These three fairy tales about Little Red Riding Hood are very similar in plot. However, each author tried to add something different to the familiar story. I was most impressed by the fairy tale from the Brothers Grimm. It was the longest and had more plot changes than the other...
Introduction On the one hand, The Importance of Being Earnest is a light farce that plays up absurd situations with name substitutions and successfully combines elements of a comedy of morals, a witty mirror of social problems. In this play, Oscar Wilde tries to convey to the reader the idea...
“Everyday Use” by Alice Walker is a personal narration of a mother who has two daughters. The first daughter, Dee, is obsessed with her African heritage, and she has even changed her name to Wangero, an African name. She is educated, and she lives in the city with her boyfriend....
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge is one of the most famous short stories written by Ambrose Bierce. The tale tells about a southern farmer Peyton Farquhar who has attempted to destroy the railroad bridge at Owl Creek and was sentenced to a hanging by the Union Army. When Farquhar...
Introduction Arthur Miller’s father made women coats so Miller knew how it was discouraging to have high expectations in a business and not meet them. This gave him the idea of this play about a man who expected so much to become a prominent salesman. The plot The travelling salesman-Willy...
A Good Man is Hard to Find is one of the best-known short stories by the Georgia writer Flannery O’Connor, first issued in 1953. O’Connor was a staunch Catholic, and like most of her narratives, “A Good Man is Hard to Find” struggles with questions of good and evil. Moreover,...
The patriarchal society of the 19th and early 20th centuries was characterized by quite an arrogant and humiliating attitude towards women, who were condemned to their eternal roles of mothers, wives, and housekeepers. Two plays depicting the blossom of androcentrism, “ Trifles” by Susan Glaspell and “A Doll’s House” by...
Beyond the surface implications of literature as a teaching tool, stories can sometimes uncover several attributes about the author and his background. Wagamese’s novel uniquely explores nature and presents some of the pertinent aspects of societies. The author states that “all of us have an intuitive connection to the planet,”...
Admittedly, modern society has a significant issue with the lack of direct human contact between people, as online lives have their full attention. The play Dead Man’s Cell Phone by Sarah Ruhl depicts a gruesome reality that people can find themselves in due to their disconnectedness from direct interactions with...
In the tragic story of Macbeth, written by Shakespeare, the development of the main character and the change to evil were accompanied by a series of visions. These hallucinations were essential for the narrative, and they started with the dagger, which he saw before murdering King Duncan (Shakespeare 139). In...
Henry’s “The gift of the magi” has several significant symbols such as a comb, a golden watch, and Della’s hair. Jim sells his watch to make a nice present for his beloved woman and gives away the most valuable thing he has. In this story, the watch symbolizes Jim’s connection...
Introduction Simone de Beauvoir in The Second Sex outlines her idea of woman as Other, an object at males’ disposal, the role allocated to women in a patriarchal society. In the second volume of the book, the author describes the conventional experiences of women and shows how their submissive position...
The concept of the monstrous has been known throughout the history of culture. Modern cultural and artistic tradition leads to the fact that mental experiences when meeting with the Other, monstrous, reflect a feeling of horror of greatness and power in front of a once mysterious and unknown object of...