Jennifer Bustance

"Here is my Creed," Benjamin Franklin wrote to Ezra Stiles -- the Calvinist president of Yale College -- in 1790. "I believe in one God, Creator of the Universe. That He governs it by His...

POLONIUS Yet here, Laertes? Aboard, aboard, for shame! The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail And you are stayed for. There, my blessing with thee. And these few precepts in thy memory Look...

I think this is an important question because it gets at the heart of a long-standing debate: Is Romeo & Juliet actually a love story? There are certainly beautiful passages about love,...

Is Gregor Samsa from Kafka's The Metamorphosis insane? In order to answer this question, we must look at the point of view from which the story was written. The Metamorphosis is...

A Motif is a distinctive feature or dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition, and Never Let Me Go is rife with them. AnimalsThe book is full of animal imagery -- the kids at...

"The Lottery" is a highly symbolic short story, written in omniscient third person point of view, about the impact of systemic, needless violence. Originally published in the late 1940's, the story...

What is an archetype? An archetype is the quintessential version of a certain person or thing, meaning that it can be described as a typical example. In Closer, each character behaves...