Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom, the author of Modern Critical Interpretations of the Great Gatsby, said “Never has symbolism played such a crucial part in the very foundation of a novel as it does in Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece, The Great Gatsby”. According to “Studies in in Literature and Language” of CSC Canada, symbolism emphasises the expression of subjective spirit and personal inner world. Through the symbolism in a work, readers can get insight into the writer’s creative realm. Fitzgerald uses symbolism…

All too often we have seen movies or TV shows about a mutant of some sort, who, because of his looks, assumes that no on will love him, and because of that is angry and hostile. Such story lines are even present in The Beauty and the Beast. Usually, in the end there is a kind lady who saves the monster, proving that she can love, and he can too. However in this story there is only the De Lacey family. The monster watches them though a window where he sees love in the family, but he is rejected…

In the year 1858 Robert Michael Ballantyne released a novel called The Coral Island, in the story, a small group of boys are stranded on an island in the Pacific Ocean and are left to survive with each other until eventually they fight their way back to a proper civilization. In the 1950’s an author named William Golding read that story and believed that that wouldn’t be what would happen to a group of boys with no adults, so he wrote his own take on the story in a novel called Lord of the Flies…

Anna Westbrook Mrs. Joyner Honors English IV 16, December 2015 Frankenstein’s monster; Friend or Foe? Mary Shelley tells a story about a scientist who is infatuated with science and nature, which will soon lead him into danger. Frankenstein, the scientist, creates this “being” at Ingolstadt, bringing it to life. In Shelly’s novel Frankenstein, the appearance of the monster created does not truly show who he appears inside. He shows quality character, human emotions, and superior…

“Witness of the Night”.Bloom, Harold. Elie Wiesel’s Night. Chelsea House Publishers, 2003. Print. Seidman, Naomi. “Elie Wiesel and the scandal of Jewish Rage.”Jewish social studies, Vol 3, No.1,Fall 96, pp.1-19. EBSCOhost, PROXYGSU-abr1. Galileo usg.edu/login?=url=http://search.ebscohost…

Gass, William. "More Deaths Than One: Chronicle of a Death Foretold." New York Magazine 16, no. 15 (11 April 1983): 83–84. Quoted as "More Deaths Than One: Chronicle of a Death Foretold" in Bloom, Harold, ed. Death and Dying, Bloom's Literary Themes. Chelsea House, 2009. Bloom's Literature, Facts On File, Inc, www.fofweb.com/activelink2.asp?ItemID=WE54&WID=103893&SID=5&iPin=BLTDD006&SingleRecord=True. Accessed 29 April 2017. In this article, Gass analyzes the meaning of death in the novel and…

The literary work The Book of J by Harold Bloom presents polygamy in a very open and natural light, describing plural marriage as if it was not an illegal or sinful act but an ordinary act that is accepted: “…Rachel becomes another in J’s line of heroines, commencing with Sarai and Rebecca…”(216). The act of polygamy is not a foreign idea when it comes to this book; although it was a very different time period then now, issues of the moral and basic human rights come to play when discussing the…

The works of playwright William Shakespeare have dominated our cultural imagination over the past four centuries, lending themselves as influences on the English language, popular media, as well as many academic analyses. One such play of Shakespeare’s, Hamlet, has lent itself to a multitude of literary perspectives over the past few centuries. As an example, feminist perspectives have brought into focus the few women characterized in the play, Ophelia and Gertrude, and analyzed the many…

Clash in “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” contains some elements of the Romantic period. The poem deals with ideas about nature, supernatural world, and man’s inner self. On the other hand, R.C. Waterson says that Coleridge’s poem belongs to “no age, but to all the men of all ages” (147). In general, most critics do agree with R.C. Waterson since the poem deals mainly with man and his conflicts. The whole poem is about a seaman and his human experiences at sea.…

Because the family believes Walter made the right choice, one that satisfied everyone, the family become closer and the relationship of the family strengthens. Walter’s choice brought the family together because they finally accepted each other (Bloom). At the end, Walter sacrifices his hopes for the dream and becomes selfless. Because he has sacrificed his dreams, he will start helping the others attain their dreams. For example, by following through with the house plan, he will be able to…