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English analysis essay For my analysis essay I chose both a poem and a song. I chose Invictus, a poem by William E. Henley, and “This is me”, an original song from the upcoming movie The Greatest Showman, performed by Keala Settle. Both the song and the poem revolve around the idea that, no matter what life throws at you, no matter what other people say, no matter what happens, you can choose to keep going and hold your head up. You are the master of your fate and the captain of your soul. I…

“A mean submissive passion is conveyed” when passionate love usurps Angellica’s pride (Behn, 5.1.279). With this imagery, Angellica expresses her upset at her heart’s betrayal of feeling love towards Wilmore. The word “mean” demonstrates a harsh and relentless perception of how love wrongs her; it forces her to relinquish her independency and pride by making her submit to that passion. Love thus tyrannizes Angellica and creates a sour interpretation of the idiom “Love conquers all.” With this…

Byron uses the image of the gondola as a synecdoche for the city of Venice. No other symbol fully encapsulates the fluidity and restlessness of the city, nor the pervasive intermixing of life and death that characterises Venice so fully. This is particularly true of Beppo, in which the gondola functions as a demonstration of the thin boundaries between the two seemingly antithetical states of life and death in Venice. The connection between the gondola and Venice is established in the opening…

How does a play about a bastard, orphan, son of a whore go on and on grow into more of a phenomenon? Lin Manuel Miranda changed Broadway in 2015 with his musical Hamilton. Inspired by a biography by Ron Chernow about the life of Alexander Hamilton, Miranda went to work on what might be the most influential musical of the decade. Miranda, in creating his work, had to work through the constraints, find the exigence, and establish the audience for writing a Broadway musical while also making it…

Saying the word “Macbeth” in a theater is the equivalent of walking under a ladder or looking into a broken mirror. The bad omen originates when the actor playing Lady Macbeth in the original production in 1606 died forcing Shakespeare to replace him. An article by Laura Schumm testifies that “in another 17th-century production, held in Amsterdam, the actor playing King Duncan was allegedly killed in front of a live audience when a real dagger was used in place of the stage prop…

The author of this fantastic book is Terry Teachout, who is the drama critic of the Wall Street Journal, the chief culture critic of Commentary, along with being the author of "Sightings" an arts column for the Saturday Journal. Teachout had multiple reasons for writing this book as he states in pages 380-382 "One of the purposes of this book is to explain to the new generation why he knows of no man for whom I had more admiration and respect. Also to people like my mother and many of his other…

Have you ever said or done something that you regret? In The Tragedy Of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, there are many mistakes made by both families. Sometimes a mistake can be looked at as way to grow and other mistakes are so severe that they can not be fixed. The mistakes that Lord Capulet and Lord Montague made costed the lives of Romeo and Juliet, two precious souls they could never get back. Lord Capulet, the father of Juliet, and Lord Montague, the father of Romeo, caused the…

Satire is a humorous way to criticize people’s thoughtless behavior, and it is generally everywhere (1). From literary works to late-night comedy shows, satire is very unavoidable. An exceptional example of satire is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. Twain is a satirist which means that his works contain numerous uses of satire. Because Twain is a satirist and used many different satirical devices, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a superlative example of a satirical…

There are authors throughout history that write such unique pieces of literature, that their names are spoken of in all literature-based classes. One of these authors that gained fame by creating works that stand out, is Robert Browning. There are many attributes that brought fame to the Browning name, but his mastery of the dramatic monologue is what defines his style of writing. “Browning exploited the dramatic mode at every period of his career, and is the most ambitious and successful writer…

In the books The Outsiders and The Lord of the Flies, Hinton’s and Golding’s approaches to the themes of challenges, choices, conformity all contrast. For example, in The Outsiders, Hinton’s approach to challenges contrast Golding’s plot and the way they affect the story. One of the challenges Ponyboy faces is the fact that his parents are dead and his oldest brother, Darry, is supporting the family. On page 3, Ponyboy says, “Since Mom and Dad were killed in an auto wreck, the three of us get to…