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Robert Frost’s Winter Solitude: Themes and Symbolism

The poem 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' written by Robert Frost, is considered to be one of the most prominent works of world literature; the poem is dedicated to the disclosure of nature [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1702

The Law of Retribution in Inferno

The real punishment of the sinners in the life after starts in the second circle. Each head is said to consume the three known traitors in the history of the bible, one is Judas who [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 757

Ethics in Real Estate

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.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2776

‘Ceremony’ by Leslie Marmon Silko: Theme of Healing

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, [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 922

Symbols in “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty

On the other hand, the principles of new criticism do not consider such factors, limiting the area of analysis to the text itself, i.e.the verbal meaning of the words, the language, the structure, and the [...]
  • Subjects: Aspects of American Novels
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1120

Family Relationships in Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper

Being the brain and the intellectual reason of the family, the husband wisely guides the ship of his matrimonial unit through all the possible mishaps and traps and takes the necessary precautions in order to [...]
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1228

“The Third Life of Grange Copeland” by Alice Walker

The novel 'The Third Life of Grange Copeland' by Alice Walker is dedicated to the highlight of economical and racist oppression suffered by the society; it is a set of lives depicting gradual formation of [...]
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1430

Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path”

Introduced as simply an old woman, bent over, using a walking stick and wearing funny clothes, Phoenix's character is brought out in intimate detail through the imagery of her journey since many of the physical [...]
  • Subjects: Aspects of American Novels
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1568

“The Reluctant Fundamentalist” by Moshsin Hamid

It tells the story of a young man Changez through a series of deviously and intricately crafted monologues where the protagonist narrates the story of his life to an ominously jumpy American who he happens [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1331

The Character of Gertrude in ‘Hamlet’

The character of Ophelia is responsible for projecting an aura of guilt and deception to the role of women in 'Hamlet.' She is not treacherous or complicated, but instead weak and insensibly dependent on the [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1414

“In Another Country” by Ernest Hemmingway

The age of comic books that started in the 1930s brought a new breed of heroes that were the ingenious combination of the Hemmingway hero and the classical Greek Demigods; The Superheroes.
  • Subjects: Romantic Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1600

Charles Dickens: “Great Expectations”

'Great Expectations' by Charles Dickens deals with "the aspirations and ambitions of the protagonist and narrator, Pip, to improve his status in life and create conditions for better living"..
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1840

Themes in “Hamlet” by William Shakespeare

With consideration of critical responses, use of language and structure, and through a close analysis of Hamlet's soliloquies, the role of Shakespeare's characterization of Hamlet in shaping the enduring power of the text is appreciated [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 908

How Samir Okasha’s “Philosophy of Science” Review

Copernicus concerned the motion of the earth as physical reality and mentioned in De revolutionibus that "If any motion is related to the earth, that motion ought to illustrate in all the bodies outside the [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1733

“The Open Boat” Short Story by Stephen Crane

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 [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 261

“House Made of Dawn” by N. Scott Momaday

Abel's feelings are in large part due to the Indians' belief that the image of the eagle clutching a serpent in its claws is the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl's icon that rivals the Christian cross.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1016

“The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” by Junot Diaz

Analyzing the "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz, it is necessary to review and describe such issues as the authority and power in the Dominican Republic's history and how this history [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1808

“The Displaced Person” Novella by Flannery O’Connor

O'Connor uses symbolic descriptions s and irony to create a story conflict and depict the mysterious character of Guizac. Guizac is one of the most intriguing characters: he is a Pole, a Catholic, and a [...]
  • Subjects: American Novels Writing Style
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 582

Ophelia from Shakespeare’s ”Hamlet”

Shakespeare employs the traditional view of the woman as a means of illustrating its more dangerous elements through his portrayal of Ophelia in her innocence, the ease with which others use her, and the suspicion [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1444

“Congo” Novel by Michael Crichton

The novel starts with the end of an expedition when people were attacked and killed by an unknown enemy, and the contact between the expedition and the outer world is lost.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 587

“Emma” by Jane Austen

It should be borne in mind that Emma is a representative a certain society and to a certain extent, her actions are governed by the rules, established in this society, and she is not free [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 3002

Women in Modern Japanese Literature

The work by Yuko to be considered in this paper is one of the brightest examples of her prose, and it can be observed by the readers that personal concern of the author about her [...]
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2198

“Flowering Judas” by Katherine Anne Porter

The author of the book employed certain aspects that are interesting in nature and this makes the story capture the minds and the hearts of the most audience.
  • Subjects: Dramatic Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 555

Blind in Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral” Book

The narrator admits from the very beginning of the story that he is nervous about having a blind man in his house, suggesting that he himself is actually quite blind to the reality of the [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1008

“Allegory of the Cave” by Plato

As Plato was a disciple of Socrates and the source of much of the information we have regarding much of what this man had to say, Socrates' concept of ethics is relevant to an understanding [...]
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  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2807

“The Glass Menagerie” the Play by Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams, a prominent playwright of his own epoch was born on 26 March 1911 in Columbus where he lived with his family consisting of his grandfather who was a religious man in the church, [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1004

“On the Road” by Langston Hughes

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.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 536

Franz Kafka: His Life and Novels

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.
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1289

“Recitatif” by Toni Morrison

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.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 629

“Science Fiction” by Roger Luckhust

The analysis of this genre focuses on the series of fiction works with the purpose of disclosure of unique qualities of fiction theory. The history of technology and science contributes to the formation of contextual [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 933

Humanities. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

Even in his own home, he has taken up the habit of locking his bedroom doors "as if in a hotel" and he continues to follow the rules and regulations set forth by his father [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2303

“A Room With a View” by E. M. Forster

As she struggles between the strict social mores of her community and the desires of her heart, Lucy is influenced by both her own internal experiences and the external behaviors of those around her, finally [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 980

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

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers by Paul Kennedy

The book starts with the overview of the rise of the Western World with the special emphasis on the Habsburg Bid for Mastery and importance of finance, geography, and winning of wars.
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1115

Rene Gallimard in “M. Butterfly” by David Henry Hwang

This can be demonstrated by the fact that the plot of the play develops not in one line, i.e.in a direct subsequence of events, but with references to the past while the very present events [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1473

“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

Comparison of Salinger’s and Miller’s Works

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 [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 953

“The Art of John Updike’s A&P” by Toni Saldivar

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 [...]
  • Subjects: American Novels Writing Style
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1037

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

Milton’s and Dante’s “Paradise” Analytical Comparison

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 [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1608

“Sonny’s Blues”: Perspective and Plot Correlation

How might descriptions of places and characters be influenced by a particular narrator's perspective and the attitudes he holds? "Sonny's Blues" written by James Baldwin is a story that deals with very real aspects of [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1809

Contrasting Deception in the Inferno and the Decameron

In the present work, we will analyze this similarity and will seek for possible differences using particular parts of the great epic poem and the collection of novellas, namely, we will explore the fifth story [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1227

The Importance of Paintings in Hamlet

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.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1211

Racial Fire in “We Wear the Mask” by P. L. Dunbar

The "we" in the poem is the black folk collective, the speaker a Dunbar persona, or perhaps the real Dunbar lifting the mask to speak plainly and unequivocally about the double nature of the black [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1093

Webster’s vs. Shakespeare’s Women in Their Plays

The comparison is expected to reveal the differences and similarities in the authors' manner of depicting women and the way they influenced the overall message of the plays.
  • Subjects: Gender in Literature
  • Pages: 18
  • Words: 4623

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter” Novel

The theme of sin is depicted through emotional sufferings and experience of the main heroes of the novel: Hester Prynne, her husband Roger Chillingworth and Hester's lover, Dimmesdale.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 957

Francis Weed in “The Country Husband” by John Cheever

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 [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 641

Persian Letters by Montesquieu

I chose the 24th letter from the collection to demonstrate the peculiarities of the author's style that contributed significantly to the book's unfading success.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 614

The Mill on the Floss by Maggie Tulliver

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.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 14
  • Words: 3915

Children Literature. “Peter Pan” by J. M. Barrie

In Peter Pan literature, the writer uses different techniques to deliver his message to the writer. The writer tells a story complete with characters that include Peter Pan, Wendy, John and Jane.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 690

Feminism in “A Long Day in November” by Ernest Gaines

The situation, however, was aggravated by his attachment to his car and staying out late until the early mornings as a sign of his manhood, and the symbol of masculinity and independence in American culture.
  • Subjects: Concepts in American Novels
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 631

Family Structure in ‘The Good Earth’ by Buck

The rules in a conventional Chinese family are obligatory, where a wife has to be subservient to her husband, so also the children to their father, and each and every person including the husbands, wives [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 969

“Jude the Obscure” Novel by Thomas Hardy

Previous to he was able to try to enter the university; the immature Jude was influenced into getting married to a rather uncouth and outward confined girl, Arabella Donn, who left him in two years.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1333

Character Comparison in Science Fiction Works

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 [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1627

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

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka: Cause and Effect

Multiple causes are in force right in the first few paragraphs: the horrendous transformation that Gregor has undergone, the panic and anxiety that the family members feel when Gregor is not responding to urgent summons [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1122

Ernest Hemingway’s Masculine Dominance

However, he was dedicated to his craft and to the integrity of his stories; an integral aspect of this dedication was presenting experiences as realistically as possible.
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1562

“A Raisin in the Sun” Play by Lorraine Hansberry

This paper is discussing the character of the relationship between mama and her son Walter together with the problems which are brought up in the interaction of these two characters in the play.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1249

William Cullen Bryant, an American Romantic Poet

In "Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood," the author relies on such words as guilt, misery, crime, and sorrow to explain the negative side of the surrounding man-made world.
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 502

The Story “Miss Brill” by Katherine Mansfield

It becomes clear when different ideas appear in her head, and all the participants of the performance know her and love her as one of the members in the general fun.
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  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 967

Technology Control in Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World”

They leave you with a, but there is a self-limiting effect of all of our contemporary psychotropics and mood-alterers. The tabloid news is full of people who have become addicted to prescription drugs, or find [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 11
  • Words: 3087

“World War Z” a Book by Max Brooks

This could not hold because the League of Nations failed to prevent the most tragic war in the world that is, the Second World War.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1995

History of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki

The author also ties the multicultural history of people comprising American diversity with a thorough analysis of the place they are at the time of writing his book.
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2742

Alienation in Modernist Short Stories and Poems

As the paper unfolds, the treatment of the theme of alienation as per different writers will be looked into to establish whether there exists a common denominator in the treatment of the works or not.
  • Subjects: Modernist Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 704

“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

Heroism and Power in Homer’s “The Illiad”

In The Iliad, the relations between two characters, Agamemnon and Apollo, as well as their motivation and passion help to underscore the theme of power and rage; the conflict between the characters is based on [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1565

“The Short Bus” by Jonathan Mooney

Although most of his meetings are beautiful and inspiring stories, some of the encounters represent the communicational issues that are inevitable in interaction with the people, who have been isolated from the society due to [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 556

John Donne’s and Edmund Spenser’s Works Comparison

Although the theme of female body is disclosed differently in two poems, both authors resort to a variety of devices to make the idea clear and to engage the readers in the perception of it.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1250

“Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen: Characters Analysis

Pride and Prejudice is, first of all, a profoundly realistic representation of characters and tempers, albeit not of the English society as a whole, but of its privileged groups since the end of the 18th [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1177

“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

Humor and Parody in Japanese Literature

The aim of this paper is to explore the use humor and parody in the following works of Edo and Tokugawa periods: Shikitei Sanba's Ukiyoburo, Ihara Saikaku's Life of a Sensuous Man, and Hiraga Gennai's [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1410

“When the Emperor Was Divine” by Julie Otsuka

The title of the book, current references, tokens that children carry with them to the campsite, the killing of the dog on the eve of departure to the camp, and the experiences of the family [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1425

“Histories” a Work by Herodotus

The monumental work of Herodotus, the Greek historian, titled The Histories, is considered to be one of the founding historical works in the world.
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 11
  • Words: 3057

“Dead Man at Grandview Point” by Edward Abbey

In this chapter, the Abbey's goal is not to clarify the reasons of death, but to explain that death is something all people have to accept one day, and the way the tourist at Grandview [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 500

“Planet of Slums” a Book by Mike Davis

In his book, Mike Davis explains to the readers the mechanisms of how slums work, and puts forth an idea that the blame for slums being dangerous and miserable lies not on the inhabitants of [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 920

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

Gender Fights in “The Chrysanthemums” by Steinbeck

In this story, the author managed to challenge the traditional views on gender roles and demonstrated the tragedy of a person constrained by the existing order."The Chrysanthemums" pictures individuals in the stagnant world and identifies [...]
  • Subjects: Gender in Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 855