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Instances of High Comedy
Comedy
William Shakespeare
In Shakespeare’s work Much Ado About Nothing, comedy is an essential component of the plot. In this play there are two types of comedy: high and romantic. High comedy is very critical of life and has spots of particularly witty dialogue. It is seen in the more sophisticated plays that Shakespeare created while its polar…
The Style of Walt Whitman
Poems
Poetry
Walt Whitman
How can an author portray the essence of an ideal democracy, its feel of equality, unity, and limitless potential of its people, through style? Whitman’s poetic form in “Song of Myself” reflects a poetic style that explodes “conventional patterns of rhyme and meter, freeing the poetic line to follow the organic rhythms of feeling and…
No Control over Happiness in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Brave New World
Literature
Novel
Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is a dystopian novel follow by Bernard Marx, a Citizen of The World State, who is the odd one out in a futurist world. Men and women are given equal opportunities for the most part, where there is world peace, no war plus everything that occurs or happens is one’s…
Marriage in “Joy Luck Club” by Amy Tan
Amy Tan
Joy Luck Club
In the novels The Joy-Luck Club, we learn about the customs and traditions of the engagement and marriage of the parents of the protagonists. Community used matchmakers to help find their children’s spouses. In both Asia and Eastern Europe, it was customary for the bride’s family to present the groom’s family with a dowry. What…
Book Review of “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair
Book Review
Novel
The Jungle
The Jungle is an interesting, but very somber read. It is a story of a Lithuanian family who moves to Chicago in pursuit of the “American Dream.” Jurgis Rudkus, the male head of the family, and main character, convinces his family that America is the land of opportunity, alluding to the possibilities for the future…
What the Film Society of Dead Poets Is About
Dead Poets Society
Education
Learning
Dead Poets Society is the 1989 work of director Peter Weir and writer Tom Schulman. This movie take place at an all boys boarding school in Vermont. It is the end of summer and the very beginning of the new school year when this new english teacher is introduced to all the boys. This English…
Fences Character Analysis
Character Traits
Drama
Fences
In August Wilson’s Fences, Rose wanted to build a fence in order to keep people in and to live a fitting life than her family’s past generation yet she accepted Troy’s baby with Alberta and broke her ties with Troy which reveals the how betrayal can break the bond and loyalty between family but also…
Creative Writing: A Short Story about Josh and Procrastination, Plus a Soundtrack to the Story
Entertainment
Fiction
Procrastination
Just one more episode, Josh thought to himself as he loaded up another hour-long episode of House of cards on his laptop It was noon and the assignment was dated at midnight. Three weeks prior his teacher had given out the short story assignment the AP English students were tasked with writing a short story…
7 Amazing Science Fiction Technologies that Really Exists
Science Fiction
Technology
Now a days we are surrounding with amazing science fiction technologies that bring a great revolution in the modern era. These sci-fi technologies were the part of science fiction movies and commit books in early 1970s. A true fact about scientists and engineers is that they were take their inspiration from science fiction movies and…
A Comparison of Julius Caesar and Oedipus Reaction to Their Fortune Teller
Fiction
Oedipus Rex
Both Oedipus Rex by Sophocles and Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare display certain characteristics towards their fortune tellers that eventually lead to their downfall. Both Oedipus and Julius decided to ignore their fortune tellers because of their powers Oedipus hears his fate by his fortune teller by the name of Tiresias, on the other hand…