She acquired an M.A. in English from Mysore University. She married Dr. Desponde, A Neuro-pathologist in 1962 and visited England in 1969. Inspired by this visit, she published an account…

“Their loud and ringing cry was of war, from anger, like vultures which in extreme anguish for their young wheel and spiral high above their nests....the sharp cry of these settlers in their home, and for the transgressors' later punishment sends a Fury” (48-52). Masculinity and warfare are allusions of a male dominated society, a society which is comprised in the story telling of greek mythology. These stories depict distinct roles of ideal men and women, they emphasize the power of men in…

their back pockets. It is the two of them, the Mad Scots of Whitehall against this government that would collapse without them. So no, James isn’t all that brokenhearted after his divorce, though he does miss the days when they were deliriously in love. There was an actual reason he had gotten down on one knee on that frozen lake and spent three years of savings on the whopper of a diamond that Katherine now slides off her finger, with her plain gold band, and drops into his palm. James is…

“Two Hours on the Train”, written by Abdellatif Laâbi, is a free verse poem that follows the journey of the narrator and his companion. The two are riding a train, while the narrator ponders his past. While I may not know for sure what the narrator is thinking, why the poet chose to write in free verse, or where the train is headed, however, I can certainly make deductions based on the evidence that I do have. The answers to the following questions are a result of reading, interpreting, and…

Candide chooses to run the gauntlet. Instead of the thirty-six times he was to run the gauntlet, our "hero" made it only two until he pleaded to the Bulgarians to smash in his head (19). Another satire of war included in Candide is the Bulgarians’ burning of the Abarian village "in accordance with the rules of international law.(20)" Voltaire also shows his satire on war in that the Bulgarian soldiers do not just kill other people, they rape disembowel, and dismember innocent women and children.…

regret at some point in our lives; It is simply our nature to possess flaws. Perfection is an illusion, existing only in our minds. In truth, everything humans do in this life is an effort to correct our flaws, whether they realize this or not. We love one another and seek knowledge in an attempt to better ourselves. The Lawyer, who narrates Bartleby: the Scrivener, depicts some of the prominent flaws within the characters of the story, including Bartleby. Yet it is not by pointing out the…

In the eighteenth century, romanticism bloomed from men’s love towards nature. To capture its beauty, romanticists often wrote novels stressing emotions and portraying nature as a pure soul. While nature represented an innocent girl, science imitated a reaper that violates nature’s boundaries. Romantic novels then recorded the battles between logic and feelings. These novels, for example, Frankenstein, a Gothic novel written by Mary Shelley, exposes the unethicality of knowledge by describing…

Pearl tries to please her mother and she clearly loves her but the way she acts doesn't seem to solely match that. In the story she is always at a young age and she grows no older than seven. She really doesn't know much about the world because she has been despised by the townspeople. Pearl knows what…