The Great Gatsby Class The theme of class, particularly the elite versus the middle and lower classes, is pronounced throughout The Great Gatsby. This theme is demonstrated via geography: East Egg represents the elite with old money, West Egg represents the elite with new money, and the “valley of ashes” represents the middle and lower classes. Those […]

Themes in Othello Love Love is a powerful force in the lives of Desdemona and Othello, whose secret marriage is the spark that ignites the plot. A great deal of time is spent as Othello explains to the Duke of Venice and to Brabantio how Desdemona came to love him by his stories. Desdemona is utterly devoted to […]

Themes in Hamlet Mortality For a play that is often depicted by the image of Hamlet contemplating Yorick’s skull in the graveyard scene, it is not surprising that Shakespeare uses mortality as a central theme. It comes across in a number of ways: the ghost of Hamlet’s father; Hamlet’s contemplation of suicide and Ophelia‘s suicide; Hamlet’s tendency for black dress […]

Chance Chance is the occurrence of events that seem to have no obvious cause. In “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” the events that lead to the family’s demise do have causes. The grandmother and Bailey choose actions that eventually lead to their encounter with The Misfit. Choices build upon previous choices until the situation proves impossible to escape. […]

Sundiata Summary Summary The narrator proclaims the great events of Sundiata‘s life are about to begin. He then embarks on a description of the griot’s role in preserving the great deeds of kings “from oblivion, as men have short memories.” He also takes a swipe at the written word, stating that “the prophets did not write […]

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