Grammatical mood

It’s common for readers and critics of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: A Biography to immediately categorize her novel as a loose interpretation of a biography. In fact, analyzers and historians have proved the connections between her novel’s characters, as well as, its events. , The parallelism even stated in the title as a biography. However, it is worth arguing that writing a holiday biography was neither Woolf’s first nor only intention. A thorough analysis presents a theme of sexual ambiguity to…

Structural Techniques Structure in a novel can improve the story to make it a more important story. The structure in the stories help make them become a form of literary fiction. In the stories The Things They Carried and Love Medicine, the authors use multiple different structure techniques to help improve their stories. These techniques make the story interesting to read and make the characters much more relatable. But, the techniques make the stories more complicated and therefore more…

“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides…” – C.S. Lewis. Literary fiction authors strive to engage and intrigue their audiences. In order to do this they tell stories with well-developed elements. The seven main elements of fiction are: plot, character development, point-of-view, setting, theme, symbolism and style. Including these elements and developing them within a story, helps to keep stories…

Learning to write psychological reports is an essential component of a psychologist’s academic career. Throughout my brief career working in clinics I thought I had completed an adequate amount of clinical writing, and therefore I felt writing psychological reports would not be a difficult task. However, after completing my first report, I quickly realized I was wrong. The process of writing a psychological report is a thorough and complicated task. After writing a total of five reports, I have…

To ask, “What is a person?”, one must take into consideration the weight of the question. It is often implied that in being a person, one is entitled to certain moral protection and moral assessment. But then, to what limitation shall we set for the classification of an entity as a person? To define a person as a biological synonym to the term human being would restrict the definition from encompassing future or past entities that may display characteristics deserving of not being treated as a…

As revealed by his speech immediately following Macduff’s flight to England, Macbeth, the newly crowned King of the Scots, acts spontaneously, without serious rational thought. In the “Castle of Macduff” speech (Act IV.i 144-156, Macbeth decides to fully discharge any previous ability to reason. Immediately, he challenges “Time” (allegorical figure), which he sees as an adversary, trying to stop him from ever acting on his thoughts. Furthermore, he uses the specific diction of “dread” and…

The set is clean and empty; it is a blank canvas. There are plain colours on stage, whether it be just a white light, or a light blue. There is someone on stage. They are not female; nor are they male. They just are. This is THE CHARACTER. THE CHARACTER is in a limbo of sorts. THE CHARACTER did not mean to pass away -- they did not want to pass away. The mystery to the audience, however, is how did THE CHARACTER pass away. All we know, as the audience, is that the character is not ready to come…

Many people migrate to the United States every year to achieve the famous American Dream. The dream being that, “if you work hard and play by the rules, you should be given a chance to go as far as your God-given ability will take you”(Lareau, Annette). Nonetheless society does not take into account many circumstances that could alter or influence the chances of a individual in the pursuit of the American Dream. Some of these circumstances being gender, class and the particular traditional…

In the novel, The Things They Carried, the author, Tim O’Brien, purposely places the stories out of chronological order in order for readers to fully feel the impact and importance of the stories and make them come to life. He begins by writing tales as if they were real and later admits they were simply stories made up to keep the dead alive. A particular story that stood out was the piece surrounding Curt Lemon. Towards the beginning, there is a story of how Bob Kiley wrote a letter to Curt…

I personally tell you with confidence that I never agreed others sadness from unbearable loss of a valued person. On behalf of my part it used to be compassion. As soon as this happened to me, when my valued aunt died, I understood all individuals who lost someone they valued. There are definitely no appropriate words to label this pain, at least none used on this world. This intolerable pain which discouraged you apart, which is like a gap on your heart. And which create tears run down your…