When someone’s life is easy and full of fun, they continue to live the same way, despite having a meaningless life, conforming to what society wants rather than building themselves. In Henrick Ibson play, A Doll House, Nora is portrayed as a toy to Torvald, but when she sees Torvald’s true character, she realizes what …
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One man’s tragedy is another man’s comedy
William Shakespeare, world renowned playwright and poet, has shaped the culture of today with his works. Two of his important works, tragedies and comedies, have immense differences that are very clear. Tragedies include a tragic hero with a fatal flaw that inevitably kills the hero. They also include supernatural events, good and evil, and end …
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Stealing God’s Thunder
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast (Ephesians 2: 8-9). In these verses, it is shown that God saved man with faith. God did these deeds, not man, so …
Women are responsible for all men’s downfall
Women bring out the worst side of people. Behind the fall of every great man is a woman. By conversing with a woman, one will be stripped of pride. By interacting with a woman, one will grow insecurity. By romanticizing with a woman, one will become jealous. In James Joyce’s “The Dead,” Gabriel interacts with …
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The Power of Storytelling
Stories have the power to transform events that would typically destroy a person into something that is manageable. Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried is an episodic novel that shows the power that storytelling has on the mind. The novel shows many stories about the Vietnam War, mainly focusing on one group of soldiers in …
Summer Obsessions
Obsession. Lust. Neil Klugman is a lower to middle class Jewish college graduate working at a library. One day while he is at the country club, he holds a girls glasses, and instantly falls in love, almost immediately finding out who she is and calling her. She is a part of the upper class, with …
Religion? Never heard of her.
All my life, religion has been something that has not affected my life at all whatsoever. I grew up in a family that really had no religious beliefs, so my whole life I followed suit. At times, people would get me to go to church, but every time I was always filled with disbelief and …
Owen Meany’s Control
At the beginning of the novel, Owen Meany seems to be selfish and slightly controlling. After Johnny’s mothers death, Owen takes the claws from the Armadillo and takes the dress dummy for himself while they are mourning, slightly taking control of the way that they mourn their loss. He pushes religious messages onto Johnny, saying …
The Armadillo
Dan Needham, a teacher at the Gravesend Academy, often uses props while talking to help the listeners focus or to distract them from what they would later find out. When he first goes to meet the Wheelwrights, he brings a prop for Johnny, a bag with another bag in it, and tells him to not …
My First Blog Post
Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.
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