In the middle of this scene, Hamlet left the main event and action, and he started to contemplate about the nature of goodness. In literature, this device is called (DIGRESSION). While reading a play, a reader comes across ...

“A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself; in appropriate and pleasurable language; in a dramatic rather than narrative form; with incidents arousing pity ...

Polonius sends Reynaldo to Paris to spy on Laertes. A distressed Ophelia tells her father of a strange encounter with Hamlet. She reveals that she has ceased all contact with Hamlet, as her father had ordered. Polonius ...

Scene 1 serves as the setting and introduction to the play with the functions of: A: introducing some of the characters. B: preparing audience and readers to accept and understand Elizabethan beliefs. C: presenting ...

"The Open Window" is Saki's most popular short story. It was first collected in Beasts and Super Beasts in 1914. Saki's wit is at the height of its power in this story of a spontaneous practical joke played upon a visiting ...

In Hemingway’s “Cat in the Rain” the American wife presents many qualities. She barely has an identity. There isn’t a name attached to her throughout the story. The American wife feels locked and trapped in her marriage. ...

Short-story: symbolism The main symbol is, at the same time, the title and the subject of the short story, that is, the doll’s house There are many aspects revolving around this symbol or subject, as if the doll’s house ...

These two terms are different in two conceptions: 1. chronologically speaking (time) as modern means (new), while modernist poetry signifies the type of poetry that is composed from (1910-1950). 2. thematically speaking, ...

Realism is a style of art that depicts what the eye can see. It tries to capture every day people doing every day ordinary things

"If I thought that my reply would be to someone who would ever return to earth, this flame would remain without further movement; but as no one has ever returned alive from this gulf, if what I hear is true, I can answer ...