Literature Love

Raina is one of Shaw's most delightful heroines from his early plays. In the opening scenes of the play, she is presented as being a romantically idealistic person in love with the noble ideal of war and love; yet, she is also aware that she is playing a game, that she is a poseuse  who enjoys making dramatic entrances (her mother is aware that Raina listens at doors in order to know when to make an effective entrance), and she is very quixotic in her views on love and war. Whenever Raina strikes a pose, she is fully aware "of the fact that her own youth and beauty are part of it." When she accuses Bluntschli of being "incapable of gratitude" and "incapable of any noble sentiments," she is also amused, and she is later delighted that he sees through her "noble attitude" and her pretensions. In fact, her attraction for Bluntschli is partly due to the fact that she can step down off the pedestal which she must be upon, metaphorically, whene...

Breaking Out - Critical Analysis Piercy's "Breaking Out" holds meaning in terms of its technique and thematic elements.  Both aspects contribute to the poem's overall meaning of activism and the need to forge a statement of defiance in a world where conformity is expected and enforced. Piercy's poem is one of transformation, where individuals can envision what they can be as opposed to what is expected of them. From a structural point of view, there is no definite convention to which the poem must adhere.  Stanzas of four lines and three lines alternate. There is no defined rhyme scheme.  In its openness of form, Piercy seeks to give articulation to the condition of freedom that the subject of the poem, herself as a child, experiences at its end.  Piercy delivers a poem from a narrative point of view, reflective of her own growth from a child to an adult.  The experience of the ruler and the discipline she experienced at its hand becomes the critical aspe...