Considering the time of the composition of the poem America, that is in the 1950s when militarism and McCarthyism dominated the political scene in the United States, poetry was an important tool to enlighten the [...]
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 [...]
Still, according to Ovid love is the eternal source of conflicts and is the strongest manifestation of a person, it is the essence of life and its pivot.
The climax of the story is when Mrs. The epitome of the essay is when the French teacher insults him in French.
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 [...]
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 [...]
There is the existence of various obstacles along the chain of events that hamper the processes aligned towards the achievement of the protagonist's goals. In the whole story, this theme is reflected in the destructors [...]
The rest of the novel refers to a nameless creature who is simply addressed as "the monster" [O1] and the one, who is created by Victor.
From the story it is clearly indicated that, Evan was very disappointed with what Redmor treated the people of this area; and decided to take a ravage especially because his friend Hank was shot.
The neighbors who heard the scuffle that ensued and went to the ladies house gave evidence to the police, and in as much as most of them agree on a great extent to the events [...]
Four types of love, eros, storge, phileo, and agape love, can be found in O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, of which storge love can be distinguished best of all, while eros is almost completely [...]
Hephaestus was the son of Zeus and Hera, and was the god of the creative fire, and was the divine artisan who worked with metals.
From the book, it can be argued that there were two faces of disagreement depicted during the cold war era where the Soviet Union preferred to bring the whole of Europe; and the rest of [...]
The extension of borders of the tropic, the contraposition between the life in LA and the life in Mexico, the change of events is a typical technique of Magical Realism, namely, hybridity that implies extensive [...]
This scientist regarded the western civilization to be the third and highest stage in the hierarchy of the world civilizations, preceded by the stages of savagery and barbarism.
The clock can be considered an integral part of the story as it leads the readers all the way till the end of the day in the abandoned house.
This was when he was only seven and a trip to the shop was like a tour around half of the world for him.
The Delphic Oracle informed that this famine served as a punishment from the gods for not having reattributed the murderer of the Oedipus royal predecessor; therefore, Oedipus ironically vowed to find the murderer."Just as if [...]
But if they over dry, they will become hard to chew and lose all the nutrition, This warns us of the consequences that may befall us if we sit there and wait for conditions to [...]
The story is in the context of one personality constructing her life, and unknown to, reconstructs many other people's lives in the multifaceted world that defines the Atlantic region.
He was the son of a farmer His family fled Israel's war of independence in 1948 and spent a year as refugees in Lebanon, before returning to Israel.
In the novel, Life of Pi, by Yann Martel, the protagonist is found in a state where the realm of self-awareness and human consciousness fails to make the difference between reality and illusion.
In the book "Because of Winn Dixie", Kate DiCamillo focuses on a ten-year-old girl India Opal Buloni and her friend, a dog named Winn Dixie.
Emerson's outlook embraced an idealistic view of the world together with the key role of nature in it, and the ultimate objective of one's life was seen in cognition and understanding of the world with [...]
After reading William Shakespeare's play "Othello" ordinary readers, as well as literary critics, fail to come to a unanimous conclusion about intricate traces of Iago's character; some critics suggest that Iago is unique and the [...]
The speaker says, "This flea is you and I, and this Our marriage bed, and marriage temple is" However, at the same time the image of the flea is intended to show that sex is [...]
Additionally, a certain pattern can be seen in alternating the rhyme of the last word in a line, where in the first two stanzas, the first and the third lines where unrhymed, while the second [...]
Depicting the victory of ethics over immorality, Sam Foster manages to express his idea of the possibility that the real estate business, and the human life on the whole, can be ethical in their essence.
It can be observed in two sentences: "...she was a little disappointed about the coffee, and oh, look, look, look at the eggs!", as well as in the sentence "That was the heaviest thing in [...]
Rampersad, the biographer of Langston Hughes, says that Fine Clothes to the Jew is not a successful volume, though it is Hughes's greatest collection, which was published when the poet was at the height of [...]
Shelley uses the anguish of both Frankenstein and the Monster to warn readers of the negative consequences of the pursuit of knowledge.
The journey of the Joad family and other significant characters in the story who played the roles in building the whole context take the path of meeting miserable economic situations.
The theme of death is present throughout this poem with the first three stanzas repeating the words "when death comes" as many as four times. And in her opinion, the best way to avoid fearing [...]
The homeless elite is not mentioned and it seems that under the name of wouldispossessed' and 'poor' the authors have tried to curtail all inequalities into a political power governed for and by women.
Too shy to attend the business school her mother enrolled her in and without any friends of her own, Amanda decides marriage is the only answer for Laura and forces Tom to find a beau [...]
Rather than focusing on the words of the poem itself, Leavis sees the significance of "The Wasteland" as residing principally in the disorganization of the poem.
The history of Haiti, the political consequences of colonialism and the condition of women are the common themes in her stories.
I agree with the review that this novel is a vivid example of Laura Esquivel's unique style of writing and extraordinary talent that becomes apparent through the choice of settings and objects, irony and symbolism. [...]
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 [...]
By tracing through Hemingway's life in conjunction with his stories such as "The Snows of Kilimanjaro", one can begin to trace some of the ideas that characterized Hemingway's life and thinking.
It is important to stress that Baker filled his new version of the story with a number of professions being popular and respected by modern generation."The purpose of this enlarged viewing capability," said the wolf, [...]
As they struggle to survive through rationing of food and water, fighting off the exhaustion of body and mind, and contend with the sharks that come to investigate the boat, they continuously think about nature [...]
Henry's story is that of a man stripped of his innocence and freedom only to have his mind destroyed by the war.
Kino plans to travel to another city to sell this pearl, but his brother warns that the pearl is evil and he should just sell it.
While the book "Dancing Girls" is exploring the emotional state of the foreigner as an aspect of loneliness in the strange land, also it explores the dreams, the objectives of people, who came to the [...]
Masood skews the balance of this relationship when the grandfather speaks of his dislike of the man, in answer to the boy's question: "He is an indolent man, and I do not like such people".
This brief paper looks at the significance of the title in the light of the settings and the symbolism in the story.
Ingersoll in his article "The Stigma of Femininity in James Joyce's "Eveline" and "The Boarding House" analyzes the image of Eveline from the point of view of feminity and oppression of women in those times [...]
There is something in the symbolism of his career, and in the words with which it is memorialized, which is evocative of drama not upon the tragic stage but in the theories and speculations of [...]
As things progressed, after the incidents with Melanie at the university and he had to leave teaching for a while, he went to visit his daughter Lucy in the outskirts out of cape Town in [...]
Examining works such as the short stories "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "Ligeia" reveals much of Poe's character through the form of his anima.
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 [...]
The Aeneid is a struggle between the mortal and God in the pursuit of the mortal to set up a newfound land.
The author talks of climbing onto the Moon while he sits in the boat and reaches the point where he can clearly see the edge of the Moon.
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.
First of all, it is necessary to mention, that the poem "on the road" by Langston Hughes is the narration of the periods of the Great Depression.
Kafka's writing was predominantly influenced by two factors the environment of the time and place in which he lived, and the events in his personal life.
Even when she "found herself the unexpected possessor of fifteen dollars" she did not want to spend the money for nothing and started carefully making plans trying to figure out what the best way to [...]
Perhaps one of the contributing factors that made this piece entertaining is the characterization of the characters in it. The material inheritance is the piano that had been to the family of Berniece and Boy [...]
But ahead of that, he distinguished that, as the first American novelist to got the prize from the end of World War II, he had a particular obligation to accept the modified situation of the [...]
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.
The title of the book brings out the presence of death through superstition, an owl calling the name of a person, which is believed to mean the person will soon die. That is why the [...]
Gloucester, in response to the attack on Edmond, promises to bring Edgar to justice, and also states that he is going to make Edmond his heir.
The way that the community dealt with this transgression of marital bonds comprises the bulk of the story, in which it is finally revealed that the highly respected Reverend Dimmesdale was the father of the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The cadets insist that this is an integral part of the Citadel, that promotes the lifestyle that they want the cadets to follow one of trust in one's fellow man and the sense that everyone [...]
The symbols of nature are various, and have different meanings, depending on the context, but the key meanings of these symbols are life itself, and the beauty of the surrounding world.
As in the second stanza, she writes, "I could easily tell the white folks" meaning she's addressing white people and without any fear whatever lies she had to tell.
The short novel written by Juan Rulfo, originally published in 1985, tackles the death of Comala through the narration of the ghosts of the former inhabitant of the town.
The central point of the story in concentrated on the concept of "pride" following the actions of Richard, the protagonist of the story.
All for his association with a Black woman."Because I was used to white people by 1948" is a statement he made at the very beginning of the book. A racist who is a racist in [...]
When Alexander the Great died, Aristotle fled to Chalcis, where he died the following year at the age of about 62 William Shakespeare was a strong adherent of Aristotle in his writings.
Thousands of years ago people knew that the Earth is flat, hundred years ago people knew that the Earth is the center of the Universe, at present, people think that they may be not the [...]
The results of the work should also be considered important as it will try to explain the society in "The House of Bernarda Alba", and also Lorca's point of view.
Other female writers such as Charlotte Perkins Gilman in "The Yellow Wallpaper", wrote more specifically about the female problem from the other side of the equation what happens when a woman finds herself unable to [...]
Only in recent decades have U.S.historians begun seriously to evaluate the mobilization of women and to consider the ways in which relations between men and women changed in the era of the American Revolution.
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 [...]
The plot narrates the story about a rich man that commits suicide, and the feelings and considerations of the people in town that watch him in his everyday life.
Williams admits that she regrets her diminished status: the fading of her beauty and the increasing harshness of her tone of voice: "a little woman of great but confused vitality clinging frantically to another time [...]
A peculiar feature of the passage is that instead of revealing the distinctive features of African Americans, the author concentrates on the fact that the distinction between the races in the American society is dependent [...]
Her "Mill on the Floss" vehemently reveals an indescribable conflict in Maggie's innocent mind; one the one side there was the matter of the Tulliver family's ego and prestige, and on the other side it [...]
He is maybe a bit spoiled and used to getting his own way, but he knows he has a duty to the state and to his family and he knows he is destined to someday [...]
The Victorian era was a period in time of the height of the industrial revolution as well as being the climax of the British Empire.
That little plant is the symbol of hope for a family determined to escape the squalor and violence of the ghetto.
What concerns this particular play the theme of love is deeply affected by comedic genre of performance and the setting of The Second World War.
Broadly defined, the bildungsroman is "the novel of youth, the novel of education, of apprenticeship, of adolescence, of initiation, even the life-novel".
However, in this play, we can be witnesses to a fact that all of the pain that King Lear had undergone can be cathartic.
John Steinbeck's short story, "The Chrysanthemums" reflects the struggles of a stereotyped woman of the time, Elisa Allen to find her own identity in the oppressive world of men.
Macbeth is essentially the story of a character who lives his life in a state of confusion to the degree that the only constant in his life changes.
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 Mill on the Floss tells the story of Maggie Tulliver, the daughter of a miller in Victorian England, and reflects the values of society.
Hester returns to Boston just before her death, in order to be buried in the same grave as Dimmesdale, with 'A' inscribed on their tombstone. Much to her son's anger and disgust, she marries Claudius [...]
He is encouraged to enter school by his father, who promises to wait for him at the gate to take him home at the end of the day.
Having already presented the boys as a group of older men in characteristic business behavior, this comparison serves to bring into focus the concept that while the speaker's son is ostensibly the 'king' of the [...]
He relates the story of his spiritual crisis in his work, A Confession."Do in the afterlife the freshness and life heartedness, the craving for love and strength of faith, ever return which we experience in [...]
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 [...]
At the outset, Dorian is the model of perfection of male youth and handsomeness. Dorian is totally taken in by Wotton's glib flattery along with his fascinating theories, and begins developing a paranoia about youth, [...]
The plot of the story is unique, while the character of Hedwig and her life story emphasize the difficulties that people can go through.
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 [...]
In the US, the concept of blackness is the key idea that defines the social, political, and cultural position of African-Americans, both in past and present periods of history.
It is also critical to take into account the presence or absence of a person in a situation of the death of a loved one, and the very personality of the survivor.
The news spreads far and quickly, but the creature fails to live up to the expectations of the curious crowd and is soon forgotten. It is likely that the angel's stay was exactly as he [...]
At the beginning of the story, we come across Ann as one of the protagonists in the story as she tries to order and give instructions for her son's birthday cake.
The story is set near the Mississippi River, in the fertile lands of New Orleans. The Patton's love each other so much, and their affection is shown in the story.
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 [...]
Sea oak illustrates the Capitalist society showing the stark contrast between the rich and the poor, the working class, and the non-working class.
The creation of the project about Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and the puzzles the main character has to face with and collect is predetermined by a number of factors: an independent investigation about the [...]
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 [...]
One of the most common themes in Coelho's books is finding one's purpose in life and seeking after the attainment of ones dreams.'The Alchemist', 'The Witch of Portobello', 'The Zahir' and 'Brida' have this theme [...]
Intertwined throughout the story is the turbulent and pragmatic relationship between Art and his elderly father. This was the root of the overwrought relationship that existed between Vladek and his son because he held his [...]
The novel explicates the pressure between colonial administrators and the African society amongst the railwaymen and the African community's resistance and struggles to free from the colonial power.
The young woman's reaction to gift-giving is interesting because the discussion of this reaction can add to Peter Singer's vision of the necessity to be generous in relation to the people of the Third World.
His emotions and dreams get the best of him as he even refuses to be treated as inferior by Miss Judy Jones, a lady who presents to him the picture of being an American elite.
For him to go out of his way looking for her in her home town and almost daring to challenge the husband is a brave move that shows he was truly ready to change and [...]
She also did not expect that her husband would be cruel to her after the revelation and this made her want to die because she truly loved him and she thought the same about her [...]
On the other hand, there is a moment in Ali's story, which reminds me exactly of what I was feeling every day before I decided to move out of my stepmother's house.
This essay continues the study of Borges with emphasis on these two stories, the theme of dreams and the nature of reality, and the author's speculative fiction as well as his assertions as to what [...]
The author in the poem underlines the catastrophic state in which the poorest layer of society was. The author underlines the racist character of Kiplings poem, protesting against the division between black and white people.