In particular, the poem describes the relationship between tribes and the role of ethnos in the development of early kingdoms. In particular, the period of the early medieval kingdoms was marked by the definition of [...]
The lack of agreement of governments is conveyed by the poet in several ways. The reason why this idea applies to real-life situations is in the decisions made by leaders of the countries while not [...]
The person addressed by "you" in the poem is the oppressor of the Woman. The Woman tells her oppressor that she will rise like dirt despite the unfair treatment she receives.
The poem consists of 164 stanzas, contains valuable life advice on a broad range of subjects, and aims to explain the rules of public behavior and social conduct.
The source is effective such that it helps to extract the language used in Munro's story and establish how the language is expressively used based on the contexts.
The first striking problem of Hamlet is the one of choice, which may be considered a reflection of the main conflict of the tragedy.
The chosen poems present one distinct similarity in the setting: both authors use the complexity of relationships between a son and his father.
The description of nature precedes the dialogues, and in the first paragraph, the Ebro Valley is presented. The unwillingness of a man to understand, support and simply immerse in thoughts with the girl can be [...]
It is also likely that the relationship between Eliot's mother and her neighbors is sour. Sen is a responsible person and knows how to take care of children.
The development of the American dream and its impact on the society of the United States is a pertinent topic of discussion for various authors.
Therefore, this paper discusses some of the gender-oppressing rules during the Victorian era and how Bronte uses the self-realization journey of Jane Eyre in overcoming and standing against the societal traditions to become a heroine [...]
However, no matter how important the physical map of the city and the wanderings of the heroes is. Nobility, loyalty to the word, decency, and dignity are the distinctive qualities of the heroes of The [...]
Art Spiegelman magnificently links the past and the present graphically to narrate his father's surviving the Holocaust and his relations with the father.
The surrounding atmosphere and cultural specificities influence the characters' personalities throughout the story and change their attitude towards the particular minorities and races.
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.
Beginning with the first stanza of the poem, the narrator states that he is exhausted and hears a gentle tapping as he nods in a somnolent condition; however, he first concludes that the knocking on [...]
At the beginning of the story, Gilgamesh, the king of the Sumerian city of Uruk, despite achievements in the development of the town, causes the dislike of his subjects.
Dwelling in the world of words and literature, one closed to the 'fairer sex' of her time, she earned for herself not just the fame of a good author but one widely read even to [...]
Brothers Grimm published “The Robber Bridegroom” in 1812. The fairy tale reflects patriarchy in society where the father is the absolute authority.
Even though the general understanding of the American dream was advertised to everyone, the idea was more applicable to the male members of the American society, which is reflected in Chopin's "The Story of an [...]
Although the topic of the narration is language, the writer emphasizes its role in her mother's life and finishes the text underlining the value of her mother's opinion. Quoting her mother, the writer intends to [...]
In the era of modernism, poets tried to find a basis for the further existence of people in the world, and for some, such a basis was the strengthening of ties with nature.
The exploration of the difficulties that occur during the transition from adolescence to adulthood is the key message of the play.
The speaker and nature in the poem communicate through the rapidly changing times. I connect with the poem at a personal level as it speaks to my heart about the truth of my life.
For instance, in the seventh stanza of the poem, the author appeals to the reader by encouraging them to rediscover their fascination with a blackbird instead of drowning in dreams of a "golden bird".
That is why it is interesting to compare the details of the two stories, and the peculiarities of both dramas' actions.
The last scene will take place on the lowest level, the garden, which will be transformed into a graveyard by the rising of gravestones and the projection of a mausoleum in the background of the [...]
For Kitty, it was in a growing sense of homosexuality as well as a rebellion against the constricting accepted occupational goals open to her gender.
To prove his point, the old man tells the narrator and the readers the amusing and scary story of the vineyard.
While this idea is not always true in specific cases, it can be assumed to be true in the case of Romeo and Juliet because of the ways in which they act.
The two killers drive to the Clutter's home later in the night and kill the four family members in a theft attack.
The book was the last published during the author's lifetime, and some critics believe that it was his reflection on the topics of death and the meaning of life.
Dare to Lead refers to the works devoted to psychological issues and is intended to focus on delusions in respect of the modern workplace, finding the keys to true leadership.
Leda's personality is shaped by her childhood traumas and relationship with her mother that influence her own experience of motherhood and her relations with her daughters and other people.
The plot is told from the first person as the pronoun "I" is used and the story is told in the past tense.
When his mother gets insurance for ten thousand dollars after his father's death, he decides to take a risk and invest a part of the money in a liquor store.
The mother of the future writer was a childhood friend of Gustave Flaubert, who began to actively engage in the life of Maupassant when he entered the school in Rouen.
The author intends to put himself and his companion to the test by traveling to six cities of the US in the conditions of uncertainty and social rejection.
The death of her father comes as a relief to her. Society wants her to live in the past that is already behind her.
Paul is offered a chance to pursue the American Dream and gain huge material riches as a result of hard work in the area of business, for example.
That evening the stranger joins the rest of the camp at the campfire where he begins to narrate his story. At the beginning of the story, the stranger proclaims that, "...you are not the first [...]
The revolutions of 1830 and 1848 showed that the medieval structure of the streets in Paris was playing one of the major roles in their success.
Through the years the author got the new vision of his poems what was expressed by the difference between the imagery of Introductions and the Song's of Nurse in the Songs of Innocence and Songs [...]
Although it is a short story the author managed to provide a clear understanding of how quickly the son got disappointed in his father and the feeling of excitement about the meeting changed to the [...]
This work of his is a splendid opportunity to understand the protagonists in a reader's own way due to the story's ambiguous ending and because of the author's unbiased writing style.
In addition, the author, through the title makes the reader infer that the characters' lives are enjoyable, which is not the case, revealing the unique objective of the author, that being optimistic does not mean [...]
And then the novel tells as the main character gets accustomed to this news, and at the same time, it builds a lovely storyline of character's life. The episode, which tells about his father's surgical [...]
Myths are said to provide a framework of cultures in the society and are also said to educate people in the society so that they can have a means of coping with the traditions which [...]
The imagery in the beginning of the red brick building with many windows is not used for anything else, except as a name and a closure at the end.
The Japanese people are well known for their martial arts and the writer describes his father as "the proud of the pure samurai blood that ran in the family".
The Essay of Criticism is divided into three parts: the first examines the rules of taste, their relationship to nature, and the authority of classical authors.
According to Chopin, a passionless marriage coupled with adultery is consequence-free and is as powerful as 'the storm' and that it can help maintain the union, nature, and happiness of the married couple, a view [...]
The lack of actual historical information is a testament to the treatment accorded to women in the 16th century and this is an element of modernity that Woolf uses; the oppression of women in the [...]
The writer uses first-person narration to illustrate how Ralph is writing a memoir in response to the muddled uproar that is rampant in the setting of the novel.
Art is a not only a tool used to reflect the happenings in a society, but it also reflects the feelings of the artist towards the society and towards themselves. Through the paintings of an [...]
Yet, the worst was still laying ahead it is not only that Dorset had refused to pay ransom for the release of his son, but he himself demanded ransom from both kidnappers, in order to [...]
James Joyce is considered to be one of the most outstanding writers of the Modernist literature which occupies period from the beginning of the XXth century to the end of World War II.
He dared to make this dangerous travel in order not to be swallowed by an insatiable mouth of war when it knocked on Ishmael's door for the second time."They had run so far away from [...]
From the beginning of the story, he managed to set the readers against the king, which makes the majority of them support the daughters in the conflict between them and the king, the conflict that, [...]
This is the individual we can identify as the poetic persona or the person who is doing the speaking in the poem.
The question is that the main hero can tell the truth of his heart by means of the charms of nature.
The setting is the poverty-ridden streets of Chicago and a realistic peep into the lives of the two brothers Lafeyette and Pharaoh.
However, as a reaction against the extreme subjectivity of the Romantics and the social emphasis of the Victorian Age, literary criticism under the label of 'New Criticism' or the Formalists took the shape of a [...]
Till the end of the story, Stella does not want to believe that her dependence on men is so similar to the same dependence of her sister.
Driving to work involves the use of evolving technology as every car made today includes varying degrees of computerized information systems that inform the vehicle of important information everything from the need for an oil [...]
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 [...]
Knowing that the monster intended to cause yet more destruction in the world and who the monster was likely to target, Frankenstein's deliberate refusal to do anything to help his creation comprises another instance of [...]
Much of the satire derives from these oppositions and from the fact that it is impossible to reliably describe the difference between doubles and opposites."The Nose" treats the seriousness of life with comicality; the author [...]
Through the symbolism they pertain to, both pieces of work are an undeniably true reflection of the socio-economic and political struggles in the turn of the 19th century, as well as within the New Deal [...]
Peters reveals and enriches itself throughout the play: initially embodying the quality of obedience, with time she demonstrates the power of observance and attention to small things and consequently achieves a triumph over the male [...]
Nature is full of mystery, diversity, richness, it is a human dwelling, but one of the burning problems is the place of a human in nature.
Odysseus was creative and capable of great endurance, and the gods paid heed to him, and it was due to his temper.
Of these works, "Passing" is one of her novels that attracted the audience's special attention due to its touching upon the topic which will always be urgent- the racism."Passing" presents a race-based conflict of two [...]
In fact, leading researchers across the globe are of the opinion that the New Testament was written on the basis of the Enuma Elis.
The journey of the protagonist that stretches from the abyss of despair and moral tortures to the final recovery of Tayo and his people, serves as a representation of the main theme of the novel, [...]
The sort of power developed by Rowlandson was such that it set her apart from the traditional roles of the Puritan women in her time and within her culture.
Imagine that the protagonist is one of the pilgrims in the story in search of the legendary gem along with the other pilgrims.
There is nothing ethical in Malcolm's urgings in his overt and covert 'call to arms' though he cleverly covers up by giving a choice of either using the 'Ballot' or the 'Bullet' when he actually [...]
Many critics argue that Shakespeare was neither a poet, playwright or actor and that he wrote none of the plays that have famously been attributed to him.
The three poems written by Langston Hughes, namely "Negro Speaking of the Rivers", "Democracy" and "The Negro Mother" show the depth of black people's sufferings and the immensity of their desire to obtain freedom and [...]
The first four words of the poem can be used as key words for comprehending it as a whole.'That's' helps the reader understand that the style of the poem is conversational.'My' tells the reader about [...]
The novel demonstrates that one of the true insights of Communism is its understanding of the manner in which all human institutions and activities become perverted to the selfish use of particular groups.
Even though the main plot of the story is centered on challenges threatening to sabotage the union Hero and Claudio, Beatrice along with Benedick with their constant verbal jousting finds itself quite an interesting counter-plot.
The main characters of the story are the two girls, Roberta and Twyla and the ambiguity of their race is what the story relies upon.
Occurring as it did from the middle of the 1700s to the middle of the 1800s, the Romantic Period was an age of tremendous change and upheaval.
Type: Lyric Rhyme Scheme: aababbcbccdcdddd-last two lines are the same Setting: In a sleigh in the middle of a winter's night, between the lake and the woods and not near the houses.
Through female characters, Stowe argues that racial problems have deep historical roots that are closely connected with the period of slavery and dominance of "whites" and the low position of women in society and their [...]
In the same vein, Joseph Conrad's novella "Heart of Darkness," written in 1899, is about the struggle of two civilized Europeans, Marlow and Kurtz, after they ventured in to the wouldarkness' of uncivilized Africa,' and [...]
This story is nothing short of a treasure in terms of the use of literary devices, and various other techniques employed by the writer to elevate this work to the status of one of the [...]
Throughout the story, she is described in unflattering and dominant terms such as 'hard,' 'cruel' or 'predatory.' From the beginning of the story, it is clear that Margot cannot stand the shame of her husband's [...]
Taking it upon himself to complete Yasuko's recollections of the dark days, Shizuma must rewrite the journal to bring to the reader an unmistakable account of the injuries, the horrors and the victimization that was [...]
Looking for the interesting topics for the evaluative essay, one may suggest the list of the literary areas one is interested in: The World Literature's masterpieces of the nineteenth twentieth century; The Native American legends [...]
In defining the goals for the Dakotas in keeping the kinship rules, as stated by the author herself, "to keep the rules imposed by kinship for achieving civility, good manners, and a sense of responsibility [...]
Sammy's decision to quit his job is therefore based both on his rejection of the conservative and restricting viewpoint of his manager as well as the free and nonconformist lechery of the butcher as he [...]
Eveline's story is an irony, this is because at the beginning of the story Eveline seems to be having a flashback of the people who have already gone to the East, and inwardly she develops [...]
It is not a surprise that such a person is confined by the norms and expectations of society and looks for a way to break free.
The story was first published in 1926 in Harper's Bazaar and then appeared in the first book of Lawrence's collected short stories.
The central theme of the story is the reflection of the biblical features on the characters' actions and morality. Parker, the protagonist of the story, depicts the features of the biblical concepts burning the tree [...]
The critics of such book as "Animal Dreams" by Barbara Kingsolver have different opinions on the idea of the theme of this story and on the analysis of its characters, probably, because of the events, [...]
The life of Lord Jim seems to be surrounded by certain signs and symbols; in particular, colors have a deep and important meaning in the understanding of the nature of every character.
In this discourse two of his famous short stories, "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Cask of Amontillado" are studied in an attempt to better understand the use of symbolism, the literary tool of irony, and [...]
The purpose of this essay is to point out, in as much detail as possible, the allegorical allusions to the Christian way of life, or in short, the biblical teachings that are vital to the [...]
Much of the narrative strategy underlying the horrors and terrors of the first Gothic novel is theatrically inspired by the novel's settings and shadowy interiors, lunar menace and solar absence, lurid acoustics, peregrinating armor, mobile [...]
The Age of Enlightenment centered on France and two of the major philosophers who contributed to this age of Enlightenment were Voltaire and Montesquieu. In the realm of politics, the government was the focus of [...]
The play deals with the genius persons of the world and it relates genius convincingly with the world of madness. Then the development of schizophrenia in Nash, which is "a severe mental disorder that distorts [...]
The play revolves around the two opposing forces: truth and deceit, and we see a contrast between the importance of being true to one's self and the importance of being truthful with others.
Before the first stanza, a flea has bitten the young man and then has jumped to the young woman and begun to bite her.
As Bellah points out, the title of the poem is "The Road Not Taken" rather than "The Road Less Taken", which provides the first clue as to the author's original intentions and a different reading [...]
When she answered in the affirmative, Jackie became sure that he was a terrible boy and a sinner who had broken all commandments all because of his old grandmother."I was scared to death of confession".
The Puritan dogma of retrospection forced Bradstreet to explore her religious beliefs and reveal them in the poem Upon the Burning of Our House on July 10th, 1666.
In contrast to Hamlet, the role of 'a play within a play' is to underline onstage and offstage characters and their qualities.
In addition to fighting for his king, Macbeth is quickly and well rewarded for his efforts as King Duncan makes him the new Thane of Cawdor in addition to his already holding the title of [...]
The short story "The Country Husband" by John Cheever reveals the darker side of Suburbia, "the side which traps its residents in a web of conformity," and the protagonist of the story Francis Weed, is [...]
The main accent of Empire of the Sun is Jim's growing and getting older from a boy to a man during the war.
The Mill on the Floss tells the story of Maggie Tulliver, the daughter of a miller in Victorian England, and reflects the values of society.
The excellence of the sonnets is the excellence of parts. Although the sonnets proclaim his affection for the young man and his indulgence of him, they also disclose the attitudes which Shakespeare takes to both [...]
In the short story, Faulkner portrays that the beginning of the 1900s was marked by great social and economic changes but many people fail to accommodate their life to new social relations and a new [...]
It is humanity and collaboration that are invincible to the cruelty of nature. To Crane, nature is the uncontrollable and powerful force that is indifferent to people.
For that reason, Samba finishes his spiritual training and enters the school, and this is the point where the main conflict in the book starts to manifest itself.
The general impression of Emily Dickinson's poems is that they are very economical with words and the message being conveyed. The general impression of these poems is that the writer feels oppressed and discriminated against [...]