Category: Culture

In many of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short stories, he develops his characters to have either a spiteful or evil attribute for more of a symbolic meaning to the story. Many people can interpret that Hawthorne uses evil in his stories. In the story “” Rapaccinni’s Daughter”, he uses his daughter Beatrice, as his scientific project that…

To answer the question of whether or not Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” should be included in Literary Canon and useful in a general survey course such as American Writing, one must first look at the author and the content of the poem itself.Robert Frost was born in California in 1874 where he lived…

Heart of Darkness is a novel written by Joseph Conrad and first published as a book in 1092. The story is biased by Conrad’s own experiences as captain of a Belgian steamboat, it takes place in Africa, specifically in the Congo. The novel fall in the category of Modernism in Literature due to its components…

Written In 1927 by Ernest Hemingway, the short story “Hills Like White Elephants” tells about a young woman named Jig and an American man drinking at a bar close by a train station in Spain. Throughout the story, the author gives us dialogue of the conversation between the two but many readers actually misread the…

“In the works of Ernest Hemingway, we can see that his works both literally and figuratively represent his life. Philip Young, a literary critic, agrees with this sentiment with this quote: “Many of the stories…are very literal translations of some of the most important events in Hemingway’s own life” (63). Hemingway’s The Old Man and…

Do you truly think single-gender education is helpful for students? Single-gender education is the practice of having a classroom or school full of one gender. It has been a conversational topic spreading around about whether or not it is good for students. Single gender schools are not good for students because it denies students the…

Walt Whitman is considered to be one of the few greatest poets to ever exist. He wrote multiple poems but seemed to be most famous for his poem “leaves of grass.” Whitman did a lot of great things with his work throughout his years of living and influenced other people but more so writers. He…

Things Fall Apart is a story of a man named Okonkwo who is from the village of Umofia. He was a hardworking man but despite all the hard work he didn’t achieved much in life. His father was a laid back man who was nothing for good and Okonkwo was opposed of his father way…

The Glass Menagerie is a drama written by Tennessee Williams, a famous American writer who lends his name for his Realism compositions. It is a simple drama with only four main characters, the mother Amanda, the son Tom, Tom’s sister Laura and his friend Jim. Also, there exists a character never showing up, Tom’s father,…

Joseph Conrad (Teodor Józef Konrad Korzeniowski) was born in Poland, in 1857. His father is Apollo Korzeniowski, a poet, dramatist, translator, and political activist. Conrad’s parents were exiled to the far-northern province of Vologda because they were found guilty of conspiring against the Russians. Also, his parents died when he was still a little boy.…