… filled with a dark eerie mood and a little bit of romance that conclude unusual to the way a regular romantic novel ends. There is deception and cruelty that often over shadows the strong human bonds of love. There is that sense that it is like reality…

… vision Aschenbach was certainly an artist. A very decent one. He had his life planned out, was very accurate and organized. Perhaps even a bit boring, monotonous. He was a hard-working man, he had that certain motus animi continuus. He was seen…

… Victorian writer, Emily Bronte besides her poems. It is one of the most passionate and heartfelt novels. It is also, considered highly original and deeply tragic. This novel is about the relation between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, the orphan…

… to be bidding goodbye to the mysterious young man whom he writes so much about. The opening word of 'Farewell' could almost stand as a sufficient summary to the entire poem. As in Shakespeare's previous sonnets about the young man, it is in Sonnet…

… book says the book is an exploration of "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd"; at first glance this book seems to have an almost unhealthy lack of the absurd and Camus' statement seems meaningless. That is until the book as a whole is explored…

… Shakespeare, Hamlet the is the classic example of a tragedy. In all tragedies the hero suffers, and usually dies at the end. Othello stabs himself, Romeo and Juliet commit suicide, Brutis falls on his sword, and like them Hamlet dies by getting…

… because a novel is considered a classic doesn't mean the messages it conveys to its readers are correct. Even though both The Awakening by Kate Chopin and A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen are great literary works, some of the ideas embodied in them…

… The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, is mainly based on the assassination of Julius Caesar. The character that was in charge of the assassination was, ironically, Marcus Brutus, a servant and close friend to Julius Caesar. But what would cause a person…

… Huxley was born in Surray, England on the date of July 26, 1894. He went to Balliol College, Oxford. He wished to become a doctor, but an eye infection blinded him, and prevented him to endure his studies. He did exercises for his eyes, and with…

… Bank In A Tale of Two Cities Dickens describes Tellson's Bank using the humor and satire. The Tellson's Bank, a type, which actually existed in 1780, is described by Dickens as "an old fashioned, boastful, small, dark and ugly place with…