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Compare and Contrast: The Lottery and The Rocking-Horse Winner

The tone of the work is significant in its terms as well because it creates the fleur of seriousness, light-mindedness, sadness or cheerfulness, introducing the reader to the world of the literary work, and even [...]
  • Subjects: Dramatical Novel
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1127

Tom Sawyers through perspective of Don Quixote

The older set of people who chance to read the novel for the first time will quickly understand the expert use of satire but it is the other facet of the novel that will grab [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2982

The feminine mystique- Betty Friedan

They worked to have the rights of the women upheld and respected in regards to the norms that governed their society at the time.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1943

The multiculturalism into which American Literature has developed

There is lack of the exclusivities in teaching methods and literature learning in current American literature. There is an overwhelming change over the confined nature of past-institutionalized form of study where the teachers in the [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 600

Story of Drunken Girlhood

It is possible to state that the alcoholism discussed in the book along with the age considered there makes the book focused on the sociological and psychological problem.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 946

Young Goodman Brown- Nathaniel Hawthorne

The duration from 1850 to 1853 was the most fruitful since he wrote The House of the Seven Gables and The Blithedale Romance.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1488

Charles Bukowski: A View from the Gutter

One of the most consistent criticisms hurled Bukowski's way, and one of the justifications for his bad reputation, appears as the observation that his work appeals to those who do not understand, or value, the [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1733

Joseph Conrad: The Heart of Darkness

The thematic core of his writings examined the trials and tribulations of the human spirit/soul in relation to duty and honor as well as the pervading affects of world empires.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1738

Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs

The directing of the play managed to extend the subtext through the portrayal of actors as adults and children. In addition, the director strived to render the play as the funnier property through deploying Eugene [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 828

Lewis Carroll and Wonderland

The book "Through the Looking Glass" is a continuation of the story of Alice as she becomes a young woman. The book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel "Through the Looking-Glass" were essentially stories [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1711

Conflict in Everyday Use

In the very beginning of the story one can already see the reason why Tuten disapproved of Dee's actions and supported the desire of Mama and Maggie to continue with their way of life.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1176

Ralph Ellison’s “Battle Royal”

The white man is willing to let the black man in to his space but not to benefit the black man but to humiliate him.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 743

The Function of the Soliloquies in Hamlet

This happens when it influences the plot, the characterization in the play, and the play's mood, on top of expressing themes that could be termed to be the main themes.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2055

“Utopia” by Thomas More

The name of the utopian land is the Green Spit; its inhabitants refer to it simply as "The Spit". Most people in Barrel work at forestry, maintaining the rainforests, or zoology, looking after the animals [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 836

Swahili-Speaking People

The main purpose of the paper is to consider three sources about Swahili speaking community and to understand whether the arguments presented in those works support or contradict the ideas presented in the article The [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 817

Hills Like White Elephants – Ernest Hemingway

The American man manages to manipulate Jig psychologically by telling her not to abort if she does not want to because he senses her hesitance, "I think it's the best thing to do.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 848

The dark side of life in America

She goes ahead to explain the flow of events between the time she leaves her home and gradually takes the author through her experience as a low-income restaurant waitress upto the time that she throws [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 846

Barn Burning: Why Does Sarty Finally Report on His Father?

Faulkner's choice of the archetypal setting of a wagon mowing constantly from one place to another renders the message of the instability and vacillations that Sarty is experiencing in the formation of his morals.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 945

Harlem Renaissance: The Cultural Movement

In 1931, she collaborated with Langston Hughes in the production of the play "Mule Bone," which was never published because of the tension between the two writers, and in 1934, she authored her first novel, [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 822

Behind the Counter: Falling Behind the Trend

In his article "Behind the Counter", Eric Schlosser argues that the fast food industry is behind the country's trend toward unsupportable earnings.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 594

Necessary Target: Theatre

The highlight of the play is about the role of women in the society. The published play tells the stories of many Bosnian women who had to go through the aftermaths of the war.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 862

The Kite Runner as a Metaphor

The kite runner and the kite fighter restrict the movement of the kite in order for it to move in an orderly manner.
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1977

Analyzing the Concept of Terrorism

It is worth noting that a clear definition of terrorism is mostly subjective and is rarely objective due to the fact that it is an act of political violence.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 924

Nature as the Mean of Expression in Romanticism

The period of Romanticism is characterized by its address to nature, in other words, the world was perceived through the nature."It is characterized by a shift from the structured, intellectual, reasoned approach of the 1700's [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 888

The Concept of Broken Love in Poetry

The emotional state of the author is the main idea of the poem because the main character seems to reflect the mental and emotional features of Browning introducing his weakness and lack of self-confidence.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 11
  • Words: 2979

Elements of the Poems under Consideration

One the one hand, the last lines of the verse express the notes of individualism and ironically interpret the author's searching for his place in life.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1025

William Faulkner and His Rose for Emily

A Rose for Emily is the story that is characterized by numerous critical opinions: readers found the story interesting, unusual, and educative; and critics tried to admit as many negative or weak points as possible [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1102

“Artemis Fowl” and “The princes and the goblin”.

They had advanced intellectually to the point that they could do things that were unheard of in the world of mortals, yet all this creativity they dedicated to making the life of the people living [...]
  • Subjects: Dramatical Novel
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2244

Will The Da Vinci Code be still relevant in 2070?

The reason why Brown's novel was able to attain such popularity is that the motifs, contained in it, correspond to the unconscious anxieties, on the part of those for whom it was written the dwellers [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1123

Views in “A Dove in Santiago: Anovella In Verse”

Eventually, you find out that the world is not a desert with rare planets of different people colliding to push each other even further. There is very little that is needed to understand the interdependence [...]
  • Subjects: Dramatic Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 679

The Type of Consumerism in the 21st Century

But what came next was a testament to the spirit of the times there were products that were created as a direct result of the success of the book and the movie.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1484

Notes for Dante’s Works

He makes the readers understand that evil is a moral sin and it is regarded just like any type of sin because immorality is in contravention of the will of God; however, in the same [...]
  • Subjects: World Philosophy Literature
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2463

Plot Fragmentation in Modern Comedy

All of these comedies feature the absence of a well-structured plot, the plenty of plot-unrelated self-referrals, on the part of the characters, and the inclusion of a number of primitively humorous gags.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1962

Two Poems with TV Drama 24

The main ideas which the authors of both the poem and the song are proposing will also be summarized and finally a link will be provided between the piece of literary work, the song and [...]
  • Subjects: Dramatical Novel
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1672

The Glass Menagerie

To counter her fears, Amanda enrols Laura in a business school hoping that she would be stable; provide for her self and probably for the family.
  • 5
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 669

The Circular Ruins

The wizard in 'The Circular Ruins' lives in the reality of ordinary men before he relocates to the ruins and he is regarded by others and views himself as a normal man.
  • Subjects: Mythology
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 832

William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying

Addie dies shortly after the story starts; however, the short period she appears in the play and her dead body directs the structure of the story setting themes in place. The storyline of this story [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 876

Exploration of Watchmen the Graphic Novel

To understand the importance of a verbal aspect in the novel, let me first discuss briefly the theme of superheroes and their extreme popularity.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 577

Exploration of Ethics and the Environment

The theme of death is evaluated in numerous literary and art works, and Don DeLillo's White Noise is one of the brightest examples of how people are afraid of death, want to postpone it, and, [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1436

Heroes and Gods of the Greek Myths

Aphrodite Zeus daughter was the god of love in Greece she was the cause of the Trojan War as explained below, and had very many lovers.
  • 5
  • Subjects: Mythology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 732

The Da Vinci Code

As of today, a clear correlation can be seen between the quality of living in every particular country and the extent of citizens' sense of religiosity the higher are the standards of living, the lesser [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1946

“Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand

The term atlas refer to the pillars of a society, that is the people who put a lot of effort and determination in their work but are exploited and are not rewarded according to their [...]
  • Subjects: American Novels Influences
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1161

Portrayal of the Characters in the Original Text

The plot of the story focuses on the antics of McMurphy who tries to thwart the efforts of the head of the ward, Nurse Ratched, when he is transferred to her ward.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2088

“Not All Men Are Sly Foxes” Critical Response

Because of these, he warns that chances of children forming the characters of the described fathers in the books are high, as most of them love reading such books.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 595

Shock Jock in Trouble

In order to grab the attention of the avid listeners, innovative and meticulously planned music as well as talk shows are planned, designed and executed keeping in mind the tastes and preferences of local audiences [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 884

Reflection of “Conundrum” by Morris

She indicates the times her service was a fascination but not to her satisfaction for instance, the roles of a husband, father or a member in the army.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 598

Conundrum and Twelfth Night comparison

In this play, Viola a woman masquerades as a man, Cesario to enter in a service that she really wanted to get involved.
  • Subjects: Gender in Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 560

Characters in The Glass Menagerie and Death of a Salesman

For example, one of the main characters in Death of a Salesman, Willy Loman is identified as a "mentally and emotionally confused" person; the male character of The Glass Menagerie is under a threat of [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 537

Bartleby the Scrivener

After the lawyer places an advert in the local newspaper, Bartleby applies for the position of a copyist and the lawyer hires him.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1498

The Latin-American Society in “One Hundred Years of Solitude”

In addition, this work will give examples and discuss the societal criticism of the Latin-American society arising from the mythical and magical realism presentation in the novel as in accordance to the given guidelines of [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2187

Novel or Film: Clueless and Emma

Therefore, it is possible to analyze Emma and two versions of the film: the free version of the novel Clueless and another version which is closely based on the novel Emma.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1153

The Monkey’s Paw Literary Analysis Essay

Sergeant major Morris begins to tell the family about the monkey's paw origin, and how he possessed it and that it has the ability to grant wishes. The sergeant throws the monkey paw in to [...]
  • 4.1
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 722

Letters from the Earth

Having being deported to space, he decided to visit the earth to determine the progress of God's experiment. In the third letter, Clemens criticizes the current Bible as lacking the originality of the earlier Bibles.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 975

Warriors Don’t Cry

It is because of these social issues that Africans could not develop compared to the whites The main reason why Melba together with her friends was persistent in staying in Central High was to promote [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 921

The Horror of the Holocaust in Different Styles of Writing

One of the thematic thread that unites these three works of the writers from different countries is their attempt to reproduce how cruel and unfair the actions of the Nazi were. The Holocaust, the judgment [...]
  • Subjects: Historical Fiction Comparison
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 852

The Role of an Artist: Anne Deavere Smith and Tod Hackett

In comparison to one literary character, Tod Hackett from The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West, Anna Deavere Smith does not want to lose her mind and be guided by the current events; she [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1163

“Genghis Khan” by Richard P. Lister

Richard Percival Lister has created one of the most captivating pieces of writing, which described the life of one of the most respectable warriors of all the times, Genghis Khan; the author also paid special [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1172

Poe’s life and how it influenced his work

He feels privileged to have such a creature in his room and the fact that the raven answers his question of what its name is with the word "Nevermore", adds to his excitement.
  • 3.7
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1824

Tale as Old as Time: Snow White and its Multiple Interpretations

In a step-by-step comparison of such elements of the tales as the leads, the plot, the settings and the supporting characters, the difference between the original tale, the Grimm's' version, the Slavonic and the African [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1156

Hindu Creation Myth

The story of Hindu creation myths differs from Ancient Greek creation myths in a number of facts, including the beginning of the world, and some elements of the creation of the living creatures.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 562

For Whom the Bell Tolls

The novel was written at the time of the Spanish Civil War in 1940. The setting of the novel is estimated to be 1937; a period is characterized by the height of the war, hence, [...]
  • Subjects: American Novels Influences
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 721

Folklore: Contemporary Legends

The fact that the location of the incident exists in reality gives the reader the illusion that the story could be true.
  • Subjects: Modernist Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1641