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In this analysis, the researcher will try to confirm the argument that the Great Gatsby was a continuation of the Winter Dreams.

This understanding forms the background of The Grapes of Wrath and As I Lay Dying analysis in this paper. The unity of structure and language in any comical genre take after carnivalistic folklore..".there is a [...]

It can be said that while both of these books address the issue of hidden methods of coercion, Nineteen-eighty Four provides a bleak vision of the future in which the whole of society is controlled [...]

In the Death of a Salesman, Willy, the protagonist, is lost in the illusion that the American dream is only achievable via superficial qualities of likeability and attractiveness.

If this is done, a new thriller can be screened to capture the theme and intention of the Dick's "Paycheck" short story.

In the footnote, he informs his readers that the main figure in the poem is a trickster and a teacher who lived in the legends of the Blackfoot Indians of southern Alberta.

Here, the essay compares how the theme of colonization is captured in the novels, and goes ahead to explain the techniques employed by each author in conveying the theme.

The poet has used poetic form and diction to bring out the tone and theme of the poem. The heading in itself is a metaphor as well as it has been used symbolically.

Due to the grandmother's innocence, she believes Misfit is a 'good man' and thinks that he qualifies to be one of her children simply because he would not shoot a woman and he believes in [...]

Despite their disobedience and eventual expulsion, the author portrays Adam and Eve as having a special place in God's creation and a destiny to fulfill.

Wells's War of the Worlds each present distinctive settings, with Frankenstein taking place in the late 1700s and War of the Worlds unfolding in the late 1800s.

This shift in perspective underscores the theme of women's bonds and shared understanding. Overall, the adaptation effectively employs perspective to emphasize different dimensions of gender roles, justice, and women's realities in a thought-provoking manner.

One of the essential motifs and symbols for the novel is Great Expectations by Charles Dickens."Mister Pip" not only has an allusion to the Dickens novel in the title, but the image of the book [...]

This paper aims to compare the aspects of symbolism in Othello and The Rape of the Lock. The lock in the poem "The Rape of the Lock" is more than just a coiled strand of [...]

The two literary works under consideration are the poem The Everlasting Regret by Bai Juyi-Yi and the play The Autumn of the Lustrous Emperor of Tang: Rain on the Wutong Tree by the famous Chinese [...]

The judge goes to the extent of taking the boy's father in his own home to help him reform his drinking problem. The father then decides to visit the house of the widow during which [...]

The sole aim of all the religions is to make the people realize the value of life and to make the most of the same but doing holy acts and by not indulging in undesirable [...]

As Plato was a disciple of Socrates and the source of much of the information we have regarding much of what this man had to say, Socrates' concept of ethics is relevant to an understanding [...]

Analyzing and comparing "Ashes" by Sedaris and "Silent Dancing" by Cofer the reader is enabled to understand the course of relations in two different families and to undertake the idea of two different life paths [...]

Oedipus at the middle of the story had the urge to free the citizens of Thebes from the threat of the Sphinx.

First of all, I have to say that the poem is recognized to be a reflection of the Victorian Period. I suppose that the success of the poem can be explained by the author's ability [...]

The theme of being imprisoned in the environment that is seemingly open-minded to a range of cultures, yet promotes a single standard in terms of the identity that one is supposed to have and the [...]

However, in spite of the fact that the motivations of Medea and Antigone are considered to be the same, they choose different actions.

To this end, the current paper is a comparative review of Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death" and Melville's "Billy Budd".

In fact, it appears that this passion is encouraged by the feelings of regret and shame more than by affection to Bayardo.

The validity of this suggestion can be well illustrated, in regards to the fact that, throughout his conversation with Jig, the American never ceased exhibiting the signs of being thoroughly arrogant.

On the whole, this rhyme creates a melody that enables the reader to sense the author's despair and his loneliness. This is the main question that John Milton tries to answer in his poem.

Hence, the leading aspects and themes discussed in both poems are associated with the difficulties in decision-making, influence of life experience on the choices, and consequences of our actions.

In the two poems, the poets use the elephants to symbolize the profoundness of events that happen in their lives. In the poem "Elephant eternity", the elephant can be said to be representative of the [...]

From such a position the audience is allowed to examine the position of a woman in the society. What this signifies is that the woman is painted as a social misfit and this resulted in [...]

The story of Hindu creation myths differs from Ancient Greek creation myths in a number of facts, including the beginning of the world, and some elements of the creation of the living creatures.

The opening scene of The Tragedy of Macbeth starts with the words "fair is foul and foul is fair" that Polanski takes from the end of the Shakespeare's scene.

Critics and biographers have attributed the impetus for the poem Because I Could not Stop for Death to the death of one of Emily Dickinson's friends, Olivia Coleman, who succumbed to a tuberculosis attack while [...]

From the very beginning, the author provides a thorough description of Tito's present life including the place he worked, the people he communicated with and the attitude he had towards other people, which emphasizes some [...]

In Oedipus the King and "King of the Bingo Game," Sophocles and Ellison explore the interplay between fate and free will as their main characters navigate their respective circumstances and grapple with their ability to [...]

The story explicates the events that culminate in the murder of an unknown man in Algiers and the eventual trial of the suspect.

All through the narration the reader is engulfed in mystery and suspense, not knowing what to expect or what will happen next.'The Red Room' accomplishes the same effect, although it does so using another approach.'The [...]

The latter perspective is more pessimistic and negative compared to the former one because it means that love is born out of pain.

The main themes are class problems and social issues, and the overall atmosphere is pervasive and terrifying to the reader. The woman is a burden to be borne because of the deep-seated belief in the [...]

Sophocles used the myth of the unfortunate King Oedipus in the plot of his drama to show the clash of the will of the gods and man's choice.

This paper will look at the features of the stories and characters of Beatrice and Georgiana to demonstrate their main differences with the same ending of their stories.

It is imperative to realize that the purpose of the paper is not to carry out a critical analysis of the plays but to carry out a comparison of the attributes in which they relate [...]

Nowadays, it has become a commonplace practice to refer to the novels Night by Elie Wiesel and A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn as such that is concerned with revealing [...]

The role of the setting is very important as far as it helps the writers to present their characters fully and pass the main idea to the reader.

Raymond Carver's short story, "Cathedral," often inspires the reader to consider as an example of metafiction and the author permits the reader to experience the afflictions of isolation in the modern world.

The author starts her narration with reminding about the Bonnard's painting, The Bathroom, and then keeps the line of matching the matters of art to the story of her mother's life and finding expressive analogies.

The girl was influenced by the adults' views and shared their opinion concerning the place of the woman in the society.

Primarily known for his four romances Gables The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance and in particular his magnum opus, The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne's short stories have become a cult classic as well, [...]

The villains in both "Othello" and "The Crucible" are unique in their proficiency in the use of language for manipulating others and their ability to use the current setting for achieving their goals; Abigail is [...]

Consequently, the work is aimed at the analysis of the interconnection of the way of expression of the themes and content of the poems with the form and figurative language of the poetry.

This progression toward enlightenment can be most clearly seen by making a comparison between Plato's Allegory of the Cave and the situation in which the man and boy find themselves within McCarthy's novel, particularly in [...]

The poet addresses the reader, saying that if the reader had witnessed his father's removal of the splinter he would have thought he was planting something in the boy's hand, something that led to his [...]

A sort of role reversal is evident in Shelley's Frankenstein with the monster as an antagonist and the human as a hero, as the creator of the monster possesses more actual traits of what is [...]

Bernardo and Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" and the tradition of the American in Europe by D. The early versions of that story put Jig and the American man on the train for which they [...]

The way that the community dealt with this transgression of marital bonds comprises the bulk of the story, in which it is finally revealed that the highly respected Reverend Dimmesdale was the father of the [...]

Wilde's community, though apparently very customary and firm, is essentially quite worried about being destabilized by strangers: Lady Bracknell even evaluates Jack's being found in a purse with "the worst immoderation of the French Revolution" [...]

On the other hand, to hypothesize and expand the concept of Heaven, it was first necessary to create a general framework of life after death and specify such issues as admissions to the various parts [...]

The paper also includes the analysis of the narratives in accordance with the epic laws introduced by Axel Olrik. In Cinderella's story, the presence of royalty is only limited to the prince.

The central argument of both of these pieces is the problem of inequality, each of the stories covering a different aspect of it.

The authors of these famous texts show in detail how the main characters Gilgamesh and Prospero struggle with the sense of alienation because of their exile, but overcoming this challenging experience, the characters develop their [...]

Although the theme of shame is central to both Anna Karenina and The Idiot, the nature of this feeling is explained differently: Tolstoy regards shame as the result of a person's actions, while Dostoevsky considers [...]

The poet has based the accounts of this poem on the story of Odysseus and his mariners as described in the Homer's Odyssey in the eleventh scroll.

Frederick Douglass' "Learning to Read and Write" and Richard Wright's "The Library Card" are the stories of perseverance and resolve in overcoming the obstacles that prevented the marginalized black people from the most basic and [...]

Both of the works serve as detailed and deep reflections of the histories and cultures of the countries they came from and elaborately portrayed the relationships between men and women, religions and spirituality, and the [...]

The two are internally affected by the struggle between the forces longing for change and those advocating for the restoration of the status quo.

The son in this situation shows some features of his personality as a doubtful and worrying individual making it harder for the father to impress him.

Thus, it is possible to state that the journey described in Izumi Kyoka's "The Holy Man of Mount Koya" can remind the elements of the journey presented in Matsuo Basho's "The Narrow Road to Oku" [...]

The ultimate result of this is the occurrence of multiple versions of the same fairy tale, which implies that one of the versions is superior compared to the others.

The business world has been abuzz with this concept of "the bottom of the pyramid" given the sheer size of this market.

This is the issue of the crisis that academic philosophy is currently facing and the need to reconstruct the discipline in order for it to remain relevant.

He is regarded as the brains behind the launch of the Centre for Ecoliteracy in Berkeley, California, given the significant role that he played in launching the institution and serving as the first director.

They differ in that in "What It's like to be a Black Girl", the girl desires to recognize with the society and likeness of her African American predecessor's slave possessors, while in that of the [...]

In one of the poems in this collection she praised the work of Robert Browning. He was ludicrously odd in the choice and treatment of his subject.

Science fiction has found its place among the 'great' literatures of the word and hence a contribution in the field of literature. Some of the most sales in literature are in the genre of science [...]

Although the tone of the poem is satirical, irony comes in the fact that he is the embodiment of perfection and happiness, but is it normal?

It is a poem about the supernatural more than about a hero, which is the first difference between the current poem and 'The Odyssey'.'Divine Comedy' has 14, 233 lines, the number that is almost equal [...]

The essay is a critical examination of how evil and good are portrayed in two literatures; Shakespeare's The Tempest and Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher.

Reading Medea by Euripides, Othello by William Shakespeare, and The Epic of Gilgamesh it becomes obvious that the driving force of plot is heroism, however, the nature of that heroism is different that may be [...]

The earliest works of fiction included the work of fiction the Epic of Gilgamesh that dates from the beginnings of civilization in Mesopotamia and Homer's Odyssey, greatest ancient works of literature attributed to Homer.

She seems more concerned about the status of living conditions and the ability to enjoy the freedom as opposed to being in possession of money.

As the paper unfolds, the theme plays a vital role across the two novels since the authors successfully point out the conflicts that arise because of people's failure to recognize the dignity of others and [...]

In the opening chapters of the novel, the author introduces the initial situation by illustrating the life of Esther, a college student, working as an intern at a women's magazine in New York together with [...]

While Ulysses is loving and a pervert at the same time, Duke is domineering and the only thing that he concentrates on is complaining about how his duchess was timid and easily impressed.

These two poems have both similarities and differences; this paper analyses the similar and the different elements of these two works.

As soon as the notorious prophecy of him murdering his father and marrying his mother is made aware to him, Oedipus runs away from his foster parents, being under the assumption that they are his [...]

Conversely, The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe is a gothic supernatural horror novel about a haunted house.

However, the exposure to the trappings of reality is evident in both scenarios, therefore implying that both Queenie and her friends and Evelin have matured throughout the narrative.

In essence, The Lottery and The Metamorphosis are expository on misfortune as triggering alienation and unsettling the harmony of life to which one's community and family weaken in their duty of care and protection and [...]

Despite coming from different backgrounds and are placed in different settings, Phoenix Jackson and Mrs. Though Phoenix Jackson and Mrs.

Many tales and films loved by children have always adopted the animal bridegroom concept, which is evident in Beauty and the Beast, the frog King, and the Pig King.

The repetition of the words "carry" and "white" is used to heighten the essays' emotional tone and demonstrate the gravity of racism and stereotypes.

In my opinion, in both Walker's and Kincaid's stories, there are the three themes of mother-daughter relationships, economic struggles, and societal expectations. In the case of Girl, the conflict is based on the concerns the [...]

The paper discusses the novel Stardust and The Dispossessed and its application of imagination and use of various devices in the broadest sense of the World.

Portraying the lives of gods and depicting relationships between them, as well as their interactions with humans, both "Iliad" and "Metamorphosis" elaborate on the theme of power abuse by those at the helm.

The poem impugns the immortality of the soul, and this makes it revolutionary by the standards of that time."The Road Not Taken" depicts the challenges faced by any individual who must make a choice.

The ritual brings about all the members of the community together who participate in the ritual and the winner gets the prize of death.

Even though Frances Harper and Robert Hayden enjoy American liberty and accept the blessings of the nation, they would seek the real meaning and existence of various terms such as freedom, liberty, love, and equality [...]

The key similarity of both stories can be seen in the fact that the authors wrote a tragedy for Hercules in order to explore the role of violence in his acts of heroism.

Odysseus along with Aeneas is known all over the world as one of the most outstanding models of leadership anthemed in the literature of the ancient world.

The problem of homeless people that became Dumpsters is discussed in Eighner's essay and the novel written by Walls, providing a deeper insight into the matter and triggering a need to address it.

The poems "The Lamb" and "The Tyger" are written by William Blake while the poem "lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey" is written by William Wordsworth."The Lamb" appeared in Blake's songs of innocence [...]

For example, the author begins the story by introducing readers to the forlorn lady who sits helplessly in a house that is closed shut. The author does not however present the answer to this query, [...]

For instance, Jason makes a decision to divorce Medea and tie the knot with the princess of Corinth. It is important to keep in mind that the cause of all Medea's rage is love.

At the beginning of the story we immediately know that something is wrong with the nursery, and we find out about the African Veldt and how it seems to be stuck in a rather wild [...]

This essay unlocks how women began writing in a stimulating assessment of the combined and material stipulations involved in the writing of literature.

There are certain commonalities between the artistic and symbolic representations of both writers/directors, especially in their representation of the madness and paranoia that exists in the world when people are placed in isolation and the [...]

The poem starts with the description of how the two parked near the lake, the grass was white, and the moon was rising.

An the introduction to the book, the author traces back at some of the events in the past about the rise of some of the developed nations.

Nowadays, it is only the handful of uneducated Christian fundamentalists, who continue to refer to the Bible as the actual "word of God", due to the fact that Christianity had long ago lost its conceptual [...]

The question of animals' rights can hardly be taken seriously in modern society; the world of literature represented a clear philosophical and theoretical view on the role of wild and domestic creatures in human life. [...]

The story is very intriguing and covers many aspects of human personality, Emily is the most important character in the story and she takes her revenge in the story by killing Homer.

It is his meeting, or rather the witnessing of the meeting between the good woman and his companion, that first opens Young Goodman Brown's eyes to the idea that the people he has considered so [...]

Altogether Mann succeeds to convey his messages through the character of the boy, the artist, and the other objects in the story.

Masood skews the balance of this relationship when the grandfather speaks of his dislike of the man, in answer to the boy's question: "He is an indolent man, and I do not like such people".

The comparison is expected to be made through the following perspectives: Comparison of the personalities of the two female characters; Comparison of the role that the societies where the characters lived in played in their [...]

Despite her insistence on loathing the false leg and the thick glasses she depends on to see, in the end, Hulga finds she is literally left without a leg to stand on.

For Dante, the Divine Comedy was not a substitute for the two Testaments, but an extension of them and because of this, Inferno is a critical part because it serves as a reminder of the [...]

The selected adaptations are based on the story where the interaction between a boy and a giant is the major element in the plot.

This final phase of The Chauffeurs of Madrid reiterates that Hipolito is what a modern man should be in the face of war, according to Hemingway.

He is regretful of the dowry he did pay and thinks the Duchess was just pretentious. Fortunato is determined, and despite the sorry state of his friend, he tags him along to his demise.