
Greg Beatty, Ph.D.
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Teacher, freelance writer, and short story author.
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Answered a Question in The Shining
This question is useful. It is useful to be reminded that King isn't just a horror writer, or just out to shock readers and gross them out, but also uses a wide range of literary techniques, such... -
Answered a Question in The Leap
That's an interesting question. Most of the mother's actions in the story are in the past. The main ones in the present show her in her old age, with her eyesight fading. Almost all the rest of the... -
Answered a Question in Harrison Bergeron
There are four reasons the government is searching for Harrison Bergeron. The most immediate reason the government is looking for Harrison is that he broke out of jail. The second reason is... -
Answered a Question in Literature
Yes, we can help with this. There are two general ways to approach this. The first way is to approach this from the experiential end of things (the actual facts and experience of abuse). The other... -
Answered a Question in Romanticism
This is an interesting question, and in some ways a difficult and artificial one. I say this because the Romantic movement did not have only material causes. It had a range of causes. Some were... -
Answered a Question in The Cask of Amontillado
This is an interesting and subtle question. You might ask, important for what? One very important piece of imagery is found in the story's fourth paragraph, when Montresor encounters Fortunato on... -
Answered a Question in The Yellow Wallpaper
This is a fun and interesting question. When you read a work narrated by an unreliable narrator, you can't trust what he or she says. This means that as you go through the story, doubts arise and... -
Answered a Question in The Soldier
Brooke uses a number of literary devices in this poem. The first is his choice of a formal structure. This is a sonnet. Once readers recognize this, they can expect a number of other literary... -
Answered a Question in Literature
Ray Bradbury explained his model of creative writing at various times throughout his long and glorious career. He explained it at the greatest length in his non-fiction book Zen in the Art of... -
Answered a Question in Dead Men's Path
Michael Obi and the priest from the village near the school are similar in that both want what is best for the village and the people in it. They differ in what they believe is best for the village... -
Answered a Question in Everyday Use
The social conflict in Walker's classic story is between different African American identities. Mrs. Johnson and her daughter Maggie represents a kind of social and historical continuity, while her... -
Answered a Question in History (General)
That is an interesting question. Written laws are important for several reasons. Written laws provide a shared reference. Once a law is written down, there is an objective record of what the law... -
Answered a Question in Frankenstein
This is an interesting pair of questions. To answer it, we must remember that Mary Shelley's classic novel is a nested narrative: people tell stories about other people who tell stories about... -
Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
The theme of a literary work is its main idea. In a complex work like To Kill a Mockingbird, there are several themes, so you have some choices as far as what you want to relate racism to. For... -
Answered a Question in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Most of this great poem is a dramatic monologue, in which the narrator delivers an extended reflection on a topic. At some points, though, it slips into stream of consciousness. In stream of... -
Answered a Question in The Guest
That is a great question. First, let us acknowledge that all fiction leaves things out, and short stories leave more things out. They have to, in order to create the focus authors need. So, leaving... -
Answered a Question in The Picture of Dorian Gray
That is an interesting question. To answer this, you need to look at what Henry says, what he does, and what effects he has on others. If you go by his words, he rejects standard or common views of... -
Answered a Question in The Lottery
Connotation is the meaning associated with a word or phrase that goes beyond the literal or denotative meaning. Shirley Jackson uses connotation in several ways in her classic short story. One of... -
Answered a Question in A Rose for Emily
When Miss Emily tells her visitors that her father is not dead, she is doing several things. First, she is denying reality. She does this in different ways throughout the story. A related point is... -
Answered a Question in Remember
Well, this is an interesting question, especially stopping there. Start by being very clear: the poet does not say much directly about the person being addressed. It is all implied or communicated... -
Answered a Question in Politics and the English Language
According to Orwell, using large and/ or foreign words has several effects on writing and society, most or all of which are bad. Orwell develops a number of categories of language use. One of these... -
Answered a Question in Flowers for Algernon
A fine question. I would say first that the changes in spelling, language, and vocabulary are not changes in themselves, but symptoms or markers of the larger changes in Charlie's intellectual... -
Answered a Question in I think continually of those who were truly great
Traditionally, those who are considered great in a standard sense leave tangible, physical legacies behind them. They win awards, people name things after them, people build monuments to them, and... -
Answered a Question in Harrison Bergeron
Vonnegut does not give us access to much of George's inner landscape. He gives us a few snippets of what George feels, and for the rest of the story, we have to deduce what George feels. So, start... -
Answered a Question in The Tempest
There are strong links between The Tempest and William Shakespeare's own life. These revolve around the character of Prospero, his powers, and where he is in his "career" on the island. Start with... -
Answered a Question in The Epic of Gilgamesh
No. Enkidu was not created to be Gilgamesh's friend. Gilgamesh was ruler of Uruk, but he was not ruling wisely. In fact, he was ruling quite badly. He was overworking the men, and he was ravishing... -
Answered a Question in A Jury of Her Peers
During Glaspell's classic short story "A Jury of Her Peers," Minnie Wright does not appear in her own house. Instead, she is absent. To be specific, she's in jail. This is indicated in passing,... -
Answered a Question in Shooting an Elephant
There are three general reasons why the Burmese might not have weapons, reasons that each might apply but that are very different from one another. The first reason is there is a history of... -
Answered a Question in The Lottery
This is an interesting question! One of the major cultural institutions this story could be satirizing and commenting on is the military draft. The United States instituted the draft in 1940, and... -
Answered a Question in There Will Come Soft Rains
There are several ways to answer the question of why an author wrote something, and with a writer like Bradbury, there may be more answers than with some others. To start, Bradbury was a... -
Answered a Question in Harrison Bergeron
This detail tells us several crucial things about government in this story. First, it tells us the government in this story is still technically the government of the United States. This is not... -
Answered a Question in Beowulf
Several key attributes define this location. First of all, it is far from human habitation. Second, it is on the monster's home ground. Remember that Grendel had intruded into where the men were... -
Answered a Question in The Fish
Well, the first option is that the fish doesn't symbolize anything at all. Never leave that option out, even in poetry. Some poems try to capture vivid experiences in vivid verse. In that... -
Answered a Question in History
There are several political reasons a nation might want to have colonies. The first is simple: power. When a nation founds a colony, they acquire power over a new region and the people in it. This... -
Answered a Question in A Poison Tree
This poem operates at the intersection of ethics and emotion. You can’t discuss the moral lessons of the poem without discussing what emotions are found in it. In the first stanza, the narrator... -
Answered a Question in Sonnet 18
Ah, a fine question that cuts to the heart of this poem. Think about what summer is. Summer is hot. It is a time of passion, warm breezes, and flourishing flowers. It is a time for fun, and often... -
Answered a Question in Inferno
Dante's Inferno is one of classics of Western literature. One of the things that makes it so engaging is that in each circle of hell a different category of sinner is suffering. For example, in... -
Answered a Question in Harrison Bergeron
In this classic science fiction story, Vonnegut tells us some things directly about the society of 2081 and leaves the reader to infer others. The first detail given is about the equality. "THE... -
Answered a Question in A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
Great question! No. It doesn't mean that. That's an option, and a possibility, but not a certainty. First, let us review the final line of the story. Marquez wrote, "She kept watching him even when... -
Answered a Question in Mirror
When writers use metaphors, they use non-literal language to make connections between two things that aren't otherwise connected. For example, imagine you said, "He's a dog." You're referring to a... -
Answered a Question in The Cold Equations
I would argue Godwin uses third person in his classic science fiction short story to provide emotional distance. As the title indicates, much of the theme of the story revolves around Barton (the... -
Answered a Question in Barbie Doll
First, let us review what an adjective is. Adjectives are words you use to describe nouns (or pronouns). If I write, "I just finished walking my noisy dog," the word "noisy" is an adjective telling... -
Answered a Question in Anne Bradstreet
We have a lot of records on some poets. Some poets spell out their goals for their poetry in detail, explaining what they are doing and why. In other cases, we have more humble records, such as... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
In Act 2, Scene 3, when Romeo tells Friar Lawrence he hasn't been to bed yet, the friar says, "God pardon sin! Wast thou with Rosaline?" The fact that Lawrence knows Romeo so well is something... -
Answered a Question in The Shield of Achilles
If you are going to assess how important myth is in Auden's poem "The Shield of Achilles," it is best to start with the most basic points, to establish a foundation. Myth is incredibly important... -
Answered a Question in Anthem
Verbal irony is when a speaker says something that's the opposite of what is intended. It can be intentional, as when a friend who hates my hat says, "Nice hat!" It can also be intentional on the... -
Answered a Question in Candide
All three of these schools of thought are definitely portrayed in Voltaire's classic satire Candide. Voltaire shows these schools in different ways, however. You can see the young Candide as an... -
Answered a Question in The Prince and the Pauper
I would have to say that Edward, Prince of Wales, matures the most throughout the novel. Edward had good manners throughout the book due to his training as a prince. He deepens and matures through... -
Answered a Question in The Prince and the Pauper
There's a mutual choice that's the most important for the story to happen at all, and that is that the two boys change clothes and positions. If you really want the most important choice by a... -
Answered a Question in Edgar A. Guest
Guest uses a broad array of poetic techniques and devices in "Equipment." Let's start with the most basic. The poem uses line breaks to shape the poem, and is arranged into distinct stanzas. The...
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