Michael Stultz, M.A.
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Answered a Question in A Rose for Emily
"A Rose for Emily" begins with the climax, Miss Emily's death, but it only reveals half of the climax. The other half of the climax involves who slept next to her, Homer, who had long since... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
Hamlet is angry with his mother, Claudius, and Polonius more than he is with Ophelia. He does get angry with Ophelia after she lies to him. He asks, "Where is your father?" and she... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
Hamlet Act II is a preview of things to come. Polonius is a foil for Claudius. Polonius is using a Reynaldo to keep watch on his son the same way that Claudius will use spies (Polonius,... -
Answered a Question in Othello
Here are four types of philosophy found in Act V of the Othello: Metaphysics: beliefs about reality; Othello realizes he has been operating under a false reality. It appeared that Desdemona... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
In Hamlet, Act II, Hamlet says: One speech in it Ichiefly loved: 'twas Aeneas' tale to Dido; andthereabout of it especially, where he speaks of Priam's slaughter: The Player's first monologue... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
In Hamlet, Ophelia is mentally "drawn and quartered" by men. As a result, she goes mad. First, her brother tells her not to fall for the spoiled antics of Hamlet. Since he's a prince,... -
Answered a Question in Seventeen
William Saroyan's short story "Seventeen" reveals the following elements of Realism are in bold. Characters resemble ordinary people: Sam Wolinsky is a realistic teen with problems. He's... -
Answered a Question in 1984
Three is a Magic Number: 3 act structure: beginning (problems), middle (climax), end (resolution) 3 geographical settings (Oceania, Eastasia, Eurasia) 3 types of people according to Goldstein's... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
Here are the major themes of Macbeth: Ambition can subvert reason: “From this moment,the very firstlings of my shall be the firstlings of my hand.” –Act IV, Scene 1 AND “Thou wouldst... -
Answered a Question in The Best of Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes is ranked #9 on the greatest literary characters of all-time list according to the book The Fictional 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Characters in World Literature and... -
Answered a Question in Literary Terms
In addition to the excellent answer above, here are some more points regarding Modernism: •Modernism places faith in the ideas, values, beliefs, culture, and norms of the West •Modernism attempts... -
Answered a Question in Literature
Depending on the text, you will want to look at the roles of females in the novel and compare them with the roles of males. In particular, you will look for these main points of criticism: 1.... -
Answered a Question in Sonny's Blues
"Sonny's Blues" begins with the narrator's foreboding feelings regarding his brother's fate. Darkness imagery abounds as the speaker tries to empathize with his brother, symbolic of his... -
Answered a Question in The Odyssey
The Odyssey is an epic poem because of the following: it is a long, narrative poem it focuses on an epic subject: the suffering of Odysseus it champions an epic hero, Odysseus, it characterizes... -
Answered a Question in The Catcher in the Rye
In The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caufield can't bring himself to have sex with Sunny because he imagines her going into a store and buying a green dress without anyone realizing she's a... -
Answered a Question in The Catcher in the Rye
Since the novel is satire, Salinger's focus is more on the society as phony rather than the individual. Of course Holden is a phony, but it is only because he is a victim of the phony... -
Answered a Question in Tuesdays With Morrie
In Tuesdays With Morrie, Morrie's father is a father in name only. There is a division of labor in the house, and Morrie's parents marriage is segregated. Morrie's mother takes care of... -
Answered a Question in The Odyssey
In the episode of the Cyclops, Homer comments on the differences between Greek civilization and the barbaric and monstrous Cyclopes who have no law. Odysseus says to Alcinous: "We sailed hence,... -
Answered a Question in The Rise of the English Novel
In response to the cultural and political conditions in late 18th century Europe, Romanticism, or at least "romantic sensibilities," spread westward from Germany, France, and Italy into Britain,... -
Answered a Question in Brave New World
Bernard Marx is the protagonist in the first half of Brave New World. He named after Karl Marx, one of the founding fathers of the communist/socialist government in the USSR. He is an Alpha plus,... -
Answered a Question in Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado About Nothing is full of duality, foils, doubles, and two-face deceivers. In Act II, scene i there is a masquerade ball. Don Pedro pretends to be Claudio and woo Hero for him.... -
Answered a Question in Much Ado About Nothing
In Much Ado About Nothing, Don John is a stock, flat, static character. He is a villain because he admits it to Conrad, another villain: I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in... -
Answered a Question in Wuthering Heights
In Wuthering Heights, Lockwood and Nelly are complementary narrators. They are foils in nearly every way. Lockwood; Nelly male; female stuffy (formal) style; plain (informal,... -
Answered a Question in The Secret Sharer
The main symbols in the The Secret Sharer are as follow: the captain represents the Ego; Capt. Archbold represents the Super-ego Leggatt represents the Id the sea (above water is... -
Answered a Question in Frankenstein
In Chapter 1 of Frankenstein, Victor writes: When my father returned from Milan, he found playing with me in the hall of our villa a child fairer than pictured cherub--a creature who seemed to... -
Answered a Question in George Orwell
George Orwell, in his 1946 essay, "Politics and the English Language," says that it is clear that the decline of a language must ultimately have political and economic causes: Among the problems of... -
Answered a Question in Of Mice and Men
Slim is the "prince of the ranch," highest ranking worker on the ranch, and Steinbeck's working class hero. Though Slim ranks lower than Curley, the Boss' son, Curley does not antagonize Slim.... -
Answered a Question in The Black Cat
In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat," the narrator is highly descriptive in his accounts of the apparition of the black cat, using Gothic imagery, as well as supernatural, unnatural, and morbid... -
Answered a Question in The Odyssey
In The Odyssey Book XXI there is the following weapons imagery: the bow and with the iron axes the quiver, with the many deadly arrows Telemachus girded on his sword, grasped his... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
Hamlet's life is miserable no matter what he does. Many people give him advice in the play, but none of it works. That's the whole point of Hamlet: suffering and death are inevitable.... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
1. Pun: "Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads;" 2. Alliteration: "From forth the fatal loins of these two foes" 3. Oxymoron: "O loving hate!" 4. Allusion: "Even or odd, of all days in... -
Answered a Question in The Catcher in the Rye
There's two instances of Catholicism in The Catcher in the Rye: one with Ackley at Pency and one at breakfast with the nuns. Holden asks Ackley: "Listen. What's the routine of joining a... -
Answered a Question in The Kite Runner
In Freudian / Psychoanalytic theory you will want to look for the following in The Kite Runner: • There is an Oedipal Complex: connotations of passive-aggression, repression, and guilt: the son’s... -
Answered a Question in The Most Dangerous Game
In Richard Connell's classic short story "The Most Dangerous Game," General Zaroff is described thusly: "an erect, slender man in evening clothes" who has a "cultivated voice marked by a slight... -
Answered a Question in Othello
I agree with "wildcattmg:" I like numbers 1 and 5. To add to her astute response... #5. Othello turns from a beauty to a beast. Shakespeare's story is very much like "Beauty and... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
Macbeth Act V, iii contains the following literary devices: Nature Imagery: "Till Birnam Wood remove to Dunsinane I cannot taint with fear." Alliteration: "Then fly, false thanes," Hell Imagery:... -
Answered a Question in Gulliver's Travels
My favorite is The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces and from an essay called "The Pride of Lemuel Gulliver," by Samuel Holt Monk. That essay can be found in the Norton Critical Edition... -
Answered a Question in Othello
Othello is replete with imagery. Not only does Shakespeare use the imagery of colors, sex, poison, sea, jewels, gender, but he also uses imagery connected to sight / blindess / eyes / vision... -
Answered a Question in Frankenstein
In Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein is a scientific genius. He masters the natural science of biology, anatomy, galvanism, alchemy, electromagnetism, and natural philosophy. He does... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
Just look at any state-induced acts of terrorism sponsored by a totalitarian government. Just as Macbeth has his political enemies murdered (Banquo, Macduff's wife and child), so too have... -
Answered a Question in Of Mice and Men
In Of Mice and Men, Crooks is an outcast, the lowest ranking male on the ranch hierarchy. He has the double-whammy of being black and crippled. Though he is very intelligent (he reads... -
Answered a Question in Othello
In addition to the answers above, jealousy is tied to sexism, misogyny and the male and female reputations in the play Othello. The double standards of this patriarchal honor culture are... -
Answered a Question in Brave New World
Brave New World can be viewed from the following perspectives: Feminist: how are women (Fanny, Lenina, and Linda) portrayed? Why aren't they Alphas? Why must they take mandatory birth... -
Answered a Question in All the Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy has said that each of his novels is a wrestling with the God problem. While McCarthy, like John Grady, is an ethical, even religious man, he is too smart to reveal his hand in... -
Answered a Question in Frankenstein
In Chapter 2 of Frankenstein, Victor begins the study of mathematics, but it is "destiny" that causes him to change his course of study to natural philosophy: Before this I was not unacquainted... -
Answered a Question in Literary Terms
Here's the opening passage from The Catcher in the Rye (1951): If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood... -
Answered a Question in Of Mice and Men
In Of Mice and Men, Crooks is used to juxtapose Lennie as the two "weak ones" left behind by the men when they go to the cathouse. As such, Crooks and Lennie are the lowest ranking men in the... -
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" (2). So begins Holden Caulfield’s caustic assault on the... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
In Macbeth, women were defined by their husbands: they take on his status and rank. So, both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth go through the following character changes. However, Lady Macbeth... -
Answered a Question in Of Mice and Men
In Chapter 1 of Of Mice and Men, after George takes a dead mouse off him, Lennie threatens to run off and live in a cave like a bear. George's response is that Lennie won't be able to find...
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