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The judge goes to the extent of taking the boy's father in his own home to help him reform his drinking problem. The father then decides to visit the house of the widow during which [...]

The novel contains the following short stories: "Epstein," "The Conversion of the Jews," "You Ca not Tell a Man by the Song He Sings," "Defender of the Faith," and "Eli, the Fanatic".

It is important to note at this point that the book took a biographical view on how the three mentioned economists looked at the situations that faced them at the time they gave their views [...]

However, in the novel the experience of Billy is more of a lesson that tries to teach readers against war through the manner in which Billy is seen to perceive war.

The second chapter demonstrates the deliberate misrepresentation of the 15th century invasion of the Americas and the picture of the Europeans.

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.

When the state of the two characters is reconciled it leaves a sense of emptiness and the reader s left to ponder at the outcome of the story.

The title of the novel is derived from a statement that was being told to the Jews prisoners as they were directed to the gas chambers.

The inclusion of the novel in classroom studies in the early 1960s especially 1963, spurred criticisms due to the issues of contention addressed by the novel.

The discourse of otherness in the black literature demonstrates the alienation of the Black youth from the American way of life.

Hamlet is pretending to be mad and this pretense is the one that shapes the scene and the rest of the play.

A romantic legendry on the other hand deals with the love story of the legend, where in such a story, all the actions of the legendry done in the form of romance are all recorded.

There are four most remarkable ridiculous plot points in the story; they can be observed in the relationships between Masha and Kulygin, the situation when Irina philosophizes on the sense of life, the character of [...]

The main distinction of Oedipus from other characters of Greek plays is that he is not complex; most of his feelings and qualities lie on the surface and he is not afraid of displaying them.

Four types of love, eros, storge, phileo, and agape love, can be found in O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, of which storge love can be distinguished best of all, while eros is almost completely [...]

This paper will discuss the four characteristics that define McDonaldization of society according to Ritzer the author of the book "McDonaldization of Society".

One of the features of comedy of identity is the existent of a plot that is based on dialogue and not actions.

The core concept of revenge in Hamlet, Shakespeare's play, is the hesitation of the main character and his doubt moral and philosophical maxims in the whole world; the main idea of the play may be [...]

This paper will also look at the biographical information of the author Edward Abbey and its relation to The Best of Edward Abbey.

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 [...]

The essential element of the book is the creation of the mythical element of a magical world and the classical theme of a tension between two abstract concepts good and evil.

The typologies and archetypal elements utilized in the format of the narrative allot it the status of a myth. Nonetheless, the importance of such myths, stories created around the lives of divinity and heroes affords [...]

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.

According to the Greek creation story, there was an existence of a man known as Zeus who had children by the names Prometheus and Epimetheus.

The power of this image lies in the dual nature of the image: a long and painful process of drying and an eventual concentration of the sweetness.

Jason thought he stammers dreams and struggles to become a poet at a time when his parents are on the verge of separation.

The first experimental device applied by the author is borrowing of the biblical motives to render the historical events which serve as the basis of the novel.

Since the beginning of his speech, David Foster Wallace indicates that the speech is going to be informal and tries to break the ice between the audience and himself by using such words as "bullshitty" [...]

In fact, the only happy ending is found in the first part of the story where John and Mary live their life to the fullest.

The next work to be discussed is an ironical interpretation of the classical fairy-tale "The Beauty and the Beast" titled "The Courtship of Mr.

In "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" Hughes emphasized the dignity and sensitivity of the Negro, a theme he was to use throughout his career.

From the beginning of the story, the reader anticipates the happy ending especially when the author describes the meeting of Desiree and Armand Aubigny who had fallen in love with each other at the first [...]

The "discerning Eye" that sees through society's "Madness" is certainly the poet's and, implicitly, belongs to certain other naysayers as well."I felt a Funeral, in my Brain" articulates a state of consciousness that follows the [...]

The focal point of this paper is to present a symbolic criticism of the play "Fences" by August Wilson with a special emphasis on the significance of Gabriel in the play.

This is done through the construction of a plot in a way that a work of fiction appears as reality through the innovations and the creativity of the writer.

Following Tolle's advice, the readers may learn to recognize the inner voice of their ego and start to control it, to solve the problems with the self-identification, get rid of the masks and establish the [...]

The first and the most evident similarity of the works mentioned above is the authors' intent to rise above the earthly, primitive understanding of life and death and to show their personal perception of these [...]

We live in a time when the majority of citizens in Western countries think of the concept of cultural and scientific progress as something that is being objectively predetermined, in the historical context of this [...]

Hughes grandmother died when he was still in his early teens and he had to move in with his mother, who by that time hade got a new husband.

As a critical appraisal to the stories, "Young Goodman Brown", Cask of Amontillados" and "The Yellow Paper" will be used to expound on the statement that people are born having their identities As the story [...]

The author starts her narration with reminding about the Bonnard's painting, The Bathroom, and then keeps the line of matching the matters of art to the story of her mother's life and finding expressive analogies.

In his assertion, Brook refutes the possibility of creating a literary work of the Ming Dynasty especially concerning the economic chronological record of events.

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 usage of magic facilitates the understanding of the real world through its separation from illusive pictures. In his novel, the total deconstruction of political power is observed.

According to Dawley in class in community, wrote of the tremendous changes in the life of the shoemaker 'S" as the shoemaking industry moved from a cottage industry to the factory system.

He competes to the villain of the novel, U Po Kyin, for an entrance card to the Club. He was thinking of the plot in 1928 and the book was printed for the first time [...]

Both Glass Menagerie and Endgame resort to anti-realistic devices, such as play of words, linguistic gaps and silence, reduced mobility of the characters, detaching the audience attention from the objectivism of reality in order to [...]

Therefore, I propose to discuss and analyze in this paper, in light of Barthes's book Mythologies, his approach to bourgeois discourse and his understanding of myth as a language-object or meta-language."Myth is a type of [...]

In a good man is hard to find, the character called The Misfit questions the existence of God. This is a threat to the stability of this town.

In modern literature there are a lot works, which depict different cities and historical monuments, but Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino is an example of the works, which deal with the description of nonexistent cities.

Loewen states that these differences give the students the opportunity to analyze the facts themselves and find out the reasons of such differences."Then students are challenged to discuss events and processes in the past that [...]

Scout does not realize the severity of many of the events of the book as they are taking place, and as such she is an innocent.

On top of that, Rilke states that criticism should not interfere into the work of art, the embodiment of the author's life experiment, as it destroys the perception of the work of literature, nurtured by [...]

The Wretched of the Earth by Franz Fanon is the brightest example of such books. The Wretched of the Earth considers the occupied world from the point of view of the occupied people.

Considering the essence of art and literature, it is possible to say, that there is no objective reality in art, and even the most realistic description is in effect a look through the prism of [...]

The fact that something wrong and evil will form part of Blanche's life is depicted in the beginning of the work by the mysterious expressions that compound the descriptions of Elysian Fields.

He thinks that the law is a joke. He was the gang leader of the Socs.

At the same time, it is beyond doubt in the basement Macbeth's character is clean and as a soldier, he is true to his job and his king.

The poems The Painter's Song and Full Moon are the brightest examples of modern English poetry, which demonstrate to the reader all the beauty of the verse and involve in the atmosphere described in the [...]

The King is the leader, no one is allowed to disobey his orders, and the rules set by the administration of the King.

It can be stated that at the ending of Huckleberry Finn, Huck, the protagonist is a failure because it does not provide any resolution to the major theme of the book that is the protagonist's [...]

The 'Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil' by John Berendt is a very touching novel, which depicts a variety of personalities and characteristics in the great savanna region.

Though the main theme of the poem is derived from the Greek mythology and the plot is clear enough, critics have always been searching for a symbolic and psychological explanation of the poem's images.

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.

Thus, the author always sought to forewarn the youngsters of the negative results of their thoughtless actions and tried to motivate them to gain education and become successful in life.

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 [...]

After his most convenient avenue of informing the masses about the dangers in the spa is disrupted by the mayor, the doctor decides to hold a public meeting to inform the people of the dangers [...]

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.

It is not but before the first few lines of each piece in which the author establishes a personal foundation for the rest of the article to be built on.

The book helped me to understand that the process of winning money in business sphere can be successful not only in a case if someone has losses.

This scientist regarded the western civilization to be the third and highest stage in the hierarchy of the world civilizations, preceded by the stages of savagery and barbarism.

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 [...]

In this regard, the aim of literary dystopias is to caution and warn society against the blind following of ideologies that lead to the breakdown of social order.

This mindset is what assisted as the cornerstone for young men to reprimand dolls in the earlier periods. Why Boys Do not Play with Dolls is concentrated on the stereotypes of males and females.

He dared to make this dangerous travel in order not to be swallowed by an insatiable mouth of war when it knocked on Ishmael's door for the second time."They had run so far away from [...]

Hem and Haw somehow did not notice that the supply of cheese was slowly dwindling, until one day, when they arrived at Station C, they found out that all the cheese was gone.

In his novel, Wells addresses the resistance of the Muslim world, the destruction of Buddhism, the opposition of the Catholic Church. This wave of air revived in London appears to the power that is obsessed [...]

Although Muir shows his pessimistic view, in the beginning, he changes it in the second part of the poem, giving the reader a sense of relief.

Having based the main propositions of his work on the categories of inherent abilities and education of Plato's Philosophy, the contemporary American scientist adapted them to the present-day realities and used Plato's ideas as axioms [...]

From the beginning of the story, he managed to set the readers against the king, which makes the majority of them support the daughters in the conflict between them and the king, the conflict that, [...]

Congo locates in the center of the continent and can be compared within the heart of Africa."The vision seemed to enter the house with me - the stretcher, the phantom-bearers, the wild crowd of obedient [...]

This is restated in the next line of the passage: "The name that can be named is not the eternal name".

The nature of changes can be traced in Othello who is treated as a person with different color of skin as well as Edna who is not accepted by the Creole community; Gregor Samsa is [...]

Given the fact that Keats belongs to the Romanticist era that ushered in the enlightenment period, it is not surprising that most of his poetry tends to cross the borders of physical reality.

Life of Cleopatra is still one of the most captivating subjects in a world's history. In the introduction to Cleopatra the author designates the main thesis of his work.

In this paper I am going to compare and contrast three versions of the creation of the world: the Greek one presented in the first chapter of Ovid's Metamorphoses and two Indian myths of the [...]

In his reasoning, he builds a logical sequence, which causes a chain reaction of violence: experiencing violence from the side of the colonizer, the colonized are forced to show counter-violence. As a rule, the actions [...]

Looking at the morbidly Catholic state of mind that is the necessary reason sustaining the short stories of Flannery O'Connor, it is necessary to pay attention to the special techniques that compose her style of [...]

The main character of the tragedy is Hamlet, a young man who comes to know about the real reasons of his father's death from the ghost that claims to be the spirit of his father. [...]

In the novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn the author depicts one day from the life of prisoners in one of Stalinist camps and emphasizes the importance of [...]

The book describes the Creation of the World and continues to the time of Julius Caesar and is considered as a mythic-historical document.

But the mismatch of the real-life and the world of the primer becomes obvious to the reader from the first pages of the novel.

She was labeled as one "without hope" in terms of her perspective toward the possibility of a Christian Lord while she was in seminary school, a label she continued to wear throughout her life, even [...]

This begs the question, whether a human or the whole society has a right to take the function of God and to punish the sin.

It must be stressed that The Story of the Stone is regarded to be one of the Four Great Classical Chinese Novels.

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's no secret that nowadays film industry has become a powerful and influential money-making industry so, from my point of view, the contribution that the director of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button has made [...]

The contents of the film had a greater impact to the level of spearheading the reopening of the case almost fifty years after the murder.

The power that the people have on their rulers is minimal and this is one of the factors that have impeded the development of the values of self governance in this country.

The author considers the life chances of generations of Mexican-Americans, who remain after a near-century of legal freedom the most obvious and, in view of the very considerable number of Mexican-Americans political refugees in the [...]

However, it is this kind of utopian society that existed in Jerusalem that shaped the views that this author had. The story of the island of utopia is a satire on the complicated society that [...]

The theme of insiders and outsiders and their effect on life of children is very popular and one of the most interesting and controversial in modern and classical literature.

In it Rosenblatt says that the whole of a written text is a combination of what the writer produces and what the readers infers.

Being a cultural anthropologist, she played a vital role in the development of Obama in that he grew up appreciating the fact that he was different and at the same time having the belief that [...]

Primarily known for his four romances Gables The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance and in particular his magnum opus, The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne's short stories have become a cult classic as well, [...]

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 interactions of the characters, in that regard, are neither sufficient to explain the purpose of the author, nor to connect it to the purpose of the story.

It is similar to the "ubuntu" concept, kept by the African nationalities, and implies focus on "what you have" instead of "what you want".

Dickinson experienced a great amount of attachment towards the Civil War and her expression for the cause had been expressed through the expression of death in its spiritual and eternal nature.

As it is noticeable from the extract cited it was not compulsory to mention the concrete date, on the other hand, the date can hardly be verified at the present moment, consequently, it was a [...]

The soldier is torn out of his "mother's sleep" that is the state of peace and he faces the reality of war in the belly of his fighter jet aircraft.

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 [...]

She is quite unhappy and uncertain in the beginning of her travel, and she finds her balance and, moreover, she finds her love in the end; in this trip she reaches all the goals she [...]

The clock can be considered an integral part of the story as it leads the readers all the way till the end of the day in the abandoned house.

Before analyzing the works in terms of their belonging to Puritanism I believe it's important to identify the main characteristics of Puritan style and intentions and aims the authors put forward to transfer their message [...]

In the novel "The Adventures of Huck Finn", the writer portrayed the theme of 'racism and slavery' in South America during the end of civil war.

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.

The theme is very intricate and it finds its realization in different aspects of the book, such as the authorship the author's tone that can be perceived while reading, the genre, the choice of the [...]

Instead, the role of the mother of the nation was widely discussed as the aim and goal of American women. In fact, the tone of the excerpt from Goethe translated as "The Sphere of Woman", [...]

This was when he was only seven and a trip to the shop was like a tour around half of the world for him.