“The Fog Horn” by Ray Bradbury Essay
In the short story “The Fog Horn” by Ray Bradbury the theme “loneliness can be taken for granted” is best shown through the actions of McDunn and the creature in the sea. McDunn describes livi...
“The Landlady” Poetry Commentary Essay
Margaret Tattoo’s theme in The Landlady is about the speaker’s prison-like living situation in what can be assumed to be a dorm. The landlady has made home, the place where we can feel free and co...
“The Monument,” by Elizabeth Bishop Essay
The poem “The Monument,” by Elizabeth Bishop can be thematically deconstructed in many ways. At first glance, the poem is about a tangible and solid object. The speaker describes this object, a mo...
“The Rocking-Horse Winner”, “The Lottery”, and “War” Essay
Childhood is a priceless time in someone’s life, it determines who the infant will grow into. A happy carefree youth will most likely shape the child into becoming a cheerful, hardworking adult. How...
“The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst Essay
In the short story “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst, Doodle is an ‘ugly duckling’ of a little boy and an invalid. Despised by, and an embarrassment to his older brother, Doodle is a seeming c...
“There are too many people, and too few human beings” Robert Zend Essay
“There are too many people, and too few human beings. ” Robert Zend Even though there are many people on this planet, there are very few civilized people. Most of them are naturally savaged. In th...
“Tickets Please” and “The horse Dealer’s Daughter”? Essay
Both romantic love and desire have a significant effect on the characters’ behaviour in “The Horse Dealer’s Daughter” and “Tickets Please”. In both the stories the needs for love differ be...
“To Sleep” is a speaker’s direct address to personified sleep Essay
Consisting of 14 lines that are to be separated into threee quatrains and one couplet, it seems to correspond to the form of the English sonnet. Yet, the rhyme scheme suggests that this poem is a vari...
In 1948 Eric Blair, better known as George Orwell, wrote a book with chilling insights into the future, 1984. In that book he describes in detail how the government of Oceania manipulated the truth an...
1984’s main character is Winston Smith, a man who doubts the ethics of the over powering tyrannical government that rules Oceania, one of three superstates in the world of 1984. Big Brother, the giv...