John Lodge

"With the Prince of Hell Milton reverses the functions and correspndingly the characteristicts, stressing thoseappropriate to an epic antagonist and underplaying though incorporating those of an example of evil." (Kaston 58) Kaston is saying in the poem Milton totally reverses the beliefs which have always been associated with Satan. Everyone has always portrayed Satan as evil and as the villain of everything. But Milton has used him as a hero who was doing something in which…

goes and no system or government is watching to punish you. This can happen in modern society as people in war zones are far from their normal customs and start to lose their normal lives. People stop maintaining any sense of normality, described by John Proctor in The Crucible by Arthur Miller, “The world is gone daft with this nonsense” (Miller 68). The only thing to think about is the panic. Finally, society’s willingness to watch horror escalates the hysteria more. People, as a part of the…

The Education of a Monster: The Role of Literature in Frankenstein In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, books provide Frankenstein’s creature with much of his understanding about the outside world, and also contribute to his own self-awareness. The three books that the creature takes from the De Lacey home Plutarch’s Lives, The Sorrows of Werter, and Paradise Lost, as well as Victor’s journal, expose the creature to “an infinity of new images and feelings that sometimes [raise him] to ecstasy, but…

Reaching dreams are the ultimate motivation behind the characters in the novel. Lennie had an abundant amount of faith in his dream of “living off the fatta the lan.” George is convinced that this could actually happen. Soon Lennie and George are motivated by their dreams and start to work harder. Steinbeck shows in his novel how dreams often play a huge role in your survival when you are living in a lonely world. Crooks, the black stable-hand, saw men on the ranch come and go, “the same damn…

Alan Hsieh Ms. Sobocinski English 11 May 12th 2015 The American Dream F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath are two stories that portray extreme opposites, but also harbor deep similarities between each other. The main character of Fitzgerald’s book; Gatsby is an extremely wealthy man whilst the Joads in The Grapes of Wrath are disturbingly poor. Both sets of characters strive for diff goals beyond their financial states. Gatsby’s ultimate goal is to…

The time period I chose was The Great Depression from 1829- 1839. This was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. The Great Depression caused massive levels of poverty, hunger, unemployment and political unrest. Also during this time was the Dust Bowl, which was when severe dust storms came through the United States causing droughts, which prevented farming. I chose four books for this project that I thought showed what it was like…

King Lear and Hamlet are two of William Shakespeare’s most famous tragedies that contain equally famous lines. “The ripeness is all” in King Lear (5.2.11), and “The readiness is all” in Hamlet (5.2.160), are both taken from the speeches of two apparent madmen, and both share similar meanings. Whatever is meant to be, will be, is one interpretation of these lines. Another is that man can live to the fullest once he realizes that death is a reality, and that the important thing is to be prepared…

Themes are universal lessons and subjects in a piece of writing or book. Both Hamlet and the Twelfth Night have universal themes. The two plays teach valuable lessons throughout the actions going on. Readers are able to recognize themes throughout the plays based on the specific characteristics of each of the plays. The two books have some clear differences. The Twelfth Night was written in 1601 while Hamlet was written in 1599. The different times of being written can allow the reader to…

In what is considered one of the most ambitious works in literary history, John Milton uses the retelling of the Christian creation story as an allegory for what it means to be truly human. Focalized in this endeavor is man’s movement from inception, through the pursuit of knowledge, to the fulfillment and execution of free will. While Christian ideology (in other words, popular ideology) bases itself in the belief of Adam and Eve’s fall acting as man’s first sin and initial disobedience to God,…

Vincent Vo Mr. Didonato English 11 - B 6 December 2014 Of Mice and Men: Characterization of George The classic novel “Of Mice and Men” written by John Steinbeck illustrates the loneliness and hardship of labour in the 1900s and displays how people are driven to try and find friendship in order to escape from loneliness and suffering. As the protagonist and narrator, George develops from a person eager to fulfill the American Dream with his mentally-disabled companion Lennie to a protective and…