The Literature Lesson from Jane Eyre There’s a scene early on in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë where the eponymous character Jane has been humiliated by the head of the school in which she has been sent and he basically calls her a liar in front of all her classmates and her teachers, makes her…
If you make a song out of the sound of waves, which of them is stronger? Wallace Stevens was a modernist poet who wrote The Idea of Order at Key West, a poem about a woman singing at the seaside, as the speaker, with his friend, watches, and finds something worth documenting in her song….
INEZ: Wait! You’ll see how simple it is. Childishly simple. Obviously there aren’t any physical torments—you agree, don’t you? And yet we’re in hell. And no one else will come here. We’ll stay in this room together, the three of us, for ever and ever.…In short, there’s someone absent here the official torturer. GARCIN [sotto…
