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Her immediate kin regarded her more as a burden and made her do all the hard work and she lived in a constant environment of scorn and hatred.

The story is written from the perspectives of Emily and the community and combines the past and the future to depict power and love.

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.

Coincidentally, "The kettle on the boat" seems to communicate the same theme that Dipita illustrates in the "honor of a woman".

Walk Whitman was born in the first half of the 1800s and Robert Frost in the second. The use of figurative speech in poetry gives the poems a capacity to reach out to the hearts [...]

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 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.

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.

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

One can attribute the conditions that lead to the epiphany of the young character Sylvia in the short story "The Lesson" by Bambara to her behavior and too the manner in which the society organizes [...]

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 [...]

In "Hills like white elephant," the author applies four features of modernism; the first trait that places the poem in modernism is not the use of romanticism.

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.

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 climax of the story is when Mrs. The epitome of the essay is when the French teacher insults him in French.

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 [...]

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.

Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis is a powerful novel that explores the life of a young college student, building on the nightlife that is almost the prerogative of the cities.

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 [...]

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.

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.

Both the children and the husband will definitely miss her because she is the epitome of their comfort and sustenance."The Mother Return" by Dorothy Wordsworth is a highly sensational poem.

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

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 [...]

Although Crane's stories are imaginary, the reader can picture houses and the community in 'The Monster' or the town of Yellow Sky in 'The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky.' He vividly describes the living conditions [...]

In other words, the aim of the paper is to trace the similarities and differences of symbolism and temporality found in the two poems.

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.

The use of foregrounding is evident in this line and has been used to draw the readers' attention to the subject matter and his stance on the issue.

According to Louise, her marriage is fulfilling, yet emotionally, she is in a cage of inherent oppression. Moreover, Bertha alludes to the fact that she has never loved her husband in the romantic way except [...]

The woman in the poem is a virgin as seen in the title of the poem 'She being Brand' and he expresses sex with this woman as ungraceful, awkward and unskillful.

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 narration progresses, fear arises in the reader or viewer, and finally, something horrific happens."The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Cask of the Amontillado" share all of the features above, as [...]

Sarah then decides to drop the matter because she knows that it is not her place to go against the wishes of her husband.

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.

The conflict can be identified at the beginning or in the middle of the story, and it is usually solved at the end. The actions and thoughts of the main characters lead to the resolution [...]

The mother gives a lot of advice on what to do, including what to prepare, what to do in the house, and what to do outside the house.

The two characters, Willy Lowman and Troy Maxon, can get a lot of challenges and fences in their quest to achieve the American Dream. One common idea in the two plays, Fences and the Death [...]

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 Le Morte D'Arthur, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Beowulf, the central characters in the tales appear to represent their own unique description of heroism.

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 [...]

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 paper would look into the parameter of different aspects of the stories and compare the two, particularly on the theme of self-discovery.

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, [...]

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 plot of the story is unique, while the character of Hedwig and her life story emphasize the difficulties that people can go through.

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 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.

The short stories The North Wind and the Sun by Aesop and The Dead Men's Path by Chinua Achebe show that persuasion and peaceful measures can be more effective than inducement and force.

This essay compares the characters and roles of both Hamlet and King Oedipus as the sons who have to deliver justice to their fathers' killers.

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.

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 [...]

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 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.

In this paper I would like to analyze the novel The House on Mango Street, written by Sandra Cisneros and the short story The Gift of the Magi by O.

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.

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.

The issue of stratification only progresses with time and divides people into social groups from which it is difficult to get out.

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.

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, [...]

The age of the Renaissance and The Restoration, in simple words, was the age of a new dawn of human civilization.

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.

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 current paper is aimed at comparison of the works through three perspectives: the symbolism of the titles of the two novels, the way colonialism and racism are represented by the authors, and the way [...]

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.

In Pastan's work, the state of loneliness and fear is depicted: the author is "learning to abandon the world", and she has already "given up the moon / and snow".

In Shakespeare's play, the motif of discrimination is explored in conjunction with Othello's dark skin color, something that caused the "noble Moore" to be treated with suspicion by other characters throughout the play.

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 [...]

In Nausea, the main character is a well-traveled 30-year-old man afflicted with intense feelings of the meaninglessness of his own being, an experience he dubs 'nausea.' The main character and narrator, Roquentin, is portrayed as [...]

The consistency of the three works in addressing power struggles within the family as a social unit is a lesson to the society of the urgent need to restructure the family as the basic social [...]

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.

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.

Similarly, in the story of the prodigal son, the younger son did not appreciate the life that his father provided him.

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 [...]

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.

Whence, the lamentation of his subjects and the appearance of Enkidu form the basis of the transformation of Gilgamesh especially his character.

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 [...]

The issue of love has been explained in the actions of the father during the winter seasons. The poem shows the negative and cold thoughts of the son against the warm and positive feelings of [...]

She is used her hips to symbolize womanhood, freedom, and the need for women to be empowered. The author wanted to express her womanhood and her belief that she is free.

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 [...]

The two characters had to overcome several obstacles in a manner that led many of their followers to respect and honor them, and their royal positions Othello can be considered to be a black member [...]

The common theme of two rather frightening and cruel stories is the theme of the imposition of life ideologies and the inability to accept the changing essence of the world.

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

The narrative's main focus was on the family's relationships, trials, and the never-ending cycle of pain. The storyteller is Sonny's brother, and the setting occurred in a rural region of Harlem, New York, in the [...]

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 [...]

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 contrast, the villains are made to capture the fears, and challenges of the societies represented by these epics. The import of these three epics lies in their historicism.

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 [...]

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 current paper observes two ancient texts, The Iliad and The Bhagavad-gita, to investigate the arguments of what the virtues of wars are.

The central character in Hawthorne's story courageously takes her step of seeking a witch's help even though she was to die.

Meanwhile, in "The Fall of the House of Usher," the burial of Madeline was the last farewell to send the woman to her grave.

It is remarkable that the language of The Story of An Hour speaks for the feelings of protagonist and the plot uncovering.

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.

Despite this fact, both King and Thoreau had a common goal to expose the unjust laws that govern a society of civil resistance to unjust laws It should be stressed that both King and Thoreau [...]

First, it is of the vital importance to pay extra attention to the author and particularly to the peculiarities of his or her character.

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

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 [...]

Henry's story is that of a man stripped of his innocence and freedom only to have his mind destroyed by the war.

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 [...]

This statement will serve us as the main thesis for this paper, because in it, we will aim to prove that, even though Don Quixote and Orgon seem to be out of this world, it [...]

People tend to think that the mother is the one who always worries about the children more while the father is believed to be the strongest member of the family who is not allowed to [...]

The cruelty of the revolution and the Taliban regime brought not only a lot of changes and sufferings to people's lives but also provided the literature world with significant masterpieces filled with pain and difficulties [...]

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 [...]

It was written after the Restoration, but the powerful voice of the poet declared that the spirit of the Revolution was not broken, that it still lived in the hearts of the people.

In Edgar Allan Poe's, "The Cast of Amontillado" Montresor appears as a caring friend but that appearance is only used to mask the fact that Montresor is a mad man.

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.

The topic of a woman's voice being silenced by society and becoming heard in writing appears to be among the similar themes of the critical essay "The Laugh of the Medusa" by Cixous and the [...]

In this work of literature, the problem is seen in the connection to the holes in the ozone layer and global warming, i.e.it is human-caused.

The poem The Sick Rose looks into vulnerability of women in the face of men, the susceptibility of love in the face of unfaithfulness, and the susceptibility of the body in the hands of STDs.

Two short stories, Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl, and A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell, both have a woman who killed her husband as a key part of their plot.

This is one of the major details that can be distinguished. This is one of the peculiarities that can be singled out.

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 beginning of the play he openly complains to his friend Philinte about the level of corruption in the French society.

To enable the children understand the issue of death, various aspects are used by the author so as to generate the feeling surrounding the concept of death and to ensure the young people understand 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?

In A Good Man is Hard to Find, the cultural feature that the story describes which continues today is the belief that the past represents a better version of American culture than the present, and [...]

The important role of this approach is in the fact that the reader receives the opportunity to understand that the narrator lacks self-awareness, and he is rather 'blind' while discussing himself and other people with [...]

One of the main themes that the authors explore is that the ability to empathize can often be impeded by the borders of race, nationality or culture.