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Carl Sandburg as a Recognized Literary Figure

The international recognition that he was able to enjoy may be seen as the result of the quality of his literary endeavors and the style and effectiveness of his writing along with the universality and [...]
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 907

“The Jungle” by Sinclair and “Fast Food Nation” by Schlosser

The overdetermination of trouble in Sinclair's narrative creates a jungle of disjunctions and contradictions, aptly represented by the novel's repeated images of bodily disintegration - of the loss of fingers, the loss of feet, the [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1465

Pauletta Hansel’s Poetry: Divining

Paulette Hansel got used to read her poems in public in order to transfer her emotions and the mood of her poems to the people for them to understand the real sense of her art.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 878

Masculinism in Junot Díaz’s “Drown” Short Stories

In the New Jersey-based stories, the narrators, all of whom may or may not be Yunior, share Yunior's sensibility: the suspicious watchfulness and defensive stance, the blighted relationship with the father figure, and the uneasiness [...]
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1163

“Congo” Novel by Michael Crichton

The novel starts with the end of an expedition when people were attacked and killed by an unknown enemy, and the contact between the expedition and the outer world is lost.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 587

Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace: A Pretty Woman

As a serving maid, she is able to take pride in her ability to support herself and becomes even more familiar with the necessity of a young girl to guard her chastity if she is [...]
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2184

“Secret Sharer” by Joseph Conrad

This brief paper looks at the significance of the title in the light of the settings and the symbolism in the story.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 614

The Play “Antigone“ by Sophocles: Summary

This contradiction is revealed in the play by confronting the principles of two characters, Creon who felt his powers and used them to the fullest possible extent and Antigone with her actions which were not [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 546

The Poem “The Flea” by John Donne

The analysis of the poem The Flea should be viewed through the author's personal style of writing and world look. The style of the poem writing can be characterized as lyrical and romantic as the [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1281

Women in Modern Japanese Literature

The work by Yuko to be considered in this paper is one of the brightest examples of her prose, and it can be observed by the readers that personal concern of the author about her [...]
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2198

Importance of History for the Understanding of Shakespeare

First of all it is necessary to mention, that the historical period, Shakespeare lived and created in was featured by the bloom of the philosophical considerations on the matters of perfect community, and the attempts [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1102

“Less Than Zero” by Bret Ellis

Due to the revolution created by his blatant disclosures in the novel, Ellis began to be considered as the voice of the young generation and literary critics started to refer to the book as representing [...]
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 744

Italian Sonnets: The Structure and Thematic Organization

While the Italian sonnet is also called the Petrarchan sonnet about Francis Petrarch - great fourteen-century poet- the sonnet is claimed to have existed a century before him. The stanzaic form of a sonnet is [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1013

Eudora Welty: Life and Works

It is not easy to distinguish the most important aspects of Eudora Weltys life, because all of them are closely intertwined, though, while analyzing her stories one should pay attention to her family relationships, her [...]
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 717

“To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee

In consequence, the book became a model source of reading that inspired people to further take on the issues of race in the USA and throughout the world.
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 960

“The Last Chance Kid” by Nelson Nye

What Greene does not mention here is that Jesse is her adopted son from Bulgaria and so there is the added responsibility of setting an example of how to live in a society that is [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1031

Principles of Writing Skills

A person who is hesitant to read can never be a good writer, hence I have understood this important thing and I have been working upon it for quite some time now.
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 516

“Flowering Judas” by Katherine Anne Porter

The author of the book employed certain aspects that are interesting in nature and this makes the story capture the minds and the hearts of the most audience.
  • Subjects: Dramatic Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 555

“The Beast in the Jungle” by Henry James

The story is not interesting to read and there is nothing left in the memory to share with others. The Beast in the Jungle is definitely not one of the stories to read twice.
  • Subjects: Dramatical Novel
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 574

“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” by R.S. Stevenson

Stevenson depicts a flaw of the main character through the theme of dual personality which is closely connected with the evolution process and the contemporary problem of unethical scientific researches.
  • Subjects: American Novels Influences
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1255

Alfred J. Prufrock, Dr. Jekyll and Judith Hearne

At the turn of twentieth century, more and more educated White people were finding themselves being deprived of psychological qualities that allowed their ancestors to build and to maintain civilization they were becoming increasingly incapable [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1192

“The Sun Also Rises” Novel by Ernest Hemingway

Cohn states, that he is dissatisfied with his life in Paris, and he believes, that the change of the surrounding scenery would help him to fill the void that he feels in the life.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 558

Characters in “Oedipus the King” by Sophocles

In this essay, we are going to explore the following issues; first, whether, Oedipus can be perceived as a hero in the traditional meaning of this word, in other words, we have to answer the [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1398

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

This scene is the one where the narrator and the attorney were giving a lift to a hitchhiker. Two of us were driving the car to Las Vegas when I saw a boy standing in [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 621

Literature and History in the American Experience

In the pages of history and numerous literary canons in American experience there lies a terrain of societal upheaval and unrest that addresses the questions of segregation and racist philosophy underlying the mainstream dynamics of [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2635

Shylock in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice

However, Shakespeare, being the absolute genius of an artist was able to conceptualize the basic norms of this sentiment and presented his villain of this play as a monster, for the jingoistic mass, and a [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1121

Sanity vs. Madness (Don Quixote vs. Orgon)

This statement will serve us as the main thesis for this paper, because in it, we will aim to prove that, even though Don Quixote and Orgon seem to be out of this world, it [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1538

The Origins of Poetry of Famous Americans Artists

Realizing this is the origin of his own poems, Whitman may have extrapolated this concept to all poets in the above statement, suggesting that the origin of all poems is in the lives of the [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1606

Stereotypes in Glaspell’s “Trifles” Play

Because they are women, the men automatically assume that they are incapable of understanding the gravity of what has occurred just as the men have apparently ignored the possibility that it was Mrs.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 552

“In Dubious Battle” Novel by John Steinbeck

The novel is aimed at disclosure of the principal problems faced by the working class in the 1930s and showing how ordinary people had to struggle for their rights. The flow of events presented in [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 827

Russian Revolution in “Cement” by Gladkov

The novel demonstrates that one of the true insights of Communism is its understanding of the manner in which all human institutions and activities become perverted to the selfish use of particular groups.
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1280

Setting in Works by Chopin, Bambara, and Updike

Setting plays a very important role in the composition of the whole work of literature. In general, the setting is a background of the events in the writer's work.
  • Subjects: Aspects of American Novels
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 579

“My Sister’s Keeper” by Jodi Picoult

The author, as a mother has put a lot of her own reflection and her soul into the novel, still giving her readers the opportunity to form their own opinion about the things in the [...]
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1107

William E. B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk

The book 'The Souls of Black Folk concentrates on the ideas of race and equality, the position of a black man in society, and his unique identity neglected by the white majority.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 875

Mirror Image: Heart of Darkness & Things Fall Apart

However, Okonkwo is helpless once he finds British colonization creeping in and destroying the traditional parameters of the village and their culture as a whole along with the ramification of their religion with the invasion [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1001

Jacob Riis How the Other Half Lives (1890) Analysis

Particularly within the last several decades of the 19th century, land speculation and the lack of any coherent urban policies have led to unchecked growth and urban sprawl, resulting in the loss of thousands of [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 836

“Student Companion to Mark Twain” by David E. E. Sloane

Next to the curriculum committee, the teachers and parents are responsible on the selection and decision of the study material. The characters in the story are country folks and the setting of the story is [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1136

Shakespeare: The Complete Works

Shakespeare introduced a shift in focus from the traditional angelic woman, usually blond and 'bright as the sun', as she is replaced with a Dark Lady whose characteristics remain far from the chaste princess of [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1294

“The Monk” by Matthew Lewis

The Age of the Enlightenment adored the samples of the classical art, in which it has seen the embodiment of intelligence.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1350

Wordsworth & Coleridge About External Universe

It was Wordsworth's belief that Nature has the power to subdue the human heart and to mould the moral life of man, thereby emphasizing the influence of natural objects upon a superstitious soul and the [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2313

“The Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Thesis: The poem is about the wanderings of the ancient mariner who is permanently traumatized and alienated by his killing of the albatross and his experiences lead him to the spiritual realization that all creatures [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2447

The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shicubu

The conflict between his intention to leave the world and his desire to retain the memories of Murasaki is the key issue of the analysis.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2125

The Ugliness of Beauty Interesting title

In following with the traditional ending of fairy tales as applied to Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, the moral of the story is that beauty holds more significance than a thing of character.
  • Subjects: Aspects of American Novels
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1284

Chinua Achebe and His Works

It acknowledged the interdependency of the masculine and the feminine or community values such as the earth and sky. Achebe's stories are also known to use proverbs that incorporate the values of the rural Igbo [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 976

Hedda Gabler vs. Chandara Review

Despite the fact that Tesman tries his best to satisfy Hedda's desires to the best of his ability, she still thinks of him as not being quite worthy of her, because in Hedda's eyes, Tesman [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1031

Tragedy in Greek Plays Analysis

During the ancient times, the Greeks held festivals in honor of Dionysus who was referred to as the god of everything uncivilized where the Athenians tried to control the innate wildness of humanity.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 962

Unhappy Relationships in Hemingway’s Life and Fiction

In "The Short and Happy Life of Francis Macomber", Hemingway reveals his latent fear of strong women and being dominated as he depicts the story of a middle-aged man who is finally beginning to understand [...]
  • Subjects: Aspects of American Novels
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1233

“The Time Traveler’s Wife” by Audrey Niffenegger

The first works of the author are devoted to the writer's life experience and disclose the events and facts which were familiar to her that is why many of these works are autobiographical.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 3041

“The Glass Menagerie” the Play by Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams, a prominent playwright of his own epoch was born on 26 March 1911 in Columbus where he lived with his family consisting of his grandfather who was a religious man in the church, [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1004

Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried”

This appears to be the main motif of O'Brien's book and it is readers' existential mode that prompts them to look at "The Things They Carried" as literary piece that promotes an anti-war sentiment or [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 753

New Criticism in the English and American Literature

Consequently, any effort to state the meaning of the poem appears to be heretical, as it is an affront to the honesty of the complex arrangement of sense within the literary creation.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1111

Elizabeth Bishop: Making Connections Through Adjectives

By looking at poems such as "The Man-Moth," "The Fish," "Filling Station" and "Pink Dog," one can get a sense of how the use of adjectives within her poetry provides Bishop with the power to [...]
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1823

“The Secret Sharer” by Joseph Conrad

At the beginning of the story, as the Captain observes the "straight lines of the flat shore joined to the stable area", it is apparent that he is unable to properly understand where the sea [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1009

“Science Fiction” by Roger Luckhust

The analysis of this genre focuses on the series of fiction works with the purpose of disclosure of unique qualities of fiction theory. The history of technology and science contributes to the formation of contextual [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 933

“We Wear the Mask” by Paul Lawrence Dunbar

They accomplish this through expensive and sometimes dangerous plastic surgery, but the image of the mask is more important to them than the true health of the individual.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1271

“Socrates’s Apology” by Plato

The point about his defense is that he wanted to stick to the speech he had prepared and it was planned and was well prepared.
  • Subjects: World Philosophy Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 565

William Wordsworth: An Example of a Romantic

Occurring as it did from the middle of the 1700s to the middle of the 1800s, the Romantic Period was an age of tremendous change and upheaval.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 3047

Edna’s Suicide in Kate Chopin’s “The Awakening”

Thesis: Edna's journey to the end of the sea at the end of the novel can be interpreted in two ways: the simplistic one being that Edna commits suicide and a deeper interpretation being it's [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1648

France and England Relations in Shakespeare’s “Henry V”

In order to defend Henry, Shakespeare portrays that the stability and order of the kingdom partly depend on Henry's proving his qualities as a strong leader, drives home in realistic detail the disorderly "savagery" in [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1455

Utopian Societies Depicted by Sir Thomas More

In 1516 More completed his most well known and contentious work, Utopia, a work of fiction in which a imagined voyager, Raphael Hythloday, explains the political structures of the invented island nation of Utopia for [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 339

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Works and Feminism

The woman's role is depicted ever so poignantly in the works of Divakaruni and this also reflects the importance of reclaiming the understanding of the role of women in society.
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1013

“A Visit to Newgate” by Charles Dickens

The mood of amusement in A Visit to Newgate is controlled by the principle that the fascination of everyday scenes has only to be recognized to be enjoyed.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1709

“Voices of Protest” by Alan Brinkley

A reorganization of the banking system, limitations on the stock market, an increase in the volume of bureaucracy, and the patronizing of social security were a few of the projects undertaken by his government to [...]
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1108

Dress and Appearance in Beaton’s and Ellis’ Novels

As literature in this way or another is a reflector of human life, dress and appearance fulfill here the same functions of presenting the characters or events, revealing the characters' inner worlds or the crucial [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 614

Novels by Lessing and Schiller Comparison

Emilia Galotti is the central figure of the play with her parents Odoardo and Claudia. Emilia is the daughter of a respectable bourgeois officer Odoardo and has caught the eye of the womanizing Prince Gonzaga.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 15
  • Words: 3791

“The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” Novel by Bauby

Bauby was absorbed by this idea, and after the stroke happened to him, he thought that the power of thought was so strong that his idea gave him the chance to write the desired book [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 2023

«Dancing Girls» by Margaret Atwood

The major topic of the analysis in this paper is the role of the secondary characters in the development of the theme of absence of perspectives in the life of ordinary people who came to [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 706

Search for the Identity in Ellison’s “Invisible Man”

Many critics have generalized the version of the "Invisible Man" as the most influential novel of the Post World War II and the greatest literary work highlighting the extraordinary way the invisible black man strives [...]
  • Subjects: Dramatical Novel
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1783

The Human Part of “We”, Based on Zamiatin’s

Therefore, all real emotional response is suppressed and the perfect regimentation of the way of life in the One State is supposed to overcome this fatal human flaw.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 12
  • Words: 3610

“Novel 1984” by George Orwell

The specific inspirations for the Oceania society from "1984" were The Soviet Union and Nazi Germany with their inherent propaganda, betrayal of the ideals of the revolution, concentration camps and misinformation.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 953

“Celia, a Slave” by Melton A. McLaurin

In these lines, the author tries to emphasize the idea that this person was a respected member of the community and he seemed to be a man of honor in the eyes of the public.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1097

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Review

Bradbury's vision of America and Americans assumes the form of the game of the possible because he wants it to be played out in reality.
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1888

“Frankenstein“ the Book by Mary Shelley

Though the true nature of the Monster is virtuous and kind, he is treated like a beast, like a devil and even his creator addresses to him as to "it" "For this I had deprived [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1070

“On Witchcraft” by Cotton Mather

Cotton Mather however does not forget to mention the fact that devil exists and he works in collaboration with the witches and uses them to achieve his goals and objectives of seeing that the world [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1376

Love and Death in “The Pearl” by John Steinbeck

He shouts his good fortune to his fellow divers, and before he reaches home, the news is already known to the inhabitants of the village and the town, including the priest and the doctor.
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1402

Exile and Escape in Hemingway’s “Soldier’s Home”

Hence, the decision he takes could explore his temperament and hence reading the themes of exile and escape in Hemingway's Soldier's Home is an interesting study of these sensitive concepts as caricatured in the protagonist, [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1570

Sarajevo Blues Poems by Semezdin Mehmedinovic

The honesty in which the poems of Semezdin Mehmedinovic were written might lay in the fact that for the whole period of the Serbian nationalistic siege he remained a citizen of Sarajevo.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 865

Memorable Characterization in American Literature

The methods of revealing the characters and how the authors' managed to entice the audience to identify with the characters are only similar in that they are each quite unique.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 12
  • Words: 3256

Emile Zola’s “Ladies Delight” Analysis

He described the promotion of a young country girl Denise who came to Paris in search of a better life, the success of a developing department store business, and the atmosphere of commerce and shopping, [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 681

Language of Henry V and King Lear by W. Shakespeare

The most obvious similarities in the language of the two plays are that it takes a good actor to be able to deliver the lines at all, and a superb actor to be able to [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 831

Discussion of the Play Wit by Margaret Edson

Wit starts with Vivian addressing the watchers: she is presently a patient in a central research clinic undergoing curing for sophisticated ovarian cancer, and she realizes that the prognosis is not consolatory."The Faerie Queene this [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1045