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Autobiography in “Song of Rita” by Rita Joe

Rita uses the poems to outline her main challenges, which are reminiscent of the challenges, which faced aboriginals of her time. Rita uses the book to show her patience in an abusive marriage which she [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 574

Relationships in The Epic of Gilgamesh

In the story of Gilgamesh, Enkidu helps the wild animals to escape traps set by people. In Catullus, the narrator shows that toiling in further lands to gain profit is worthless if it is not [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 617

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

In its turn, this allows us to refer to The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa as a book of not only a great literary, but also a philosophical value, [...]
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1509

Oedipus King vs. Macbeth: Drama Comparison

The concept reflects the foundation of the decent authority through showing the tendencies of power both in the ancient times and in the period of Renaissance.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1665

African-American Humor as a Reflection of Change

The purpose of this article is to show that humor has been employed by the African-American population as a tool of diminishing the stereotypes that get in their way towards the realization of equal privileges [...]
  • Subjects: Concepts in American Novels
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1415

Stylistics of Frankenstein by Mary Shelly

The name of the main character of the novel, who has created the living monster from the insentient substance, became a special sign that in a course of time widened its meaning.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 556

Joseph Conrad’s Novel “Heart of Darkness”

In the Congo, he is clearly not in favor of the Africans but as a portrayal of how Africans needed the whites to salvage them from the darkness they were living in.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1675

“Perfection Is an Insult to the Gods” by Tracy Kidder

Frequently, the techniques of creative writing are applicable to work of nonfiction" Kidder is trying to convey the main idea of the life of the people who are far from being refined and well-mannered, that [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1025

Feminist Critique of Jean Racine’s “Phedre”

Racine view Phedre as in a trap by the anger of gods and her destiny due to the unlawful and jealous passion that resulted into the deaths of Hippolytus and Oenone.
  • Subjects: Gender in Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1467

‘Burger Boy’ by Jerry Newman

The policy of the management to make the current workers in charge of assignments that were usually not their responsibility had led to the dissatisfaction with the service not only of the clients but of [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1146

Literature as a Protest: The Lottery and The Crucible

Thus, in the case of "the lottery" it can be seen that it is a form of protest against the practice of blindly following "tradition" without taking into consideration the full logic of the actions [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 570

Medea and Antigone: Literature Comparison

However, in spite of the fact that the motivations of Medea and Antigone are considered to be the same, they choose different actions.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1127

Alice Walker and Patricia Smith Works: Literature Comparison

Every society that is characterized by a mixture of racial interfaces is prone to a level of conflict that usually arises when some of the characters in the society esteem themselves as superior by virtue [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2539

“Brides of the Well” a Short Story by Shekhar Kapur

The theme of the short story is hope as the two young girls pertaining to a lower caste hope that their sorrows will end and "the High Caste God's would deliver them a different destiny".
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 580

Major Themes of the Play “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell

They were the decision-makers in the family and in the political platform since women were still not allowed to vote and be represented in the political arena.Mrs. Wright is the symbol of the suffering the [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 630

Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis”: Social Aspects

When Gregor turns into the creature, he does not care about that in the slightest; on the other hand, he cannot reconcile himself with the fact that he will miss his train and will not [...]
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  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1234

Taming One’s Id in Yann Martel’s “Life of Pi”

The novel Life of Pi by Yann Martel is a captivating chef-d'oeuvre that features three main parts, which follow the life of Pi and a tiger that is referred to as Richard Parker.
  • Subjects: Dramatical Novel
  • Pages: 20
  • Words: 5587

Robin Hood and His Organisation’ Issues

The organisation is running out of funds because the clients, viz.the wealthy travellers, have started avoiding the Sherwood Forest after learning of the existence of Merrie Men. Therefore, Robin faces the threat of the Sheriff [...]
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  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1198

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

Life-Challenges in “The Joy Luck Club” by Amy Tan

Thus, Wu Xing implies that the universe's building blocks exist in the state of circumstantial uncertainty depending on what happened to be the qualitative features of how one of the elements relates to the other, [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 12
  • Words: 3328

The Prince’ by Niccolo Machiavelli Literature Analysis

Since he was highly educated and well-travelled, Machiavelli was made the senior official of the Florence government serving as the head of the second chancery and secretary to the council of the Ten for War.
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  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1697

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

“Sweat” by Zora Neale Hurston Literature Analysis

The prevailing concept of this period was the progression of African-American civil rights through the establishment of an interest group that was basically created by the artistic and literary movement.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1742

The Poetry on the Topic of Slavery

There was the belief that some people were born to be free while the rest of the world should serve them, being just slaves, deprived of any rights and is doomed to spend the rest [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1119

Claude McKay’s Poem ‘If We Must Die’

If this poem were to be viewed as a reaction to the race riots of 1919, the "hogs" could be likened to African Americans, which hints at the "beasts" they were innately believed to be.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1407

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

Sartre's thesis is in that essay is that the non-chronological narrative in the Sound and Fury is not merely a matter of style or aesthetic preferences but the fundamental elements of the novel's content.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1166

Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse

The autobiographical information of the author provides that the title of the novel was based on the abandoned wolf of the steppes.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 811

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

Literature Symbols in “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe

In spite of the fact that there are many symbols of different types in Poe's "The Raven", such symbols of darkness and depression as December, the raven, the Night's Plutonian shore, and the repetition of [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1122

“Educating Rita” by Willy Russell: Literature Analysis

The author presents a solution to this question by demonstrating through the main character, Rita, that education can upgrade the diminished position and status of women in society. Education is Rita's expedition of self-realization to [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 840

The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud

The first sign is his negation of the traditional for the man of his destiny title rabbi in his first dialogue with Salzman.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1160

“A Passage to India” by Edward Forster

The other characteristic about the presentation of the setting is that the author uses symbols to direct the leader to the theme of the story and the meanings.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 12
  • Words: 3318

“One is not Born a Woman” by Monique Wittig

This is one of the main problems that should be considered since it can throw light on the identity of many women. This is one of the main points that can be made.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 827

Winston Smith: The Issue of Heroism by George Orwell

In spite of the fact, Winston is inclined to rebel against the authorities and regime, his character cannot be discussed as heroic because Winston's will is weak, his fears are stronger than his intentions, and [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 545

Loneliness & Isolation in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

In addition to making him and his creature be isolated, Viktor does not accept the idea of duty and responsibility for his actions because of his inability to understand what it means to be responsible [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 600

George Orwell’s Novel 1984

The world is involved in an endless war, and the political regime called Ingsoc and headed by a mystical Big Brother permanently looks for ways to control the citizens' minds and private lives.
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  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1086

The Bluest Eye by Tony Morrison

Tony Morrison is the author of the novel titled The Bluest Eye, which presents an overview of an African-American girl's life and the challenges she encountered.
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1104

Much Ado About Nothing by Shakespeare

Claudio is desperate and agrees to marry a woman who is supposed to look like Hero and is the daughter of Leonato's brother. Hero and Claudio's storyline is also dedicated to the theme of love.
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1126

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

Finny liked to jump from a tree into the nearby river and encouraged Gene to do the same even though he was scared of it.
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  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1229

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

The rest of the family is forced to go on, as the police suddenly begin to chase them. Tom understands that it is dangerous for him to stay there, and the work is over.
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1185

Samuel Beckett’s “Endgame”

The phrase emphasizing on the age of the sheets is repeated to reinforce a negative attitude about the room. However, in the play the sun does not fall representing the destruction of hope in the [...]
  • Subjects: American Novels Influences
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 828

Too Many Crooks by Donald Edwin Westlake

Truly, after scrutinizing the blueprints that they can find thoroughly, they learn that one among the walls of the tunnel is erected right where the vault of the bank is situated.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 882

“The Hour of the Star” by Claris Lispector

But he is jolted by the coming of Macabea into his life and he is suddenly preoccupied with her obvious otherness, and because of her, the meaning of being, the existence of God and the [...]
  • Subjects: Dramatic Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 580

Imagery Use in “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe

The story utilizes graphical language and imagery in the development of a sense of deceptive and persuasive nature and circumstances in the expansion of the symbolic approach of sustaining a condition of suspense. The imagery [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 874

Gender and Sexuality in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando

Using the book, the paper will support the argument that it is inaccurate to bind gender and sexuality. Orlando continues to break the convention of sex and gender and find her place as a woman [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1903

Are the Witches Responsible for Duncan’s Death?

For example, Banquo was given good news by the witches about the likelihood of his children becoming kings and yet he did not rush to murder as it's in the Macbeth's case.
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  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 598

Imperialism and Racism in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

He lauds "the book's anti-imperialist theme...a stinging indictment of the callous and genocidal treatment of the Africans, and other nationals, at the hands of the British and the European imperial powers," and also details the [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2398

The Poetry of Anne Bradstreet

In addition, the application of humility in her poetry serves as a justification of her career as a female writer, considering that women were not thought as capable of be successful in poetry. As such, [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1528

‘The Jungle Book’ by Kipling

The unstable Indian leadership in the Old India A key issue that characterized the prehistoric Indians, according to the perceptions of Kipling, was the absence of a formal leadership in the lifestyle of the Indians.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 16
  • Words: 4491

Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy

4 The political wrangles permeated the Empires, the Kingdoms, and the Italian States, when the French crown and the Roman Catholic political leaders disagreed on the location of the pope offices.
  • Subjects: Dramatic Literature
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2845

Problem of Racial Slurs in Australia

In fact, the impact of the social factors on the evolution of the pejorative terms, which the residents of Australia use in order to insult the indigenous inhabitants of the state, is evident; the significance [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 13
  • Words: 3585

Church Going

The poem is an exposition of the erosion of the old beliefs of the religious institution delimited by the church. The narrator is contemptuous of the habit of visiting churches and derides the various instruments [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1396

Greek Tale: Greek Tale and the Trojan War

Apollo is the son of the mighty Zeus and Leto. The strained relationship between Apollo and his father was to continue until Zeus turned Apollo's son into a constellation of stars.
  • Subjects: Mythology
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1121

Green Grass, Running Water by Thomas King

So, Alberta is considered to be the so-called symbolic character, as she is a reflection of all complicated issues in the novel.
  • Subjects: American Novels Influences
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 835

Much Ado About Nothing

By focusing on relationships, the author of the play highlights the impact of deception to unity, love and happiness. Due to the constant practice of deceit among the characters, Claudio believes that Don Pedro is [...]
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  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1150

The Analysis of the passage from Sartre’s Nausea

One should note that Antoine Roquentin, who is the main character, is obsessed with the search of the meaning that the surrounding world should have. This is one of the main issues that Sartre examines [...]
  • Subjects: World Philosophy Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 562

Anne Bradstreet’s Approach to Exhibiting Gender

Emphasizing the gender of Earth, Bradstreet seems to divide the roles between the Creator as the Father of the world and the Earth as the Mother of the natural life in the world.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2246

Book Analysis: Time Machine by Wells

Focusing on social and economic aspects of the narration is essential because it allows the reader to conduct a comparative analysis of Wells's perception of the future with the current economic and social situation.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 836

Heroism in Beowulf

He was welcoming and showed this feature by accepting Beowulf's assistance and aiding in the development of Beowulf into maturity, as indicated in the first section of the narrative.
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  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2862

On Violence by Hannah Arendt

In the book, Hannah put forth a number of arguments in analyzing the issue of violence in the second part of the twentieth century.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 837

Little Briar Rose by the Grimm Brothers

The story was represented at the beginning of the eighteen century, the time when the traditions and societal values were of paramount importance and, therefore, the ideal of a person is the one endowed with [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 568

Two Kinds (1989)

She did not care what the outcome for her bad performance could be, hers was to do it for her parents; she was not part of it.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 905

The peculiarities of Karim Amir’s identity

It can seem that Karim does not proud of the fact that he was born and brought up as the Englishmen, but the development of the situation supports the progress of the inner conflict because [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 15
  • Words: 4124

The Adventures of Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins

In the tradition of hardboiled detective fiction, the character Easy Rawlins is clearly the same as that of Raymond Chandler and Ross MacDonald's characters but Rawlins differs from these earlier fictional detectives because at the [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1793

Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher”

In "The Fall of the House of Usher", Poe portrays the Usher family as struggling to survive albeit in a gloomy manner that involves degradation, disease, and death."The Fall of the House of Usher" is [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1077

“Guests of the Sheikh” by Elizabeth Wernick Fernea

The author explains the meanings of different events and rituals conducted by members of the El Eshadda tribe in order to get rid of ambiguities that inform the western ideologies regarding the culture of the [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1941

Elizabethan View of Machiavelli as ‘Evil’

Arguably, the sociopolitical and religious system of governance in Britain at the time was threatened by Machiavelli's Ideas of freedom from religious dictatorship and injustice in the society.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 837

The Ethicality of an Action Jay Gatsby

As well, an action is "wrong" if it results in the opposite of happiness to the people. Mill's utilitarian theory can be used to assess the ethically of Jay Gatsby's action, as presented in the [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 833

Voltaire’s Attitude toward Religion

Hence, Voltaire notes that it is ignorance to die and support wars for the sake of a benevolent god because wars are only dangerous to society and individuals.
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  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 581

“World on Fire” by Amy Chua

In the book, Amy Chua discusses the phenomenon of "market dominant minorities, which are believed to be the Jews in Russia, whites in Zimbabwe, Indians in Fiji and East Africa, and the Chinese community in [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2198

Odysseus as Husband

Being a good father and an excellent husband, Odysseus did everything he could to return home, however, there were a number of barriers, however, having returned home Odysseus killed all people who wanted evil to [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1895

“Lord of the Flies” by William Golding

The reader will wonder that all the boys respond in the same manner to the sound of the blown shell. The author uses aesthetics to drive emotions out of the reader about the value of [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2081

The Travel of Sir John Mandeville

Despite the fact that the narration does not contain any information about the author, it still manages to convey the world reminding of the remarkable journeys of Christopher Columbus, Jonathan Swift, and Sir Thomas More. [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 540