Verse-chorus form

“Then they came to the tree from when Okonkwo’s body was dangling and they stopped dead,” (Achebe 207). This shows us that Okonkwo made himself look “soft” and not like the tough person he said he was because of the fact that he technically gave up on himself. This not only had a negative impact on him, but the clan as well. There were many things that Okonkwo did to show that he was not a leader, but showed that he was a weak person. Some of these things were he blocked out his emotions almost…

and independence defies the quiet role that society expects females to undertake. Both the chorus alone and Clytemnestra address the role of women in…

Shakespeare in Hamlet act V scene 2 reveals many aspects of the human nature, along with the divinity which shapes the path of our journey. Thus, Hamlet believes that things are meant to happen will be going to happen and no one can avoid it. Men create problems and make harmful plans for others, but there is a divine power which curves your path different than other’s plan, yet bad experiences created by others can make a tremendous mental impact on the person. In Act V scene 2, the beginning…

during which the chorus entered the play dancing and singing and also explaining to the audience the context of the story and what happened just before the action started. Then came the episode, the most important part of the tragedy because it is where most of the plot happened. Nevertheless, it is rather a dialogue between the actors or an actor and the chorus than actual action. There was on average between three and five episodes, each of them followed by a stasimon in which the chorus…

young and that’s her fate. Telling everything ahead of time makes the audience lose the element of surprise/life being loss. It makes the audience feel strong emotion toward Antigone from the start. The Chorus in Jean Anouilh's Antigone is very much different from Sophocles’ version. As said the chorus opens the play with a long explanation of background of the characters and the events of the play. In Sophocles’ Antigone, the audience would've known these details. Anouilh seems to be narrating…

Are stories even more than what we know; just a fairytale that has no meaning? In the beginning of Salman Rushdie’s novel, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, a question arises from the character of Mr. Sengupta, “What’s the use of stories that aren’t even true?” (Rushdie 20). Throughout the story, there are many thoughts in which we can find the answer to this question. Many people may say that there is no use for stories that aren’t real in reason of they do not help us in our daily lives. What…

In 1988 author Salman Rushdie wrote and published The Satanic Verses, causing outrage in the Islamic community due to the perceived criticism of Allah. Because of this, a fatwa was issued against him by Ruhollah Khomeini and he was forced into hiding, separating him from his his family. During his absence he wrote the book Haroun and the Sea of Stories dedicated to his son Zafar, however by establishing an allegory within the novel, Rushdie transforms a children's fantasy, into a platform to…

Artemis, “a goddess of chastity, virginity, the hunt, the moon, and the natural environment [6].” This play is different from other writers during this time because it had three characters Agamemnon, Clytemnestra and Cassandra, and in addition the chorus, to add to the…

Kings can negatively affect everyone around them. The actions of Eteocles and Polynices greed for the throne leads to them killing one another in battle. This leads to Antigone and the tragedies that occurred there. In the lines 552-554 where the chorus said, “Xeres who’s sent them to their destruction! Xeres! It was a dreadful, mindless mistake to take our men aboard those ships!” it is shown that the blame is placed on Xeres for their…

This was something far from Walt Whitman’s time gaining him lots of attention. Free verse is defined as poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter and so that is what he did. It was “new, unusual kind of poetry-stripped of rhyme and meter flowing in a free verse.” (Padgett 139) This poetry he invented himself, “he is acknowledged as the innovator.” (Martin 39). As one critic writes describing his poetry, “a short line…