writing
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A WWI soldier writes a letter detailing his horrific encounter with something that that prowls the battlefields of men.
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Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations follows Pip who goes from being a blacksmith’s apprentice to being a gentleman in London, only to lose it all. Pip’s treatment of other characters within the story changes as his social standing changes. The higher he climbs up the social ladder, the worse his treatment of others becomes. By the…
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The “Spirit of the Age” is an idea that permeated the minds of Romantic-period authors, painters, and thinkers. It is used to describe the large changes in creating and thinking that were brought about due to changes in the cultural and political spheres surrounding the Romantic period. These changes included things such as mass migrations…
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Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness follows a narrator who listens to Charles Marlow recount his time in the Congo. While the narrative mainly focuses on themes concerning imperialism, racism, and evil, it also provides criticism of marriage in the twentieth century. This is performed through the introduction of Kurtz’s Intended towards the end of the…
David Feuerstein 