… His school career in the 'D-stream' was undistinguished and as a result, he left school with one O-level in English language at the age of fifteen. As there was a strong tradition of story telling in his family, he had a vague notion of wanting…

… created legend, or told campfire stories. These are humanities imaginary examples of "perfect heroes." One example of a perfect hero is the legendary hero, Beowulf. A more modern example of this idea of a "perfect hero" is the comic book creation, Superm…

… several books, not just The Handmaid's Tale. Her most acclaimed novels were The Edible Women, which was her first novel, and was published in 1969 to wide acclaim, and The Blind Assassin, which won Great Britain's Booker Prize for Literature in the…

… I was lying on the couch as usual, watching TV and looking at the window in the corner of my bedroom. There was some silly show on, the main character was a Don Quixote like degenerate talking about how the world could be saved with his preposterous…

… non-fiction story takes place in the West of America in the late 1800's, from the point of view of an American Indian. This story explains in a straight forward way that the white men of our own country were murderers. It's about over the course of…

… Of Mice and Men contain many instances of some characters having power over others. Examples of power throughout the novel include physical, mental, sexual, economic and racial. These are evident through the way in which the character relate to one…

… in the opening sentences of the novel? We don't know his name, how old he is, where he's from. In fact, he dismisses such information as "all that David Copperfield kind of crap," and begins talking about himself reluctantly, as though our…

… Darkness, Charlie Marlow characterizes events, ideas, and locations that he encounters in terms of light or darkness. Embedded in Marlow's parlance is an ongoing metaphor equating light with knowledge and civility and darkness with mystery and savagery.…

… story, "Young Goodman Brown" is allegorical; the characters and objects in the story represent abstract ideas. The evil in Brown's world is frequently represented by some object, person, or event in the short story. The symbols of evil guide the…

… Character from the Prologue of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. Shows how Chaucer made fun of the character of the Prioress when writing his Canterbury tales. Chaucer's description of The Prioress in The Canterbury Tales (1472) is rife with subtle,…