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“Exploring American Histories” by Hewit and Lawson

The book is devoted to description of the main events of the history of the USA. One of the main purposes of the book is to promote increase of the level of knowledge about the [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1126

The Play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” William Shakespeare

These cases explicate the fact that the institution of marriage is one of the contexts in which the rights of women are gravely abused in patriarchal societies. Women in patriarchal societies are also deprived of [...]
  • Subjects: Gender in Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 585

American Novel: “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee

It is also worth to mention that the novel is indeed relevant to its readership because it mirrors the nature of society affected by racism and inequality. Through the act of inclusiveness, I am in [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 594

Oedipus King vs. Macbeth: Drama Comparison

The concept reflects the foundation of the decent authority through showing the tendencies of power both in the ancient times and in the period of Renaissance.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1665

African-American Humor as a Reflection of Change

The purpose of this article is to show that humor has been employed by the African-American population as a tool of diminishing the stereotypes that get in their way towards the realization of equal privileges [...]
  • Subjects: Concepts in American Novels
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1415

“Anna Karenina” by Leo Tolstoy

More importantly, the novel shed some light on the situation as viewed from the perspective of a woman, which alone was a major foot forward in the analysis of the social issues of the beginning [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 889

“The Trail” a Novel by Franz Kafka

This approach seems to be wrong in the perspective of the just society, as it sees the justice as "the having and doing of one's own and what belongs to oneself".
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1114

Understanding the Biography and History Link

In addition, the essay presents the relevance of the topic in the history of ancient and modern Japan and annotations of the sources accessed.
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2225

“Ligeia” a Book by Edgar Allan Poe

Since the fact that the narrator is not in full control of the mind, this is made very apparent by the author, it could mean that Ligeia and Rowena are really the same people and [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1185

“The Crucible” a Play by Arthur Miller

In both cases, it can clearly be seen that it is fear that allows unreasonable and unlawful actions to continue under the guise of lawful actions that are for the common good.
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1435

The Evolution of Dragons in Fantasy Fiction

One of the most significant figures among the range of the animals inhabiting the land of fantasy is a dragon, the symbol of wisdom and power.
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  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2834

“Perfection Is an Insult to the Gods” by Tracy Kidder

Frequently, the techniques of creative writing are applicable to work of nonfiction" Kidder is trying to convey the main idea of the life of the people who are far from being refined and well-mannered, that [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1025

Psychological and Material Reality in Literature

His psychological reality contrasts with his material reality such that he does not practice his homosexuality just because of his class and the social attitudes at the time.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 916

Jean Racine: Playwright and King’s Historiographer

Despite the classical themes in both the Alexandre and La Thebaide, Jean Racine had already entered the realm of controversial issues and was compelled to evoke ideas in the minds of his audience.
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1531

“Giovanni’s Room” and “Native Speaker”

The theme of being imprisoned in the environment that is seemingly open-minded to a range of cultures, yet promotes a single standard in terms of the identity that one is supposed to have and the [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2296

Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” and “America”

Through the description of the repetitiveness and monotonousness of the game, Ginsberg establishes the moral baseness and spiritual emptiness of Solomon while in the asylum.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1252

“Into the Wild” a Book by Jon Krakauer

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer tackles McCandless's life, starting with the discovery of McCandless dead body in a bus, Krakauer takes a journey back into McCandless life as a graduate through his disappearance to [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1222

“The Father” and “A Doll’s House”

Resting on these facts, it is possible to analyze some works which belong to the same period of time in order to understand the main ideas of the epoch and the authors message to readers.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1478

“The Vagina Monologues” a Play by Eve Ensler

The figure of Eve Ensler exemplifies the validity of this idea perfectly well, because it is largely on the account of a public controversy, sparked by her play The vagina monologues, that the notion of [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1417

Decisions of the Samsa in Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis”

His mother is shocked by the transformation In this paper, the author will use Saint Leo's core values of integrity and community to analyze the decisions made by Samsa family when Gregor changes into bug. [...]
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  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 664

“Band of Brothers” by Stephen Ambrose

The success of an author depends on how well he attracts the reader to the point that the reader is motivated to read the next available book that the author publishes.
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 583

Women in Soledad by Cruz and Old Mary by Mohr

In the first chapter of the novel, the novelist uses Soledad to express her views of what she wants in marriage, i.e, to get a man that she loves, to be independent, and to lead [...]
  • Subjects: Gender in Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1552

Reality of Achilles in “The Iliad”

The character of Achilles is real as it is presented in the poem although most of the powers that are portrayed through this character are mere fantasies.
  • Subjects: Mythology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 320

Literature as a Protest: The Lottery and The Crucible

Thus, in the case of "the lottery" it can be seen that it is a form of protest against the practice of blindly following "tradition" without taking into consideration the full logic of the actions [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 570

The Theme of Divine Law in “Antigone” by Sophocles

In this particular case, it can be stated that Creon has learned not to go against the ancient traditions that are valued by the ancient Greek society that he is in since they are part [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 562

The Salem Witch Trials in “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller

Though Miller has made a range of changes to the original, the alterations did not prevent from understanding the case better; instead, these changes allowed for updating the story so that it would be interesting [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 558

Silence versus Articulation in “Obasan” by Joy Kogawa

The author uses the phrase 'to live in stone' to signify the magnitude of Obasan's silence. In the course of the unfolding story, Naomi is torn between adopting Obasan's silence and embracing Aunt Emily's articulacy.
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1418

Literature Comparison: This Is a Picture of Me and Heat

Though "This Is a Picture of Me" by Margaret Atwood and "Heat" by Archibald Lampman differ from each other considerably in terms of their style, imagery, characters, and other essential details, they are connected with [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 894

Death and Transiency in Thomas’s and Frost’s Poems

The use of metaphors to emphasize particular points in relation to nature and an individual's surroundings is a hallmark of the work of Frost and, as such, it is not surprising that he utilizes the [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2200

Social Conflicts in “Animal Farm” by George Orwell

This is the only way for the animals to establish equality and create a flourishing, happy and wealthy society."Animal Farm" by Orwell is a description of the metamorphoses that happen within a freedom movement turning [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 567

“The Tyger” a Poem by William Blake

Thesis: whilst the poem may be apprehended in many ways, essentially the framework of a speaker questioning the beast symbolically reflects the beginning of the appreciation of the strength of own soul.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 550

“The Romance of the Three Kingdoms” by Kuan-Chung

Current paper aims at discussing masculinity and femininity in Chinese culture on the examples of The Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Kuan-Chung and Javanese ideologies as a possibility to comprehend the roles of the [...]
  • Subjects: Gender in Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 574

Act II of Hamlet by William Shakespeare

The King is worried about Hamlet's madness and starts to suspect that he might have found out the real reasons for his father's death.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1129

The Woman Warrior, Ode of Mulan and The Mulan Film

Although each of the narrations are linked to each other with a single theme of Chinese women emancipation and the introduction of feminism into the Chinese society, the time periods, in which the specified pieces [...]
  • Subjects: Gender in Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1122

The Novel “The Remains of the Day” by Kazuo Ishiguro

One of the reasons why the novel The Remains of the Day is being commonly referred to, as such, that represents a high literary value, is that the themes and motifs, contained in it, do [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1681

“The Pearl That Broke Its Shell” by Nadia Hashimi

Shekiba is the victim of a society where women are judged almost exclusively on their worth as wives and mothers of sons and she was discriminated alongside her crippled father."The clan did not want to [...]
  • Subjects: Gender in Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 693

Childhood Memories in Doyle’s, Griffin’s, Foer’s Works

It should be pointed out that the issues concerning functioning and improvement of the memory, effects of the childhood experience and background on the personality, and the significance of having the heart not only as [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1429

American Literature Course: Reason for Attaining

Literary works have always been a source of fascination and enjoyment for me, and it is due to this that I have taken this course not out of any particular reason outside of that I [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1087

Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo

It remains evident that the primary goal of the book is to display the existence of the dramatic social gap in income, inequalities, and the ability of the people to find the way out of [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 846

Mythology: Trickster as a Human Condition

The trickster's creative force is sometimes used to whip the intelligence standing of society and to highlight the importance of creating new cultural traits that people feel are important and necessary in society.
  • Subjects: Mythology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 586

African Americans in Langston Hughes’s Poems

The tone and spirit of the poems display the author's frustration with the fate of African Americans. In addition, because the poem is the brightest example of Harlem period, the presence of musical elements contributes [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 819

Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Book “The Brothers Karamazov”

The book The Brothers Karamazov by Fydor Dostoyevsky is a must-read Russian novel that was written in the 19th century with an aim of painting the dilemma that the society was facing in its pursuit [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2752

“The Open Boat” a Book by Stephen Crane

The mood in the story is melancholic, partly due to the predicament of the boat and its occupants. According to the description of the boat in the book, there is little space for the sailors [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 831

American Protest Literature: Native American Injustices

Native American protest literature was mostly characterised by non-fictional stories written in the form of autobiographies, short stories and novels that were authored in response to the American society's infringement of the Native American people's [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2918

“The Heart of Darkness” a Novel by Joseph Conrad

As its mission, the European imperialism had the "civilization" of the world and expansion of the Christianity over the conquered nations through the forced introduction of the European administrative powers and its culture.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 896

“Factory Work” a Poem by Deborah Boe

In the first stanza, the poem gives a detailed description of the monotonous nature of the job that the main character does and how it has changed some of her physical aspects.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 595

“It Takes Two” a Book by Cynthia Enloe

In the article, Enloe explains the construction and reconstruction of masculinity by the local military and the US military to maintain the high morale among their soldiers.
  • Subjects: Gender in Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 574

Clive Lewis’ Biography and Books

The renowned author, Clive Staples Lewis, was sired in Ireland in the city of Belfast in the year 1898 on the 29th day of November.
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1983

“I Love Yours for White People” by Lac Su

However, in the pursuit of a better future, the Asian community faced significant resistance on the part of the residents. In the memoir, the author focuses on the eternal confrontation between various cultures leading to [...]
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  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1391

“The Smiling Proud Wanderer” a Story by Jin Yong

With the help of the idea that stands behind each of the martial arts style, and the character that stands behind it, the author manages to convey the specifics of the given character's features and [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1464

Medea and Antigone: Literature Comparison

However, in spite of the fact that the motivations of Medea and Antigone are considered to be the same, they choose different actions.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1127

“Zami: A New Spelling of My Name” by Audre Lorde

The author's unconventional approach to representing female development provides me with clear understanding of how society and upbringing can influence the development of the self.
  • Subjects: Gender in Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 557

Alice Walker and Patricia Smith Works: Literature Comparison

Every society that is characterized by a mixture of racial interfaces is prone to a level of conflict that usually arises when some of the characters in the society esteem themselves as superior by virtue [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2539

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

Since the goal of the author is to reveal the darker side of North Korea, Demick specifically drew her interviewees from Chongjin, which is one of the largest towns in North Korea whose residents have [...]
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2515

Poverty in the Novel “Snow” by Orhan Pamuk

All through, the author creatively captures the attention of the reader without watering down the content and flow of the storyline. The reality of poverty is undeniable in this book.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 829

“Eveline” a Book by James Joyce

Moreover, contrary to the opinion that women cannot provide for the family, it is seen that Eveline uses all her income in the house while the men of the house only give part of what [...]
  • Subjects: Gender in Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1115

“The Brothers Karamazov” a Novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Thus, Ivan's seemingly revered attitude towards religion is rather explainable he believed that, while being closely affiliated with a religion, people would be innately encouraged to refrain from committing crimes, out of their fear of [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1700

“Brides of the Well” a Short Story by Shekhar Kapur

The theme of the short story is hope as the two young girls pertaining to a lower caste hope that their sorrows will end and "the High Caste God's would deliver them a different destiny".
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 580

“Richard II” a Play by William Shakespeare

Hence, the movie review interprets the performances of Fiona Shaw and Ben Whishaw in the third scene in the third act, where they act as King Richard II in the play, Richard II.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1727

Varying Moral Worlds in The Odyssey and Aeneid

Some of the issues that differ between the two societies, as highlighted in the two poems, include marital love, representation of the underworld, the idea of fate, and pride/hubris. It is believed that the intention [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1761

“Burnt Shadows” a Book by Kamila Shamsie

Although Kim agreed to help Abdullah cross the Canadian border to escape from the FBI because of the tries to overcome biases and state justice, the woman decided to inform the police about the escape [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1948

Justice in Dante’s Poem “Inferno”

It is possible to consider three sins and the way the sinners are punished to see Dante's idea of justice and the way it is similar to the contemporary concept of justice.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1121

Tracy Kidder’s Novel “Strength in What Remains”

The author brings up a theme of a civil war refugee who has fled to the United States from Africa and who struggles trying to match his old experiences to the new ones and to [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1748

Robin Hood and His Organisation’ Issues

The organisation is running out of funds because the clients, viz.the wealthy travellers, have started avoiding the Sherwood Forest after learning of the existence of Merrie Men. Therefore, Robin faces the threat of the Sheriff [...]
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  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1198

The “Epic of Gilgamesh” and Mesopotamia

Another instance in the epic, which portrays women as sexual objects, is the use of the women as sex tools in the temple. Women in Mesopotamian society had the duty of brewing wine for men [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 880

Defining the Reliable Narrator in Literature

Therefore, such types of narrators are usually a sample driven by first-person narratives, which allow the audience or the readers of the literary works considerable flexibilities of shaping their perception of the story.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 961

Travel Narratives: “The Grand Tour” and “Vagabonding”

Although both Pugh and Osnos provide seemingly similar observations on the same issue concerning the economics and politics of the places that they visit, these observations contribute to creating a completely different image of the [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1361