Song of Rowland is a story about Charlemagne and his attempt to seize Saragossa. This land was controlled by Marsilla, a Muslim King. The poem focuses on the feud between Rowland’s stepfather Ganelon and the devastating consequences of that feud …
Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener” uses the setting to set the tone, the theme, the tone, and most importantly, the character of Bartleby, an aspiring scrivener, in his story. The description and location of Bartleby’s jail yard suggests the parallelism …
It’s not hard to believe that most of the main characters from Greek mythology share similarities and differences. This holds true especially for Prometheus (Aeschylus’ “Prometheus Bound”) and Heracles (Apollodorus” “Heracles or Heraclids”) These two important characters might seem very …
Great Expectations, the novel, is about the education and upbringing a young boy named Pip. His younger sister and her husband are the ones who raise him “byhand”. The novel tells the story of Pip as an adult. It is …
Aaron Ridley’s book “Ill-Gotten Benefits: On Use of Results from Unethical Experimentalments in Medicine” provides a short summary that explains why unethical data use is acceptable, even if it condones researcher’s moral actions. Ridley asserts that the acceptance of unethical …