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In the wake of the strong-held belief that Jews were responsible for the fall of German Empire, there was massive deployment of police officers to clear Jews from ghettos and exterminate them.

The day was intentionally selected by the author on the 27th of the sixth month. Variances in the events signified a vital character in the Lottery story.

American literature depicts the period 1865-1910 as a turning point of events and a clash between the past and the present, the old and the upcoming.

The book tells women's magazines off for not making enough efforts to lessen the force of the myth, in spite of the fact that they are one of the important fundamental tools for transforming the [...]

Not that the chain is of any importance to Fanny no; she uses it to cover her romantic feelings and this is self-deception.

The blind man and the narrator in "The Cathedral" shares emptiness and nothingness with the old man and the old waiter, in A Clean Well-lighted Place.

In his works, Berry makes a wonderful attempt to compare a soldier's attitude before and after war, analyze what aspects of war are able to change a soldier's mind and principles, and explain why war [...]

It is possible to give different questions, and in my opinion, the idea to united water and the issue of death is one of the most brilliant steps in this poem. It is possible to [...]

An example is that, as she fails to recite her poem in church, she notes that her dress is probably a handout from a white woman.

It gives a chance for the author to compare and contrast many elements of the book including his external state as a character in the book and the stream of conscious in his narration.

This study argues that Achebe's portrayal of women in his books was influenced by changes in society, which started of having little regard for the real value of women to a time when women were [...]

The story is told from the first person singular, thus giving the readers a chance to see everything with the eyes of the narrator.

The tension in her relations with her parents contributes to the development of the necessity to prove that she is better than that, actually, that she is the best.

Kate lost all her siblings and by the time she was 24 she was a single child. Kate was sentimentally exhausted and she needed to turn to composing as a way of squeezing out her [...]

She is best known for her recurrent theme on the status of women in societal affairs, the challenges and problems facing them as well as repression and gender bias."The story of an hour" is rhetorically [...]

In the opening scene of the play, Medea is beating herself over the loss and present to console her is an elderly nurse.

Though he does not say why he chose to particularly the seaside town of Dieppe, it is easier for the readers to see that he may have visited because of the connection that his country [...]

In the play, we also get to know the character traits of the Wright's from other characters.Mr. This makes Minnie Foster a key suspect in the murder case i.e.she might have killed her husband to [...]

He used different methods to break her spell the first time he tried to convince himself that there is nothing good that will come out of his love for her and he said: Leisure, Catullus.

Although the setting for the song was in a field of barley the reader can easily sense that the composer wanted everyone to know that he is a lover of nature.

Of his works, The Divine Comedy is the greatest literary statement in the medieval periods of the Europeans. The book, The New Life, is almost full of poems of his praises to her.

The rest of the book consists of chapters of the novel along with journal notes that record the events of the journey and make comments on the novel. The Journal of Albion Moonlight is, on [...]

Plato and Hesiod tried to evaluate the ideas of justice in their worlds and the ways of how people prefer to use their possibilities and knowledge using the story of Prometheus; Plato focused on the [...]

This paragraph from the book reflects that the author feels deeply about the issues in the society and somewhat does hold the gods responsible for not doing anything.

Instead of listening to the perspectives of other workers, the author herself gave up her middle-class comforts and assumed the role of a minimum-wage worker in America to experience the daily hardships they go through.

By the end of the same century, the patriarchal view of women as 'natural born housewives' and the objects of men's sexual desire, had lost the remains of its former validity.

The Aim of Critical Analysis The main purpose of the critical analysis is to disclose the artistic identity in different art forms in order to unveil the topic of love and unreciprocated love.

In order to identify the actual reasons for Iago's hatred to Desdemona and Othello, the author makes use of his own approach in analyzing the play through the prism of motives, plots, themes, and character [...]

World War 1 and the social and cultural changes in the United States accelerated the growth and popularity of the alliance during the start of the 20th century.

Since the concept of identity has been traditionally considered abstract and more often collective, the present stage of socio-linguistic study marks the revelation of individual identities and group identity features in a separate individual clearly, [...]

When he pleads his case to the guardians of Honoria, his sister-in-law Marion, and her husband, he continually evades his escapades of the past and recounts his hard work and sincerity of the present.

In addition, the author associates the control of the world financial system as a continuing part of the evolution of money.

In fact, the book traces the genesis of the financial system, which the author believes started in Mesopotamia and the ancient Egypt.

One of the most notable aspects of how the motif of death reemerges throughout the entirety of Chopin's story, is the fact that the story's main character Mrs.

The major theme of the poem is unhappy love and the way to love. One of the major symbols in the poem is the symbol of the play, called 'love'.

The author uniquely uses the nature of time to narrate a story from a present time to that of the past.

Not only has there been a gender difference between men and women in life and social environment, but extreme discrimination and external conditions of the world and governmental ruling added to the role division.

Symbolism relating to the maze and the cheese in the story is what helps the author to present his message in the entire book.

Through this analysis, the techniques used by authors and speakers to control the effects of the message they are delivering, the pros and cons of these kinds of techniques, and the meaning of these messages [...]

Despite the fact that Edna, the leading character of Kate Chopin's Awakening, is the focus of the story and the character whom the readers are most likely to relate to, the rest of the female [...]

The aim of this essay is to analyze Jack Worthing, one of the main characters of the play, which the author represented as the typical wealthy Englishman of Victorian epoch.

One of the most important details is that the rulers of the prison camp deliberately made people hostile to one another.

This is one of the problems that the author is forced to encounter. This is one of the reasons they were reluctant to deal with him.

On the one hand, there is a clear indication that blackberries as a symbol are used in the same way in both texts; in fact, the same words are used to describe the process of [...]

Apart from that, it is important to mention that his parents failed to safeguard Jeff against risks that one could face in the neighborhood.

In particular, the writer shows that in the course of his life, he reached the state of moral degradation, recognized the causes his downfall, and profoundly changed many of his worldviews.

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.

Even though Nora is loyal to her husband in the "Doll's House", she is brave enough to look forward to a future on her own due to her husband's unwillingness to become more considerate.

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 [...]

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 [...]

She seems to be out of context of the human nature at the time, unlike Alison who is willing to love and partner with Nicholas in a romantic manner.

Thus, the premises for the evolution of a unique culture that was fully independent from the influence of the Middle Ages morals and standards were being born.

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 [...]

Despite men being predominantly satisfied with the given state of affairs at that time, humanist ideas were spawned by Chaucer 's The Canterbury tales in the era when women had little to no authority in [...]

Apart from the Monk, who incorporates the features of a typical fatalist, which have been blown to cosmic proportions, the Knight plays the role of a person who uses common sense to analyze the role [...]

In the book, The Handmaid's Tale, the republic of Gilead presents a different environment with different rules from those of the former order before the conflict and establishment of a new order.

The important role of this approach is in the fact that the reader receives the opportunity to understand that the narrator lacks self-awareness, and he is rather 'blind' while discussing himself and other people with [...]

The author argues that the discovery of these stimulants influences the way of our life greatly and, thus, impact our history.

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 [...]

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.

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.

The aim of this essay is to characterize the place of the figure of Falstaff in the works of William Shakespeare.

The author discusses all operations and activities that take place in the warehouse, and inventory control businesses. Similarly, the author of the book looks at the errors made in warehouses and in inventory control businesses.

It is remarkable that in the Italian tradition, the structure of the poem would have been different, with a tercet instead of two lines at the end; the English tradition, however, presupposes that the tercet [...]

Despite the fact that in On the Streetcar and in Washington Square, the male characters attempt at and, in fact, succeed in seizing bower and taking the entire space of the novel, the female leads [...]

Great literary writers in the 18th and 19th centuries dwelled on the issue of slavery as they tried to depict the experiences of slaves in a comprehensive manner.

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 [...]

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.

In a world where people are held back because of their talents, and their intelligence is marred by the social rules of all people being the same, Harrison refuses to succumb to the pressure and [...]

The symbol of the street-car carriage described in Emilia Pardo Bazan's short story reflects the desire of the people to represent themselves as belonging to the higher class and to overcome the challenges of the [...]

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.

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

People in the countryside are aware of the fact that the river drowns those who are wicked and immoral. In Mo Yan's Red Sorghum, peasantry is associated with interruption of the original landscape that was [...]

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.

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.

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 [...]

In "The Lord of the Rings", Gandalf the Grey is an important character who plays a significant role towards the success of the protagonists.

Thus, referring to Natsume Soseki's Kokoro, the reader can focus on the extremely emotional description of the person's feelings related to the ideas of suicide, responsibility, and guilt because Sensei, the protagonist of the novel, [...]

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 [...]

This piece of work gives a critical analysis of the play, Antony and Cleopatra, with much emphasis given to the relationship between Antony and Cleopatra. From the play, it is palpable that the relationship between [...]

Jordan remarks that this story is about her and the time she spent living and working in Maningrida and that the story is a personal account of her experiences in Arnhem Land.

Symbolism is used in this scene because the protagonist visited the Birgawi residence, a symbol that he is found in places of despair and ruin.

In the prologue, the reader is also informed of the journey Carpentier made in 1943 to Haiti and the intensive research he conducted as he prepared valid material to write the novel.

Farquhar agrees with the saying that "all is fair in love and war" in spite of the fact that he believes it to be a "villainous dictum".

In the book, Natsume Soseki brings out the upheaval of the Meiji period as he relates to the tales of a stray cat probing deeper into the lives of human beings and fellow cats living [...]

As described by the writer, anxiety and tension dominates the place as the clock ticks towards the hour of the reading of the news.

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.

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 [...]

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.

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.

As aforementioned, Alison uses Bone and the people around her to exploit the issues of gender, race, sexuality and class in a clamorous manner.

It is necessary to compare and contrast the attitude of the author towards the slaves in Africa and in colonies with regard to Oroonoko who serves as a bridge in building up relations between two [...]

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 [...]

The ideas of "top ten" and the "top five" are not usual for describing the relations between a man and a woman, still, they prove that the character has not traditional approaches, and his standpoints [...]

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.

In Chapter Three of Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own, the protagonist attempts to make sense of the nonsensical elements of female history, namely, how it could be that "in Athena's city, where women [...]

In the book "Fear and Trembling in Las Vegas", the author takes his readers through their experience in the chase of the American Dream.

As a matter of fact, she is angered because her peers do not seem to understand the difference between her Mexican/ Puerto Rican and Latina background.

Even at the helm of his success, he still remembered how he suffered when his playmate said his father was an agbala.

In addition to that, Dandaneau posits that social imagination is the only remedy to get the world out of this deep slumber.

The choice of settings as "THE PIT, typical of hell........the Ultima Thule of all their punishments", shows the pervading elements of gothic literature.

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

Malcolm decided that the mastery of language would deliver him from oppression; it would be his tool to personal empowerment and fulfilment.

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 [...]

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.

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.

The book The Lady and The Monk published in the year 1991 attempts to describe his encounters while in the foreign land of Japan.

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 [...]

Coleridge uses different symbols to show the severity of the situation the reader needs to anticipate in the poem. The albatross is used in the poem as a symbol of both good and bad fortune, [...]

In addition, the interest and fascination of the Jewish history is trigged by Hans Breuer. This can be edified by the fact that he is a journalist in one of the most cosmopolitan cities in [...]

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".

Superiority of white population in the country prevented the African population from establishing fair treatment, which led to the division of the inhabitants in racial groups and residential areas in which various ethnicities lived. The [...]

However, going a bit further, one must admit that the crime of the leading character was not discovered by the police; nor did another Sherlock Holmes ripped the veil off the mystery quite on the [...]

The author notes that one of the main concerns for the women at the restaurant was how they appeared to the world.

Giving readers the sense of being immersed in the world of the Greeks and the Trojans, or in the world of any fine literature, is a goal for many writers.

When Literature Meets Jurisdiction: The Mother, the Father and the Child As it has been mentioned above, the play incorporates the elements of a moral dilemma concerning who the parent of a child should be [...]