Alerts like this had been risen in this town early each morning for quite several days that had passed because at that time the B-29s were engaging in the utilization of Lake Biwa which is [...]
The play is narrated by two voices, the voice of the blind Captain Cat as they all inform the audience of the dreams and lives of people from a small town as viewed by the [...]
This illustrates that the author of the poem - who is a woman - does not know who she is and looks to external sources to define her.
The concept of his role is to highlight the fact that it's never too late to do what you have always wanted to do.
In this particular part of the series of plays he wrote on the history surrounding Henry IV, Shakespeare introduces the audience to the Henry IV as a King who has acquired the throne through unjust [...]
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.
The first chapter of the work is devoted to the description of the narrator's first impression of military Spain and his entering the POUM unit.
It can be seen from the book that, the Qianlong Emperor's involvement of these cases with the matters of dissent and agitation, resulted to the extreme utilization of imperial authority to act against these cases.
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 [...]
Oedipus consults the servant who was sent to abandon him as a child and it is revealed that he was the child of Laius and Jocasta.
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 [...]
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 [...]
Alongside tourism essays and reviews, with fast developing of technologies and telecommunication, a lot of TV and radio programmes are intended to present the information about the world's countries pointing out the advantages and disadvantages [...]
The objective of this paper is to address a brief cultural historical context as it provides a history of the country that the stories take place.
Although this could be a great sense of enthusiasm and optimism in achieving a goal, Ralph goes into this with the aim of getting a lot of money in a short period of time.
The agony and the ecstasy is the work of Irving Stone who is an American author. The cardinal instead fails to suggest a specific topic for his work and even after months of waiting for [...]
The characters of the story are linked to the political scene of the mauve decade. The explanation was based on Baum's experience in the field of journalism before the publication of the wizard of OZ.
Donne's poems, especially religious ones, reveal the struggle in the mind of English people during the 16th and 17th centuries, before taking orders in the Anglican Church.
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 [...]
The book under consideration in this paper, "Mountain Windsong: A novel of the trail of tears" by Robert Conley depicts the events of those times showing the tragedy of the Indian people of the Cherokee [...]
Literature is one of the art forms invented by the humanity to reflect the phenomena of the objective reality. As contrasted to Twain's work, "The Law of Life" by London is a depiction of positive [...]
Like her Southern contemporaries, the South is the setting for O'Connor's text, the issue of race looms in the background, and her characters are typically morally flawed and/or grotesque."...anything that comes out of the South" [...]
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.
The book Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army by Catherine Merridale is an attempt to investigate the destinies of ordinary people, who served in the Red Army, in the course of the [...]
The conclusion of this paper can be formulated as follows - in their stories, both: Kafka and Marquez strived to present readers with a three-dimensional clue on particularities of their characters' behavior.
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 [...]
The most significant parts in the book, as for me, is the description of the acquaintance with T-34, the best tank of the World War II, and the parts, when Karl tells about the books, [...]
While reading the first person narrative essay of Jane Goodall entitled "A Plea For The Chimpanzees", I came to the realization that Chimpanzees are so much like human beings that it is unfair to continue [...]
This paper aims to compare and contrast the last canto of the Inferno and the last canto of the Paradise. In fact, the entire poem is written in this way and Dante is believed to [...]
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, [...]
For example, in his article "Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day", Jack Slay suggests that it was namely due to Stevens' emotional coldness that the novel's main character had found himself unable to pursue a [...]
The author used the principles of baptismal practices in the punishment description; this fact is connected with religious virtues and symbols Dante strived to illustrate; the depiction of the Satan appeared to be centralized in [...]
In his novella The Man Who Was Almost a Man Richard Wright tells the story of a seventeen-year-old African-American adolescent, Dave Saunders, who has a strong desire to buy a gun to prove to everyone [...]
The thing that impressed me most of all about the short story is the overall impression of doom and guilt, which is created with the help of the details, that may seem unimportant at first [...]
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.
Tannen uses the traditional elements of the analytical writing that involve problem statement, illustration of the case and solutions to the problem.
In this respect, it is of paramount importance for us to mention the symbol of the beast, or some sort of threat.
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.
Dante shows the growing toward Christianity of the world population by means of Statius; he stressed that religion was perceived without any political power in the center of it, describing "the corruption of church and [...]
Frederick Douglass is the writer of the slavery origin, who managed to get an education and to tell the whole world about the life of slaves, about their suffering and abjection, which they have to [...]
Despite the fact that formally speaking, Robert Sheckley's short story "The Native Problem" belongs to the genre of science fiction, its clearly defined satirical overtones, associated with the notion of "White men's burden", point out [...]
In Homer's Odyssey, the noble nature of the hero is made clear in the way that his servants speak of him and strive to behave as he would expect.
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 [...]
The novel illustrates the concept of the relationship between the authoritative and internally persuasive difference between the white society and the black community.
This discussion will look at pre-Islamic poetry, its history, some of the famous people who were skilled at the art of oral poetry, analyze the poetry, oral poetry competitions used in the city of Medina, [...]
Although there does not seem to be much of the original materials, practices or meaning of the lottery available to the reader, the degree to which people have become slaves to tradition is emphasized in [...]
The story begins when the narrator, Amir, is supposedly 38 years old, and the tale he tells is essentially a flashback over the events of his life that have brought him to this point.
Poems about love are the most influential, reading them you feel as if also in love and your heart may be filled with warm feelings."The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" is the poem by Christopher [...]
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.
It was also Poe, as the master of the form, who illustrated the tremendous degree to which symbols might be employed in the telling of a story to heighten the intended effect of the author.
Afghanistan has not produced a lot of books in the past and it was an achievement for Khlaed Hosseini to be able to come up with a best seller in a western setting.
After the outbreak of the war, Polyxena was captured by the Greek soldiers and soon she was given to Achilles, the murderer of her brothers.
The presence of the narrator of story is questionable at the initial and final stage of story while in the middle of story, the narrator vanishes suddenly e.g.the narrator's introductory story of Roth's life in [...]
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.
One of the strong points of the performance is the vocal quality; emotional, expressive and rhythmical pronunciation of the utterances transfers the mood of the actors to the audience.
I included it because it fits both his poetry and what he did for most of his working like: worked in the Houston Department of Corrections, beginning as a parole officer and retiring from the [...]
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.
In The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway reveals his conception of heroism not as a measure of the glory and recognition his character receives, but instead in the determination of the struggle.
In her novels Arabian Jazz and Crescent, the problem of remaking of identity of Arab Americans is depicted. It is important to mention that the problem of multiculturalism became a topical one in the end [...]
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 [...]
In the novel, we see April and Frank Wheeler as a youthful, presumably flourishing couple who lives a contented life with their two offspring in a well-to-do Connecticut neighborhood in the middle of the 1950s.
The Tralfamadorian subplot includes a vision of the end of the world and the perpetuation of war, but these seem distant threats compared with the miseries of battlefield.
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.
Anne tasted success with her book Interview with the Vampire in 1976 which was followed by The Feast of All Saints and Cry to Heaven.
After having lost his cat when a fire broke in his house, he felt a great need for another pet, same as that of Pluto, his pet cat."This, then, was the very creature of which [...]
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 [...]
A person who is hesitant to read can never be a good writer, hence I have understood this important thing and I have been working upon it for quite some time now.
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.
This statement will serve us as the main thesis for this paper, because in it, we will aim to prove that, even though Don Quixote and Orgon seem to be out of this world, it [...]
It was through the literature that much of this expression came to the attention of the rest of the nation, enabling it to have the tremendous impact it did on its own as well as [...]
The two characters have been introduced, and even been compared in the beginning of the series, with Sherlock Holmes being given the superiority of observation, and Dr.
In "The Short and Happy Life of Francis Macomber", Hemingway reveals his latent fear of strong women and being dominated as he depicts the story of a middle-aged man who is finally beginning to understand [...]
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.
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 [...]
The pain of death which the woman undergoes is not highlighted in the poem, on the contrary, it is the incessant buzz of the fly that is the center of attraction all throughout the poem, [...]
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.
Gary Paulsen's works are different from other novels designed to appeal to young adults because of his ability to celebrate the natural terrain and the interactions of the characters with nature. The identification with the [...]
Of course, we find out that he does not want to talk to Oedipus, since he knows that the source of the pestilence is the king.
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.
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.
Looking at the story from the point of view of Gender Criticism, it can be seen that the essence of the story is to reflect how badly women have been treated by men.
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.
In the book, Farmers and Fishermen: Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts 1630-1850 by Daniel Vickers, it is clear that getting workers or even slaves is hard due to the economic struggles."By reconstructing [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
People tend to think that the mother is the one who always worries about the children more while the father is believed to be the strongest member of the family who is not allowed to [...]
The scientific literature teaches us the rules of life, but most will not be met, and most knowledge will not be used in our everyday life. The balance of art literature and scientific one should [...]
He had made expeditions in Lithuania and in Russia, no knight of his degree so often; and many a time in Prussia he had sat at the head of the table alone all the knights [...]
The historical genre of the book was used by the author in order to mix legends with the real facts from the history of Great Britain.
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.
As she describes it, the reader gets the impression that this fish is quite ugly and undesirable. In the first line, the poet calls this fish "tremendous", and according to the experience of the reader, [...]
Important is the fact that the death is personified in the poem and has the role of the gentleman. The death is presented as a powerful element of the poem and of the narrator's life [...]
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 [...]
Marginal characters thus may be claimed to play a crucial role in literary work and in the first place of its conceptual realization.
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 [...]
Another problem tackles through the utilization of expressive means is the issue of gender in general and its social construction in particular.
The Handmaid's Tale is characterized as a feminist dystopia written in direct reaction to the growing political power of the American religious right in the 1980s.
In case of the abovementioned Swift's work it is the problem of poverty and other social problems of Ireland of the 18th century.
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 [...]
The slaying is the catalyst to a downward spiral of events. Montgomery is forced to kill several of the beasts in self-defense.
The following objects of the town get the author's description: the houses, the roads, the inhabitants, and the main one after which the town was called, the wall.
The reader is first introduced to Paul in the high school principal's office, and he is shown through the eyes of his teachers.
Two short stories were written by Chopin, A Story of One Hour and The Storm well as her brilliant novel Awakening should be regarded as one of the best examples of the feminist literature of [...]
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.
In the sky to the northeast of Shanghai, he searches for a flash that temporarily overpowers the dawn and overflows the stadium with a strange light.
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.
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.
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 [...]
The meanings in the glossary differed from those in the Through The Looking Glass, therefore, the translation read: "It was evening, and the smooth active badgers were scratching and boring holes in the hill-side, all [...]
The story focuses upon an unnamed narrator who struggles to find a sense of fulfillment in a world in which personal fulfillment is supposed to be accomplished through making the right purchases and having access [...]
I believe that the narrative style of the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer called Everything Is Illuminated is one of the main factors that determine the never ending interest of the readers towards the book.
Kaplan in her work Social Construction of American Realism has called realism a "strategy for imagining and managing the threats of social change".
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 [...]
It was written after the Restoration, but the powerful voice of the poet declared that the spirit of the Revolution was not broken, that it still lived in the hearts of the people.
The stark contrast between the harsh reality and the peaceful setting of the novel makes the realization of rejection particularly striking. The novel starts with a strong plot line unraveling the drama between Gabriel Oak [...]
Instead of the character of Genie that comes from the lamp, my story features the character of Fairy Ostara, who fulfills the desires of the magic stick's owners.
It is essential to mention Hume's criticism of theories supporting the influence of physical causes, which is indirectly linked to the philosopher's intention to explain the rise and progress of the arts.
The first dominant quality of nomadic narratives is the autobiographical nature of the story. In conclusion, the story is a nomadic narrative as it is told by a traveler describing his autobiography.
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".