Vicki Lewis

When you observe a play, you may or may not understand how well the characters know one another through the script alone. When they listen or comment (unbenownst to the other performers), you might...

Irony is shown when Emma considers her attraction to Mr. Churchill. She is such a match maker toward Harriet that it is ironic she can't tell when she herself is in love. This irony is compounded...

Suffice it to say that no character who marries for status or for financial gain is portrayed as having a happy marriage in Jane Austen's novels. The imprudence of marrying for security is shown...

An allegory is a story told by a symbol's POV, or a highly symbollic story. An example is the character named Mercy in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. Not surprisingly, that character acts in...

Those questions require getting into the mind of the author, which I usually begin by researching the following: the author's era, popular stories of that era (any similarity?/sharp contrast?/genre...