Disgrace

Why is it that individuals find it important to judge one another based on their socioeconomic status? Why do higher ranked people use their class rank as a way to obtain power, in contrast to those lower than them? Could it be because of one’s personal family background, race, religion, economic influence, ethnicity or gender? What specific traits categorize someone as a part of the “bourgeoisie,” “proletariat” or “aristocracy?” One can easily learn and understand about this subject by reading…

To Kill a Mockingbird was written by Harper Lee in 1960. The book was set in Maycomb County, Alabama during the Great Depression. Within the book, Lee defines courage as “when you know you’re licked before you being but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.” (112) Courage plays a huge role in To Kill a Mockingbird, the story of two children that are being raised in an unfair world contaminated with racism, sexism, and much more. Harper Lee shows courage through many characters,…

I think Calpurnia is a better mother figure for the reasons I am going to be listing. Calpurnia practically lives with the the Finch’s so she has a lot of daily interactions with Jem and Scout. Here are some examples of Calpurnia's interactions. Scout was feeling very sad because Jem’s getting older and thinks he is the boss of her, so Calpurnia said “Baby, I just can’t help that Mister Jem’s growing up. He’s gonna want to be off to himself a lot now, doin’ whatever boys do, so you just come in…

Boo Radley was totally misunderstood, they made a lot of rumors about him, one rumor was that he stalked around only at night and peeked in there window, another rumor was that he stabbed his father in the leg and that’s why he never came out of his house in the daytime. They called him a creature other than a human being. “You never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them.” At the end of To Kill A Mockingbird, Jean Louise Finch finally understands Arthur Radley…

Rebellion is the act of a person to metaphorically stand on one's feet and defy the presence of authority or society. In the puritan society that they resided in The goal was to live a holy life and glorify God as a Community in all their activities. In the scarlet letter the main characters are consistent in the rebellion against the society that has been established. Throughout The novel these characters show acts That go against the morals and beliefs. Hester Prynne is seen as a brave and…

Although siblings may look similar, their personalities and actions may be completely different which would resulting in a foil. One example of a foil appears in the play Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare, with the brothers Don Pedro and Don John. During the play Don Pedro is the Cupid of the story as he sets up Claudio and Hero to be a couple. At the same time Don John tries to ruin Claudio and Hero’s marriage over false information and jealousy. The meaning of Shakespeare’s work is…

compromise his moral principles out of a need to do whatever necessary to maintain his political status. He tells Goring that he wants to cover-up selling Baron Arnhelm the secret information about plans for the Suez Canal out of fear of the “public disgrace that is in store for me” (58). At that point, in Act 2, it seems that Sir Robert does have a “price” as he struggles with what would be worse: angering his wife or losing his political status. Goring convinces Sir Robert to fight back by…

ending. One such opposite is the differences between the moral compasses within each character. Throughout the play, you are introduced to characters that would kill another to save themselves and those that would sacrifice themselves to not live in disgrace of their God. The differences between these characters are constantly clashing, sometimes within just one character. John Proctor is one of the few main characters introduced in the play. In the beginning, you learn that Proctor’s moral…

The four of the main characters from these two stories share some characteristics. The theme of “Beowulf primarily deals with the sense of adventure, and deals with an epic story. The theme of “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” deals with medieval romance and with the code of chivalry. Two characters in the two stories are arrogant, and the other two characters experience change over time in their roles. One of the characteristics that Beowulf and the Green Knight share is arrogance. Like, when…

Tom Ripley is a young man in this film struggling to make a living like most of us. He was bribe to play a role of a Princeton guy who just broke his hand and couldn’t play. While playing the piano in this cocktail party he met Herbert Greenleaf a wealthy shipbuilder who mistake Ripley and believes that he attended Princeton with his son Dickie’s, because he is wearing a borrowed Princeton blazer for the cocktail party. Greenleaf recruits and pays Ripley $1000 dollars to go to Italy and bring…