Rosalee Nance

In Tanith Lee’s short story Wolfland, Anna the Matriarch’s character is revealed layer by layer. She has power, and there is suggestion in the early parts of the story that she might be abusing it....

In Henrik Ibsen’s play A Doll’s House, the characters Kristine Linde and Nils Krogstad reunite after many years; they were once in love, but Kristine broke it off and married someone else out of...

In William Wordsworth’s poem “To a Butterfly,” the butterfly seems to exist as both a literal creature the speaker is observing and as a metaphor for an idyllic childhood. In examining his chosen...

In chapter 7 of his novella Animal Farm, George Orwell continues his over-arching use of allegorical metaphor—that is, he is using a made-up setting to articulate a message about actual events....

"The Luncheon" is a comedic short story by W. Somerset Maugham. The story has several themes, as follows: politeness, wisdom, societal expectations, greed, and vindictiveness. It is written from...