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“The Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe is about a prince known as Prospero that witnesses a horrible plague known as the Red Death, consuming the entire city. Prospero and his guests take refuge from the people suffering and the disease in his “castellated abbey,” where he …

Passage: “Whenever he looked at the photographs, he thought of new things he should’ve done.” P.2 Small Meaning: In this quote, Lieutenant Cross is deeply in love with Martha. He carries a picture of her in his pocket. The one date him and Martha went on, he thinks he blew …

To what extend is the character Nick a reliable narrator in the book ‘The Great Gatbsy’? Nick is a person with a number of contrasting allegiances within the book. For example he finds connections between himself and Gatsby, both serving in the War and that the both come from the …

Plagiarism is wrong for several reasons. For one it deprives myself the ability to acquire knowledge and gain writing skills. Secondly I am taking credit for the authors work, which is lying. Lastly it is disrespectful to my teachers and fellow students. Plagiarism  deprives myself the ability to acquire knowledge …

Many of Dickens’ characters are “flat”, not “round”, in the novelist E. M. Forster’s famous terms, meaning roughly that they have only one mood.[33] In Tale, for example, the Marquis is unremittingly wicked and relishes being so; Lucie is perfectly loving and supportive. (As a corollary, Dickens often gives these …

Naturalism, according to Nina Baym in the introduction of The Norton Anthology of American Literature, “introduces characters from the fringes and depths of society whose fates are determined by degenerate heredity, a sordid environment, and/or a good deal of bad luck” (7). Hence, the authors of naturalism often produce stories …

As the most commonly talked about book off the Commandant’s reading list, I’ve taken the interest into finding out first hand exactly what is, or was, the message to Garcia. Little did I know, you never actually find out that message. Instead, “A Message to Garcia,” is but a short …

“It must be Jelly, ’cause jam don’t shake”, A Story in Harlem Slang, by Zora Neale Hurston. Sweet Back and Jelly are two wanna-be pimps that are lost in a world full of wants just struggling to get by. Though Jelly and Sweet Back claim they have game, the woman …

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Historical Context: First published in England in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Naturalism (c.1865-1900) A literary movement that used detailed realism to suggest that social conditions, heredity, and environment had unavoidable force in shaping human character. Protagonist: Huckleberry Finn was young boy in the late …