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 William Carlos Williams
"Raleigh Was Right" was William Carlos Williams's response to a poetic duel between Christopher Marlowe and Sir Walter Raleigh that took place in the late sixteenth century. Marlowe had... -
Answered a Question in Lamb to the Slaughter
There are two particular examples of Dahl's famed subtlety in "Lamb To The Slaughter" that I want to examine. I think they're important because they illustrate the wider theme of the story:... -
Answered a Question in Frankenstein
The prologue to Frankenstein consists of four letters written by Robert Walton to his sister, Mrs. Margaret Saville. The first three letters give a detailed account of his sea voyage, as... -
Answered a Question in Nationalism
At the time of the Revolution, French society was rigidly hierarchical. Social classes were grouped into three estates of the realm: the First Estate (which consisted of the clergy); the Second... -
Answered a Question in History
The philosophical impetus for Western expansion had been provided long before the 1840s by Thomas Jefferson. His somewhat idealized conception of the republic was based upon a nation of... -
Answered a Question in A Long Walk to Water
Water dictates Nya's whole life. She lives in a remote village in Sudan during a particularly long and brutal civil war. For most of the year, she needs to make two long walks a day to a pond in... -
Answered a Question in The Necklace
The blame arguably lies with Mathilde. She is a vain, shallow woman who thinks that money and worldly goods will bring her happiness. In borrowing money at an exorbitant rate of interest, she... -
Answered a Question in The Most Dangerous Game
Throughout "The Most Dangerous Game," the distinction between humans and animals is constantly being blurred. At various points in the story we are forced to ask ourselves exactly what it... -
Answered a Question in Hemingway
The protagonist is the older waiter. He is the character who embodies the story's overriding theme of existential angst in the face of nothingness. He is a world weary soul who's abandoned the... -
Answered a Question in The Odyssey
Homer wrote the Odyssey in a poetical meter called dactylic hexameter. This means that there are six metrical units, or feet, in each line. Homer uses the various colorful epithets to fit... -
Answered a Question in The Federalist Papers
In Federalist Number 10, Madison defines a faction as "...a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common... -
Answered a Question in Cathedral
For most of the story the narrator is unable either to connect or communicate with Robert in any meaningful sense. Robert is blind, and this creates what seems to be an insuperable barrier between... -
Answered a Question in Cry, the Beloved Country
The Kumalo family, like South Africa on the eve of apartheid, is deeply fractured. Much of the story revolves around Stephen Kumalo's repeated attempts to keep his family together at a time of... -
Answered a Question in The White Castle
The overriding theme of The White Castle is the fundamental unity of humanity, one that transcends (what for Pamuk are) the artificial differences of race, color, culture, and class that... -
Answered a Question in Death by Landscape
In "Death By Landscape" loss and isolation are inextricably linked. Indeed, the main theme of Margaret Atwood's short story is arguably the way in which loss, if not properly dealt with, can lead... -
Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
A caste system is one in which people are judged according to their status, whether it be related to social class, wealth, race, or religion. Even as a child, Scout sees clearly that such a system... -
Answered a Question in Voltaire
Voltaire's whole philosophical approach to government was somewhat ambiguous. In this, as in much else, he was very much a product of the Enlightenment. On the one hand, he proved himself to be a... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
I'd like to suggest that the character of Jack symbolizes a mentality widely shared among the British upper classes at that time in relation to other civilizations. Jack unthinkingly expresses a... -
Answered a Question in The Known World
The character of Moses in The Known World is hugely significant, as he acts as a framing device for the novel and its various themes. He represents, to a certain extent, the confusion of... -
Answered a Question in Dracula
The Victorian era was one of enormous economic, social, and scientific change. It is against this background that Dracula can best be understood and appreciated. In the story, modernity... -
Answered a Question in History
Herbert Hoover first coined the expression "rugged individualism" in a speech on the campaign trail in the 1928 presidential election. With this phrase, he articulated a long-standing American... -
Answered a Question in The Sign of Four
The Sign of Four is presented by Mary Morstan as a complex case. Holmes, being a complex man, is just the man to help solve it. In the first two chapters, Watson introduces various unusual... -
Answered a Question in History
Nationalism not only dramatically shaped European history in the period you mention, but its very nature also underwent significant change itself. In its initial phase, nationalism was conceived as... -
Answered a Question in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
According to Yunior, the narrator of much of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, the whole story itself is an account of fuku, the curse that has plagued the De Leon and Cabral families for so... -
Answered a Question in A Tale of Two Cities
To a large extent Dickens presents the character of Sydney Carton as almost a Christ-like figure. Carton, though outwardly a brilliant young lawyer, has never achieved real fulfillment in his life.... -
Answered a Question in 1984
More than anything, I'd like to ask Winston Smith what kept him going through the daily horrors of living in such a horrendous, totalitarian dystopia. Clearly, he must've had something deep inside... -
Answered a Question in A People's History of the United States
The respective approaches of Howard Zinn and Paul Johnson to early American history are almost diametrically opposite. Johnson, as a staunch conservative, takes the colonists’ claims at face value.... -
Answered a Question in The Cold War
Stalin’s approach to the Cold War alternated between the ideological and the pragmatic, but veered mainly towards the latter. In ideological terms Stalin was committed to the Marxist-Leninist... -
Answered a Question in The Playboy of the Western World
There are indeed a number of important themes in The Playboy Of The Western World, but I’d like to suggest an over-arching theme, one that unifies all the lesser themes into a coherent whole.... -
Answered a Question in History
The Counter-Reformation was more concerned with structural and administrative reforms than the Protestant Reformation. It also largely ignored the highly contentious theological issues that lay at... -
Answered a Question in John Donne
The term "metaphysical" as originally coined by Dr. Johnson was intended to be used as a pejorative. By the time Johnson came to write his Lives Of The Most Eminent English Poets,the works of the... -
Answered a Question in The Black Arrow
There are numerous conflicts of various sorts throughout Robert Louis Stevenson's The Black Arrow. All of these are set against the backdrop of the Wars of the Roses, a series of civil wars fought... -
Answered a Question in History
As I understand it, you're referring to the young adult novel The Fighting Ground by Avi. Conflict is indeed a major theme of the book, both internal and external. Indeed, much of the book's power...
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