Edgar Schein

Like all sensible ghost stories, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House sets a lure for its protagonist. within the classic version of the shape, as established by British author M.R. James, the hero may be a gentleman of gently inquiring bent: a scholar, a collector or antiquarian. What lures him into the neighborhood of the ghost is commonly intellectual curiosity and infrequently greed; what attracts the ghost's wrath or malevolence is that the hero's tendency to intervene, to open the…

There are many factors in which make up a successful, yet compelling writer. William Sydney Porter known as O. Henry, was an American Short Story author. As he developed his writing career he became notorious for his writings to have the utmost unexpected twist endings. All through his writings the theme of love, deception, mistaken identity, the impacts of incident, the unchangeable idea of the destiny and the determination of apparently unsolvable challenges isolating two lovers is seen.…

Madeline and Porphyro exit the chamber as a ghost at the end of the poem, when the poet returns to the frame of the winter outside, the cold stone bodies and he reveals the uncertain life of Madeline and Porphyro. He confirms that both Madeline and Porhphyro have been gone for many years. In spite of that there is uncertainty about the fate of the lovers whether they find happiness or tragedy. Keats simply says that “They are gone: ay, ages long ago / These lovers fled away into the storm”…

Charles Lamb (1775-1834), belongs to nineteenth century Romantic period. He was an essayist and English writer, often regarded as the prince of essays. Lamb was born in London to Elizabeth Field and John Lamb. Lamb started his literary career as a poet but as a poet he was unsuccessful because poetry did not come to him naturally and then he published “Tales from Shakespeare” in collaboration with his sister Mary Lamb. He then devoted half of his life in taking care of his afflicted sister. By…

Edgar Allan Poe was an extremely deep writer in many of his story.Though in many of his story were written and effected by his real personal life. A lot of Poe's stories or poems included things based on his life in a different form of how he felt. Poe added lots of detail in his stories about how he wanted to get revenge on many accurinses in his life. Poe also had lots of madness in his stories of strange things as if they really happen. Though he also had many crazy books a lot of the books…

Pulmonary Embolism: “The Silent Killer” “Help! Help! Help! Why do I feel as if I’m going to pass out? What is this stabbing feeling in my chest? I need to go to the emergency room right now!” Those are just a few of the thoughts racing through my head on November 3, 2015 the day I will never forget. The day the doctor told me, “You have a mass covering your left lung and it looks as if it may be cancerous, so a biopsy is necessary.” He went on to tell me in a flat tone that they needed to…

The Fall of the House of Usher, by Edgar Allen Poe, uses a rational first-person narrative to illustrate the strange effects the Usher estate has on the three characters. Everything about the house is dark and eerily evil. The mansion appears to create fear, which is in turn, driving the occupants insane. The narrator of the story is a mysterious and challenging character to understand. The audience is never given the name of the narrator as his significance in the novel is mainly concerning…

There have been lots of works of literature throughout time, the poem of Argus is one of the more lesser known poems. This particular work of art is used to show love. For example,in “Argus” he waits to welcome back his master so long that once odysseus returned he was so old and frail he passed away in the moments of greeting odysseus. Odysseus says that he is not recognised or treated as if he were a slave, but yet when knowone else recognised him Argus came forth.In the painting Argus…

Romantic Era was a time of advanced changes in literary works. Whitman and Dickinson daringly changed the style of American Literature. They were the two most famous poets of their time period and with their unique word choices and style they both revolutionized poetry in America. Whitman was known as someone with a social and bold personality. This personality is reflected in his uplifting and positive writing. Unlike Whitman, Dickinson was very isolated and liked to keep to herself. She was…

Secondary Characters disposition towards death In Melville’s, Moby Dick, he describes the way in which the secondary characters interact with the different situations that occur on the Pequod. These situations usually have to do with the concept of the inscrutable. The inscrutable deals with the notion of death, and how the characters look at the outside world. The inscrutable displays to the character, this “pasteboard mask” that one must punch through to understand the true meaning of death…