During the Elizabethan age, the theme of moving away from home was a topic both in plays and travel writings. Their writings valorized this movement away from home and home country in the light of [...]
The concept of leadership has been discussed and interpreted in the works of world-famous writers thousands of times the whole of humanity has been always interested in the issues of successful leadership and the ways [...]
The Garden of Eden theory is dedicated to the analysis of gender roles and reflections based on mythological presentation; the image of male and female is disclosed through Adam and Eve, being the principal mythological [...]
As Stella entered the cave, her flashlight's beam fell on a splatter of blood, and the scarlet stain gleamed against the backdrop of moss that covered the wall like a green carpet.
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 [...]
It goes without saying that the main topic to be explored in the course of comparison is the impact of science on human life and its part in the overall course of events described. The [...]
It is not by a mere accident that the word "strange" is being prominently incorporated into the name of Stevenson's novel Victorian mentality perceived the notion of "strangeness" as the synonym to the notion of [...]
He felt like a living dead, in a coffin still to be drained of his blood, and yet, he seeks spiritual answers and is interested in the "psychic underside of sexuality" as Boroff explicitly suggested.
Upton Sinclair is the person who became famous in the American society at the beginning of the XX century and made a great contribution in the people's self-consciousness and their awareness in the modern world.
The relationship between Coriolanus and his mother is something beyond love; it is total respect or maybe even a type of worshipping. The relationship between Volumnia and Coriolanus is not similar to any regular relationships [...]
It tells the story of a young man Changez through a series of deviously and intricately crafted monologues where the protagonist narrates the story of his life to an ominously jumpy American who he happens [...]
The encounter of the author Dante with Virgil in hell is inextricably linked to a diachronic mode that is defined not by the influence of literary history but by the actual situation of reading.
The Grapes of Wrath begins by describing an occurrence of soil erosion in Dust Bowl Oklahoma that led to the destruction of crops, a decline in farming and farm produce and the migration of farmers [...]
Tita's love survives in sacrifices which she believes is the human exposure to contingency, Tita believes that it is the passion for her love that opens to her every door of possibility to meet Pedro.
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.
Additionally, a neurosis of Raskolnikov is that he has a tendency to simplify everything - even to the extent of his crime, which he compares to "physical derangement" and "piece of dry bread".
This was the third summer after the outbreak of the Civil War and the fight would come to be known as the Battle of Gettysburg as also the bloodiest and fiercest battle fought in America.
Economic analyses and participation of the slave labor force in economic development are used to analyze the impact and role of slave labor in the development of the American economy.
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 story relates to the past and the present and has intricate and complex impact on the courtroom trial of the murder case of Kabuo Miyamoto.
After reading this text I strongly felt the necessity to communicate with the nature, as it is an integral part of any of us!
The novel illustrates the concept of the relationship between the authoritative and internally persuasive difference between the white society and the black community.
Price's story is somewhat of a historical account of Martinique to the present time from the 1920s, while it is a leading example of how philosophical inquires can be applied to the field of anthropology.
Mythmaking in literature can be analyzed on the examples of famous poets such as Ted Hughes and Geoffrey Hill who managed to embody the mythological elements in their outstanding masterpieces.
As she tells her story, it becomes clear that she is in the lower class of workers because she is a waitress in a small diner and lives with the cook, Rudy.
Furthermore, the author sets the stress on the idea that only talent is not sufficient for success, a person must be able to look at oneself in a critical way.
John may be considered the protagonist of the play, however, the interrelation of the two main female characters of the play are, certainly, of great use for the development of the action and realization of [...]
Rather than focusing on the words of the poem itself, Leavis sees the significance of "The Wasteland" as residing principally in the disorganization of the poem.
Through the story, the writer explains the tragic life of the Professor and how she recalls the story of her life which she spent without anybody to care and love for.
Robert Frost, the author of the poem 'Design,' strived to raise the question of the nature of God on the basis of naturalistic rebuttal and effects description.
Such is the case regarding Tom Robinson in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, Cinna in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, and Lennie in Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck.
The history of Haiti, the political consequences of colonialism and the condition of women are the common themes in her stories.
However, to accept it he must first assure the white men that he knows his place and that he would never use a phrase like "social equality".
The essay that we are going to analyse here, "Perfect Aggression", has as primary intention to show that aggression is more than that.in the lines and pages to come we will try to critically evaluate [...]
If one analyzes the various stages of English language and literature, it is clear that many English poets have influenced the growth of language.
The true story is about the family, which lived during the Great Depression on the South and who had to live a lot of times in order to find some source of income and be [...]
The first one, Henry Lawson's "The Drover's Wife," is set in the Australian bush, as is the second, "The Chosen Vessel" by Barbara Baynton; and the third story is set in the American South, Flannery [...]
I agree with the review that this novel is a vivid example of Laura Esquivel's unique style of writing and extraordinary talent that becomes apparent through the choice of settings and objects, irony and symbolism. [...]
To understand how these concepts have changed over time, it is helpful to trace the relationship between the self and the supernatural as it is revealed in the great works of history, such as Sophocles' [...]
While "Ten, Nine, Eight" relaxes children with the predictable pattern of the story, "Where The Wild Things Are" elicits many emotions that may both excite and frighten children before they settle down to a "feel [...]
Jack London was born in a poor background in California but grew to fame through his anthology of stories such as the son of the Wolf, the Sea of the wolf, and the Call of [...]
Not until the end does Welty finally reveal the purpose of Phoenix's trip and thus the answer to the questions above.
Laurencia, the object of the Commander's desire further makes clear to Mengo that in her understanding love is inseparable from honour and thus involves the lover's commitment to their own and their beau's reputation as [...]
Looking at the social background of the village one cannot even imagine that the denouement of the story is reckoned with the poor destiny of some inhabitants of it.
However, not everyone saw it in the same way, particularly from one side of the ocean in the relatively more tamed environment of Europe to the other side of the ocean in the as yet [...]
The importance of literature in our lives is impossible to exaggerate, partly because it represents the accumulated knowledge of the best minds of mankind through the whole course of human history, partly because it is [...]
While in all of these cases the deaths are tragic and involve the protagonist, the reader is never left to side with the protagonist in the justification for their actions.
To say that "All conflict in literature is, in its simplest form, a struggle between good and evil" is to describe a specific type of literature such as fairy tales, but in the short story [...]
The story is very intriguing and covers many aspects of human personality, Emily is the most important character in the story and she takes her revenge in the story by killing Homer.
The House on Mango Street is a work of fiction, but the author breaks the conventional rules of form and plot.
The theme of the story is to present the character of a "lady" and her behavior in society, her actions, and justifications for them.
In this way, Thoreau uses intimacy with the landscape to talk about larger ideas that continue to apply to the modern world and thus links the landscape of his experiment with the "continuing narrative of [...]
In his poem "Dream Deferred," Hughes provides a succinct description of the constrained self that is thus equally applicable to the position of women as expressed by Faulkner's short story "A Rose for Emily" and [...]
'Great Expectations' by Charles Dickens deals with "the aspirations and ambitions of the protagonist and narrator, Pip, to improve his status in life and create conditions for better living"..
It is the story of the unfulfilled promise Sergeant X gave to Esme and failed to fulfil it because of the mental illness.
Washington gave an order to read it to soldiers to support their fighting spirit In 1787 Thomas Paine came to France, in 1791 he published the first part of the work "Rights of Man", in [...]
It follows the story of the narrator Dante and his friendship with his schoolmate Johnno in Brisbane in the 1940s and 50s.
The present paper is intended to discuss and compare the ideas of women's position in Republican China as illustrated in the novel "Red Sorghum" by Mo Yan and the corresponding gender attitudes in the traditional [...]
In his famous work "The Leviathan", Thomas Hobbes refers to the natural mode of people's existence as "war of everybody against everybody", while suggesting that such war comes as a result of individuals taking a [...]
The texts under consideration picture the events of different periods of time and have absolutely different settings, but both Frankenstein and Blade Runner express the desire of a human to have powers of God.
Alan Michael Morales in his work made of three stories From Here You Can Almost See the End of the Desert outlines such unfair features of a man's character, and 'a man' is used here [...]
Terry Deary and Peter Hepplewhite, the authors of the work, strived to reflect the peculiarities of Egyptian history in the most adaptive manner.
In so doing, he renders meaning to the traditional African way of life and he also dignifies the people of the continent.
There is a powerful cultural perception of the behaviors of the three groups, the father and the brother on one side, the mother and the grandmother on the other side, and the American media and [...]
One of the books that raised his popularity in America as well as among other readers of the world was his collection of books published under the Rabbit series.
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.
Copernicus concerned the motion of the earth as physical reality and mentioned in De revolutionibus that "If any motion is related to the earth, that motion ought to illustrate in all the bodies outside the [...]
To begin with, the credibility of the sources chosen for the comparative analysis in this work is asses in different ways by scholars and the ordinary readers.
The man's fallacy of not appreciating the realities again becomes evident in the fact that he decides to build the fire "under the spruce tree," instead of building it "in the open"..
For instance, one of the works of the 19th-century literature, "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" by Stephen Crane, focuses on the relationship between marital responsibility and maturation of boy-men and shows the triumph of [...]
The only thing which the author opposes to a happy life of a man is loneliness and its effects in various fields of a man's activity.
The course of the war and its outcome were shaped and determined by the governments of the USA as well as by their armies.
He says that there is no justice in reference to poor people in the government, as "doing the best you could make no difference to government; hard-luck stories did not go when it comes to [...]
The theme of the stories themselves also influences the pleasure of reading a short story. Even some women dislike the fact that they are women writers and try to dissociate themselves from other writers, a [...]
When one goes through the different works of Defoe, one gets a clear picture of the social and cultural life of the European as well as the non- European society that attracted him. The evaluation [...]
As for me, the main theme which the author persecutes in the story is the problem of racial peculiarities of American people and the Indians in particular.
A sort of role reversal is evident in Shelley's Frankenstein with the monster as an antagonist and the human as a hero, as the creator of the monster possesses more actual traits of what is [...]
The author's aim is to make people know and think, and whether they agree or not it is the problem of these people."Walden" by Henry David Thoreau is the piece of work where the author [...]
Racial segregation is a core factor which intended many famous American writers, playwrights, social figures in the first half of the twentieth century to show the real state of things in the "democratic and free" [...]
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.
The language was different, the time was different, and so it is impossible to compare the impression which creates "Hamlet" on the modern viewer and Elizabethan one if the modern viewer does not take into [...]
In the opening he takes aim at the claim that the ship was unsinkable, calling that an example of "human vanity" and the "Pride of life" from which the ship now lies far removed.
As they struggle to survive through rationing of food and water, fighting off the exhaustion of body and mind, and contend with the sharks that come to investigate the boat, they continuously think about nature [...]
In particular, we may analyze such novellas as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, and The Fall of the House of Usher.
The works studied each portrays some aspect of love, and while many of these aspects are different in the stories, both the main underlying principles with regards to love seem to be the same while [...]
Thus, our definition of the most important difference between the characters of Janie and Emma will sound as follows: whereas, Janie never ceased to be a woman in both: the physiological and psychological context of [...]
Though he could not succeed in getting all the tales, whatever has come from the pilgrims is sufficient enough to reflect the social life of the people of the fourteenth century, particularly their beliefs and [...]
In a conversation with Elizabeth sometime before the proposal, Charlotte explains that she sees little point in getting to know a prospective mate, saying that "happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance....it is [...]
The approach is helped by the legends of Arthur and the royal knights like Lancelot and Guinevere. The book is a journey of murder and mystery to spirituality and hope at the end.
The main point of the novel is that there is a certain, indescribable element that draws us out into the wild and out of the confines of society.
The major topic of this work is the ecological awareness of the Australian writers and poets as expressed in the paradoxical relations between the fast and comprehensive urbanization of Australia in the late 19th century [...]
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 recurring themes of Night, by Elie Wiesel reflect the poignant feelings of disgust of writer against mankind and gradually his loss of faith in God, helplessness and hopelessness of a child who entirely disgusts [...]
Since the publication of Darwin's science of evolution, mankind has been attempting to solve one of the major problems of our age where will this sort of evolution lead the human race and what implications [...]
Henry's story is that of a man stripped of his innocence and freedom only to have his mind destroyed by the war.
In sum, Gilman and Olsen demonstrate that the low social position of women in society deprives women of a chance to find happiness and maintain close relations with their families.
The main character of the poem contemplates the idea of death and religion. She says that "death is the mother of beauty" and that a change of the seasons, a change of the living to [...]
The King Arthur in "Le Morte d'Arthur" or "The death of Arthur" is the main character around which the plot is based.
Although both Washington and Du Bois felt it was vital that a black man have a decent education and worked diligently to advance the cause, they disagreed rather strongly on the type of education that [...]
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.
Robert Herrick's poem carries the same urgent and passionate tone, he also reminds the listener of the fast passing time and the need to act now 'Old time is still a-flying: And this same flower [...]
She is a flawed character who identifies herself only through her physical deformities, her glasses and her artificial leg, but remains ignorant of self until she is forced to confront the truth.
The Poet is a co-tenant of Jeanne's in the apartment, where Jeanne receives customers, and who also owns the pussy cat that the woman wanted to strangle and kill.
The narration style in the both novels is different, wherein "Moby Dick" the merging of the narration and the main character of the novel is achieved during the first person narration in which there are [...]
Many critics argue that Shakespeare was neither a poet, playwright or actor and that he wrote none of the plays that have famously been attributed to him.
Against the background of buying and selling of slaves, the hard work they are forced to do, the inhuman, degrading treatment meted out to them, and the riches made from them by most of the [...]
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 [...]
It seemed to me also that I saw Maigret, in the afternoon, heading peacefully towards his usual cafe, where he found his partners for a game of belote.
In Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, the portrayal of the character Charlie Bucket is an allegorical representation of the 'good child' shown through his behavior before winning the golden ticket, through his behavior as [...]
She is the perfect Victorian example of what Edna is expected to be, but Edna is incapable of keeping up the act, which is all her marriage and family really are to her.
Steinbeck manages to capture the isolation and sexual frustration of Elisa Allen, the reason for her tears, through his characterization of her while she is tending the chrysanthemums, the interaction that occurs between Elisa and [...]
The complexity of the metonym is introduced in the concept that one must also be aware of the various elements that are important characteristics of the tree at this particular time in its development and [...]
The writer wanted to illustrate on the example of androids such a feature of character as ignorance in attitude to other representatives of mankind and animals and the way we fight this trait reflected in [...]
This quote is valuable evidence that Waverly is aware of how much her mother loves her; she is aware of the contradicting meanings between what Lindo says- and what is intended. The ambiance in their [...]
The first adventures of Lazarillo gave the Spanish word Lazarillo a meaning of being a 'guide' for a blind person and thus, named to the dog who guides, the perro lazarillo.
Analyzing the "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz, it is necessary to review and describe such issues as the authority and power in the Dominican Republic's history and how this history [...]
When pogroms and other anti-Semitic actions all through Latin America shattered the hope of assimilation and social acceptance by many Jews, the concept of a Jewish homeland, phrased in the form of nationalism current at [...]
Even should this be the case, the restrictive way in which she is instructed to clean would serve as a viable justification for this unhappiness, not necessarily the physical labor of the maids themselves.
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.