Category: Non-fiction Works

March 9, 1996 Engl 332 What draws the reader’s attention to Blake’s “The Little Black Boy” is the way in which Blake uses the cloud. There are two different ways in which Blake uses the cloud imagery. On the surface…

April 20, 1996 E 332 The industrial revolution changed the world. Not only did it procure new methods of producing items and advancing the quality of life, it created a fundamental change in the way that the world– Nature– was…

May 6, 1996 Engl 332 During the Restoration/ Eighteenth Century most poets, being concerned with the development of the novel and what it had done to the poetic form chose to write melancholic poems that were concerned with the “morbid…

August 27, 1956 Engl 331 Carefully constructed, The Wedding Banquet tells a tale of love revolving around sexes, cultures and even time. There are two paralleling love stories within the screenplay. The first one is between Wai Tung and his…

April 13, 1996 Engl 311 Set in post-apocalyptic Los Angeles, Cynthia Kadohata’s novel In the Heart of the Valley of Love uses symbolism in a way that forces the reader to see beneath the surface of the prose. When the…

September 24, 1996 Engl 305 Kenneth Branagh’s film version of Much Ado About Nothing and Shakespeare’s play Much Ado About Nothing incorporate the illusion of masks to illustrate the juxtaposition of the characters’ inner and outer feelings towards one another.…

November 17, 1996 Engl 305 In order to prove his existence, Renee Descartes said “I think, therefore I am.” This same logic can be applied to rationalizing the existence of the faeries in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The reality within…

October 21, 1995 Engl 302 James Joyce’s “A Little Cloud,” depicts the world through the eyes of an Irish working-class man. It is a story about one man’s failure to achieve his dreams and aspirations. The narration and setting work…

September 28, 1995 Engl 302 The first thing the reader notices in Isak Dinesen’s story is the title. “The Ring,” is exactly that, an allegory based around a wedding band and what it represents: marriage, magic, or the object itself.…

December 12, 1995 E 302 Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, transcends the realm between Gothic horror and scientific fact. Its “ultimate message concerning man’s relationship to the acquisition of knowledge and things brought into being out of that knowledge” is a…