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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

The purpose of this essay is to provide a summary of the book, analyze the main characters and the central theme of the paper, and, finally, present a personal opinion about Fahrenheit 451.
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1103

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

Tennessee Williams: Characters in “The Glass Menagerie”

The first role is that of a character having memoirs that the play writes about. It is these double roles which underpin the tension in the play pulling between dramatic realism shown in the play [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 887

Mark Twain’s Creative Writing Process

The research focuses on Mark Twain's use of humor persuades the readers to finish the entire novel. Mark Twain.creatively wove the novels to bring the real life issue of racism to the readers.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1712

“In the Time of the Butterflies” by Julia Alvarez

She is committed to realize her dreams and goes to the law school in her adulthood. In the first chapter, she shows frustration in the leadership of the country and demonstrates her passion and vision [...]
  • Subjects: American Novels Influences
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 896

“I, Too” by Langston Hughes

He is considered one of the most influential agitators for change in the social order in the history of activism in America. The poem highlights the plight of the Negro in the USA.
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 569

“Ragged Dick” by Horatio Alger

As the young Dick strives in his street life, he is swallowed into the life of common ragamuffins in New York.
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  • Subjects: American Novels Influences
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 648

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

John Donne’s Sacred and Secular Love: Poetry Analysis

John Donne was an English writer widely known for being the most prominent member of the metaphysical poets."He affects the metaphysics, not only in his satires, but in his amorous verses, where nature only should [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1202

Science & Nature in Frankenstein & Blade Runner

A novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is a romantic work that reflects the consequences of "blind science" and human ambition, and Blade Runner by Ridley Scott depicts the industrialized society and world of the future [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 896

Novel Analysis: “War Trash” by Ha Jin

The author uses Yu Yuan to narrate the experience of POWs in the camps. However, Yu Yuan is informed by the doctor that he is among the POWs to be transferred to Koje Island where [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 12
  • Words: 3179

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

Sonnets 29 and 73 by Shakespeare

It will not be much of an exaggeration to suggest that the main theme, explored in the Sonnet 29, has to do with the sensation of frustration that people get to experience, after having realized [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1023

Burning: Poetry Explication

One of the details that attract the attention of the readers is that the writer does not following a specific musical pattern while writing this poem.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 585

“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

The Creation Myth in Different Cultures

To understand the significance of the creation story for different cultures and explore the particular features of the myth, it is necessary to focus on the Mesopotamian myth known as the Enuma Elish, on the [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1161

Faulkner and Material Culture

The essays give a deeper meaning between the things that Faulkner borrowed from the real world and merged with the things that he espoused in his way of life.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1098

The Downfall of Pentheus: The Clash of a Monarch and a God

Although it is traditionally considered that the key reason behind Pentheus's death was his denial of Dionysos as a god, it can also be argued that Pentheus's non-acceptance of Dionysos was only the factor, while [...]
  • Subjects: Mythology
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1138

The Enormous Radio

The short story gathered the attention of the public that made it to be among The Enormous Radio and Other Stories collections.
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  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 574

Literary Devices in The Book of Haggai

The main theme was on the importance of the temple of the Lord and the need for people to get at the task of rebuilding the temple.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1710

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

The check is on life insurance and is to be given to Lena due to the death of her husband. Wilter asks for the insurance money in order for him to work with it and [...]
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  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 843

Interpreter of Maladies

Das is not willing to acknowledge the fact that her marriage proved to be a complete failure, and she can be partly blamed for this outcome.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1082

Christianity in Frederick Douglass Narrative Story

This discussion is therefore inclusive of the role of Christianity which is represented in the narrative Frederick story in comparison of both representations by the slaveholders as well as the slaves themselves.
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  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1112

The Meaning and Impact of the Closing Book of The Odyssey

Critics such as William Merritt Sale argue that Homer's purpose in creating the mythic poem of The Odyssey was to represent the inherent struggle of the human condition when faced with the choice between the [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1878

Women and Freedom in “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin

She is best known for her recurrent theme on the status of women in societal affairs, the challenges and problems facing them as well as repression and gender bias."The story of an hour" is rhetorically [...]
  • Subjects: American Novels Writing Style
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 601

Depression due to Repression in The Yellow Wallpaper

By the end of the same century, the patriarchal view of women as 'natural born housewives' and the objects of men's sexual desire, had lost the remains of its former validity.
  • Subjects: American Novels Writing Style
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1817

How Language Can Be Used or Abused in Persuasion

Through this analysis, the techniques used by authors and speakers to control the effects of the message they are delivering, the pros and cons of these kinds of techniques, and the meaning of these messages [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1363

A&P by John Updike: Plot Summary

The aim of this essay is to summarize the plot of A&P by John Updike and to discuss the main idea of the novel.
  • Subjects: American Novels Writing Style
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 853

The play “Waiting for Godot”

The three questions that the theatre asks are: what the play is, why it is the way it is and what the characters learn during the play?
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 565

Zaabalawi is a symbol

Symbolism is used in this scene because the protagonist visited the Birgawi residence, a symbol that he is found in places of despair and ruin.
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  • Subjects: World Philosophy Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 644

Robert Frost’s Fear Poetry

In Sheehy's article, Lawrence Thompson notes that the ultimate problem of Frost biographer is to see if the biographer can be enough of a psychologist to get far enough back into the formative years of [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1350

Analysis “The Bear” by Galway Kinnell

When the hunter says that he is aware of the bear and knows how the bear smells, means that he is extremely familiar with the hunting and especially, bears, as the unique scent is characteristic [...]
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  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 842

The Mystic River Analysis

The title of the book refers to the river in which bodies and murder weapons are dumped. One of the main themes of this book is the connection between the past and the present.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1109

“I Beg You Brother: Do Not Die” by Yosano Akiko

Through the persona's address to the brother, the poet manages to illustrate the paradoxical nature of violence, both sudden and slow mental effects on the persona, and the immediate people close to the brother.
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  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1457

Feminism in The Yellow Wallpaper

In an attempt to free her, she rips apart the wallpaper and locks herself in the bedroom. The husband locks her wife in a room because of his beliefs that she needed a rest break.
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  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 890

Adulthood in Updike’s A&P

It is therefore likely that Sammy made the decision to quit his job so as to get the girls' attention. When the reader is first introduced to Sammy, it is apparent that he is the [...]
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 870

Sophocle and Aristotle

For an individual to achieve the qualities of a tragic hero, his or her actions must be consistent. The qualities of a tragic hero are similar to the qualities exhibited by Oedipus.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1371

The Peculiarities of Victor Sejour’s “The Mulatto”

During a long period of time the institute of slavery in such country as the United States of America was considered as the main controversial issue which influenced the social, economical, and political development of [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 827

Land of Desire by William Leach

Leach is convincing in the justification of his main thesis: the businesspeople of the age took advantage of the changing social and economic patterns to change people's perception of the ideal life away from an [...]
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 861

Comparing and Contrasting Good and Evil

The essay is a critical examination of how evil and good are portrayed in two literatures; Shakespeare's The Tempest and Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher.
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  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1817

Literary device explained through a poster

To complete the text contained in the poster, is the information on where the box can be obtained from, and it is wrapped above the plants in the box.
  • Subjects: Modernist Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 816

Greek/Roman Humanities: Epic of Gilgamesh and The Odyssey

The earliest works of fiction included the work of fiction the Epic of Gilgamesh that dates from the beginnings of civilization in Mesopotamia and Homer's Odyssey, greatest ancient works of literature attributed to Homer.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 920

William Faulkner Barn Burning

One the one hand, the sentence characterizes the inner state of a young boy, who seems to be frightened; on the other hand, it is obvious that a little boy understood the content of a [...]
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  • Subjects: Aspects of American Novels
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1616

Trying to Seize the Elusive Power: Ulvi Dogan

Is that the power of the true love that makes him act the way he does, teaching the young woman the way she can adapt to the European society, or is it his self-esteem that [...]
  • Subjects: Dramatic Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1445

Analysis of Job’s and Odysseus

The strong character traits of the main characters Odyssey and Job in the epic The Odyssey and The Story of Job help develop their plots from the beginning to the rise of conflict and their [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 822

Like a Winding Street and Long Black Song

The biggest conflict of racism and injustice in Long Black Song is when he is shoot by Silas shoots the white man as came to collect money for the gramophone.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 968

Comparison of “Two Kinds” and “Everyday Use”

The conflict between her new constructed culture and the tradition and culture that mama was brought up to know is an aftermath of the general mood of society after the effects of war and conflict [...]
  • Subjects: Historical Fiction Comparison
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 974

“The Tale of Kieu” by Nguyen Du

Through images of the minor characters, the author reveals the essence of the philosophical notion "virtue" and its peculiarity in Eastern culture, the role it played in the destiny of the poet himself.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 933

War and Nature in Literature

At war time, pleasure is derived from the anguish and agony that is directed to the enemy as stated in Wilfred Owen's poem.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1048

Ralph Ellison’s “Battle Royal”

The white man is willing to let the black man in to his space but not to benefit the black man but to humiliate him.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 743

The Function of the Soliloquies in Hamlet

This happens when it influences the plot, the characterization in the play, and the play's mood, on top of expressing themes that could be termed to be the main themes.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2055

“Utopia” by Thomas More

The name of the utopian land is the Green Spit; its inhabitants refer to it simply as "The Spit". Most people in Barrel work at forestry, maintaining the rainforests, or zoology, looking after the animals [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 836

Passing through nature into eternity

Again, the calmness of the voice and the soothing quality of the language underscores Dickinson's view of death as a pleasurable, desirable state.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 11
  • Words: 2900

The Emperor of Ice Cream

In the mentioned stanza the action takes place in the kitchen of the deceased woman for the purpose of depicting her concupiscent way of life by means of the presence of muscular man preparing an [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 539

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the “Hamlet”

Hamlet is a son to the former King and a nephew to the current King Claudius These two characters seem indispensable throughout and serve as informants of Claudius. In the play, they fit in as [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 276

Ulysses by James Joyce

The encyclopaedic narrative does not lead to a climax in a story like the way the narrative style does to give a lesson or meaning of the story.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1407

Should the Obama Generation Drop Out? by Charles Murray

Although Murray emphasizes an importance of the reforms of the educational system, the information in his essay provides the description of the inability of many students to deal with college-level material and incapability to pay [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 834

Chronicles of Narnia: Christian Themes Analysis

In Lewis's book the chronicles of Narnia, there are several Christian themes that can be identified in the story despite the author's use of mythology.
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  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1207

Edgar Allan Poe’s Life, Poems, Short Stories

The recognition of his works is based mainly on the uniqueness of the themes and characters the author created, as well as his excellent command of the language and exceptional imagery and style.
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1159

Symbols of Struggle and Change in Toni Morrison’s Sula Novel

Thus, the symbols of the birthmark, the tunnel, and the birds are linked to the theme of disillusionment, struggle, and change in the mood of black people who face discrimination and want to struggle for [...]
  • Subjects: Aspects of American Novels
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 742