Othello is a story by William Shakespeare that revolves around four characters, Othello, who is the general in the Venetian Army, Lago, who was Othello's assistant in the same army, Desdemona, the daughter of a [...]
As the author observes in his own words, most of the remarks from the aunt's side would be fraught with the authoritative term 'Do not' while nearly all the remarks by the children countered with [...]
It is probably done to encourage the audience to think about the superiority and grandeur of the Universe and show humanity the importance of a respectful attitude toward it.
This novel is a panorama of late-twentieth-century Vietnam, a divided country that is suffering from the unrecoverable consequences of the war and languishing in poverty, trying to survive with the help of tourism and agriculture.
Junot Diaz, the author of the much-acclaimed collection of short stories called Drown, published in 1996, was born on the 31st of December 1968 in, Dominican Republic.
The first part is about three boys who find a dead body in a car inside a river found locally in their area, they fear breaking the story to the people, and one boy after [...]
Frankenstein's monster would be a creature that would be hard to wipe out of the face of the earth and would be made of cells that are highly replicating within hours to form new monsters [...]
The geisha is a unique phenomenon for the Asian culture as well as, of course, for the western one. Thereby, geisha is the men's friend and companion, and at the same time, a beautiful and [...]
The first novel was written by Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther was the foundation of his establishment as a novelist.
However, the narrator's use of silence not only makes the audience take notice of her memoir but to presents the selfless nature that engenders the true identity of the characters.
The white men tried to spread the gospel but "the arrival of the missionaries had caused a considerable stir in the village..."..
Throughout the story, Dante presents himself as a good student through the way he posits questions to Virgil, listens to him as he narrates the sinner's stories and the way he feels under him although [...]
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 [...]
From the same story, the writer makes use of spoken language, often the one used by the communities dwelling in the south to assist the learner understand the type of race and the customs of [...]
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 analysis of this essay will identify three points; the first describes how Imagery makes the poem more interesting and real; the second point will help describe the characteristics of the poem with a simile; [...]
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.
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.
Sherman Alexie's essay What Sacagawea Means to Me challenges the readers to make a comparison of Sacagawea to Eve and the US to the Garden of Eden.
These were people who had never moved to the city and had spent their lives in the village. They had starved and the family had had to stay for days without food.
The first part of the story depicts the attempts of the machines to answer the first question of the paragraph under analysis, whether the men were broken down.
Dionysus is viewed as apposite in character to Apollo; he is a god that is described to be slow to anger and always willing to help those that are in need. He is willing to [...]
In his journey through those worst performances on English women leading a few to suicide, he did not consider the situation and emotions of women he met.
We can being by comparing the use of irony in each poem."The Fish" is comprised mostly of descriptions of the fish that the speaker of the poem caught.
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 fact that Japanese people idealize aesthetics explains the particulars of Japan's history and provides us with the insight onto why, after being thoroughly defeated during the course of WW2, Japan was able to quickly [...]
Therefore this paper will look at the American literature from the time of colonization by the Europeans, and how various events social and historical have shaped the American literature, making it unique among other literal [...]
He is glad that she is willing to listen to his words of sorrow. The boy in Araby is miserable because he does not know how he can express his feelings to Mongol's sister.
The current age has seen an acute upsurge in the value placed on the beauty of women; where the stigmatization, low esteem, and shame associated with being bad looking among women is leading to high [...]
The age of the Renaissance and The Restoration, in simple words, was the age of a new dawn of human civilization.
The main character of the novel Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky was influenced by the ideas of West European utilitarianism, based on the theories of correct actions and values."New, "strange, unfinished ideas' ' of Western [...]
The plot of "The Awakening" cannot be referred to as overly complex, as it is being essentially concerned with the main character Edna Pontellier going through a variety of different trials and tribulations, on the [...]
A topic of color is prominent for both authors; however, these two poets deserve to be considered not only the voice of the American citizens of color but the voice of the whole diverse and [...]
There is only one "dancing" character in Yamauchi's literary work and though the woman is not the protagonist of the short story, the theme of dancing becomes a central one due to the strength and [...]
Through the words of the old man Hemingway tries to bring to the world his conviction that it is the purpose of every man to struggle in life and never surrender: "A man can be [...]
The main character of the epic poem Odyssey is Odysseus, the ruler of Ithaca and the brave warrior who is ready to do everything possible and impossible to return home to his wife Penelope and [...]
The objective of this story is to discuss the role of fantasy/escape as it has been applied in the story, "The Faery handbag".
The background is the faded wall] A group of women is sitting on the opposite side and the background is a faded wall- 'you should cry, and tries to relief' by the women.
The author further takes the point of view of a third person character in narrating the story; as he tells the story from an invisible point of view where he is not one of the [...]
Roth uses the "first person voice of the writer Nathan Zuckerman to tell the story of Coleman Silk, a black man who passes for a Jew ", a professor of classics and dean of faculty [...]
In the course of his life, Jim encounters two other people, Stein and Brierly; these two characters help the reader realize what kind of person Jim is because they can be easily contrasted to him.
When the thought of today, the nineteenth-century writer Edgar Allan Poe is remembered as the master of the short story and the psychological thriller.
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 [...]
First, it is of the vital importance to pay extra attention to the author and particularly to the peculiarities of his or her character.
This line also exposes her fear of social ridicule which is preventing her from doing all the things she would really like to do.
The poem The Weary Blues was written by Langston Hughes; the author devoted his work to the description of the music theme highlighting the role of blues and the uniqueness of this genre.
It stands to reason that to a certain degree, the works of this famous historian and poet take their origins in Homers Iliad and Odyssey, but the two authors do not share the same opinion [...]
There can be no doubt as to the fact that Romantic writers and poets strongly opposed the ideals of the French Revolution; however, this was not due to these ideals' rational essence, but because, during [...]
These events form a background to demonstrate the process of identity development of the later generations of the group through the protagonist Naomi and her brother Stephen.
It is a fruit of the tree that is the poet's mind. There is always a great satisfaction in finding out the meaning of those poems, it's like you have climbed a tall tree and [...]
This work also reflects the experience of the speaker and the stage he/she has to overcome thus showing the inevitability of the given situation, which is illustrated by the last line of the poem: "First [...]
Du Bois in the work "The Soul of Black Folk" asks the question, why black people are considered to be different, why they are treated differently as they are the same members of the society, [...]
Augustine, the film shows the perversion of free will and the fall to the inferior level of God's creation, Abelard would note that the true justice is executed in the film, whereas Heloise would focus [...]
The sole aim of all the religions is to make the people realize the value of life and to make the most of the same but doing holy acts and by not indulging in undesirable [...]
In this way, Agamemnon presents imperfections in the family under consideration with the tragedy of this family rooting in the wife's unfaithfulness to her husband and the father's sacrificing his daughter in exchange for the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Consequently, the work is aimed at the analysis of the interconnection of the way of expression of the themes and content of the poems with the form and figurative language of the poetry.
The same situation of blind following the popular culture idols that were hand-made by the promoters and PR managers who created an ideal white culture in the USA and managed to persuade the nation in [...]
This is the case with Charles Chestnutt's short story "The Wife of His Youth" in which the significant disruption of life experienced by the institution of slavery and the Civil War is illustrated through the [...]
Second, Lewis' objectivity and consideration of the religion outside its rituals, to consider the moral principles and ethics involved on a greater level as applicable to humanity, encourage the non-Christian reader to follow Lewis wholly [...]
The end of the nineteenth century and the first several decades of the twentieth were extremely difficult for the world and especially for the working class in terms of working conditions and wages.
In the book Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers" by Kwame Anthony Appiah, the author has categorically described the value of differing cultures and the methods which are primarily used to keep two varying [...]
This progression toward enlightenment can be most clearly seen by making a comparison between Plato's Allegory of the Cave and the situation in which the man and boy find themselves within McCarthy's novel, particularly in [...]
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.
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. [...]
The paper comprises the advantages and limitations of the author's flow of thought, his manner of own life details description, and the effects which are seen nowadays in the political career of the author.
The writings of Williams and Gandhi are so divergent that it clearly points to the chasm in perceptions of a western mind and an eastern construct.
The poet addresses the reader, saying that if the reader had witnessed his father's removal of the splinter he would have thought he was planting something in the boy's hand, something that led to his [...]
One of the best examples of his poetic genius lies in his poem, "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love", written in rural background, best suits the poetic type of the period.
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.
The dysfunction of the relationships in this sense is more evident in the book as the imagery is more indicative of the concept of dysfunction, however in the movie this takes on a more personal [...]
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 [...]
The higher a person's rank, the more he is expected to honor the code and the harder it is for him to conceive of someone else breaking it.
Thus, pride is Speaking on the matter of women, mentioned in the verses, the following quote should be mentioned: 'Twixt Reno and Savena to say 'sipa; And if thereof thou wishest pledge or proof, Bring [...]
As a member of the jury sitting in on the trial of Montressor, I feel it is necessary for me to explain the reasons why the jury came to the conclusion it did.
The sonnet Acquainted with the Night is very sad and not like the usual you expect from Frost. In this poem, the night is decidedly scary and the darkness may be dangerous.
She wants to run and hide, but realizes, as Arnold points out the weaknesses of her house, that there is nowhere for her to run.
In The Bourne Identity, a man who has lost all memory of who he is slowly beginning to track the clues of his former life and, in the process, begins to suspect that he may [...]
Feminism is a characteristic of most of her works; in this story the feministic voice is overt. And only here, in the middle of the story, the reader comes to understand that a tragedy happened.
One of the delights of the novel is that technology aids both the tracking of some characters and the evasion of tracking by the same characters.
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 [...]
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 [...]
Out of his anger, he worries about the death of his father and the hasty marriage of his mother to his uncle.
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 [...]
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, [...]
The ‘Iliad’ is one of the most admired and well-known poems worldwide. Its main idea covers several essential themes, one of which is hospitality.
Corn is the food for the cows, the pigs, lambs, the chicken, turkey, and fishes like the tilapia, catfish, and the salmon, which despite being a carnivore is nowadays being fed on corn to prevent [...]
Thesis: The poem is about the wanderings of the ancient mariner who is permanently traumatized and alienated by his killing of the albatross and his experiences lead him to the spiritual realization that all creatures [...]
The lives of the Mother and daughter can be interpreted in terms of a river that has fully developed from the formation to the old stage.
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.
By the very act of passing over a indication of an event in American history, the story draws attention to it"."Rip returns to find people talking of the heroes of the late war, the new [...]
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.
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".
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 [...]
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 [...]
In this speech alone we see Mercutio in direct opposition to all of the characters in Romeo and Juliet while at the same time we are provided an alternate point of view to the ideals [...]
Giovanni Guasconti is the young man who comes to Padua to study and falls in love with the girl and the garden he sees from the window of his apartment.
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 [...]
However, the existence of the canary is itself a mystery as no one can guarantee that anyone has actually seen the bird at all. The canary is a metaphor by itself, and it symbolized the [...]
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 [...]
But it is his marriage to Hera that made a great impact in the continuance of the Greek myth. In Greek mythology, Hebe is the personification of youth and immortality.
The formality in the frame stories throughout The Thousand nights and a one uses is due to many causes: the strength of convention, the narrative function of most of the stories, the element of doctrine [...]
The Book of Job is part of the Old Testament portion of the Christian Bible and an integral part of the Hebrew Bible the sacred set of books used by Jews.
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.
It seems the love he contains in his heart is not enough for him to forgive and forget what has happened.
As an outcome, it appears that though it is a century of the highest technologies and the story set is way far in the future, the main values remain the same.
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 [...]
The sea fell to Poseidon, the underworld to Hades, and Zeus became Lord of the Sky. Being the wife of Zeus and Queen of Olympus, Hera was powerful, but she exercised her power in subtle [...]
In some ways, Alice resembles the ideal female character of the period, but there are also several ways in which she breaks the mold, such as in her willingness to assert herself and her ability [...]
By naming his play Fences, the plural form of the word even though only a single physical fence is evident in the play, August Wilson brings attention to the symbolism of the fence itself as [...]
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 [...]
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.
To emphasize the difference between the characters' political views the author chooses the country's portrayal through insider and outsider perspectives, on the one hand, showing the evocations of those who remained in Cuba and, on [...]
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.
She broke into the issue as a youthful woman in the 1860s with "Life in the Iron Mills," which established her as one of the founders of American Realism.
The tone of the poet is of despair and melancholy as he feels that the human life is tormented with miseries, and nature is incapable of offering any solution to man's problems.
These assessments are made based upon the appearances of others, such as in her identification of the cotton print dress that is recognizable to Mrs. Through imagery and setting, O'Connor is successful in heavily lacing [...]
The Renaissance in Italy was a time in which historians and writers were most active, sparking a new wave of literacy in the Italian world, said to be the father of Renaissance Europe.