Critics point out that Euripides has a much greater appreciation for the marginalized parts of society than his more famous predecessors. For example, many of his leading characters are either women and people of the lower classes’. This contrasted sharply with the Greek dramatic tradition which was primarily focused on men of high birth and …

Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis is a meticulously dissected narrative that reveals a transformation of man into a creature. However, it hides the true meaning behind what it means to transform form in both mind and body. It becomes clear right away that the story is not just about man becoming beast, taking care of his …

Harper Lee was the first child of Amasa Lee, and Frances Finch. Lee was the youngest child of four and was raised in a small rural town as a tomboy. Her father was an attorney and owned a portion of the local paper. Some people believe that her mother had bipolar disorder. She spent her …

Good fathers love their children and are willing to discipline them when they behave badly. He doesn’t reward children who do what is expected. Atticus, Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird is an example of a father who does the right thing. Scout and Jem find him a great role-model. Atticus is protective of his …

Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye portrays a terrifying tale about a young woman’s encounters with racism during the Great Depression. The novel’s span is divided into four seasons: “Autumn”, “Winter,” and “Spring.” It is through the characters’ experiences we can see how it fails to meet traditional expectations. Morrison uses natural seasons to frame time …

Hamlet Essay As the streets are flooded with chaos, Death and Destruction pour on an empire. As the very thing they believed in collapsed, people scramble to escape. Empires have been built and destroyed over the centuries, but one thing has remained constant: the rise of humanity. Humanity can still progress even when an empire …

J.D.’s book “Hillbilly Elegy” is available. Vance begins his story by explaining that he’s not a politician. As the grandson and son of drug addicts, Vance would likely fail high school, fall into drug addiction, or even be subject to domestic violence. Hillbilly Elegy was not written because he could avoid such a fate. This …

The clothes we wear are taken for granted by most people. They don’t care to learn the conditions in which they were made. Robert Pinsky explains the process of making a shirt in his poem “Shirt”. The shirt represents the working conditions in sweat factories. Robert uses historical events to illustrate the current situation. He …

Things Fall Apart, a historical fiction novel written by Chinua Achebe, is the title that foreshadows tragic events. A tragic character is one who is great and of high standing but suffers from hamartia. This is a tragic flaw which leads to their downfall. The tragic hero experiences peripeteia. This is a sudden change in …