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 [...]
We see the countryside along which the protagonist, who is only referred to as "Your Excellency" by the driver and the innkeeper, travels, and finally a small house in which the man and his driver [...]
One is gardens and flowers, and the other is the less concrete spiritual things, like the soul, the body, the mind, life, and death.
In the same vein, Joseph Conrad's novella "Heart of Darkness," written in 1899, is about the struggle of two civilized Europeans, Marlow and Kurtz, after they ventured in to the wouldarkness' of uncivilized Africa,' and [...]
So, Pushkin tried to define the initial reasons of this phenomenon in the character of Onegin: shallow education, the imitation of European culture, conditionality and prejudice of life of the epoch, and laziness. Onegin is [...]
This can be demonstrated by the fact that the plot of the play develops not in one line, i.e.in a direct subsequence of events, but with references to the past while the very present events [...]
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.
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 [...]
The thrust of the paper is focused on taking a multidimensional exploration of the importance of the theme of sexuality threaded in the composition of the novel by Sheng.
After the death of his mother in 1907, Hitler moved to the city of Vienna, where he hoped to join the Art Academy.
He was referred to as the Eagle of the Mountains and had wanted to preserve the independence and strength of the Caucasus against Russia and had the support of the Sultan of Turkey in this [...]
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.
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.
Through "Sammy," the central character, the author is trying to show the kind of radical change that was happening in the society in the 60s.
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.
A contemporary "realistic" novel, Simpleton provides the essence of the society of the Thirty Years' War, primarily describing the social communication of the peasantry with the nobility and the army, and also, both groups' interaction [...]
The novel gained attention because of its style of being a novel within a novel Another reason it was famous was the use of an omniscient narrator that spoke to the readers directly to discuss [...]
It seems the love he contains in his heart is not enough for him to forgive and forget what has happened.
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 [...]
Marginal characters thus may be claimed to play a crucial role in literary work and in the first place of its conceptual realization.
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.
To a great extent, it reflects the portrayal of the German social class structure and the bias and prejudices that were prevalent.
Thus, the tragic hero should combine the following characteristics: He should cause emotional attachment; The audience should fear for the fate of the hero; A tragic hero should cause pity in the audience.
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 [...]
This way or another, we suppose that this was one of the author's main tasks to make the reader seek the answers he has put and we should admit that he managed to cope with [...]
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 [...]
The comparison of the black mulatto of Delfin Flores and the white mulatto of Serena Aguiar introduces the concept of binary oppositions that are used throughout the story as a means of increasing the tension.
Fiction can possibly include the happenings of everyday life and is reliant on the person that narrates the happenings, the manner of its narration, and its composition.
How might descriptions of places and characters be influenced by a particular narrator's perspective and the attitudes he holds? "Sonny's Blues" written by James Baldwin is a story that deals with very real aspects of [...]
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 [...]
The purpose of this essay is to detect and analyze various traits of racism in Shakespeare's famous piece Othello and how it relates to the character of Othello.
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 [...]
In the present work, we will analyze this similarity and will seek for possible differences using particular parts of the great epic poem and the collection of novellas, namely, we will explore the fifth story [...]
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".
Twain's depiction of Jim and his relationship with Huck was somewhat flawed in order to obey the needs of the story, and also by Twains' interest in slave autobiographies and also in blackface minstrelsy.
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 [...]
In Hinduism, the reward of a proper woman is rebirth as a man, ancient Chinese women were considered to be the property of their fathers or husbands and in Japan, women were dressing in men's [...]
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.
Fagon wants his story to alert the king to the baleful influence the confessor will exercise and the harm it will do the nation.
It is the story of the life of a man of great wisdom and spiritual strength in the early days of the colonization of Iceland.
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.
It is the wearing of black as a show of mourning and the sustained sadness that forbids the beginning of a liaison on the day following the burial of Meursault's mother.
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 [...]
The revolt of Stephen Dedalus begins in Joyce's The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man with his rejection of the blind religious attitude found existing in his family.
The Picture of Dorian Gray and Love in a Time of Cholera are both set at the turn of the 19th Century.
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 [...]
One son in particular, Edmund, allows the pain of being born a bastard and the rejection of his father to skew his view of the world and the intentions of his ambition.
Love in the Time of Cholera represents the author's response to the notion that death is inescapable and final. Only toward the end of the novel does Garc a Marquez return to the deaths of [...]
The mental condition of the main character of the book is the main point of this paper's concern. The main character's moral state is determined by her aspiration to the ideals of the colonial system, [...]
He relates the story of his spiritual crisis in his work, A Confession."Do in the afterlife the freshness and life heartedness, the craving for love and strength of faith, ever return which we experience in [...]
He becomes a slave to his love for the boy and no traces of the famous aristocratic author remains. Before Aschenbach traveled to Venice, he was a disciple of the god Apollo, god of reason [...]
She does not display any interest in trying to take responsibility and improve the lives of her peers in any way.
Instead of the character of Genie that comes from the lamp, my story features the character of Fairy Ostara, who fulfills the desires of the magic stick's owners.
The latter form of storytelling focuses on causing the emotion of fear among the readers or viewers, whereas suspense builds a certain amount of anticipation and full engagement in the story.
Thus, the goal of this paper is to study the phenomenon of DF based on the examples of Orwell's and Huxley's fiction and determine the presence of the themes that overlap with the contemporary social, [...]
In conclusion, The Archbishop's Vampires is a vivid example of scientific narratives because of its dualistic goals that include giving a thorough description of a phenomenon and intriguing the reader through telling an amusing story.
One of the most vivid examples of the dualistic narration is the phenomenon of the ghost ship that arrives at Wismar populated only by rats and dead people.
The first dominant quality of nomadic narratives is the autobiographical nature of the story. In conclusion, the story is a nomadic narrative as it is told by a traveler describing his autobiography.
Moreover, the picture and the spoken text enclosed in it form an organic semantic unity."Persepolis" is a story of an Iranian girl who grew up in a liberal, rich, and even aristocratic family: on the [...]
It is equally important to stress that the issue of conformity is based on the person's ability and willingness to fit into a group or culture. One can argue that Ross's decision to join the [...]
It is a mistake to think that it is enough to study the summary or read the review articles to paint the story of Cecilia and Claudio.
Grahl suffered from anorexia in his youth, and the book is a memoir-like account of the event, serving to open the door to the psychology of the disease in the male populace a vulnerable population [...]
It is possible to say that the character's aspiration for escaping Cape Breton and pursuing another path in life could symbolize a reduced significance of the mining industry at the national and the global scale, [...]
To some extent, the protagonist's life and memories are shaped by the city of Beijing and her gender, and the novelist uses some problems peculiar to geographic locations and gender socialization to present the woman's [...]
Human intelligence that the gods give to the dogs does not make them happy but subjects them to continuous thoughtful considerations and emotional perception of the surrounding world that ultimately leads to suffering.
Marquez introduces the symbol of an angel to show the ugly sights of society - people in the ordinary village where the angel lands do not understand, mistreat and misuse him.
Since the first stages of the evolution of the civilized world, there have always been multiple debates about the just character of regulations that are taken as basic ones for the life of particular communities.
The topic of family dynamics is necessary and relevant to modern relationships between parents and children. In turn, the poem by Hughes focuses on the metaphor of stairways as a symbol of her difficult life [...]
Jingfang paints a dreadful picture of the future where social inequality has risen to the point where the society is split into three parts, and the differences among them are emphasized in the most vivid [...]
According to the novel's plot, the narrator's family is among many Vietnamese immigrants who settle in a new country and are expected to adapt to the new environments with minimal resources.
He was lining in the bed trying not to move and not to breath as Keith could hear it. He was not able to change the pose as Keith would hear it and wake up.
It becomes clear when different ideas appear in her head, and all the participants of the performance know her and love her as one of the members in the general fun.
In contemporary literature, due to the development of different genres and literary schools, there may be observed a huge amount of different archetype prophetical characters. In childrens literature, the archetype of an orphan is very [...]
In this passage, the author urges the readers to regard The Epic of Gilgamesh as a source that can illustrate the worldviews and values of the Mesopotamians.
Besides, I would also wish to get up a bit earlier than others to enjoy the silence and the minutes that belong to me only.
Nabokov and Poe use literary devices to create meaning, connect with the audience and deliver their message. The protagonists are different, with one of them being static, while another one changes.
Evaluating the murder of the children, the conclusion can be drawn that the females were thought to give the life and take it back.
Overall, it is possible to say that an adult person should be able to take responsibility for one's actions, to forgive others, and to think independently even his or her opinions do not coincide with [...]
However, when the memories of his wife resurface, and he goes to the grave to pay his respects, he realizes that he feels no remorse.
Tolstoy's afflictions were attributed to his failure to define the true meaning of life and his fear of inevitable death. He realizes Socrates for stating that the life of a body is evil and deceptive [...]
What is the theme of MacDonald's "Gone Girl?" The story centers on a private detective who is intelligent and appears in the wrong place at the right time.
Written by Mench , the book is known as The Discourse of the Other: Testimonio and the Fiction of the Maya has as many controversies around it as its author does around her.
Most of the women in Midaq Alley support the community life, the way it is in the traditional setting. Women in the Alley hated her because of her lust for money.
The choice of the words in this passage may be explained by the desire to show how lovely the place for Don Quixote was and how he worried about leaving it.
Each of the paragraphs presented in the paper is the consideration of the separate symbol and the reference of this symbol to the theme of the discussion.
The first sign that showed Somaly the wickedness of her grandfather was when he struck her after she was afraid of climbing on to the logging truck. The reason behind this is that the woman [...]
I believe that he will return to the tomb of his wife, only this time, in such a manner that he will finally be able to join her in the afterlife, in death.
This essay continues the study of Borges with emphasis on these two stories, the theme of dreams and the nature of reality, and the author's speculative fiction as well as his assertions as to what [...]
He comes back home with the idea that nothing has changed and expects to find all the intriguing things about his home the same as he left them and to his disappointment, nothing is as [...]
Chang does indeed appear to have the features of the poor student archetype: even though Yingying was not his wife, he did abandon her, and at first glance it seems that the reason is the [...]
It is the reporter, who wants to know more about the island and the reasons why the life of the islanders cannot be changed.
Sanguk's escape is a symbol of rebellion that is necessary for the island and destructive to the Cho and Haewon-Miyon couple. Why and when does Cho return to the island?
73 to 143 is to explain the essence of the idea of the island of the dead. The main events are the expected inaugural speech the new director Cho, his expectations to promote a number [...]
Forget the time when you could marvel at the beauty of a single panel of a graphic novel for a solid half an hour.
The book was written during the pre-colonial time and the author portrayed the western practices as of value to the people in the village.
It is necessary to note that the idea of the triumph of the self is one of the last ideas that can appear in some readers' minds.
The high sales of the book and the popularity of its ideas have shown that his writing was convincing to a large number of people who often choose to ignore the criticism of the book [...]
Although the term literature means different things to different individuals, it is the reader of literary work who has the discretion to define what literature is and what it is not.
In The Iliad, the relations between two characters, Agamemnon and Apollo, as well as their motivation and passion help to underscore the theme of power and rage; the conflict between the characters is based on [...]
His first book is entitled Lonely Country, and it is the very piece of art, which made him known as the king of the lonely country and proved that he was a sadhu in poetry [...]
2 The implication of social and political concerns through his beautiful and artist description of daily life inspires the readers to realize the real situation of the society throughout his poetic works.
This theme can be used to teach the topic of identity to high school students by elaborating that names often have origins that are deeply rooted in a particular culture and that a name can [...]
It is possible that Celan uses repetition to express the feelings of repetitiveness that he and the other people felt during the imprisonment.
Modern Chinese writers pay much attention to such topics as the essence of life, the importance of understanding the landscapes of culture and life, and the necessity to never forget about the worth of travels [...]
From Offred's accounts of their time at the Center, Moira shows a strong will to survive by maintaining her composure and emotional strength while many of the women were devastated in the life of imprisonment [...]
The following paper analyzes the motifs and themes contributing to the described effect in order to determine the ways in which the system supports harassment at the state level.
8 Tao's description of the Pokfulam district is probably the most poetic: views are "magnificent," the horizon is "endless," and boats in the harbor are "a delight to the eye as well as the mind".
The nature of Ipellie's writing about the Arctic is deeply rooted in his pride in the culture and the resistance against the forces that make the region struggle.
The literary genre 'spy novel' emerged in Britain prior to the beginning of the WW1, which in turn explains why in a classical spy novel the protagonist's intelligence-gathering activities are usually described as nothing short [...]
Open Secrets by Alice Munro is the author's short story in the eighth book of stories, and can be regarded as a re-visitation of the physical and mental landscapes that have become the most praised [...]