Kathleen Barron

It means she's going to kill herself. Juliet's chest becomes the dagger's sheath (place you store your cutlery). "There rust and let me die" refers to the eternity of rotting death they will spend...

"God is Power", as the slogan of the Party, takes on a very sinister meaning. God in this case can be seen to mean the faceless justification for all of the injustice and silly controls in the...

As the commandments begin to chafe the ruling class, the amendments appear as extra words that most of the illiterate animals never notice. "No animal shall kill any other animal" is tempered by...

No wonder you're having a problem with this question. I would argue that Lysander and Demetrius are, for all intents and purposes, the same character in two bodies. They do nothing separately,...

The entire essay is hyperbolic, from his description of the squalid conditions of the peasants and their anticipated reaction to the proposal, to the narrator's cold detachment to the actual plight...

A person makes history by doing something great or terrible in the right time or place. I would argue that while Pink, Britney Spears, and Paris Hilton are certainly popular now, they will not...

The witches set the tone for the entire play as dark and supernatural. This also somewhat removes the culpability from Macbeth's hands, while tying the supernatural evil to the other main woman in...