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The Struggle of Today’s Arab Youth At a time when the western world and all the freedoms enjoyed in it are a tap or click away; the struggle for Arab youth is an entirely foreign one to previous generations. Arab youth are struggling with a crisis of their learned identity clashing severely with the world they see in mass culture, a free world they desperately want to live in and be a part of. Access to the Internet, technology and the resultant rapidly amplified globalization has made their…

Although, you abandon him knowing well that he was from a low class who did not guarantee you a bright future. You are married to the one you do not truly love though, you say you love him, yet you are only with him for the money and to keep your high social status in place to ensure you have a good future. Is it so bad to love someone only for financial…

effects lead the person to believe that they are unimportant and that they are incapable of living a normal life. The difference between feeling sad and being in a state of depression sparks major differences physically and mentally. In Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, the character of Heathcliff suffered with depression, which created a domino effect that inflicted pain not only to himself, but also to all the other characters he interacted with, and his depression became the essential cause…

Dracula and Wuthering Heights: Did They Conform? Both the novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte and Dracula by Bram Stoker conform to the societal norms of their time but not in a direct way. The characters in Wuthering Heights like Catherine for example, do make decisions like marrying Edgar Linton instead of Heathcliff which is a reasonable decision as she wants to keep her status and be rich. The characters in Dracula, especially the females, conform to society as they do not meddle in…

published in 1847 by Charlotte Bronte. The same year, Wuthering Heights was published by Emily Bronte (of course, under their respective pseudonyms- Currer and Ellis Bell). It seems there were more things in common with these books than just the sisters who wrote them. The characters and themes are shared between the two classics. Gothic elements, like the presence of ‘something more’. The supernatural. But, where Wuthering Heights contained explicit proof of the supernatural with Catherine’s…

From early on in the novel, readers recognize Victor as an individual of high intellect and ambition who yearns to break fundamental institutional boundaries stating, “Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.” (Shelly, 36). Many readers,…

too simple and boring, not realistic of the pain and sorrow associated with this concept of love. Many times, fate leads people down a path separate from our intended plan, but sometimes love falls short of our intended purpose. In both, Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte, and Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet, the theme is love, and the chaos or unhappy ending in many people 's stories. So, the characters Romeo and Heathcliff, share many differences and similarities in their social standing,…

instinctual action that persuades a corrupt mind, often leading to a person committing criminal acts. Commonly seen in literature, revenge has driven an abundance of stories such as Hamlet, The Count of Monte Cristo, and Wuthering Heights. In the case of Wuthering Heights, there are a myriad of major themes, but revenge seems to be preeminent in leading the characters to their fates. Bronte shows us through the character, Heathcliff, that the ending self-injury of revenge may be worse than the…

In our reality, storms are violent, turbulent and windy collections of forceful power. In writing, they are a strong and substantial metaphor for a feeling or situation with all the destructing and dominant force of a storm. In Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s “Crime and Punishment” there are many different aspects of stormy weather packed into the novel, each one specifically expressing something explicit to its subject. These stormy metaphors and similes show that Dostoevsky shows the somber chaotic…

Hamlet is a revenge tragedy play written by Williams Shakespeare. The play is all about revenge; many characters are seeking revenge of other characters with different reason and motives. In every revenge tragedy, there should be a ghost that asks for revenge. The three major themes that most of the characters are involved in are revenge, madness and spying. The three themes are related to each other, while revenge was the reason behind madness and madness was the reason behind spying. To make…