Michael Stultz, M.A.
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Answered a Question in Othello
In the first two acts Othello, Iago has been weaving a web of treachery and deceit, planting seeds that will spark the fire of jealousy later. Enough already! Shakespeare wisely buffers... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
In Romeo and Juliet, one need look no further than Mercutio's name to uncover his traits and function in the play: mercurial, an adjective meaning changeable; Mercury, the Roman messenger god and... -
Answered a Question in Brave New World
The final section of Chapter 18 in Brave New World describes how the helicopter pilots uncover John the Savage's body in the lighthouse: Just under the crown of the arch dangled a pair of feet.... -
Answered a Question in King Lear
Some critics believe that Lear in mad as the play begins. Why else would he divide up his kingdom? Why else would he wrest authority away, to his children? Why else would he... -
Answered a Question in The Great Gatsby
In Chapter 5 of The Great Gatsby, Gatsby gives Daisy and Nick a tour of his empty house. Nick had only been to Gatsby's for the parities, and now he sees it empty for the first time. To... -
Answered a Question in Othello
Unlike other tragedies that rely heavily on fate or the supernatural, Othello is a domestic tragedy in which an honorable man falls victim to a cunning villain. Its focus is on the human... -
Answered a Question in The Catcher in the Rye
In Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, written after World War II, American society wanted to break away from the Old World values (family defines the person), European influence (socio-economic status... -
Answered a Question in Theme for English B
You will want to focus on the following, writing about a paragraph for each: Speaker's Tone/Attitude: do both poems use a young black male speaker? To what effect? Is his voice plain,... -
Answered a Question in The Awakening
Society sees institutions and the external, whereas Edna sees only the individual. Society sees a woman as a product, a stage, a means to an end, whereas Edna sees herself as an active agent in the... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
All three men try to take revenge for fathers murdered, but each are delayed in doing so, and each regret the act after: Fortinbras takes political action to avenge his father's death. Old... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
Here is a brief outline of how regicide inverts the Great Chain: Worst Crimes in Elizabethan England 1.Regicide: murder of king (equivalent to killing God) 2.Parricide: murder of a parent or family... -
Answered a Question in Oedipus Rex
In Aristotle's Poetics, he outlines the major principles of tragedy, citing Sophocles' Oedipus as the paragon of the form. Aristotle's reasons are clear: to be the perfect tragedy the play must... -
Answered a Question in Poetry
"Snow White" is a revisionist prose poem that debunks the original tale in which a prince kisses Snow White. Part I of the poem revises the original, and the rest of the poem is a series of... -
Answered a Question in The Color of Water
In Color of Water, Ruth's strengths are her commitment to education, her ability to accept racial diversity, her refusal to adhere to religious dogma, and her persistent individualism in the face... -
Answered a Question in Literature
On March 20, 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte, purveyor of revolution and liberalism, escaped his exile from Elba and re-entered Paris with a thousand soldiers. He had championed the once disenfranchised... -
Answered a Question in Othello
In Othello, Iago is like the Devil, a sly voice that plays upon fear and weakness. First, he plays the race card against Othello, but that fails. Then, he plays the jealousy card... -
Answered a Question in Sir Thomas Wyatt
Here's the poem with emotional imagery in bold: And wilt thou leave me thus? Say nay, say nay, for shame, To save thee from the blame Of all my grief and grame; And wilt thou leave me thus? Say... -
Answered a Question in As I Lay Dying
In addition to the superb answer above, you may want to focus on the style of Cash's narrations, his tools, and their relationship to his mother. Cash's duty toward his mother is utilitarian... -
Answered a Question in Essays
An essay is usually a non-fiction prose piece of writing that is persuasive in nature, in that it attempts to establish credibility in its author: its voice and message attempt to move its audience... -
Answered a Question in A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
John Donn's "Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" is a metaphysical poem in which the speaker addresses a wife/lover who must remain home while he leaves on a trip. His main poetic device is the... -
Answered a Question in Brave New World
In Brave New World, John is a Byronic Hero, a kind of tragic hero who is controlled by passion unto destruction. He is a voracious reader and lover of Shakespearean and romantic ideals. He behaves... -
Answered a Question in 1984
The three main conflicts in George Orwell's 1984 are: 1. Individual (freedom) vs. the state: Winston is limited by the state in terms of every right and freedom imaginable, namely free speech... -
Answered a Question in Dante's Inferno
In Dante's Inferno Canto XX, Dante uses many analogies, direct comparisons between two things. Because he is traveling in hell, Dante must make realistic, earthly connections so the reader can... -
Answered a Question in The Catcher in the Rye
In Catcher in the Rye, Holden's red hunting hat is a symbol of his dead brother Allie who had flaming red hair. Like Allie's baseball glove with the poems written on it, the hat is... -
Answered a Question in The Great Gatsby
In The Great Gatsby, Nick (Fitgerald) says the American Dream is both a promise and a false promise. Fitzgerald's novel both confirms and denies the American Dream. Gatsby embodies... -
Answered a Question in Invisible Man
In Invisible Man, Chapter Two follows the narrator's journey as he drives one of the college's white benefactors, Mr. Norton, to visit the seemingly shameful symbol of black culture in the deep... -
Answered a Question in The Great Gatsby
In the first three chapters of The Great Gatsby, Nick goes to three parties: 1) Tom and Daisy's; 2) Tom and Myrtle's; and 3) Gatsby's. He is horrified by inappropriate behavior in each: 1) Tom's... -
Answered a Question in Essays
First, you will need to pick one and only one topic. There are no less than six topics in these sentences: fast food industry local supermarkets famers markets corporations food... -
Answered a Question in The Catcher in the Rye
In The Catcher in the Rye, Holden acts two different ways toward males, depending on their ages. While he venerates children, he is passive-agressive to those who are his age and older.... -
Answered a Question in 1984
Miniluv: Ministry of Love (law and order) Minipax: Ministry of Peace (war) Miniplenty: Ministry of Plenty (rationing) Minitrue: Ministry of Truth (propaganda) Each of the ministries does just the... -
Answered a Question in The Road
In Cormac McCarthy's The Road, the squid is mentioned twice: The soft black talc blew through the streets like squid ink uncoiling along a sea floor and the cold crept down and the dark came... -
Answered a Question in The Road
The Road chronicles a father and a son who tread along a forsaken patch of highway peopled by marauders and cannibals. The father and son may be the last of the “good guys” left on... -
Answered a Question in The Yellow Wallpaper
In Charlotte Perkins Gillman's "The Yellow Wallpaper," her narrator's tone is passive, disturbed, paranoid, and intimate. The narrator is torn between sanity and sickness/insanity; masculine and... -
Answered a Question in Don Quixote
Don Quixote's (really Alonso Quijano's) occupation is not named. He is simply a "gentleman" from La Mancha (in the Dedication he is first called "The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of... -
Answered a Question in The Catcher in the Rye
Catcher in the Rye is a kind of backwards Bildungsroman, or a coming of age story, in which has already crossed the border from innocence to experience before the novel begins (probably when Allie... -
Answered a Question in The Pilgrim's Progress
An allegory, as you know, is different from symbolism (which can stand for many things). An allegory has a one-to-one kind of symbolism (Christian = Bunyan). So, Pilgrim's Progress... -
Answered a Question in The Road
The novel The Road begins in medias res, which is a Latin phrase for "in the middle of things." The reader is thrown into the story much like the characters who fight for survival. A... -
Answered a Question in A Good Man Is Hard to Find
"A Good Man is Hard to Find" (1955) tells the story of a family en route from Tennessee to Florida for vacation. Through a series of the mishaps by the grandmother and her cat, the family car... -
Answered a Question in The Catcher in the Rye
In Catcher in the Rye, after Holden was "sort of crying," he yells, "Sleep tight, ya morons!" at the end of Chapter 7 as he leaves Pencey Prep boarding school and journeys to New York City. As this... -
Answered a Question in Othello
Othello Act I, scene i takes place at night in Venice, outside the home of the city-state's senator, Brabantio, father of Desdemona. He has been having bad dreams about his daughter. Outside,... -
Answered a Question in The Guest
Camus' short story "The Guest," suggests that Daru will receive the following treatment in the end: A little later standing before the window of the classroom the school master was watching the... -
Answered a Question in Invisible Man
The number can be significant in a few ways: first, it contains the first 3 multiples of 3: 3, 6, and 9. Three is a significant number in Invisible Man: the narrator is the third generation... -
Answered a Question in The Catcher in the Rye
Catcher in the Rye's is open-ended. Salinger gives provides an authorial voice at the end (Mr. Antollini), but he doesn't save Holden. So, in the end, the reader can make either case:... -
Answered a Question in Stephen King
Andy fights for his own justice by exposing Warden Samuel Norton and Capt. Byron Hadley as the real criminals in Shawshank Prison. Through books, Andy reveals that they embezzle and... -
Answered a Question in Moby-Dick
Here, Melville is myth-making, and Ishmael is delving into the myth, joining Ahab's revenge against the whale. The chapter begins like an invocation from an epic poem: Ishmael, was one of that... -
Answered a Question in Wilfred Owen
Here is the poem with the stresses in bold. Move him into the sun - Gently its touch awoke him once, At home, whispering of fields unsown. Always it woke him, even in France, Until this morning... -
Answered a Question in The Catcher in the Rye
In the conversation with Luce, Holden reveals much sexual confusion. Here's the scene's major points: Luce is an older, college student who goes to Columbia; he's similar to Stradlater from... -
Answered a Question in The Catcher in the Rye
"Now he's out in Hollywood, D.B., being a prostitute. If there's one thing I hate, it's the movies. Don't even mention them to me." So begins Holden Caulfield’s caustic assault on the Hollywood... -
Answered a Question in Othello
Othello Act I, scene iii is a dramatic and pivotal scene, the play's last in Venice. The mood is charged with racial tension and jealousy. The scene is a war council, a trial, and a... -
Answered a Question in Jean-Paul Sartre
Existentialism does not occur in a vacuum. Granted, it is not a church or a prescriptive ideology, but it is born by a community into a community. Paul Tillich says it is the "natural...
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