Mark Strand

Caesar and Xenaphon have many similarities as authors, but they make use of different styles to achieve their goals. Caesars account of The Gallic Wars and Xenophon’s Anabasis are both about the respective author’s heroic military adventures. Both were written to win the hearts of readers and give the author credibility after political backlash. However, since Caesar and Xenophon are from different cultures, in different situations, and have different end games. Because of this, the authors use…

language which the deaf can hear and blind can see” (Twain). For many years people in society have discriminated against a person who has a different life: different color, different gender, different beliefs, different cultures, and different morals. Mark Twain was known to be one of the greatest writers of all time but he was also quite a revolutionist. Through his writing he conveys a common ideal in order to enlighten his audience and help them recognize what equality is. Twain recognized…

How is Ones Freedom Achieved? We like to consider ourselves as free but, what does it mean to be free? We believe we are born with freedom but that is not always the case. As we grow up, we realize we are not free and try to give freedom to ourselves... we try to achieve the freedom we want. It is obvious however, that we have more freedom today than anyone did years back because, as years pass, the amount of freedom we have also changes. To illustrate, after having to read some of the literary…

is through literature. One of the authors that has used literature in this way is Mark Twain. He wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to criticize the romanticism that he saw in his own society in the South. In this particular work, Mark Twain uses the characters of Tom Sawyer, the new judge, and Huckleberry Finn to criticize this romanticism through their actions and beliefs. The first notable character that Mark Twain uses is Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn’s childhood friend. Tom Sawyer…

Power Hungry Throughout works of fiction, and real life evidence, humanity has been shown that power can have negative side effects. The psychological effects of elevated status can sometimes take time to establish themselves in the mind. However, some of these effects take very little time to take root. A prime example of this lies within both the factual and fictional interpretation of Julius Caesar in his rise and fall from power. The methods in which Caesar demonstrates the proverb:…

Ernest Hemingway, a classic American novelist, once declared, ““All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.” For many years, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been considered a timeless piece of writing regarding the story of the infamous “American Dream”. However, the story itself is controversial based on its content. The book portrays the racist…

Considered a controversial novel from the moment of its publication, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been accused of being racist and prejudiced repeatedly for over a hundred years. Written by famous American author Mark Twain, the novel portrays the American South before the Civil War. The novel points out, through satire of a society that embraced slavery, that racism is still a problem in an antebellum South. In the novel, a runaway slave named Jim travels with an adolescent companion,…

In William Shakespeare’s play “Julius Caesar” Mark Antony unleashes a powerful speech during Caesar’s funeral, aiming to persuade the people of Rome that Brutus was fallacious to kill Caesar and that they should avenge his death. In Antony’s oration, he argues his case against Brutus by using the rhetorical strategies of Ethos, Pathos and Logos to manipulate his audience to be on his side, rather than Brutus’s side. These three persuasion tools allow his audience to connect with him and he is…

and exhibited her charm, wit, and vast knowledge across many topics. Under this viewpoint, Cleopatra’s beauty did not lead to her success, but rather she achieved it through other means. A primary source, Plutarch, describes when Cleopatra first met Mark Antony. On her journey she took money, gifts, other objects of great wealth, as well as her most valuable trait: her charm. Plutarch states that her beauty was not so remarkable or outstanding, but rather her presence and state of being was…

“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” This quote is attributed to Mark Twain, but isn’t exactly his. Regardless of who said it in the first place, the quote tells us that even if one is missing one of their five senses, they can still sense the power of kindness. In the novel Unwind written by Neal Shusterman, many characters commit acts of kindness that shift the course of the plot in impactful ways. In real life there are individuals who make decisions and…