Fall of Constantinople

As one can see in the speech given by Sojourner Truth in 1851, “Ain’t I a Woman”, she believes that women’s right and, even more specifically, African American women’s right are extremely important. In her speech presented in Akron, Ohio, she takes numerous points of her opponents and finds counterclaims to rebut them. She uses points such as how she has been treated compared to how other women have been treated, the lack of intelligence the men assume she has, and she even poses the question of…

The classic, honored, and gothic genre author, Edgar Allan Poe is known for his famous works like The Raven, A Tell-Tale Heart, The Fall of the House of Usher, Annabel Lee, and The Cask Amontillado. Some of these stories and poems style could have been influenced by Poe’s past. Before Poe even turned three both of his parents, two professional actors, died. From there he was taken in by Frances and John Allan in Richmond, Virginia. Thenceforth, he was sent to the best boarding schools and later…

Man has never been a lone wolf, but a nomad, always traveling in packs because without others Man cannot survive. Without cooperation, Man cannot live because life is not self-sustainable. For those who attempt to live on their own, they realize the hardships of being lonesome the hard way. A man who believes that one can be self-sufficient is a man with a distorted vision of reality. Therefore, McCandless’ distorted vision of reality forces him to abandon civilization and seek self-fulfillment…

Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” is a novel with a plot immersed in social and political themes, allusions, and messages. Most notably, the novel can be interpreted as an exposition on British imperialism in Africa. At the time of its original publication, “Heart of Darkness” exposed a Western audience to African communities that, while fictitious, were quite representative. Most Western accounts of Africans in the late 19th century and early 20th century characterized Africans as being…

Moral Courage - Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln fought for the equality of all people. He was a proponent of women and in 1836 fought for their right to vote (Stewart 1). Lincoln displayed great moral courage throughout his presidency and life, as did the Jewish population throughout the Holocaust. Both Lincoln and the Jews suffered a similar fate with each being killed prematurely. Lincoln was assassinated and many of the Jews were killed in the concentration camps. Lincoln's courage has…

Gabriel Garcia Marquez is famously known for his magical realism elements in his stories. Marquez uses different elements of magical realism in order to form a story that addresses different aspect that is most difficult and meaningful to the real world. In Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s novel, Love in the Time of Cholera magical realism is quite used in some elements. Love in the Time of Cholera could be argued as a magical realism novel in some way not completely. It has those aspects that are…

A cold and bitter feeling is in the atmosphere on this night. Darkness consumed the small, but promising colony of Massachusetts. A type of night where only those who lurk in the shadows resurface to meet with the black man. Or maybe even a person who has something sinful bearing on their mind, is lurking around as well. This exact depiction of night is the setting for chapter 12, The Ministers Vigil; and the man responsible for the creation of The Scarlet Letter is, “the most significant…

The Gothic Genre and “The Raven” The word “Gothic” usually suggests adolescents in dark makeup and loud music. In literature though, “Gothic” means something much different. The Gothic genre sets itself apart from other literary genres in many ways. Gothic works usually take place in a strange, mysterious setting and have themes of extreme mental and/or physical isolation. The Gothic genre is also known for the sentiment of the frightening unfamiliar, that is also strangely familiar. The…

Suspense. Tension. These two words are often the main feature of gothic literature, both traditional and contemporary. ‘The Signalman’ written by Charles Dickens in the year of 1866 is an example of traditional gothic literature. In contrast to that is Roald Dahl’s ‘Lamb to the Slaughter’, which is written in the year of 1953, is an example of contemporary gothic literature. Both stories create suspense and tension in a different but a similar way. In ‘The Signalman’, imagery, which is symbols…

In the short story “The Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, the narrator commits the heinous crime of murder. The relationship between the narrator and the old man was they liked each other at the beginning, at the middle of the story the old man said that he didn't like narrator's eye which changed the defendants feelings about the old man, at the end you can conclude that Edgar Allan poe did kill the old man. Eger also had hearing voices which drove him crazy which could have led to the murder…