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Such impact is identifiable within Kipling’s poems. He was born a caucasian man in Mumbai and was thus considered part of the “superior” class. He often called “Poet of the Empire”, due to his patriotic writing style. Due to the patriotic nature of his work, he attracted a large caucasian following that predominantly proposed British imperialism. This meant that he had to be wary when treating politically charged topics, as he could be scrutinized by his public. Nonetheless, we must keep in mind…

Each character in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald has a distinct place in New York City’s elite society. Although they possess unique personalities, each different from the rest, they can all be placed into one of two categories: insider or outsider. Nowadays, almost a century after the novel takes place, social classes are arguably still relevant. In this novel F. Scott Fitzgerald tells the timeless tale of the social hierarchy and humanity’s strive for the American Dream. Nick Carraway…

“Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.” This quote from Gilda Radner incorporates the essence of what Nick has to learn. Nick’s father had taught him a big life lesson at an early age. “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had” (Fitzgerald 1). This is a lesson that would help guide him into his…

In the short story “Everything That Rises Must Converge”, the author Flannery O’Connor uses copious amounts of irony, imagery, and characters in a sort of comedy of errors to hold the reader’s attention and keep him or her interested, while understanding the meaning of the story: the brain creates the inability to detect when they are being hypocritical, or subconsciously exercising prejudice. While O’Connor makes the plot of the story rather simple, the true meaning of the story proves far more…

An Analysis on Jay Gatsby as the Epitome of the American society in the 1920s F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby is a novel that focuses on the lives of Americans who belong to the upper class in society in New York set in the 1920s. The 1920s, better known as the Roaring Twenties, was the era characterized by a number of positive and negative outcomes that highly influenced the United States of America. This was the era of economic prosperity, the rise of consumerism, the popularization of Jazz…

By introducing him as a special character type, Williams points out one of the autobiographical elements in the play, and that is his own alcohol and drug abuse during the 1960’s. Another dominant character in the play is Brick’s father, Big Daddy, who represents a type of a rich landowner, and embodiment of American Dream. Through his character Williams shows how the American society has forfeited all values in the temple of the most popular value in the world, money. He expresses his burning…

Human personality naturally changes over time. Sometimes it is sudden but more often it is a gradual change. Character development is practically a must have of good fictional narrative writing. It usually happens gradually as it does in nature to make the writing realistic but Roald Dahl uses striking changes in character personality to create an incredibly intriguing character. Mary Maloney in the short story “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl experiences major, instantaneous…

When one fails to accomplish a task or goal they aspired to achieve, often, they strive to redeem themselves. Through the tough obstacles and hindrances, only the ones with exceptional grit eventually reach redemption. The novella The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway, illustrates the idea of redemption throughout the story. The Old Man and the Sea is an ambiguous novel about a fisherman named Santiago, who hadn’t caught a fish in 84 days so he goes out into the ocean for a few days to…

“Well, Gentleman, how can we arrange to drink less tonight?” said Pausanias to the group of men at Agathon’s house. For a second night in a row, the gentleman came over to discuss and mingle or have a symposium of sorts. The topic for that night’s conversation was going to be on love, and each man around the room was going to give an account. One important speech given halfway through was given by Eryximachus, a doctor. Throughout his account, we are reminded of his craft many times and he then…

Self Absorbed Humanity (An analysis of the messages from Musée des Beaux Arts by W. H. Auden) “The rise of selfishness was apparently irreversible” (Star). Indeed, modernity has many faults, one being selfishness, and it is on the rise. Not only in the United States, but the whole world’s population, is comprised of very egotistical individuals. Only caring about what happens to them, what their needs are. The modern individual has the mindset of it’s not my problem, or out of sight out of…