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are presented with characters of many types. Some of the characters we face in the story seem to be exploring or searching for something. There seems to be two main explorers that readers focus on, however they seem to overlook the most obvious explore…

is a place where torture happens, not just physical torture, but mental torture as well. The torture has no preference of its victims, the people being torture, the torturers, and the torture chamber effects the people who work. In Marget Atwood‘s…

the protagonist, undergoes a series of character changes. As the situation intensifies and he grows increasingly confident with using and even abusing his power, he resorts to progressively more drastic actions. Macbeth’s motivation changes…

about dying at the foot of the mountain which is said to be the highest in Africa. The thing as uncertain as the unknown presence of the mysterious skeleton of the leopard lying close to the western summit, dried and frozen. One ponders on the…

any magazine and you will see advertisement after advertisement focused on a beautiful female model. Turn on the TV and you will see the same thing. This isn’t new, and to some degree people tolerate this. However, these advertisements and TV shows…

is because Virgil crafted his epic as a means of placing the Romans above the Greeks on the literal level. It was often understood that while Rome had a far superior military, the Greeks had a far more evolved sense of Art and the more sublime aspects…

is a ubiquitous force that touches everything, and can be as gentle as a whisper or as potent as the torrential grinding of an earthquake. In small calibrated amounts, we hardly notice it, yet when we consider the violent, compelling…

poet lifestyle is rare. It is as rare for the observer as it is for the writer. The Walt Whitman poem “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking” is looked at by most as just that. It is a documentation, of sorts, of his own paradigm shift. The realities…

soldier and the honorable Thane of Glamis. His rank and nobility are of great value, and he seems to be fit for his status. But his encounter with the witches awakens in him a deep impatient ambition. Immediately after the first prophecy of being…

by Achebe, he shows the true culture and traditions of the Africans before European Colonization. He portrays the real complexity of their lives in every aspect of their society from kinship, religion, marriage, and even government. Achebe emphasizes…