Love-shyness

Priestley's “An Inspector Calls” is a dramatic play that investigates the case of a poverty-stricken girl, Eva Smith, who commits suicide. A rich family, the Birlings, and Gerald Croft are inspected by Inspector Goole to find their link to the death of Eva. Each character has a different reaction when they discover they are responsible for Eva’s death, which reveals their personality traits of egocentricity, denial, and naivety; hence, the personality traits show some of the attitudes of wealthy…

and characters show. Introduction A unknown person once said, “ One of the hardest lessons in life is letting go. Whether it’s guilt, anger, love, loss, or betrayal. Change is never easy. We fight to hold on and we fight to let go.” This is incredibly shown in multiple occasions throughout the book Walk Two Moons. The characters go through loss, love, betrayal, and hate. They learn to let go. However this is not the only theme within the story. In the story Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech,…

to focus on the most important symbols, do a characterization of the father, look at the relationship between the son and the father and interpret the short story. The horses are an important but not so clear symbol. The horse signifies the lack of love that it tries to show but the son and the father just ignores. They show the…

he Future is determined by one’s action in the present, So when given a chance to look at the future, people will want to come back to the present, and change their actions for a better future. In the novella A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Scrooge, the main character, is a wicked and grumpy man to start with. As four ghost visits him, with the ghost of future as the most influential, Scrooge becomes a caring, joyful man. While the all the ghosts are important in the development of…

know something that others don’t. Situational irony is when when the opposite of what you expect to happen, happens. During the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hermia and Lysander were in love with each other when a major event happened and changes how they felt about each other. Also, a fairy queen fell in love with an ordinary Athenian named Bottom when he had an ass head. Isn’t that ironic? A Midsummer Night’s Dream has three different…

In Anton Chekhov’s short story ‘Heartache’ the main character, a cabby called Iona Potapov, feels painfully alienated since he thirsts for talk but nobody is willing to listen to him. He is desperately looking for someone to share his sorrow with in order to ease his heartache. However, everyone the cabby comes across, no matter their age or the social class they belong to, are so indifferent and heedless of his pain. His loneliness is a result of his sons' recent death and a lack of people to…

More importantly, we are shown how Scrooge’s love of money has stripped him of his love for his family and his appreciation for the world. In Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, the theme of greed is explored. The first time we are exposed to greed is when Ebenezer refuses to give his long-term clerk, Bob Cratchit the…

from the pain and agony of men; she has no problem hurting anyone’s hearts to execute her cruel revenge. Miss Havisham objectifies Estella into an attractive individual which leads to Estella being pursued by Pip. However, she trains Estella not to love anyone, eventually causing men to face adversity. “I am what you have made me. Take all the praise, take all the blame; take all the success, take all the failure; in short, take me.” (323) Miss Havisham has been a self-centered person and her…

In the film Million Dollar Baby Maggie Fitzgerald was brought up with no father in a poor house where there was no love and care for each other. Throughout the film it shows us how Maggie is lonely through the way the lighting, sounds and language are used such as having dark lighting for whenever Maggie is alone at home or when she is working and also have music which…

Written in 1915 by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland is a turn-of-the-century feminist utopian fiction about an all female society discovered by three male travelers in an isolated part of South America. Van, Terry, and Jeff come to discover the highly advanced civilization of Herland and can’t seem to believe that no men live there;after over a year of living with the women, both Van and Jeff come to see and respect the value of true womanhood, but Terry fails to abandon his…