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Rhetoric. “Oedipus” Play by Sophocles

In the play, Oedipus sought his own origins because he understands the importance of knowing his own family. The theme of destiny is also important in the play Oedipus.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 559

Ladies and Gentlemen, to the Gas Chamber by Borowski

The people utilized every means to survive and eventually get out of the streets of the Ghetto. The morale of the people disappeared and the consequent sense of cruelty and loss of hope existed in [...]
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 834

The Changes in British Literature

Going further, as a whole the literature from the restoration of the monarchy to the rise of the queen in 1702 it was in striking contrast with the ease of the dispositions of court society, [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 628

The Poem “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe

The beginning of the poem reveals the narrator's feelings toward Annabel Lee, determining the theme and the mood of the verse: "a maiden there lived whom you may know by the name of Annabel Lee; [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 735

Rene Gallimard in “M. Butterfly” by David Henry Hwang

This can be demonstrated by the fact that the plot of the play develops not in one line, i.e.in a direct subsequence of events, but with references to the past while the very present events [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1473

“Night Shift” by Stephen King

Taking into account the numerous means, which King uses to create the atmosphere of mystery and horror, it is impossible to enlist them all.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 513

The “Aeneid” and “Ramayana” Comparison

Secondly, this poem is relevant more to the youth as most of the characters are young, like Aeneas, who is being told about the history of the city by his mother, Venus.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 970

Dostoevsky’s and Marx’s Works Review

In the first place, the point stated in the Manifesto is that human nature might, can, and even should subdue a regime of power in a country.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1067

“The Gossamer Years” by Karego Nikki

First and foremost, although it is a literary piece of work, it can be considered as a historical truth thanks to the author living at that particular period of time and claim that the given [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 830

“Mein Kampf” by Adolf Hitler

After the death of his mother in 1907, Hitler moved to the city of Vienna, where he hoped to join the Art Academy.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1871

John Hersey: Technique in Literature

This abstract symbolizes the matter, that fate achieved the turning point, and the wind of change is blowing. The tears, which she rewards denote that these changes will be rather painful, and lots of effort [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 639

Physical Hunger in “Black Boy” by Richard Wright

This paper defines the term hunger, describes other forms of hunger, and finally tries to interpret Wrights form of physical hunger to find out if it is representative of something.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 637

Comparison of Salinger’s and Miller’s Works

Set in the cities of New York and Boston, "Death of a Salesman" the story happens during the 50s and 60s, the story reminds readers that there is more to life than just pursuing the [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 953

Khaled Hosseini: A Thousand Splendid Suns

Hosseini's natures, Mariam and Laila, are memorable; their sympathy for each other and love for their children is overwhelming."A Thousand Splendid Suns" narrates the story of two women against the backdrop of the previous forty [...]
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1297

Beatrice and Gertrude Comparison

Gertrude as Queen is the lead female character opposite Hamlet in the book of the same name. Beatrice has long served as Dante's inspirational muse and in the Divine Comedy it is no different, Beatrice [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 341

“The Power of Myth” the Book by J. Campbell

Through the dynamic of science itself, a new world-view - a new picture of the nature of the universe - is emerging from the present cultural confusion and is showing the first signs of solid [...]
  • Subjects: Mythology
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 903

The Theme of Death in Fiction-Writing

Nevertheless, while it is emotional, having to deal with death, the pain of losing a son, and having to deal with the sympathy of people around them, the story disguised the emotion of the individuals [...]
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1170

“Rocking Horse Winner” by D. H. Lawrence

Thesis The symbol of horse winner symbolizes the "desire" of a family to prosper and flourish, but at the same time, "desire" is a mirage that disappears and leaves nothing to the family.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 557

Sorrows of Young Werther

First of all it is necessary to emphasize, that the novel is written in the epistolary genre, and it is aimed to highlight the protagonist's sorrows.
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 531

Literature and Community Relations

Through "Sammy," the central character, the author is trying to show the kind of radical change that was happening in the society in the 60s.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 637

Methods of Critical Reading

Sometimes it is immense fun to read other's writings."The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write, a man will turn over half a library to make one book".
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 683

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)

He went to a boarding school where he went through one of the most difficult and unhappy phases of his life. He also contributed a lot in the theory of elections.
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1252

“Barbie Doll” by Marge Piercy

Then in the magic of puberty, a classmate said: You have a great big nose and fat legs. In the casket displayed on satin she lay with the undertaker's cosmetics painted on, a turned-up putty [...]
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 691

Goddess Movement and “Spiral Dance” by Starhawk

It is important that women recognize their importance as leaders in the preservation of freedom of choice and of the evolving dynamic of the interconnectedness of life. In a patriarchal society, the woman is subjugated [...]
  • Subjects: Gender in Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 644

Novel by Nick Hornsby “How to be Good”

Katie has a cynical view of the self-righteous concepts of Good News and David. She cannot abide by the concept of goodness which is prevalent in David and Good News.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2036

The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

Verloc is a particularly unique spy character because he fails where the traditional spy succeeds, and lacks the strength and wit of the spy we are familiar with.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1941

Russian Literature and Culture

The novel also shows that the character, Venichka, was well educated and very religious but because of the society, he was forced to drink to exploit his creativity. The book encourages drinking in the society [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1339

Great Works of Literature Impacts

Social oppression of Hamlet as the talented representative of descending class undeceives that there is not only a death that menacing to Hamlet, but also social injustice, "the whips and scorns of time, the oppressor's [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 801

“The Divine Comedy” by Dante Alighieri

The Divine Comedy, written by Italian writer Dante Alighieri between approximately 1308 and his death in 1321, is commonly regarded as the most well-known epic poem of Italian literature and is seen as one of [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 541

Tom Wolfe: What Is “The Right Stuff”

In this piece of Wolfe's, "the right stuff" as it is referred to is what Wolfe believes is morally correct or prudent in terms of what our children and people of the world in general [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 655

Jonathan Kozol’s “Amazing Grace”

Through this book, Kozol tries to reach out to the human conscience and in his thought-provoking style, takes the reader on a journey into the lives of the poorest of poor children, shedding light on [...]
  • Subjects: American Novels Influences
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 749

What Is American Literature?

In today's literature, it is possible to observe the artistic, historical, social, and political value of literary work in connection with the social and political conditions of the definite epoch.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1104

Willy Loman and Oedipus as Tragic Heroes

Thus, the tragic hero should combine the following characteristics: He should cause emotional attachment; The audience should fear for the fate of the hero; A tragic hero should cause pity in the audience.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1307

“The Joys of Motherhood” by Buchi Emecheta

The 'Theme of this book could be suitably applied in the modern days, where there is a serious drift/immigration to The West and European countries in the quest for a greener pasture.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 509

What Is Morality: Based on English Literature

A person is not only a part of nature and the social world but also pertains to the deepest bases of the Universe in its spiritual sense and the difference between Good and Evil.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 670

Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown”: Facing the Darkness

It is not difficult to realize that Hawthorne's intention in "Young Goodman Brown" is to force the reader to experience the temptations which Brown himself must endure and that he is made to see the [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1759

Irish Literature in English Analysis

One of the functions of the double vision is to offer an escape from reality, and one of the forms this escape often takes is the pastoral.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 977

Mark Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson Review

This is illustrated through the fingerprint evidence proving one man is 'black' and the other is 'white' despite the relative sameness of their actual skin tone, the restoration of societal perceptions of the black man [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1433

Chinese Poetry: The Use of Naturalism

This is because much of the imagery included in the poems is of nature, which has multiple applications."As in the Changes, so in the Poetry most images are drawn from the natural world, not surprising [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1523

“The Taming of the Shrew”: Petruchio and Katherina

The play The Taming of the Shrew was written at a time of renewed interest in marriage, in the way relations between the sexes were being redrawn by the consequences of the Reformation and by [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1143

Heroism of Early Greek and Hebrew Cultures

Joseph stands out to be a hero in The Old Testament because, from the stature of a slave sold to an Egyptian merchant, he grew to be the powerful administrator in Egypt, second only to [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2264

Edgar Allan Poe’s Fear of Premature Burial

For instance, in The Tell-Tale Heart and The Black Cat the police arrive and stimulate a desire on the part of the narrator to confess his crime and undergo punishment from the state.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1714

Themes of Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia

To emphasize the difference between the characters' political views the author chooses the country's portrayal through insider and outsider perspectives, on the one hand, showing the evocations of those who remained in Cuba and, on [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1295

Greek Homoeroticism in “Death in Venice” by Thomas Mann

Thesis Statement: The homoerotic, or homosexual, nature of the plot in 'Death in Venice' by Thomas Mann is a fair representation of classical Greek homoeroticism and how homosexuality was viewed in a very conservative manner [...]
  • Subjects: Gender in Literature
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1941

Gender Equality Question: “Hamlet” by William Shakespeare

For the past few centuries, the rise of various movements have marked a certain change in the ideas and philosophies of man regarding the true nature of his existence, the pronounced inequalities of not only [...]
  • Subjects: Dramatic Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1333

Mina and Lucy in Bram Stoker’s Dracula

At the beginning of the novel, Mina Murray is seen as the more deviant of the two women because she is working as a school teacher's assistant.
  • Subjects: Romantic Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 865

Kurt`S Vonnegut Cat’s Cradle Reflection Paper

From the very beginning of the book the problem of evil begins to torment the reader. The work under consideration is the author's flesh back to the past with foreseeing the events of the future.
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 552

Orientalism and East and West Conflicts

Today, the lines are blurred as to determine whether it should be an east or west conflict as it could also be any form of war against one ethnic group by a whole nation or [...]
  • Subjects: World Philosophy Literature
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2135

The Age of Enlightenment: Overview and Analysis

The Age of Enlightenment centered on France and two of the major philosophers who contributed to this age of Enlightenment were Voltaire and Montesquieu. In the realm of politics, the government was the focus of [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 723

The End of Writer’s Block for Harold Pinter

A masterpiece, "One for the Road" ended a painful period of writer's block for Harold Pinter in a manner swift and strange and led to an explicitly political agenda of his subsequent plays, "Mountain Language" [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 933

“My Sister’s Keeper” by Jodi Picoult: Book Analysis

Anna's ability not to be jealous of her mother's constant attention to Kate distinguishes the girl from other children. Anna realizes that her mother is extremely tired of the life that does not stop to [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 809

Three Deserving Of Dante’s Hell

Considering the destruction, the loss of human lives and the reduction to slavery of even the Trojan Royalty, aside from the fact that the attack was done in stealth to a sleeping civilian population, Ulysses [...]
  • Subjects: Mythology
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1217

“The Geography of Haunted Places” by Wilson Analysis

The audience and the nomadic performer are engaged in a dangerous game of discovery, desire, and possession that is intended to make the spectator understand the meaning of this play in the concept of contemporary [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1288

Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz

The extent of the openness of futurity for the human being lies in her present position and the objective reality the human being confronts.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1268

The Bible God and the Greek God Comparison

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 [...]
  • Subjects: Mythology
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 259

Gilgamesh Epic: The Life of a God-Man

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 [...]
  • Subjects: Mythology
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2018

Early Chinese Music, Ritual, and Performance Review

Ceramic production and the carving of the hardstones known collectively as jade are part of the earliest horizons of Chinese cultures in the Neolithic period, and the products of these activities have been made continuously [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1723

Hamlet by William Shakespeare: A Filmic Event

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 [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 12
  • Words: 3274

Utopia by Sir Thomas More Review

The aim of the study is to relate the perennial appeal of the text to the particular point of view it presents on economics and political relations; on family life and social structure; on art [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1435

A Rose for Emily Literary Analysis

To gain an understanding of the story within a brief analysis, it is necessary to examine the story's plot, characterization, point of view, theme, symbols, and setting.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 598

Underworld in Greek and Roman Mythology

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.
  • Subjects: Mythology
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1642

“Harry Potter” Movie and Novel: Plot Changes

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.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 17
  • Words: 4826

Book Proposal: Women of the Romantic Age

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.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1483

“The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger Review

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.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2291

Irish Literature In Irish Analysis

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.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 935

Self-Awareness of Emma, Huckleberry Finn, and Asher Lev

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 [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2529

American Literature. Harriet Jacobs and Walt Whitman

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".
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1388

Aeschylus’ Oresteia and Shakespeare’s Hamlet

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 [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 998

Romance in Ying-Ying’s and The Western Wing Stories

The Story of the Western Wing is a love comedy that depicted adventures and relations between Oriole and Zhang. Secret love and romantic relations between a young scholar, Zhang Sheng, and a daughter of a [...]
  • Subjects: Romantic Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1586