Category: Character

The House on Mango Street, by , was first published in 1984 by “Arte Publico Press”. This is the first novel of the already mentioned author, Sandra Cisneros, which follows the everyday struggles of a young Latino girl called Esperanza Cordero. Besides the everyday struggles of the protagonist, Esperanza, the author tried to show us…

The author, , introduces a variety of themes in the novella The House on Mango Street but the main theme is that no one should be leading your journey for you. The key to success is by finding your own way through what life throws at you. In chapter one, Esperanza introduces her living situation.…

What influences a person’s identity? Is it their religion, home, parents, their neighborhood? When do they get one? When they learn right from wrong? Are they born with it? Everybody has one but it’s different from each other. A person’s identity is their own. No one put it there and no one can take it…

The Talented Mr. Ripley, a novel by Patricia Highsmith, follows the life of a young con artist turned psychopath. The novel is set in a period characterized by repression and depicts many Freudian ideas and concepts such as masculinity crisis, toxic masculinity, homosexual panic as well as the unconscious. This essay will focus firstly on…

Through the use of characterisation, the true identities and traits of characters are able to be revealed to readers, particularly when viewed through qualities such as leadership. Collectively, this leads to narrative meaning becoming a tool that initiates thinking through the use of emotive language or exaggeration. This notion is evident in David Malouf’s ‘Ransom’…

William Shakespeare’s early writing aims to advance a philosophy of history. It asks how kingdoms are built and destroyed. The author approaches theater as a tool which might potentially elucidate key events by studying important players. For example, forefronts that corruption which converts Rome’s great senatorial government into a totalitarian empire. Its title character represents…

The 18th century was a time when romanticism, the industrial revolution, and the age of enlightenment came into play. Patrick Suskind, the author, develops the story, Perfume, during this era and does a stupendous job in using imagery to set up the story’s background to the readers. Looking deeper into the novel, we see that…

The play “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead” was written by Tom Stoppard in 1967, during a time when existentialism popular amongst many of the philosophically inclined. Existentialism mainly focuses on the need for humans to make rational choices that determine their own meaning in life, despite existing in an irrational universe. Stoppard takes the two…

Table of contents Introduction Formation of Ionic Compounds Properties of Ionic Compounds Applications of Ionic Compounds Conclusion Introduction Ionic compounds are a fundamental class of compounds in chemistry, characterized by their unique bonding and properties. These compounds are formed through the electrostatic attraction between positively charged cations and negatively charged anions. Typically, ionic compounds result…

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, the predominant characters in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, are defined unceasingly by questioning their identity, environment, and what their believed purpose is. This astounding piece of literary work written by Tom Stoppard shows the trek that the two characters (originally from Hamlet written by the well known English poet, William Shakespeare)…