Literature Essays

'Wings of Fire' Book Review and Summary

Example essay. Last modified: 22nd Jul 2021

Written by Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam, honorable President of India. ‘Wings of Fire’ is an autobiography capable of inspiring even a common man into becoming a technologist. A well composed novel which revolves around the life of Mr. Kalam a renowned scientist as he shares his experiences and the minutest of details of his life....

‘Chronicles of Female Triumph’: Romance Readership and The Pursuit for Empowerment.

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“Chronicles of Female Triumph”[1]: Romance Readership and The Pursuit of Empowerment: Are readers of the romance genre oppressed by their seemingly unquestionable subscription to a ...

“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson | Analysis

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 Tradition Turns To Violence In Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery” she uses imagery, irony, symbolism, and allegory to reveal her perspective on the themes of tradit...

“Where are you going, where have you been?” by Joyce Carol Oates

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There are always two sides to every story and Connie’s circumstances are no different.  The growing teen has two sides to herself; one when she is at home with her family and one when she...

A Doll's House: Gender Inequality and Application to Society

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Gender Inequality From the minute we are conceived we are put into one of two classes, male or female. We are never asked or viewed as anything besides. Furthermore, as a result of the s...

A Post-Colonial Perspective on “On the Rainy River” By Tim O’Brien

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A Post-Colonial Perspective on “On the Rainy River” By Tim O’Brien  While examining the short story “On the Rainy River” by Tim O’Brien from a post-colonial perspec...

A Raisin in the Sun: Analysis of Lena

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Reading Journal 3 In the play A Raisin in the Sun, an African American family has an opportunity to have their dreams come true with the arrival of an insurance check after the death of ...

A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America | Book Review

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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail, a novel by Bill Bryson takes you through the journey of a man l...

A White Heron by Sarah Jewett | Analysis

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A White Heron contains nature elements as well as a portrayal of beauty and innocence. Syliva is a nine-year-old girl who is living with her grandmother, whose name is Mrs. Tilley, at the New England Countryside....

A Woman's Role in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House

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Playing dollhouse A woman’s place in society has always been mapped out for her before birth. Women born in a patriarchal society of the late 1800s must endure the discrimination b...

Albert Camus and Kurt Vonnegut's Portrayal of Existentialism

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International Baccalaureate Extended Essay How are Albert Camus and Kurt Vonnegut both similar and different in portraying existentialism in their novels ‘The Outsider’ and...

Alienation in the Metamorphosis

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  Franz Kafka’s is often said to be of the “major German-language writers of the 20th century.  He was a middle-class Jew based in Prague” (pg. 2) He had a unique style and writin...

Ambrose Bierce’s “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”

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Ambrose Bierce’s “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” demonstrates that embracing one’s doubts and fears is an essential part of appreciating life. As presented in the short story, the pro...

American Dream expressed in All My Sons

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Throughout literature writings of tragedy that have been important, such as the play Hamlet. Their plots were usually tragic however the themes established, such as the tragic hero, brought up ideas t...

American Dream in The Glass Castle

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On the American Dream  According to The Epic of America, James Truslow Adams defines the American Dream as “dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller f...

An Analysis of Chiyo’s Journey Finding her Identity In “Memoirs of a Geisha”

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Finding One’s True Self:  An Analysis of Chiyo’s Journey Finding her Identity In “Memoirs of a Geisha” by Arthur Golden Most people wear makeup to enhance, modify, ...

An Analysis of Eliot's Adam Bede

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“Adam Bede”- George Eliot Summary: Dinah Morris is a Methodist preacher who arrives in Hayslope, a small village in England, during the late 18th century (1799). Dinah resides with her aunt and u...

An Analysis of J.D. Salinger's 'The Catcher in the Rye'

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“The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger is known to be one of the greatest and most controversial novels ever written.  Throughout the novel, Holden Caulfield’s negativity stops him from trying to fit in society, because he is too narrow minded to the world around him. By the end of the novel he learns to take charge of his life and to accept others too....

Analysing Structure Of Stories Literature Essay

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This chapter focuses on the structure of stories in different mediums. Storytelling and the development of media have alternately influenced each another, and each new medium has established a new kin...

Analysis of 'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker

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Carly Fischer Dr. Gregory Brown April 28, 2015 American Classics Everyday Use of Heritage in a Growing World Heritage is an essential tenet to human life. It is the faucet that allows people to con...

Analysis of 'The Body' by Stephen King

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The Body by Stephen King is a novella published in 1982 alongside three other novellas under the title Different Seasons. Narrated through the words of Gordie Lachance. The four main characters Chris, Gordie, Vern, and Teddy embark on a journey to discover the body of Roy Bower, a young boy near their age who had been reported missing a few weeks before....

Analysis of “The Education of Dasmine Cathey”

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Analysis of “The Education of Dasmine Cathey”  “The Education of Dasmine Cathey” by Brad Wolverton is about a former University of Memphis football player and his struggles...

Analysis of A Doll's House

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Henrik Ibsen wrote the play “A Doll’s House” on December 21st, 1879. The play’s geographical setting is around the 1870’s in a Norwegian town. The era the play falls in is the Victorian...

Analysis of Another Fine Mess by Ray Bradbury

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Doppelganger The text under study here is called “Another fine Mess” written by Ray Bradbury. Bradbury in this story talks about two women Bella and Zelda who are new to the old age ...

Analysis of Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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In Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Gabriel Garcia Marquez demonstrates the moral questions that arise living in a small, religious Latin-American Society of the 20th century....

Analysis of Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler

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Darkness at Noon In his essay, The God That Failed, Arthur Koestler opens by saying that “a faith is not acquired by reasoning” (The God That Failed, 15). When creating his protagoni...

Analysis of Ernest Hemingway’s “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber”

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The story presents the protagonists of the story, Francis Macomber, who needs the courage to live his life of manhood. Francis’s wife, Margot who needs money instead of love. Also, Wilson who is a hunter who knows how to guide and hunt....

Analysis of Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”

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In William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily,” the author manipulates time by beginning at the end.  He painstakingly provides details of Miss Emily’s life through the eyes of a narrator,...

Analysis of Fuller’s Don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight

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Don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight by Alexandria Fuller recounts the struggles of her war-torn childhood stories and major events in her life....

Analysis of Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

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In the novel Slaughterhouse-Five or the Children's Crusade by Vonnegut , the record of Billy Pilgrim is utilized to examine different subjects about nearness and war....

Analysis of Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin

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 In James Baldwin’s short story “Sonny’s Blues,” an unnamed narrator recounts his family’s struggle with death and addiction. The titular character, Sonny, is the brother of the af...

Analysis of That Face by Polly Stenham

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 That Face is a Post-Modernist play that first premiered in London, in 2007.  The play was written by Polly Stenham and was written in the style of Realism.  That Face is considere...

Analysis of the Harlem Renaissance

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The movement raised significant issues affecting the lives of African Americans through a variety of literature, art, music, drama, painting, sculpture, movies, and protests. The outburst of creativi...

Analysis of the Issue in Censoring Books

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Does Banning Books Really Protect The Children?  All across the world, throughout time, books have been challenged, banned, and outright censored due to “suggestive content” fou...

Analysis of the Maus Comicbook

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“if you look them together in a room with no food for a week, Then you could see what it is, Friends!” (Art,6) Maus is one of most well know comic books written by Art Spiegelman , which talk...

Analysis of The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant

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In “The Necklace” Guy de Maupassant depicts a couple of downfalls due to the wife’s careless actions. As the story begins, Mrs. Loisel attends a ball and loses the necklace. Mrs...

Analysis of the Novel 'The Hate U Give'

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The Hate U Give is a novel by Angie Thomas. It is told from the perspective of a sixteen-year-old girl named Starr. The story centralizes around a police shooting of a young black man and the resulting struggles that Starr goes through from being a witness to the event. ...

Analysis of This Side of Paradise

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“This Side of Paradise” is a title that Fitzgerald has taken from a poem narrated by Rupert Brooke who used to be one of the top poets during the early 20th century. Brooke’s poems were abo...

Analysis of Two Kinds by Amy Tan

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In Two Kinds by Amy Tan we have the topic of expectation, character, disobedience, obligation, fault, autonomy and acknowledgment. Described in the principal individual by a lady called Jing-mei Woo the story is a memory piece...

Analysis of Two Versions of Walter Pater’s Text

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The object of this essay is to identify the differences between two versions of Walter Pater’s description of La Gioconda as a means of exemplifying and exploring changes in meaning undergone b...

Analysis of Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Nathaniel Hawthorne’s story “Young Goodman Brown” is one of certainty and uncertainty. From the beginning to the end, Hawthorne uses the adventures of Goodman Brown to expose Biblical princ...

Analyzing a Bureaucratic Way of Rule and the Effects It Has on the People in Catch-22

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Analyzing a bureaucratic way of rule and the effects it has on the people in Catch-22 The way of rule in Catch-22, a bureaucracy, affected the people in the novel greatly and developed a...

Analyzing Chicago’s Gun Violence and Gang Epidemic in Literature

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Analyzing Chicago’s Gun Violence and Gang Epidemic: Comparing Gang Leader For a Day and Harper High School (Part One) When most individuals hear the word ‘gang’ they tend to think...

And of Clay Are We Created by Isabelle Allende | Analysis

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   "And of Clay Are We Created" by Isabelle Allende tells us a compelling story about a young girl Azucena being trapped in a mud-pit like a prisoner after a volcano erupted, perishing ...

Annotated Bibliography on Huckleberry Finn and Racism

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Williams 2 emphasize “overall” because discussing only Huckleberry Finn ignores both the rest of his career - he would write and socialize for another twenty-five years - and also the changing political, economic, and sociocultural context during those twenty-five years.”...

Annotated Bibliography on Masculinity in World Literature

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Akingbe, Niyi, and Christopher Babatunde Ogunyemi. “Countering Masculinity: Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and the Rise of Feminist Assertiveness in the Novels of Nigeria...

Archetypal Theory Analysis of Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air

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Into Thin Air- Archetypal Theory Tags: Into Thin Air | Nonfiction | Archetypal Criticism | Archetype | Mountain Climbers The archetypal theory refers to universal symbols, chara...

August Wilson’s Fences | Research Paper

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August Wilson is an African- American, award winning playwright. Fences is one of his most famous plays. The play is about a low-class man and the fences he builds between him and the other chara...

Awakening and Existence of Female Consciousness within Li Qingzhao’s Ci Poems

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Literature is a window through which the public is able to study the essential events of a dynasty or a country and understand the development of a culture. The long course of Chinese civilizatio...

Bartleby and the Scrivener: Relationship of Bartleby and the Narrator

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The Relationship of Bartleby and the Narrator  Herman Melville’s short story, “Bartleby and the Scrivener,” has provided readers and critics with enough material to make you ...

Biblical References in Shakespeare's the Tempest

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Biblical references in Shakespeare’s The Tempest So much concerns, so much has been said, done, or written about William Shakespeare and his works; there are memorials, museums, theaters in his ...

Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville

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Billy Budd “Billy Budd, Sailor” is a novel written by Melville, is a reflection of injustice and human rights violation, where the protagonist Vere is embodiment of cruelty and hat h...

Biography of August Wilson

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An individual who can rise from the brutal life, beneath the bottom rung of the ladder to the top is able to achieve remarkable things in life. Renowned playwright August Wilson a winner of Pulit...

Biography of Marjane Satrapi, Author of Persepolis

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“Be true to yourself” is a piece of advice given to Marjane Satrapi, the author of the memoir and graphic novel, Persepolis, which is 1980’s Iran when the book is set, is very hard to follo...

Biography of Poet and Playwright Robert Frost

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Robert Lee Frost was born March 26, 1874 in San Francisco, and was one of the most productive writers in poetry and playwriting. He was highly recognized and admired for his realistic depiction of ru...

Biography of Poet Maxine Kumin

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According to Webster’s Dictionary, a hypocrite is a person who claims or pretends to have certain beliefs about what is right or wrong but behaves in a way that disagrees with those beliefs...

Biography of Truman Capote

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Truman Capote had an extraordinary career and has remained one of America’s most controversial authors, combining literary genius with a penchant for the world of high society. Though he wrote ...

Book Reflection: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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The book, Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (2010) talks of the journey of a Virginia mother who changed the whole world through her cells without her knowledge. It focuses on He...

Book Review of Russell Bourne’s Cradle of Violence

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Bourne’s purpose in writing his book is to exemplify the actions of the maritime workers of Boston. He argues that the American Revolution would not have materialized without their contributions....

Book Review: A Nation Forged in War by Thomas Bruscino, Jr.

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 In the book A Nation Forged in War: How World War II Taught Americans to Get Along takes the reader into what Thomas Bruscino perceived what World War II did for America in seven chapters. ...

Born Evil or Made Evil? Analysis of Lord of the Flies

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Born Evil or Made Evil?  The question regarding whether humans are naturally good or evil becomes a topic of discussion when people see something morally wrong happen in their live...

By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño | Analysis

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By Night in Chile is a novella written in form of Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix’s deathbed confession as he portrays his current state which lacks the peace he once felt during his life....

Candide’s Adaptations to Trials

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Candide’s Adaptations to Trials  The name Candide is derived from the Latin word, candidus, or “white” signifying purity, honesty, and innocence. Voltaire portrays Candide’...

Carrier Selection Determinants

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The purpose of this chapter is to review past literature that has been made available regarding the subject of carrier selection. The first section of this chapter will begin with global maritime over...

Character Analysis of Meursault in The Stranger, by Albert Camus

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Meursault is unable to understand society, take control back from nature and express feelings. The impending result of living like this is isolating oneself and becoming a stranger the world, others and oneself. By being a stranger to everything it is concluded that nothing really matters. ...

Character Analysis of the Speaker in “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”

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The poem Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night was written by Dylan Thomas in 1951.  He was exposed to literature at a very young age, his father used to read to him the works of Shakespeare...

Character Analysis: “Substitute Facts” Vs. Reality

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In any fictional or non-fictional literary story, the plot is supported by some solid well-developed characters. Additionally, it’s not simply the most heroic or dynamic character, however,...

Character Creon in Sophocles’ play Antigone

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The Fall of King Creon  The character Creon in Sophocles’ play Antigone was an extremely controversial character. To truly and fully understand king Creon, it is important that w...

Character Education and Bullying Characteristics Prevention

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Abstract This research is to investigate two strategies on themes of bullying in children’s literature. The investigator assessed perception, knowledge, and attitudes of bullying at th...

Child Resilience in Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O’Neill

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The resilience of a child in an unstable environment has been a crucial theme throughout Heather O’Neill’s book, Lullabies for Little Criminals. The novel focuses on Baby, who struggles to su...

CHILDREN OF MEN – LONG TAKES

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Children of Men is a 2006 British dystopian science fiction film co-written and directed by Alfonso Cuarón. The film was based on future; 2027, and how no child had been born in any part of the wor...

Comparing Governments of America and China to A Brave New World

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In a world dominated by government control we must wonder if the government is controlling most aspects of our lives. One main thing that the governments in the U.S. and in Brave New World is bir...

Comparison between MacBeth and Kite Runner

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It is often true that one ruins themselves when they betray a friend. Its always better to have an enemy that slaps you in the face than a friend who stabs you in the back as the saddest thing ab...

Comparison Characters In The Scarlet Letter Literature Essay

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The Scarlet Letter is a classic, American novel written by renowned author, Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Scarlet Letter follows three characters, Hester Prynn, Reverend Dimmesdale, and Pearl. Nathaniel Ha...

Comparison of Female Abuse in Literature

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An essay on the similarity of two very famous works, ...

Comparison of George Orwell's Oceana with North Korea

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North Korea  What is the first thing that comes into your mind when you hear about North Korea? Most people know North Korea as one of the most strictly controlled societies in the ...

Comparison of Literary Techniques in Victorian Literature: After London & My Lady Ludlow

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The object of this essay is to compare the literary techniques at work in two extracts from Richard Jefferies’ After London and Elizabeth Gaskell’s My Lady Ludlow....

Comparison of Literature with a Female Protagonist

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When a woman is not reliant by a man  Culture determines our gender and biology determines our sex (Anonymous). The feminist literary movement is the product of the authors’ uniqu...

Compelling Cases for Christianity in Literature

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Introduction With such a plethora of non-fiction books available from religious teachers, historical scholars and great writers aiming to share the tenets of their Christian beliefs, C.S...

Concepts of the Sublime in Romantic Period Writings

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Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth and To a Skylark by Percy Bysshe Shelley To what ends is the concept of the sublime employed in the writing of the Romantic period? ...

Conflict in “A Doll’s House” by Henrik Ibsen

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     A Doll’s House the story and play by Henrik Ibsen touches base on the subject of “moral laws” specifically highlighting women during the time period. Ib...

Conformity in The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

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Conscientious Decay of Private Paul Berlin in Going After Cacciato by Tim O’Brien,

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The Conscientious Decay of Private Paul Berlin  One of the most life-changing experiences a man can endure is war. Since 1776, America and its patriotic citizens rallied behind the ...

Considering Edmond Dantes as a Tragic Hero

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Definition can support Edmond Dantes as a tragic hero. In the beginning of the book, Edmond Dantes shows honesty, naiveness and ability. It showed him as a young successful sailor on the rise of becoming the future captain of Pharaon. ...

Construct Comparisons of Coming of Age Stories

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Compare & Contrast the Ideas and Techniques explored by 2 authors in their construct of a Coming of Age Story   Stephen Chbosky, the director of the film The Perks of B...

Contrast and Opposition in 'Spies' and 'Wide Sargasso Sea'

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In summary, cultural opposition is relevant in the novels ‘WSS and ‘Spies’, this has been shown through examining opposing cultures’ understandings’ on race, ethnicity, religion and gender. Theories of postcolonialism, feminism, ecocriticism and psychoanalysis support the argument that the authors make about being an outsider in an opposing culture, this is done through structure, narrative voice, place and characterisation....

Critical Analysis of Argonauts by Maggie Nelson

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Critical Analysis of Machiavelli’s The Prince

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Machiavelli’s political treatise has raised many ethical questions and passionate debates since it was first published in 1532. He was trying to provide useful advice to new political leaders, ...

Cruel Society in Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Human Civilization: The Cruel Society in Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn An African American girl is guided to school as she deals with the hate of the people around h...

Culture and its Influence on Hell Screen by Akutagawa Ryunosuke

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Culture and its influence on Hell Screen by Akutagawa Ryunosuke Any piece of work which is written by a human being, will be influenced by the beliefs and opinions of the author. It is i...

Dead Mens Path Theme Analysis Literature Essay

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“Dead Men’s Path” is a short story written in 1972 by African Author Chinua Achebe. It is about Michael Obi, a young and energetic man excited about all things modern who is just as...

Death of a Salesman: Literary Criticism

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Death of a Salesman Literary Criticism For over forty years audiences and readers have been drawn into the lives of the Loman family and have often found in that family their o...

Debate on Whether Shakespeare Wrote His Work

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The Mystery of Shakespeare  “To be, or not to be,” are the famous words of renowned playwright William Shakespeare. To many, Shakespeare is regarded as the greatest, most talent...

Dehumanization in All Quiet on the Western Front

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How does Remarque demonstrate the dehumanization of man through the use of his characters? Does his novel imply that it is possible to revert back to a state of humanity?  “We are...

Depiction of the Nigerian Civil War in Civil Peace by Chinua Achebe

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 In depicting significant real-life events or cultural conflicts; “Civil Peace” is a story about the aftermath of the Nigerian civil war. The story focuses on a fictional charact...

Desire and Reality in Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote

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Study on the misunderstood concept of ‘desire’ and its effect on ‘reality’ in Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella was publi...

Development of Marco in A View from The Bridge

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MARCO: A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE    INTRODUCTION  In this presentation I’m going to talk about the development of Marco. To do it, I’m going to analyse ...

Development of Romanticism in Poetry

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One Romanticism, different imaginations Throughout the 19th century, the idea of poetry underwent a series of gradual transformations. Previously understood as an imitation of human natu...

Different Essays on Literature

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Part One, Essay Option One: Short Term Profits for Long Term Problems  Image coming to a new land that was filled with peaceful streams and brooks, tranquil woodland creatures, and...

Disgrace by JM Coetzee: David and Lucy's Emotions

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 JM Coetzee, the author of the Novel Disgrace, published in 1999, powerfully writes about the post apartheid era in Africa.  In the novel, Coetzee strikingly talks about sexual assaults...

Does Literature Reflect Society or Does Society Reflect Literature?

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Consequently, society and literature reflect one another, because literature is made into reality everyday and history is constantly repeating and adapting new and better ways, along with various...

Double Consciousness in African-American Literature

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Double consciousness throughout the history of African American Literature On a Saturday morning, I found myself walking to a Dominican hair salon with my mother. As we entered the glas...

Duboisian Double-Consciousness in Invisible Man

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Double-Consciousness in Invisible Man How does Ralph Ellison portray and incorporate Duboisian Double-Consciousness in Invisible Man? Since it was introduced by W.E.B Du Bois in...

Effect of Bipolar Disorder: The Catcher in the Rye

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 The book The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, follows Holden Caulfield as he narrates his life from the mental institution at which he currently gets treatment during the 1950s. Holden...

Effect of Love, Lies and Infidelity in Medea

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What is love after the heart is broken? The best way, but not the most legal way today, is to follow the footsteps of Euripides’ character, Medea. In the story Medea, love makes a person do cra...

Effect of Moral and Values on Nineteenth-century Dramas and Novels

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To what extent did traditional moral values affect the writing and production of nineteenth-century dramas and novels? Answer this question using the set texts. In examining the ways in...

Effects of Social Isolation in “A Rose for Emily”

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 The short story “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner describes the life of Miss Emily Grierson who has grown up with an over-protective father. Faulkner illustrates the negative resul...

Effects of Trauma in Slaughterhouse-Five

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Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five works as an adamant anti-war novel, depicting the effects of trauma through Billy Pilgrim with a peculiar science fiction tone. More specifically, V...

Elements Of Autobiography In Martin Eden By Jack London

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Martin Eden is a 1909 novel by a once renowned American author who was called Jack London that details a story of a young man that struggles for recognition......

Elements of Literature

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Style is the spoken characteristics of a writer, as unique as his or her face or voice. Their styles express their individual ways of seeing humanity. Style is an insignia of independence and distingu...

Emotional Detachment of Gilbert Grape What’s Eating Gilbert Grape

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Abstract  The essay analyzes the emotional detachment of Gilbert Grape in the book What’s Eating Gilbert Grape.Gilbert’s subconscious response to his dysfunctional family is bro...

Era Influence within Hawthorne’s Literature

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Nathaniel Hawthorne, a newly emerging author in the time of Romanticism, made his mark in literature for his engrossing views on sin and his distinctive display of emotions. Hawthorne’s literat...

Evaluation of Burke’s Aesthetic Theory

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Edmund Burke theorized the experience of the sublime and the beautiful in relation to power. Discuss the implications of Burke’s aesthetic theory in relation to one or more course texts. ...

Evaluation of the Genre of Toni Morrison's Novel 'Beloved'

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Genre is a set of conventional constraints on the production and interpretation of meaning; providing a set of characteristics and conventions for authors to use as guidelines when writing their texts. Toni Morrison’s novel, Beloved written in 1987 can be seen as a form of magical realism in terms of genre....

Evolution of Literary Style in Different Eras

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 Literature is written pieces of works that have artistic and intellectual worth. There are many different pieces of literature such as poetry, drama, fiction, nonfiction journalism and song...

Existentialism in The Metamorphosis

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 The Metamorphosis, a short story written by Franz Kafka, begins with Gregor Samsa waking up as a “monstrous vermin bug” (Kafka, 1915, p. 3) without any explanation, which ends up changi...

Expression of Violence in Indian English Poetry

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SYNOPSIS Expression of Violence in the Poetry of Ranjeet Hoskote, Tabish Khair, Imtiaz Dharker, and Aga Shahid Ali Introduction  In the 20th-century literary worl...

Expressions of Emotions in Poetry

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Time. Love. Pleasure.  Poetry is the way people find out about other people’s impressions to life or to loving. Sometimes it can turn into actually finding something out about you...

Faith in Yann Martel’s Life of Pie

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Fate vs Free Will in A Time Traveller's Wife

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The Time Traveler’s Wife explores the perspectives of a time traveller and a young girl who lives life in the same era and eventually share one; however, their experiences of that life toge...

Feminist and Marxist Perspectives in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness

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Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness could be said to be written during a period of change, as the world was transitioning from the end of the Victorian age into the beginning of the Modern ...

Flannery O’Connor's Narratives on Death

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Death’s Inevitable and Merciful Grasp        Flannery O’Connor is noted for her stories about religion. “The River” presents fundamentalists, blasp...

Gatsby’s Misconception of Reality

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The Consequences That Arose From Gatsby’s Misconception of Reality There was a time when James Gatz felt his life was perfect. It was a life he had when he was younger, filled with th...

Gender Roles in “A Doll’s House” by Henrik Ibsen and “Fences” by August Wilson

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 Society has a way of defining the roles of men and women, husbands and wives, and fathers and mothers. Some couples fall comfortably in these defined roles and can have fulfilled lives, whi...

Good and Evil in A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor

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Good and Evil The world is made up of two different types of people: the good and the evil. In the book “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” By Flannery O’Connor Grandma and the ...

Gothic Literature as an Exploration of American Society

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Explore how ANY ONE TEXT uses the Gothic to investigate American Politics AND/OR American society.   Karen Haltunnen argues that ‘Modern Gothic horror was the characteri...

Hamlet Ophelia Shakespeare

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Hamlet The Bad Shakespeare’s tragedy of Hamlet is considered to be Shakespeare’s finest tragedy. Throughout this play Hamlet experiences a variety of emotions however it is the emotions t...

Hardship: The Road To Individuality

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Hardship: The Road To Individuality  Living in paradise embodies the idea of a perfect life: one away from conflict, agony, and affliction. There would be no reason to worry, no so...

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad: Racism or Reality?

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 Heart of Darkness was written in 1899 by Joseph Conrad, a Polish-German author. The novel captures a moment in a time of imperialism and colonialism; a time where racism was very prevalent ...

Hemingway’s Metaphorical Hills

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 Author Ernest Hemingway is known to be keen on making his stories as minimalistic as possible, giving the reader just enough undeniable indications to be able to make indefinite conclusions...

Heroes Journey Archetype Stories

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There are few things that can stand the test of times, storytelling being one of these. Stories have been recorded and read for hundreds even thousands of years. Currently they are told through a vari...

Holden’s Depression in the Catcher in the Rye

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Lens of Depression The Catcher in the Rye written by J.D Salinger is about Holden Caulfield. A young curious, lost kid who does not seem to understand the true meaning of life. His trans...

How does Apollonius' Argonautica rewrite Homeric epic?

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This essay will demonstrate how the book's characters are more reminiscent of the Homeric epic. I demonstrate this by comparing the characters to one another and drawing out similarities between them, proving that Argonautic was a Homeric epic rewrite....

How Does Patrick Kavanagh’s Concept of the Parish Inform His Sense of the Significance of the Local in Irish Poetry?

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Patrick Kavanagh, whose poetic work is arguably the most influential to modern day Irish poets, was for a lengthy period during his writing career considered a rogue element by the literature col...

How the Social Pressures and Norms Dictate Nora’s Lifestyle in A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen

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The Suppression of Freedom A Doll’s House, a play by Henrik Ibsen, places main characters Nora Helmer and Torvald Helmer in a Norwegian city during the winter of 1879. Nora and Torvald...

Howl by Allen Ginsberg | Analysis

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Huck's Development in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Mark Twain’s novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, first published in 1884, in a small town of St. Petersburg in Missouri. Located close to the Mississippi River, and is decades before...

Human Resource Management and Organizational Performance

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Introduction The study of HRM has come a long way in a relatively short period of existence. In a society that has become increasingly dependent on knowledge and skills it is clear that the companies ...

I Came a Stranger: The Story of a Hull-House Girl | Analysis

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I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth | Analysis

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The poem I have chose is called I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth and the poem talks about the speaker was walking around through the hills and valleys, but he felt all lonely an...

Identity Crisis in Adolescents in Literature

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As adolescents are on their path to adulthood, they begin to question the meaning of their goals and interests in life that leads them on a journey to discover their true identity. The feeling of not belonging or even feeling like an outlier of society is a dominant aspect that surrounds the adolescent....

If I Could Write This in Fire

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If I could write this in fire is one of the non fiction essays that have been written by Michelle Cliff’s. This essay together with I Would Write This in Fire and Journey into Speech are among t...

In Search of April Raintree: Three Stems of Racism

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 In Search of April Raintree: Three Stems of Racism   In Search of April Raintree is the story of two Métis sisters who grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba. April and Cher...

Indigenous Oral Storytelling Narrative and Hybridity in Postcolonial African Literature

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A Stylistic Analysis of Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. ‘Because Achebe is able to capture the flavour of an oral society in his style and narrative organisation, Things Fall Apart, is ...

Intersectionality and Intergenerational Trauma in I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

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Erika L Sanchez’s I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter focuses on the life of Mexican-American Julia who, in the wake of her sister’s death, is on the threshold of graduating high school or...

Irony and Character Intentions in 1984 and Fahrenheit 451

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How do the authors of 1984 and Fahrenheit 451 use irony and character interactions to convey their theme of being true to yourself? Fahrenheit 451 Analysis Fahrenheit 451 is a ...

Is Edmond Dantes a Tragic Hero? Analysis of The Count of Monte Cristo

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According to critic Northrop Frye, “Tragic heroes are so much the highest points in their human landscape that they seem the inevitable conductors of the power about them, great trees more like...

Is Le Petit Prince a Story for Children?

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The Little Prince was written by Antoine de Saint Exupéry, a French writer, an aviator, and an aristocrat. The story is about a young prince who visits various planets in space, including Earth and focuses on themes such as loneliness, friendship, love, and loss....

Joseph Campbell's Myths and the Story of Ramayana

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Joseph Campbell was a man that firmly believed that the best answers to the problems of the world would be rooted in the findings of psychology; “Specifically,” he said, “those findings hav...

Journey to the Centre of the Earth: Creative Writing

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Thus the memorable session ended. This discussion had thrown me into a fever. I left my uncle’s study dazed; I felt there was not enough air to breath in all the streets of Hamburg put together. S...

Juror 8 in 12 Angry Men

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Could the boy be accountable for murdering his father?  The play 12 Angry Men written by Reginald Rose in 1957, presents a homicidal case that confronts twelve jurors who vote whether the bo...

Kipling’s My Own True Ghost Story | Analysis

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Kipling’s My Own True Ghost Story: How A Rat Became A Ball  Fear plays an interesting role in our lives. Without us knowing, it seeps into minds and suffocates us from within. Mov...

Landscape as a Reflection of Internal Conflict in Broken April

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The blood feud is an integral part of the society of modern Northern Albania, as it has been for many years. While times are changing, the blood feud continues to persist and endure in Northern A...

Life and Works of Arthur Miller

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Life and Works of Arthur Miller The paper aims to select a person and discuss his or her life and works. The chosen individual for the article is Arthur Miller. He was born in 1915, in ...

Life and Works of Ha Jin

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 “In short, he must be loyal only to his art.” This is a quote from Xuefei Jin, otherwise known as Ha Jin, a Chinese-American author born in 1956 in China to a father who was in the mili...

Life Of Pi Evaluation Literature Essay

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This whole book, Life of Pi does not follow any modern structures set by society that we know of today, especially the structure set by society regarding religion. Although the main character of the n...

Life Of Pi: Analysis

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Life Of Pi Essay  A shipwreck is a painful journey in life. This journey can reflect any painful experience, no matter who. A small boat, a lonely teenager, an adult Bengal tiger, ...

Literary Analysis of 'The Things They Carried' by Tim O’Brien

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​​​​​​​The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien, is a story that reflects on not only the emotional, but the physical weight of combat, and the devastating effects of the Vietnam War.   The book tells the story of O’Brien and his platoon soldiers’ experiences before, during, and after the war. ...

Literary Movements of Transcendentalism, Realism, and Naturalism

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Seeing the Real World American literature explores the human thought process by showing how and why some actions take place. The social and natural world of a human’s involvement comes...

Literature and communities

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Literature can help people to get a real in depth view of life through someone else’s shoes. You can almost get lost into another world while reading a book. No matter if that world is fiction o...

Literature on the Value of Spontaneity

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The Value of Spontaneity Among Us   Spontaneity is a trait one might not consider in everyday life as it presents undetermined revelations performed by certain individuals. Whe...

Lord Rama as a Leader in Ramayana

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LORD RAMA AS MARYADA PURSHOTTAM- A LEADER IN WAR AND PEACE, AS NARRATED IN RAMAYANA Israelmore Ayivor has said, “True leaders are like statues, whether it rains or it shines, they never bend their ...

Loss of Innocence in How Far She Went, The Flowers, and Frozen

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The loss of innocence aligns with the realization that there are restrictions in the world,  limits exist; these limits are the loss of autonomy.  Some of these limits are traps set by others, the shortcomings of those who set them a way to control the people they place within them. ...

Love as A Medium of Exchange: William Shakespeare and Janet Mock

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Sexuality is the result of diverse self-identities and social-definitions, which are explored and constructed in the human social interactions. Social interaction is generated from the Social net...

Macbeth by Shakespeare

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Macbeth , written by Shakespeare, is a tragic play written around 1050 A.D. In this catastrophic play, the symbol of blood is mentioned differently several times. Shakespeare uses intricate imagery wi...

Magic Realism in One Hundred Years of Solitude

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Magic Realism is a term found by art historian Franz Roh in 1925, to describe a visual arts movement emerging throughout Europe. It is known that a large number of critical terms in literature are bor...

Making San Francisco American: Cultural Frontiers in the Urban West, 1846-1906

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A review of 'Making San Francisco American: Cultural Frontiers in the Urban West, 1846-1906' by Barbara Berglund which distinctly describes San Francisco's expeditious evolution....

Man’s Search for Meaning, by Victor Frankl | Analysis

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Introduction In this brief paper I will discuss the book, Man’s Search for Meaning, by Victor Frankl. I will give a general overview and what I feel the author was trying to convey in ...

Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale: Power of Language

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Throughout the novel, Atwood demonstrated how the power of language incredibly exploits the mind and disregards reality. The use of language is a rhetorical tactic that Atwood uses to give characters the manipulation of  power and to contrast a totalitarian regime with individual power....

Masculinity In Hemingways In Our Time Literature Essay

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Masculinity can be defined as the condition or quality of being masculine, in the past which is traditionally masculinity was considered to be the characteristic of a man or male. Ernest Hemingway has...

Meaning and Imagery/Symbolism in “Mother to Son”

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The Meaning and Imagery/Symbolism in “Mother to Son” Mother to Son By Langston Hughes Well, son, I’ll tell you: Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair. ...

Melanie Cheng’s Australia Day: Identity and Power

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The identities we hold and choose to represent to those around us are complex. In modern society with the intermixing of people questions of identity rise to the surface which we must address. In...

Mental Health in The Yellow Wallpaper and The Invisible Man

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Character Essay According to the website Wiseoldsaying “There is nothing invisible in this universe! There is only our lack of eyesight!”- Mehmet Murat ildan. So many of us i...

Michelle Kuo’s Reading With Patrick | Rhetorical Analysis

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Introduction Michelle Kuo’s debut memoir, Reading With Patrick, explores the disadvantage of black youth in the rural South from the perspective of an urban, Harvard-educated teac...

Modernism in Eliot's Poetry

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Eliot composed his first stories as a schoolboy in 1905 for the ‘Smith Academy Record’, where he acquired a lifelong interest in Rudyard Kipling. Suggesting, why this seminal work contains a reference to Kipling’s work “The Love Song of Har Dyal” (1959). ...

Modernist Evaluation of Land of Spices by Kate O'Brien

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Part A   For my modernist assignment I hope to discuss the novel, Land of Spices, published in 1934 by author Kate O’Brien (1897-1974). Kate O Brien was a Dramatist, Nove...

Moral Development in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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“Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is not only considered Mark Twain's greatest work but is also widely regarded as one of the most important and most influential books in all of American literature.”...

Mother and Daughter Relations in Jamaica Kincaid's 'Young Lady'

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All through time mother/daughter connections have been worn out as women’s freedom has occurred. Numerous moms have the “old fashioned” sentiment about what a lady ought to be...

Motherhood as an Exercise in Feminism: Toni Morrison’s Sula

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In the world that Toni Morrison crafts in Sula, society seems to force women into the age-old binary roles in which they have always been cast: Lilith or Eve? In the Christian book of Genesis in ...

Muriel Spark’s 'The Driver’s Seat' and it’s Influence on Second-Wave Feminism

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Muriel Spark’s The Driver’s Seat largely impacted Second-Wave Feminism in the late 20th Century, whether or not that was Spark’s intention...

O’Connor’s Poseidon and the Young Adult Reader

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Poseidon, earth shaker, master of the seas. As one of Zeus’ brothers and part of the tripartite head of the gods, Poseidon has been the central character of many Greek myths and has played a ro...

Of Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death | Analysis

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Of Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death Part 1.  “As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think...

Okonkwo’s Narcissism in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart

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Tragedy of the Prideful Father: An Analysis of Things Fall Apart  There is no truer reflection of a person’s humanity than their treatment towards their offspring. In Chinua Acheb...

Omniscience and Empathy - Grace Paley's "Samuel"

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Grace Paley’s “Samuel,” involves a young character named Samuel and his three friends playing on a moving subway train headed towards the Bronx in which Samuel is accidentally k...

On Gold Mountain: The One Hundred Year Odyssey of My Chinese American Family

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Today, immigration ranks as one of the most discussed topics in the US and other parts across the world; specifically, in the US, the campaign and election of President Donald Trump revolved arou...

One Day By David Nicholls Literature Essay

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Born in 1966 in Eastleigh, Hampshire. David attended Toynbee Comprehensive school, and attended Barton Peveril Sixth Form College, before going to the University of Bristol in 1985 to study English Li...

Othello as a Tragic Hero and His Downfall

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Othello is seen as a tragic hero since he not only was doomed from the start because of his race, which eventually lead him to do something bad as the result of his very poor judgment. As stated by Aristotle, a tragic hero is a person who is doomed from the start, and clearly is imperfect but has noble nature, a person whose judgment causes the tragedy....

Paradise in Early Modern Literature

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Write an essay which establishes a detailed contrast between what is in your view a generally condemnatory and exonerative account of Eve....

Paulo Freires Pedagogy Of The Oppressed Literature Essay

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The Pedagogy of the Oppressed was written in 1968. The book became widely popular within a few years and was the subject of discussion by many people in the educational world as well as activists. In ...

Pearl in the Novel Scarlet Letter

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The novel scarlet letter was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. He wanted to expose the immorality that was committed by two parents of a daughter called Pearl. Nathaniel’s novel explores very clea...

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer | Analysis

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The Scent of an Egomaniac  Since the beginning of time, man has been predisposed to evil behaviours. Human nature has been perversely corrupted, specifically through the intoleranc...

Poe’s Use of Imagination in the Poem “The Raven”

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Thanks to Edgar Allan Poe, the raven has become a popular symbol of death and mystery from the nineteenth century to the twentieth century. Known for his gothic style of writing, Poe communicates the suggested eerie depth in his composition of ...

Poetry Journals of Different Authors

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This essay explores poetry journals of different authors, providing a personal review of each of them....

Post-colonial Identity in Midnight’s Children

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Midnight’s Children is an allegory on the events that occurred since India gained independence. Several controversial issues are discussed in the novel, as it describes the life story of Salim...

Post-colonialism in Waiting for the Barbarians by Jm Coetzee

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POST-COLONIALISM Waiting for the Barbarians is a novel written by JM Coetzee which has strong themes of Post-Colonialism. To begin, an understanding over what post-colonialism is specifi...

Postcolonial Feminism in Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis 1 and 2

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At the end of the 20th century postcolonial literature began to mold and take a slightly different route and took a more feministic stance. Throughout this essay I will be discussing Marjane Satr...

Postmodernism in A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

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Introduction A visit from the goon squad was an “exquisite work of postmodernism” (Gray,2010:46),[1] the Pulitzer Prize comments was “a unique examination of the process of growing...

Prejudice and Innocence in To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

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The Destructive Thought Prejudice is simply a thought, yet has the ability to do more damage to a society and its citizens than any other force. The novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper...

Prejudice Perverts Justice - To Kill A Mockingbird

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In Harper Lee’s prize-winning novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, Atticus represents black defendant, Tom Robinson, in a publicized criminal trial against Bob Ewell for abuse and sexual assault t...

Pride in Antigone

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Pride in Antigone  “Wisdom is by far the greatest part of joy, and reverence toward the gods must be safeguarded” (Antigone 1466-67)), the Chorus sang about a suffering king wh...