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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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 stories, The Third and Final Continent and Mrs. There are different degrees of separation in the two stories.

This is a sentiment shared by both black and white women during this period and showed they ride in the same boat.

A rose for Emily and Paul's case both convey stories of protagonists who were discontented with their lives and chose to defy society as a result of that discontentment.

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 [...]

When the state of the two characters is reconciled it leaves a sense of emptiness and the reader s left to ponder at the outcome of the story.

The inclusion of the novel in classroom studies in the early 1960s especially 1963, spurred criticisms due to the issues of contention addressed by the novel.

The discourse of otherness in the black literature demonstrates the alienation of the Black youth from the American way of life.

In fact, the only happy ending is found in the first part of the story where John and Mary live their life to the fullest.

The next work to be discussed is an ironical interpretation of the classical fairy-tale "The Beauty and the Beast" titled "The Courtship of Mr.

The first and the most evident similarity of the works mentioned above is the authors' intent to rise above the earthly, primitive understanding of life and death and to show their personal perception of these [...]

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.

In a good man is hard to find, the character called The Misfit questions the existence of God. This is a threat to the stability of this town.

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 King is the leader, no one is allowed to disobey his orders, and the rules set by the administration of the King.

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.

It is not but before the first few lines of each piece in which the author establishes a personal foundation for the rest of the article to be built on.

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.

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 interactions of the characters, in that regard, are neither sufficient to explain the purpose of the author, nor to connect it to the purpose of the story.

She is quite unhappy and uncertain in the beginning of her travel, and she finds her balance and, moreover, she finds her love in the end; in this trip she reaches all the goals she [...]

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 black waiter Doc and the Colonel are forced to live in a cruel world and adapt to the dominant system.

The meaning of a myth in this book is just the same as that of an Indian mythology book as a sacred narrative.

Westerners on the other hand believe in individualism so much that they forget that harmonious living is important for personal and society's development.

The essay provides many instances of the use of emotive language and it helps the reader to understand the social and cultural relevance of the issue that the contemporary discrimination by produce student's use of [...]

The shadow of pride haunts Hooper in his entire life and the author remarks that all people have been wearing the mask of the sin in the world.Mr.

Both authors present a different interpretation of the legend and the personality of Lucretia by the purposes of their writings: the primary aim of the historian, Livy, is to give the account of a historic [...]

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 [...]

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

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.

An important shared element of both of these stories is the shared setting in which the farm is no longer capable of supporting the needs of the family.

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

For example, the opening quote of the essay is used by the author to place her argument in the context of the social stereotypes against the fat, or heavy, people in America: "Loyalty to petrified [...]

Analyzing the attitude of the authors to education, it is necessary to state that in "Three Cups of Tea" education is the core of the book.

The author of this book made specific research on the city structure and on the relationships between the social and economic position of people and the crime level from the point of view of safety [...]

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.

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 [...]

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.

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.

Through Prufrock, we see the bareness and the mental tension in the life of the modern man living in an urban area.

The presence of the evil eye in the loved old man is the catalyst that leads to the narrator's madness. As the narrator continues to stare at the eye revealed in the small light of [...]

The poet repeats the snarling and rattling in the seventh line to foreshadow the violent death of the boy whose hand gets chopped off by the saw and he succumbs to subsequent loss of blood.

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.

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.

The present paper is intended to discuss the reason and passion-oriented perspectives on beauty in Thomas Mann's "Death in Venice" and Henry James's "The Spoils of Poynton".

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 same occurrences are described time and time again but are unique because of the way they are told and the characters involved.

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.

So, the first similarity is The main difference between the stories is that the information of the story "Videotape" is presented as the description of the video that the girl chanced to the tape: It [...]

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 [...]

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 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. [...]

Why it is not so is left to be considered, and in the present paper the works relevant in the discussion are the article of Ralph Waldo Emerson "Man the Reformer" and Henry David Thoreau [...]

The characters in A Raising in the Sun are real in the sense that the reader can have a feel of a mother's love for her family and for her children to succeed in 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 [...]

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 [...]

In the Moon Ribbon story and Ashputtle punishment is a natural consequence of unfair treatment and cruelty, violence and aggression towards the girls. In Moon Ribbon, absence of the prince adds emotional tension and uncertainty [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

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 Jewish American experience is one of the key matters of the world Jewish community, as it is one of the largest Jewish communities in the world.

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.

Rosario Ferre's and Bessie Head's works are dealing with many issues of racial and gender discrimination and racialism."The youngest doll" by Ferre and "Snapshot's of the wedding" by Head is opening to the reader a [...]

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 [...]

When Julie ignored the story of her husband as to the plane crash he understood the value of their marriage and family life.

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 [...]

It is stated, that the poem is based on the paradoxes and opposites: The first and the foremost is the discrepancy between the urn with its frozen images, and the dynamics of the life, which [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The stories My Mother's Gifts by Judith Claire and Fifteen by William Stafford have very much in common. The story My Mother's Gifts by Judith Claire abounds in different expressive means and stylistic devices.

In the case of Defoe's Moll Flanders, a popular view was circulated to include the members of the lower classes to be the veritable readers of the adventures of the protagonists.

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 [...]

The shallowness, the injustice, the strive for wealth and power, brutality, and greed are the common themes, developed and explored in the books by Julia Alvarez "In the Time of The Butterflies" and by F.

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.

The essence of the comparative analysis of these stories will lie in the techniques used by the writers to develop their characters, render the same theme of their stories and convey the tone and atmosphere [...]

When the 'hero' Ivan Ilych attempts to recall the past in an attempt to justify his claim that he had led a simple and ordinary life, and wants to raise questions as to why he [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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.

The parable of talents from the Bible alluded to in the sonnet speaks of his fears above his transgressions of the omnipotent will.

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.

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]