Epilogue

Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, explores the nature of man and crime through the experiences and relationships of the protagonist, Raskolnikov. The novel is known for its rich explorations in characterization to make thematic points about human nature, crime, religion, and the role of destiny and self-determination in the course of human life. Through the inclusion of foiled character pairs in Crime and Punishment, a pattern is developed which demonstrates fateful similarities…

The boy in the striped pyjamas – Book vs. Movie A few weeks ago I read the novel “The boy in the striped pyjamas” by John Boyne. After reading it I watched the movie adaption of the book, by the same name. Movies and books are different ways of telling a story, so even though they have the same plot, there are a lot of differences that I will know address. The story is about the eight-year old boy Bruno, whose father is a Nazi commandant during The Second World War. Bruno has to move with his…

In the epilogue, where other historians ordinarily summarize their arguments from the previous chapters of their work to bring together and fully convince the reader, Bentley instead peppers it and the other chapters with anecdotes from the 1990’s. Mentioning such contemporary phenomena like the absence of rationing in modern warfare and the growth of meal portion sizes only distract from the purpose of the monograph’s epilogue. While this could have been expanded to…

In the biography Tituba Reluctant: Witch of Salem, Elaine G. Breslaw focuses on telling the narrative of Tituba an American Indian slave accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692 and connecting her confessions to the fear of a diabolical conspiracy among the Puritan society. The author, Elaine G. Breslaw, graduated with a BA in History from Hunter College, received an MA in History from the same college, and completed graduate work with a Ph. D. from the University of Maryland. She…

The singular narrative of the Communist Party, characterised by it’s doctrine of a public committed to unified socialist Utopianism, does not match the social or individual realities of the three friends whose mental coming-of-age forms the focus of the novel. Whereas Dmitri is saved from his suicide attempt by a truck driver, Utkin’s accident is trivialised by those around him and Samuri’s rape spawns an inherent distrust of others. The overly simplistic Party propaganda ignores the social…

A lot of things can happen within a short amount of time. A single man can change the world in his lifetime and go down in history. Hammurabi is one of these men. He was the most famous of all of the Babylonian kings. Before his time, Babylonia was a prominent society, but during his reign, he made it the number one society of the era. He revolutionized the idea of civil law. And, not only did he revolutionize law, he also improved architecture and irrigation in the city-state of Babylonia. His…

The Mirabals; Patria, Minerva, and Maria Teresa, were the butterflies of the rebellion against Trujillo. They helped start the Fourteenth of July Movement against the regime. For many Dominicans, they were their hope of restoring the country from corruption and injustice. They were a symbol for courage, as they freed themselves from the shackles of El Jefe and stood up to him. They did not settle for oppression. Just like butterflies, they spread their wings, showing off their beautiful colors,…

easy to write on quickly on the soft clay. There are three parts to the text carved on the stela(Levin 84). There are the laws themselves, before the laws comes the prologue, and after the laws comes the epilogue(Levin 84). There are two parts in Hammurabi’s code of laws the prologue and the epilogue. In the prologue, Hammurabi explains how the chief gods, An and…

think that it has broken that convention as the scene immediately before ‘The Bonnie Situation' is ‘The Gold Watch', and apart from Vincent dying, it has no relevance or future impact from the events of ‘The Bonnie Situation'. It isn't until the epilogue of the movie that you realise the reason we'd been taken back in time was to explain the prologue which up until that point, was completely out of place and had no bearing on the rest of the film. Therefore, by the…

Raven always seeks to undermine monologism by adding another qualifying voice, whether it is by directly projecting her voice into a character, as when she encourages Stacey’s identification with Polly: “Wander around Polly’s insides, feel your way through decades, generations of lostness. ... Discover her spirit, bent, then broken. Re-invent Polly, reimagine her” (39), or by offering commentary on a character, as when she qualifies Momma’s resentment of the Depression-era transients that…