The Great Debaters

Romeo and Juliet is a play about star-crossed lovers whose parents have been fighting for decades. The play fits into the tragedy genre because as they try to be together, Romeo and Juliet happen to make things worse, resulting in death of many people. At the time the play was written, the father of a woman generally picked who the daughter was to marry. With Juliet wanting to marry Romeo, it was against her father’s wishes. This paper will be analyzing act 3 scene one and how it plays as a…

Comparative Essay “Telephone Conversation” by Wole Soyinka was written in 1962, set in London. Soyinka is a Nigerian playwright who was the first African that won the noble for literature in 1986. Few years later, “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou was written in 1978 set in the American Slums of Harlem. Angelou is an educator, and civil rights activist. Together both poems explore the themes of prejudice and racial discrimination. “Telephone Conversation” explores the idea of racial prejudice…

One of the outcomes of the workings of desire is lack of fulfilment and building tension which can lead to the destruction of the subject. In “The Rich Boy” Anson hunter does not marry Paula, but keeps her in his mind as his ideal. By doing so he prolongs the duration of his desire. He is able to function as a successful businessman. When she dies he is broken, all his buoyancy and vitality is transformed “into the fussy pessimism of a man of forty” (RB: 164). The belief that the object of…

Scott Fitzgerald utilizes the women’s suffrage movement into his writing such as, The Great Gatsby. This is because the reader can recognize the similar characteristics of women to the female characters in the novel. For example, Myrtle represents how women acted before their rights because she does not care how she is treated. On page 37…

Romesh Gunesekera’s Reef (1994) explores the coming to consciousness of Triton, the protagonist, who enters Mr Salgado’s household as a servant and experiences a range of self-realizations as he matures under Mr Salgado’s tutelage. Their master-servant relationship is initially clearly defined within this dichotomy, but begins to shift when Mr Salgado accords Triton with a sense of self-worth which he never possessed, complicating his position as a marginalised figure. When Miss Nili, Mr…

A stable income and a nice family is usually the picture that pops into people’s heads when discussing the American Dream. The American Dream idea plays a major role in the novel Of Mice and Men and the play A Raisin in the Sun. Because the American Dream plays a huge role in the pieces, all of the main characters have their own American Dream. The effects of having an American Dream to chase and then losing the dream are different on the relationships between characters in Of Mice and Men…

The individuals we surround ourselves with in our life often have an influential sway on our behaviour and motivations. Willy Loman in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman is no exception to the impact others have on our lives, however the people in Willy’s life do not influence him positively, but rather act as people for him to blame despite his faults being only his own. The people in his life, the secondary characters to his tragedy, all work to provide better depth and perception of Willy…

Since the 1970s, the impact of colonialism and post-colonialism on Britain's cultural identity and its current influence on the country is one of the most beloved topic for contemporary British authors. Zadie Smith is not an exception. In White Teeth, we discover the lives of diverse characters, all sharing this non-Britishness in a cosmopolitan London. From the very beginning, this novel deals with multiculturalism. However, one can wonder if White Teeth is more a novel about multicultural…

The book “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton is a great book to analyze. The narrator of the book is the main character whose name is Ponyboy Curtis. Ponyboy, his brothers, and their close friends are greasers and their enemies are the socs. They are divided by their socioeconomic status. Ponyboy is a 14-year old boy whose life has been turned upside-down after the death of his parents and having to live with his oldest brother, Darry, who is 20 years old. His life turned even worse when he ran away…

Many of us have had an animal at some point in their life in which they loved and adored and would absolutely hate to lose. In the Budweiser 2015 Super Bowl commercial, the company portrays a relationship similar to this, between a farmer, a dog, and horse to try to persuade their audience to buy more of their products. In the commercial, Budweiser shows the devastation a farmer goes through as he has lost his dog and is unsure if he will ever see his again. This relationship is shown in the…