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“A Priori” by Rachel Zolf: Critical Analysis

Hence, the poem provides a list of 'if' statement pertaining to the merits and the shortcoming of modern life. The poem present the concepts in the form of dependent propositions thus showing that everything in [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 856

“Medea” by Euripides: Tragedy Outlook

There is a certain rationale in this kind of suggestions after all, Medea had gone about expressing her contempt with women's lot on numerous occasions: "The man who was everything to me, my own husband, [...]
  • Subjects: Mythology
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1429

Geoffrey Chaucer: A Founder of English Literature as a Feminist

Despite the distorted interpretation of gender in the patriarchal society, Chaucer's vision of women contradicts the orthodox view of the biological distinction of males and females as the justification for gender inequality.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 896

Reinaldo Arenas’ Portrayal Life in Book and Film

However, the autobiographical narration emphasizes the details of Arenas relations and his homosexual orientation whereas the movie is more focused on the representation of the political and cultural situation in the United States and Cuba [...]
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1693

“The Keys of the Kingdom” by Archibald Joseph Cronin

This book was a long-expected one; and as the contemporary newspapers were writing before the official appearance of the book: "All signs indicate that "The Keys of the Kingdom", which depicts with such dramatic force [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1224

“White Supremacy” by George M. Fredrickson

The author reveals many contradictory data on the policy of segregation and apartheid in the USA since the emergence of slavery and up to the middle of the 20th century that did not eliminate the [...]
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 687

Naturalism in Jack London’s and Stephen Crane’s Works

The development of imaginative literature may be characterized by the sequence of successive changes of the literary trends driven by the changes of social conditions and the change of topicality of the themes expressed in [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 940

A Vietcong Memoir by Truong Tang

The writer points out a very curious paradox; he says that France and other Western nations immensely shaped political thinking of the Vietnamese but these states did not give them any resources to sustain the [...]
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1111

Labor in Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane

The novel Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane considers the issue of women's work in the late 19th century United States, and the main focuses of the novel are the unprotected work [...]
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 557

N. Hawthorne’s and Mark Twain’s Novels Compared

The works of American literature of the 19th century are closely connected with the religious aspects of Christianity, and the expression of Christian beliefs is a widespread aspect of the literature on the whole.
  • Subjects: Aspects of American Novels
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1820

The Theme of Love in the Old English Literature

The topic of the poem is preserved from the very beginning till the end of the poem, from the image and observation of the cross to the story by the same cross.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1184

Carlos Fuentes and His Occupations

The end of 1940s was a culmination for Carlos Fuentes, as the person of great nobility and great knowledge, so that to move the society in the flow of his talent.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 621

The Law of Retribution in Inferno

The real punishment of the sinners in the life after starts in the second circle. Each head is said to consume the three known traitors in the history of the bible, one is Judas who [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 757

“Untitled Poem” by Sharon Livermore

In the first place, it is necessary to define the term "discourse" because of the multiplicity of existing definitions of the notion.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1279

Pessimistic View of Human Reality in Literature

Jorge Amado is one of the most outstanding examples of a writer who could make the traditional attitude toward things and people transformed in the literature manner of the Modernist trend. In The Miracle of [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1151

Aesthetics of “The Tyger” by William Blake

And finally, I would like to state that this whole image of the tiger could be the embodiment of William Blake. In this very poem, the image is discrepant, it seems to possess all good [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 688

Ambiguity in E. Hemingway’s Novel “The Sun Also Rises”

The foremost psychological difference between men and women is that men are expected to be capable of suppressing their animalistic urges, to be able to act "as necessary", as opposed to women's tendency to act [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 11
  • Words: 3082

“Native Speaker” by Chang-rae Lee

I believe one of the main characters of the novel "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee, Henry gives a full explanation to the issue of the cost of being a spy.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 902

Sieg Heil! War Letters of Tank Gunner Karl Fuchs

The most significant parts in the book, as for me, is the description of the acquaintance with T-34, the best tank of the World War II, and the parts, when Karl tells about the books, [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1386

Stylistic Features in the Book Description

This feature of the book is the beauty of the language of Kincaid and the ugliness of the truth that the author describes.
  • Subjects: American Novels Writing Style
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 680

Ethics in Real Estate

Depicting the victory of ethics over immorality, Sam Foster manages to express his idea of the possibility that the real estate business, and the human life on the whole, can be ethical in their essence.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2776

“The Storm,” a Short Story by Kate Chopin

The title of the story has a hidden meaning and symbolizes trye love and passion between Calixta and her lover. This tension between the individual and the nature can be destructive to originality, imagination and [...]
  • Subjects: Romantic Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 280

“Divine Comedy” by Dante: Parallels and Contrasts

This paper aims to compare and contrast the last canto of the Inferno and the last canto of the Paradise. In fact, the entire poem is written in this way and Dante is believed to [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1104

‘Ceremony’ by Leslie Marmon Silko: Theme of Healing

The journey of the protagonist that stretches from the abyss of despair and moral tortures to the final recovery of Tayo and his people, serves as a representation of the main theme of the novel, [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 922

Victorian Governesses in the 19th Century Literature

In the Victorian age when middle-class women were expected to conform to perhaps the most oppressive rules ever imposed on women in Britain's history, there were still individual women who advocated the equality of the [...]
  • Subjects: Gender in Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1784

The Flood in the Bible and The Epic of Gilgamesh

The flood stories in the Babylonian text 'The Epic of Gilgamesh, Tablet XI' and the Hebrew text 'Genesis 6-9' have been targets of international attention due to a controversy created by enemies of Christianity, namely, [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1627

Six-Words Fiction and Memoirs According to Schwarz

A six-word fictional story is a work of fiction because it presents unreal facts, while a six-word memoir is a work of non-fiction which presents reality and is able to evoke a certain response in [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 663

Langston Hughes’s Fine Clothes to the Jew Poems

Rampersad, the biographer of Langston Hughes, says that Fine Clothes to the Jew is not a successful volume, though it is Hughes's greatest collection, which was published when the poet was at the height of [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 963

People Get What Deserve. “Oedipus the King” Play

Providing some actions people do not always think about the consequences, but it usually appears so that they get what they deserve and the play of the ancient Greek author Sophocles "Oedipus the King" is [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 573

“The Wife of His Youth” Short Story by Chesnutt

This is the case with Charles Chestnutt's short story "The Wife of His Youth" in which the significant disruption of life experienced by the institution of slavery and the Civil War is illustrated through the [...]
  • Subjects: Aspects of American Novels
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 677

“The Man Who Was Almost a Man” by Richard Wright

In his novella The Man Who Was Almost a Man Richard Wright tells the story of a seventeen-year-old African-American adolescent, Dave Saunders, who has a strong desire to buy a gun to prove to everyone [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 875

I. Allende’s and J. Onetti’s Latin Short Stories

The thing that impressed me most of all about the short story is the overall impression of doom and guilt, which is created with the help of the details, that may seem unimportant at first [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1034

Clive Staples Lewis’ Strengths as a Writer

Second, Lewis' objectivity and consideration of the religion outside its rituals, to consider the moral principles and ethics involved on a greater level as applicable to humanity, encourage the non-Christian reader to follow Lewis wholly [...]
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1393

Recurring Theme in E. A. Robinson’s Poems

Anderson makes a conclusion that the poem is built on the ironic contrast between the unheroic Miniver as it is and his dreams of adventure, romance, and art associated with heroic figures of the Trojan [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 846

“The Third Life of Grange Copeland” by Alice Walker

The novel 'The Third Life of Grange Copeland' by Alice Walker is dedicated to the highlight of economical and racist oppression suffered by the society; it is a set of lives depicting gradual formation of [...]
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1430

Howell’s Idea of Realism in American Short Stories

When Alcee unexpectedly falls in love with Clarisse at the end of this tale, it indicates that the real women strive to escape traditions to earn their rights. Realism is shown in the sense that [...]
  • Subjects: Concepts in American Novels
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1086

“Occupation” by Eliza Griswold

As the military conflict drains the country economically and males are not able to support their families as the main breadwinners, the woman faces the challenge of providing for herself, her children and often her [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1061

Plato’s “Meno”: On the Nature of Virtue

In 95c, the author assumes that Sophists are also not qualified to teach virtue, due to the fact that one of the respected philosophers is quite critical about those who make some promises and believes [...]
  • Subjects: World Philosophy Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1255

Kesey’s “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”

It is clear from the beginning of the story that McMurphy successfully feigns insanity to escape the hard work at the Pendleton Work Farm, "Do not overlook the possibility that this man might be feigning [...]
  • Subjects: World Philosophy Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1308

Feminism in ‘Trifles’ by Susan Glaspell

The Feminist Movement, also called the Women's Movement and the Women's Liberation Movement, includes a series of efforts by women in the world to fight for the restoration of gender equality.
  • Subjects: Gender in Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 907

Analysis of Kafka’s Creativity

The story is Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk is summarized just as easy as the main events of the story consist mostly of Josephine singing to people until it fulfils them, and then [...]
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1565

American Literature and the American Dream

The difference in how the dream is defined lies in how one sees the shape and color of the concoction, whether the texture is just right for the shape of the taste buds assessing the [...]
  • Subjects: World Philosophy Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1220

“China Shakes the World” by James Kynge

An the introduction to the book, the author traces back at some of the events in the past about the rise of some of the developed nations.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1739

Society: Turning Men Into Monsters

In this respect, it is of paramount importance for us to mention the symbol of the beast, or some sort of threat.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2754

“Nature” by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature is therefore described as the origin of language and the end of the same, where language is said to be born out of nature and to terminate in the same form, making nature a [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2869

Las Tejanas by Teresa and Ruthe: 300 Years of History

The homeless elite is not mentioned and it seems that under the name of wouldispossessed' and 'poor' the authors have tried to curtail all inequalities into a political power governed for and by women.
  • Subjects: Gender in Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1550

Sordello and Statius in “Purgatorio” by Dante Alighieri

Dante shows the growing toward Christianity of the world population by means of Statius; he stressed that religion was perceived without any political power in the center of it, describing "the corruption of church and [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 528

“The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down” by Fadiman

In the book "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down" by Anne Fadiman, the author shows such cultural dilemmas by telling the story of the struggles of Hmong family and the girl Lia Lee, [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1285

Willa Cather’s “O Pioneers” Winter Memories

However, a close reading of the first line of the segment reveals Cather's intentions in including this portion of the story which are reinforced throughout as she continues to emphasize the idea of women being [...]
  • Subjects: Romantic Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 915

‘Poetry Contest’ by Charles Bukowski

Through this poem, the author shows the readers, how some of the magazines which purport to be the heavenly figures of literature are actually exploiting the aspiring writers by their unethical practices.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 578

Who Are You in “The Open Boat” by Stephen Crane?

As the story continues, it becomes clear that bailing out the boat is about the only job the cook is suited for in this situation."Later in the night they took the boat farther out to [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 926

Keith Carlton Robertson and Barbara Rose: Comparison

The existence of white space in the art is the representation of straightforwardness, of class, of the core of improvement. Thus "the presence of white space is a symbol of smart, of class, of simplicity, [...]
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1135

Gary Nash’s Book “The Urban Crucible”

Gary Nash is incensed by the lack of focus on the colonial urban centers in American history and the lack of interest or discussion of the issue of the class by the past renown historians [...]
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1866

Deconstructing the Poetry of Emily Dickinson

Much in the same way that the human experience is characterized by mood shifts of good and bad days, Emily Dickinson's poetry captures the feelings of every day life, both mundane and fantastic; her poetry, [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 571

To Lucasta, Going to the Wars

In the second and the third verse: "That from the nunnery2 Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind3" The author uses figurative language to describe his mistress, where by using such words as nunnery, chaste, [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 553

Parents Influence Sexuality, Based on Two Novels

The novel, The Well of Loneliness and Portnoy's Complaint describe that parents and society, in general, have a great impact on the sexual orientation and sexual development of children.
  • Subjects: Gender in Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 858

“Hot, Flat and Crowded” by Thomas Friedman

Hot, Flat and Crowded is a much anticipated follow up to his earlier books and is a plea to the policymakers of the world to wake up to the reality of global warming and the [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 631

Amy Tan’s Story “Mother Tongue”

She became a famous writer in Oakland and in this story, she narrates her experiences about the English she uses and about how the people around her influenced the way she conversed.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1065

Iago’s Quest to Destroy Desdemona

Iago uses Desdemona to feed Othello's jealousy which finally drives him to the point of wanting to kill the one that he loves.
  • Subjects: Dramatic Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 919

Eve Ensler’s “The Vagina Monologues”

By reading through Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues, the idea of how the environment impacts the perception of self becomes clearer by understanding how the people in the story adopt community values and how they [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1020

Walt Whitman and His Poetry

There are a number of reasons why Whitman's poetry might have been different from what had been introduced in academic circles to that point these having to do with the time in which he lived, [...]
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1866

Modern Myth: Seneca Indians Creation Myths

This myth attempts to explain the origin of the land or the earth by the Seneca people, and like many other myths on the issue of the originality of land, these people held to the [...]
  • Subjects: Mythology
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 891