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“White Supremacy” by George M. Fredrickson

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

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

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

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

The Theme of Love in the Old English Literature

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

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

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

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

“Native Speaker” by Chang-rae Lee

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

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

“Divine Comedy” by Dante: Parallels and Contrasts

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

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

Langston Hughes’s Fine Clothes to the Jew Poems

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

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

People Get What Deserve. “Oedipus the King” Play

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

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

Scientist’s Role in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

The great issues of the day were the main focus of articles as well as the works of fiction that were becoming much more popular as the price of books fell."The Victorian novel, with its [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 575

Analysis of Kafka’s Creativity

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

“China Shakes the World” by James Kynge

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

Society: Turning Men Into Monsters

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

Sordello and Statius in “Purgatorio” by Dante Alighieri

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

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

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

The Role of God or Goddess in Aeschylus’s The Oresteia

Says William von Humboldt of the Agamemnon, and his remarks might be applied to the entire trilogy: "Among all the products of the Greek stage none can compare with it in tragic power; no other [...]
  • Subjects: Dramatic Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1527

Deconstructing the Poetry of Emily Dickinson

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

To Lucasta, Going to the Wars

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

Parents Influence Sexuality, Based on Two Novels

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

“Hot, Flat and Crowded” by Thomas Friedman

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

Walt Whitman and His Poetry

There are a number of reasons why Whitman's poetry might have been different from what had been introduced in academic circles to that point these having to do with the time in which he lived, [...]
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1866

Primo Levi: The Survival in Auschwitz

In narrating his good fortune he writes "It was my good fortune to be deported to Auschwitz only in 1944", and explains that when he reached Auschwitz "the German Government had decided, owing to the [...]
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 820

Modern Myth: Seneca Indians Creation Myths

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

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass is the writer of the slavery origin, who managed to get an education and to tell the whole world about the life of slaves, about their suffering and abjection, which they have to [...]
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 611

“Refuge Fragile as a Snowflake by John Balzar

The author wants the reader to feel the wild beauty of the land. He suggests that the House of Representatives regards the Alaska landscape as a source of income, while he stresses the fragility of [...]
  • Subjects: Dramatic Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 658

Malcolm X’s “Ballot or Bullet” Speech: An Analysis

There is nothing ethical in Malcolm's urgings in his overt and covert 'call to arms' though he cleverly covers up by giving a choice of either using the 'Ballot' or the 'Bullet' when he actually [...]
  • Subjects: Dramatic Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 569

“The Tipping Point” by Malcolm Gladwell

Gladwell's main thesis pertains to the trends in society being understood in the same manner as researchers understand the spreading of viruses and to the fact that a surprisingly large variety of social phenomena can [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 595

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

Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle

The end of the nineteenth century and the first several decades of the twentieth were extremely difficult for the world and especially for the working class in terms of working conditions and wages.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 828

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

Analysis of Rumi’s “Poem 14”

Therefore, during the course of working on this paper, we will refer to Rumi's Poem 14, and to his poetry in general, as to what it really is a poetic sublimation of Oriental soul's longing [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1981

Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers

In the book Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers" by Kwame Anthony Appiah, the author has categorically described the value of differing cultures and the methods which are primarily used to keep two varying [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2309

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

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 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

“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: 4
  • Words: 1019

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

“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

Putting Animals in Literature: Costello and Kafka

The question of animals' rights can hardly be taken seriously in modern society; the world of literature represented a clear philosophical and theoretical view on the role of wild and domestic creatures in human life. [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1447

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

A Cinderella for All Cultures

She prevents the girl from attending the Festival, forcing her to do her household chores instead, and the African Cinderella is saved by a frog who repays her kindness to him in the past by [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1364

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

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: 10
  • Words: 2683

“The Monkey Wrench Gang” by Edward Abbey

The novel became very popular and created the idiom of monkey wrench in referring to the sabotage activities that damaged machines and led to violence in America in order to protect natural habitat and conserve [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 567

“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

“Mending Wall” by Robert Frost

At the same time, the reader can develop a finer appreciation of how these elements are constructed to contribute to the final impact of the poem.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 621

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

Anti-Franklinian Stance of Rip Van Winkle’s Character

Metamophically Rip's nagging wife is the British petticoat governor in the colonial era, and Rip's reunion with his family symbolizes the American Revolution. They both held to the belief that Rip's character was an antithesis [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 555

Nathaniel Hawthorne: Original Sin in “The Birthmark”

The idea of physical expression of the imperfections of the human nature and spirit is widely represented and deeply studied, and the idea that a man is able to create something perfect while he himself [...]
  • Subjects: Romantic Literature
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 1670

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

Characterization in The Storm: Calixta and Alcee

The image of storm is used by Kate Chopin as a metaphor to describe the romantic feelings that explode in the hearts of the two people, Alcee and Calixta.
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 825

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

Tragedy and Comedy as Literary Forms

The main differences between tragedy and comedy are in their content and the effect they produce on the audience; Greeks used these literary forms as the embodiment of their faith, history, and culture; they are [...]
  • Subjects: Dramatic Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 835

“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