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Born to be Good by Dacher Keltner

Despite the numerous researchers disclosing the affirmative evidence concerning the inborn evilness of some individuals, the author still confides in the idea that to be good is a genetically encoded state which is typical of [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2175

Rule of the Bone

One of the dramatic changes that Bone makes in his life is when he informs Russ of his decision to leave Jamaica.
  • Subjects: Aspects of American Novels
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1472

Motif-Based Literary Analysis Of “Check One”

The 'Slam' as a kind of poetry performance contributes to the realization of the poets' motifs and intentions in the spoken word and to the satisfaction of the audience's desire for provocations and controversies.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1079

Oedipus the King and Hamlet

However, the fact is both Oedipus and Claudius managed to get the post of kingship after killing the former kings leaving the seats vacant. In conclusion, both Oedipus and King Claudius attained their crown after [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 920

Jay Gatsby & Gean Valjean: Characters Comparison

This essay compares and contrasts the characters of Gatsby and Jean Valjean in the Les Miserable novels and films. Gatsby strikes the readers as a na ve and lovesick individual though his character is negative.
  • Subjects: Aspects of American Novels
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 852

The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy

Ivan's life however, takes a different course after his wife Praskovya becomes pregnant and it is owing to this unexpected intervention of nature that Ivan realizes the disruption facing his smooth and decorous lifestyle.
  • Subjects: Dramatic Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 511

The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

The theme of multicultural is examined through the analysis of the Tale of Genji as well as the analysis of the theme through elaboration and analysis of four aspects from the tale.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1654

Edith Wharton’s Works Analysis

Her works reflect the lives of American upper class through the use of humor and empathy in describing their lives, and changes in New York towards the beginning of the 20th century.
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  • Subjects: Aspects of American Novels
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2198

An explication of the Character “Hester”

This paper will explicate the character "Hester" by analyzing her characters as well as pointing out metaphors and similes pertaining to her in the novel. The author states that "Hester is like a big monster" [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 482

Social Problems in the Japanese Literature

This hopelessness that has been impeded on her makes her aware of her future in the world and provokes her to build a wall around her.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2717

Summary of the Article

The article is about the birthday of Aunt Elaine, who was turning fifty and the entire family decided to go out for a dinner to celebrate the birthday by having a dinner at the favorite [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 823

Queen’s Voice: Antigone & Ismene

The events that follow clearly indicate how abuse of power by a reckless ruler can lead to oppression of women who often suffer in silence unable to act and the resulting consequence to a society [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 565

Arabic poems relating to Islam

The letters have been widely and intensively studied within the context of the history of Islam even though there is no unanimous agreement on whether the anonymous authors of the letters belonged to the Islamic [...]
  • Subjects: World Philosophy Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 904

Response to Destro’s claim on Faust

Here, Destro interprets it to mean what we were to subject Faust to was not the standard morality but that of the superman: "In reality, the law that Faust follows is not that of morality [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1368

Overview of World Literature

In Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Sign of the Four" and Anne McClintock's "The Lay of the Land: Genealogies of Imperialism" imperialism is defined in terms of femininity.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 606

Relevance of the Book “Seven Pillars of Wisdom”

Based on a movie by David lean the book "Pillars of Wisdom" is a reflection of a British soldier, Lawrence of Arabia experiences when he worked with the rebel forces as a liaison officer during [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1354

The reconquista of the Iberian Peninsula

The second chapter of this book covers a period that is considered central and significant in unraveling the events that led to the Reconquest.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 844

Summary and analysis

This chapter is a flashback of the time when Conover was recruited to join the forces, as a correctional service officer recruit.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 873

The World of Money

1- Exploitation- In the book "One Perfect Day": The selling of the American Dream, Rebecca Mead looks into the extreme levels that most brides go to in order to have the best weddings ever.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1474

Achebe’s Views on Racism

When they went to Africa, the whites found Africans a little too awkward in culture and the fact that they managed to manipulate them in their own continent was a proof enough that their way [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1186

The Synopsis of Super Crunchers

He explains that this is the reason why some of the major companies are gaining an edge in the marketplace by using numbers and data to manipulate the marketplace.
  • Subjects: Aspects of American Novels
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1624

“The Opening of the American Mind” by Lawrence W. Levine

The other factor that contributed to the decline in education in America apart from the decline in political standards and changes in demography and culture is the argument over which subjects to include in the [...]
  • Subjects: Aspects of American Novels
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1347

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy and Improvement in Society

In the first place, Levin found that one of the major reasons why the Russian peasant did not want to invest their labor in their land was "due to the consciousness of his vocation to [...]
  • Subjects: Dramatic Literature
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1912

Gothic Theme and Tone in Old and Contemporary Poetry

The poem To One in Paradise highlights the loneliness faced by the speaker when the object of their love passes on: "The light of Life is o'er". In the poem Go to the Grave, death [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1398

Heroes after the Middle Ages

Though put in the beautiful Garden of Eden with one clear instruction not to eat from fruit tree in the middle of the garden, Satan, the leader of the banished and rebel angels, endures a [...]
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  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1307

Watching the Poker Faces of Your Ego: Read Its Lips

However, one of the most specific elements that make the concept of forgetfulness more complicated is the selectivity, which presupposes that people remember certain events, which forgetting the ones that are supposed to be more [...]
  • Subjects: Dramatic Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 829

Reflection on Gulliver’s Travels Part One

The author of A Voyage to Lilliput, which forms the first part of Gulliver's Travels, introduces the reader to a brief historical account of his own life encounters coupled with his own family.
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  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 625

A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings: A Tale for Children

In the story it is discovered that the creature does not understand the language spoken by the locals although it was suspected to be Latin, this gives a political dimension to it and as highlighted [...]
  • Subjects: Dramatic Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 570

“The Lottery” and “Cleveland and It Hurts”

For instance, the piling of the stones by the children at the beginning of the story was a foreshadowing of the stoning which was to take place at the end of the story.
  • Subjects: Dramatical Novel
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 808

Reflection on “The Awakening Novel” by Kate Chopin

Edna Pontellier and her family spend their summer in the Isle resort belonging to the father of Robert Lebrun. Edna seems to survive in the relationship because of the society and her two sons "Think [...]
  • Subjects: Aspects of American Novels
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1122

Ethan Frome’s Characteristics

Ethan's morality is put under test when he decides to hang back at the end of the dance to find out the identity of the young girl, who turns out to be Mattie.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1357

Strength of Oedipus Character

One day, while Oedipus was on his way, he had a dispute with the King of Thebes and unknown to him he killed him after having the argument.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 811

Blazing the Trail, Avoiding the Pitfalls: A Long Way Gone

Speaking of the family, one can see the three distinct ideas in the book, which are: the family life, so settled and appeasing; the loss of the family and the unceasing pain that comes when [...]
  • Subjects: Dramatic Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1173

William Faulkner Barn Burning

One the one hand, the sentence characterizes the inner state of a young boy, who seems to be frightened; on the other hand, it is obvious that a little boy understood the content of a [...]
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  • Subjects: Aspects of American Novels
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1616

Elementary Children’s Literature: Infancy through Age 13

Students find the book resourceful, but it's actually the teachers who benefit the most from it as it highlights issues necessary in children literature, and how best to introduce it to elementary education students. She [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 544

Literary Critique on the story “Aura” by Annecy Baez

In the piece, the narrator talks about a family history of cancer; this is true in her real life. It delves into the family history of the narrator, whose extended family member Aura is the [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1167

“Antigone” by written by Aeschylus

This means that the main character or the protagonist in the play must be the tragic hero of the play. The main antagonist in the play is the King of Thebes, Crain.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 896

Discuss R.K. Narayan

Raju uses Rosie, her lover to reach the final goal of his life through her art of dancing. Raju as a Sadhu is not suppose to work, but rather pray to God in order to [...]
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  • Subjects: Dramatic Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 901

From Whitman to Olds: The Lifelong Story of American Poetry

Taking such poems as The One Girl at the Boys' Party and The Song of Myself, one can trace the similarities and the differences between the two pieces, namely, the objects of the poems, the [...]
  • Subjects: Aspects of American Novels
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 857

‘Vardielo’ and ‘Adventures of Pinnochio’

For Pinnochio, this is as a result of failure to fight the temptation of carefree life while for Vardielo it is a consequence of his extreme stupidity due to lack of guidance.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 849

The New Science by Vico

The other aspect that is used to express the nature of the human race is the issue of the poetic metaphysics and how this influenced the issue and practice of poetry and the role that [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 881

Description of Johnny Got a Gun

Johnny Got a gun is a captivating anti-war book which is politically motivated and takes the role of educating the society on the adverse effects of war on human beings and the whole society.
  • Subjects: Historical Fiction Comparison
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1458

The Voice of Faulkner

The death of Addie is also one of the dark and disturbing components of the narration. The end of the story illustrates that the entire piece has been a flashback since it talks about the [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1859

The Hardboiled Qualities and Features in Detective Stories

Hardboiled fiction writing was popularized by Dashiell Hammett with his character Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon, over the course of time in the late 1930s Raymond Chandler refined hardboiled writing through his Philip Marlowe [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 839

“Sula” by Tony Morrison

The theme of slavery is indicated clearly by the author through the mentioning of the origin of the two communities- The Bottom and Medallion.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 606

Sophie Scholl and the White Rose

The group was involved in the distribution of leaflets that encouraged people to oppose the regime of Adolf Hitler. For instance, in 1945, there was the prosecution of one of the key members of the [...]
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  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 598

Annette Dumbach and Jud Newborn, Sophie Scholl and the White Rose

Analytically, the perpetrators of the white rose group express the theme of courage. Highlighting the theme of courage, the authors display ways in which the youths use to enhance exemplary leadership and freedom in their [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1120

The Story of Picchi

At the age of ten years, Ramana is subconsciously aware of the condition of his mum and the need for her to come home.
  • Subjects: Dramatic Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 845

A&P by John Updikes

But Sammy is conscious of the fact that Stockesie is married and cannot go after the girls but he feels he still has the opportunity and freedom to go after the girls himself.
  • Subjects: Aspects of American Novels
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 554

Herman Melville’s “Bartleby”

With the assumption that the story of "Bartleby the Scrivener" is a love story, it can be presumed that the author has taken a certain fascination that is in actual sense bordering on infatuation with [...]
  • Subjects: Aspects of American Novels
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 681

Change in Wiesel’s Understanding of God

But this did not change the faith he had in God and he continued believing that God was going to safe them. He believed that the Jews were faithful to God but his understanding was [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 782

A Review of Kim by Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling's chef-d'oeuvre novel, "Kim", traces the life of an Irish orphan, Kim, who lives a near vagabond existence in the streets of India during the time of the conflict between the British and Russian [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1644

A Son of the Forest

The paper will examine the purpose of the selected piece of literature in helping the reader to focus towards the main theme of the entire literature.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 854

Three Daughters of China-Wild Swans

The book describes the lives of three people: the narrator, her mother and her grandmother. At the time of her death, the author's grandmother talked about Cultural Revolution.
  • Subjects: Dramatic Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 551

Heroes in English Literature

From the above mentioned epic heroes, we find that the aspect of heroism is differentiated mostly to suit the time in which they were written and also to meet the expectation of the audience and [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1392

Two-page précis over Wild Swans

Written by Jung Chang, the book focuses on the lifestyle of three women to give a detailed description of the traditional practices and political progression of the Chinese people.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 632

Analysis of Job’s and Odysseus

The strong character traits of the main characters Odyssey and Job in the epic The Odyssey and The Story of Job help develop their plots from the beginning to the rise of conflict and their [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 822

The Mount Everest Disaster of 1996 as It Happened

The essay aims at summarizing the book in which the writer makes a personal opinion of the accounts as they are narrated in the book and criticizes the book to bring out the faults that [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 994

A precise of the Three Daughters of China Wild Swan

The writer gives us the low point of the political struggle involving the Japanese and the Chinese citizens by telling a story of a Chinese who had been arrested and killed for committing an 'economic [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 581

“Their son” by Yu Hua

The story commences by painting a picture of exhausted workers shouting and banging the main gate of the factory as they awaited the evening bell to end their shift.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 960

“The Nine-mile Wolves” by Rick Bass

In the article "The Nine-mile Wolves", Rick Bass makes the case for the continued protection of the wolf species of North America and Canada, viewing them as endangered species due to the combined forces of [...]
  • Subjects: Concepts in American Novels
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 622

Edgar Allan Poe’s The Cask of Amontillado

Although the revelation of the character of Montressor was done indirectly, the fact that he was also the narrator of the story enabled readers to have access to his thoughts and feelings.
  • Subjects: Concepts in American Novels
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 591

Susan J. Douglas: Growing Up Female With the Mass Media

The images that are shown by the media have helped to establish gender equality in a broad way. This means that as women have been shaped positively, they have desired to have a say in [...]
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  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1158

Henry David Thoreau: A Challenge to Become Better

Thoreau mentions a dawn or a morning but he was neither referring to the sunrise we know of nor was he referring to the early hours of the day we call morning but rather he [...]
  • Subjects: Concepts in American Novels
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1606

Theme Analysis: The Grapes of Wrath

As a result, the novel portrays the issue of land ownership in California and America at large, the conflicts between the Haves and the Have-nots, people's reactions to injustices, and the strength of a woman.
  • Subjects: Concepts in American Novels
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1053

Women Struggling From Their Fate

She gets upset by the sad news of the death of a loved one but when she comes out of the room she seem to have already accepted the situation and adapting to the new [...]
  • Subjects: Gender in Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1507

Reflection Paper: “The Death of the West”

The book's opinions on the reduced population growth rate in the western nations with a concurrent enormous immigration from the third world nations is threatening from the authors perspective.
  • Subjects: Concepts in American Novels
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1437

Cultural Discrimination Concept in Literature

He tries to emphasize the fact that the slaves in the United States originated from the African regions, and they were transported to America through the rivers.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 881

Liberation and Oppression in Ruth Almog’s Writing

In the work of Jewish writers Ruth Almog and David Fogel the themes of liberation and oppression take the forefront. As an oppressed child, the daughter of immigrants whose life has already been touched by [...]
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1127

Into The Wild by LaMarche

As a young man he did not enjoy the company of his family and kept to himself as he sought what he had considered as important to him: "...it was important for him to see [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1642

Six characters in search of an author

Being a member of the Theatricalists who disapproved the ideas of realists, Luigi intentionally alters the plot structure, the portrayal of the characters, the thematic development, the language as well as the portrayal of spectacle [...]
  • Subjects: Dramatic Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1140

Two Narratives of Chekhov’s Gooseberries

At the end, the author transfers to the outer story to address the audience and frame the entire literary work. At this point, the author provides the readers with the story of Nicolas who is [...]
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  • Subjects: Dramatical Novel
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 546

A Streetcar Named Desire

She is highly critical and snobbish when she regards the cramped up apartment that her sister and her husband lives in.
  • Subjects: Concepts in American Novels
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 828

Journal entry on Cathedral by Raymond Carver

A blind man in my house was not something I looked forward to"., it is evident that he was agitated by the blind man's visit in his house.
  • Subjects: Concepts in American Novels
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 802

Out of Africa and Shadows in the Grass

Although the book talks about the beautiful life and the landscape of the countryside which the author describes she and other settlers in the colony supported the colonial administration.
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1716

Back In the World

The phrase back in the world therefore as used in the book to illustrates the coming back into the society form a different society.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1357