Harold Bloom

Ryan Oud Ms. Knoll ENG4UI 10 July 2015 Annotated List of Works Cited Bloom, Harold. Virginia Woolf. New York: Chelsea House, 1986. Print. Bloom’s book is published by a reputable publisher. In the book Bloom offers many critical views of the writings of Virginia Woolf. In the book there is full-length essays by expert literary critics. There is a chronology biography of her life which is easy to read and understand.This will prove to be helpful for both the essay and presentation. Reid,…

The Winding Road to Growth More often than not, society views the young as naive. However, in Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the title character proves to be anything but ingenuous. Thrown into unforeseen and unfavorable circumstances, Huck is forced to establish his own opinions on complex issues at a young age. While Huck’s physical journey carries him far from home, his ethical journey proves to be far more profound. In order to provide insight to Huck’s progressive…

Beowulf, the Old English Epic was widely unknown for centuries to the masses. A select few scholars only knew of its content for centuries. It entails the story of a brave, masculine hero and his depictions of battles against evil entities. The story of Beowulf has influenced our modern culture and society as he is portrayed as an “epic hero”. He is brave, strong, and willing to make everything right. The “epic hero” concept is used to make a character desirable, in many modern productions.…

various critics contending otherwise. Harold Bloom, in his How to Read and Why, quintessentially exalts the notion that literature has one singular purpose and staunchly discredits any literature that does not conform to his contention. Bloom’s answer to the question ‘why study literature’ is quite narrow in that he declares literature must abide a certain didactical purpose, else it is worthless. Praising select authors, and condemning a majority of others, Bloom…

interactions, with severe consequences. Within The God of Small Things, the levels of oppression become evident, especially due to the caste system. Even “The Second Coming” portrays the effect of power as Harold Bloom describes, “the power of ‘The Second Coming’ persuades us of our powerlessness” (Bloom 324). The power that allows havoc in the nightmarish image that Yeats constructs, causes the inhabitants of this world to lose their sense of control as they lack the ability to stop the world…

There are many different themes in these four stories. First, I will be talking about the theme of brotherly love. Brotherly love has some of the characteristics of loyalty, respect, courage, honor and mercy and concern for that other person. It’s not the kind of love you have towards your wife, but the kind you would have towards your closest friends, or your father. You can see these characteristics in each story, with almost all of them apparent in Beowulf between himself and his men. Between…

Hindley does not show any interest in wanting to be associated with Heathcliff, unless he is trying to get revenge from Heathcliff. Harold Bloom tells the reader in his article on Wuthering Heights that, “Hindley, [...] became the master’s favorite and grew to be Cathy 's ally and Heathcliff’s hated enemy” (6). This quote represents the time when Heathcliff is brought home to the family…

First, on the topic of love: Lear’s ignorance of himself results to the tragedy; both Harold Bloom and Stanley Cavell have argued that because of his love to Cordelia, whether an overflowing or avoiding kind, that he fails to keep himself upright. Whether it is a kind of love of overwhelming affection Cavell suggests, or the general love Bloom refers to, what matters is that he lacks self-knowledge of his own love. Epictetus, the stoic, has a moral story about the…

It was rough being African American in a time like the 1940’s, especially in the United States. Langston Hughes, however, knew how to turn those hardships into poetry. Hughes was a strong believer of equality, and he expressed this in his poems. Because he grew up as an African American during the time of segregation in the United States and not only saw but experienced first hand the many acts of unkindness done to African Americans, Langston Hughes’s “I, Too” has a universal theme of racial…

Muszynski 8 Kurt Vonnegut?s War Experiences Expressed in Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut served as a private and an infantry scout in the United States Army during WWII and experienced many terrible, horrifying events. He ended up receiving the Purple Heart because of his valiant efforts during the war as well as for surviving the Prisoner of War camp (P.O.W.) in Dresden, Germany. Dresden has a reputation, because of the bombing that happened there, which is told that this bombing…