Chapter Two

The two poems by William Blake, The Tyger and The lamb are two poems that represent two opposites. The Tyger is the representation of evil and The Lamb is the representation of good and innocence. He, William Blake, was a successful poet and painter born in November 1757 in the city of London. William Blake thought and had a theory that injustice, death, war, and suffering were caused by human beings and because of their erroneous or false beliefs. William Blake wrote 2 collections; the first…

popular work the Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens explains the main theme that “Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself” (Dickens). Death and oppression often go together, with oppression resulting in death or death resulting in oppression. However, they differ in that death can result in something positive, such as the life of another person being saved while oppression only results in more oppression. Specifically, in The Tale of Two Cities by Charles…

Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur tells of many adventures and stories from the Knights of the Round Table. Of those knights, readers are introduced to Sir Lancelot du Lac. Formally known as Galahad, Lancelot was the son of the French King Ban of Benwick and Elaine. When he was just a young boy, his mother left him for dead on the shore of a lake in the woods. There, he was taken in and raised by a magical goddess, known as the Lady of the Lake. She teaches Lancelot his amazing sword skills…

never felt stronger than it does now. After the result of the 2016 election, it feels as though half of our country feels completely betrayed while the other half is overcome with joy. This is not how the country should be. The polarization between the two main parties, Republican and Democrat, has reached a point that is becoming concerning for the near future. According to the Pew Research Center, which conducted a year-long study on the polarization of our nation, “Republicans and Democrats…

sheathed within it a spiritual Truth.” quote by Edwin Hubbell Chapin. There are many ways to explain emotions, feelings, and innuendos through actions, objects also known as Symbols. Symbols are the most notable literary element throughout Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. There are three symbols throughout the book; the first is the color Red. Second symbol is the color Gold. And lastly the Darkness and shadows. These three symbolic elements are used to describe character feelings and or…

these disparities in moral perception are the most prevalent causes of conflict amongst humans. The notion of morality’s fickleness was not lost upon Charles Dickens, who, vicariously through characters such as Carton or Madame Defarge in A Tale of Two Cities, creates a commentary on the ambiguous nature of human…

Once Adolf Hitler seized power in Germany in the early 20th century, he initiated a movement against those of Jewish background or of Jewish faith, as a result of childhood resentment stimulated by their lavish lifestyles. Hitler felt as if their extermination would establish a better lifestyle to those who were like him who did not have the wealth and status of the Jews living near him in his childhood. This act created worldwide chaos, flooded Germany’s government as well as other nations and…

some stories, there can be more than one protagonist or can be hard to find out who is the true protagonist. In A Tale of Two Cities, there are two characters that stand out to be the main protagonist. Sydney Carton and Charles Darnay both face trials that have immensive consequences to their characters and livelihoods. However, Sydney Carton is the true protagonist of A Tale of Two Cities. The main protagonist should be someone who changes throughout the book into a better man, and…

Throughout A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens uses symbolism to create meaning in the story and to establish a point. One of the most prominent and important symbols that is woven throughout the novel is the motif of the “echoes of footsteps coming and going” (103). However, these footsteps signify different ideas dependent upon where Lucie and the family are. In London, England, the footsteps are merely echoes of people who could someday enter the family’s lives, while in Paris, France, the family…

George Miller’s magical number 7, plus or minus two, helps confirm the capacity of short term memory (Miller, 1956). Most people 18 and over can hold 5 to 9 items in their short term memory (Miller, 1956). Miller believed that short term memory could only hold his magic number because of the limited “slots” in which memory could be placed in the brain. Miller reached this conclusion by getting the participants of the initial study to listen to a number of tones that were different by pitch.…