Paradise Lost

In Toni Morrison’s Sula, birds play a big role in identifying the fate of Sula, the Bottom, and as well as its residents in which its imagery gives clues to their fate. Toni Morrison uses bird imagery to foreshadow the plague of deaths and Sula’s significance in Bottom. In many different cultures and religions, birds influenced many spectrum of metaphors, beliefs, and myths. With the Bird's ability to take off and sail up through the skies, they are identified as a connection between Heaven…

Annotated Glossary: Tone Tone: in written composition, is an attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience. Tone is generally conveyed through the choice of words or the viewpoint of a writer on a particular subject. Every written piece compromises a central theme or subject matter. The manner in which a writer approaches this theme and subject is the tone. The tone can be formal, informal, serious, comic, sarcastic, sad, and cheerful or it may be any other existing attitudes. Example:…

creature kills Dr. Frankenstein’s brother, his best friend Henry and his wife, Elizabeth, he is not motivated to take revenge because he has his father to rely on emotionally. However, after his father dies from hearing about the death of Elizabeth, he lost all his social connections so he was alone and miserable. Before the monster’s horrible acts, he could depend on his family when he was sick or depressed; but…

Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis is a disturbing and a complex novel that depicts the horrific transformation of a man into a disgusting, oversized dung beetle or “a monstrous vermin.” This “transformation” is the reality of the world that the character lives in, but no one in that world is able to see it. Kafka demonstrates this reality using his extraordinary, one of a kind writing style which portrays everything illogical as logical, unreasonable as reasonable, and incomprehensible as…

Can the drive and pressure to find love and acceptance corrupt even the purest of minds. For us humans, it can take years to find love and acceptance, but imagine being a revived, stitched together monster and fulfilling those needs. The creature portrayed in Young Frankenstein and in Mary Shelley’s novel face similar and contrasting events. To a degree, each character struggles with the acceptance by their creator, the publics scrutiny, personal experiences that shape their development and…

In this essay I will take the position that God waited to create Eve so that the relationship between man and woman would be one of mutual value and respect, forming God’s original, perfect mold for relationships. In the beginning, He made it just how He wanted it. Adam and Eve were perfect in mind and body, formed in the image of God, and the different facets of their relationship reveal to us not only His pre-sin, ideal plan for relationships and marriage, but also His character. My first…

The angels symbolize Jesus as the only way to Heaven. As the blood ran from His face, the thunder roared the sky grew dark, and the earth trembled before Jesus died. Why would the earth react and tremble and the atmosphere be moved so violently right before Jesus died? A lot was happening in the spiritual realm while Jesus hang on the cross I believe the demons and devil pondered and murmured while they waited for Jesus spirit to release from his body then took Him to hell in our stead. Jesus…

Curiosity is something that exists in every single human being, it has existed in us ever since the creation of the human. Curiosity is what brought humans to this very point in society, the technology we have, the techniques we use for survival, the ideas we have discovered all came from humans being curious. However curiosity does not always have a quality outcome, in humanity our curiosity also led to some devastations that humanity did not choose to see. Although curiosity brought humans to…

the author will stealthily introduce it in the beginning before revealing it later on. Foster refers to this as “the Indiana Jones principle” as one of the prime examples of this principle can be found in Indy’s fear of snakes within Raiders of the Lost Ark; the fear of snakes is first introduced as Indiana Jones encounters the snake on a plane before the first sequence of the film, then, when Indy encounters thousands of them later on in the film, his fear is justified by the…

Kathryn Cox English 10 8 January 2016 Mrs. Padden The Monster Within Many people have characteristics that they want to change about themselves. Little things that nag and bug them all day. Although they hate them, it is hard to ignore the fact of there existence. In Frankenstein, written by Mary W. Shelley, the monster represents Victor’s confused sexual identity. Victor does not want to acknowledge its existence in fear of what people will think about him. Throughout the novel, Victor…