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The Attitude of Leaving Home in the English Literature

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 [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2579

The Concept of Leadership: Machiavelli’s “The Prince”

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 [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1663

Mythology: The Garden of Eden Theory

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 [...]
  • Subjects: Mythology
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 830

The Boogeyman: a part of a chapter

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.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 754

“The Native Problem” by Robert Sheckley

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 [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 631

Works by Philip Wylie and Richard Matheson Review

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 [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1322

Monster in British Literature

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 [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1242

John Updike and His Rabbit Series

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.
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1464

Role of Upton Sinclair in Society

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.
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 591

Sons and Lovers in the World Literature

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 [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 3033

“The Reluctant Fundamentalist” by Moshsin Hamid

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 [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1331

Comment on Dante’s Inferno Hell

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.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 889

Betty Wood: The Origins of American Slavery

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.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 848

The Character of Gertrude in ‘Hamlet’

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 [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1414

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

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.
  • Subjects: Aspects of American Novels
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1461

Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey

After reading this text I strongly felt the necessity to communicate with the nature, as it is an integral part of any of us!
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 561

“The Convict and the Colonel” by Richard Price

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.
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1174

Ted Hughes and Geoffrey Hill as Myth Makers

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.
  • Subjects: Mythology
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2666

Lower-Class Life in Raymond Carver’s Works

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.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1457

“Beyond the Crease” by Martin Brodeur

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.
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 856

“The Crucible” by Arthur Williams

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 [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1019

T.S. Eliot and the Poetry of the Modern World

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.
  • Subjects: Modernist Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1265

Wit by Margaret Edson How to Face Death

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.
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1454

The Role of ‘Mockingbird’ in Literature

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.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 851

“Battle Royal” by Ralph Ellison Review

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".
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 735

Critical Analysis of Essay “Perfect Aggression”

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 [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1959

Literature and Languages Analysizng

If one analyzes the various stages of English language and literature, it is clear that many English poets have influenced the growth of language.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 846

“Ava’s Man” by Rick Bragg

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 [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 635

“Like Water for Chocolate” by Laura Esquivel

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. [...]
  • Subjects: American Novels Influences
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 639

The Changing Role of the Supernatural

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' [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1401

Two Very Different Bedtime Books

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 [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 543

Fuenteovejuna by Lope de Vega: Theme of Love

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 [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1682

“The American Homestead” by Turner

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 [...]
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1506

The Psychology of Murder in Literature

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.
  • Subjects: Dramatic Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 757

Chekhov and Carver: The Struggle Against Ambiguity

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 [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1002

A Topic of Revenge in Literature

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.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1010

Querencia and Thoreau, Thoreau’s “Walden”

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 [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 973

Different Perspectives on the Restrained Self

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 [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2683

Charles Dickens: “Great Expectations”

'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"..
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1840

“Nine Stories” by Salinger

It is the story of the unfulfilled promise Sergeant X gave to Esme and failed to fulfil it because of the mental illness.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 808

The Life and Work of Thomas Paine

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 [...]
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 592

“Red Sorghum” by Mo Yan

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 [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1350

“The Leviathan” by Thomas Hobbes

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 [...]
  • Subjects: World Philosophy Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 959

Place of American Woman in Cuban-American Culture

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 [...]
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1250

Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral” Discovering Vision

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.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1904

How Samir Okasha’s “Philosophy of Science” Review

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 [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1733

Credibility of the Sources and Claims

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.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 852

Man’s Doom: “To Build a Fire” by Jack London

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"..
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 976

Analysis of the Short Stories From the Different Epochs

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 [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1025

The Problem of Justice Highlighted in American Literature

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 [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1158

Reading Short Stories and Gender Influences

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 [...]
  • Subjects: Gender in Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1101

Europe, the Atlantic World, and Beyond. Daniel Defoe

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 [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1450

“Tribe”, Short Story by Alan Elyshevitz

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.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 625

Life Thoughts in “Walden” by Henry David Thoreau

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 [...]
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 922

My Life and “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry

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" [...]
  • Subjects: American Novels Influences
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1181

“The Kite Runner” Novel by Khaled Hosseini

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.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2560

Literature in Elizabethan Time

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 [...]
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 825

Titanic Sinking in Poetic and Oral History Genres

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.
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1403

“The Open Boat” Short Story by Stephen Crane

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 [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 261

Women’s Quest to Attain Happiness in Literature

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 [...]
  • Subjects: Gender in Literature
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 3211

“Miller’s Tale” by Geoffrey Chaucer

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 [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 966

The Downside of Marriage in Jane Austen’s Novels

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 [...]
  • Subjects: Romantic Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1752

“The Return of Merlin” by Deepak Chopra

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.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 541

John Krakauer’s “Into the Wild”

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.
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 643

Australian Literature: Patriotism and Ecological Awareness

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 [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1081

Mythological Figure of Polyxena

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.
  • Subjects: Mythology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 553

“Meneseteung” by Alice Munro

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 [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 842

The Narrative of “Night” by Elie Wiesel

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 [...]
  • Subjects: Dramatic Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1125

Science Fiction in Literature and the Human Condition

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 [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1050

Modernist Poetry: Wallace Stevens and T.S. Elliot

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 [...]
  • Subjects: Modernist Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1347

“Carpe Diem” in the Poems

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 [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 830

“Black Venus” by Angela Carter

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.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1943

“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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 [...]
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 1264

Larry Thomas: The Texas Poet Laureate

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 [...]
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 2002

“The Awakening” by Kate Chopin

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.
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1964

Dialect as a Means of Preserving Culture

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 [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 3107

Do Androids Have a Theme?

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 [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1282

Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club Review

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 [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1172

The Life and Adventures of Lazarillo de Tormes

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.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2398

“The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” by Junot Diaz

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 [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1808

Analysis of “A Cross and a Star” by Agosin

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 [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2077

Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

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.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1000

The Pearl by John Steinbeck

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.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 926
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