1. Crime and Punishment
Erich Fromm, in his remarkable book of social intellectualism, titled Escape from Freedom, defines the concept of freedom from a very lucid angle. ... Putting it all together, Fromm has presented quite a unique angle while laying out his views about freedom and the desire to escape it at the same time. ...
The Fall of the House of Usher "During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens- is the opening in "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allen Poe (1). This sentence sets the mood of this gothic tale of death and...
Zora Neale Hurston chooses to define Janie not by what is wrong in her life, but by what is good in it. ... She may not be able to clearly define her thoughts, but the reader still sees that Janie's ideas are romantic and full of sensuality. ... The initial description of him, ". . . a cityfied, stylish dressed man with his hat set at an angle that didn't belong in [those] parts" [26] immediately sets a firm image in the reader's mind, so no one is surprised when Janie leaves "ole skullhead" and decides to marry Joe instead. ...