In establishing mothers as the executors of power, Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe performed a remarkable role in both anti-slavery and women’s rights movements. The writers indicate that the account devoted to Eliza Harris, published in Slave Narratives of the Underground Railroad, is based on genuine occurrences, with...
The vast literary world allows its readers to plunge into different stories, analyzing and comparing them with each other. A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner and Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Gilman are two short stories depicting the lives of two different women. Although they both evolve around the isolation...
Introduction The paradoxical nature of hidden secrets makes them both attract the audience’s attention and avert their eyes in fear or disgust. In his short story “The Minister’s Black Veil,” Nathaniel Hawthorne defined as the “producer of the most finished and penetrating of the numerous ‘short stories’” ponders over the...
Introduction The theme of the work is the study of how time, events, and people surrounding the author form creativity and influence the author’s work on the example of Susan Glaspell. Studying the dates and developments that took place in history in a certain period give only a partial understanding...
Persuasion is an essential communication tool used to alter other people’s beliefs, intentions, and attitudes by using words, actions, or suggestions. The persuader explains the stated proposal’s advantages, while the person with a different viewpoint debunks the proposal by stating the disadvantage of the said action. The sporadic conversation in...
Introduction Theodore Roethke’s My Papa’s Waltz is the author’s most famous poem, focusing on the dance performed by the adult man and the little boy. Four characters in My Papa’s Waltz are young Roethke as the speaker, the mother, the father, and his son. The poem’s opening line, “The whiskey...
Introduction Coming of age stories are often steeped in fiction, outweighing the significance of the subject material or the targeted audience. However, John Green successfully presents themes of grief and death in his novel, Looking for Alaska, using adult youth characters. The story follows Miles Halter, Chip Martin, and Takumi...
Harper Lee is a well-acclaimed and important US writer. Compared to others, the catalog of her works is comparatively modest, but her novels were capable of touching on the many central problems of American life. Not much is known about the author’s early life, as Lee was especially private about...
Introduction Oedipus the King is perhaps the oldest and best-recognized script that highlights the foundations of tragedy. The play is considered by many a perfect example of Aristotle’s descriptions of tragic events. He surmised that the objective of tragedies was to purify people’s souls of passions through the evocation of...
Introduction The story A Rose for Emily remains one of the greatest narrations by William Faulkner. The story was initially published in Forum in 1930 before being integrated into Faulkner’s collection. Faulkner narrates an unmarried woman who attracts the concern and suspicion of Jefferson town residents in Mississippi who, after...
Introduction Anne Bradstreet was an extraordinary person and an outstanding poet. Her first collection, The Ten Muses, published in 1650, contains up to a hundred poems on historical and political subjects, including the Puritan rebellion led by Cromwell, and descriptions of the Assyrian, Persian, Greek, and Roman empires. Other themes...
The short story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” was initially published in 1953, following Flannery O’Connor’s permanent relocation to her mother’s dairy farm in Andalusia. In summary, the book is a short story revolving around a Georgia family that has got travel plans to move from Georgia to...
Introduction Many of Shakespeare’s thoughts about the struggle between good and evil, about deals with human nature, are timeless, as are most of the characters and passions described by him. Shakespeare is a great playwright who created unfading and ageless works of art. What then, what now, next to people,...
Introduction Change is an integral part of progress and development. Nevertheless, change may not come naturally to everyone, as it requires powerful internal resources and readiness for uncertainty. Although Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson is related to motivational business literature, it provides highlights of valuable lessons for life....
Introduction Othello ranks among the top classic plays written by Shakespeare. It predominantly rotates around two key characters, Othello, the influential leader, and Iago, his follower. The play characterizes Iago as a manipulative person who is intent on using different tactics to bring down Othello, who appears jealous of him....
Introduction The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates, written by Wes Moore, compares and contrasts youths who share the same name, the author Wes and the other Wes. It highlights significant moments in their lives and demonstrates how two persons with the same name approached identical problems in very...
In classical drama, male characters’ dislike of women is not uncommon. Particularly, in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the protagonist develops misogynist opinions and worldviews as a result of encountering his mother’s moral imperfection. Hamlet’s attitudes to women include distrust and beliefs regarding women’s unreliability, moral weakness, and roles as the source of...
Introduction Reading Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen is not only a unique opportunity to enjoy one of the most amazing love stories of Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet. In addition, it is a solid lesson about how people developed their relationships within the British class system in the 19th...
Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories is a short story book written by an American writer and poet Sandra Cisneros and published in 1991. The story the book is named after is the author’s interpretation of a Mexican cultural myth of La Llorona, with Cisneros granting its heroine a much...
The story’s principal theme is the eternal conflict between life and death. First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross, the likeable protagonist of “The Things They Carried,” confronts the conflicting emotions of love, hatred, and war on a more personal basis. The author, Tim O’Brien, recalls his tour of service during the Vietnam...
Introduction Fences play follows the life of Troy Maxson, the main character; he struggles to provide for his family while also trying to come to terms with his issues. The play deals with issues of race, family, and responsibility and ultimately asks whether people can ever truly escape their past....
Introduction Pride and Prejudice is one of the most remarkable and well-known works written by Jane Austen at the beginning of the 19th century. It is not just a true love story of two main characters, Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet, but a unique discussion of interpersonal relationships in status-biased...
Introduction August Wilson considered conflict an important part of character development. A reader can see how Wilson’s characters experience and handle conflicts in Fences, one of his most famous plays. In particular, Troy Maxson, the play’s tragic protagonist, becomes a bitter, stubborn man who believes in self-created illusions and does...
Summary In one of my previously written essays, I discussed and analyzed the protagonist from Death of a Salesman named Willy Loman. He is one of the main figures in the literature piece written by Arthur Miller. This paper will provide an analysis of the three main characters of the...
Introduction Antigone is a mythological play by Sophocles where Creon and Antigone play the leading roles. Creon is the nation’s king and Antigone’s uncle. Antigone comes from a royal lineage which Creon takes over after the death of all male heirs who could ascend the throne. Thus, Creon gets more...
Death of a Salesman is a classic play about the collapse of the American dream and the collapse of family values. The work of the famous American author Arthur Miller has always focused not on feelings but on the rationality of thinking. This play, written in two acts, tells the...
Introduction Eric Foner’s narrative Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men has become one of the major writing dedicated to the development of slavery in the U.S. Foner was one of the most prominent American historians who demonstrated how slavery was perpetuated in the minds of the Northerners and made them...
Introduction “A Doll’s House” by Henrik Ibsen explores several themes that affect the social well-being of people and are prevalent in modern society. Henrik Ibsen utilizes several literal styles to present the main themes in the play and exposes how the subject matter affects people’s lives. The choice of characters...
There are numerous similarities between the two female characters Nora from John Steinbeck’s “The Chrysanthemums” and Elisa from Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House.” Both are wives of men who do not comprehend them or share the same emotions as women. Both of the protagonists are intelligent women who need to...
Introduction There are parallels between the Aristotelian drama, the tragic hero in the Antique sense of this notion, and the play by William Shakespeare, “Othello, the Moor of Venice.” Its main protagonist is the example of the tragic hero who arouses mixed emotions in the audience. Othello’s downfall is the...
O’Connor’s ability to balance brutality with comedy, blend humor with tragic occurrences, and seriousness with absurdity, captivates the readers’ attention. The story’s primary message is the worth of happiness and the illogicality of life. “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” is a good demonstration of complex human nature and...
Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft is an academic work that focuses on the Salem witch trials. The book, first published in 1974 by Harvard University Press, proposes an alternate explanation for the phenomena of witch hysteria and its particular significance to the town of Salem, Massachusetts. Critics praised...
Edgar Allan Poe is considered one of the most innovative authors of the early 19th century, generally known for his vivid imagery and thrilling imagination, beyond the norms of individuals living during his time. Although Poe is remembered for stories like The Fall of the House of Usher and The...
Introduction Pride can be defined as an unreasonable and excessive estimation of one’s prowess or dominance in aspects such as wealth, talents, and beauty. On the other hand, prejudice, in this context, refers to a nonsensical and unfriendly attitude, hostile judgment, or strong aversion towards a particular gender or ethnic...
In the article “The ways we lie,” Stephanie Ericsson, a screenwriter, and advertising copywriter, explicitly narrates different ways people lie. She not only lists eight common reasons behind lying but also narrates the roles that lying plays in society. The author connects the audience’s ethos, pathos, and logos by narrating...
When writing this letter, Martin Luther King Jr. was detained at Birmingham Jail because he participated in a peaceful protest. He explains the circumstances under which the protest was organized and his disappointment with his fellow clergymen who criticized his involvement. They claimed that such means of gaining public support...
The American Dream is a vision that observes that America is a land that should provide a fuller, more productive, and a better life for its citizens. Besides, social order should equalize every woman and man to embrace the fullest capable stature and be seen for what they are irrespective...
The short story A good man is hard to find was written by Flannery O’Connor in 1953, and it illuminates several themes, one of which is a theme of genuine good. All characters in the story represent different attitudes toward good and evil, and they have contrasting perceptions of what...
Introduction The play Zombie Love, written by Earl T. Roske, illustrates the love of two people from different worlds. Emily is a young girl who is in love with a zombie named Walter. The plot of the play is a perfect representation of the modern world and its unfairness. Due...
Introduction Human beings have an undeniable capacity for compassion and evil. The diabolical relationship and existence of the two are demonstrated by Flannery O’Connor in ‘A Good Man Is Hard to Find.’ The story focuses on a grandmother living with her son’s nuclear family and their eventual demise at the...
Introduction While “Sweat” by Zora Hurston is a short story, its perspective is broader than that of most books. Hurston examines many issues, including the challenges of marital violence, loneliness and religion, and race, by employing captivating and compelling symbolism. The most prominent element of the novel is the author’s...
In order to establish whether Henrik Ibsen’s play is feminist, one must first know the definition of feminism. Feminism is defined as wanting liberation from sexist role patterns for all people, whether male or female (The Lancet). The feminist theory seeks to understand inequality propagated against women, focusing on gender...
Addressing a complex history of racial inequality in the U.S., as well as a conundrum of relationships within a dysfunctional family affected by racial prejudices, August Wilson’s “Fences” incorporates an array of memorable and sympathetic characters. However, the main protagonist, Troy Maxson, clearly represents the core of the play and...
Introduction Flannery O’Connor’s proficiency in novel and story writing emerged explicitly in her characterization of the stories A Good Man is Hard to Find and Good Country People. In writing the stories mentioned above, O’Connor succinctly depicts various characters, including the grandmother and the Misfit in A Good Man is...
Introduction Pride and Prejudice is one of the most famous novels by Jane Austen. The female author dedicated many years to writing this work, and it became an excellent masterpiece in the literary scope. Many critics appreciate the novel for its style, language, and form, and the book had significant...
Introduction Dickinson uniquely approaches Death, personifying it to demonstrate that he is not afraid of Death. The author depicts eternity as timeless and examines the moral experience through the lens of immortality. Dickinson combines immortality and Death in a carriage supposed to pick her up. This fusion brings out the...
Introduction Sonny’s Blues is a tale about a Harlem family penned by James Baldwin. The narrative follows the adventures of two brothers, specifically the younger of them, Sonny, who becomes hooked on heroin and ends up in prison (Baldwin 4). The narrative is told from the perspective of the elder...
Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” is one of the most influential stories created in American culture and literature. The story is a narration of a village that holds an annual lottery. The fate of the lottery winner is dark and cruel. When readers are introduced to the story, they may think...
Introduction Fences is August Wilson’s arguably most outstanding work. Written in 1983, the moving drama examines the relationships and life of the Maxson family. Besides, the drama’s action starts in 1957, with the plot created through a period until 1965. The drama occurs in a run-down tenement of black people...
Introduction Literature plays a vital role in using narratology to communicate social issues through different lenses and thematic concerns. The Cask of Amontillado by Allan Poe shows how the author’s choice of characters and circumstances have more profound implications than the literal meanings. The interaction between Montresor and Fortunato during...
Introduction By nature of reasoning, knowledge is a form of conviction that differs from opinion or conjecture. A person’s or something’s awareness or knowledge, such as information, abilities, or things, contributes to one’s comprehension. At the same time, maladaptive pursuit of knowledge can generate adverse effects due to the presence...
Background Twelfth Night of What You Will by William Shakespeare is a romantic-comedy novel with intersecting plots and subplots. The major plot revolves around the love triangle between Orsino, Olivia, and Viola. The second plot is about the mistaken identity of Sebastian marrying Olivia thus breaking the love triangle. The...
Introduction “Inside the White cube” by Brian O’Doherty is an art book published in the 1970s that majorly employed the ideology of the gallery space. The art book critically examines the impacts of the post-war crisis on artwork and the museum gallery. The work by O’Doherty aims at rubbing off...
Introduction Each character in the play is of interest, as personal changes take place within them as the story progresses. One of the characters undergoing the most profound changes is Rose and Troy. However, in “Fences” by August Wilson, Cory is a character that is interesting and powerful to analyze....
Introduction James Baldwin is an American author well-known for his activism, poetry, and playwrights. Baldwin’s perseverance in the face of socioeconomic, gender, and primarily racial persecution in the West earned him many accolades in the arts. James Baldwin’s story “Sonny’s Blues” is about Sonny, who lives in Harlem in the...
Introduction The Narrator in The Yellow Wallpaper and Mrs. Mallard in The Story of an Hour are both products of their era, filled with a paternalistic attitude towards women’s lives, aspirations, and opportunities. Their husbands have become a burden to women, guards in prison, presented in the form of ordinary...
Introduction American fiction has had many authors with notable representations whose work has significantly influenced people. It would be sensible to claim that the author of the novel Hoot Carl Hiaasen and One Crazy Summer by Rita William-Garcia are prominent figures who left a significant mark in the genre. Hence...
Numerous books are dedicated to the topic of love – the sublime feeling which is portrayed differently throughout the literature. However, sometimes love has negative underpinnings, which cause this sense to fail. Dating Down by Stephanie Lyons is a perfect reflection of how risking everything for someone can turn into...
Summary Fences are August Wilson’s arguably most outstanding work. Written in 1983, the moving drama examines the relationships and life of the Maxson family. Besides, the drama’s action starts in 1957, with the plot created through a period until 1965. The drama occurs in a run-down tenement of black people...
“Hills Like White Elephants” is an outstanding short story written by Ernest Hemingway. At first sight, it describes a common situation in a life of a couple who spends time in a rail station bar while waiting for a coming train. A man and a woman are drinking beer and...
The distant, barely visible white hills are the first place that the reader can notice for himself. They are mentioned by the author in the title and indirectly reveal the theme of events. The heroine describes these things as being like “white elephants” (Hemingway, 1998). White elephants are unwanted things...
Introduction In the introduction to Jeff Bezos’s book Invent and Wander: The Collected Works of Jeff Bezos, Walter Isaacson provides some remarkable observations of the attributes that have made this person innovative and forward-thinking. Walter Isaacson wrote a large number of books in his life about famous figures of the...
“Yellow Wallpaper” is a short story written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1892. The story is about a woman with postnatal depression who moves to a “colonial mansion” with her husband, John, for the summer (Gilman 87). The main themes of the story are female repression, male domination, confinement, and...
This story tells about a woman’s decision to give family heirlooms to one of her daughters. Mama chooses Maggie when she realizes that Maggie’s perceptions of heritage and preserving culture are right and justified. Dee described those quilts as “old-fashioned, out of style,” while Maggie learned to create her own...
A common adage goes that destiny or fate can only be delayed but never stopped. Fate is a spiritual aspect thought by people to have the ability to control life. According to many cultural beliefs worldwide, not even the most vital human being can oppose fate. The need to control...
The Human Condition Hemmingway’s A Clean, Well-Lighted Place illustrates that the human condition varies based on one’s appreciation of life and age. The author uses symbolism and characterization to illustrate these points through the four characters he portrays. The young waiter is depicted as an impatient and brash individual who...
The poem “because I could not stop for death” by Emily Dickinson explores death, eternity, its cyclical nature, and uncertainties associated with its occurrence. The poet personifies death from the beginning and allows the speaker to narrate experiences after death. At the start of the poem, the reader is introduced...
Introduction Irony can be generally defined as the expression of certain thoughts by using language that would normally mean something opposite to the intended message. Verbal irony refers to intentionally produced statements that convey one meaning when understood literally but need to be taken as the opposite of that literal...
Introduction Africa joined the process of world artistic creation relatively late. The anti-colonial movement and the emergence of national consciousness contributed to the awakening of cultural life. By the 40-the 50s of the XX century, there was already journalistic poetry in Nigeria, cheap amateur novels of book bazaars that met...
Homer’s epic poem, The Iliad is a story about the siege of Troy city by the Greeks and the Trojan War. The poem contains dramatic scenes of battle that require gods’ intervention on behalf of different characters. The Iliad introduces its readers to an entire society of the gods including...
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is a pure fictional story which is all about race acceptance as well as fitting in. Throughout the novel, the protagonist as well as narrator, who are both black and white, truly fight to determine his true identity. Despite the fact that the narrator...
The Glass Menagerie is a memory play written by Tennessee Williams and set in St. Louis in 1937, whose actions are based on the narrator’s memories, Tom Wingfield. Tom is a protagonist and a narrator who presents the analysis of past events directly to the audience, and he takes part...
A Doll’s House, a play by Henrik Ibsen, is a nineteenth-century drama that startled several theatre groups and literary readers at the time. It focuses on women’s responsibilities and expectations, particularly those of housewives. Ibsen goes into detail about the physiological responsibilities of those in the time. He depicts the...
Introduction During the early twentieth century, Robert Frost was discouraged from pursuing the life of letters. Thus, Frost turned their attention to raising chickens, selling eggs, and crafting local color-piece journals like Farm-poultry and The Eastern Poultryman (Rashid et al.). This proved to be a tragic time for the family...
The two plays portray conflicts that arise in society due to the assumptions that men hold about women. The communities are male-dominated. Gender roles come explicitly in the plays as male masculinity drives the notion of incapability of the women to think intelligently towards matters of great concern to society...
Some playwrights utilize intriguing approaches to setting up the scene; for example, by making a narrator a direct participant of the events, the writer can convey more meaning. “The Glass Menagerie” is a play written by Tennessee Williams in 1944 (Williams, 1). Interestingly, the central character of this play, whose...
Alice Sebold’s novel, The Lovely Bones, tells the story of the Salmon family and the tragic murder of Susie Salmon. The Salmon family lives together in the quaint town of Norristown, Pennsylvania. Susie was the eldest of the Salmon’s three children whom George Harvey raped and murdered (p.15). He proceeded...
Introduction The Cask of Amontillado, a short story by Edgar Poe, revolves around secret murder, revenge, and deception. In an Italian-based setting, Poe shows how Montressor tricks his friend Fortunato into trapping him in a prehistoric catacomb. In the story, Poe uses the two main characters, Fortunato and Montresor, to...
The theme “A good man is hard to find” is the main idea of the short story written by Flannery O’Connor in 1953 year. In this piece of literature, the author describes a situation from the perspective of the main character, which is a Grandmother. In her work, an American...
Introduction Of all the social issues that have developed in the U.S. over the entire course of its existence, the question of race perpetuates all of its domains, including sociocultural, sociopolitical, and socioeconomic ones. The challenges of belonging and, quite often, even surviving the weight of racial and ethnic prejudices...
Poems have significant impacts on our social lives, as they pass the message and keep people informed. Understanding the message in a poem requires concentration and alertness of one’s mind. Poems have different styles, which content creators use to incorporate messages. Dylan Thomas wrote the poem entitled “Do not go...
Introduction Thesis: Edgar Allan Poe’s writing career was largely influenced by events that happened around him. Paragraphs Edgar Poe’s background information and his new family. Poe’s education history. The end of his education and the start of his writing career. The international copyright infringement saga and how it impacted Poe....
Introduction The poems written by Phillis Wheatley are unique literary works that reflect the life of slaves in the new country. However, the most significant piece seems to be “On Being Brought from Africa to America,” and its selection is conditional upon the fact that it represents the beginning of...
The short story Everyday Use was published by Alice Walker in 1973 and is included in the short stories collection In Love and Trouble. The critical theme in Alice Walker’s stories is racial discrimination, minority issues, and the infringement of women’s rights. In her novels and short stories, she often...
Summary William Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily is a short story told from a first-person narrative. The story begins with the narrator informing the audience about the funeral of Miss Emily Grierson (Faulkner 6). Although the “whole town” attended the funeral, the woman had been alone for at least a...
Introduction Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle is an allegorical short story, disguising criticism about the British and American government behind an unusual story of a Dutchman. Irving used allegory to analyze and represent a different angle self-identification problem (N.N. Li and L.M. Li 307). Indeed, the resistance of Rip Van...
Harper Lee is an eminent author for her novel To Kill a Mockingbird. The novel was a resounding success and resulted in Lee winning the Pulitzer Prize. The common themes depicted in the novel include a young girl’s coming-of-age, racism, and prejudice. The novel To Kill Mockingbird centers on the...
Hills Like White Elephants is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway, published first in 1927, which later became a part of his storybook Men Without Women in 1955. The story focuses on a couple that travels from the valley of the Ebro to Madrid. The author does not provide...
In my imagination, Hope is dressed in a white dress – the color which makes people believe that tomorrow is a better day. She seems to be a nice woman, but she has cunning nature. This means that people’s comfort may disappear if they continue to do nothing but hope...
Introduction The play Death of a Salesman by the playwright Arthur Miller is one of the most famous literary works about the American Dream. The central character is Willy Loman, a salesman whose salary is not enough to pay his numerous debts. In twentieth-century literature, he is considered an example...
Introduction Despite decades of social progress and the continuous dialogue on the subject matter, racism remains a tragic yet inalienable part of American reality. Indeed, instances of racism as the notion that has been institutionalized and virtually become ubiquitous in the American social context has trickled into every single environment...
Early America was abundant in influential, prudent individuals that shaped the period and foundation of modern American culture and society. Both in crisis and prosperity, the Northern part of the continent produced people with creative minds that cared for the nation. The fruits of their works made the independence of...
Introduction Jay Gatsby was a man known and remembered by most people for his wealth and luxurious parties, which were attended by hundreds of guests. At first glance, Gatsby’s life looks like an American Dream because of his wealth and the fact that he achieved his status by perseverance and...
Introduction “The fly” is a short narrative written by one of the renowned authors called Katherine Mansfield. The author gives a narration about a former previous employee who visits his boss at the previous workplace. The visits’ main reason is to inform the author about his daughter’s visit to her...
The middle of the twentieth century was replete with both remarkable and notorious events, as well as diverse social movements, which have a complex long-term effect on American society. In particular, the mid-20th’s life and related events resonated in many people’s hearts, including ordinary and influential persons, who engraved their...
“Everyday Use” is a short story by Alice Walker, where through portraying contrasting characters, the author demonstrates diverse views on symbols of culture. Maggie and Dee are two sisters who are different from each other in so many ways. They oppose each other in appearances, personalities, and opinions on life....
Introduction The play, Death of a salesman is widely viewed as its author’s masterpiece and a valuable asset of contemporary American drama. Written by Arthur Miller, the work has attracted innumerable audiences and gathered several awards that include the New York Drama Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer award. Since...
Those responsible for teaching the young are one of the most responsible – if not always appreciated – jobs in any given society. Education is not merely a matter of knowledge: it is up to the teachers to communicate the base assumptions of their culture or challenge them if they...
Death is one of the central themes in Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.” The play opens with the vision of Hamlet’s deceased father, it is hinted at throughout the play as the prince himself contemplates the futility of life, and it leads to the tragic resolution as all characters die in the final...
Based on a real story, “Tuesdays with Morrie” is an excellent book for those seeking to find balance in life. The book by Mitch Albom is a great example of how two completely different people found such a perfect connection and, rather than having a teacher-student relationship, had a father-son...
The Fahrenheit 451 novel by Ray Bradbury focuses on multiple themes, including technology, freedom, and censorship. The main themes are portrayed as detrimental to societal growth because they consume a lot of television and radio but do not enjoy reading. To demonstrate the extent to which the citizens relied on...
In his poems, Robert Frost gives universal meaning to the modest local episodes and scenes. The central idea of the insolubility of life conflicts leads to the embodiment of the idea of the absurdity of earthly existence (Axelrod and Gerer 2). This essentially modernist idea is implemented in several Frost’s...