How might descriptions of places and characters be influenced by a particular narrator's perspective and the attitudes he holds? "Sonny's Blues" written by James Baldwin is a story that deals with very real aspects of [...]
By analyzing the characters of Maggie Tulliver and Lady Audley and identifying similarities and differences between them, the present paper will aim to explain what it meant to be a dangerous woman in the 19th [...]
The author analyzes the main features of childhood in Victorian novels and tries to explain the image of victimized children predominant in major nineteenth-century novels. The author analyzes the socio-economic conditions of the Victorian era [...]
The Age of Enlightenment centered on France and two of the major philosophers who contributed to this age of Enlightenment were Voltaire and Montesquieu. In the realm of politics, the government was the focus of [...]
The Four Loves explores the nature of love from a Christian perspective through thought experiments and examples from literature wherein the "need-love" seen in a child for its mother, and the gift-love as exemplified by [...]
The purpose of this essay is to detect and analyze various traits of racism in Shakespeare's famous piece Othello and how it relates to the character of Othello.
Pater uses descriptions of Leonardo's angel in Verrocchio's Baptism of the Christ to illustrate the early genius of the boy in Florence who seemed to instinctively resent the superficial miniature perfection of the masters of [...]
A masterpiece, "One for the Road" ended a painful period of writer's block for Harold Pinter in a manner swift and strange and led to an explicitly political agenda of his subsequent plays, "Mountain Language" [...]
The play deals with the genius persons of the world and it relates genius convincingly with the world of madness. Then the development of schizophrenia in Nash, which is "a severe mental disorder that distorts [...]
Focusing on the life of a Black American family, the author discusses the problems of race-based prejudice, segregation, historical memory, and the role of generational gaps in racial minorities' attitudes to injustice.
Using the theme of death, the author says that she has to cut her connections with the world and anticipates death.
In the present work, we will analyze this similarity and will seek for possible differences using particular parts of the great epic poem and the collection of novellas, namely, we will explore the fifth story [...]
This has the implication that the connections for such writing should be strong and should be in line with the ideas that have to be passed to the reader that is from the beginning to [...]
The "we" in the poem is the black folk collective, the speaker a Dunbar persona, or perhaps the real Dunbar lifting the mask to speak plainly and unequivocally about the double nature of the black [...]
At the beginning of the novel, Tom is a naughty boy, constantly getting into danger and running away from it, an instance when Tom flees the penalty of stealing jam.
Vonnegut is a science fiction writer who tells about Cold War fears and the threat of the Bomb, the lurking dangers of overpopulation and food shortage on the one hand, and on the other government's [...]
In their works, Tartuffe and Gulliver's Travel, Moliere and Swift depict social and political situations and ridicules the governmental system and false values existing in the society.
Richard Armstrong writes about a person who is fearless and creative and is willing to assume risk both in life and in the sea.
That little plant is the symbol of hope for a family determined to escape the squalor and violence of the ghetto.
Anna's ability not to be jealous of her mother's constant attention to Kate distinguishes the girl from other children. Anna realizes that her mother is extremely tired of the life that does not stop to [...]
What concerns this particular play the theme of love is deeply affected by comedic genre of performance and the setting of The Second World War.
The simple truths in the book were relevant to all generations and hence the book is of universal appeal."How to Win Friends and Influence People" tapped into the insatiable hunger for self-improvement and success in [...]
The thesis of this review of the poem Aunt Jennifer is that a strong theme for Rich is the belief in the socio-political and economic equality of women and men.
The lightning becomes the conflict inside her and the beating of the rain on her roof is the beating of her heart as she finally expresses her passion with Alcee.
He is the founder and leader of Macondo, and during his life, he never stops striving for knowledge. Siddhartha's quest for the Self is developed by three major events including his meeting with Buddha, his [...]
Her immediate kin regarded her more as a burden and made her do all the hard work and she lived in a constant environment of scorn and hatred.
At the same time, Troy tries the best way he knows how to direct the course of his own son's life away from the negative influence of the boy's ancestors.
Considering the destruction, the loss of human lives and the reduction to slavery of even the Trojan Royalty, aside from the fact that the attack was done in stealth to a sleeping civilian population, Ulysses [...]
The audience and the nomadic performer are engaged in a dangerous game of discovery, desire, and possession that is intended to make the spectator understand the meaning of this play in the concept of contemporary [...]
A careful analysis of Lady Macbeth's intensely complicated character and her role in the play proves that Shakespeare is actually a feminist writer.
The novel shows the sea as a metaphor for the seducer and the gulf consciousness. The structure of the story or the plot was intricate and climactic.
The extent of the openness of futurity for the human being lies in her present position and the objective reality the human being confronts.
Greek God and Goddess have not been given any proper mention in The Bible, but at more instances it has been given reference as unknown gods and the goddess to the people of Asian origin [...]
Both the Eden story and the Flood Story have clear counterparts in the Gilgamesh epic, whose restless hero also has his parallel in Odysseus of the Iliad, even as Gilgamesh fated friendship with Enkidu can [...]
Ceramic production and the carving of the hardstones known collectively as jade are part of the earliest horizons of Chinese cultures in the Neolithic period, and the products of these activities have been made continuously [...]
In bringing Shakespeare's classic story of Hamlet to the big screen and reset into a modern context, director Michael Almereyda is forced to reinterpret the role of Ophelia due to significant changes in modern women's [...]
The aim of the study is to relate the perennial appeal of the text to the particular point of view it presents on economics and political relations; on family life and social structure; on art [...]
That is the theory; hold to the theory and the comforts of theory. To come back to the statement made by David, it seems that the novelist is talking about a way of life in [...]
We can see that her worries and apprehensions are answered with the keystone idea that "Death is the mother of beauty".
The changes of the plot throughout the movie in comparison with the original novel are disturbing watchers since the times of cinema appearing and performance of the derivative movies.
It will be dealt with Mary Shelley's biography and will also contain a detailed analysis of the most famous of all her books, Frankenstein.
Twain's depiction of Jim and his relationship with Huck was somewhat flawed in order to obey the needs of the story, and also by Twains' interest in slave autobiographies and also in blackface minstrelsy.
The book's story of escape and a search for happiness despite all the sham and drudgery in this world is the topic of this paper.
Critics admit that Salinger's depiction of Holden Caulfield symbolizes the dilemma of the idealist in the contemporary world and shows the primary structural framework of a novel.
The main similarity of pre-WWII period and the Innti generation is close attention to Irish language and folklore. During the pre-WWII period of time, anxiety and desperation dominated in Irish poetry.
'Leaves of Grass' is a collection of Walt Whitman's poems to which he wrote a preface titled "Inscription: To the Reader at the Entrance of Leaves of Grass".
Broadly defined, the bildungsroman is "the novel of youth, the novel of education, of apprenticeship, of adolescence, of initiation, even the life-novel".
Finally, the destruction of the Usher's house can be explained by the fact that its base was not solid and the change in weather conditions caused it destruction.
The opposition between Apollonian and Dionysian can be described to be in the center of modern literary analysis since literary work is a difficult interrelation between form and contents, norm and abnormality, which can be [...]
This essay will portray the commonalities in these three novels and try to draw a contrast between them and discuss them in the light of three similar literary tools used, i.e.theme, antagonist, and irony in [...]
Whitman on the other hand demonstrates the idea that we are all part of a large whole, he explains, "And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand and the egg of wren".
The Story of the Western Wing is a love comedy that depicted adventures and relations between Oriole and Zhang. Secret love and romantic relations between a young scholar, Zhang Sheng, and a daughter of a [...]
The historical developments of that epoch were deeply connected with the growth and formation of a market society that deeply affected the lives of ordinary men and women and played a great role in the [...]
Though inhuman and pathetic to the core, the natives bear the hardships. In a bid to escape the snake bites Ruth and she dies before their eyes.
Getting a personal ticket to salvation is his main concern and he does not stop before imperiling the lives of his family.
In contrast to Hamlet, the role of 'a play within a play' is to underline onstage and offstage characters and their qualities.
That his response to this vista is restorative and necessary is expressed within the second stanza, "These beauteous forms, / Through a long absence, have not been to me / As is a landscape to [...]
The comparison is expected to reveal the differences and similarities in the authors' manner of depicting women and the way they influenced the overall message of the plays.
It is clear that the narrator disapproves the way chosen by his younger brother."I did not like the way he carried himself, loose and dreamlike all the time...and I did not like his friends, and [...]
The paper provides a discussion of the short story and analyses the theme of emotion and depression that the main character Stetson Gilman undergoes and her advent into insanity caused by the wrong treatment given [...]
In Hinduism, the reward of a proper woman is rebirth as a man, ancient Chinese women were considered to be the property of their fathers or husbands and in Japan, women were dressing in men's [...]
Literature as a constant reflector of the current events and ways people percept the world around cannot stand aside and fail to exhibit the characteristics and ideas of the new way of thinking.
This poem is written from the perspective of a man lying next to a woman in bed. Tonight, the song is a request: Write me a poem, please".
She is struck by the sound of the words and repeats the realization that she is "free! In one instant, the realization that she is not free enters her mind, and she wails a "piercing [...]
Fagon wants his story to alert the king to the baleful influence the confessor will exercise and the harm it will do the nation.
It is the story of the life of a man of great wisdom and spiritual strength in the early days of the colonization of Iceland.
The functions of dreams in both works are studied by the researcher, their significance is underlined, differences and parallels between the usage of dreams in both works are established, the enduring values that the works [...]
It is obvious that Hamlet is the representative of the new world. I think that the answer to this riddle is that his ways of revenge are not good.
Being now a famous American writer of Dominican origin Julia Alvarez in the above-mentioned works establishes her goals and reasons for writing and elaborates on the role of reading in her choosing the profession of [...]
The books referred to were "book 1-The Sword in the Stone, book 2-The Queen of Air and Darkness, book 3-The Ill-Made Knight and book 4-The Candle in the Wind, The author Terence Hanbury White who [...]
Similarly, the theme of darkness, as evident from the title of the work, in its spiritual sphere, underpins the merit of the novella.
With the end of the Victorian period, the sexuality of the English society that did not find its reflection in the cultural phenomenon was striving to express itself in graphic art and at the beginning [...]
Her latest book, "The Fifth Book of Peace" is a memoir that dabbles in legend, epic, and various forms of fiction and nonfiction.
In addition to fighting for his king, Macbeth is quickly and well rewarded for his efforts as King Duncan makes him the new Thane of Cawdor in addition to his already holding the title of [...]
The theme of sin is depicted through emotional sufferings and experience of the main heroes of the novel: Hester Prynne, her husband Roger Chillingworth and Hester's lover, Dimmesdale.
The travel from the physical world of the body to the world of the spirits is symbolized by the gentle ride in a carriage shared with a pleasant company.
To sum up, Duke is a "people's ruler" who manages to adjust his mode and regime of governance to the actual needs of Viennese residents.
The protagonist of the novel Emma Roberts is on the very edge of deciding to leave home, and she is feeling disturbingly emotional.
The narrator of the story is a boy who falls in love with his neighbor Mangan's sister. Eveline is the protagonist of this story who has to make the most important choice of her life.
Often overlooked, however, is the story of Poe's life: the heartbreak, financial struggles, success, mysterious death, and of course his military career. The success of the ominous poem gave Poe a steady income and cemented [...]
John Steinbeck's short story, "The Chrysanthemums" reflects the struggles of a stereotyped woman of the time, Elisa Allen to find her own identity in the oppressive world of men.
Macbeth is essentially the story of a character who lives his life in a state of confusion to the degree that the only constant in his life changes.
The short story "The Country Husband" by John Cheever reveals the darker side of Suburbia, "the side which traps its residents in a web of conformity," and the protagonist of the story Francis Weed, is [...]
Every action and character in the novel, in this manner, is linked to and affected by the role of the scientist protagonist Victor Frankenstein.
It is the wearing of black as a show of mourning and the sustained sadness that forbids the beginning of a liaison on the day following the burial of Meursault's mother.
Hedda Gabler, upon the discovery that her imaginary world of free-living and noble dying lies in shivers about her, no longer has the vitality to continue existence in the real world and chooses self-annihilation. At [...]
The main accent of Empire of the Sun is Jim's growing and getting older from a boy to a man during the war.
In the sky to the northeast of Shanghai, he searches for a flash that temporarily overpowers the dawn and overflows the stadium with a strange light.
In some ways, the description of the first and second stanza is similar to that of a flower, perhaps through this, the poet is emphasize that he is rooted/stuck with his problems.
Still, Tess realizes the bitter irony of her situation and at a slight provocation from Alec she stabs him to death:
In the story's retrospection we learn that Hagar's father Jason is elite, a store owner who built a brick home in a town of mostly shacks and shanties.
Would God no Argo e er had winged the seas To Colchis through the blue Symplegades No shaft of riven pine in Pelion's glen Shaped that first oar blade in the hands of men Valiant [...]
The revolt of Stephen Dedalus begins in Joyce's The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man with his rejection of the blind religious attitude found existing in his family.
The Picture of Dorian Gray and Love in a Time of Cholera are both set at the turn of the 19th Century.
Like the Thomas Sutpen story that has been dispatched by different narrators in William Faulkner's novel Absalom, Absalom, the past becomes a burden in the present for Quentin and Shreve because he sensed an impermeable [...]
Chaucer's The Miller's Tale and in Shakespeare's Macbeth, to be more exact, we will find out how the notion of poetic justice is represented by examples of the main characters of the works mentioned.
Hester returns to Boston just before her death, in order to be buried in the same grave as Dimmesdale, with 'A' inscribed on their tombstone. Much to her son's anger and disgust, she marries Claudius [...]
The suitors remain unaware that their crude behavior to Odysseus has flaunted the laws of the Gods and punishment would follow.
Through the medium of Drama, Sartre attempted to essentially portray man as he actually is thereby using drama as a medium to enable the people to become conscious of the basic nature and tendency of [...]
Odysseus and his men reach the land of the Kyklopes, a rough and uncivilized race of one-dyed giants. Groaning in pain, the giant hurls boulders at them and prays to his father, Poseidon to wreak [...]
The Renaissance in Italy was a time in which historians and writers were most active, sparking a new wave of literacy in the Italian world, said to be the father of Renaissance Europe.
One son in particular, Edmund, allows the pain of being born a bastard and the rejection of his father to skew his view of the world and the intentions of his ambition.
Love in the Time of Cholera represents the author's response to the notion that death is inescapable and final. Only toward the end of the novel does Garc a Marquez return to the deaths of [...]
The short story "The king is dead, long live the king" by Mary Coleridge portrays the dying of the king and the behavior of the court and his retinue.
Sara is shocked at the turn of events and their mother is a mute spectator to her daughters' miserable lives. The harsh realities of life have made her a mature woman, a Jewish woman of [...]
Those running away are not sure of where they are going as Le Guin put it at the end of the story "The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to us [...]
He is some kind of Robin Hood of the times when Plautus lived."As in both the plays of Aristophanes and Mevander, the Roman playwright Plautus addresses the issue of class consciousness and status in his [...]
The situation, however, was aggravated by his attachment to his car and staying out late until the early mornings as a sign of his manhood, and the symbol of masculinity and independence in American culture.
Sophocles' Oedipus Rex is constructed so that readers will become analysts of the cause in the past for a present malaise; they become priests examining the entrails of a story to discover the cause. Using [...]
The story revolves around Oedipus and his search for the cause of the blight on his city finding it to be himself while Iocaste is Oedipus' wife and mother who was very supportive of Oedipus' [...]
On the ward, McMurphy proves himself to be a master manipulator, hustling his fellow patients in card games and persistently challenging the authority of Nurse Ratched.
The excellence of the sonnets is the excellence of parts. Although the sonnets proclaim his affection for the young man and his indulgence of him, they also disclose the attitudes which Shakespeare takes to both [...]
Odysseus' size is also apparent when he Many of Odysseus' traits are honored and respected by the people and society in which he lives.
We believe that the one to who the poem is addressed is a representative of the Western world, the author calls him/her like "you"; this person, going by the author, calls eating primitive.
Though Lost in Yonkers and Yo! both address family problems, the play and the novel differ in their approaching them due to the following points: the way the women and their roles in the family [...]
The rules in a conventional Chinese family are obligatory, where a wife has to be subservient to her husband, so also the children to their father, and each and every person including the husbands, wives [...]
The mental condition of the main character of the book is the main point of this paper's concern. The main character's moral state is determined by her aspiration to the ideals of the colonial system, [...]
Margaret Walker's Jubilee is a lyrical novel that captures and shapes the saga of the African American experience by using the lyrics of slave songs and spirituals that give testimony to the legacy of her [...]
Robert Hayden is probably one of the best known for his verses that discover and articulate the African-American practice, from the epoch of slavery, and the times of Civil War, up to the time he [...]
Both Jack and Algy fool each other in the development of their alter egos, which quickly illustrates to the audience that they are not deception-proof.