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Gods and Humans: Myths of Ancient Rome and Greece

Remembering the main idea of the myths which is to portray the creation of the specific natural phenomena via the God's actions, the relationships between people and Gods cannot be rejected in the book.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 559

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the “Hamlet”

Hamlet is a son to the former King and a nephew to the current King Claudius These two characters seem indispensable throughout and serve as informants of Claudius. In the play, they fit in as [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 276

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

In his advocacy for the 'overman', Zarathustra makes it clear that God is already dead and the only state within which humans should aspire to achieve is the 'overman'.
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  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 580

Frank Kermode: Timelessness and Freedom of Expression

In his story, Frank Kermode tries to establish a conventional identity of time, by incorporating issues that subject to the needs of humanity, and which must confer to the expectations of the community.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 579

American Grace: David E. Campbell and Robert D. Putnam

These are the crashing down of religious adherence in the 1960s, the rise of religious rights and evangelism in the 1970s and the relaxed manner of practicing religion by the young generation of the 1990s.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1442

Charles Bukowski: Life and Works

By illustrating much of his life in his writings, he managed to dramatize the oppressiveness in the workplaces, controversial facets of traditional masculinity, and the elites' perceptions of arts and academia.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 562

Journal for The Crying of Lot 49

However, analyzing the role of mystery in the plot of The Crying of Lot 49, it can be stated that the effect of mystery is produced with the structure of the novel and the intersection [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 854

African American Literary Analysis Review

Illustrating the plights of African-Americans, Edward Jones' story, "lost in the city" describes the discontentment of Africans amid the White community.
  • Subjects: American Novels Influences
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1959

Summary: James Wertsch’s “The Multivoicedness of Meaning”.

While Bahktin still recognizes and acknowledges the centrality of meaning to the socio-cultural approach to mediated action, unlike most semiotic analyses that have mainly focused on the nature of formal structure central in most contemporary [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 539

Poem – ‘Life’, by Emily Dickinson

Dickinson makes us realize that the loosing side with wouldefeated' and wouldying' soldiers is in a better position to translate the meaning of victory and success.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 530

A Play “Topaz” by Marcel Pagnol

In the said play the protagonist adhered to a set of values that are alien to the people that have adapted to a belief system that was rooted in corruption.
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  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 940

Pamela: The Way She Lives

The book is written in a form of letters from Pamela to her parents which helps the reader to understand the thoughts of the heroine better and deeper.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 552

To Kill a Mockingbird

The author, in the novel To Kill a Mocking Bird presents a deeper understanding in relation to events occurring in her novel. To enhance understanding of the novel, the author has widely embraced symbolism in [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1448

Personal Experience Into Poetry: Works Analysis

Critics and biographers have attributed the impetus for the poem Because I Could not Stop for Death to the death of one of Emily Dickinson's friends, Olivia Coleman, who succumbed to a tuberculosis attack while [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1664

Common Theme Between Books

These include psychological manipulation of the citizens, exercising physical control on the people, and using technology to control information, history and the citizens for the benefit of the party.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1737

Paul Laurence Dunbar’ “We wear the Mask”

For instance, the message the poet provides through the poem is touching as it demonstrates clearly the picture of how the black people in America lived in pretence by hiding their agony and problems that [...]
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  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 669

Reading the Secret Signs: The Art of Finding Symbols

To some extent, it must be admitted, each of the books suggests the ideas of feminism in their embryo, of course, yet there can be no doubt that Doll House is one of the books [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1112

Sweet Are the Fruits. Through Pablo Neruda’s Prism

Sarcastic and sad, the poem shapes the image of The United Fruit Co.as the barbarians who came to break the rest of the people down, to make them submit and follow the orders of the [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1644

Things Fall Apart: Ibo Hero Analysis

In addition to this, towards the end of the novel, he commits suicide due to the fact that he has no followers when it comes to dealing with the missionaries.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1122

White Teeth: the Iqbal twins

Millat feels that this is the reason why his father develops a special liking for Magid and as such feels like he is the lesser of the Iqbal thus: "What is the root cause" Millat's [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 559

White Teeth Novel by Zadie Smith

The role of the flashback at the end of the novel further depicts humor and the immigrants' dilemma in the new social setup.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 685

Remembrance and Redemption Relationship

The case was presented before the Duke who upon listening to the story of Othello and his love for the girl, ruled for the acquaintance of Othello.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1471

Folks and Fairly Tales

It is fascinating because even though Bluebeard was wealthy and had life trappings that could endear him to any woman, all women and girls could not stand the thoughts of marrying an ugly rich man [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 585

Folks and Fairy Tale. Cinderella

He found solace in this woman, and she was the perfect replacement of his late wife, and a mother figure for his children.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 680

The Effects of Tragic Tales on Audience

In the last stanza of The Mask, the author uses 'we' to denote all people, the persona inclusive. Non-provision of information pertaining to who wore the mask is deliberate.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 809

Characteristics of Okwonko in Things Fall Apart

First, when he bullies his wives and sons in the homestead, he reveals to the white man that, in Africa, a man is the head of the family. Finally, in committing suicide, Okwonko demonstrates to [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 597

Brief Vitae on English Writers

When he was sixteen, he qualified as an architect from the mentorship of his father and went to London in 1862 where he worked on Church architecture.
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1947

History of Sexuality by Foucault

One of the bases of power was the body that was perceived to be in the form of equipment while the other basis of power was applicable in the form of population.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1085

Love in a Million Ways

The object of the poem is that the speaker is offering true love to a man, and she is proud to give it to him."Let me count the ways" is the speaker's way of showing [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 978

In the Eye of a Boy: Back Into the Childhood

What drives the reader's immediate attention to the books and makes the comparison possible is the use of stock characters that each of the authors resorts to.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 693

The Theme of Motherhood in John Irving’s Works

John Irving, the author of the novels the Cider House Rule and A Widow for One Year focuses on the theme of motherhood through the description of the main characters.
  • Subjects: Family Drama
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 608

Conflicting Motives in “Hippocrates”

This paper is an analysis of the story to trace the conflicting motives in the characters. As the narrator listens to the radio, the announcer tells the story of a pregnant girl.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 646

Loyalty Imagery in “Patriotism” by Yukio Mishima

This highlights the theme of loyalty, as the soldiers are ready to obey orders well aware of the dangers involved. The author continues to explore the symbol of compliance and selflessness by explicating how soldiers [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 584

Homage to My Hips

She is used her hips to symbolize womanhood, freedom, and the need for women to be empowered. The author wanted to express her womanhood and her belief that she is free.
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  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 799

Protagonists in Literature

Both her sister and her husband's friend are worried on the best means to pass this message to her because of her health condition.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 884

Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry

However, when Kira learns the truths in her society, she decides to strive and save the villagers from their horrible way of life and superstition. The village is primitive and a scary place to be [...]
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  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 693

William Faulkner: Literature Works

The theme the author considers is related to the inability of a person to cope with the ideas implemented in the society but still the desire to be the part of that society.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1359

A Modern Cinderella and Other Stories

The beginning and the end justify the title for the rest of the story is nothing like the fairy tale and lays out the daily trials of simple folks.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2970

What Is It to Live in Time: Observing Nature and Society

As some conclusions can be based on observations, it is necessary to consider the work by Engels and Marx that analyses the relationships between individuals in society in terms of their connections to each other [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 862

The Moose and the Sparrow

He will have to lie, by omission, for the rest of his days.Mr. Anderson, a witness to bullying, is affected for the rest of his life.
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  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 889

World Literature Syllabus

The study of every work of literature should start with the introduction in the epoque when the work was written and its peculiarities.
  • Subjects: World Philosophy Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 577

Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance

Within a short period, Harlem was transformed in to one of the trendiest neighborhoods in the whole of New York. Although Langston's poems, spoke of the experiences of black Americans in light of a white [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1164

The Market Place: A Woman with a Child

On the one hand, it is a bit challenging to express the emotions and thoughts of the main characters in the chosen situation.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 497

Learning to See & Learning to Listen

Thesis statement: learning to listen is easy as compared to learning to see but hard to perfect. Even though it is the easiest approach to learning, listening remains the hardest skill to perfect as compared [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 668

The Problem with Mr. Gunes

However, the principle made a point to assure Jake that he would not get into any trouble as a result of this suspension.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 607

Rhetorical Analysis of the Article

Having further introduced the main thesis of the essay and having given some background information, the writer moves smoothly to the body of the piece.
  • Subjects: Historical Fiction Comparison
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 748

Othello and Snow Country: Personal Opinion

As aforementioned, it is hard to differentiate between love and passion as they all come in the name of love. Nevertheless, because his 'love' for her is based on passion, he smothers her to death; [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 994

Some Thoughts on what is to be Done

While he provides a bare account of development, he is not to be considered pessimistic but instead aims to make people aware of the facts of development motives, especially by the western countries.
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 682

Metamorphoses by Ovid: The Character of Phaeton

The character of Phaeton represents a perfect collection of different elements like false confidence in personal powers and inability to listen to parents words that are inherent to many young people; Phaeton's complexities and desire [...]
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  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 627

Common Sense and Related Writings

Paine talks of government as a necessary evil, emphasizes on state of nature, underlines the inevitability of American independence and British oppression, highlights the problems of monarchy, and finally sheds some light on America's relationship [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 579

The Candy Bombers by Andrei Cherny

The book critically acclaims the role of American bombers in post WWII time when the allied forces were getting apart because of the political differences that were beginning to showcase. The problem was the food [...]
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1320

The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis: A Book

In spite of the fact that it should a two-way correspondence, the author of the book allows the reader to use own imagination and think about the manner of writing of Wormwood.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 953

Review of Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy

To my mind, one of the major goals, which Bellamy wanted to achieve is to provide the reader with an opportunity to see one of the possible variants of our future and underline the fact [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 846

Henry Thoreau: The Concept of the Friendship

Not every person is able to understand the essence of nature, its uniqueness, and importance. To my mind, his close connection to nature and a kind of isolation from people helped him to understand deeper [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 593