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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 [...]

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.

This paper seeks to explore the father and son relationships in Metamorphosis and Oedipus the King and offers a comparison for the two.

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.

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

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.

Despite the harshness of the environment in Afghanistan, as we come to discover through the eyes of the daughter, she fosters on in her quest to find her mother.

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 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 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 [...]

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

In the epic of Gilgamesh, it is indicated that there was a ruler who ruled the land of Samaria very many years ago.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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.

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 [...]

Although both Morrison and Emecheta provide the life stories of black women and discuss the problem of social choices for them in the novels, the authors' writing styles differ significantly because Morrison concentrates on irony [...]

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 works by two famous American Puritan writers of the 17th century Anne Bradstreet and Mary Rowlandson reflect the main features of the Puritan writing because the authors discuss their personal experience concentrating on their [...]

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 [...]

Though both books talk about the food industry and the ills that plague it, it is important to establish that, Eric Schlosser's aim of writing Fast Food Nation was to make the public know the [...]

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.

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, [...]

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 [...]

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.

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

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 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.

Furthermore, the names of all the characters in both films are the same except for a little twist in the spelling of names like Mcbeth and Mcduff.

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

The comic book "prisoners of the sun: the adventures of Tintin is one example of the comic books and is a result of many comic strips that have been brought together to create a book.

According to Aristotle, the tragedy of the hero is as a result of his weakness becoming superior hence, he shows frailness in his judgment.

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

Finally, as Dante and Virgil reach the most bitter, tormented place in the universe, the ninth circle of hell, they immediately depart after seeing Satan and the final circle of the underworld.

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.

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

1 However, irrespective of the choice of the level of imagery, both authors employ it, which gives their stories a peculiar character and arouses mixed feelings on the part of the reader.

For example, it relates to Ralegh's "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd," which is a response to Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love".

His creation is gentle at the start, but after the people start to resent it because of its looks, the monster runs and hides from the society. When Victor refuses to create a spouse for [...]

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

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.

The concept is interested in looking at the daily lives of individuals from both the lower and middle classes, whose character is determined by social factors. The movement covered the whole country since it was [...]

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 [...]

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

One of the most effective methods to ensure the satirical sounding of a particular episode in the work of literature, is to overplay the idea that people are actually quite capable of not even noticing [...]

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

Thus, this reflective treatise analyzes the three poems "How the Plague was ceased in Rome", "The Three Messengers of Death" and "John Audelay's Number 51" on the message of the poems, language, themes.

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?

Variation in the expectations and delivery of love is the cause of hurt and mistrust. To her, love is pain and joy at the same time.

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 [...]

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 futility of the life Watanabe has lived is explored through the relationship he has with his son when he finds out that he is suffering from cancer.

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

Job's friends tell him that sins caused his sufferings; yet, he refuses to accept it and claims that God still cares for him.

For this assignment, I have chosen the following fictional accounts of the US: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair and The Return of Mr.

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 [...]

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

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

Hemingway's Hills Like White Elephants and Pound's In A Station of the Metro share several similarities even though they belong to different literary genres.

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

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.

Both Updike and Oates disclose the misconceptions of physical attractiveness that still exist in our society and show the consequences of the hyperfocus on beauty, which in one case causes Sammy to quit his job [...]

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.

The essay intends to look at the life of Oedipus who is the main character of the book and how the gods were responsible for his downfall after the struggle he had gone through to [...]

To compare the role of parents in the stories, we must first get a brief background of the parents in both stories.

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 [...]

In King Lear and A Thousand of Acres, the destinies of both King Lear and Larry Cook encounter unfair attitudes toward daughters and death, as a result. Lear and Larry are in despair because of [...]

To say that "All conflict in literature is, in its simplest form, a struggle between good and evil" is to describe a specific type of literature such as fairy tales, but in the short story [...]

The overdetermination of trouble in Sinclair's narrative creates a jungle of disjunctions and contradictions, aptly represented by the novel's repeated images of bodily disintegration - of the loss of fingers, the loss of feet, the [...]

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".

Evidence, suggesting that the author is a little bit ironic is the language of the poem. Judging from the grammatical constructions, and the vocabulary, it is possible to conclude, this text is a bright example [...]

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" [...]

The basic theme of the novel is Ibo culture which is to be changed because of the pressure on the part of the external forces. The introduction of the protagonist of the story Okonkwo is [...]

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 [...]

As I read the texts, the regular language used in the two texts is evidence that the writers sought to make their texts easy to understand for both the middle-class Americans and the aristocrats.

A child has an imaginative mind and creates a world, separate from the realities of his/her life, in the form of a make-believe play.

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 [...]

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.

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.

Poe in his work, The Fall of the House of Usher and Hawthorne in his work' The Birthmark; they have employed different literary elements.

Through the use of these symbols, Shelley intends to communicate to the audience the extent of the destruction of the statue.

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.

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

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.

In the contemporary society, introduction of literature research has extensively increased the volume of literature in every topic of interest a researcher may be interested in especially in use of tools of expression such as [...]

Auden uses the motifs of mourning and the loss of the sense of life after the lover's death for representing the idea similar to that developed in Bradstreet's 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.

In the "Two Kinds" there is some love between the mother and daughter. This love is depicted in the way the mother prevails upon her daughter to succeed in her studies.

The secondary problem is related to an ethical dilemma with regards to the responsibility of the husband to provide and care for the family.

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 [...]

This paper endeavors to highlight some similarities and differences especially in the aims and the writing style of these two authors. The aim of these two pieces is to portray societies as notorious for curtailing [...]

The duration from 1850 to 1853 was the most fruitful since he wrote The House of the Seven Gables and The Blithedale Romance.

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.

The book seems to make use of previous writings like Paradise Lost one of the books that the monster reads, Shakespeare and Don Quixote for instance, the Arabian lover and the sequence of the monster's [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

Both Count Orlok and the Other Mother possess the ability to mimic normal people but still are have more powers than these people, yet the disturbing relatability of Beldam's motives and the terrifying goal of [...]

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 [...]

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

On the other hand, in The Blind Owl, the storyteller, a pen-case decorator, falls in love with a naive woman who is virtuous and demonic at the same time. In The Blind Owl, it is [...]

It will not be much of an exaggeration to suggest that the main theme, explored in the Sonnet 29, has to do with the sensation of frustration that people get to experience, after having realized [...]

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.

The lack of amenities in the apartment is a stark contrast to Jim and Della's affection for one another. This portrayal emphasizes the depth of Della's love for Jim and draws attention to the theme [...]

The main qualities of a warrior in medieval novels were valor and courage. The image of a fearless and desperate warrior, always fighting evil in Anglo-Saxon literature, was replaced by a valiant and gallant knight [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

In that regard, it can be stated that the occurrence of such creatures in literature can be differently interpreted, depending on the type of the work and the literary and philosophical functions of these creatures [...]

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

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 [...]

This story is a part of many that form the book. The play of culture is a part of the character's mind and is reflected in the environment around him as well as the reactions [...]

In the book, 'Confessions' Rousseau unfolds his life story beginning with a description of his family and the impact of his mother's death at his birth.