Burton's Gentleman's Magazine Essays

A common psychiatric mood disorder that causes a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest is depression. Being highly debilitating, depression can affect how an individual emotionally thinks, feels, and handles daily activities. One of the most controversial and highly criticized books in literature is J.D Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, centering on the protagonist, Holden Caulfield. Throughout The Catcher in the Rye, Holden is alienated from society, facing mental trauma, and has reckless

Lamb to the Slaughter is an action packed short story about a wife who is let down by her husband and proceeds to kill him as an act of revenge. Obviously much more happens in this story consisting of humour, action, mystery and irony. Roald Dahl is a master of writing short stories in ways that attract readers, draw them into what is happening through using literary elements and universal themes to make the story relatable to the readers. In this story the main literary elements were foreshadowing

The comic ‘Blacksad, Somewhere within the Shadows’ is based on anthropomorphic animals whose species were specifically chosen for their characters role. Strongly reflecting they type of personality traits and role that the character has as the story unfolds. The story is about Blacksad who investigates the murder of an actress, Natalia Willford, his former lover. Clues by an old friend Jake Ostiombe led Blacksad to his first suspect Leon Kronski, a screenwriter and Natalia’s last known lover. Blacksad

Many people oftentimes think they are useless. While that is truly not the case, some do believe their situation is hopeless and real. Sydney Carton in Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities truly does think his life up until now has been eventless and sees no place for himself to continue on without an act of heroism. In this excerpt from the novel, Dickens uses the literary techniques of diction, symbolism, and allusion to show how Carton thinks of himself as second-rate, but with a higher purpose

The novel The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published the 10th of may 1925, revolves around the main character Jay Gatsby as well as Nick Caraway. All of Nick’s supposed friends are very self-centered and greedy. I believe that the characters in the novel personify greed. The novel is told through narration from the character Nick Caraway. Nick moves to New York after recently graduating from Yale University. When he moves to New York he get’s Jay Gatsby as a neighbor. Gatsby

The House of Usher, as described by the narrator, is a dark and ominous place. Its walls are crumbling, and the whole building looks very decrepit. The narrator found himself on a journey to the House of Usher because the current head of the house, Roderick Usher, sent him a letter. He was asking for the narrator to visit him, and the narrator agreed to this sojourn for the reason that he had not seen Usher in many years, and Usher’s letter describes a mental illness. The narrator arrives to find

Araby” by James Joyce is a story about a boy who finds himself admiring a girl in his neighborhood. He tries to impress her but gives up at the end. The story reflects the theme of growing up process which in this case, not physically but mentally. It also conveys the theme of childhood idealism that cannot exist in reality. The story uses many narrative techniques that relate to the themes in order to make the story effective for both showing the author’s message and entertaining the readers’ mind

In this short stories “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe and “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner, the authors represent the sense of horror in their stories. They are very similar in expressing their terrifying point of view. However, there are also differences. “The Tell-Tale Heart” is told in the first person perspective which creates compulsory picture of a mad murdered, whereas the third person perspective of “A Rose for Emily” shows Miss Emily through the eyes of others, which changes

Diego Velazquez's piece titled 'Las Meninas' represents the art of western civilization. This piece of art was made by oil on canvas in the year 1656. ' Diego Velazquez' decided to draw such a large canvas, describing himself in this group picture .The work performed represents All the work is a weird composition many questions revolve around between fact and fiction, and it produces a certain relationship between the characters and scenes. The size of this piece of art is (3.17×2.74 m) and

Death of a Salesman is a play written by Arthur Miller in 1949. The play is known for its selective or modified realist style, in which unnecessary details are intentionally eliminated while important details are highlighted. Miller use these eliminated and highlighted elements in the play to symbolize Willy Loman’s, the protagonist, emotional aspects, and eventually, his downfall. First is one of the most prominent elements which some of its components are eliminated in order to illustrate Willy’s

For most of his two – decade long career as a short story writer and a poet, with his first book of poetry being published in 1827 when he was only eighteen, Edgar Allan Poe struggled to support himself and his family. His greatest success came in 1845 with the publication of his most famous poem, “The Raven.” Its success provided Poe and his family with short-term financial stability thus enabling him to settle down in a respectable neighbourhood in New York. Of equal importance, he finally began

Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Petrarchan Sonnet, “How do I Love Thee?,” sets out to define how she loves her husband by introducing and developing her desire to do so in the octave, and in the sestet, by expanding upon and settling that desire with connections to her life’s experiences. To better understand and analyze the sonnet, a brief history of Barrett’s life is necessary. Analyzing the octave is crucial in order to see its development and how it eventually connects with the sestet. The analyzation

Have you ever imagined what it is like to see the world, a single person or an event with different lenses? When two or more people have different opinions about the same person or event, it is like they are seeing a certain situation through different lenses, with different points of view. For example, Rachel thought that Megan was a model or a fashion designer based on how she looks and Anna thought that Megan was a very bad person because she killed her own baby, while Megan in reality, did not

Romanticism is a common genre in literature and art were Americans express their view on the American society view things in the world. A sub genre is dark romanticism which focus on more on the dark and deep side of humanity. Many these dark romanticism literature has symbols that represent the story as whole of the theme or moral of the story which can person, an object, or thing. These three stories that came from a genre of dark romanticism that represent thought a symbol. The Pit and The Pendulum

Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, “The Fall of the House of Usher,” describes an unnamed narrator’s visit to his friend’s (Roderick Usher) house. Roderick, sick with “a morbid acuteness of the senses” (5), has requested that the narrator come to the House of Usher for company. As the narrator enters the house, he notices that the house possesses an “irredeemable gloom” (3). The narrator also spots Roderick’s female twin, Madeline, who suffers from catalepsy. After a short period of time, Madeline dies

Color plays a major role in this novel. Color sets the mood and tone of any setting. Reactions to color depends on what the actual color is. There are various types of colors and moods taking place in the novel. So when reading the novel I payed close attention to the colors and reactions of the characters. Gray is the darkest color being used in the novel. Gray is used to show the emotion and view of the setting. It is very gloomy and deserted where Dorthy, her aunt, and uncle live. Everything

Myrtle Dunnage was exiled from the town of Dungartar when Steward Pettyman mysteriously died. She only returned twenty-five years later to assume caregiver of her ailing mother, eventually making dresses to please the towns people so they would stop the accusations that she killed Steward Pettyman (Moorhouse, Jocelyn). NEED SOMETHING ELSE HERE. The film The Dressmaker is progressive in many ways in which, the representation of strong female lead character and the denunciation of toxic masculinity

Invisible Man, a novel by Ralph Ellison, focuses on a nameless narrator who tells of his life story. The story starts off in the South and eventually leads to the North when he enters college. Throughout the novel, many important changes to the Narrator are noted and can be easily noticed by a change in attitude or perspective. The first of these many changes comes in the form of innocence into lustfulness. He experiences this change while forced to watch a naked white woman perform a dancing act

The parent company Arcadia Group Ltd holds a portfolio of brands – Wallis, Miss Selfridge, Topshop, Topman, Burton Menswear London, Dorothy Perkins, Evans and Outfit. TOPSHOP was first introduced in 1964 and then became a standalone store in 1994 (TOPSHOP, Official site). Over the course of almost five decades, it has opened up almost 472 retail outlets across the globe. Topshop is a high-street fashion brand that is very popular amongst the youngest generation. It caters to women between 14-30

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