Scott Adkins

An Analysis on Jay Gatsby as the Epitome of the American society in the 1920s F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby is a novel that focuses on the lives of Americans who belong to the upper class in society in New York set in the 1920s. The 1920s, better known as the Roaring Twenties, was the era characterized by a number of positive and negative outcomes that highly influenced the United States of America. This was the era of economic prosperity, the rise of consumerism, the popularization of Jazz…

By introducing him as a special character type, Williams points out one of the autobiographical elements in the play, and that is his own alcohol and drug abuse during the 1960’s. Another dominant character in the play is Brick’s father, Big Daddy, who represents a type of a rich landowner, and embodiment of American Dream. Through his character Williams shows how the American society has forfeited all values in the temple of the most popular value in the world, money. He expresses his burning…

Human personality naturally changes over time. Sometimes it is sudden but more often it is a gradual change. Character development is practically a must have of good fictional narrative writing. It usually happens gradually as it does in nature to make the writing realistic but Roald Dahl uses striking changes in character personality to create an incredibly intriguing character. Mary Maloney in the short story “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl experiences major, instantaneous…

When one fails to accomplish a task or goal they aspired to achieve, often, they strive to redeem themselves. Through the tough obstacles and hindrances, only the ones with exceptional grit eventually reach redemption. The novella The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway, illustrates the idea of redemption throughout the story. The Old Man and the Sea is an ambiguous novel about a fisherman named Santiago, who hadn’t caught a fish in 84 days so he goes out into the ocean for a few days to…

“Well, Gentleman, how can we arrange to drink less tonight?” said Pausanias to the group of men at Agathon’s house. For a second night in a row, the gentleman came over to discuss and mingle or have a symposium of sorts. The topic for that night’s conversation was going to be on love, and each man around the room was going to give an account. One important speech given halfway through was given by Eryximachus, a doctor. Throughout his account, we are reminded of his craft many times and he then…

Self Absorbed Humanity (An analysis of the messages from Musée des Beaux Arts by W. H. Auden) “The rise of selfishness was apparently irreversible” (Star). Indeed, modernity has many faults, one being selfishness, and it is on the rise. Not only in the United States, but the whole world’s population, is comprised of very egotistical individuals. Only caring about what happens to them, what their needs are. The modern individual has the mindset of it’s not my problem, or out of sight out of…

Background Information: Jesse Hilton Stuart- (August 8, 1906- February 17, 1984): Jesse Hilton Stuart was one of the more remarkable and original writers in American literature. Amazingly prolific, with more than sixty books in a variety of genres, Stuart produced work that was largely uneven. It has been as much admired by a broad popular audience as it has been maligned, or ignored, by the mainstream of literary opinion. Born on August 8 1906, the second of seven children. Though his parents,…

1. Thesis statement a. The 1998 version of The Parent Trap is a soundtrack film with many nostalgic aspects in the music, which changed the way audiences viewed this version of the film compared to the original 1961 version. 2. Use of nostalgia in film a. “As texts move through history, they encounter new audiences, are placed in new contexts, or gather new historical and cultural resonances. Thus, the political and social function of texts’ nostalgia inevitably change.” (Dwyer, 2015) i. This…

Bridging the Gap Between the Rich and the Poor The Outsiders is a very well-known novel written by the author S. E. Hinton in 1967. The book follows the story of two conflicting gangs named the Socs and the Greasers who are separated by their positions in society. There are countless themes and main ideas throughout the book which teens can easily relate to, including themes of isolation, violence, innocence and even love. The Outsiders mainly talks about the theme of Society and Class; how the…

A life in America All human beings have desires and aspirations that they try to fulfill through the efforts they make in their lives, but which they almost never achieve since there are many obstacles that prevent them from acquiring the results of these ambitions even if they strive to achieve it. The interesting thing is that many of these people risk their lives to obtain the fruits that they are supposed to gather from their tree of dreams and desires with the intention of…