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Arabic Literature: Qismati and Nasibi

Mahfouz short stories titled Qismati and Nasibi, a short story about two conjoined twins who have to deal with the challenges that have arisen due to their situation and also face deal with the discrimination [...]
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  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1657

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

Christian Pacifism in the Modern World

At a personal level in the life of a Christian, engaging in war or acts of violence in order to resolve emerging conflicts is not part of the biblical doctrine.
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 941

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

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

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

The White Noise by Don DeLillo

In this case, the visit to the supermarket reveals Jack's true nature as an American who is proud of his way of life, and the satisfaction he feels after buying goods from the supermarket.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 1527

Orientalism in Ozymandias and Alastor: When Exotics Meets Wisdom

The Asian world has always been a mystery for the Western civilization; the former lives according its own laws which the European culture conceive completely, envisions the world, its origins and the way its elements [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1344

The Book of Revelation and the “Pearl” Poem

It is possible to trace several parallels between the poem and the Book of Revelation: numerical symbolism, the idea of people's resignation and the idea of revelation.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1126

The Impact of Friendship in the Epic of Gilgamesh

The elusive coalition between Enkidu and Gilgamesh, their fateful destinies and eventual epiphanies broaden the societal apprehension of the elements/value of friendship as expounded in the next discussion.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1131

The Structure of a Literary Work Shapes Its Meaning

Henry James in his work "The Art of Fiction" and Joseph Conrad in his "The Task of the Artist" touched upon the problem of measuring the aesthetic value of a work of fiction by certain [...]
  • Subjects: Dramatical Novel
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1360

Review of Kim by Rudyard Kipling

The novel Kim tells the story of a young orphaned Irish boy, Kim, living in the streets of Lahore in India during the British occupation of the country.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1642

Finding Identity: “Kim” by Rudyard Kipling

Through writing his book, the author reveals his attitude towards the British government and at the same time gives a detailed description of the human nature including the characteristics of a spy.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1640

‘Brother I’m Dying’

The main theme in her book highlights the lives of families of Haitians in the US. She believes the impact of the US stay is the cause of constant devastations and rebuilding, self governance and [...]
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  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1146

Analysis of the Solitary Reaper

The first stanza of the song heaps a lot of praises on the girl's beauty and the extent of loneliness she is in.
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  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 809

Ontological Difficulties in Literary Works

A difficulty in literary criticism in negative terms refers to an element of writing that points to or indicative of a rift between a poet or an author and the reader.
  • Subjects: Dramatical Novel
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1408

Of Mice and Men

Based on this it can be seen that the cycle of oppression and insecurity seen in society is in fact reflected in the novel itself where the author attempts to create a microcosm of the [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2149

Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market”

Laura like a good loving sister knowing too well the consequences that would befell one if he or she ate the forbidden fruits of the goblin men following the death of a girl from their [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1183

Charlotte Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper: Themes & Symbols

The fact that the patient is the physician's wife ought to portray a picture of mutual agreements and understandings rather than subjecting one's decision to the other with a reason for care and protection.
  • Subjects: American Novels Writing Style
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 861

Theodore Roethke and Sylvia Plath

Both poets suffered from depression that influenced the themes of poems in Praise to the End by Theodore and Ariel by Sylvia.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 668

Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown”: Cynicism or Meliorism?

Miller in "Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown: Cynicism or Meliorism" states that critics have shared the feeling that Hawthorne's story intends to express the move from the relationship between God and man that is brokered through [...]
  • Subjects: American Novels Writing Style
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 546

Children’s Literature for Literacy

Children literature deserves lots of attention; it provides the reader with an opportunity to investigate the worlds of different people, analyze oneself, and comprehend each piece of information because of such features as a friendly [...]
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1022

Song Dynasty and Two Poems for Analysis

It is possible to give different questions, and in my opinion, the idea to united water and the issue of death is one of the most brilliant steps in this poem. It is possible to [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1397

“Araby” by James Joyce

The description of the city shows that there was romance all over and even the cold in the city could not hold the love for her back.
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  • Subjects: Romantic Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 564

What Can Lawyers Learn From ‘Othello’?

Shakespeare has employed one of the literature elements by using major characters like, Othello, a hero and the head of armies, Desdemona, Othello's covert wife, Michael Cassio, Othello's deputy, Lago, ranked below the lieutenant, among [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 692

Ethics as a Theme in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

From the novel, it is evident that humans drove the monster into a state of madness when they subjected it to hatred and rejection, and thus the monster's madness emerged due to the treatment it [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 908

Babylon Revisited & The Great Gatsby: Motifs & Themes

When he pleads his case to the guardians of Honoria, his sister-in-law Marion, and her husband, he continually evades his escapades of the past and recounts his hard work and sincerity of the present.
  • Subjects: Dramatical Novel
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1319

The Cherry Orchard: Response

Firs, as one of the main characters depicts various stages of the play's development, his fate is associated with the fate of the orchard and the attitude of people to his is almost the same [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 817

An Occurrence at Owl Creek

The author uniquely uses the nature of time to narrate a story from a present time to that of the past.
  • Subjects: American Novels Writing Style
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 583

Book Report: Who moved my cheese?

Symbolism relating to the maze and the cheese in the story is what helps the author to present his message in the entire book.
  • Subjects: American Novels Writing Style
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 559

The Gift of the Magi

Given the fact that, as it was implied earlier, ever since it was first published in 1906, The Gift of the Magi never ceased appealing to readers, we can well assume that the themes and [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1649

Shakespeare’s Sir John Falstaff

The aim of this essay is to characterize the place of the figure of Falstaff in the works of William Shakespeare.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 547

Twelve Years a Slave

He is the son of Mintus, who was a slave under the Northup family. The initial chapters of this publication discuss the history of the Northup's and the author's marriage to Anne.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 863

“Isis in Darkness” by Margaret Atwood

The eternal love between the gods and the characters from the story can be seen as the source of light, it is considered the most important part of the world.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 585

The Role of Women in Frankenstein

This shows that the woman presented to us has a strong character that enables her to deal with the enormous loss in her life.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 884

Shared Identity: Fostering a Strong Nationality

Through a shared language people form an identity, and in a country they feel a sense of nationalism. Therefore, the quest for a shared identity can become a source of strife and division in a [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 605

Concept of Representation of Marriage

According to Louise, her marriage is fulfilling, yet emotionally, she is in a cage of inherent oppression. Moreover, Bertha alludes to the fact that she has never loved her husband in the romantic way except [...]
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  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1113

Initiation Themes in Literature Works

Although she cannot explain the occurrence of the initiation, she acknowledges that it is time for her to become mature and take up the role of a woman.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2159

The Platonic Conception of Eros

An important aspect to note when it comes to the issue of eros and the Greek interpretation of this kind of love is the contribution made by the Plato in ensuring the nature and meaning [...]
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  • Subjects: Mythology
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1089

Night by Elie Wiesel

The book notes that when the Jews were forced into the concentration camps, Elie and his family remained calm and obeyed every directive from their oppressors. The author attributed the enmity among the Jews to [...]
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  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1089

Fifty Shades of Grey

Without their knowledge, the meeting between Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey marks the beginning of a relationship that is the center of attraction in the book by EL James.
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1487

“Joyas Voladoras” by Brian Doyle

The head of the family is the father, the head of the pack is the leader, and its offsprings are also the members of the pack.
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1194

A&P and Hills Like White Elephants

One can say that the first-person narration helps the writer to illustrate the conflicting motives that drive the behavior of the protagonist.
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 549

Penelope Is the Determining Moral Agent

She is thinking of her son and she knows that the only way to save the house and even to save her son's life is to betray her love and "quit" the house of her [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 621

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

In the real sense, it is at the Green Knight's abode that Gawain rests on his way to the chapel. This causes Gawain to flinch and he is reprimanded by the knight for that action.
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  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1082

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

“America Wasteland” a Book by Jonathan Bloom

The first line in the book is a claim that the amount of food wasted by Americans in a single day can fill the Rose Bowl stadium. Towards the end of the book, the author [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 833

Voltaire: “Candide” Conclusion

On the one hand, the characters realize that they only have their lives to control and it becomes apparent that they could attempt to make the best out of it.
  • Subjects: Dramatic Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 331

Everything Tastes Like Liquorice

The story opens as the man and the woman sit in the shade of the station cafe, discussing what to drink to cool them down from the oppressive heat.
  • Subjects: Aspects of American Novels
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 986

The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

The theme of multicultural is examined through the analysis of the Tale of Genji as well as the analysis of the theme through elaboration and analysis of four aspects from the tale.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1654

An explication of the Character “Hester”

This paper will explicate the character "Hester" by analyzing her characters as well as pointing out metaphors and similes pertaining to her in the novel. The author states that "Hester is like a big monster" [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 482

“Sula” and “Beloved” by Toni Morrison

Her mother goes to the extent of trying to starve herself to provide Beloved with what she wants. Nel accepts the fact that her friendship with Sula was the best thing that ever happened to [...]
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  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1689

Overview of World Literature

In Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Sign of the Four" and Anne McClintock's "The Lay of the Land: Genealogies of Imperialism" imperialism is defined in terms of femininity.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 606

Lost Star of Myth and Time

Walter Cruttenden is the author of the 340-page book, Lost Star of Myth and Time, which is a grand synthesis of the world history that occurred over the past 14000 years.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 822

Thought Response: The Saints and the Roughnecks

The society's view of the Saints and the Roughnecks is quite different. The basis for individual participation in criminal groups and the crime committed is a product of a learning environment.
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  • Subjects: Aspects of American Novels
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 596

The Night In Question By Tobias Wolff

While his family suffered, he enjoyed his life to the fullest and when he was confronted by his mother about the matter, he resulted to a confrontation denying the fact that he had a problem [...]
  • Subjects: Concepts in American Novels
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1586

“The Story of an Hour” a Story by Kate Chopin

As the reader goes through the story, one can clearly see the images of what is happening because of the detailed imagery depicted by the author in the story; it is these imageries that triggers [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 621

A Review of Kim by Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling's chef-d'oeuvre novel, "Kim", traces the life of an Irish orphan, Kim, who lives a near vagabond existence in the streets of India during the time of the conflict between the British and Russian [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1644

Edgar Allan Poe’s The Cask of Amontillado

Although the revelation of the character of Montressor was done indirectly, the fact that he was also the narrator of the story enabled readers to have access to his thoughts and feelings.
  • Subjects: Concepts in American Novels
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 591

Theme Analysis: The Grapes of Wrath

As a result, the novel portrays the issue of land ownership in California and America at large, the conflicts between the Haves and the Have-nots, people's reactions to injustices, and the strength of a woman.
  • Subjects: Concepts in American Novels
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1053

“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

Aristotelian Tragedy Definition

Aristotle stated that "Tragedy, then, is a representation of an action that is worth serious attention, complete in it, and of some amplitude; in language enriched by a variety of artistic devices appropriate to the [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 602

I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud Symbolism Essay

The title and the first stanza of the poem highlight the first symbol in the poem. Through the personification of the clouds, the speaker is able to express the extent or impact of his loneliness.
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  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 832

“The Pact” by Jodi Picoult

The three make their pact while in the high school concerning how they can find a way to a medical school to pursue their career in medicine.
  • Subjects: Concepts in American Novels
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1079

Jane Eyre: Novel vs. Film

Bronte's original story narrates Jane's story as an orphan who finds joy at the end of the story but Stevenson's film tells the story of Jane as a person who went through a lot of [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1354

Super, Sad, True Love Story

The author criticizes the twittering society by introducing the APPARAT as the possible progression of the current technology. Sarcasm in this book comes through lack of literary values in the way Lenny is devoted to [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 617