many central themes surrounding an incestuous marriage, a villainous murder, and the disruption of order and hierarchy. Many of the play’s central themes include suicide, insanity, perception of life, and the supernatural, which are a result of dealing with corruption and the hardships of life. William Shakespeare utilizes Hamlet’s infamous soliloquy that contemplates bearing the agony of life (“to be”) and facing the mystery of death (“not to be”) all while perfectly encapsulating the major arguments
Assignment 1 The play, Tea Party, written by Betty Keller is an incredible story of two lonely elderly women. The reader is given a detailed account of how Alma and Hester prepare for the arrival of the paper boy; it is his day to collect the money for their monthly subscription. This drama is very short, but has a powerful impact on the audience, and gives explicit details of the loneliness of the two sisters. The preparations they make are very detailed as they wait in hope the paper boy will come
Studies and Research AMITY UNIVERSITY UTTAR PRADESH India Introduction Edgar Allan Poe was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, also considered the part of the American Romantic Movement. He is best known for his short tales of mystery and macabre. Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story, and is generally considered as the inventor of the detective fiction genre. He was the first well known American writer who was known for trying to earn his living
William Shakespeare’s Othello can be interpreted through many critical lenses, including gender theories, feminist theories, and class structure theories; however, the most prevalent ideas included in Othello allude to race and race theory principles. Through the syntax and imagery Shakespeare utilizes, the motifs of light and dark are painted to emphasize not only the difference between races, but also to emphasize the goodness of white and the badness of black, and to create tension and conflict
to this rhetorical problem for Flannery O’Connor, one is but to slap the reader in the face with mystery and awe all through grotesquerie, violence and extremely demonic states of existence. Her fictional patterns lean away from archetypal social patterns towards mystery and the unpredicted. She is pretty aware that many do not share her beliefs, so she often must make an event to carry enough mystery and awe to jolt the reader into some emotional acknowledgment of its significance. The imagery surrounding
The Gothic genre acts as historical evidence of the progression of women in society, charting their movement from positions of social subservience to positions of authority. As the Gothic genre develops, female characters transcend from being figures of passivity to take a more active involvement in the text, in terms of their participation in the story and whether they are victims or perpetrators; their sexuality, concerning Freud's Madonna-Whore complex; and their awareness to the events taking