… and betrayal. Medea, a princess and priestess of Colchis, falls in love with a foreigner, Jason, who has come to steal her country's most sacred religious symbol, a Golden Fleece. Because of her desire for Jason, Medea helps him take the fleece,…

… and voices to help the reader imagine a character. Dickens draws his characters in bold colourful strokes. Pip himself is somewhat colourless hero: he’s not a source of the action but a witness to the colourful events and people who almost thrust…

… there are whole new boundaries of settings, characters, and stories, always provokes some suspicions of disbelief from the readers no matter how wonderfully the novel is written. In order for this fictional world to be convincing, the readers trust…

… at the beginning of the nineteenth century the white man has believed that it was his “manifest destiny” to control all of the new land between the Atlantic and the Pacific. This caused conflicts with the Indians that already inhabited this land.…

… the Rye is one of the most interesting books that I’ve read this year. Although Holden’s language is very vulgar, it makes the book more real and interesting. I didn’t see it when first reading the book but Salinger uses his characters as symbols…

… Sophocles, the author, depicts the tragic hero Creon to the fullest extent. Sophocles portrays Creon as a tragic hero by the characteristics shown throughout the story. Creon is a character that is easy to relate to in a number of ways. First, he contain…

… childhood and is told in her point of view. Scout tells us everything from her opinions on Jem growing up to how she views the events that occurred when her father decided to defend Tom Robinson, a black man accused of raping a young white girl. The…

… movements in feminism in the early nineteenth century. In her writing, she was attempting to show the problems in her own society in an age before others had begun to have similar ideas. Shelley wanted a more balanced society, increasing the power of…

… life easier and create equality amongst all that supported its values. The lifestyle in the Russian gulag under communism is described in the novel “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovish”, written by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. After reading and carefully…

… How can you know something as a truth without believing it? Can you know something without being told? When an idea is pressed over and over again, and there is a strong basis for the idea, it easily becomes known. Once an idea is known it transfers…