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Containing gruesome, meaningful, and thought provoking concepts, Lord of the Flies by William Golding received much criticism for its ending. The way Golding chose to close this story was categorized as a dues ex machina, an ending that does not conclude with satisfaction, and in this case it was a savior figure resolving the deadly situation the characters (a group of stranded boys) were involved in. Though many have agreed Golding’s ending was adventitious, deeper investigation of the novel has

Theodore V. Buttrey defended the role of character Aegeus in Euripides's Medea as being instrumental in helping progress the story from the play’s first and second act. This defense of Euripides, comes in response to critics, including Aristotle, who, having taken poorly to Aegeus’ underdeveloped character and rather suspicious entrance in the play, have gone and criticized the entire structure of Medea. Buttrey, on the other hand, credited Aegeus for acting as the principal red herring that ends

Euripides’ Play: Medea Zaid Tabaza Summary: Medea is a sorceress’ whose husband (Jason) betrayed her and married another woman called Glauke (daughter of the king of Corinth). Medea was never the type of woman who would give up and grief for the end of her marriage and her husband’s betrayal, she soon started planning ruthless revenge for her husband, his new wife and the father of his new wife. However, the king orders Medea and her sons to move out of Corinth. Medea reaches out for her husband

Plot is the “first precept,” the most crucial characteristic of tragedy. Aristotle defines plot as “the association of the incidents”: i.e., not the story itself but the way the incidents are presented to the target audience, the structure of the play. according to Aristotle, tragedies wherein the final results relies upon on a tightly constructed motive-and-impact chain of actions are superior to those who rely broadly speaking on the character and persona of the protagonist. Plots that meet this

“There’ll always be serendipity involved in discovery”, serendipity is an aptitude for making desirable discoveries unintentionally. Major discoveries in an individual’s life predominantly involve this notion. The director, Ang Lee explores this idea in his film adaptation, “Life of Pi”, as the film conveys the lack of control the protagonist, Pi Patel, has over the events occurring within his unfamiliar environment. The bildungsroman genre is prevalent in the film, the unsolicited occurrences act

“I start from the supposition that the world is topsy-turvy, that things are all wrong, that the wrong people are in jail and the wrong people are out of jail, that the wrong people are in power and the wrong people are out of power”. These are timeless words from Howard Zinn, at the 1970 debate at John Hopkins University to describe the nature which power generally flows in a society. It suggests that in a society, the figure that can appeal to the immediate interests of the governed, is the leader

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is a horror young adult literature written by Ransom Riggs. It tells Jacob Portman’s story who followed clues that lead him to a house for refugees on the Cairnholm Island off the coast of Wales, where his grandfather used to stay during the Second World War back in the 1940s. The Cairnholm Island itself only had one phone and was powered with generators that shut off at 10 pm everyday, foreshadowing the fact that Jacob would go back in time later on. The

Humans are terrified of their own mortality. This fear of the end, of no longer being, makes it a topic that is generally ignored in day-to-day life, and this makes it an incredibly useful theme in works of art. Netflix’s Devilman Crybaby and Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Ozymandias could not be more different, at least on the surface. One tells of battles between angels, demons, and humans; the other speaks of what a traveler finds in the desert. However, they both force the audience to face the idea of

In “Eve’s Apology in Defense of Women,” an excerpt from Salve Deus Rex Juadeorum, Aemilia Lanyer uses biblical illusions such as the story of Eve eating the forbidden fruit, as well as satirical diction to convey a message of unjust attitudes toward the female gender. These attitudes express an imbalanced judgement of women in religious settings, a notion that would continue to be used not only when alluding to religion, but also in other everyday life events. Lanyer, however, uses this satirical

From childhood, all individuals are taught that, whether it be at the hands of one’s parents, the government, or even some form of divine intervention (like karma, or god), there is an ultimately inescapable judgment that awaits everyone who transgresses against that which is “right” or “just.” Take from the cookie jar before dinner? No TV for a week. Break the law by stealing from a store, or worse? Spend days, or years, incarcerated. Fail to abide by a number of seemingly arbitrary moral codes