This novel is a panorama of late-twentieth-century Vietnam, a divided country that is suffering from the unrecoverable consequences of the war and languishing in poverty, trying to survive with the help of tourism and agriculture.
Therefore, the misuse of tense and context in Shakespeare can drastically change the meaning of any of his plays, even among the characters in the plays themselves.
The one similarity in all these three stories is the symbol of the water as the purification of the land from the evil and the resolution to a new generation to live without crime, harm, [...]
There are too many striking differences in the Western and Eastern literatures that it is highly difficult to comprehend the first of the second one by representatives of another culture.
The work is concerned with the depicting of the importance of the food for self-affirmation in Chocolat and the self-cognition in Edible Woman.
The geisha is a unique phenomenon for the Asian culture as well as, of course, for the western one. Thereby, geisha is the men's friend and companion, and at the same time, a beautiful and [...]
Though she tries to find a decent job Doris is also illiterate, so, she has to withdraw her patron's attention from finding her mistakes and inserting commas by the means of her feminine charm.
The white men tried to spread the gospel but "the arrival of the missionaries had caused a considerable stir in the village..."..
The main character's quest for immortality is analyzed through his way of life, the predetermined impossibility of achieving immortality, his journey to Uta-Napishtim, some of the challenges he has to pass to reach his aim, [...]
Eliot's theory of the impersonality of poetry: "The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain [...]
The following are the processes that he recommends to be taken; The first step in making a good decision is defining the challenge that calls for a decision to be made.
This paper will attempt to asses the characters in the following set of books and plays: The New Testament, Oedipus the King, Shakespeare Hamlet and Shikibu the tale of the Genji.
The novel contains the following short stories: "Epstein," "The Conversion of the Jews," "You Ca not Tell a Man by the Song He Sings," "Defender of the Faith," and "Eli, the Fanatic".
Following Tolle's advice, the readers may learn to recognize the inner voice of their ego and start to control it, to solve the problems with the self-identification, get rid of the masks and establish the [...]
The usage of magic facilitates the understanding of the real world through its separation from illusive pictures. In his novel, the total deconstruction of political power is observed.
On top of that, Rilke states that criticism should not interfere into the work of art, the embodiment of the author's life experiment, as it destroys the perception of the work of literature, nurtured by [...]
The Wretched of the Earth by Franz Fanon is the brightest example of such books. The Wretched of the Earth considers the occupied world from the point of view of the occupied people.
The nature of changes can be traced in Othello who is treated as a person with different color of skin as well as Edna who is not accepted by the Creole community; Gregor Samsa is [...]
In the novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn the author depicts one day from the life of prisoners in one of Stalinist camps and emphasizes the importance of [...]
Alongside tourism essays and reviews, with fast developing of technologies and telecommunication, a lot of TV and radio programmes are intended to present the information about the world's countries pointing out the advantages and disadvantages [...]
Bunk Johnson, who claimed to have played with him from 1895 to 1899, was one of the chief witnesses to the existence of Bolden and his music."Legend has it that Buddy Bolden, when playing in [...]
However, this does not mean that the notion of decadence had ceased to represent a conceptual significance as Mann's novel implies, it is only the matter of time for an individual who decides to embrace [...]
This purpose of this study is to point out the features of three stories Cinderella, The Three Little Pigs and Red Riding Hood in their relation to one another and to previous and current generations.
The authors of the book, Levitt and Dubner propose that economics is basically the study of incentives. However, the author of the book is not interested in the conventional views of economics.
The thoughts about death and the beyond can send shivers down the spine of a contemporary person and the attitude of ancient Greeks to death was practically the same.
The book chronicles the military's efforts to deal with the social challenges and how the operational dynamics have forced the military to outsource and privatize many of the family support functions to civilian service providers [...]
Initially, it seems to them that this is just some see animal or even whale though later they understand that this is the body of a human being.
Her two stories, "The Storm" and "The Story of an Hour" are discussed in this paper to see how well Kate achieves her creative intention."The Storm" is a short story, but it is packed with [...]
The major qualities of her work reflect the life and the social world. Richalife vitamins are the tickets to a new life that Stacey cannot comprehend and accept.
Omura is a harbinger of the conflict in which Capitan Nathan Algren, the main character of the story will be involved.
The title of the book is in the context of the house that Esperanza lives in, which her family had shifted into at the beginning of the novel.
The present paper argues that whereas "Greasy Lake" and "Lord of the Flies" imply that a group of people turns into a cruel and blood-thirsty tribe in the absence of authority, "Lottery" and "On the [...]
As shown by the examples of Prometheus from Prometheus Bound, James Stark from Rebel without a Cause, and Barry from Barry Lyndon, being a hero and a villain is possible for one and the same [...]
The most appropriate theme for the modern world is the theme of the lack of adventures. The theme of adventures is one of the main ones in this book, as all the actions are related [...]
The real punishment of the sinners in the life after starts in the second circle. Each head is said to consume the three known traitors in the history of the bible, one is Judas who [...]
Jorge Amado is one of the most outstanding examples of a writer who could make the traditional attitude toward things and people transformed in the literature manner of the Modernist trend. In The Miracle of [...]
The paper will be concentrated on the analysis of the works 'The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano' by Olaudah Equiano, 'Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass' by Frederick Douglass, and 'Incidents [...]
And finally, I would like to state that this whole image of the tiger could be the embodiment of William Blake. In this very poem, the image is discrepant, it seems to possess all good [...]
The foremost psychological difference between men and women is that men are expected to be capable of suppressing their animalistic urges, to be able to act "as necessary", as opposed to women's tendency to act [...]
The focal point of this paper is to provide an analytical outline of the novel 'The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers.
I believe one of the main characters of the novel "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee, Henry gives a full explanation to the issue of the cost of being a spy.
One side of the debate believes that deafness is a disability, while their opponents claim that this is a sign of belonging to a distinct linguistic community which is marginalized not only in the United [...]
Depicting the victory of ethics over immorality, Sam Foster manages to express his idea of the possibility that the real estate business, and the human life on the whole, can be ethical in their essence.
This is the reason, why Stephen is called "compelling character" Analyzing the plot of the story, first thing which attracts attention is the structure of the text. The whole novel is organized according to three [...]
The flood stories in the Babylonian text 'The Epic of Gilgamesh, Tablet XI' and the Hebrew text 'Genesis 6-9' have been targets of international attention due to a controversy created by enemies of Christianity, namely, [...]
A six-word fictional story is a work of fiction because it presents unreal facts, while a six-word memoir is a work of non-fiction which presents reality and is able to evoke a certain response in [...]
Imagine that the protagonist is one of the pilgrims in the story in search of the legendary gem along with the other pilgrims.
For Othello, the doubt and suspicion growing in his mind regarding a possible relationship between Cassio and Desdemona were started with Desdemona's father at the beginning of the play. For Othello, his greatest weakness is [...]
The concept of leadership has been discussed and interpreted in the works of world-famous writers thousands of times the whole of humanity has been always interested in the issues of successful leadership and the ways [...]
It tells the story of a young man Changez through a series of deviously and intricately crafted monologues where the protagonist narrates the story of his life to an ominously jumpy American who he happens [...]
Additionally, a neurosis of Raskolnikov is that he has a tendency to simplify everything - even to the extent of his crime, which he compares to "physical derangement" and "piece of dry bread".
Robert Frost, the author of the poem 'Design,' strived to raise the question of the nature of God on the basis of naturalistic rebuttal and effects description.
Such is the case regarding Tom Robinson in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, Cinna in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, and Lennie in Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck.
The author of "The Firm" and further "The Client" achieved crucial popularity due to the grave and direct ideas in another novel titled "The Pelican Brief".
To understand how these concepts have changed over time, it is helpful to trace the relationship between the self and the supernatural as it is revealed in the great works of history, such as Sophocles' [...]
She prevents the girl from attending the Festival, forcing her to do her household chores instead, and the African Cinderella is saved by a frog who repays her kindness to him in the past by [...]
The House on Mango Street is a work of fiction, but the author breaks the conventional rules of form and plot.
This discussion will look at pre-Islamic poetry, its history, some of the famous people who were skilled at the art of oral poetry, analyze the poetry, oral poetry competitions used in the city of Medina, [...]
It is the story of the unfulfilled promise Sergeant X gave to Esme and failed to fulfil it because of the mental illness.
Copernicus concerned the motion of the earth as physical reality and mentioned in De revolutionibus that "If any motion is related to the earth, that motion ought to illustrate in all the bodies outside the [...]
The major topic of this work is the ecological awareness of the Australian writers and poets as expressed in the paradoxical relations between the fast and comprehensive urbanization of Australia in the late 19th century [...]
The presence of the narrator of story is questionable at the initial and final stage of story while in the middle of story, the narrator vanishes suddenly e.g.the narrator's introductory story of Roth's life in [...]
Since the publication of Darwin's science of evolution, mankind has been attempting to solve one of the major problems of our age where will this sort of evolution lead the human race and what implications [...]
Thus, pride is Speaking on the matter of women, mentioned in the verses, the following quote should be mentioned: 'Twixt Reno and Savena to say 'sipa; And if thereof thou wishest pledge or proof, Bring [...]
The complexity of the metonym is introduced in the concept that one must also be aware of the various elements that are important characteristics of the tree at this particular time in its development and [...]
The first adventures of Lazarillo gave the Spanish word Lazarillo a meaning of being a 'guide' for a blind person and thus, named to the dog who guides, the perro lazarillo.
Analyzing the "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz, it is necessary to review and describe such issues as the authority and power in the Dominican Republic's history and how this history [...]
When pogroms and other anti-Semitic actions all through Latin America shattered the hope of assimilation and social acceptance by many Jews, the concept of a Jewish homeland, phrased in the form of nationalism current at [...]
Prowess, in its material meaning, is considered as necessary to the rise to power but foremost to the maintenance of the rule.
The theme of war in literature is a long-standing tradition that nearly always leads to a discourse about the ethics of violence and the effects it has on the people involved.
Despite the fact that Ivan Ilych never turns to religion directly, or in any way applies for the absolution of his sins, it is given to him.
It was as if they were mindful of what had happened to the moth but in truth these creatures were simply taking a break.
As things progressed, after the incidents with Melanie at the university and he had to leave teaching for a while, he went to visit his daughter Lucy in the outskirts out of cape Town in [...]
The book 'The Souls of Black Folk concentrates on the ideas of race and equality, the position of a black man in society, and his unique identity neglected by the white majority.
Despite the fact that Tesman tries his best to satisfy Hedda's desires to the best of his ability, she still thinks of him as not being quite worthy of her, because in Hedda's eyes, Tesman [...]
Consequently, any effort to state the meaning of the poem appears to be heretical, as it is an affront to the honesty of the complex arrangement of sense within the literary creation.
The honesty in which the poems of Semezdin Mehmedinovic were written might lay in the fact that for the whole period of the Serbian nationalistic siege he remained a citizen of Sarajevo.
He described the promotion of a young country girl Denise who came to Paris in search of a better life, the success of a developing department store business, and the atmosphere of commerce and shopping, [...]
The most obvious similarities in the language of the two plays are that it takes a good actor to be able to deliver the lines at all, and a superb actor to be able to [...]
In the novel "From the Earth to the Moon" Jules Verne depicted science and basically applied science as an only engine of progress and social balance, which filled moral and ethical vacuum of individual of [...]
One is gardens and flowers, and the other is the less concrete spiritual things, like the soul, the body, the mind, life, and death.
It is possible to dream in such places, but hardly to live, as the physical and spiritual health of Dostoevsky's characters plainly testifies.
The symbols of nature are various, and have different meanings, depending on the context, but the key meanings of these symbols are life itself, and the beauty of the surrounding world.
The short novel written by Juan Rulfo, originally published in 1985, tackles the death of Comala through the narration of the ghosts of the former inhabitant of the town.
In 'A Bird in the house, for instance, we see Vanessa rebelling against her grandfather's dictatorship, and as a result, she is denied the freedom she is fighting for.
If we attempt to discuss the peculiarities of her novel, "The Bear Came over the Mountain," especially in contrast with its screen version, which is called "Away from her," it is of crucial importance for [...]
First and foremost, although it is a literary piece of work, it can be considered as a historical truth thanks to the author living at that particular period of time and claim that the given [...]
After the death of his mother in 1907, Hitler moved to the city of Vienna, where he hoped to join the Art Academy.
The reign of the absurd has caused violence, and the setting of the story adds tremor and drama to it. War does not bring any good to people, and this is highlighted in the novel.
The theme of the novel trails two side-by-side running models, one during times of erstwhile racial South Africa where the enthroned President is on the verge of giving in at the hands of the leadership [...]
Her devotion to the Church and her fervent prayers attract the attention of the nuns who ask her to become a nun and enter the sisterhood.
In this way the birthmark seems to be almost mocking his attempts at changing nature, which is representative of Georgiana's femininity, "Attempting an operation for the removal of the Birthmark.
The Book of Job is part of the Old Testament portion of the Christian Bible and an integral part of the Hebrew Bible the sacred set of books used by Jews.
Sometimes it is immense fun to read other's writings."The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write, a man will turn over half a library to make one book".
The tribesmen did not want to give up the new trading society to fight for their independence, that I why they had accepted the confines of the white man's rule.
The novel also shows that the character, Venichka, was well educated and very religious but because of the society, he was forced to drink to exploit his creativity. The book encourages drinking in the society [...]
Social oppression of Hamlet as the talented representative of descending class undeceives that there is not only a death that menacing to Hamlet, but also social injustice, "the whips and scorns of time, the oppressor's [...]
In the second half of the poem, the speaker revealed that hating her body was bought about by a man, "who plays the dual role of savior and destroyer in the woman's life".
When the vagabond who has come to wealth seeks the services of a Jew to sell his possessions and is cheated by him Grimmelshausen is of the very firm opinion that a person from the [...]
Memory knots, as the term, have been employed to refer to sites of humanity, sites in time, and sites of physical matter or geography.
The 'Theme of this book could be suitably applied in the modern days, where there is a serious drift/immigration to The West and European countries in the quest for a greener pasture.
This is illustrated through the fingerprint evidence proving one man is 'black' and the other is 'white' despite the relative sameness of their actual skin tone, the restoration of societal perceptions of the black man [...]
This is because much of the imagery included in the poems is of nature, which has multiple applications."As in the Changes, so in the Poetry most images are drawn from the natural world, not surprising [...]
The novel relates the events that happened in the 1930's and refers to the personal angst of the narrator. Iris had a sister called Laura who killed herself after the Second World War and it [...]
Thesis the personal voice of Seth and poetic elements used by the author shape an atmosphere of solitude and loneliness and appeal to the emotions and feelings of readers.
The Age of Enlightenment centered on France and two of the major philosophers who contributed to this age of Enlightenment were Voltaire and Montesquieu. In the realm of politics, the government was the focus of [...]
Pater uses descriptions of Leonardo's angel in Verrocchio's Baptism of the Christ to illustrate the early genius of the boy in Florence who seemed to instinctively resent the superficial miniature perfection of the masters of [...]
The extent of the openness of futurity for the human being lies in her present position and the objective reality the human being confronts.
We can see that her worries and apprehensions are answered with the keystone idea that "Death is the mother of beauty".
Broadly defined, the bildungsroman is "the novel of youth, the novel of education, of apprenticeship, of adolescence, of initiation, even the life-novel".
This essay will portray the commonalities in these three novels and try to draw a contrast between them and discuss them in the light of three similar literary tools used, i.e.theme, antagonist, and irony in [...]
Literature as a constant reflector of the current events and ways people percept the world around cannot stand aside and fail to exhibit the characteristics and ideas of the new way of thinking.
There is no denying the importance of the fact that recent developments in literature paid more attention to experimental approach to literature avoiding strict schemata and such popular feature of traditional literature as climax or [...]
Fagon wants his story to alert the king to the baleful influence the confessor will exercise and the harm it will do the nation.
The narrator of the story is a boy who falls in love with his neighbor Mangan's sister. Eveline is the protagonist of this story who has to make the most important choice of her life.
Still, Tess realizes the bitter irony of her situation and at a slight provocation from Alec she stabs him to death:
Would God no Argo e er had winged the seas To Colchis through the blue Symplegades No shaft of riven pine in Pelion's glen Shaped that first oar blade in the hands of men Valiant [...]
Like the Thomas Sutpen story that has been dispatched by different narrators in William Faulkner's novel Absalom, Absalom, the past becomes a burden in the present for Quentin and Shreve because he sensed an impermeable [...]
Multiple causes are in force right in the first few paragraphs: the horrendous transformation that Gregor has undergone, the panic and anxiety that the family members feel when Gregor is not responding to urgent summons [...]
She does not display any interest in trying to take responsibility and improve the lives of her peers in any way.