Donny Wankan

The poem contains quite a bit of both metaphor and connotation. Consider the way the writer is using associations to describe the combination of cold and warmth in his home growing up. The repeated...

It wouldn't serve your work to provide the thesis for you because your own approaches to and understandings of Romanticism will influence your ability to argue a thesis. Any claim I make may be...

Night is often, though we wouldn't think so, a symbol of comfort and safety. Offred lives in a society that has enslaved her to the needs of a particular, powerful group, and the structure of the...

The Sound and the Fury uses stream of consciousness, a stylistic technique in which the narration follows the direct psychological experience of a character. The four parts of the novel, each told...

A comparison of the two narrators in these novels may show a sort of mirror image, at once a copy and an opposite. Both narrators are never named. Both begin by describing themselves as bitter...

The time period and the cultural context go well with the physical location of the story. The narrative takes place in a train station, and the characters are in a state of transition. They are...

Yeats's work moves in two directions, in a way. Much of what he says in his poetry is very Romantic. "The Wild Swans at Coole" represents this well. In the poem, he paints a vivid nature scene and...

Snowball, in the allegory of Animal Farm, corresponds to Leon Trotsky. As Trotsky had helped seed the ideology and command the army of the Russian Revolution, Snowball helps to spread the ideas of...

In Beowulf, youth and age are not treated very differently from the way we treat them in the contemporary West. Youth is a time of learning, characterized by seeking adventure and having to prove...

Very few of the characters Chaucer describes are given a favorable portrait. Most are either corrupt, deceitful, or phony. The Miller is one of the most vividly described of the middle-class...

Keep in mind that any novel, story, play, or poem can have numerous thematic ideas working, and at one time, a reader can see several developing in tandem. With that in mind, I will offer an answer...

The first step in answering this sort of (actually any sort of) question is to look for the obvious. Before we even read the play or watch a performance or the film version of it, we know from the...

To discuss foreshadowing in Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, the first question to be asked is whether you've read Hamlet, which Stoppard took the two characters from. It's...

Three concepts dominate this starkly matter-of-fact story: deterioration, authority, and human warmth. Deterioration comes early in "Saboteur." We see it in the pigeons roosting on the statue of...

Voltaire was a universal critic. A reader with a thorough understanding of the historical context of Candide would be hard pressed to find an institution, a philosophy, or a political movement that...

The poem and the Macbeth soliloquy from which Frost took its title, both explore the fleeting nature of human life. When Macbeth makes this speech at the end of the tragedy, he has lost all of his...