The characters of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet are unique and diverse. They all have different motives for what they are doing and different views of the life shaking chain of events that unfold around them throughout the play. Many of Shakespeare’s works have been adapted into many different forms of media and literature. This particular script is ( Read more... )

The short story A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a story about miracles in an everyday person’s life and how, sadly, those miracles can get taken advantage of by the people that gain from them and people’s ability to encompass compassion towards other people. The angel in this story appears in a time of need for ( Read more... )

In Antigone by Sophocles, the protagonist woman seems to be stronger than any of the other men and women of the play. Antigone stands up to her uncle, Creon, and goes out at night to bury her brother, Polyneices. Ismene does nothing but sit there and whine and cry over all the confusion. At first she pushes off the idea of burying her dead brother ( Read more... )

In the poem A Supermarket in California by Allen Ginsberg, the supermarket setting and the language used gives the poem a kind of whimsical dream like quality. The words of the poem seem to float and flow around my mind like water. It made me a little sleepy to read this poem. The busy supermarket full of families shopping late at night is not ( Read more... )

All of the characters in the play A Doll’s House are stuck in a state of confinement that by the end of the play most of them have been unable to escape. Torvald is confined by his obligations to the bank, his wife’s love of money, and by Krogstad when he reads the letter. Torvald has to be true to the bank while trying to please his wifes love of ( Read more... )

The Yellow Wallpaper

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a story about how a woman is confined into a small space and pushed to madness. The protagonist of the story, also the narrator is telling her story through what is perceived as a diary or journal entry. She tells about the yellow wallpaper that surrounds her room and how she swears that there is ( Read more... )

Hamlet, the man, embodies a lot of issues and flaws that hinder his ability to be considered a normal, sane human being. His hamartia, or huge tragic flaw, is his inability to make a straight decision. Whenever he comes close to one, he finds some way to get out of taking the action that will satisfy his need for revenge and bring about the end of ( Read more... )

A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease

touches on the difficulties that arise in one of the most important aspects of a family, and in everyday lives; communication. Communication is so much more than what people often ascribe with the action. It is not just the words that people use to speak to each other, but also the tone, body language, ( Read more... )

In the short story Happy Endings by Margaret Atwood, the thing that struck me the most about this piece was how it started out with three lines of text that leads into several different possible outcomes and events:

"John and Mary meet.

What happens next?

If you want a happy ending, try A."

The layout of the story is unique and entertaining. I have ( Read more... )

An Anonymous author once said that "Normality is just consensus of opinion." This means that normality is simply what the majority see as right. All these abnormalities that Alice experiences in Wonderland are unquestioned by Wonderland’s inhabitants, while in Alice’s reality many of these same actions would be inappropriate. When someone is ( Read more... )