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Sophocles’ Antigone communicates the desire for power and the struggle that erupts between Antigone and Creon who is her uncle and King of Thebes. Both characters dissent from each other in the way that Antigone’s brother Polynices is to be buried. Creon and Antigone, being consistent in their morals, are stubborn individuals. At the conclusion…

The book Night took place in the 1940s during the horrific World War II. A young boy named Elie Wiesel once lived in Sighet, a city in Romania. He began to tell us his journey through the years of concentration camps he was forced to live in. In the first chapters in the book, Elie…

In the book, 1984 written by George Orwell, it is based on the how the government is able to control its people. The idea of propaganda is used immensely due to the community being “discourse”. Propaganda is defined as “information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution,…

Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen are two novels that show the different class structures and ranks of society during the 19th century. Throughout the novels the theme of marriage is portrayed because it often determines a women’s success. Jane Austen’s novels took place in a time when women relied on…

Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me, illuminates the unending fear of living as a Black person in America. Instead of regurgitating old and modified policies that can supposedly remedy the devaluing of Black Americans, Coates uses pragmatism to reach his readers, refusing to pacify the truth of the historical cycle of Black oppression. Coates’…

Mark Twain’s classic American novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, presents an often overlooked topic of moral development. Huckleberry Finn experiences Kohlberg’s stages of moral development of pre-conventional, conventional, and post-conventional. At the beginning of the novel, Huck is seen as conventional as his morals are punishment-obedience based. As the story continues, Huck switches to…

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is one of the most popular literary works the world has seen. Huck, the main character, is on an adventure in search of freedom and the truth behind societal morality. The author’s biography is a big part of how this novel was written. I will discuss the…

In the quest for the American dream numerous things can be lost, this is reflected in the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and the play Death of a Salesman by Author Miller. Both of these works exhibit the lengths that a few people will go to so as to accomplish the cliché…

“Why I Wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “The Yellow Wallpaper” written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and “The Road not Taken” written by Robert Frost have both similar literal movement such as realism. Many different literacy movements were going on some authors stayed with the same style others changed because it was the new thing to…

The novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë explores the life of a young girl and her journey through adolescence and maturation in a patriarchal society. Brontë wrote this novel during the Victorian Era where a patriarchal society was a reality for her, thus making this novel more authentic. Brontë shows how patriarchal dominance can affect…