Harold Bloom

The desire for freedom and independence are two things that all people want at some point in life no matter their religion, gender, race, or personal beliefs. These freedoms have been fought for though feminist movements, racial equality movements, and almost every other minority fighting for rights. As time has gone on, these movements and people within them continue to break ground on new rights for these groups. The feminist push for independence is one of the oldest movements in these…

For my book review I read the book Shakespeare And The Problem Of Meaning written by Norman Rabkin. This book was published in 1981 by the University of Chicago Press. In this book Rabkin looks at several Shakespeare plays including The Merchant of Venice, Henry V, and The Tempest as well as many others. Rabkin uses these to support his argument that the plays do mean something more than can be conveyed by description alone. He shows that there are many complex paradoxical elements present in…

Ántonia’s spirit made an impact on Jim, causing him to return to visit her as an adult. “I told Ántonia I would come back, but life intervened, and it was twenty years before I kept my promise” (My Ántonia 175). Life is personified to intervene, and given as a reason for why Jim was unable to return and visit Ántonia. Ántonia was so important to Jim because of her success, that he made a point of returning to visit her. “Not only the progenitor of a large, vigorous family, she is also the source…

If you were to read Hamlet to someone who was completely ignorant of the play and to whom Hamlet or Shakespeare were, what would they think of it? A tragic, captivating play filled with adultery, the deaths of eight, a mad woman, and supernatural encounters. Not knowing the play was a work of the literary genius known as Shakespeare, you would be lead to believe the play would be another tragedy filled with blood and death from which the plot was centered on; redemption. If this were true, would…

Harold Bloom suggests that the word 'temple' refers to the aim of the novel which is to "build a structure of beliefs" (40). The work, Walker described in her book, Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writers Activism would be less about the relationships of human…

In the interactive oral, we discussed the theme of oppression through the character’s actions and the motif of dreams. The contextual elements such as prolepsis, and the significance of the chronologically displaced plot were briefly discussed. The theme of oppression was extensively discussed. Deliberating Parmenides’ statement on lightness and weight deepened my understanding of the motive behind the seemingly irrational and absurd decisions made by the characters. For instance, upon my…

lived in an integrated neighborhood, but did not become fully aware of the racial divisions until she was in her teens. After graduating from Lorain High School, Morrison went to Howard University, where she majored in English. In 1958, she married Harold Morrison, an architect from Jamaica, and they later had two kids. In 1993, she received the Nobel Peace Prize in Literature, making her the first African American woman to be selected for that award. Morrison is now in her 80’s and she…

First, Captain Beatty misquotes the Constitution of the Unites States stating “We must all be alike…not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal” (Brown). Beatty is actually quoting the Declaration of Independence not the Constitution. Bradbury emphasizes “the power of language and the tyranny of its miss use, censorship, or absence” (Brown). The second point illustrated by Captain Beatty was that the government did not organize censorship but various…

Langston Hughes: A Harlem Man A quote by Langston Hughes says – “An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose. (Hughes (1926))” As one of the most persistent figures, poets, during the Harlem Renaissance Langston Hughes’ work reached a wide range of viewers. He wanted to “express contemporary Harlem by borrowing from the ‘current of Afro-American popular music . . . jazz, ragtime, swing, blues, boogie-woogie, and be-bop.’…

ENGL 1302 Corinne Tatum Scott J Phifer 10/30/2016 Fahrenheit 451-Use of style, tone, and language Use of styles The style is a way in which the writer writes or a technique an author uses in his techniques. The style may vary from one writer to another writer upon one's syntax as illustrated by Fahrenheit 451.The novel clearly shows the concerns of the time. There are various kinds of styles the author have used to pass his information using the techniques. These methods include argument,…