Antigone.  What an interesting play and one that made me stumble upon many ideas and themes.  However, after several readings of the play and deep analyzation of every scene, I completely understand many aspects of it and am now going to explain one of my viewpoints.  Antigone has feminine power that no one else exhibits, and this power symbolizes ( Read more... )

A Doll’s House is centered around the Helmer’s relationship and how their roles in the marriage and at home contribute to the failure of the connection of the family.  First, most see marriage as a joining of two people together that are equal in appreciation and love for each other.  This is the theme that the play focuses on.  However, the Helmer ( Read more... )

Inner conflicts such as uncertainty and distress are very strenuous on society; they ignite turbulent feuds in human relationships and create struggles that accumulate to epic tales, to epic plays. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, many of the characters encounter similar quarrels, particularly Hamlet.  His father’s death is the severe incident and cause of ( Read more... )

After reading “The Very Old Man With Enormous Wings,” I felt as if I had entered a supernatural world with fictional creatures and a lot of underlying themes that I did not completely understand.  However, after reading it several times, I have developed several opinions and views on the paranormal themes of the story.  Two of the most important ( Read more... )

Before I started reading some short stories out of our book, I was drawn to “The Yellow Wallpaper,” written by Charlotte Gilman, simply because of the name of the story.  I was like, “How could a story be strictly about the wallpaper of a room? There must be more to this story.”  So, I jumped right on it and decided to read it first!  Come to find ( Read more... )

Family is such a large and important part of my life.  I believe that besides God, family is the one group of people that you should put all of your time and love into.  Without my family, I would be nothing.  However, as I think it is with any family, they can make you go crazy, angry, and happy all at the same time.  They can also love and drive ( Read more... )

Is it truly hard to find a good man or woman?  I never think about this question, simply because I already found an amazing woman to spend my life with, but also because I think a good man or woman is likely to come into someone’s life eventually.  However, after reading Flannery O’Connor’s story, “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” several other ( Read more... )

In our textbook, “Literature:  A World of Writing,” it is stated that “fiction continues to mean something that one crafts, painstakingly, from a diverse selection of raw materials, with language.”  I am now going to explain my own opinion (rather simple definition) of what fiction is.  Fiction is a work created by the imagination or invention, ( Read more... )

After reading “On The Subway” by Sharon Olds, I was brought into a world of racism and more importantly, the relationship between whites and blacks at the time.  The poem is about an intense connection between whites and blacks, and these different races are compared throughout the poem.  However, I was most intrigued by the imagery that the author ( Read more... )

After reading “Ode on a Grecian Urn” by John Keats, it really made me think about all of the things that the urn represents in this poem.  In this entry, I will examine several different themes of this piece.  First, the urn represents a world of innocence that is never affected by the distress and difficulties that come with a changing world.  ( Read more... )