The nature is one of the greatest mysteries of the world; the value assumptions about the place of individuals in nature and their relationship to their canine companions is the issue discussed in two nice [...]
The work of art reflects the reality of life and hardship experienced by people: "The vision seemed to enter the house with me - the stretcher, the phantom-bearers, the wild crowd of obedient worshippers, the [...]
Set in the cities of New York and Boston, "Death of a Salesman" the story happens during the 50s and 60s, the story reminds readers that there is more to life than just pursuing the [...]
The place is one of the most powerful tools for creating an imaginary world of the stories, the essential components of which are space and time.
The primary goal of compiling the stories was to invoke opposition and assist in the fight for the abolishment of slavery.
Sun Tzu's 'Art of War' is one of the most read books that guide military strategists and leaders on issues that relate to war and how they should be approached.
This theme is portrayed right from the beginning of the story where a boy is rescued from the lions in the wild and is given the name Basat by Dede Korkut.
The main conflict in the play is the murder of John Wright. Although the murder is not solved in the course of the play, some characters are able to develop.
The secondary problem is related to an ethical dilemma with regards to the responsibility of the husband to provide and care for the family.
Whence, the lamentation of his subjects and the appearance of Enkidu form the basis of the transformation of Gilgamesh especially his character.
The diversity of the literary world is due not only to the existence of different ideologies and approaches to writing the final creative product but also to the variety of genres within which a work [...]
The exchanges between the characters in the tale are brief and choppy, sounding similar to the loud conversation between two people close to one another.
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.
The story is written from the perspectives of Emily and the community and combines the past and the future to depict power and love.
For this assignment, I have chosen the following fictional accounts of the US: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair and The Return of Mr.
In the film "The Black Swan" directed by Darren Aronofsky, Nina struggles to fit into the ultimate role of the play "The Swan Lake", as the Black Swan, even though she is comfortable playing the [...]
More criticizes the laws of the contemporary European society; he highlights that other countries, in the East for instance, have more fair laws; and after that he starts depicting Utopia, where all people live and [...]
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 [...]
Throughout the discussion, the narrator in this story appears to see what the woman is experiencing and it provides the reader with the feeling of the main character in the story that is set in [...]
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.
The major theme threading the stories' plots is the certainty of death and the need to accept its inevitability. In addition to the theme and mood, the narrations share the idea of unity and the [...]
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.
Farquhar is symbolic of the slave confederate states that sought to secede from the United States, whereas, the soldiers represent the might of the union.
The research introduces the authors' symbolic concepts of strangeness which address alienation and desire and, which happen in the unconscious state of the creator's Victor and Dr.
From the same story, the writer makes use of spoken language, often the one used by the communities dwelling in the south to assist the learner understand the type of race and the customs of [...]
Literature is one of the art forms invented by the humanity to reflect the phenomena of the objective reality. As contrasted to Twain's work, "The Law of Life" by London is a depiction of positive [...]
In The Bourne Identity, a man who has lost all memory of who he is slowly beginning to track the clues of his former life and, in the process, begins to suspect that he may [...]
The only difference between the 'Oedipus' and 'Omen' is that of mode in which the crime is committed, or in other words, is the curse initiated.
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 [...]
Rosalind is the boy-heroine of As You Like It, who, like her father, deprived of her rightful inheritance, lived a life of captivity as a friend and lady-in-waiting to Celia.
From both stories, it is evident that the journey of life requires people to be sympathetic and interact with each other.
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 [...]
It starts by showing God's creation of the universe and all the living things including man and how Adam and eve disobeyed God by eating fruits from the tree that God had warned them not [...]
The idea of a person being in the center of the action and trying to overcome some problems connected with doom, fate and some other supernatural forces become peculiar to this kind of art.
William Blake describes the peculiarities of their life with the help of Tom Dacre's words in the first stanza of the poem.
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.
The main character Oedipus in the play "Oedipus the King"; is full of pride which he loses at the end and has to bow down to fate.
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.
On the other hand, Mina, who is portrayed as the typical modest and moral woman in the Victorian era, ends up being spared of criticisms and punishments in spite of her involvement with the Dracula [...]
The Setting in Robinson Crusoe and Paradise Lost: The Town of Hull and Heaven as Harbingers of Disobedience, Defiance, and Revolt The setting at the beginning of Paradise Lost and Robinson Crusoe provide a fertile [...]
It is necessary to point out that the theme about the spilled milk emerges in the very end of the poem.
The duration from 1850 to 1853 was the most fruitful since he wrote The House of the Seven Gables and The Blithedale Romance.
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 [...]
The queens in Hamlet and Macbeth play a pivotal role in the life of the heroes of the play. She is portrayed as a mother who, in her awareness of Hamlet's crisis, feels guilty and [...]
It is rather tempting to see the later work as a reflection of the ancient Greek story, but Chaucer's work is rather a re-evaluation of the old story.
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" [...]
As Fong notes, one of the areas to detect such similarities would be the guiding theme in the works, the type of the language used, and some of the historical references made.
In fact, the hard language in the narration and the twists and turns of the story make the man seem like a sideshow.
The beginning and the end justify the title for the rest of the story is nothing like the fairy tale and lays out the daily trials of simple folks.
These forces, including the ocean, its currents, the winds, and the sun, control the characters' lives, showing the determinism and naturalism in the power source.
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.
Job's friends tell him that sins caused his sufferings; yet, he refuses to accept it and claims that God still cares for him.
The book is based on the story of a farmer and his family, who, due to the problematic nature of the head of the family, are forced to change their place of residence: "None of [...]
In his journey through those worst performances on English women leading a few to suicide, he did not consider the situation and emotions of women he met.
The age of the Renaissance and The Restoration, in simple words, was the age of a new dawn of human civilization.
This paper discusses the similarities and differences of the themes of conformity and rebellion in Auden's poem 'The Unknown citizen' and 'The Market Economy' by Marge Piercy.
Du Bois in the work "The Soul of Black Folk" asks the question, why black people are considered to be different, why they are treated differently as they are the same members of the society, [...]
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 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 [...]
While the book "Dancing Girls" is exploring the emotional state of the foreigner as an aspect of loneliness in the strange land, also it explores the dreams, the objectives of people, who came to the [...]
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 [...]
The selected adaptations are based on the story where the interaction between a boy and a giant is the major element in the plot.
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 pilgrimage is scary as the characters are squeezed in a reek and noise that torments them as they get to the lowest point of the center full of ice and there no signs of [...]
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 [...]
Hansberry and Hughes introduce the same idea of a dream compared to a raisin dried up in the sun, but explain it in different ways in order to show how the interpretation of a thought [...]
The business world has been abuzz with this concept of "the bottom of the pyramid" given the sheer size of this market.
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 [...]
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?
Exploring the significance of the theme as well as the motifs of this piece, it becomes essential to understand that the era of modernism injected individualism in the literary works.
Lewis's novel The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe had been written in time, before the very notion of rationale started to be criticized on the account of its 'euro-centric' soundness, as it is often [...]
The other story that Poe Allen has written is "The fall of the House of Usher" whereby the main theme is about the haunted house, which is crumbling and this aspects brings out a Gothic [...]
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.
Emily Dickinson's keen eye saw the hypocrisy and ludicrous avoidance of death she encountered in her everyday life, and wrote about it in a quiet yet penetrating way.
The outstanding similarity of the narratives is the theme of love that is evident from the beginning to the end of the two stories.
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 [...]
The other side of her personality is the merciful woman. What seems to be motivating the grandmother is her role and responsibility as a grandmother.
The authors of the works managed to underline their perception and vision of American identity and race in the modern world."Unguarded Gates" is a poem written by Thomas Aldrich disclosing the theme of protest.
In the first place, the point stated in the Manifesto is that human nature might, can, and even should subdue a regime of power in a country.
Much ado in the Illiad tells of the dishonor he suffered from Agamemnon, his decision to quit the field because of it, and the futile efforts of the Greeks to appease him and draw him [...]
One such device in Hamlet is Shakespeare's placing of the Danish prince in the context of Fortinbras and Laertes as the characters that, like Hamlet, find themselves in the role of having to avenge their [...]
At the same time, the tone of the poem is mystic and shows the awe towards the force and grandeur of nature.
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 brutality and cruelty of humans to the god and the puppy is laid bare when the puppy dies out of the experiments that are carried on her by the master.
Although she cannot explain the occurrence of the initiation, she acknowledges that it is time for her to become mature and take up the role of a woman.
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.
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 [...]
The following is the thesis statement for this comparative poem analysis: Langston's and Nikki's poems are differently similar as they address identical theme of race in different structures and expressions I Too Langston wrote this [...]
Convincing or persuading the reader to believe what the author has written is always tough and this is due to the fact that different readers have different opinions and perspectives about life. For Sidney, he [...]
The Old Major's speech as portrayed in the narrative Animal Farm has myriad of similarities and differences to the speech given by Martin Luther King Jr.in his attempt to liberate the black race from discrimination.
In this way, the author denies the difference between people of color and whites and, therefore, the concept of racism in general.
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 [...]
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 purpose of the paper is to compare the use of symbolic roles of blood in the former and the wreath as the symbol of love and admiration in the latter.
This, in turn, leads to the formation of the identity that is ready to face all the world's challenges as a superhero.
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.
In particular, Claudius and Scar represent villains under the guise of well-wishers, while Rosencrantz and Guildenstern from Hamlet and hyenas from The Lion King appear worse than they seem.
In relation to this concept is the fact that Lennie and George's dreams inspire the duo to be mutually cooperative and loving as is evident through Gorge's action of covering up for Lennie's deficiencies when [...]
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 [...]
He is glad that she is willing to listen to his words of sorrow. The boy in Araby is miserable because he does not know how he can express his feelings to Mongol's sister.
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.
During the first half of the 19th century the governess became an important figure, both in literature and in life, because they were part of a small group of women who were middle-class, independent, educated [...]
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 dysfunction of the relationships in this sense is more evident in the book as the imagery is more indicative of the concept of dysfunction, however in the movie this takes on a more personal [...]
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 [...]
It cannot escape our attention that Don Quixote's illusions are strongly associated with his commitment to "protect justice", therefore they cannot be discussed as "thing in itself", as it is the case with Hamlet's illusions, [...]
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 [...]
The characters of Louise Mallard in "The Story of an Hour" and the storyteller for "The Yellow Wallpaper" are representative of what the authors want to express about themselves and their current situation.
The formalist analysis of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep repeats the same mistake, as it focuses on the plot devices and tropes presented in the story.
Although the theme of female body is disclosed differently in two poems, both authors resort to a variety of devices to make the idea clear and to engage the readers in the perception of it.
Both Jack's and Molly's parents are poor, and the children in the stories are forced to experience difficulties in finding food and trying to survive; therefore, the boy and the girl get into ogres' houses.
In her book, The Rich People's School, the writer uses the main character, Sylvia, to highlight the issues of class struggles and parenthood in society.
At the same time, Gogol, who is the character of Lahiri's novel, has something in common with the protagonist of "The Overcoat".
A notable distinction this particular rendition of the book to film/s is that, for the most part, the films stick closely to the book.
However, in spite of the fact that the motivations of Medea and Antigone are considered to be the same, they choose different actions.
In fact, it appears that this passion is encouraged by the feelings of regret and shame more than by affection to Bayardo.
The Odyssey and The Aeneid are some of the major epics created by the western civilizations. On balance, it is possible to state that the two epics share a lot of features as Virgil's work [...]
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.
Reading the stories, it seems from the first glance that the main similar feature of the protagonists is their age, still, the closer look at the stories shows that the situations these people appear at [...]