… you look at it) with certain inescapable traits. Homer does an excellent job showing the traits through the heroes of the Iliad. This essay will discuss how the basic human nature of a few of Homer’s characters determines their fate. Everybody knows…

… Jungle, is both a comment on and a product of its own times. Those times most definitely need to be viewed in relation to what happened in the last half of the nineteenth century. This incredible time period saw the making of great industries and…

… in pieces of English literature portray their own character traits which makes them and the story what they are. In Sophocle’s renowned play Oedipus Rex there is no exception when it comes to the main character Oedipus. From the beginning until…

… of November 17, 1915, raised such a hullabaloo of misunderstandings that I am sorry I didn't just let it keep on walking, and go to bed." Humor is writing intended to evoke laughter. A writer can use many techniques to make his work amusing. James…

… of Authenticity? To live authentically, in existenialism, means basically to live without deluding ourselves about the meaning of our lives or our place in the world, or about death. According to the existentialists, much of what we do is in what…

… of the first examinations of politics and science from a purely scientific and rational perspective. Machiavelli theorizes that the state is onlycreated if the people cooperate and work to maintain it. The state isalso one of man’s greatest endeavors,…

… Hawthorne's tale of The Scarlet Letter, Arthur Dimmesdale, a main character, is confronted with a number of circumstances, both in and out of his control, that lead to his ultimate demise. Arthur Dimmesdale, a minister, lives his life for the townspeopl…

… are many characters that suffer from the tolls of sin but none as horribly as Hester's daughter, Pearl. She alone suffers from sin that is not her own, but rather that of her mother. She is always considered as an outcast because she is the product…

… of an Hour" to show the nature of oppression of women in the late eighteen hundreds. Mrs. Mallard there is iriny just in her name, a mallard is and should be a wild free duck an untamed animal.But this mallard,Mrs. Mallard is the very oposite she is…

… complex character named Meursault. Meursault is a very stolid person who is not given to shows of emotions. He remains this way through most of the book, but towards the end, he starts to become more feeling. He is what would be considered an…