… decides to do something that other are afraid to do. Courage is one of the key themes presented in the novel 'To kill a Mockingbird'. Courage is shown when Atticus Finch decides to stand up and stick with a black man's case that is accused for a white…

… different and that goes for the movie, Lord of the Flies, as well, which is based on the novel of the same title by William Golding. In the novel, the author captures the readers' attention by the descriptive and provocative plot, even though, some…

… in The Oresteia and Leda and the Swan. I have chosen to focus on deception and justice. Deception and justice is central to both works. They show justice in many different forms, such as revenge, vengeance, divine justice and civil justice. Deception…

… posit a natural order that existed at the beginning, a time when everyone knew their place, man was in concord with God (or the gods), and everything was just as it should be, In the Bible, this was the time when Adam and Eve first lived in the…

… to exemplify humanities denial and loss of it's primal roots, and the confusion that results from interaction with the last vestiges of animal instinct. At some point in history humankind invented the notion that we are separate or even superior…

… used as punishment in today's western society. However, back in Puritan society, it was in some ways considered worse than death. In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, the criminals of the law be it governmental or religious, were taken in sight…

… the theme or the story. In this story a young Campfire girl named Marian sets out to earn points by visiting an old age home. The author depicts Marian's reluctance to be there by the way she slowly makes her way from the bus stop to the nurse's…

… Same Moon Above Us", the unfortunate plight of a homeless man living in NYC is compared to the despair of Ovid, one of Rome's most prolific poets during the decades immediately preceding and following the death of Christ. In 9 A.D., Augustus Caesar…

… one of the main themes is blindness. Not just physical blindness, but intellectual blindness as well. The blindness issue is an effective contrasting method for Oedipus at different points in the play. Simply saying "blindness", however, is a…

… of writing about the lives of people in Chicago and about the city as a whole. In 1894, Carl Sandburg's father, a laborer in the railroad yards of a small Illinois prairie town, secured a pass for his son to see Chicago. The enormous vitality of the…