Domestic tragedy

After almost spending the whole afternoon trying to find someone, Crayen and Paw took a break at the water fountain to get a drink. Taking a gulp of the water, Crayen started to feel a little funny. Soon a dust of smoke appeared and Hestia became visible. Hestia asked the travelers “Why are you searching for Mount Olympus?” Crayen dumbfounded said, “I need to talk to Zeus.” “Why would you need to do that?” Questioned Hestia. Crayen stated “He keeps terrorising the town of Lakedaimonia, and he

Death of a Salesman: Abandonment In Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, the main character, Willy Loman, is a salesman who is constantly trying to obtain the best things for his family. Willy wholeheartedly believes in the American Dream and tries more than anything to achieve it but sadly fails. He wants nothing more for his sons to succeed, as to where he felt he has “failed”. Being abandoned by his father and brother, Ben, Willy’s fear of abandonment grows stronger. In the final scene of "Death

Beneath the surface lies a man torn between his beliefs and knowledge as a soldier to his uncertainty and insecurities as a husband. Othello’s tragic flaw was his jealousy, insecurities, and his inability to trust. Othello was a man with high esteem, a victorious hero, who succumbs to the manipulations of a devious man (Hacht, 2007). He allowed the love that once gave him strength to also make him vulnerable. Othello told Desdemona father that “she loved me for the dangers I had passed, and I loved

If there was a single literary character that I so vehemently vilified throughout my entire childhood, it would be Severus Snape. Through the eyes of a young, and perhaps ignorant Harry Potter, I saw him as a grungy, cruel, and despicable enemy, incapable of kindness or love. My hatred for Snape reached its climax when he murdered Dumbledore in seemingly cold blood. And yet, by the closing of the series, I recognized Severus Snape as one of Harry’s most powerful allies, in one of the greatest plot

Though Miss Van Campen called Fredrick Henry a coward for drinking so much, he proves the opposite in the story. He is able to prove throughout the whole book that he is not a coward.Henry was a code hero. In Fact, he has a lot of traits that make him a code hero. Fredrick Henry embodies the characteristics of the Hemingway code hero because he displays grace under pressure, controls his emotions and is loyal to a small group of people. Henry was a courageous man, who shows grace under pressure

Dostoevsky’s “Notes from Underground” captures the life of a spiteful and hyperconscious man living in the ‘Underground World’. The Underground Man presents a figure of an anti-hero. An anti-hero can be defined as a protagonist with the absence of heroic characteristics. The anti-hero rejects society and connection, fear love but craves for them at the same time. He is a self-centered, strange and obsessive man, he is aware that he is an outsider and admits that he is a malicious man as the book

Lackland John Plantagenet was not supposed to be king. Born Christmas Eve and the youngest, John became the favorite. As the youngest, John received the nick-name “Lackland.” As there was no land left to give him and he would receive no inheritance. His nickname reflects more than just not inheriting any land when he was born, but also how he lost it all in years to come. The play, compared to the research I have done, seems a little dramatic. Which is good, because it is a play. John Lackland, in

The term “Piety”; in Greek can be interpreted as hosiotes, or eusebeia. Considering that, numerous of translators have preferred to translate that term into “holiness” rather than “piety”. This is due to the fact, in the english language can be interpreted as “moral correctness”. In the novel “The Last Days of Socrates” by Plato has many distinctions as to what is holiness and what is agreeable to the gods. For instance, in the introduction to Euthyphro it states “ piety will merely be a matter of

Flicka The short story, “My Friend Flicka” from the book Adaptations written by Stephanie Harrison was originally written by Mary O’Hara and first published in 1941. The setting of the story takes place in Montana in the 1900’s. It tells of an imaginative 10 yr. old boy named Kenneth who lives on a horse breeding ranch. Although, the story has been rewritten numerous times and made into a big screen movie it’s more than just a great horse story. It still serves a deeper meaning of a young boy

Odysseus, through the tremendous physical journey that he has embarked on, goes on many mental journeys that greatly develop him as a character: he starts out hotheaded and single-minded, yet grows to be a lot more rational by the end of the book, which ultimately saves his own life and the lives of many others. For example, because of the inadvertent trip he and his crew take to the island of the Cyclops, and their subsequent escape from the Cyclops Polyphemus (which causes the ire of Poseidon,