by Dr Durkheim J | Jun 16, 2024 | Literature
Lord of the Flies is set during a war; Golding may have got this idea as he was in a war himself. The boys are being evacuated, when the plane crashes on the island. After the boys get out it is washed out to sea. ‘He glanced around the scar ‘, this is the...
by Dr Durkheim J | Jun 16, 2024 | Literature
Ishiguro’s psychologically complicated works draw on the subculture of the realist novel. He counts such authors as Charlotte Bronte, Anton Chekov, Charles Dickens, and Fyodor Dostoevsky among his literary influences. Ishiguro identifies as a worldwide writer....
by Dr Durkheim J | Jun 16, 2024 | Literature
The Tell-Tale Heart is a story that indicates that one man’s fear and guilt can drive him insane. This is a story about a caretaker who has had enough of an old man’s eye. His diseased mind thinks that the old man’s eye, which he likens to that of a “vulture eye; it...
by Dr Durkheim J | Jun 16, 2024 | Literature
It is often said that certain literary works and characters within such works represent real-world issues. In the work The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the character of Gatsby is shrouded in ambiguity to the reader, providing them with a possibility for...
by Dr Durkheim J | Jun 16, 2024 | Literature
The Time Traveler started his story at the time when he finished his time machine. “I suppose a suicide who holds a pistol to his skull feels much the same wonder at what will come next as I felt then.” (Wells 15). He is very nervous since he is the test subject of...
