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Pathetic Fallacy is the attribution of human emotions to inanimate objects e.g trees, the wind, a beach. Shakespeare frequently uses this technique in his drama to mirror Lear's madness and to connect multip...

The gothic tradition in literature was an attempt to warn, in a sensational and often controversial way, about the social and personal consequences of going against accepted beliefs of the time. In Macbeth ,...

Taking into consideration a good corpus of plays from Antiquity to the blossoming period of Renaissance drama in France and England, several constant features can be perceived which define the notion of trag...

In both The Great Gatsby and A View from the Bridge, women are physical manifestations of male fantasy. Daisy Buchanan represents The American Dream, 'gleaming like silver' with a voice 'full of money,' whil...

Seamus Heaney uses the extended metaphor of blackberry picking in order to depict the wilting of childhood optimism. He considers the initial excitement of picking the first blackberries to be joyous and sen...