Throughout time, love has been important in many literary works. Shakespeare is one author whose works showed love's importance and influence in people's lives. Some of his plays revealed love as being a destructive force in the lives of the characters, and some did the opposite. Love c...

Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner is the story of a man who outraged the land that then turned and destroyed the man's family (Serafin 356). Growing up as a poor mountain white, Thomas Sutpen yearns for more than what he has ever had. He marries a young woman and fathers a son, bu...

It is a common belief that people's lives are dependent on fate. There is an ultimate destination at the end of a journey that is predetermined by something greater than our own desires. Unfortunately, this illusion is easily shattered by the fact that the world is not a utopia abundant with un...

This is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper.- - T. S. Eliot "The Hollow Men""I wanted to be scared again . . . I wanted to feel unsureagain. That's the only way I learn,the only way I feel challenged." --Connie Chung"In Germany, they first came for the communists, and I didn't speak ...