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Orwell argues that imperialism does not always put the imperialist into a position of power. Instead, the imperialist becomes a “puppet” of those who he allegedly rules. The imperialist, in this case, Orwell, only has the appearance of power and is controlled by the demands of the natives. Orwell supports this argument with his story…

Racism has influenced social perspective throughout history, segregation rules and laws were created to increase the social divide between whites and blacks. Once racism and ethnocentrism become entwined in social views it acts adversely for ones personal experience, this depiction is represented by Jim in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Racism became further embedded into…

Introduction Sophocles’ play Antigone is a tragedy of conflicts premised on Creon and Antigone who are both tragic characters. In the play of Antigone, Creon is the uncle to the two sisters Ismene and Antigone. Aristotle defined a tragedy as a drama about someone noble who makes a judgment error that leads to their downfall….

In the play Antigone, one realizes the dispute between the characters regarding a person’s morality and duty to the government. Antigone was written and performed in the late 440s B.C. The main characters in this play are Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, the late king of Thebes and Creon, brother to Jocasta, the late queen…

Elie Wiesel is a human being who has gone through some of the most terrible inhuman conditions this world has ever seen. The holocaust was a tragic time period for Europe, leaving about 11 million jewish people dead under the rule of the Nazis and Hitler. The book Night by Elie Wiesel is a direct…

The play midsummer nights dream was written by William Shakespeare in 1595-96. The loving, comedy, play is about 4 young teenagers falling in love. One of the main characters, Demetrius, is known as one of the iconic lovers, he started off in love with Hermia but she told him she will never love him because…

As numerous do, the word “crucible” has many opposing meanings. Specifically, three of these interpretations of the word thematically align with the play, The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller. These definitions include that a crucible is a vessel used for melting at high temperatures, a severe test, and a time characterized by powerful forces. The…

In the book of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me, author reveals all controversial past of black people in the United States and as Coats highlights, that Racism still the main issue of the American culture. That all kind of privileges and racial profiling are still holds in the society. In the book, Coates…

Jane, the protagonist of Jane Eyre, seeks to find her individual sense of identity outside of societal expectations and continuously feels an outcast within her narrative; which follows her journey as a young woman into adulthood, navigating the tumultuous world of middle and upper-class society. We will examine how these expectations are portrayed through class…

Susan Eloise Hinton is an American writer, born on July 22, 1950, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. At the age of fifteen, she began writing her first novel, The Outsiders, which was published in 1967 by Viking Press. Hinton was only seventeen. The novel sold more than four million copies in the United States. The success of…