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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 [...]

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 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.

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 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 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.

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 [...]

He is the founder and leader of Macondo, and during his life, he never stops striving for knowledge. Siddhartha's quest for the Self is developed by three major events including his meeting with Buddha, his [...]

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.

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.

Though Lost in Yonkers and Yo! both address family problems, the play and the novel differ in their approaching them due to the following points: the way the women and their roles in the family [...]

While Shelley's work concerns the fantastic events that took place in the time contemporary to the author, the setting of "Oryx and Crake" is a far future when, as the author predicts, the mankind will [...]

But what is one to do?" Through the course of the story, the woman transforms from an individual who adores the outside and green growing things to becoming lost in the artificial world created by [...]

The members of the community have made all the preparations, "had all put their hearts into their work" and now are ready to present the results of their work to the public opinion.

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".

Similarly to Rama, Odysseus belongs to the descendants of Zeus, the king of all gods, and uses a special bow as his favorite weapon. Another difference between Odysseus and Rama is their attitudes to family [...]

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".

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 [...]

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.

The story of the poetic love of Rustam to a beautiful Tahmina and the betrayal of the insidious and envious Shah of Cavus create an atmosphere of tragedy and inevitability.

He is regretful of the dowry he did pay and thinks the Duchess was just pretentious. Fortunato is determined, and despite the sorry state of his friend, he tags him along to his demise.

One of the most evident features of the society described in both works is the growing disparity between the poor and the wealthy.

It is said that folk tales have their history in the ancient past as a warning of the elders to the children about the ills of the world.

Quotation: "The philosophical dimension of beauty does not depend on the limits of the physical world; true beauty far exceeds our earthly bounds". It is necessary to consider the beauty's "subtle qualities" such as "tone, [...]

For those who strive to gain an in-depth insight into the discursive significance of Greek antiquity, it represents the matter of crucial importance to be able to understand that the Olympian gods of Apollo and [...]

A perfect example is the comparison of the topics presented in the books "The unbearable lightness of being" and "The Kite Runner".

In the story Black Skin What Mask, the writer brings to light many instances of irony between the narrator and his friend. He is still a friend to the narrator who is black.

This essay is going to compare and contrast the characters of two women, Calixta from Chopin's "The Storm" and Elisa Allena from Steinbeck's "Chrysanthemums", who are in different contexts of the stories.

A major difference between poems and drama and the short story is that the first two have a predefined format of writing which includes the use of more dramatic words as compared to the short [...]

One of the reasons behind the rising popularity of the "eco-fiction" genre has to do with the fact that the philosophy of environmentalism has now been firmly incorporated in the discourse of post-modernity, which nowadays [...]

Despite the seeming difference in the details of each of the seven stores, there is the invisible and almost intangible connection between the seven parts of the book.

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 [...]

Even though both works reveal the main values of society, emphasizing the role of love, they show that people from the 12th and 21st centuries are not the same.

In addition to the Great War, urbanization, immigration, and the rapid progress of technology led to the general feeling of uncertainty due to the rejection of old, traditional ideas.

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 [...]

An illustration to explain that this is nonfiction is the fact that it states, "This is a copy of the gentleman's letters to Sir Thomas Dale.

From both stories, it is evident that the journey of life requires people to be sympathetic and interact with each other.

In his 1922 poem "The waste land", Thomas Eliot attempts to portray how social solidarity of in the modern world is affected by social and cultural changes such as the change in gender roles, dynamism [...]

In contrast, Connie's difficulties can be explained by the fact that she resists the control of her mother. This is one of the aspects that can be distinguished.

The most noticeable feature of the character is the fact that she never appears in the play in the flesh and is only described by other characters.

Though a range of facts concerning the household and traditions of the people of Ancient Egypt remain buried under the sands of time, several facts about the culture in question can be considered relatively well-known.

This paper explores the differences and similarities between the heroes of the ancient epics such as "The Odyssey" by Homer and "The Epic of Gilgamesh" the product of the culture of ancient Mesopotamia.

Consequently, in the book 'The long walk: A story of war and the life that follows' authored by Brian Castner, the two major events that are evident after reading it include the battle for oneself [...]

Thesis Statement: The use of song lyric and art collection in Li Qingzhao's work portrays the disillusionment associated with the Song Dynasty while Tao Qian's dianyuan style depicts the disunion and desire for freedom during [...]

One of the best examples of the slum practice is the rediscovery of Pompeii and the opportunity to visit it during the Romantic period.

In her book, the 22-year Suneeta pictures the life of the abnormal Mina, the central character, born with feelers on her head.

The primary goal of compiling the stories was to invoke opposition and assist in the fight for the abolishment of slavery.

In spite of the fact that the theme of isolation is shown in both the poems, the idea of isolation is presented in Arnold's poem "Dover Beach" with the focus on the melancholic isolation of [...]

On the other hand, in the epic poem "The Iliad" the author is concerned with the heroic exploits of Achilles in the contexts of death and immortality.

His psychological reality contrasts with his material reality such that he does not practice his homosexuality just because of his class and the social attitudes at the time.

A critical analysis of the writing styles adopted by the two authors makes it clear that the texts have an effect on the reader.

At the same time, the tone of the poem is mystic and shows the awe towards the force and grandeur of nature.

Both writers show that it is extremely difficult for these women to get used to the role of drover's wife or a person who has to struggle against heavy odds in order to support the [...]

Having started with the announcement of her death, the author then reveals the main facts of her life from the point of view of the community of the city.

Resting on these facts, it is possible to analyze some works which belong to the same period of time in order to understand the main ideas of the epoch and the authors message to readers.

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.

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 [...]

Their union comes out as selfish in respect to the man's family, and it is evident that in the context of this story, marriage is not the objective of their love.

Though "This Is a Picture of Me" by Margaret Atwood and "Heat" by Archibald Lampman differ from each other considerably in terms of their style, imagery, characters, and other essential details, they are connected with [...]

The plot is set in 1934, and the manuscript describes life in rural China through the eyes of a young lady and her grandfather. In the book "Six Records of a Floating Life", Shen loses [...]

Probably the most memorable aspect of the novel All Quiet on the Western Front is that it contains a number of scenes that expose readers to the graphic accounts of war-induced carnage and death.

It should be pointed out that the issues concerning functioning and improvement of the memory, effects of the childhood experience and background on the personality, and the significance of having the heart not only as [...]

Every society that is characterized by a mixture of racial interfaces is prone to a level of conflict that usually arises when some of the characters in the society esteem themselves as superior by virtue [...]

The rest of the group learns about the engagement and understandably express their anger towards the reverend, thus resulting in his decision to make a stop at the hotel and booking accommodation for the group [...]

Although both Pugh and Osnos provide seemingly similar observations on the same issue concerning the economics and politics of the places that they visit, these observations contribute to creating a completely different image of the [...]

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

In this respect, Connie lives in her imaginary world; she is reluctant to observe the moral values established in her family.

However, the most important sentences in the first chapter are those that introduce the concept of Communism, America's attitude to it, and the distribution of wealth in the world: "Dwayne Hoover's and Kilgore Trout's country, [...]

Consequently, I believe that differences between passion and love have a tendency to exist, as passion is the uncontrolled actions to show affection, and love is the act of the understanding of the behavior of [...]

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.

Consequently, the love explained in the book of Mark is the ultimate love that makes people volunteers of even their own life for the purposes of abiding to the promises.

William Blake describes the peculiarities of their life with the help of Tom Dacre's words in the first stanza of the poem.

The second story describes the life of a common family in which even tenor is interrupted by the visit of one of the daughters of Mama and their different understanding of identity.

Depicted lively in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and Persepolis, the life journey of an social misfit can twist in a number of ways, making it obvious that, despite there is a [...]

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.

Whitman uses the spider as a metaphor of humanity, drowned in a sea of uncertainty, while Melville uses Pip's ocean experience to represent peoples' struggles in the world.

The "punishment" of the character, however, does not necessarily testify to the narrator's support of the expected behavior standards pointing out a conflict between the author and the society in regards to ethical, moral, and [...]

The story 'Who's Irish' by Jen Gish is based on the events in the life of an elderly Chinese immigrant lady, and the struggle she undergoes as she tries to acclimatize herself to a radically [...]

Although Hughes in his "Negro" discusses race as the main source for the character's identity and attempts to accentuate the role of the black race for the whole world history, Shakespeare in Othello and Welty [...]

The reason for this is that, as it will be shown later in this paper, the behavioral patterns of many of the female-characters, featured in The Namesake and Dogeaters, appear to reflect the concerned women's [...]

Thus, while comparing Mao Dun and Huang Chun-ming's stories, it is significant to state that the authors use the third person omniscient narrative point of view in order to create the complete picture of the [...]

Tens of thousands of people were executed and tortured to death during both of these events.= Cambodian Pol Pot and European genocide will always be remembered as ones of the most shameful pages of the [...]

Parenting The mother is striving to bring up her daughter to be the best in the world. The motive of the Writer Kincaid intends to show the reader the difference between the old and the [...]

Hence, the similarities and differences depicted in the two plays in terms of plot, general structure and the way the issues are brought up.

Loyalty is one of the themes in the story, as the boy is confused on whether to side with the family or the law.

One of the main qualitative aspects of the ongoing discourse of post-colonialism, is that it often addresses the issue of what can be considered the indications of one's endowment with the so-called 'post-colonial' identity.

The novel The Bath by Janet Frame and the short story The Hollow of the Three Hills by Nathaniel Hawthorne also make readers think about the manifestations of bravery.

Although Chopin uses the metaphor of storm in order to describe the adultery and the female character's desire and passion, the speaker's presentation of the love affair is extremely realistic and focused on details.

Both the stories revolve around the plots of love and marriage of the young Cuicui in Border Town and the divorcee Liusu in Love in a Fallen Land.

Bah employs subheadings to divide her long story into parts and themes, while Mayblum's writing is an undivided essay."The Price We Pay" by Adam Mayblum and "An Oral History of Adama Bah" by Adama Bah [...]

At the end of the poem, the author talks of a car without one to drive it, and it gives a picture of loss of direction, which is still linked to the chaotic scene that [...]

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 [...]

It is the assumption of this paper that in both stories, the lack of detail concerning the reason why Trevor wanted to destroy the house of Mr.

In his poem, Housman employs the lyrical strategy to put across the meaning of the poem; that is to praise an athlete who has died at a young age.

He is viewed as a man of wisdom, owing to the lessons he has learned from his sufferings since childhood, which he, in turn, teaches Albom.

The old woman fails to accept her jilting by her lover to her death even though she prides in having been married and fend for her family all alone after facing the death of her [...]

The use of a young lady in this story brings out emotional effects after a tragic loss that would describe the destiny of the girl.

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.

It is with this line of view that this paper finds it vital to scrutinize the development of the theme of forgetting and remembering in Brooklyn by Colm Toibin and Instructions to All Persons by [...]

All the drama in this play revolves around Dr Stockman who does the right thing and speaks the truth in concern of the intolerances in the society."Glengarry Glen Ross" by David Mamet is written into [...]

The moral of the story is whether it is good to get desired knowledge without God's support or not, whether it is good to go in contradiction to the God's will and rules.

This essay will discuss two works that eloquently illustrate the dangers of totalitarianism, namely, the novel The Handmaid's Tale written by Margaret Atwood and the book of poetry The Country Between Us by Carolyn Forche.