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Wagner’s Das Rheingold and Schiller’s The Robbers

In the light of this statement, it should be emphasized that the real value of dramatic literature study is the research of the tendencies of the literary and theater development through the time.
  • Subjects: Dramatic Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 567

“The Agony and the Ecstasy” Novel by Irving Stone

The agony and the ecstasy is the work of Irving Stone who is an American author. The cardinal instead fails to suggest a specific topic for his work and even after months of waiting for [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 846

“Death in Venice,” a Novella by Thomas Mann

However, this does not mean that the notion of decadence had ceased to represent a conceptual significance as Mann's novel implies, it is only the matter of time for an individual who decides to embrace [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1680

Children’s Literature Evaluation: Fairy Tales

This purpose of this study is to point out the features of three stories Cinderella, The Three Little Pigs and Red Riding Hood in their relation to one another and to previous and current generations.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 827

Narrative Poems and Their Interpretation

A narrative poem is supposed to be a narration of a definite story in the form of a poem; it is a piece of literature where a plot of the story is more important than [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 598

“Superiority” by Arthur Clarke

The reading of Arthur Clarke's short story "Superiority" had brought me to the following set of conclusions, in regards to how story's motifs relate to particulars of my professional affiliation: The implementation of groundbreaking technologies [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1349

The African American Literature

African American literature during this turbulent period in the lives of African Americans was heavily influenced by the rise in radicalism, enlightenment and the advent of industrialization.
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 605

The Literature From Slavery to Freedom

Its main theme is slavery but it also exhibits other themes like the fight by Afro-Americans for freedom, the search for the identity of black Americans and the appreciation of the uniqueness of African American [...]
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 558

“Rebecca’s Revival” by F. Sensbach

The story is in the context of one personality constructing her life, and unknown to, reconstructs many other people's lives in the multifaceted world that defines the Atlantic region.
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1976

“Riding the Bus with My Sister” by Rachel Simon

Rachel's quest to learn more about her sister's disability is one of the most compelling parts in the book. It was a brilliant idea for Rachel to accompany her sister on the buses because it [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 950

“The Goophered Grapevine” by Charles Chesnutt

To him, it sounded like the culture was just a way of enriching oneself, like in the case of Mars Dugal, and this could not deter him from exploiting the potential the land had.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 611

Greek Attitude Towards Death and Afterlife

The thoughts about death and the beyond can send shivers down the spine of a contemporary person and the attitude of ancient Greeks to death was practically the same.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 876

Journey in “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy

The father and his son expect the arrival of God and they see a final destination on God's side. The old man stands near the road for a long time and he is the only [...]
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 582

Why I Live at the P.O. and Hills Like White Elephants

She went to the extent of accusing that Shirley-T had no manners as she was sticking out the tongue at her in a horrible way. The Eudora also left her family to go and stay [...]
  • Subjects: Dramatic Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 909

“The Story of an Hour” and “The Sorrowful Woman”

This essay seeks to explain that in order to have a successful marriage, the husband and wife should work together as a single unit in which the husband and wife play their respective roles without [...]
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  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 550

Practical Guide to Simple Sustainability by Greg Horn

The aim of the literature review is to evaluate current literature on the topic of social ties, neighboring and community in the city, and give a detailed analysis of each source.
  • Subjects: Concepts in American Novels
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1802

An Aesthetic Project Based on a Short Story

The background is the faded wall] A group of women is sitting on the opposite side and the background is a faded wall- 'you should cry, and tries to relief' by the women.
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 855

Failed Leadership Can Only Be Whipped by Satire

In what is a parallel to Marx's philosophy and attack on the exploitation of the workers by the capitalists; and therefore a call for a revolution, the farm animals are inspired by the counsel of [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2609

“A Bear Named Trouble” by Bauer

The evidence from the plot of the book that supports the position taken on understanding the underlying factors of behavior is the realization that the bear had killed the goose due to the feelings of [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 799

“The Military Family” by James Martin

The book chronicles the military's efforts to deal with the social challenges and how the operational dynamics have forced the military to outsource and privatize many of the family support functions to civilian service providers [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2041

“On the Art of Life and Vice Versa” by Michael Kimmelman

The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa is a powerful little book about arts. It is intentional of Kimmelman to make the reader trace the art to less promising circumstances a [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1598

Langston Hughes’ “Mother to Son” and “Cross”

Both poems are written about the relationships between children and parents; however, Mother to Son poem is written from mother's perspective while Cross is written in form of a monologue of a son. The first [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1229

American Literature: Setting and Sexuality

In the story of the motion of light in water, Delany marries a girl after making her pregnant, although the two try to stay together; the relationship ends up in a split after Delany realizes [...]
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1692

“Growing Old” by Matthew Arnold

The language in which the poem has been written is quite commendable and I really have a passion for the words that have been used in the poem.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 847

“The Wasteland” by Thomas Eliot

In the society stage, a critic looks at the significance/meaning of the poem in relation to the community for which the poem was written.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 20
  • Words: 5204

Protagonist in Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”

The Protagonist plays a major part to achieve the goals of the story while the antagonist is an adversary who struggles against the efforts of the protagonist.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 827

“I Have a Dream” by Martin Luther King: What Has Changed

The constitution was drafted by the framers in such a manner that only White men who owned acres of land and property would be given the right to voice their opinion and decide the functioning [...]
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 818

“Contemporary Literary Criticism” by Lowell

His collection of poems "The Mills of the Kavanaughs" was written under the influence of Robert Frost and Robert Browning. The poem is mixed with images of death and a young boy's love for his [...]
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1507

King Henry in the Play “Henry V” by W. Shakespeare

From the play's very beginning, Shakespeare establishes Henry V as responsible ruler of his subjects, who does not only impose law on others but also lives up to the requirements of the same law.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1593

Art of Being Human: Analysis of Two Novels

The protagonist of the story, Jack Hawthorne, is considered to be the example of the person seeking consolation in horn music because of the brother's death; the death is showed as the way to something [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1369

Music Theme in “The Weary Blues”

The poem The Weary Blues was written by Langston Hughes; the author devoted his work to the description of the music theme highlighting the role of blues and the uniqueness of this genre.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 624

Views on Society in Chosen Novels

The present paper argues that whereas "Greasy Lake" and "Lord of the Flies" imply that a group of people turns into a cruel and blood-thirsty tribe in the absence of authority, "Lottery" and "On the [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1052

Instances of Awakening in Chopin’s Novel

Although she does not yet fully understand her thoughts, she is deeply aware of a change coming over her, causing her to openly and defiantly resist her husband's calls to her to come in from [...]
  • Subjects: American Novels Influences
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1128

Love and Alienation in Modern and Postmodern America

The general mood for this era at least for the creative minds that produce novels, poems, and other works of art can be summarized using the words of one commentator who pointed to the numbing [...]
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2691

Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Poetry: British Romanticism

There can be no doubt as to the fact that Romantic writers and poets strongly opposed the ideals of the French Revolution; however, this was not due to these ideals' rational essence, but because, during [...]
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1318

“Iceman Cometh” by O’Neill

O'Neill depicts that one of the many sins these women committed is to have built up the image of prostitutes as romantic and sensational, instead of showing these women as they really are, unfortunate and [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1407

“Even the Saints Cry” by Oscar Lewis

Even though Cruz is finding it difficult to cope with life here, the more she stays here the more she get as adapted to this environment.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1193

“Annabel Lee” the Work by Edgar Allen Poe

The narrative description of the elegy expresses the narrator's undying love for 'Annabel Lee' detailing a love which had originated many a year ago in the unidentified 'kingdom by the sea'.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 971

A Poem Is a Fruit

It is a fruit of the tree that is the poet's mind. There is always a great satisfaction in finding out the meaning of those poems, it's like you have climbed a tall tree and [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 594

Human-Animals Hybrids in Literature

In that regard, it can be stated that the occurrence of such creatures in literature can be differently interpreted, depending on the type of the work and the literary and philosophical functions of these creatures [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 641

The Problem of Hero and Villain in Literature

As shown by the examples of Prometheus from Prometheus Bound, James Stark from Rebel without a Cause, and Barry from Barry Lyndon, being a hero and a villain is possible for one and the same [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1670

The Mythical Villains: Gilgamesh, Ravana and Oedipus

Thus, the myth is one of the literary genre which helped ancient people to understand and explain the structure and natural phenomena of the world, environment, people and other creatures around, the origins of everything [...]
  • Subjects: Mythology
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2012

Aleatory Writing: Making Works More Expressive

Some poets use different stylistic devices to make their works more expressive and keep to a definite type of writing to stand out, whereas the others neglect all the rules of writing verses and rely [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 829

Augustine, Abelard and Heloise

Augustine, the film shows the perversion of free will and the fall to the inferior level of God's creation, Abelard would note that the true justice is executed in the film, whereas Heloise would focus [...]
  • Subjects: World Philosophy Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1178

“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

Emersonian Idealism Main Characteristics

Emerson's outlook embraced an idealistic view of the world together with the key role of nature in it, and the ultimate objective of one's life was seen in cognition and understanding of the world with [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 948

Heroic Models Themes and Lack of Adventure Nowadays

The most appropriate theme for the modern world is the theme of the lack of adventures. The theme of adventures is one of the main ones in this book, as all the actions are related [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 956

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

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

Robert Frost’s Winter Solitude: Themes and Symbolism

The poem 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' written by Robert Frost, is considered to be one of the most prominent works of world literature; the poem is dedicated to the disclosure of nature [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1702

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

Characters in “The Tortilla Curtain” by Boyle

This could be in the character's attitude the life and his constant discontent with the way he lives throughout the novel. His framed vision of life does not allow him to embrace the real material [...]
  • Subjects: Aspects of American Novels
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 549

“Oedipus the King” Drama by Sophocles

It vividly discloses and illustrates the talent of the ancient Greek dramatist as the master of disclosure of the themes that have been topical in the course of development of human society and literature.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 953

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

Conflict of Poor and Wealth From Two Perspectives

The protagonist of the story is Delaney Mossbacher, who was lucky to be born in a good family, to receive a good education and to life a successful life with his wife.
  • Subjects: Aspects of American Novels
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 840

“Journey’s End” by Robert Cedric Sherriff

With the help of locations, furniture, different subjects, which are rather important scenes of the play, the horrors of war, and importance of cooperation are emphasized.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 930

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

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

Analysis of Themes of Slavery in Literature

The paper will be concentrated on the analysis of the works 'The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano' by Olaudah Equiano, 'Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass' by Frederick Douglass, and 'Incidents [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 879

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

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

“Construction of Deafness” by Harlan Lane Analysis

One side of the debate believes that deafness is a disability, while their opponents claim that this is a sign of belonging to a distinct linguistic community which is marginalized not only in the United [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1674

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

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: 6
  • 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

Symbols in “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty

On the other hand, the principles of new criticism do not consider such factors, limiting the area of analysis to the text itself, i.e.the verbal meaning of the words, the language, the structure, and the [...]
  • Subjects: Aspects of American Novels
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1120

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