Edgar Degas

The Plague by Albert Camus is a novel that demonstrates the selfishness of the people of Oran, Algeria as they fall victim to a plague, causing the entire town to be quarantined. The book’s narrator, Dr. Bernard Rieux, shows his viewpoint of the citizens of Oran through his remark, “In this respect, our townsfolk were like everybody else, wrapped up in themselves; in other words they were humanists: they disbelieved in pestilences.” The Plague was written not only to demonstrate how selfish…

"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" has gotten significant critical attention, generally positive. Writing in The Virginia Quarterly Review, James M. Cox (1959) states that this lyric contains "haunting rhythms" which are shaped partly by the "rationale of the rhyme conspire." This rhyme plot, he says, "is an expression of the growing control and determination" of the speaker. John T. Ogilvie (1959), in his article in the South Atlantic Quarterly, recommends that the lyric ends up plainly…

Mon mai longe liues wene, Ac ofte him lieth the wrench. Feir weder turneth ofte into reine And wunderliche hit maketh his blench. Tharuore mon, thu the bi-thench, Al schal falewi thi grene, Weilawei, nis king ne quene, That ne schal drinche of deathes drench. Mon, er thu falle of thi bench, Thine sunne thu aquench. (Lisle, “The Three Living and The Three Dead”) Having revised the concept of childhood from the Antique period up to the later Middle Ages, with special attention paid to the…

Luis Bunuel pioneered surrealist cinema. Many of his films revolve around three themes he was fanatic about. These being, religion, class and sexual desire. These topics can be linked to Bunuel’s early years. He was born on February 22nd, 1900 in Calanda, Spain. His birthplace was of highly religious mindset as many places were in Spain. In Bunuel’s semi autobiography My Last Breath he says, “The middle ages lasted until World War I” (8). The “Miracle of Calanda” (13) was a tale in which an…

The comics Lighter Than My Shadow, Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, & Me, and “Adventures in Depression” and “Depression Part 2” from Hyperbole and a Half each depict the struggles of mental illness in distinct ways. Interestingly, all of them share a unique element in portraying this mental illness. Each comic uses imagery of the main character interacting with what seems to be another self. This fragmenting self is used to highlight each character’s growth and progress from their…

The title of this book is called Gulliver’s Travels. This is a story known by many souls, and it is known worldwide. Gulliver’s Travels is by Jonathan Swift, and as about to be mentioned, the genres in this book are “Fantasy”, “Satire”, “Science Fiction”, and “Speculative fiction”. In the story, there were 4 main settings mentioned in the story. In the 1st voyage, when Gulliver's ship is wrecked, he ends up on a beach, known as the Land of Liliput. You guessed it, the land of small people.…

With all its differences and diversities, in terms of its readership and the scope of its themes, etc., Nineteenth century novel has some features. Trace six to seven such salient common feature, giving reason for why and how some important socio-cultural and politico-economic elements/ Arguments count to making the 19th century novel as it is? “In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner's heart. That fire was the…

Night Final Essay “For God’s sake, where is God? Where He is? This is where ----- hanging from the gallows.” - Elie Wiesel. Night, by Elie Wiesel, this was set in the 1940’s during World War ll. This was at a concentration camp, Auschwitz. In the whole story, it was about Elie and his father's struggle to survive in concentration camps. The holocaust was the most traumatic experience in history, this included the leader, Hitler, with his followers, the German Nazi’s. Throughout Night, Elie’s…

The movie Sleepy Hollow is a movie where a Proppian analysis can be applied, but because the story line is unique it doesn't follow all of the steps included in this analysis. The preparatory part starts with the initial situation, which was that Crane was facing imprisonment for using new age forensic methods while investigating, so instead of sentencing him to prison the judge decided to send him to Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of beheadings. The next step this story follows is the…

Summary: I am reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. This summary will conclude of chapters 25-31. These chapters are very intense with Bob Ewell and his actions. Bob Ewell gets very angry and sneaks and breaks into Judge Taylor’s house. He wants to get revenge for what had happened at the court case. Taylor sees Bob but does not know who it is, so Bob gets scared, takes some food of his then leaves. Then Bob causes more trouble and follows Jem and Scout home. They think it is Cecil,…