Elena Caban

There are many ways in which Shakespeare manipulates language in Sonnet 18. The most obvious of these may be his extensive use of metaphor; that is, how youth and mortality are conveyed through...

The witches and Lady Macbeth are major instigators throughout the play. They push, encourage, or trick Macbeth into committing horrific acts and sealing his own fate, as redemption becomes more and...

In "Of Mice and Men," hands take on a symbolic quality, and often reflect the characteristics of the those to whom they are attached. For example, Curley is described as keeping one of his...

George kills Lennie right before Lennie is about to be caught by a mob of incredibly angry, and incredibly violent, men. Lennie, who is mentally handicapped, has accidentally killed Curley's wife....

Due to her unorthodox—and often perilous—upbringing, Jeanette is forced to be independent, and take care of herself in ways that most children do not. Jeanette's parents, Rex and Rose Mary,...

As a novel, The Old Man and the Sea is preoccupied with questions of age, mortality, strength, and change. Santiago, the fisherman, is an elderly man whose physical health and luck are...

Like most Shakespearean sonnets, Sonnet 18 consists of 14 lines of iambic pentameter, with a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg. The poem is composed of three quatrains and a final...

One writing strategy which Poe uses to develop the central theme of justified revenge is that of imagery. The entire story is peppered with images and motifs which cast Montresor as a wronged...

Epic poetry, more so than prose or drama, is rooted in oral history. It draws upon the subject matter common to those stories which were recited, in public, within pre-literate societies. It...

One of the main reasons that Napoleon is able to subjugate and exploit his former "comrades" is that he exceeds them in literacy, education, and knowledge of the outside world. He uses these...

I think that, first and foremost, you need to think about how you would define a "journey." If a journey is a simple, linear path forward, with no deviations or regressions, then Offred's...

It may seem strange to speak of Banquo as taking revenge on Macbeth, as Macbeth kills Banquo and sends his son, Fleance, into hiding. On this account, Macbeth has total victory over his former...

In "Structure, Sign, and Play," Jacques Derrida discusses the tendency of scholars (such as Nietzsche, Freud, and Heidegger) to denounce each other. He is particularly concerned with metaphysics....

Italo Calvino's works are generally fabulist. Fabulism, broadly speaking, is a form of magical realism in which fantastical elements are placed in an everyday setting. That being said, Invisible...

In the most basic sense, a traditional plot hinges on action. A character or group of characters desire something; they act in such a way as to procure it; other characters will try and foil their...