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A hero is revered for the courage and noble ideals they stand by. Heroism plays a vital part in the lives of Beowulf and Sir Gawain. These characters represent what a hero stands for, but their lives as heroes are told differently in their stories. They are both seen to be brave, noble, and skilled…

Your perception becomes your reality is an often-misused phrase, but Fahrenheit 451 brings a realistic touch to the phrase. With the characters of the book achieving a facade of happiness, the world around them crumbles. Throughout the book, Bradbury beautifully lays out his predictions of an anti-intellectualism world with modest jabs at the current world….

Dangerously knowledge is a prominently seen theme in Frankenstein. In Frankenstein we see the search for leaving and knowledge in three major characters, Victor, Frankenstein, Robert Walton, and the creature. From the beginning of time until now the limitless pursuit of knowledge reveals man’s weakness. Modern society provides humans with a wide variety of sources…

The Death of the Salesman, a dramatic play written in 1949, explores the American Dream through Willy Loman and his family. Willy, the protagonist, is 63 years old and has been a traveling salesman all his life. His father was a nomad and roamed across the country in a wagon. His childhood included his father…

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is told from the point of view of Jean Louise Finch known as Scout. She is the daughter of Atticus Finch, a lawyer. As Scout grows she faces a lot of problems and this problem help her prejudice present in the adult world. She has a brother name…

In the Scarlet Letter, light and darkness is one of the main symbols present in the story. In the real world, light is a symbol for joyfulness, hope, and happiness while darkness is a symbol of despair, gloomy, and sadness. In the book, it’s the same concept light represent happiness and darkness represents secrecy and…

The overall message of the novel “In Cold Blood” by Truman Capote is that the naivety of small town life can lead to a fear of the unknown. The village of Holcomb is an isolated town located in the middle of nowhere. The Clutters house is said to be “situated at the end of a…

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view-until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”— To Kill A Mockingbird, is a gothic novel written by Harper Lee. The novel centers around Jean Louise” Scout “ Finch, a young girl learning to navigate the challenges of…

Viktor Frankl was a Psychologist who developed a form of therapy different from the other forms of his era His iherapy is called, Logoiherapy, which emphasizes a will to meaning as the root of all human motivation, while other psychologists were focusing on therapies that postulated a will to pleasure or a will to poweri…

Almost every person in the world holds a set of traditions that have been established and practiced for a long period of time. However, some traditions often cause us to not see the rationality despite the destructive nature it may have. In Shirley Jackson’s short story, “The Lottery”, a sacrifice of one’s life becomes the…