Volume Two

American novelist Patricia Highsmith once wrote in her novel Strangers on a Train, “People, feelings, everything! Double! Two people in each person. There 's also a person exactly the opposite of you, like the unseen part of you, somewhere in the world, and he waits in ambush” (Highsmith.) Duality is simply defined by the Merriam Webster Dictionary, as the quality or state of having two parts. The duality of human nature deeply explores how a person cannot be be good without having the ability…

Venn diagram consists of two cycles that part of them overlaps, and this diagram is used to represent the qualities of Ku Dong-hyeok's character and the different paths that he can choose. In more detail, the one cycle represents the beliefs, ethics and morals that the police officers must have and the other cycle the corruption of the syndicate. The area of the overlap of the two cycles is no other than Ku Dong-hyeok. Now he has good and bad traits as…

Which Literary Classic is Better? The Time Machine and The Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are two pieces of classic literature bound together by the Victorian age. While both stories have underlying themes about the struggle of man, both present them in different ways. The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells, presents its struggle of man as a society where each class of peoples is against each other, being thoroughly influenced by politics of the time. Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case…

Heart of Darkness is a modern novel written by Joseph Conrad. It is one of the finest works of Conrad which shows his power as a writer of great luminosity, passion and complexity. The story Conrad depicts in ‘Heart of Darkness’ is based on the real backdrop that happened during the time of ‘Leopold II of Belgium’. The second king, Leopold II set an eye on Congo and colonized Africa. He brings out the sufferance of the people of Congo under the rule of Leopold II. People were enslaved, exploited…

Introduction Morality is one who conforms and follows the moral standards. The main protagonist named Jean-Batiste Grenouille in the novel Patrick Süskind, Perfume: the story of a murderer, defies such standards. The character is a man obsessed with scent and strives to acquire what he identifies as the “master scent”. In order to obtain such scent Grenouille commences murderous behavior upon young victims, specifically virgin girls as he is lured by the purity in their aroma. Set in 18th…

The novel brings out the character of Mr. Utterson as both an exciting character on one end and a flat and boring character on another end. At the onset of the story, the author describes Mr. Utterson as a ''lean, long, dusty, dreary.' This character creates a balance to and offers a rational perspective on the ''strange case'' that has befell his friend, Dr. Jekyll. It is evident that Mr. Utterson works as a lawyer; though the narrative does not reveal what he does on a daily basis. However, he…

done by the author purposefully for the plot development and to enhance the adventurous mode of the plot. Though a lot have been talked about Dual Brain and some attempts have also been taken to rationalize the fact that human brain is controlled by two hemispheres; one controls the good action and the other bad; so in this case Hyde represents the evil dual of the brain. But by accepting this theory we can’t rationalize the criminal instincts being a normal part of us, rather it would be…

Stevenson uses to catch the reader’s attention and to make the plot interesting. Mr. Hyde is introduced at the very beginning of the book, just like Dr. Jekyll and almost immediately, the writer makes understandable that something is wrong with these two men, but the secrets that hide behind all the strange situations presented in the book, are revealed only at the end of the novel, so secrecy accompanies the reader through the story.…

just completed a multitude of adventures through the forest in England with his great friend, Edward Thomas, someone who too was caught in the middle between two choices: whether or not to enlist in the war or stay home; some say that Frost’s poem had a major influence on Thomas’s decision to actually enlist in the military, he sadly died two years later. Out of all of the themes in this poem, choice is the probably the one that stands out to readers the most. The reasoning behind this is…

actually worsen, the label may be a self-fulfilling prophecy, or the label can act as a stigma. Particular to McMurphy’s case, I believe he would fall into one of (or both of) the first two aspects. Either, one, he had a sliver of mental illness and institutionalizing him merely exacerbated this illness. Or, two, the label of being mentally ill ended as a self-fulfilling prophecy, where mental illness was the underlying etiology of his death. For example, in the most dramatic scene of the film,…