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In Gore Vidal's Creation, the protagonist, Cyrus Spitama travels the world as a diplomat, meeting some of the most influential figures of the Axial Age. This allows Vidal to use the novel form as...

Often neglected by her parents, Jeannette Wall endures a difficult, impoverished childhood and is viewed by others as an outsider. In The Glass Castle, Jeannette’s distinctive appearance amplifies...

One might answer your question beginning with the response that this is true in Canada for the same reason it's true in the United States (and elsewhere). There is an inveterate and persistent...

As an Anglo-Saxon heroic poem, Beowulf is, by nature, not particularly psychological. The poet was far more interested in entertaining his audience with tales of monsters and heroes and allusions...

In chapter 21, Leo presses Stargirl to tell him how she knows what is going on in people's lives. Stargirl reveals three different sources of information, and each of them could perhaps be...

First, it is worth remarking that, in spite of diminishing health status and decreased cognitive capacity, recent studies have suggested that psychological well-being actually increases in later...

Chapter 6 of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein uses the stylistic device of epistolary technique. The literary devices that Shelley employs include metaphor, allusion, and personification. The epistolary...

Human psychology does play a role in Beowulf, and this does not only apply to its human characters. The character of Grendel, and the details surrounding his terrorizing of Heorot is very...

To calculate reverberation time, we are going to use a famous formula "Sabine's formula," named for its inventor, Wallace Clement Sabine. Sabine did pioneering work to determine the power of...

Although Boy's Life is structured as a murder mystery, its principal subject is the magic of childhood. Many of the most memorable quotations from the book center on this topic, as both the young...

Before we read a poem like Rudyard Kipling's “If–,” it's good idea to pause for a few moments and think about the title. What comes to mind with a glance at this title will be different for each...

In his "Ode on a Grecian Urn," John Keats uses many adjectives to describe the pastoral scene depicted on the urn. His description creates a variety of reactions in the reader and suggests just as...

The two main symbols in the story are the old man’s eye and the narrator’s own heart. The narrator describes the old man’s eye as a “vulture eye,” associating it with death, as vultures feed on...

"Handicaps" are used in "Harrison Bergeron" to keep one person from having any advantage over another person. The Handicapper General is a person in this society who determines in which ways a...

The theme of "The Masque of the Red Death" is that no one, no matter how powerful or how rich, escapes death. The theme is shown through the actions of the characters and through irony, as death is...

We are given that T is a root of `x^4-x^3+x^2-x+1=0` , and we are asked to find the value of `T^(20)+T^(10)+T^(5)+1` . To find the roots, we notice that the given expression is one of the factors...

There are several different ways of writing an outline, particularly for a work of fiction. If you have not been given a template or any other guidance, then you should include the details you...

To solve this problem, we can use the formula which transforms a sum of two sinuses into a product. Namely, the formula is `sin a + sin b = 2 sin ( ( a + b ) / 2 ) cos ( ( a - b ) / 2 ) ` and it...

The square root is between `100 ^ 2 ` and `103 ^ 2 . ` Let's express factors as 100 `+-` something and 103 `+- ` something and group them: `100 * 101 * 102 * 103 + 1 = 100 * ( 100 + 1 ) * ( 103 - 1...

Shortly before Cassius speaks about "that rash humor which my mother gave me" in act 4, scene 3 of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Cassius offers Brutus his dagger with which to strike Cassius...

The narrator waits until the eighth night to commit the murder of the old man because the old man's eyes were closed on the first seven nights. The narrator says that he creeps into the old man's...

It is known that if a circle with the center `O ` is tangent to a straight line and the point of tangency is `X , ` then the radius `O X ` is perpendicular to the tangent line. Because of this, the...

Miss Emily Grierson is from a highly respected Southern family, but she hides a great secret in the upstairs of her home. Emily is briefly seen in the company of Homer Barron, a man whom the...

It might be most helpful to explain alternative models of savings as alternative payment models that could result in savings. Alternative payment models is a concept that is commonly applied to the...

The tarantella is a dance which is characterized by quick, light steps and an upbeat tempo and has historically been seen as a dance of cheerful courtship. References to the tarantella are woven...

In act 1, scene 2 of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Romeo reluctantly agrees to go to the Capulet's party uninvited, and in act 1, scene 4, Romeo, Benvolio, and Mercutio are talking in the...

In the introduction to the book of essays that she edited, Frances Colpitt appears to argue that abstract art has had a central impact on Western art. For Colpitt, abstract art is “the definitive...

In the final lines of "If—," readers become aware that this poem is addressed to the speaker's "son." While this can be interpreted literally, it can also be more loosely interpreted as a poem of...

To answer this question concerning Robert Stam's Introduction: The Theory and Practice of Adaptation, look carefully at the progression of his ideas concerning film adaptations; doing this will...

In the short story "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Edward Connell, A man named Sanger Rainsford falls off a yacht somewhere in the Caribbean, swims to an island, and finds a luxurious chateau....

In Edgar Allan Poe's classic short story "The Tell-Tale Heart," the old man's "vulture eye" doesn't symbolize the window of the soul of the old man whose eye it is, as might be expected, but...

In The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Pavel’s character might be symbolic of Holocaust victims in a variety of ways. You could say Pavel’s previous profession symbolizes how many victims of the...

Much like in Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart," the narrator of "The Cask of Amontillado" begins by telling the reader of their murderous intention. This creates tension for the rest of the story as the...

I think it's safe to say that Mel Gooding’s book is quite useful in providing a basic understanding of abstract art as it manifested in the 20th-century. While the aim of the book might be...

When Macbeth sees the ghost of Banquo at the banquet he starts yelling at him: Thou canst not say I did it. Never shake Thy gory locks at me. (IV, iii, 54-55). As no one else can see the ghost,...

The primary message that Golding is trying to convey throughout Lord of the Flies is that humans are inherently wicked, violent beings and will revert back to their primitive, savage instincts in...

Before I can help you determine the suitability of plot, language, setting, and characterization in Haroun and the Sea of Stories as it relates to readership, I think it’s necessary to figure out...

In Carol Matas' novel Daniel's Story, Daniel meets Rosa for the first time when his sister, Erika, brings her home to introduce her to the family. They are living in the Jewish ghetto in Lodz,...

A boy pulls a scab painlessly off his knee and flings it away. It lands in the distance on a carpet in the hall of his house that is in a pattern of red, black, and yellow. The boy decides that the...

When Mrs. Mallard first hears the news of her husband's fatal accident, she weeps with "sudden, wild abandonment" into her sister's arms. Louise experiences a "storm of grief" and cannot compose...

In his sermon, Jonathan Edwards uses simple, everyday images to impress on listeners the severe and ever-present danger of falling into hell fire. In one potent metaphor, he describes the peril as...

As she goes to her death, Sophocles's Antigone laments: How often I have heard the story of Niobe, Tantalus’s wretched daughter, how the stone clung fast about her, as close as ivy, and they say...

Several nights before her death, Julia hears a low whistling sound in her room at about three o’clock in the morning. On the night of her death, Julia tells her sister Helen about these whistling...

It is entirely appropriate that Mercutio should be using such a pun. For here is a young man with an irrepressible sense of fun, someone with a love of banter and witty word-play, chronically...

In "Rising Five," Norman Nicholson begins with a young boy whose age, according to the poet, must be: Fifty-six months or perhaps a week more. This means that the boy is four years old, and it is...

In many ways, this is a rather ordinary setting. A mother performs routine household work in a rather typical home as she ponders her own maternal successes and shortcomings. Yet we also learn...

Richardson does not have Pamela provide a physical description of her new master, Mr. B., who takes over the estate after her mother dies. Her focus is on his character or inner self and his...

When his step-daughter Julia becomes engaged to be married, Dr. Grimesby Roylott realizes that he will lose a portion of the wealth he inherited from his wife; thus, he plots to kill her with the...

Ever since the serpent in the story of Adam and Eve, snakes have been commonly used as symbols of all that is foul, wicked, and depraved. And the deadly swamp adder in Conan Doyle's “The Adventure...

In "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," Helen Stoner visits Sherlock Holmes because she has a case for him to investigate. The fact that she calls on Holmes early in the morning (it is 7:15am when...