John Frame

In two of Whitman 's poems - 'Virginia - The West ' and 'The Centenarian 's Tale ' - he deviates from his established perspective in the collection, in which "his war scenes could be anywhere, North or South; his heroes are the masses of ordinary soldiers" through presenting the dominant figure of George Washington as central. This approach is one utilised by Melville throughout his own collection of Civil War poetry, as the majority of his poems focus on the factual and historical narratives…

In John Demos’ book A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colony, the author breaks down the long standing conceptions of life in Plymouth Colony that it was a place filled with religious fanaticism and strict social order. As Demos argues, this was not entirely the case. Through his interpretations of surviving colonial records, Demos shows that the colonists were faced with common issues such as: adultery, divorce, murder and even domestic abuse. They also exhibited acts of…

characters were unjustly accused and executed. By the end of the play it is clear that The Crucible portrayed injustice. The sense of power Abigail has is one of the driving forces for the portrayal of injustice in the play. She uses it to try to frame Elizabeth Proctor, and take the pressure off herself. Abigail never thinks about how what she is doing can…

In the novel Of Mice and Men written by John Steinbeck, he purposely exercises the use of color schemes to foreshadow future events. He also uses dialogue, body language, and the setting to express Curley’s wife in many different aspects. The overall first impression of Curley’s wife’s character shows her in an unflattering deposition. Curley’s wife has labels as a “tart” even a “bitch” by all the men working on the ranch (Steinbeck 28 32). A main reason behind the brutality of these words to…

Relationships in society can be portrayed as negative and damaging to others. In three novel masterpieces, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, and Lord of the Flies by William Golding includes the relationships between individuals and others. All of these connections between characters resulted or rooted the countless catastrophes that are present in these books. Violence produced by social relationships in Of Mice and Men, Romeo and Juliet, and Lord of…

In articles I and II of “The Harvest Gypsies”, John Steinbeck describes the migrant workers as ungracious people. But the word he used to describe the workers was “gypsies”. A gypsy is considered people who occasionally travel from place to place and live by seasonal work. Almost like a migrant workers…

Fear; A strong emotions usually caused by worrying about something bad about to take place. Everyone faces fear, some are mild as some very strong. For John Keats, I would categorize his fear as being very strong. Strong enough to write a poem, which, later became one of the richest poems ever written. Looking at his life from childhood, one would wonder, how you could go on without having fear of death. "When I Have Fears," this is a Shakespearean style sonnet with its rhyme scheme, with…

So during the 1614 peaceful period of time, between the colonists and the Algonquian tribes. John Rolfe and Pocahontas, who was captured and converted to Christianity had wed. Rolfe had brought back seeds from his voyage from the West Indies and began the cash crop product of Tabacco back to the colony. In 1617, when Pocahontas died on her way back to England, and her father Powhatan died in 1618. Under Powhatan’s successor, Opechankeno, the Algonquians became more and more angry about the…

in which William meets John Adams a decade prior to his presidency, Holmes includes a footnote where Adams and Thomas Jefferson deliberate on extraterrestrials and the implications their existence would have on religion. Holmes closes this footnote with “this argument would presumably have been satisfactorily concluded the following year, when both Adams and Jefferson died and went to meet the Great Principle” (Holmes 167). The knowledge Holmes assumes the reader has that John Adams was the…

• Respond critically to the use of at least two pieces of dialogue and/or voiceover in the extract. How is each piece used to develop characters or ideas? • Respond critically to the use of lighting in the extract. How does it create mood or develop character/ideas in the extract? How does it manipulate or affect the audience? • Respond critically to the way two film elements work together to create meaning. How do they complement/contrast with each other, and why? • Respond critically to the…