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 Where the Crawdads Sing
According to the prologue of Where the Crawdads Sing, the difference between a marsh and a swamp is that the former is "a space of light, where grass grows in water, and water flows into the sky."... -
Answered a Question in The Trial
The most important element of existentialism to be found in The Trial is the utter absurdity of human existence. Here we have a situation in which Josef K. has been arrested and put before a court... -
Answered a Question in Song of Solomon
In Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, Milkman and Pilate are foils for each other in that Pilate acts as a moral guide to whose values Milkman should aspire if he is to mature and grow as an... -
Answered a Question in August: Osage County
Violet has a very troubled relationship with her daughters. This can be seen in the following quotation, which shows her critical attitude toward them: All women need makeup. Don't let anybody... -
Answered a Question in The Author to Her Book
The main theme of the poem "The Author to Her Book" is the often fraught relationship between an artist and her work. Although the speaker loves her book of poems as if it were one of her children,... -
Answered a Question in Of Cannibals
One could argue that Montaigne is a cultural relativist to the extent that he finds it odd that his contemporaries criticize cannibalism while overlooking the many strange and loathsome customs... -
Answered a Question in Nelson Mandela
The key points in Mandela's inauguration speech as President of South Africa are that the time for healing has arrived, that South Africa will become a rainbow nation in which people from all races... -
Answered a Question in Fences
In Fences, Troy Maxson can be seen teaching responsibility to his son Cory when he tells him that, as a man, he has a duty to take care of his family—to house, feed, and clothe them. As Troy... -
Answered a Question in Lawns
Jenny manipulates her father, even though he abuses her, because she's a fundamentally dishonest person. We know this because, as she candidly confesses right from the outset of the story, she's a... -
Answered a Question in Lawns
In "Lawns," Jenny doesn't hate her father because he's always begging from her. Jenny has plenty of reasons for hating her father, especially because he's sexually abused her since she was a child.... -
Answered a Question in The Merchant of Venice
One could argue that Shylock does not deserve his punishment, not least because it is excessive, unjust, and motivated to a large extent by anti-Semitism. Although one could say that his behavior... -
Answered a Question in Heart of Darkness
The need for ivory affects Kurtz by corrupting him, as it has corrupted many Western colonialists. Due to his involvement in the ivory trade, Kurtz has become something of a monster, a rapacious... -
Answered a Question in Carol Ann Duffy
In her poem "Safe Sounds," Carol Ann Duffy conveys the way in which comfortable, everyday sounds make us feel safe and secure. There's no place like home, as they say, and there are many things... -
Answered a Question in The Shakespeare Stealer
In the novel, fighting generally does not resolve problems, but there is an example at the end of the story which shows that that sometimes it can be quite useful in this regard. A good example... -
Answered a Question in Preface to Lyrical Ballads
In the preface to Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth sets out a new vision of poetic creation that pays close attention to nature, and this involves observation, recollection, contemplation, and poetic... -
Answered a Question in Emily Dickinson
“I gave myself to Him—” provokes feeling in that it is a love poem and thought in that it forces us to think about what the speaker's true attitude to love really is. By the same token, “The... -
Answered a Question in History
Evidence that the colonists continued to think of themselves as British subjects from 1763 to 1774 can be seen in the way that they demanded the same rights as British subjects living in the mother... -
Answered a Question in History
Trade shaped societies and cultures to a considerable extent from the ancient world to the early modern in that it facilitated the spread of commerce and ideas across the globe. In the ancient... -
Answered a Question in We Should All Be Feminists
An allusion used by Adichie in We Should All Be Feminists is to the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, a piece of legislation passed under the Obama Administration that was designed to make it... -
Answered a Question in The Rape of the Lock
"The Rape of the Lock" is a social satire in that it pokes fun at the upper classes of early eighteenth-century England. Pope turns a critical eye on the English aristocracy and shows them to be... -
Answered a Question in Bud, Not Buddy
In chapter 14, Bud experiences for the first time what it is like to be able to choose different kinds of food to eat. For an orphan like Bud, who's never had such a privilege in his short,... -
Answered a Question in A View From the Bridge
This quotation, made by the lawyer Alfieri at the end of the play, means that in order to live in a community with other people, we have to meet them halfway, not behaving like Eddie Carbone and... -
Answered a Question in Greek Mythology
Zeus's main argument is that giving fire to humans, as Prometheus has done, is the wrong thing to do, as it will make humans stronger, and that's the last thing that the almighty king of the gods... -
Answered a Question in The God of Small Things
Roy's representation of love in all of its forms contributes to the meaning of the novel by showing how love is fundamentally intertwined with social norms that have existed time out of mind. In... -
Answered a Question in A Civil Action
In A Civil Action, Cheeseman is a senior partner in a law firm that is representing W. R. Grace, one of the companies involved in polluting the water supply of Woburn, Massachusetts, causing... -
Answered a Question in Casey at the Bat
The author, or more properly speaking, the poet, contrasts hope and despair in the second and third stanzas through the different feelings expressed by people in the crowd. In the second stanza, we... -
Answered a Question in Second-Class Citizen
Three cultural practices among the Igbo in Second-Class Citizen are that men rule the roost, that women are second-class citizens, and that women are not supposed to get ideas. All of these... -
Answered a Question in Poetry
The Indian mother in the poem "The Gift of India" feels both pride and sorrow when her sons are at war. The mother is a personification of India—Mother India, as she was often called. And her sons... -
Answered a Question in Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau's use of this rhetorical strategy challenges the abuses within the anti-abolitionist movement by ironically making supportive journalists out to be slaves of their own masters. Here we have... -
Answered a Question in Second-Class Citizen
Our impressions of Francis in Second-Class Citizen are not very favorable, to say the least. An abusive, controlling husband, he sees his wife Adah as little more than a baby factory whose sole... -
Answered a Question in Don Quixote
Quixote is contemptuous of property ownership, hates slavery, and is deeply enamored of marriage. Quixote tells Sancho Panza and the goat herders a tale about a supposed Golden Age in which there... -
Answered a Question in Carl Deuker
In the book Gym Candy by Carl Deuker, one of the most important symbols is steroids. Steroids symbolize the shortcuts that athletes are willing to take in order to be the best. It gets so that the... -
Answered a Question in Brave New World
What is considered moral in Brave New World is casual sex, mass conformity, and hedonism, whereas what is considered immoral is spending time alone, freethinking, and refusing to take soma, the... -
Answered a Question in The Guide
In The Guide, R. K. Narayan explores changes in Indian society by showing that they run up against old ways and traditions, as exemplified by the story's protagonist, the charlatan guru Raju.... -
Answered a Question in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice's sister reacts to Alice's dream by closing her eyes and thinking about all the adventures Alice has been telling her about. Before long, Alice's sister falls into a dream in which all the... -
Answered a Question in Ligeia
In the short story "Ligeia" by Edgar Allan Poe, the text addresses the subject manner in a parodic manner in that it can be seen as a parody of the gothic genre. Many of the traditional elements of... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
Samneric see the beast on the mountain while they are tending to the fire. Of course, there isn't really a beast; the two littluns simply have a very overactive imagination. The so-called beast is... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare presents the role of fate in Romeo and Juliet as all-important, as determining everything that happens to the title characters, from their first meeting to their tragic deaths. The... -
Answered a Question in All My Sons
Miller's dramatic presentation of the relationship between Chris and his father in All My Sons is, on the surface, quite conventional; but in actual fact, there is an underlying tension between the... -
Answered a Question in The Lesson
What evokes this particular response is the experience that Sylvia has had of wandering around an upscale toy store, an experience that brings home to her just how unfair and unequal society is.... -
Answered a Question in Boys and Girls
Setting is used to illuminate gendered experience in "Boys and Girls" by providing a traditionally male-dominated environment against which the narrator's behavior can be analyzed. The setting is a... -
Answered a Question in Chains
The primary source at the beginning of chapter 2 of Chains connects with the events of the story in that, in this chapter, Isabel, like Phillis Wheatley, whose words make up the chapter's epigraph,... -
Answered a Question in Hills Like White Elephants
The story is told quite objectively in that we're just presented with the words and actions of the two characters involved without being given any access to their thoughts and feelings. This is an... -
Answered a Question in Pride and Prejudice
While this question is ultimately up to personal interpretation, many would argue that Pride and Prejudice isn't an anti-feminist novel, because the book's main character, Elizabeth Bennet, is a... -
Answered a Question in A Streetcar Named Desire
What the symbol of the packet of meat suggests about Stanley Kowalski is that he's a primitive, savage man, almost like a caveman. One can easily imagine Stanley, thousands of years ago, coming... -
Answered a Question in The Open Boat
The main theme of "The Open Boat" is that man is all alone in a godless universe, where he is no less subject to chance and change than every other object in the cosmos. Whatever man may think—and... -
Answered a Question in Astrophil and Stella
In sonnet 2 of "Astrophil and Stella," Sidney presents us with a complex study of love that departs considerably from the standard view of poets such as Petrarch. Whereas Petrarch fell in love with... -
Answered a Question in The Waste Land
In "The Waste Land," T. S. Eliot depicts a dark night of the soul, a condition of spiritual desolation, that prepares the ground for a spiritual transformation that, according to Eliot, only... -
Answered a Question in Outliers: The Story of Success
The three things that Gladwell says you must have for job satisfaction are autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward. According to Gladwell, work that fulfills these three... -
Answered a Question in The Metamorphosis
Kafka doesn’t show the metamorphosis because he wants to deal with the aftermath of Gregor’s transformation rather than the actual process itself. For Kafka, it’s not the actual metamorphosis...
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