Michael Stultz, M.A.
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Answered a Question in Paradise Lost
Milton was a master of languages: Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and the European languages of the time. He wrote in the best Latin verse by an English poet, so look for synthesis of language in the... -
Answered a Question in Frankenstein
Frankenstein reveals the following Gothic themes and imagery: Originated as ghost story Portrays human beings as woefully imperfect Humans mercy of nature and death. Doppelganger (ghostly twin)... -
Answered a Question in Everyday Use
In Alice Walker's "Everyday Use," a switch in point-of-view would turn remove the story of its matriarchal voice, and we would not know the interior thoughts of Mrs. Johnson or her impact in... -
Answered a Question in The Great Gatsby
Chapter 2 of The Great Gatsby is full of figurative language: About half way between West Egg and New York the motor road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so... -
Answered a Question in The Catcher in the Rye
In chapter 1 of The Catcher in the Rye, we know that Holden hates the movies, and he resents his brother D.B. for giving up on being a writer of short stories to be a screenwriter in Hollywood: Now... -
Answered a Question in Things Fall Apart
In Things Fall Apart, Obierika is a spokesman for the author, Chinua Achebe. The author speaks through Obierika to comment on Okonkwo to the reader. In this way, Obierika is reflective:... -
Answered a Question in Othello
In Othello, the two main characters are Othello and Iago. The former is the tragic hero and the latter is the villain. They are fighting over male reputation, and they use Desdemona... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
In Macbeth, the witches speak in rhymed couplets most of the time: The weird sisters, hand in hand,Posters of the sea and land, Other times, they speak in unrhymed iambic tetrameter. Thou shalt get... -
Answered a Question in Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights helped develop the modern style of the unreliable narrator and multiple points of view. With an outside narrator (Lockwood) and an inside narrator (Nellie), Wuthering... -
Answered a Question in Wuthering Heights
Here are the 6 topics that I include on my essay test: 1. Investigate the character of Nelly (Or Ellen Dean). Why does Bronte choose Nelly for the main narrator? She is painfully... -
Answered a Question in William Shakespeare
Shakespeare's intentions were first to become an actor. He left Stratford-on-Avon to begin a career on stage. He worked his way up the ladder in the acting profession: first as a... -
Answered a Question in The Catcher in the Rye
In The Catcher in the Rye, Mr. Antonlini could have been a Deus ex Machina, a character who saves Holden from destruction. Mr. Antonolini's advice seems similar to what Salinger might be... -
Answered a Question in The Catcher in the Rye
In The Catcher in the Rye, Holden is greatly affected by two deaths: his brother Allie's and a classmate James Castle's. To Holden, Allie was perfect: innocent, uncorrupted by society, a true... -
Answered a Question in A Rose for Emily
The main conflicts in Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" are: Woman vs. society: Miss Emily feels the Southern culture's pressures to be a married debutante instead of an Old Maid. She also... -
Answered a Question in Beowulf
In Beowulf, the mead-hall Heorot is the center of the Dane's tribal culture. It gives life to King Hrothgar and Beowulf in terms of establishing the Anglo-Saxon name and reputation, but it is... -
Answered a Question in A Rose for Emily
"Barn Burning" and "A Rose for Emily" both focus on: Clannishness: staying intensely loyal to the family. One cannot betray father, either by giving him up to the judge if he burns barns or... -
Answered a Question in Things Fall Apart
He can't. Who can justify suicide and self-destruction? It is irrational, a dark empty feeling. It has nothing to do with reason. Camus said suicide is the rejection of... -
Answered a Question in The Most Dangerous Game
"The Most Dangerous Game" is repleat with animal imagery and hunting symbolism: I hope the jaguar guns have come from Purdey's. AND ...high screaming sound, the sound of an animal in an... -
Answered a Question in Everyday Use
In Alice Walker's short story "Everyday Use," the reader is meant to confide in Mrs. Johnson's narration and her values. The mood of the story makes the reader empathize with Mrs. Johnson and... -
Answered a Question in Wuthering Heights
The Romantics believed in the Classical concept of nature. The natural world is like the Garden of Eden: a paradise, uncorrupted by mankind, the perfect synthesis of the divine, human, and... -
Answered a Question in The Story of an Hour
I think Chopin uses her female characters' deaths as a means to freedom. In The Awakening, Chopin's most famous protagonist, Edna Pontillier, commits suicide by drowning herself. She too was... -
Answered a Question in Essays
American teenagers do not share the same civil rights in schools that adult Americans share in society. There's really no freedom of speech or the press in school. Teachers and administrators... -
Answered a Question in King Lear
In Act IV of King Lear, Shakespeare shows that men are. . playthings to the cruel, wanton gods. Edgar says: O Gods! Who is’t can say, “I am at the worst”? I am worse than e’er... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
In Hamlet Act V, scene i of Hamlet, the two Gravediggers (Clowns) debate the nature of Ophelia's death: was it suicide or an accident? If it is suicide, the church would not have given her a... -
Answered a Question in Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights is full of dualities in themes, settings, characters, and symbols. As the other editor has said, I would classify the symbols are "wild" vs. "civilized" rather than "good"... -
Answered a Question in The Old Man and the Sea
An allusion is a historical reference to a real person, place, or event that is used to add realism to a work of fiction. As The Old and the Sea is an allegory, there are not many allusions.... -
Answered a Question in Paradise Lost
Here are some points about Satan from Paradise Lost: "Lucifer" means "light bearer." means "enemy" or "adversary" in Hebrew Ungrateful for God’s blessings Unafraid of being put to death or being... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
In Hamlet, the hero learns the following: There is an after-life: the Ghost is a supernatural being trapped in Purgatory. King Hamlet is murdered: this reshapes Hamlet's thinking and motivation... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
Hamlet's words echo the spiritual crisis in the play. Earlier, Hamlet refused to kill Claudius at prayer, fearing that it might send him to heaven. Here, he mocks the King spiritually... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
The end of Macbeth Act IV, scene iii, may be the first and only time that two characters are honest with each other in the entire play. The outcome is that the rightful heir of Scotland,... -
Answered a Question in The Odyssey
In The Odyssey, the Greeks believed that man is responsible for his fate. They believed in the sacredness in the guest-host relationship. Just as Odysseus and his men violated this... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
Queen Gertrude says this in Act IV, scene i, regarding Hamlet's murder of Polonius earlier in Act III. The quote suggests the duality of Hamlet's actions. Hamlet seems crazy, but he's really... -
Answered a Question in Much Ado About Nothing
In addition to the superb answer above: "Men were deceivers ever." The main villain in the play is a male, Don John the Bastard. He dupes males: Don Pedro and Claudio. The play's hero... -
Answered a Question in My Last Duchess
Here are some notes and outline points to help you write a response to this question: The monologue's characteristics: give a psychological portrait of a powerful Renaissance aristocrat... -
Answered a Question in Paradise Lost
John Milton's Paradise Lost is the only and, therefore, greatest English epic. The poem is an epic but also an collection of ideas and abstractions (-isms). Milton intended the epic to be a... -
Answered a Question in William Hazlitt
Speaking of his literary criticism, William Hazlitt said: "I say what I think: I think what I feel. I cannot help receiving certain impressions from things; and I have sufficient courage to... -
Answered a Question in Shakespeare's Sonnets
Shakespeare's sonnets address the following subjects: friendship, love, jealousies, rejection, harmonious affection. Major metaphors used: time devouring everything, seasons and weather... -
Answered a Question in Anne Sexton
Anne Sexton is a confessional poet who draws historical and mythical analogies to her battle with bipolar disorder, depression, and suicide. In "Her Kind," Sexton's speaker compares herself to a... -
Answered a Question in Othello
Shakespeare uses oxymorons to reconcile or synthesise opposites. This is especially noticeable in the speech of Iago. It is in this spirit of contradiction that Iago infects Othello and... -
Answered a Question in Wuthering Heights
The symbols and motifs are mainly Gothic and Freudian (Penistone Crag): haunted houses ruined buildings shadows, a beam of moonlight in the blackness, a flickering candle, or the only source of... -
Answered a Question in Désirée's Baby
Madame Valmonde had not seen Desiree and the baby for four weeks. When she reached L'Abri she shuddered at the first sight of it, as she always did. Here are the reasons why: Personification: "It... -
Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
The main reason the kids are fascinated with the Radley house is because Atticus told them not to be. The house is taboo, other, haunted, Gothic. In it resides a freak, a murderer who... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
Animal Imagery: "The raven himself is hoarse" Sound Imagery: "That croaks" Death Imagery: "the fatal entrance of Duncan" Foreshadowing: "the fatal entrance of Duncan Under... -
Answered a Question in King Lear
In King Lear, Edmund says he is a victim of culture, not nature: he is not born evil, but made evil by society shunning him and all bastards. He is the foil for Edgar. Edmund is a Bastard, an... -
Answered a Question in Désirée's Baby
In Kate Chopin's classic short story "Desiree's Baby," Desiree refuses to see skin color because she takes it for granted. She has prided herself as white and privileged her whole life.... -
Answered a Question in Othello
In Othello, Iago should be admired as an archetype (a type of character), but not as a type of person. Iago is Shakespeare's greatest villain, and he has more lines than any other character... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
In Hamlet Act I, Hamlet learns the following from the Ghost: There is an afterlife. He's not sure if the Ghost is a demon or a soul trapped in Purgatory, but he's definitely from some... -
Answered a Question in Fahrenheit 451
In Ray Bradbury's "Coda" (epilogue) to Fahrenheit 451, he says that publications like Readers Digest, minority groups, and high school reading list watch-dogs are all modern day firemen, or... -
Answered a Question in Othello
In Othello, Iago suffers from any combinations of the following: 1. Jealousy that Othello is General and he is not. This stems from an overdeveloped sense of male reputation from an... -
Answered a Question in Trifles
Susan Glaspell's one-act play Trifles may be analyzed from a structuralist literary approach by by examining the underlying structure and inherent tensions of the two groups, the men and the...
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