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Putting Animals in Literature: Costello and Kafka

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. [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1447

Anti-Franklinian Stance of Rip Van Winkle’s Character

Metamophically Rip's nagging wife is the British petticoat governor in the colonial era, and Rip's reunion with his family symbolizes the American Revolution. They both held to the belief that Rip's character was an antithesis [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 555

Shakespeare’s Love Juice in the Real Life

The present paper argues that the so-called love juice exists in the real-life: in particular, the effect of love, at first sight, the love madness created by celebrities wearing beautiful clothes, using make-up and fragrances [...]
  • Subjects: Romantic Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1117

Revolutionary Road: Masked Emotions to Harsh Reality

In the case of the suburban American, there is a palpable kind of tug-of-war, a troubled air that is reminiscent of the political relations that existed between the superpowers.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1458

“My Year of Meats” Novel by Ruth Ozeki

The novel "My Year of Meats" by Ruth Ozeki is a satirical story combining fiction together with fact and seems to present the view of the meat industry in the USA.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1764

“The Diary of a Young Girl” by Anne Frank

Anne Frank has compiled several versions of her diary, and one of them was directed at the readers of the future who should know about all the misfortunes of civilians during the Nazi occupation of [...]
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 742

“The Lovely Bones” by Alice Sebold

Susie is portrayed as displaying feminism in the true sense in her actions pertaining to the detailed account of her rape and murder, mostly from the female perspective and does not delve into the details [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1949

Italian Sonnets: The Structure and Thematic Organization

While the Italian sonnet is also called the Petrarchan sonnet about Francis Petrarch - great fourteen-century poet- the sonnet is claimed to have existed a century before him. The stanzaic form of a sonnet is [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1155

Love Concept: Modern & Postmodern American Literature

The depiction of the theme of love has always been vital regardless of the literary trend and modernism as well as postmodernism saw a number of literary works dedicated to immortal issues of love, death, [...]
  • Subjects: Modernist Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 934

The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shicubu

The conflict between his intention to leave the world and his desire to retain the memories of Murasaki is the key issue of the analysis.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2125

“Legend of Good Women” by Geoffrey Chaucer

The Legend of Good Women written by Geoffrey Chaucer is considered to be a significant poem having the dream vision form; it is a kind of testament to female disparate views being prevalent at the [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 814

“Masks” the Novel by Fumiko Enchi

The novel wraps the reader with the feeling of coldness that is both elegant and repellent. She had to stay with a husband she hated and in the society she hated.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1424

«Dancing Girls» by Margaret Atwood

The major topic of the analysis in this paper is the role of the secondary characters in the development of the theme of absence of perspectives in the life of ordinary people who came to [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 706

“Celia, a Slave” by Melton A. McLaurin

In these lines, the author tries to emphasize the idea that this person was a respected member of the community and he seemed to be a man of honor in the eyes of the public.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1097

“On Witchcraft” by Cotton Mather

Cotton Mather however does not forget to mention the fact that devil exists and he works in collaboration with the witches and uses them to achieve his goals and objectives of seeing that the world [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1376

Sarajevo Blues Poems by Semezdin Mehmedinovic

The honesty in which the poems of Semezdin Mehmedinovic were written might lay in the fact that for the whole period of the Serbian nationalistic siege he remained a citizen of Sarajevo.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 865

Dylan Thomas’ and Philip Larkin’s Poems

The force of Dylan Thomas's feeling is as apparent in the short poem "The Force that through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower" as in the significantly longer "Fern Hill".
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1525

Discussion of the Play Wit by Margaret Edson

Wit starts with Vivian addressing the watchers: she is presently a patient in a central research clinic undergoing curing for sophisticated ovarian cancer, and she realizes that the prognosis is not consolatory."The Faerie Queene this [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1045

Torture in Shakespeare’s Literature

In its most common use, the word torture refers to "the use of physical or mental pain, often to obtain information, to punish a person, or to control the members of a group to which [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 780

The “Aeneid” and “Ramayana” Comparison

Secondly, this poem is relevant more to the youth as most of the characters are young, like Aeneas, who is being told about the history of the city by his mother, Venus.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 970

“The Bear Came over the Mountain” by Alice Munro

If we attempt to discuss the peculiarities of her novel, "The Bear Came over the Mountain," especially in contrast with its screen version, which is called "Away from her," it is of crucial importance for [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 516

“Life Without Principle” by Henry David Thoreau

To begin with, it is necessary to emphasize that the central point of Thoreau's "Life without principle" is the necessity to have the aim in every action performed and do not chase the evanescent values.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1049

“Shell Shaker” by LeAnne Howe

The style of the novel adds a sense of mystery to the story, which, combined with the representation of the various rituals and the extensive usage of the native language, makes the reading process more [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 553

Parker’s Back by Flannery O’Conner

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 [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1204

“1812: The War that Forged a Nation” the Book by W.R. Borneman

Borneman proposes readers an exiting and vivid description of the war of 1812 which led to consolidation of the nation and 'forged America's national identity.' Borneman analyzes the major events of the war and discusses [...]
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 608

Van Maanen’s “Tales of the Field” Review

The book, which is the subject of this essay, namely "Tales of the field: On writing ethnography" is one of the most famous ones in the field of ethnography.
  • Subjects: Gender in Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 573

“Desire Under the Elms” by Eugene O’Neill

Besides all differences between the three sons of Ephraim Cabot, the owner of a large and prosperous farm in New England, they have much in common, and this is hatred, resentment, and envy for their [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1352

Irony in Frank O’Connor’s “First Confession”

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".
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 1066

“Inkheart” by Cornelia Funke

A balance between good and evil is the main theme of this story with its focus on character development, both within the characters of the larger text as well as with Fenoglio and the characters [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1298

A Good-Enough Mother: “The Fifth Child” by Doris Lessing

When David and Harriet went on holiday's with the children, usually Harriet's mother Dorothy looked after Ben, but one day she suggested that they send Ben to the institution, but Harriet was against the idea [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 923

The 1930s English Poetry: Pen at War

Auden's poem uses conventional structure in the form of a sonnet although the the rhymes are not as smooth and lyrical, but the substance of the poetry remains in the era of the 1930s.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1172

Mrs. Mary Rowlandson’s Narrative of the Captivity

A peculiar feature of works of this type is that the main characters, women, are not treated as they should be: they see numerous deaths of their dearest people, they are deprived of the fulfillment [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 892

History of Asia. Lu Xun’s “My View On Chastity”

He was one of the founders of the China League of Left-Wing Writers in Shanghai. His contribution in the field of language and literature is enormous, thus, most of the commentators have viewed his greatness [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1571

“Adua” the Novel by Igiaba Scego

Adua, the character in the novel, is a reflection of Igiaba. The political condition in the country forced Adua and her family to flee.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1666

“The Monster” Story Analysis

The identity of the character is not clear, and although the writer tries to engage the reader into understanding the uniqueness of the featured characters, there is still some aspect of ambiguity, which makes the [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 573

“The Talisman” Historical Novel by Walter Scott

One of the most important subjects raised in "The Talisman" by Walter Scott is the differences between Islam and Christianity and the confrontations between the followers of these two religions in the times of King [...]
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 252

“When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine” by Jhumpa Lahiri

Although he has a company that makes his life easier, such as Lilia's family, where he goes to watch the news and have supper, he still feels lonely and detached. Lilia's family has lived in [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 313

The Poem and the Sign by Ferdinand de Saussure

The basic idea of a new approach to the structure and function of the language was that language is a system of signs which can be distinguished and studied separately, "Language is a system of [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1125

Symbols in Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death”

In "The Masque of the Red Death", Poe uses space to define division and a sense of safety. For human beings, the end of a day is dark and sad, typical of the representation of [...]
  • Subjects: Concepts in American Novels
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 435

“Them Dodgers Is My Gallant Knights” by Harley Henry

From the title of the article to the use of graphic representation, such as the picture of the injured Feller's mother lying in the hospital bed, Henry strives, and quite sufficiently so, to show the [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 605

“About Men” a Book by Gretel Ehrlich

She starts by introducing herself and where she comes from and thus informing the reader that she has experience of whatever she is about to discuss. The theme is developed throughout the essay by a [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 568

“Wuthering Heights” a Novel by Emily Bronte

The dilemmas of the communication between the members of different classes and social strata become the most evident in the conflicts that are related directly to the relationships between the characters in the Wuthering Heights.
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  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1940

Racism in Ralph Ellison’s “Battle Royal”

The main focus of the story is the problem of racism, particularly to African-American people in the United States. In terms of other issues that "Battle Royal" demonstrates and that are further developed in the [...]
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1439

“The Adventures of Amir Hamza” by Bilgrami & Lakhnavī

Indeed, Amir Hamza is a character in which multiple other characters' attribute is embedded: he is a trickster, a warrior, a hero, a spiritual person, a lover, and a mature man; as his personality evolves, [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1114

“The Scarlet Pimpernel” a Book by Emma Orczy

The representation of the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror in The Scarlet Pimpernel is considered an accepted and popular view on these historical events in the majority of Western countries.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 566

“Ching Kang Shan” by Mao Tse-tung

Thus, through this poem, Mao Tse-tung describes the establishment of the Red Army in China; this poem can be considered as a 'hymn' of the revolution.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 552

Themes in David Auburn’s Play “Proof”

In particular, she considers her level of mathematical skills at the age of 25 as well as the confusion she endures after the death of her father as a possibility that she inherited her father's [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 606

Marxist Criticism in “Death of a Salesman” by Miller

Marxist criticism helps to get insight into the relationships between individuals and social groups and to understand the historical, social, economic, and political context of the environment of the story and its influence on a [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 598

Old Traditions in “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson

Evidence of this can be seen in the way in which the townspeople seemingly forgot the exact origins of the lottery, what it was for, and why they had to do it in the first [...]
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  • Subjects: Concepts in American Novels
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 475

“No-No Boy” a Book by John Okada

The third chapter of No-No Boy by John Okada starts with the main character Ichiro, the Japanese American released from prison, leaving Freddie's and walking the streets of the city.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 379

“Giovanni’s Room” and “Native Speaker”

The theme of being imprisoned in the environment that is seemingly open-minded to a range of cultures, yet promotes a single standard in terms of the identity that one is supposed to have and the [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2296

Social Conflicts in “Animal Farm” by George Orwell

This is the only way for the animals to establish equality and create a flourishing, happy and wealthy society."Animal Farm" by Orwell is a description of the metamorphoses that happen within a freedom movement turning [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 567

Neo-Gothics in Gowdy’s “We so Seldom Look on Love”

The story presents an example of Gowdy's innovative approach to modifying neo-gothic genre and addressing the forbidden issues, as she modifies the gothic elements and discredits the traditional stereotypes related to the dominating topic of [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1754

“The Pearl That Broke Its Shell” by Nadia Hashimi

Shekiba is the victim of a society where women are judged almost exclusively on their worth as wives and mothers of sons and she was discriminated alongside her crippled father."The clan did not want to [...]
  • Subjects: Gender in Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 693

“The Yellow Wallpaper” a Novel by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Thus, the imagery, particularly the woman behind the wallpaper, is a metonymic representation of social boundaries that most women had to face at the time, and a very powerful one at that Gilman clearly knew [...]
  • Subjects: American Novels Writing Style
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 754

Short Story’s Elements and Character Development

According to Poe Edgar Allan, the single effect has a vital role in writing short stories in which any element of a story have to focus on such an effect.
  • Subjects: American Novels Writing Style
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1112

Gendered Space in Susan Glaspell’s Play “Trifles”

The setting is significant to the meaning of the work of writing as it influences its outcomes, the characters, viewpoint, and plot since it is connected to the principles, ideals, and feelings of characters.
  • Subjects: Gender in Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 840

“Forbidden Love” a Novel by Norma Khouri

The publishers and the agent of the author were impressed by this subject, the book was predicted to be extremely popular as it was suitable for a very broad audience and touched a subject that [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 601

“Burnt Shadows” a Book by Kamila Shamsie

Although Kim agreed to help Abdullah cross the Canadian border to escape from the FBI because of the tries to overcome biases and state justice, the woman decided to inform the police about the escape [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1948

Identity in “Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe

If the person loses the ability to distinguish between cultural history and his/her identity, the consequences can be rather destructive, as in the case of Okonkwo from Achebe's "Things Fall Apart".
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 826

The Twelfth Night by Shakespeare

The Twelfth Night, for instance, concentrates on such issues as love, friendship, relationships between the man and the woman as well as the distribution of gender roles in the society.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1935

The Theme of Loneliness in Life in Literature

One example of this can be seen in the case of the story "Evermore" where the main character of the story is sad about the death of her brother and the fact that many people [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2289

John Donnes’ Poetry Literature Study

In the poem Death Be Not Proud, death assumes the role of a tyrant without real power. To the poet, death is a brief rest, and when we wake up we will live eternally and [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 677

Shakespeare Literature: Prophecy and Macbeth Morality

The divination made by the witches pushes Macbeth further into immorality as he is made to believe that he deserves the position of king. In addition, Macbeth abandons reason and morality so as to make [...]
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  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 668

Odysseus and Creon Comparison Literature Analysis

One of the heroes succeeds in his undertaking, the other bitterly fails, and the outcome is shaped not so much by the unchangeable predestined fate as by the personal qualities of Odysseus and Creon.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1118

“Joy Luck Club” by Amy Tan

In the novel, she explores several aspects of Confucianism, which is a philosophical, religious and ethical system that is predominantly comprised of religious and traditional precepts of Chinese traditions. For instance, obedience is one of [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 829

“Revolutionary Mothers” by Carol Berkin

The author enlightens the reader about the true and fictional stories of that time, points out the stereotypes and realities."Revolutionary Mothers" by Berkin demonstrates the silent, yet fierce power of women during the revolution, their [...]
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1362

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath Literature Analysis

One of the reasons for this is that in her novel Plath was able to show that, contrary to what used to be the psychiatric convention of the fifties, one's depression-triggering sense of inadequateness does [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1677
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