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 Neoclassicism
Features of Neoclassical criticism would include an adherence to fixed standards of beauty, the veneration of tried and trusted ways, and an emphasis on craftsmanship in the construction of works... -
Answered a Question in King Lear
Much of the action in act 1 of King Lear can be seen as a response to this comment by Cordelia, rendering her words highly significant. Publicly called upon to proclaim her love for her father,... -
Answered a Question in The Portable Phonograph
In "The Portable Phonography," the books that are inside a hole in the wall next to Dr. Jenkins's bed are the Bible, the complete works of William Shakespeare, Moby Dick, and the Divine Comedy. Dr.... -
Answered a Question in The Merchant of Venice
On the first definition, one could argue that Antonio is the hero of The Merchant of Venice, whereas according to the latter definition, the hero would be Portia. Given that Antonio is the... -
Answered a Question in Anita Desai
In The Village by the Sea, the name of the village in which Hari and Lila's family live is Thul, which is located in Western India. As Anita Desai tells us in her author's note, Thul is a real... -
Answered a Question in The Tell-Tale Heart
In "The Tell-Tale Heart," the narrator clarifies that he is nervous, not mad, because he wants to make his story sound credible. He knows that if anyone thought for one moment that he was mad, then... -
Answered a Question in The Lion and the Jewel
What's admirable about Sidi in The Lion and the Jewel is that she knows her own mind. Sidi is fully aware of her beauty and is determined to use it in order to get what she wants. As a woman in a... -
Answered a Question in Burger's Daughter
Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer can be seen as a postcolonial text in that it provides a platform for postcolonial discourse through the character of Zwelinzima, who grew up alongside Rosa in... -
Answered a Question in A&P
If one were writing a section of "A&P" from Lengel's point of view, one would have to internalize his value system. In order to do this, it would be necessary to understand Lengel's values,... -
Answered a Question in A&P
In "A&P," one would have to agree with Sammy that the world is indeed going to be hard for him from now on in. That's because he's a romantic in an unromantic world. Life is particularly hard... -
Answered a Question in Second-Class Citizen
In Second-Class Citizen, Adah's welcome to London is cold in both the literal and the figurative sense. In the literal sense, the English weather is incredibly cold, certainly a lot colder than the... -
Answered a Question in History
Entrepreneurs managed to create large-scale corporate enterprises in the late nineteenth century by using questionable methods to drive their competitors out of business. At that time, during the... -
Answered a Question in Look Back in Anger
The theme of love in the play is presented as something that is complicated by class differences. This means that Jimmy and Alison, who hail from completely different class backgrounds, are unable... -
Answered a Question in Fences
Humor in the play Fences is shown alongside tragedy in what is a comprehensive view of the human condition. The critic Joseph H. Wessling acknowledged that though the central character of the play,... -
Answered a Question in History
The notion of race that derived from Iberian rule in America evolved from an ideology to the kind of scientific racism that became prominent in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. When the... -
Answered a Question in Seamus Heaney
Women's role in society is diminished by men in Seamus Heaney's "Limbo" and "Two Lorries" by, respectively, the stigmatizing of unwed mothers and the shameless flirtation of a young coalman with... -
Answered a Question in Gitanjali Song Offerings
A figure of speech in the fiftieth poem of Gitanjali Song Offerings is the simile by which the beggar speaker compares the appearance of the king of kings' golden chariot in the distance to a... -
Answered a Question in Lamb to the Slaughter
The personality traits of Mary Maloney in "Lamb to the Slaughter" are meekness, passivity, self-effacement, extreme deviousness, and calculation. On the face of it, it might seem that these... -
Answered a Question in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Henrietta's final request was that her husband Day take care of her children. What this tells us about Henrietta is that she is an incredibly caring mother who wants nothing but the best for her... -
Answered a Question in Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower
Figures of speech in "Three years she grew in sun and shower" would include simile and metaphor. We can observe a simile in the third stanza of the poem, where the speaker says that Lucy will be... -
Answered a Question in History
France was ready to sell Louisiana because a slave revolt in Saint-Domingue, modern-day Haiti and the Dominican Republic, wrecked Napoleon's plans of establishing a French empire in the Americas.... -
Answered a Question in Language, Truth, and Logic
Ayer purports to eliminate metaphysics by demonstrating that the language in which it is expressed is either meaningless or nonsensical. As a staunch logical positivist, Ayers believes that only... -
Answered a Question in Paradise of the Blind
In Paradise of the Blind, Duong shapes the setting to convey the significance of the global issue of the abuse of power. The Communists who have seized power in Vietnam after the departure of... -
Answered a Question in Martin Eden
Martin Eden's view of Ruth is initially very positive, although the same cannot be said of his opinion of the upper-middle-class stratum from which she comes. Whatever Martin's initial feelings for... -
Answered a Question in Once Upon a Time
The frame narrative of "Once Upon a Time," in which someone phones Gordimer and asks her to write a children's story, establishes the subsequent action as having elements of a fairy tale or bedtime... -
Answered a Question in History
The system of checks and balances created by the framers is designed to ensure that no one branch of government gets too powerful. The American colonists' long-standing complaints at what they saw... -
Answered a Question in Boys and Girls
By allowing Flora to escape, a horse due to be shot to provide meat for the foxes on the farm, the girl narrator lives up to the traditional expectations of society concerning how women are... -
Answered a Question in Literature
Ken Liu presents Jack's attitude towards his mother in the short story “The Paper Menagerie” as one of contempt. When Jack reaches high-school age, he begins to show contempt for his mother, who is... -
Answered a Question in The Toughest Indian in the World
The narrator dreams of ghosts of salmon because he feels out of place in his current environment and wants to get in touch with his Native American heritage. Truth be told, he's always felt out of... -
Answered a Question in The Oresteia
One could argue that Clytemnestra is not justified in killing Agamemnon and is therefore not a martyr, because her murderous act does not end the cycle of violence which included the death of her... -
Answered a Question in The Caretaker
Lack of self-awareness in The Caretaker is shown mainly through the character of the tramp Davies, who appears not to realize just how offensive his racism or his ingratitude to Mick for offering... -
Answered a Question in The Lion and the Jewel
For the most part, symbolism is used in the play to highlight the tension between the old and the new, the traditional Africa and the modern Africa that is just coming into being. For instance, we... -
Answered a Question in The Lion and the Jewel
The theme of young versus old in The Lion and the Jewel is illustrated by the juxtaposition between the young man Lakunle and traditional village life in Ilujinle. On the face of it, one would... -
Answered a Question in The French Lieutenant's Woman
One way in which The French Lieutenant's Woman is a postmodern work is that it adopts metafiction as a narrative technique. As a work of metafiction, which is one of the most important elements in... -
Answered a Question in History
The main difference in approach to colonization between the Spanish, the French, and the English was that in the cases of Spain and France, the impetus came from the Crown rather than from private... -
Answered a Question in How the Word Is Passed
The difference between the Monticello Plantation and the Whitney Plantation really couldn't be greater in relation to how they deal with their respective roles in perpetuating the institution of... -
Answered a Question in Apology
Socrates said that the unexamined life wasn't worth living. What he meant by this was that a life not devoted to the pursuit of truth and philosophical wisdom was pretty much worthless. In making... -
Answered a Question in Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Where history ends and legend begins in Bede is by no means clear-cut. This is because, as was common with historians at the time, he draws extensively upon legends throughout his Ecclesiastical... -
Answered a Question in Elaine Showalter
Gynocriticism is a concept introduced by Elaine Showalter in her 1979 essay "Towards a Feminist Poetics." As the title of the essay demonstrates, Showalter is engaged in making a contribution... -
Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
According to Scout, it's Calpurnia's fault that she's got into trouble at school. Apparently, this is because it was Calpurnia who taught Scout to read, and Scout's new teacher Miss Caroline... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
A quote that demonstrates the leadership style of Jack in Lord of the Flies is the following: “Bollocks to the rules! We're strong—we hunt! If there's a beast, we'll hunt it down! We'll close in... -
Answered a Question in Indian Ink
The representation of British rule in Tom Stoppard's Indian Ink is somewhat less than flattering. The Raj, the name given to the British rule in India, is presented as something that has suppressed... -
Answered a Question in The Yellow Wallpaper
If we didn't know for sure that the narrator of "The Yellow Wallpaper" is married to John, we couldn't really be faulted for arriving at the conclusion that they are nothing more than patient and... -
Answered a Question in Crow Lake
Virtually all of the characters in Mary Lawson's Crow Lake have to live with guilt to some extent. But one could say that Kate experiences greater and more persistent feelings of guilt than anyone... -
Answered a Question in The Vicar of Wakefield
As well as being a rollicking good story, Oliver Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield is also a didactic novel in that it aims to teach its readers a moral lesson. The lesson in question is the... -
Answered a Question in The Vicar of Wakefield
There's little doubt that Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield is, to a large extent, a spiritual autobiography of a Christian hero. There's even less doubt that this is precisely what Goldsmith... -
Answered a Question in Break, Break, Break
In "Break, Break, Break," the speaker's grief at the loss of a close friend is generally thought to reflect Tennyson's own grief at the loss of Arthur Henry Hallam, his closest friend who died... -
Answered a Question in Poor People
In chapter 2 of Poor People, William T. Vollmann grapples with the concept of poverty. Throughout, he tries to define what it means to be poor yet is remarkably candid in admitting how difficult... -
Answered a Question in I. A. Richards
In Practical Criticism, the work of literary criticism for which he is most famous and on which his posthumous reputation largely rests, I. A. Richards sets out to analyze a number of factors he... -
Answered a Question in The Journey to the West
Quest stories have always been a part of Western literature. They may not be quite as important as they once were, but they're still to be found all the same. A great example of a modern-day quest...
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