Helena’s Desperate Love Helena disgraces all women of her time by desperately chasing Demetrius. Shakespeare uses Helena’s character to show women can be pursuers just like men and in doing so comments on his feminist views on women. In the end‚ Helena is rewarded with Demetrius’ love. In Helena’s desperation to win Demetrius’ love‚ she betrays her friend‚ Hermia. Helena reveals to Demetrius Hermia’s and Lysander’s plan to meet in the woods and run away together. Helena is jealous of Hermia because
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Golding uses the conch in the novel to symbolise democracy and civilisation. Golding wrote the novel as a parody to R.M Ballantyne’s novel “Coral Island” in which a number of boys are placed on an island‚ their behaviour is civilised and Ballantyne suggests though out his novel that the Pirates and savages are the only people on the island that had the potential for evil. Golding contradicts this as he wrote Lord of the Flies after WW2 and the ‘Cold War’ he was horrified at mans capacity for evil
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How Does Williams Present Stanley‚ Stella and Blanche in the Opening of the Play Tennessee Williams‚ the playwright of A Streetcar Named Desire is renowned for his strong characterization. He uses many literary‚ as well as dramatic‚ techniques in order to fully develop his characters‚ including their pasts‚ their motives and also their mannerisms. Moreover‚ Williams pays special attention to the way in which characters interact with each other‚ and the effects that are created as a
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anyone’s eyes‚ family comes first. You would do absolutely anything for them‚ and in the novel Kindred by Octavia Butler there is no exception. Although the novel concentrates on the previous existence of slavery and the harsh realities of racism‚ another theme that is not exactly centralized is how far an individual will go in order to protect their loved ones. In this particular novel‚ there are two major examples on how far a person will go for their family. On one end‚ you have the slaves protecting
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Question: How does Amir’s character change throughout the novel? The character of Amir goes through drastic changes as he moves from adolescence to adulthood. As a child Amir begins his life in Kabul‚ where his character is shaped through conflicts with his father and Hassan. Later‚ when he moves to America he leaves these conflicts behind and is able to create a stronger relationship with his father. However‚ when Amir is an adult he is called back to Afghanistan by an old friend to confront these
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the Flies is a novel about British schoolboys stranded on an island by a plane crash. In the book some of the boys turn into savages‚ but some of them don’t. Jack and Simon are very different characters‚ but they may have more in common one might think. Although Jack turns to a savage in the middle of the book‚ he doesn’t start out that way. Simon‚ on the other hand‚ never turns into a savage‚ but he does go a little crazy. They both start out the same‚ but they both change. Simon is a nice and shy
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Explore how shakesphere presents emotion in Act 3 scene 5 Romeo and Juliet is a famous play about love and sacrifice. It is based on two star crossed lovers which clashes with other kind of power the play was written in Elizabethan times. Which was a long time ago and society has changed throughout time so it is a bit old – fashioned and the rules were different at those times unlike now. I am going to explore and write about William shakesphere portrays emotion in Act 3 scene 5. In act 3‚ scene
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by William Golding‚ the book demonstrates how the young boys are being transformed from being nice and civilized to mean and savages. Simon on the other hand who is distant from the other boys has a relationship with nature. He goes off to the forest and thinks. He wants to know the truth about the island. He is very in touch with nature to the point where he starts to hallucinate with the “lord of the flies”. Simon tells Ralph that he will make it out safe and will soon be rescued. Simon was spiritual
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all of the children on the island‚ showing itself through many different forms. In Lord of the Flies‚ William Golding uses the idea of the beast in order to show how each character has fear and evil within themselves‚ and by doing so he is able to show that the characters themselves are evil‚ which he uses to show that humanity itself is innately evil. Out of all the boys on the island‚ Simon seems to be the most level headed when it comes to the beast. He is able to rationalize the idea of the beast
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William Golding–a pessimistic scholar who experienced first-hand the horrors capable of Mankind‚ embraced the fruits of his knowledge by crafting perhaps one of the most profound pieces of modern literature. Depicted through the audacious journey of a band of British school boys–gone disastrously wrong. Although Golding’s writing is often ambiguous and unprecise in conveying the conflicts within human nature‚ Golding is entirely successful in communicating the theme of power and conflict through
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