Epigraph

. Looking at the short story “Story of the Hour” from a Marxist point of view, the social structure plays an enormous role. In this story Mrs. Mallard should be grieving not only because she thought her husband was dead, but also since he was the provider of her household. Without him, how was she going to make ends meet and function as if he were still alive? But on the contrary, Mrs. Mallard felt free from the social structure of her being just a wife, who life was her family and husband. She…

Deceitful Dreams According to the Oxford Dictionary, a dream is, "A cherished aspiration, ambition, or ideal; An unrealistic or self-deluding fantasy." Dreams are different from one another and come in many shapes and sizes, but all dreams are purely a desire and are imaginative. In society, dreams play a large role in how people live their everyday life. For instance, people may make decisions solely based on their own dream. In the United States, a common ethos is the American Dream. The…

tall (Weber).” This epigraph, from the film “The Blot,” does not represent a theme that recurs throughout the entire film. This epigraph only represents the theme of the first scene of the film in a university classroom. This is because the first scene is of higher class college students acting blasé towards the lecture, like boys. Whereas the entirety of the film is about income inequality amongst well-educated men, and about how love is about more than money. Although this epigraph does not…

God, being the father of Jesus, and Sethe, being the mother of Beloved, are both parents of messiahs. Relating back to the epigraph, the section of the Bible it is in is in reference to God granting his forgiveness to not just the Jews, but all people . Jesus was sent so that all sins would be forgiven and all people would be able to accept the gift of God 's forgiveness.…

I feel that Baldwin chose this excerpt as the epigraph for the Giovanni’s Room because, the line itself it alludes to many of the key themes explored throughout the novel like masculinity, sexual identity, and being present. Placing the excerpt in the context of “Song of Myself” reveals even more about the idea of self-acceptance that Baldwin also explores in the novel; Many of the lines leading up to the final couplet begin with “How he,” as if to present a sort of distance between the narrator…

In T.S Eliot's poem, “ The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock” the tone of a reflective, bitter, and morose man is achieved through the use of epigraphs, imagery, allusion, metaphor , and diction. J. Alfred Prufrock is followed through his night, romanticizing what could have been. To develop the tone of reflectiveness the love song opens with an epigraph from “Dante’s Inferno”, which is about Dante trying to talk to Guido about the atrocities Guido committed in his life; Guido is resilient to…

Twentieth-century texts, specifically that of American literature, which address diaspora and the effects of displacement, exhibit a purposeful distortion of reality in efforts to define what reality is. It is important then, within such texts, to examine the depiction of a character’s subjective experience in response to their extreme circumstances. When personal circumstances evolve, and what was once the mundane or the ordinary, digress into an array of cataclysm, the self too, digresses in…

Fate is an often debated topic. There are many questions that are often asked when talking about fate. There are three questions I will be answering based on Sophie’s World : “Do you believe in Fate?, Is sickness the punishment of the gods?, What forces govern the course of history?” Some other major themes are the purpose of history, Hegel’s view on history, religion,…

pilgrimage. Textually, Vonnegut foreshadows the beginning of Billy’s pilgrimage at the start of the epigraph. “The cattle are lowing, the baby awakes. But the little Lord Jesus no crying he makes,” The epigraph suggested that Billy Pilgrim, like that of Christ, is innocent and undeserving of the fate that he is given. Despite being handed this unfortunate destiny, no crying does the baby in the epigraph, which refers to Billy, makes. Throughout the entire novel, Billy cries very little even…

motive for his adventures in a way that the readers will understand it. Krakauer wants his readers to understand Chris’s motives as if he was not insane and had a reason for doing what he did. He gives stories from others who have gone into the wild, epigraphs at the beginning of each chapter, eyewitness testimony, letters from Chris and many other things to help understand Chris’s motive,…