Books Essays

Why does Macbeth make the wrong decision and Huck the right one? This essay is going to be written from the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and the Play Macbeth by Shakespeare. Natural men are capable of seeing things in the gray area and processes commonsense like Huck, …

In the story “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’ Conner a hard lesson is learned through the character of a grandmother to a murdered family that pleads to the killer for her life. The grandmother is described by the killer at the end of the story …

What caused the French Revolution? Many things contributed to it evolving. But only three were the most important. The influence dates back all the way to the Age of Enlightenment, the ideas definitely had an effect on the French citizens. The American Revolution ties with the Enlightenment as well. The …

Throughout the book Fahrenheit 451, Guy Montag changes from a relatively “typical” fireman who follows the laws of his society into a person who challenges the laws and eventually becomes an “outcast”. In the book Clarisse McClellan, the 17-years old girl, questions Montag about his life now and the life …

A cultural text can be anything from film to music, or art to books, such things only become a text after they have been decoded through critical interpretation. Each individual interprets text differently and it is through such things that we can experience culture. What exactly is culture though? The …

Webster’s dictionary defines equality as “An instance of being the same in number, rank, or meaning.” This definition may be interpreted in many ways. Equality is measured by the times, circumstances, and mind set of the people in the culture in question. The United States has reached many different levels …

With the birth of the New World, governments began to take shape and ideas began to form. Democracy was soon to come, but just how soon? Religion was a major predicament in the late-1700s. A Separatist minister was sent to jail in 1745 because he was preaching in Wethersfield without …

In George Orwell’s essay “Shooting an Elephant,” the author’s character develops from the pressure to make a decision and the horrifying results which follow. A potential existed for Orwell to display confidence and high morals, but this potential was destroyed when he pulled the trigger. The death of the elephant …

The day the war officially started on Iraq, thousands of people gathered at the Texas Capitol to protest the U.S. involvement in the war. That morning, as a government employee working at the Courthouse, I was notified via email of the impending protest. The email urged supervisors to let “non-essential …

The two books that I am comparing are The Catcher in the Rye, and Lord of the Flies. The two books are very interesting and are very opposite yet the same in many ways. In The Catcher in the Rye, Holden is an idealistic character who becomes more of a …