The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast one of the main characters of literature - Oedipus and Hamlet, as well as to determine the qualities and skills of people which make them [...]
However, it is possible that a person artificially invents the cause of his unhappiness and blames the other for this, although the problem might not exist if he had a different attitude to it.
The history of literature began in the Bronze Age with the invention of writing in Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt. In Egypt, hieroglyphs and the similarity of drawings were used for writing.
It presents the reader with the serious question of whether the beast is savage or whether the humans who brought the animal to the verge are.
While the main theme of Death of a Salesman is the inhumanity of progress, and the main theme in The Lesson is the inequality of American culture, the minor theme of living separated from other [...]
It further assesses the impact of the mode in which the information in the books is arranged compared to if it were set in a sequential manner.
The author presents challenges faced in the society as a result of the mixture racial and gender discrimination that a young black girl goes through in search of her dream and personal identity.
Believing the traveler and following him, Goodman crosses The Threshold that separates The Special World from The Ordinary World and signifies Brown's commitment to the adventure.
The former story is based on the memory and perspective of a character named Michael, and the latter is based on Eveline.
She was well aware of the fact that, when it comes to dealing with clients, it is the matter of foremost importance to ensure that these clients would be playing by agent's rules of a [...]
It is of interest to compare and contrast the expression of the topic of alienation in the works of the aforementioned writers in order to understand the common features and differences in the perception of [...]
Though Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" and Nathanael West's "The Day of the Locust" were published in 1915 and 1939, the theme of alienation is present in both of them, which meets the cultural context of [...]
In a way, the narrator serves as a guide in the made-up city that seems utopian until the readers find out about the child suffering in the basement and guaranteeing the happiness of everybody else [...]
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 narration of On the Golden Porch is presented in the first person. The scene of the book is placed in the Soviet Union not long before the end of communism, which was not an [...]
Each book has its synopsis which is very much reflective to different background orient, the first book which is a children book about the morals of friendship is much contrary, to the last book analyzed [...]
Also, the argument regarding the effectiveness of the two images is well-supported by the fact that through the use of varied approaches, the trivial one by Watson, and the sophisticated one by Holmes, the readers [...]
Although the reader is not informed about the outcome of her life it seems that she is too weak and innocent to survive in this city.
The major intention of his writing was to appreciate the engineering work that allowed the completion of the canal, the intercontinental railway as well as the fixation of the Atlantic wire/cable.
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 story by the same name as the book, Birds of Paradise Lost, tells the readers about the friendship of old men and the aftermath of the suicide of one member of the group.
Frame describes the tribulations of an old widow and the courage that encourages her to live. The main character is afraid of her weaknesses and does not want to face and solve problems.
This kills the educative purpose of books, which is to expose students to a diversity of cultures and occurrences. Stories about other cultures and places, both real and fiction empower one to think outside the [...]
The purpose of this paper is to discuss two stories to find the main differences, which have a greater impact on the attitude of the main characters towards their childhood.
The marshal is illustrated as a positive person."He, the town policeman of Yellow Sky, was a man known, liked, and feared in his community".
The analysis of The Yellow Wallpaper focuses on the feminist perspective, underlining various symbolisms, social subtexts, and emotional tensions that the story is meant to relay to the reader in the context of feminine literature, [...]
In fact, Zora was the one to take up the challenge of showing that a black person is a human, first of all.
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 way the characters of the main protagonists are revealed in the novel is one of the most important things in every piece of literature.
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.
For instance, the novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a cold war spy novel addressing the behavior of the British protagonists.
The link in the styles is analyzed showing the connection in both stories. Linking the two styles, dialogue and narration help in the flow of the story.
Considering the above realities, the following essay compares the loves depicted in two of the most amazing short stories of all time, namely Love is a Fallacy by Max Shulman and The Gift of the [...]
He has managed to compose several novels and short stories like The Hindenburg Crashes nightly, the Harper's Magazine stories like the Green World, a finalist short story for the National Magazine Award in the fiction [...]
This situation resembles the one found in Plato's Allegory of the Cave discourse whereby the prisoners fixedly stare at the wall.
His book "The Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk" captures the interest of many readers all over the world because of its reality and truthfulness.
But in reality, the reference was meant to encourage Connie and not belittle her. His father Baba was the biological father of both Amir and Hassan respectively.
Even in the 20th century, it is not surprising to note that the roles that are assigned or predetermined to be played by women in society have remained the same with few women taking up [...]
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.
It is very interesting how the author outlines the attitudes of parents and their children, being raised in two different social groups, towards digital media.
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 [...]
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 stories, The Third and Final Continent and Mrs. There are different degrees of separation in the two stories.
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 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 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 [...]
The poems The Painter's Song and Full Moon are the brightest examples of modern English poetry, which demonstrate to the reader all the beauty of the verse and involve in the atmosphere described in the [...]
The girl was influenced by the adults' views and shared their opinion concerning the place of the woman in the society.
To compare the role of parents in the stories, we must first get a brief background of the parents in both stories.
There is only one "dancing" character in Yamauchi's literary work and though the woman is not the protagonist of the short story, the theme of dancing becomes a central one due to the strength and [...]
The theme of insiders and outsiders and their effect on life of children is very popular and one of the most interesting and controversial in modern and classical literature.
An example of some literary works that highlight the role of women in our society is a short story titled The Lady with the Dog written by Anton Chekov and The Dead written by James [...]
As if supporting the general trend of the time towards emancipation of women, men take advantage of the situation and load the woman with both the housework and the role of the main breadwinner in [...]
In Kipphardt's play, it is possible to pursue the development of Oppenheimer's outlook on the value of the invention of the nuclear weapon.
The meaning of a myth in this book is just the same as that of an Indian mythology book as a sacred narrative.
This essay seeks to explain that in order to have a successful marriage, the husband and wife should work together as a single unit in which the husband and wife play their respective roles without [...]
Jane tells her story as explicitly as she can and yet much of the substance of that story is given in the descriptive passages where she uses natural symbolism to convey the mysteries of her [...]
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 [...]
They illustrate the inhumane nature of the people who keep the captives and the conflicting cultures of the two groups. The turn of effects and the life of the captives are unique.
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 [...]
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, [...]
There are a great number of different pieces of literature, which became to be the works representing significant value to the world of literature, literary critics and people fond of the enormous world created by [...]
In "Sure Thing" it can be said that the relationship between sexes is the basis of the play, where actions can be seen as one of the interpretations of the different versions of the lines.
The development of imaginative literature may be characterized by the sequence of successive changes of the literary trends driven by the changes of social conditions and the change of topicality of the themes expressed in [...]
In the second story, the symbol of the past and something that had long gone is the woman's path that implies the historical events of the past the value of life.
On the island, Robinson did not forget the Word of God believing that it is the only way for the salvation of soul and mind.
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.
Whereas Tolstoy has written a highly literary examination of a wasted life from a Christian perspective, God is a farce in which the characters are named after diseases, the play moves haphazardly from Athens to [...]
The thanksgiving dinner for the family reunion is also one case in point that represents religious as well as social morals for the Clutter family.Mr.
The essay that we are going to analyse here, "Perfect Aggression", has as primary intention to show that aggression is more than that.in the lines and pages to come we will try to critically evaluate [...]
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 importance of literature in our lives is impossible to exaggerate, partly because it represents the accumulated knowledge of the best minds of mankind through the whole course of human history, partly because it is [...]
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 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.
In his poem "Dream Deferred," Hughes provides a succinct description of the constrained self that is thus equally applicable to the position of women as expressed by Faulkner's short story "A Rose for Emily" and [...]
It follows the story of the narrator Dante and his friendship with his schoolmate Johnno in Brisbane in the 1940s and 50s.
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 [...]
The texts under consideration picture the events of different periods of time and have absolutely different settings, but both Frankenstein and Blade Runner express the desire of a human to have powers of God.
To begin with, the credibility of the sources chosen for the comparative analysis in this work is asses in different ways by scholars and the ordinary readers.
For instance, one of the works of the 19th-century literature, "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" by Stephen Crane, focuses on the relationship between marital responsibility and maturation of boy-men and shows the triumph of [...]
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 [...]
The works studied each portrays some aspect of love, and while many of these aspects are different in the stories, both the main underlying principles with regards to love seem to be the same while [...]
The narration style in the both novels is different, wherein "Moby Dick" the merging of the narration and the main character of the novel is achieved during the first person narration in which there are [...]
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 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 [...]
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.
Also, it is difficult for her to come to terms with the fact that her mother spends a lot of time with people on their deathbeds.
The novel follows Tita throughout the course of her life and shows how she is tormented by her mother. From Tita's birth, which took place on a table in the kitchen, to where she spends [...]
At the turn of twentieth century, more and more educated White people were finding themselves being deprived of psychological qualities that allowed their ancestors to build and to maintain civilization they were becoming increasingly incapable [...]
There can be no doubt as to the fact that Joseph Conrad's novel "Heart of Darkness" and Francis Coppola's movie "Apocalypse Now" significantly differ from each other, in terms of plot's composition, geographical settings, and [...]
However, Okonkwo is helpless once he finds British colonization creeping in and destroying the traditional parameters of the village and their culture as a whole along with the ramification of their religion with the invasion [...]
Next to the curriculum committee, the teachers and parents are responsible on the selection and decision of the study material. The characters in the story are country folks and the setting of the story is [...]
It was Wordsworth's belief that Nature has the power to subdue the human heart and to mould the moral life of man, thereby emphasizing the influence of natural objects upon a superstitious soul and the [...]
As literature in this way or another is a reflector of human life, dress and appearance fulfill here the same functions of presenting the characters or events, revealing the characters' inner worlds or the crucial [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The methods of revealing the characters and how the authors' managed to entice the audience to identify with the characters are only similar in that they are each quite unique.
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.
This abstract symbolizes the matter, that fate achieved the turning point, and the wind of change is blowing. The tears, which she rewards denote that these changes will be rather painful, and lots of effort [...]
Oedipus at the middle of the story had the urge to free the citizens of Thebes from the threat of the Sphinx.
The first book that has been taken under consideration goes by the name of The Figaro Trilogy and is a compilation of numerous works by the author namely Beaumarchais.
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 [...]
Gertrude as Queen is the lead female character opposite Hamlet in the book of the same name. Beatrice has long served as Dante's inspirational muse and in the Divine Comedy it is no different, Beatrice [...]
Even though McKenzie raises important aspects of multiculturalism in the article "The Menace of Multiculturalism", he fails to defend his position because there is a lack of logic and coherency in the presented arguments.
Throughout the two stories, Byron's journey to realize is that of self-reflection, thinking, and apprehension, while Nea's journey is that of striving and pushing hard to change the things how they were.
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 [...]
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 [...]
In Bacchae, the denying of the irrational as Pentheus did leads to the demise of personality and society since denying the irrational is denying life itself and encircling it in the 'second nature' which leads [...]
The main difference lies in the characters of Odysseus and the cursed girl "Sadako" in 'Ring.' Odysseus, after going through a hardship of ten years, still opt a normal human life and rejected the idea [...]
The present paper looks more closely at "Men in the Sun" and "The Land of Sad Oranges" and argues that the symbols physical disability and road point to the helplessness and powerlessness of the Palestinian [...]
Joseph stands out to be a hero in The Old Testament because, from the stature of a slave sold to an Egyptian merchant, he grew to be the powerful administrator in Egypt, second only to [...]
The Dispossessed discusses a wide range of utopian concepts derived from Taoism, the ideas of political thinkers like Fourier and Kropotkin, and the oppositional politics of the 1960s and early 1970s.
Vonnegut is a science fiction writer who tells about Cold War fears and the threat of the Bomb, the lurking dangers of overpopulation and food shortage on the one hand, and on the other government's [...]
The changes of the plot throughout the movie in comparison with the original novel are disturbing watchers since the times of cinema appearing and performance of the derivative movies.
It will be dealt with Mary Shelley's biography and will also contain a detailed analysis of the most famous of all her books, Frankenstein.
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 [...]
In some ways, the description of the first and second stanza is similar to that of a flower, perhaps through this, the poet is emphasize that he is rooted/stuck with his problems.
Chaucer's The Miller's Tale and in Shakespeare's Macbeth, to be more exact, we will find out how the notion of poetic justice is represented by examples of the main characters of the works mentioned.