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“Kokoro” a Novel Written by Soseki

There is also contradiction in the way that narrator and his father feel in regard to graduation. After Sensei learns that K is also in love with daughter of the widow, he proposes to her.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 818

The Gift of the Magi

Given the fact that, as it was implied earlier, ever since it was first published in 1906, The Gift of the Magi never ceased appealing to readers, we can well assume that the themes and [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1649

Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

It focuses on the personal characteristics of the presidents and aligns it to the public lives the men have led. There are many events that are described, relating to both public and private lives of [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1094

House of Refugee vs. Life-Saving Station: In Search for a Shelter

It is quite remarkable that the difference between the two houses comes into the limelight as the correspondent, who clearly incorporates the elements of media as the author perceived it, cunning, two-faced and at the [...]
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  • Subjects: American Novels Writing Style
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 588

Illness of the Mind

This also comes from the fact that Bartleby think very highly of himself, and being the person that he is, others must understand him and love him as he is."Torquemada at the Stake" is also [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 586

Gender Issues and Post-Colonialist Mood in Supernova

Dewi, however, does not interpret the given statement as the fact that knowledge is the source of power and power is the source of knowledge. The depth and palette of emotions that a single phrase [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 911

Iris and the Sky Myth

The myth offers intrinsically narrates the war that Iris had with the sky due to the pride of Iris. The "Iris and Sky" myth fits in the etiological theme of the classical mythology.
  • Subjects: Mythology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 559

The Star: A Universe with an Unneeded and Heedless Deity

Clarke, in his 1955 short story "The Star", proposes an immensely plausible explanation for the appearance of an unusually bright and light in the sky near the time of the birth of Jesus in Palestine.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1206

Shakespeare’s Sir John Falstaff

The aim of this essay is to characterize the place of the figure of Falstaff in the works of William Shakespeare.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 547

“Outlaw Platoon” by Sean Parnell

The author begins by explaining how he became the commander of the infantry platoon at the age of twenty-four. From the book, it is notable that the author displayed and lived most of the army [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 581

Carpe Diem and Aubade in British Literature

The themes and the underlying meanings of the poems encompass the problems of human existence, human feelings, desires, and even the world perception. The aubade is the kind of lyrics devoted to love and the [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 539

A Portrait of the Artist as a Yong Man

One of the motifs is the defiance of religion and the moral understanding of the world. A rather crucial motif is the development of the individuality and understanding of the surrounding world.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 586

Twelve Years a Slave

He is the son of Mintus, who was a slave under the Northup family. The initial chapters of this publication discuss the history of the Northup's and the author's marriage to Anne.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 863

A heroine meets an anti-heroine: Eloisa vs. Belinda

Despite the fact that the characters of Eloise and Belinda are traditionally interpreted as the exact opposite of each other, i.e, a heroine and an anti-heroine, they, in fact, share quite a number of similarities. [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 861

Writers who predicted the future

Years ago, in a meeting of the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society, George Scithers, the longtime editor of Asimov's Magazine, and grand old man of SF editing generally, gave a most reassuring piece of advice to [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 965

James Joyce’s “A Portrait of the Artist as a Yong Man”

It serves as the key to the whole story as everything that takes place is seen from Stephen's point of view, so his perception and understanding of the surrounding social and personal environment is instrumental [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 569

Edward William Lane’s Views on the Orients

He argued that the Egyptian attire, just like that of many other orients in the Middle East, was full of respect as opposed to that of people from the Western culture.
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1354

Narrating the Poetry: “The Iliad” by Homer

The poem seeks to illustrate on the battles between Agamemnon the King and the warriors Achilles. The Iliad story begins at almost the end of the Trojan War during besiege by the Greeks.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 823

The Comparison of the Characters of Eleonora and Tia Roma

In spite of the fact that the characters of Eleonora and Tia Roma can be discussed as different in relation to the authors' descriptions, these characters act and behave as the agents of knowledge rather [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1354

Gandalf from “The Lord of the Rings”

In "The Lord of the Rings", Gandalf the Grey is an important character who plays a significant role towards the success of the protagonists.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 570

Spirit in the Dark: Langston Hughes

In my opinion, when one is going through the dark times in life, they feel determined to let out what he or she holds back in the heart. He wrote about the desperation that the [...]
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 685

Epiphany of a Character From Assigned Readings

Enkidu is Gilgamesh's closest friend and just before his death, "he has a revelation on the punishment he and Gilgamesh are to undergo after their death.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 509

No Matter What the Beginning Is, the End Will Be the Same

The author introduces the story to the reader with a description of an ideal life story to which everybody aspires, but the successive several stories are not so happy, though the author offers the readers [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1387

The Play “Julius Caesar” by William Shakespeare

Meanwhile Caesar's son, Octavius, the heir to the throne, decides to avenge for his father's killing which leads to the deaths of the chief conspirators, Cassius and finally Brutus.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1581

Response to A Gesture Life

It is the desire to fit in the culture that is particularly traumatic for Hata, as one can see from the review of the work.
  • Subjects: World Philosophy Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 759

A Streetcar Named Desire: The Passion of Blanche

The very movement brings back the fleur of the England of the XVIII century, to "Southern-Gothic imp of Poe-etic perverse" with all its ideas of Gothic culture and the features that are due only to [...]
  • Subjects: American Novels Writing Style
  • Pages: 11
  • Words: 3096

Bastard Out of Carolina

As aforementioned, Alison uses Bone and the people around her to exploit the issues of gender, race, sexuality and class in a clamorous manner.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1459

In What Way Is The Catcher in the Rye an Iconic Work

We, however, do not subscribe to such point of view, because there are good reasons to believe that the actual explanation as to this novel's iconic status is the fact that in The Catcher in [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 14
  • Words: 3874

Trifles by Susan Glaspell: Play Analysis

The characters look at the murder differently and this discussion will focus on the development in terms of roundness and flatness of the characters and the degree to which the characters are stereotypes.Mrs.
  • Subjects: American Novels Writing Style
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 987

Fear and Trembling in Las Vegas

In the book "Fear and Trembling in Las Vegas", the author takes his readers through their experience in the chase of the American Dream.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1080

Gothic Literature

The choice of settings as "THE PIT, typical of hell........the Ultima Thule of all their punishments", shows the pervading elements of gothic literature.
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  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 637

Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and the Culture of the Igbo

However, when the oracle instructs that Ikemefuna is to be killed, Okonkwo severs his head with a machete even despite the fact that he is warned by the elder that he did not need to [...]
  • Subjects: Romantic Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1402

Do we Have Meaning?

In Frankl's view, only the inmates who identified a meaning in their being and pursued to realize it were able to carry on the cruelty, dejection and detrimental surroundings of the encampments.
  • Subjects: World Philosophy Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1620

Education in “The History Boys” by Alan Bennett

The author, Alan Bennet has demonstrated his expertise in play writing through the interesting and fascinating nature of the play. The development and nature of the play, "The History Boys" is really admirable and eye [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 658

“The Nature Principle” by Richard Louv

The main theme of the book is the importance of nature to the life and well-being of man. To explain the nature principle, Louv says, "The Nature Principle is about the power of living in [...]
  • Subjects: American Novels Writing Style
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1088

Life Is a Smorgasbord

Life is particularly intriguing and complicated especially when looking at the choices that people make in life in the light of the story, "Life Is a Smorgasbord", by Dan Lewis.
  • Subjects: American Novels Writing Style
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 571

About the victims in three novels

In essence, the novel is full of victims of circumstances utilized to construct the author's story. In this case, the victim is used to exemplify Dimitrios' activities.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 838

The Violent Bear It Away

The title of the novel is derived from the book of Mathew 11:12 in the bible, where John the Baptist quotes "the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent bear it away".
  • Subjects: American Novels Writing Style
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1095

How and Why Indigenous Literature Approaches Decolonization

That is to say, indigenous literature is communal since it attempts to heal psychological wounds caused among the natives in the process of colonization, and the main goal of communalism is to heal native communities [...]
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2454

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

She is fortunate to have been adopted by a nice family after her mother dies, as it is with the second family that she learns to read and write.
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  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 909

Schlepping through the Alps

The book's title is "Schlepping through the Alps" in reference to the Austrian Alps. The subtitle quips that the author's journey is a "search for the Jewish past with the last wandering shepherd".
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 848

Religion in American Poetry

This is one of the main issues that should be considered. This is one of the main elements that the poet emphasizes in his work.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 540

“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” and Slavery

It is said that "the book is a very inadequate representation of slavery; and it is so, necessarily, for this reason, - that slavery, in some of its workings, is too dreadful for the purposes [...]
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  • Subjects: American Novels Writing Style
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1105

Birthed in the Same Year

Indeed, in the following chapters, the discussion of the relationship between the two is discussed in the context of the tension created by the controversy.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2704

Language Barrier in Educational Mobility and Exchange

Therefore, the issue of the prevalence of diverse local dialects in a substantial number of countries is an impediment to the learning of national languages, and by extension a barrier to the learning and usage [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1656

No Place of Grace

In the book No Place of Grace, the author mentions that the worker's anti-modern reaction to the changes can also be considered a complex mixture of protest and accommodation, leading to formation of a much [...]
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1082

“Vagina” book by Naomi Wolf

In this book, the author talks about the relationship between the vagina and the brain. The author of this book personifies the vagina in order to emphasize its importance in the life of a woman.
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  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1480

The book Nickel and Dimed

The protagonist's encounters as well as that of the rest of her colleagues indicate that social mobility is locked out to many in the lowest stratum of the working population.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1094

David Foster Wallace’s argument analysis

The major theme that has been around for some time is that a person is either limited by ignorance and leads a life of blind and chaotic movement or an individual tries to find out [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 826

Initiation Themes in Literature Works

Although she cannot explain the occurrence of the initiation, she acknowledges that it is time for her to become mature and take up the role of a woman.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2159

A Lifelong Experiment: What Made E. E. Cummings Creative

Analyzing his life, the specifics of major works and the factors that enhanced Cummings' writing process, the given essay is going to research what stood behind Cummings' creativity, whether this was the influence of other [...]
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1428

Fantasy in “Neverwhere” by Neil Gaiman

The major themes of the story is that people can sometimes get more of what they bargained for in helping someone, that the reality of the world is very perceptive and individual, and that fiction [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 874

Jekyll & Hyde, Dalloway

It discusses both the pain that a mismatch in sexual desire between a husband and a wife can create, and the power of a crush of one woman for another.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 641

The Issue of the American Identity

Thus, the development of the American identity was the prolonged process, and it depended on the progress of new principles associated with the ideas of freedom and independence.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1161

Representation of Women in History As Opposed To Fiction

The omission of women in history has been the cause of fictionalization that misrepresents the female gender. The ancient history of women is seen to suggest that the only role they played was in the [...]
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 815

The Cosmology of Boethius and the Ancient Literature

Furthermore, in this novel, Apuleius frequently stresses the role of coincidence and fortune as one of the key factors that affect the life of the main characters.
  • Subjects: World Philosophy Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1096

The Gangster We Are All Looking For

The concept of family is predominant throughout and from the beginning of the story. When the father is ignoring the phone call and sees a man and his son on TV, it is apparent that [...]
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 553

The Platonic Conception of Eros

An important aspect to note when it comes to the issue of eros and the Greek interpretation of this kind of love is the contribution made by the Plato in ensuring the nature and meaning [...]
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  • Subjects: Mythology
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1089

Arguing, Interpretation and Evaluation

The story reveals the narrator's experiences as she reveals how she was confined in her room by her physician and husband after giving birth ostensibly to allow her to recuperate.
  • Subjects: Themes in American Novels
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 555

Why I Want a Wife

The persona cannot afford to miss class taking care of the children the wife is the one supposed to attend to the children.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1116

The Contrasting Characters of Ned and Jimmy

Therefore, it is convenient to argue that while Ned is a symbol of the younger generation that seeks to liberate the society from the old paradigm, Jimmy Caya belongs to the old generation that wants [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 904

Domination in the Book “Animal Farm”

The animals believed in the concept of equality and democracy. This discussion highlights some of the factors that influenced the social life of the animals within the farm.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 805

A Myth as a Set of Rules

It is a myth because most of the people who tend to believe it think that it is unfair to be biased on wealthy people.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 586

The Unknown Citizen

This is because, even though the name of this poem implies the lack of a factual information about the citizen in question, the poem's actual body contains a detailed description of what kind of a [...]
  • Subjects: Modernist Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 566

The Color of Water by James McBride

Her father was a rabbi, and he travelled to different parts of the world, with his family, in search of employment.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 860