Prospero

Some people may think that authors don’t have a reason to write, but the truth is most authors have a back story. For example, Edgar Allan Poe’s life was one like no other. His works were reflected in his life by his alcoholism, the death of his loved ones, and relationship of Poe with the rich. Many would say alcoholism played a key role in Poe’s writing. Once Poe got into college, alcohol became a problem causing him to go into debt. Poe quit school less than a year later. A couple years…

Prince Prospero uses his wealth as self-defense to conceal with his fellow superiorities in his abbeys because “The ‘Red Death’ had long devastated the country” ( Poe 1). His narrator 's vagueness leads to confusion, for the country that the unknown plague is destroying…

As Leo Buscaglia says, “Change is the end result of all true learning.” The characters Mrs. Baker, Mai Thi, and Holling all change as they learn throughout their life many things things that will help them through the difficult points of their life. In The Wednesday Wars, Gary D. Schmidt uses the characters to show that for every moment in life, there is something that can be learned. Holling's lessons, which he learned by using Shakespeare's stories, influenced him in his daily life. Holling…

Poe Paper Edgar Allan Poe was widely known as one of the best authors of the Dark Romantics era. The dark and creepy characteristics of his stories and poems presented the characters as sinful in his works and looked into the dark side of the mind. Poe’s works are influential today as they are studied all over the world and used as the basis for the subgenre of the Dark Romantics and what the era of stories and poems really represented. Not only Edgar Allan Poe, but Nathaniel Hawthorne, and…

Through this little thing called life we all try to figure out who we are what we want to be and ultimately what we want to accomplish in life. In the books Catcher in the rye, Into the wild and mask of the red death all these books show a similar theme for the main characters such as understanding society, trying to figure out who they are, and finally death. For Holden in catcher in the rye it's all about him Salinger does a great job on going on and describing the adventure for holden on who…

Over the years, researchers realized that motivation can be classified into two types, which are the intrinsic and extrinsic motivation (Deci & Ryan, 1985). Intrinsic motivational behaviour is considered as a motivation to do a certain tasks for the joy of doing the task itself. Intrinsically motivated individual do certain activity with no obligation or any apparent reward except for the feeling of accomplishment in doing the activity itself. Individuals with intrinsic motivation will…

In Hamlet, Shakespeare only includes two women in the play, they are both close to the main character, Hamlet, who sees both in two completely different ways and therefore treats them differently too, one with cynical love and the other with a regretful hatred. In Hamlet, Hamlet pretends to be crazy because he is plotting against his murderer of an uncle, Claudius, who killed his natural father and married his mother. From the statement of old King Hamlet, about his brother Claudius poisoning…

The Apocalypse, also known as The Rapture, The End, The End of The World, The War between Angels and Demons, or the final destruction of the world can be described in the biblical book of Revelation. For centuries the apocalypse is included in the teachings or imagery of several religions. The apocalypse is usually revealed as a disclosure of knowledge of a dream or vision from a prophet to prophetic, And it plays out in different scenarios or interpretations for religious communities. Religious…

If you ever wondered what people thought about their lives centuries ago then this piece of literature is of your interest. The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men was written by Moderata Fonte and translated by Virginia Cox. The novel portrays the theme of the abuse of women and is written in dialogue to assist with interpreting this message. Moderata’s uncle, Giovanni Niccolò Doglioni, wrote a biography of her called Life of Signora Modesta…

It is called, “The Masque of the Red Robin.” This story is very interesting because it is about a Prince named Prospero who invites people for a ball in his palace. Each room is painted a different color during the ball. The last room is the seventh room which is painted black, and has red windows. Most guest avoid going to the last room. At midnight a guest arrives…