Fall of Constantinople

Questions about Irony The two most prominent examples of irony in Things Fall Apart are the District Commissioner’s novel, and the death of Okonkwo. After the entirety of the novel, the description of a whole world and culture with copious amounts of people, after the gigantic critical tragedy of Okonkwo, the District Commissioner decides to write a book. He ponders of giving this great man, powerful leader, a replete life, a single paragraph in his novel, “The Pacification of the Primitive…

Apart from the power of social apparatus the monster in Frankenstein is the supreme metaphor of Romantic Dialectic which talks about the darkness that threatens the values of European civilization from the non-European. The creature has been designed to encourage a fear of the reality of the self-centeredness of European working class and colonial people. However ,the vital factor in Victor’s relationship with his monster is the Victor’s internalized memories of cultural difference and rank.…

In Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart,” he uses all the elements of fiction to create an amazing story. He uses the elements of fiction to compose a story that keeps you interested. Edgar Allen Poe was born January 19th, 1809 and died October 7th, 1849. It is a mystery as to how Poe died. This story is about how because of a man’s eye someone is willing to kill One of the elements of fiction that Poe showed mastery of was the plot structure. In the exposition he introduces the setting…

A great or virtuous character in a dramatic tragedy who is destined for downfall, suffering, or defeat, that is the definition of a tragic hero. In the book, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Okonkwo has many struggles in his story, but at the same time he was a hero. Some of his struggles where he put to high of expectations on himself to not become like his father in any way possible, and the negative outside forces. Okonkwo was a tragic hero because his mistakes in judgement and outside…

One of the biggest problems during the Progressive Era was Child Labor. The workers got angry and they started to form labor unions which were groups of workers who made a deal with business to get better payments and better working conditions. Another problem with child labor during the Progressive Era was that they worked short hours of 8 hours a day and they also had no sick days when they were working in the factories. Another problem with child labor during the Progressive Era was…

Robbie VanDerzee 4th Investigation of the Tragic Hero Persona in (John Proctor) – the Crucible The development of a persona is profoundly dependent upon his/her, triumphs, failures, blunders, and maturation; in which the character may gradually improve the condition of his/her decisions. The character further advances his/her affluence upon the relationships which are sequentially created as a direct result of his/her decisions. In the short play, The Crucible, (1953), Miller asserts that John…

Henrietta Dugdale was a radical and innovative advocate of women's rights (suffragette) . She initiated the first female suffrage society in Australia. She was devoted to the feminist cause, and fought tirelessly for women to achieve equal social, legal and political privileges with men. She thought that progress of Australia as a democratic country was only achievable through reason and the co-operation and equality of both genders, and partly due to her relentless campaigning, lived to see…

One of the major themes that developed progressivism was women’s rights and suffrage. As women of the working class in the progressive era, they fought for their rights to receive the same wages as men, improved working conditions, and shorter working hours. Women protested against unequal pay and poor working conditions by going on strike. One of the organizations that influenced these strikes was the Women’s Trade Union League who organized working women into unions. In 1909 the International…

highly detailed descriptions and ornate diction that is so common of Poe’s preceding prose writings. However, “The Lighthouse” shares similar themes, such as isolation and paranoia, with numerous Poe stories. These themes are especially evident in “The Fall of the House of Usher”, “The Pit and the Pendulum”, and “The Tell-Tale Heart”. The diary format is also similar to “The Balloon Hoax” and “MS. Found in a Bottle”. All of these stories, while differing immensely in content and plot, could help…

The film animation of Tell Tale Heart was a great adaptation of the story by Edgar Allen Poe because it matched the tone of the story. The adaptation used the narrator to match the tone of the characters being presented. The abstract animation gave the story a lot more power. Poe stresses insanity of the mind and mental illnesses in majority of his work. The story itself was more abstract on how descriptive the character was in describing the old man and his feeling towards him. The environment…