David Morrison
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B.A. Law with extensive knowledge of and expertise in English Literature, History, and Philosophy.
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Answered a Question in Measure for Measure
Justice in Measure for Measure can be described as poetic justice in that everyone gets their just desserts. Indeed, the very title of the play strongly implies that what goes around comes around.... -
Answered a Question in The Sun Rising
What this line in "The Sun Rising" tells us about Donne's use of hyperbole is that he's prepared to use elaborate language in order to convey his depth of feeling. When Donne says of his lover and... -
Answered a Question in History
The most obvious similarity in outcome between the Nazi and the Chinese communist revolutions was the death of tens of millions of innocent people. Both the Nazis and the Chinese communists... -
Answered a Question in History
The most obvious similarity between Nazi and Chinese revolutionary ideology would be their shared belief that the end justifies the means in building a new society. The Nazis wanted to establish a... -
Answered a Question in Second-Class Citizen
The role of Adah in Second-Class Citizen is to highlight the problems encountered by the wave of post-war immigrants in the United Kingdom. Adah's experiences are fairly representative of those... -
Answered a Question in Anton Chekhov
In "A Woman Without Prejudice" by Anton Chekhov, we learn that it is possible to be prejudiced against oneself as well as others. Maxim is deeply in love with Elena. So much so, in fact, that he... -
Answered a Question in Americanah
In Americanah, Ifelemu returns to her authentic self when she's back in Nigeria by becoming more independent. Ifelemu feels somewhat out of place in the United States, and many of her frustrations... -
Answered a Question in The Lesson
The most important symbol in "The Lesson" is F. A. O. Schwarz, the upscale New York toy store that represents an unequal society from which Sylvia and her classmates are excluded due to their... -
Answered a Question in History
The main policy that the Republican Party adopted between 1854 and 1861 was opposition to the expansion of slavery into new American territories. Though the Republican Party contained staunch... -
Answered a Question in Charles Lamb
Lamb's purpose in writing "A Bachelor's Complaint of the Behaviour of Married People" is to draw attention, albeit in a comic manner, to what he sees as the unpleasant attitudes of those who are... -
Answered a Question in The Tempest
One could argue that Caliban has the better claim to the island, as he was born there and lived there until Prospero came along and took it away from him. Prospero, on the other hand, only has a... -
Answered a Question in Ted Hughes
Hughes portrays the brutality of nature in “Snowdrop” by emphasizing the chaos that lies at the heart of its very existence. It is notable that Hughes dispenses with any regular rhyme scheme or... -
Answered a Question in The Thorn Birds
The significance of the title of The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough is that it tells us about the book's main characters. According to the old legend, the thorn bird seeks a thorn tree on which... -
Answered a Question in Robinson Crusoe
Xury's character in Robinson Crusoe provides context within the novel by showing him as subordinate to Crusoe, a white European. To a considerable extent, the asymmetrical relationship between the... -
Answered a Question in Great Expectations
In explaining Pip's character in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, one can make use of the psychoanalytic concept of repression. Long before Magwitch was revealed as his benefactor, Pip sensed... -
Answered a Question in Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule
The mystery of the Ghost Tree involves the old legend that a tree on the land that Gideon and Pascal wish to acquire is haunted. The deeply superstitious and not very bright Gideon is frightened... -
Answered a Question in The Hate U Give
Starr's Uncle Carlos appears contradictory in chapter 4 of The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas by wanting to know why Starr was in a car with Khalil, a known drug dealer, while also encouraging her to... -
Answered a Question in History
I cannot do this assignment for you, but let's examine the third topic in the above question to help get you started. Using the third topic, one might argue that there is every reason to be... -
Answered a Question in Lady Lazarus
In the Bible, Lazarus was a dead man brought back to life by Jesus in one of his most famous miracles. In the poem “Lady Lazarus,” we are introduced to a woman whose dangerous mood swings from the... -
Answered a Question in The Great Gatsby
One good quotation from The Great Gatsby that highlights the difficulties associated with ambition is the following: he stretched out his arms toward the dark water .... I ... distinguished... -
Answered a Question in The American Scholar
Emerson's critique of the "mere thinker" is that rather than think for himself, he simply limits his ideas to those he's read in books. To be sure, Emerson is not arguing that the American scholar... -
Answered a Question in The Metamorphoses of Ovid
The consequences of change of form in the Metamorphoses are often very tragic indeed. In the story of Daphne and Apollo, for example, we are presented with a transformation that ends in tragedy. A... -
Answered a Question in The Metamorphoses of Ovid
The character of Bacchus, the god of wine, is given to us by Ovid as wild, vengeful, and a devotee of unrestrained pleasure and passion. Given these qualities, it is no wonder that the cult of... -
Answered a Question in The Other Wes Moore
The calculated decisions Wes Moore made in order to accomplish his goals include staying at Valley Forge to attend junior college, applying to Johns Hopkins, and putting his name down for the... -
Answered a Question in The Other Wes Moore
In The Other Wes Moore, Colonel Murphy has accomplished the important goal of becoming commandant of cadets at Valley Forge Military Academy. Of its very nature, this must've involved a lot of hard... -
Answered a Question in The Other Wes Moore
Wes and Tony rob a jewelry store because they want to obtain some valuable items that they can sell. In carrying out this robbery, they are thinking only of the short-term; if they were focusing on... -
Answered a Question in The Other Wes Moore
The most notable values that Wes and his South African family share are the need for forgiveness and the importance of finding a sense of common humanity. Wes comes to learn these values from Mama,... -
Answered a Question in The Other Wes Moore
One could argue that the house that Wes builds for his daughter symbolizes his desire to protect her. In fact, Wes actually says that this is his purpose in building it. In a way, he's trying to... -
Answered a Question in History
President Wilson was indeed bitterly disappointed by the outcome of the peace negotiations at Versailles as he regarded the final agreement as a bundle of compromises that significantly departed... -
Answered a Question in Hard Times
In Hard Times, Dickens shows himself concerned with utilitarian education, which is presented as narrow and lacking in imagination. Dickens's critique of utilitarianism in education is manifested... -
Answered a Question in Malcolm Gladwell
The point of view of “The Trouble With Fries” is that of the author, Malcolm Gladwell, who sets out in this essay to deal with the uncomfortable fact that fast food, which has a market of almost... -
Answered a Question in The Hate U Give
By trying to hide her identity to fit in with others, Starr loses her individuality by becoming just like the students at her virtually all-white school. Later on, Starr will recover her... -
Answered a Question in Beloved
Beloved is so obsessed with Sethe because she is the embodiment of Sethe's late daughter. As such, Beloved cannot help but have a deep spiritual connection between herself and Sethe. She is the... -
Answered a Question in Literature
The Victorian Compromise is the name given by historians to the fundamental paradox that characterized Queen Victoria's reign. On the one hand, Great Britain experienced an astonishing,... -
Answered a Question in A Passage to India
In E. M. Forster's A Passage to India, the Marabar caves are a symbol of the enduring power of those spiritual values that constitute a standing rebuke to the faculty of reason. The caves are dark... -
Answered a Question in The Duchess of Malfi
The main similarity between The Duchess of Malfi and Macbeth is that they are both very bloody plays that deal with the catastrophic consequences of ambition. Macbeth comes to grief due to his... -
Answered a Question in Zakes Mda
In Ways of Dying by Zakes Mda, what makes family such a powerful theme is that it is presented as a source of pain, instability, and discord. This is illustrated by the two main characters in the... -
Answered a Question in History
On the whole, Jawaharlal Nehru was a successful Prime Minister who, in his sixteen and a half years as post-independence India's first premier, racked up an impressive list of achievements. One of... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
Some key examples of bullying against Piggy in Lord of the Flies would include Jack's calling him “fatty” and breaking his glasses. Right from the start, it's clear that Piggy is a figure of fun... -
Answered a Question in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
In The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Stevenson presents Mr. Hyde as a frightening outsider mainly through his hideous physical appearance. Just one look at Dr. Jekyll's evil alter ego... -
Answered a Question in The Metamorphoses of Ovid
The theme of transformation, the dominant theme in Ovid's Metamorphoses, is given something of a twist in the tale of Pentheus and Bacchus in that Pentheus doesn't experience a transformation but... -
Answered a Question in The Metamorphoses of Ovid
In the episodes of book 3 of Ovid's Metamorphoses relating to Bacchus and Pentheus, we can see once again how the gods are quick to punish mortals for all kinds of offenses, both real and... -
Answered a Question in Zakes Mda
Family dynamics are presented in Ways of Dying by Zakes Mda in a decidedly unflattering light, as repressive and tyrannical. Toloki's father Jwara treated him very badly, largely out of frustration... -
Answered a Question in The Hate U Give
The two qualities of Maverick Carter one finds most admirable in The Hate U Give are his concern for his family and community and for his inspiring his daughter Starr with the values of Black... -
Answered a Question in The Hate U Give
In The Hate U Give, the two qualities of Starr Carter's that one finds most admirable are her bravery, as illustrated by her agreeing to testify in court against the police officer who shot and... -
Answered a Question in A Tale of Two Cities
The two cities that are the settings for Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities are London and Paris. Right throughout the story, the action veers back and forth between these two great European... -
Answered a Question in Literature
Both "A Horseman in the Sky" and "War" deal with the devastating impact that war has upon families. In the former, we are shown the horrors of war through the killing by a young Union sentry,... -
Answered a Question in Fahrenheit 451
One of the uses of fire in the story is in the scene where the old lady chooses to die in the flames rather than live without her large collection of books. This is a particularly striking use of... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
In the following discussion, we will examine the character of Polonius, a man in Hamlet whose words and actions reveal a lot about him. One thing we know through Polonius's words and actions is... -
Answered a Question in Ready Player One
In Ready Player One, Wade ends up as an indentured employee for IOI because he deliberately gets himself arrested by their credit officers. He does this by changing the financial records of his...
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