… from what we experience today. In the fourteenth century people lived their life, almost the same life that we live. They were born, grew up, fell in love, married, had children and died. They ate, got drunk, went to work with hangovers, beat their…

… all evil. Macbeth is the only play where the main character becomes an evil monster. In no other Shakespearean tragedy does the hero have so firm and correct grasp of self-knowledge, nor a well developed concept of the universe and his place in…

… Sherlock Holmes stories? Sherlock Holmes' stories have been and still are very popular and famous. They were at first magazine novels which started being written in 1887 by the author Conan Doyle. He keeps the same style of writing for most…

… written by Lorena A. Hickok. The story was about Anne Sullivan Macy, Helen Keller's wonderful teacher. I had never heard of Anne before I read this book, but while looking in the library my mom explained to me who she was and she seemed like she…

… carrying a bundle of limbs tied with vines on their backs. This is a perfect metaphor for the events in Macbeth. Macbeth is one of many thanes, or limbs, bundled together. The thanes are united by the king, or the vine. Scotland, or the peasant,…

… it is graphically described by Fyodor Dostoevsky. How, after such a graphic display of evil, can the reader be compassionate towards Raskolnikov? Superficially, Rodion Raskolnikov appears purely evil, but readers become sympathetic towards his characte…

… or reads a novel they often discover a deeper portent than what is openly displayed. A hidden meaning can be found in many common objects. In The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne compares flowers to Pearl, and all that is good. He uses …

… general who receives a prophecy from three witches that he will one day become King of Scotland. Consumed with thoughts and pushed into action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan, and takes control of the throne. He begins his reign tormented…

… Men by John Steinbeck loneliness is a theme that plays out the entire novel affecting almost every character. Nearly all of the characters display a "handicap" some that aren't as obvious as others. Whether because of a physical or mental handicap,…

… avoid making some criticism, even if only obliquely." The Stranger and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich present the criticism of society by using a writing style called existentialism. The Stranger and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich…