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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 [...]

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 [...]

We can see that her worries and apprehensions are answered with the keystone idea that "Death is the mother of beauty".

The human personality traits determined the gods and goddesses to be immortalized, hence the actions that were observed in the myths were as a symbol of the actual actions of men.

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.

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.

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".

One such device in Hamlet is Shakespeare's placing of the Danish prince in the context of Fortinbras and Laertes as the characters that, like Hamlet, find themselves in the role of having to avenge their [...]

Thesis A central strand in this poem is the stress on the expressive and emotional side achieved through stylistic devices and vivid images of 'hips.' The main theme of the poem is freedom as a [...]

The races portrayed in the novel are real and existed in the time of the writer. The Last of the Mohicans is set on the American frontier during the French and Indian War.

Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale, is Ahab's adversary, at least in the mind of the captain. Moby Dick is experienced in the ways of the chase and shows his power and fury in [...]

Getting a personal ticket to salvation is his main concern and he does not stop before imperiling the lives of his family.

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 [...]

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".

There is no denying the importance of the fact that recent developments in literature paid more attention to experimental approach to literature avoiding strict schemata and such popular feature of traditional literature as climax or [...]

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 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 [...]

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.

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.

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 [...]

Every action and character in the novel, in this manner, is linked to and affected by the role of the scientist protagonist Victor Frankenstein.

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 myths tell that hera and Zeos were married in the garden of the gods, and in honor of the occasion, a marvelous tree, bearing apples of gold, sprang out of the earth.

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.

He even states this in his assessment: "But the not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad because they cannot allow the self.

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 [...]

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.

These assessments are made based upon the appearances of others, such as in her identification of the cotton print dress that is recognizable to Mrs. Through imagery and setting, O'Connor is successful in heavily lacing [...]

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 [...]

In Peter Pan literature, the writer uses different techniques to deliver his message to the writer. The writer tells a story complete with characters that include Peter Pan, Wendy, John and Jane.

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.

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 [...]

Thus, Lord Byron was involved in political struggle and considered one of the revolutionists of his time. Byron died of malaria in Greece while preparing to assist in the Greek war of independence against the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

But if you look at the other side of the story this kindness shown to Bartleby is only the social responsibility of one person to the rest of the world.

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' [...]

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 [...]

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.

Judging by the sentiments involved in the poem, the lover could be someone as remote from him as a woman he rode in a carriage once, or even a spectator who came to see one [...]

The story focuses upon an unnamed narrator who struggles to find a sense of fulfillment in a world in which personal fulfillment is supposed to be accomplished through making the right purchases and having access [...]

I believe that the narrative style of the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer called Everything Is Illuminated is one of the main factors that determine the never ending interest of the readers towards the book.

As he stood beneath the lights of the strident room, the inhabitants beam him and make him replicate himself; an unintentional orientation to parity nearly damages him, but the whole thing terminates well and he [...]

The poem and painting chosen for the analysis in this paper belong to the works of the second group, that is the picture came to existence much earlier than the poem which, in its turn, [...]

The reader gets to know her from the first pages of the novel. Thomas contributes to the feeling of something horrific vapouring in the air.

While Shelley's work concerns the fantastic events that took place in the time contemporary to the author, the setting of "Oryx and Crake" is a far future when, as the author predicts, the mankind will [...]

But what is one to do?" Through the course of the story, the woman transforms from an individual who adores the outside and green growing things to becoming lost in the artificial world created by [...]

Thus, Henry is not a hero to everybody in the play including the French and Catherine. If at all, the women in the play offer a challenge to the values of Henry and his male [...]

The members of the community have made all the preparations, "had all put their hearts into their work" and now are ready to present the results of their work to the public opinion.

Multiple causes are in force right in the first few paragraphs: the horrendous transformation that Gregor has undergone, the panic and anxiety that the family members feel when Gregor is not responding to urgent summons [...]

However, there is a hint, both here and toward the end of the poem, that, like the moon, the lover's body may not always be as open, available, and illuminating to him, thus the need [...]

However, he was dedicated to his craft and to the integrity of his stories; an integral aspect of this dedication was presenting experiences as realistically as possible.

She does not display any interest in trying to take responsibility and improve the lives of her peers in any way.

The selected adaptations are based on the story where the interaction between a boy and a giant is the major element in the plot.

In Dylan's song, the masters of war hide at the time "young people's blood / Flows out of their bodies / And is buried in the mud".

The scene with the leaving bus that is the beginning of the "One Day in December" perfectly emphasizes the potential of this story to become a successful movie.

The essence of the poem revolves around the idea that life was not a crystal staircase for the main heroine, who is the speaker, and she warns her child about it.

In the paper, the author will explore the validity of this suggestion at length while promoting the idea that Keegan's collection of essays holds the actual key to understanding the ongoing geopolitical decline of the [...]

However, as time progresses, the relevance of the story may become outdated, beginning a discussion on its presence in the Americana literary canon."Good Country People" deserves continuous recognition in the canon due to its brilliant [...]

The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast how Medea and Socrates respond to injustice or unfair accusations. The following section discusses how Medea and Socrates respond or react to adversity by comparing [...]

The Samuel Eliot Morison Prize-winning author John Keegan focuses on the description of the battles Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme, their characteristics, and impact in his 2004 non-fiction book The Face of the Battle.

As he says in the author's note of his book, his purpose was to provide evidence about the last days of Marie Antoinette's imprisonment. In the book, the author describes the seventy-six days of Marie [...]

The story is mostly descriptive and the speaker starts by narrating the "appearance presented by the streets of London an hour before sunrise on a summer's morning". The drunken, the dissipated, and the wretched have [...]

In conclusion, The Archbishop's Vampires is a vivid example of scientific narratives because of its dualistic goals that include giving a thorough description of a phenomenon and intriguing the reader through telling an amusing story.

In " The Aeneid," Virgil tells of the adventures of the hero of the Trojan war, Aeneas, who was destined by the gods to stay alive after the destruction of Troy to come to Italy [...]

The Monkey is one of the masterpieces of literature that contains the ethics, morality, religion, and culture of the Eastern world.

The purpose of this paper is to explain why Monkey is an allegory of Buddhist teachings in the selected novel. The reader also observed that Tripitaka is a representation of the physical outcomes and experiences [...]

However, what the reader should acknowledge is that the author manages to present a wholesome and clear image of the issues and occurrences that defined the United States throughout the 1920s.

In this paper, special attention will be paid to Walt Whitman as one of major and the most effective anticipators of the modernism movement because of the chosen fearlessness, intents to promote equalities in everything, [...]

The inciting incident of the series is a giant man breaking down the door and telling Harry about his horrible legacy.

Apart from sharing similarities linked to their belonging to the movers and shakers, both Laertes and Hamlet face the same tragedy in life.

1 However, irrespective of the choice of the level of imagery, both authors employ it, which gives their stories a peculiar character and arouses mixed feelings on the part of the reader.

In The Monkey & the Monk: an Abridgment of the Journey to the West, the Monkey is one of the main protagonists of the book, as is apparent from its title.

The story is a critique of control in marriages and dominant attitudes towards women in the society of the 19th century.

It is a mistake to think that it is enough to study the summary or read the review articles to paint the story of Cecilia and Claudio.

Maika, a teenage girl from the world in the state of war, is different from other characters of the book due to some of her physical features and an unconquerable will.

In the US, the concept of blackness is the key idea that defines the social, political, and cultural position of African-Americans, both in past and present periods of history.

The unusual character of these events resulted in the creation of the book Into the Wild by Krakauer, who tried to repeat the same way and explain the main causes of the main character's actions.

The first chapter of the book is highly significant for the overall understanding of the book's message as it provides the context in which the rest of the narration should be perceived.

With the help of her poetic imagination, Dickinson shares her experiences with the world. For instance, the influence of her Calvinist faith can be observed in her four-line stanzas and meter.

This final phase of The Chauffeurs of Madrid reiterates that Hipolito is what a modern man should be in the face of war, according to Hemingway.

First of all, it is the mystery of a man who wants to preserve the nature of Miami and area, save it from being destroyed by tourists and other people who disrespect it.

For example, it relates to Ralegh's "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd," which is a response to Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love".

With the help of her mistress who tried to raise Catherine's self-respect "with fine clothes and flattery," the character changed her manner of dressing.

It is valid to say that Braddon represented Lady Audley this way to highlight the subordinate role of a woman in the 19th century and also challenge it.

The situation is indicative of the overall condition of a significant part of humanity, and the boy's foremost desire is to escape the situation.

Both Count Orlok and the Other Mother possess the ability to mimic normal people but still are have more powers than these people, yet the disturbing relatability of Beldam's motives and the terrifying goal of [...]

Since the first stages of the evolution of the civilized world, there have always been multiple debates about the just character of regulations that are taken as basic ones for the life of particular communities.

In other words, she is trying to claim that a man's struggles and duties are not as difficult as a woman's hardships.

The topic of family dynamics is necessary and relevant to modern relationships between parents and children. In turn, the poem by Hughes focuses on the metaphor of stairways as a symbol of her difficult life [...]

The mother is declaring bankruptcy, and as her life falls apart, she tells stories of her life and discusses the meaning of the American dream in the modern context with allusions to the Oregon Trail [...]

Additionally, the main form of psychological imprisonment was the character's obedience to her husband who did not believe in her sickness and did not allow her to think that it was something more than a [...]