Comparison of love

F. Scott Fitzgerald, an influential writer in the 1920’s writes the American classic novel The Great Gatsby, following the rekindling of a past love between Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan through the perspective of Nick Carraway. Nick observes as the couple reconnects despite Daisy’s cheating husband, Tom Buchanan, and Gatsby’s obsessive manner. He then witnesses as Gatsby takes the blame for Daisy’s mistake of killing Myrtle Wilson and later Gatsby’s death. Myrtle Wilson a minor character in the

and his eyesight is weak. He wont go to a doctor characterizes him as a strong and eager man. For instance, Rab has not been sick one day through his thirty years of working as a sergeant in the football stadium. So it could be concluded that Rab loves his job, but he is starting to realize some things about his situation. He is beginning to feel unlucky about his working. It is clearly to see in the text, when he only focuses on how long it will be before the football game is over. ‘’[…]’Just let

Different Perspectives: The Comparison and Contrast Essay of Mark Twain’s Experiences and Mine As we became older and gained more knowledge, the perspectives we once had about certain situations, ideas, and people changed. Reading Mark Twain’s short story “Two Ways of Seeing a River,” I immediately thought about the love I once had for basketball. Twain discussed how he once adored the Mississippi River, but by becoming a steamboat engineer and seeing the river in a different perspective, his mindset

depressing imagery. Poe’s books commonly focus on two themes- love and death- and the melancholy intertwining of the two. His unique style stood out against the crowd of literature in his day and age. Poe was a master in capturing the dark and twisted recesses of the human In a twisted melancholy sense, Poe was not just blindly writing these dark and depressing stories, either. His entire life is like one of his short stories- full of death, love, and broken hearts. As a child, Edgar Allan Poe was orphaned

use the language of war to distance themselves from the devastation they are causing. Her notable use of both diction and alliteration beautifully illustrates a comparison of the language of war and the language of sympathy and draws the reader's attention to important hypocrisies she intends to emphasize in her poem. Through these comparisons she appeals to her audience's pathos in order to implore them to address the people they are subjecting to destruction with more sympathy. Nye uses diction

soldier's carry all have a weight. More importantly though is the weight of the soldier's thoughts, emotions, and memories. While they do not have a physical weight they still bear a heavy load on the soldier. The death of their comrades, the pain of love, the paranoia of war, all of this takes its toll. This concept is really solidified when Lieutenant Cross describes how the weight feels lifted

In Antony’s short speech he is able to manipulate the whole entire crowd with simple techniques. Through repetition and comparison, the reader is shown what power it truly has over a crowd. In literature, the act of repetition enforces an idea. When writing Julius Caesar, Shakespeare had the same idea. In order to portray empathy and a sense of loyalty, Antony repeats the word friends. Antony starts off by saying to the people, “Good friends, sweet friends, let me not stir you up to such a flood

audience? Luhrmann’s form of displaying the original play as a film, is a significant modern appropriation, as the audience can physically see the play unfolding, identifying the film's effectiveness. By drawing on the original themes of violence and love, and introducing numerous film techniques, Luhrmann's modern adaptation of the play will prove itself highly effective. Violence is the central

the reader can interpret the poem are the vague descriptions of the sorrow and fear that the narrator has found in his world and its comparison to the specificity with which he claims his hopes for heaven and the godly characteristics one must have in order to make it to that joyful place. Finally, the different associations with images like the sea and the comparison to very specific images that only declare one association. To the narrator in “The Seafarer”, the world is a very confusing, painful

where the writing appeals to the senses. It can do this by giving a word with a specific meaning; by comparing two things in such a way that find the comparison interesting or by using words that have unusual constructions or sounds. For example metaphor in a poem; metaphor is defined in Your Dictionary as “a figure of speech containing an implied comparison, in which a word or phrase ordinarily and primarily used for one thing is applied to another.” These three poems give examples of a metaphor in a