Overland Monthly

Ramon “wanted to produce a magazine that had the flavor of the west but would appeal to a national audience” (Baker). Harte met his expectations and the first issue of Overland Monthly won praise and gained many subscriptions across the nation. The next issue featured Harte’s “The Luck of Roaring Camp” which made the magazine get more interest. “The Luck of Roaring Camp” is set in the 1850s and is about a boy, Tom Luck. Beside the boy’s name luck played a role in many of Harte’s stories. Within a year, Overland Monthly had sold as many copies in the East as it did in California, Nevada, and…

the corner of Marty Street and Santa Fe Drive. The voices of lots of people all mix together in a loud, low hum. The Overland Park Farmers’ Market is flooded. Every once in a while you hear the shrieking of a toddler running through the cold fountain spurting up from the concrete patio break through the hum. Kids sit and draw with chalk on the floor; stepping carefully is a must to avoid little hands. Music notes can be heard floating over the top of the hum. This week’s local band stands center…

As once stated by Bernard Malamud, “The purpose of the writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.” It is a known fact that society is highly influenced by the media and other forms of literature and art that it consumes. Being aware of this, it is the writer’s responsibility to produce work to positively influence society and to prevent its own downfall. Malamud is correct in this statement because it is up to the writer to counteract the negative influences that society consumes.…

The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde, is one of the most amusing and entertaining books to read and just because of the amount of wit and intelligence that can be found in it. Every conversation is a contest on who can make the wittiest comment, though usually won by Lord Henry Wotton. Lord Henry is a master in the art of conversation and uses epigrams to convey his intelligence. Though wit and intelligence play a large role in The Picture of Dorian Gray. Wit and intelligence is shown in…

You have disappointed me.” After his decision, Dorian believes he made an awful mistake, and he must keep the promise of marrying Sibyl. Wilde uses imagery to convey his feelings, “The birds that were singing in the dew drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.” Dorian’s young and gullible views on life have been altered by Lord Henry as depicted after Dorian learns of Sibyl’s death; Dorian is unaffected due to the influence Lord Henry has on him, “Dorian, you mustn’t let this…

A discolored creature of massive build towers over the diminutive, feeble humans, who are immobilized by fear of its menacing glare and mutated frame. Like small mice, the people scamper away from the monster’s presence in disgust of its hideous appearance and fear of its unpredictable behaviors. Now, the creature stands alone, grieving over the pain of its abandonment. Who’s the real monster – man or creature? Since the origins of horror stories, grotesque creatures, like those previously…

Monsters have been involved in society since the beginning of time. A monster is the physical embodiment of everything that humans are afraid of. Monsters are featured in both Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. There is a discrepancy, however, in what makes a man a monster. In both Shelley and Wilde’s novels, it is the creators, not the creations, who are the real monsters. Frankenstein is the culprit of his creation’s evil deeds because he abandoned him at…

Analysis of the Major Conflict in Chapter Twenty of The Picture of Dorian Gray Among numerous of conflicts in the novel that involves the protagonist, Dorian Gray, the most important and crucial one ceases in the last chapter. Many analyze the conflict only on the superficial level and view it as the struggle between Dorian and his decaying Portrait. However, I found that the conflict could be interpreted more deeply and it actually contains multiple level of concepts that the author wants to…

Abstract: The play “Red Oleanders” is first written in Bengali language under the title “RaktaKarabhi”. Tagore conveys the message that the Utilitarian approach and vast industrialization throughout the world would resulting in diminishing human compassion and cause Ecological Imbalance.So he used characters as a metaphor of human instincts such as greed, power, envy, love, trust, and sacrifice. The play Red oleanders is a One-act play which follows the Aristotle’s rules. He fallow’s three…

Michelle Watts 10-22-2017 English Literature since 1800 Second Essay Assignment The Layers of “Goblin Market” Does great art make you feel or make you think? John Ruskin and Walter Pater have different approaches when it comes to art appreciation. The argument by Ruskin is that great art is “received by a higher faculty of the mind” and Pater is convinced that art “is the aim of the true student of aesthetics”. Not only are both schools of thought are correct but must…