… which, as an indication of true greatness and a testament to its literary worth, can be interpreted in many ways. Two such ways helping us to draw a deeper understanding of society and its values are to be found by making a feminist and racial reading. …

… values of society of her time, Mary Shelley uses her Gothic Romantic novel Frankenstein as a catalyst to reflect these values in more of a way than she attempts to shape them. Frankenstein is based around many features commonly found in the Gothic Romant…

… of unrelenting twists and thrills of madness and revenge. I have chosen to compare this play to Michael Almereyda's film made in 2000 that is a modern interpretation of the original text and was an attempt to do to Hamlet what Baz Luhrman did to…

… Shelley was born on the 30th of August 1797, the only child distinguished parents, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (1759 - 1797), a famed author of the world's first feminist tract, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, and William Godwin (1756…

… done what he did if he didn't hear about the prophecy. Macbeth was given ideas when he received the prophecies and the apparitions. He became very ambitious and thought about murder. He also had a sense of arrogance. <Tab/>The idea…

… with all the headaches and feeling tired. How much more if you haven't slept in weeks or even a whole year. Sleep can be defined as a natural periodic state of rest for the mind and body. In Macbeth, sleep was meant as a sanctuary or a safe haven…

… of Foolishness and the Thin Line between Foolishness and Kingship in Shakespeare´s King Lear. "Ask him his purposes, why he appears upon this call o´th´trumpet." …

… War II and the Holocaust were terrible times in the history of the world. There have been many novels and poems written by survivors of Nazi concentration camps. The majority of those works centered on the repulsive acts that existed in the camps.…

… <Tab/>The Metamorphosis<Tab/>Word count: 1,198 In the novel, The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka, the author uses the omniscient narrator along with the structure of the book to reflect Gregor's feelings through passive…

… Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse, and Perfume, by Patrick Suskind. Both authors use an aspect of nature as a symbol, the river. Since the time of the ancient Chinese, Pharaohs, Romans and Greeks, people have believed that the flow of the river represents…