English Literature Essays

Theme Of Sterility In Poem The Wasteland English Literature Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: “The Waste Land” was first published in October 1922 in a magazine called “The Criterion”. The magazine was edited by Elliot himself in England till he closed it in 1939 on the...

Theme of the Orphan in Charlotte Bronte's 'Jane Eyre'
Example essay. Last modified: 17th Sep 2021
Introduction: The theme of the orphan in Bronte’s novel is evidently the stem from which all the other themes lead from. Jane’s alienation in being an orphan means that she faces struggles throughout her life which she has to overcome in her childhood, relationships with authority figures, and battling to find her own identity....

Theme Of The Tragedy Of Macbeth
Example essay. Last modified: 9th May 2017
Introduction: The Tragedy of Macbeth was written by Shakespeare around 1606. It’s one of his darkest and most powerful tragedies. It’s about Macbeth, a Scottish nobleman, who is tempted to follow the pa...

Theme Presence Of Death English Literature Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: The three literary works: Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller; Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas; and After Apple Picking by Robert Frost; all deal with the theme presence of deat...

Themes and Symbols in 'The Yellow Wallpaper'
Example essay. Last modified: 9th Aug 2021
Introduction: The Yellow Wallpaper is a feminist short story by Charlotte Perkins- Gilman. The significance of the story is astounding as it explores into the basic issues of a woman’s place in society, public perception of mental illness, and feminism in the 19th century....

Themes And Symbols Love And Family Relationship English Literature Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Linda tries not to take the side of neither Biff nor Willy during the confrontation. This shows that she cares for the family and hops for the best “shake his hand “. The relationship betw...

Themes in 'Year of Wonders' by Geraldine Brooks
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Aug 2017
Introduction: “GERALDINE BROOKS USES A FULL RANGE OF NARRATIVE DEVICES TO PRESENT A CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE ON A NUMBER OF THEMES. EXPLAIN HOW THE NOVELIST DEVELOPS ONE MAJOR THEME. INCORPORATE DIRECT EVIDENCE...

Themes In A Rose For Emily English Literature Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: The author of the story is known as William Faulkner .The story is about a lady by the name Emily Grierson. She resided in a town called Jefferson. .She her life is mixed up throughout her life .She...

Themes in Frost's 'After Apple-Picking'
Example essay. Last modified: 11th Aug 2021
Introduction: The tone of After Apple-Picking created the theme of the poem. There are two main tones, a happy one and a sombre one (“After Apple-Picking”). They come together to create the theme of desires and significance in life....

Themes in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: In Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, an introspective sailor named Marlow–amongst his fellow seamen aboard the Nellie— recounts his time working for the Company in the Congo. Marlo...

Themes in Lord of the Flies
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction: Lord of the Flies written by William Golding provides the readers with significant insight into the modern world, as the continuous power struggle is a current issue in numerous platforms of our ...

Themes in Metropolis
Example essay. Last modified: 4th Sep 2017
Introduction: Channelling a zeitgeist of Totalities, Metropolis explores how dystopic values result in loss of humanity. The reductionism of the workers, debased to mindless cattle through the stark uniformity of...

Themes in Mulk Raj Anand's 'Coolie'
Example essay. Last modified: 10th Aug 2021
Introduction: Coolie marks a greater self-assurance in the art of Anand and a further deepening description of marginal living .It comprehends greater variety and deeper levels of degradation than does Untouchable. The Plot of the novel is such as will not readily yield to a plain summary of facts...

Themes In Odour Of Chrysanthemums
Example essay. Last modified: 24th Apr 2017
Introduction: In this story Elizabeth seems to have a distorted view of realty. It almost seems that the darkness has blocked her vision. Elizabeth’s anger has also changed her view of her husband and she has...

Themes In Oedipus Rex English Literature Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Oedipus Rex is probably the most famous tragedy ever written. The play was produced in Athens around 430 B.C at the Great Dionysia, a cultural festival held in honor of the God Dionysus. In the play O...

Themes in The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: The Heroic Journey  A hero is someone who has a strong sense of justice and acts upon that sense. In The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien uses different elements of the novel to define his...

Themes In The Novel Pride And Prejudice English Literature Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: The essay is an in depth analysis of themes in the novel Pride and Prejudice. Themes are generally the central ideas of a piece or art be it a book, drawing, film or poems. Usually themes are develop...

Themes In The Novel The Tortilla Curtain English Literature Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Boyle’s “The Tortilla Curtain” is a well woven literary piece that proves to be the best and the most successful of all his novels in history. Looking at his style of writing, he kni...

Themes in The Sand Fish
Example essay. Last modified: 4th Sep 2017
Introduction: The Sand Fish Themes As a matter of fact, Maha Gargash succeeds in discussing a lot of issues from the beginning of the novel till its end. One of the main themes she managed to talk about is marri...

Themes In To Kill A Mockingbird English Literature Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak”, Winston Churchill said this during World War II. In it, he talks about the real meaning of courage and bravery as well as how a person can...

Themes In Tuesdays With Morrie English Literature Essay
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Introduction: In the Book Tuesdays with Morrie Mitch Albom asks the reader a continual question that reverberates throughout the book: a question that he wrestles back and forth with. His question is simple but dee...

Themes Of Deception In Hamlet
Example essay. Last modified: 10th May 2017
Introduction: Shakespeares “Hamlet, Prince of Denmark” is one of the most famous plays in English playwright. According to many highly distinguished art lovers, this is one of the most profound creation...

Themes Of Eudora Welty
Example essay. Last modified: 17th May 2017
Introduction: A theme in writing is the main idea of the literary document. By a writer having well written papers with a generalized theme the writer is able to imagine and feel the occurrences within the piece of...

Themes Of Fate And Destiny
Example essay. Last modified: 15th May 2017
Introduction: Oedipus as a major victim of fate have tried to evade his fate when he realized that he was going to kill his father and sleep with his mother. His shocked and dreadful emotions made him run away from...

Themes of Forgiveness in Literature
Example essay. Last modified: 27th Jun 2017
Introduction: Themes Of Forgiveness In Novels Forgiveness. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, it is ‘an action or a process of forgiving or being forgiven’. On the other hand, Bråkenhielm...

Themes Of Good To Evil In Hamlet
Example essay. Last modified: 10th May 2017
Introduction: Sometimes readers believe that for a character in a plot to destroy evil, he must turn into an evil person, even if he has to pay with his own life. In “Hamlet”, from Shakespeare, Prince H...

Themes Of Identity In Come And Gone English Literature Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: August Wilson’s, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, is a realistic play about the African American’s experience in the early 1900’s after the abolishment of slavery. The play takes pl...

Themes of Individuality in William Golding’s 'Lord of the Flies'
Example essay. Last modified: 12th Aug 2021
Introduction: William Golding’s Lord of the Flies is a fictional novel in which the author describes the journey of a group of boys who attempt to govern themselves after being stranded on an island due to a plane crash. The book portrays the boys as they descend into savagery when left solitary on an uninhabited island far from the restraints of society. ...

Themes Of Life In Waiting For Godot English Literature Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: ‘Waiting for Godot’ and ‘The Outsider’ have similar themes running through the main vein of the plot, though they are radically different in style and plot. In particular there...

Themes of Love in Khaled Hosseini's 'Power of Love In Thousand Splendid Suns'
Example essay. Last modified: 20th Sep 2021
Introduction: Little can be done, but re-emphasize the well known masterful creation, of A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. His story has stirred the souls of many and opened eyes to the appalling and dismal condition of the state of Afghanistan, due to the many wars played out on its dilapidated soils....

Themes Of Loves Sorrows And Triumphs English Literature Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: In John Suckling’s “Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover” and Richard Lovelace’s “To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars,” the themes of Love’s Sorrows and triumphs show...

Themes Of Madness And Melancholy In Hamlet English Literature Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Madness and Melancholy is probably one of the most explored themes in Hamlet, a play which still stands as one of the most scrutinised and studied theatrical works in existence. The cynosure of this t...

Themes of Madness in Hamlet
Example essay. Last modified: 12th Jul 2017
Introduction: “To be or not to be” begins one of the most famous soliloquies of all time by an author that has stood the test of time, William Shakespeare in his play, Hamlet. There are several differen...

Themes Of Madness In Hamlet English Literature Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: “To be or not to be” begins one of the most famous soliloquies of all time by an author that has stood the test of time, William Shakespeare in his play, Hamlet. There are several differe...

Themes Of Marriage And Family In Modern Drama English Literature Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: The concepts of marriage and family are recurrent themes throughout modern drama, and are often used as devices to convey social fears and conventions, and provide insight into the inner-most workings...

Themes of Marxism in 'The Great Gatsby' and 'Death of a Salesman'
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Sep 2021
Introduction: This essay will discuss how the 'The Great Gatsby' and 'Death of a Salesman' differ socioeconomically, using a Marxist criticism approach. Specific reference will be made to Marxism and how it relates to Marxist criticism, the context of both texts by focusing on the time periods as well as how the characters lived....

Themes Of Postmodernism In Nissim Ezekiels Poems English Literature Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: The study of the postmodernists to the realistic, historical and technical aspect of modern era has been strongly deep rooted in being self-conscious, ironical and experimental. Postmodernism focuses...

Themes of Racism And Discrimination in English Literature
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Jul 2021
Introduction: To conclude the themes of Racism and Discrimination is important to mention that the books “Invisible man”, “House of sand and fog” and “The Kite Runner” are books that only show one side of the balance, but the truth is that Discrimination and Racism are mutual between the people involved and it is why everyone should be aware of this....

Themes Of Responsibility And Abandonment English Literature Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Family, central to the upbringing of children, is responsible for the socialization and the well-being of future generations. The themes of family responsibility and abandonment play a big role in Ma...

Themes of Revenge in Hamlet
Example essay. Last modified: 29th Jul 2021
Introduction: Hamlet is tasked with avenging his father's horrible and unnatural murder. However, he faces a dilemma: should he believe in the honesty of the ghost? The ghost might be a devil. By nature a thinker and truth-seeker, his first step is to evaluate the truth of the ghost's command, but this self-examination causes delay....

Themes Of Rivalry In East Of Eden
Example essay. Last modified: 18th Apr 2017
Introduction: John Steinbeck was born into a middle class family that resided in Salinas, California. During his time at Stanford University Steinbeck worked and took classes he believed were beneficial before even...

Themes of Suicide in Shakespeare's Hamlet
Example essay. Last modified: 10th May 2021
Introduction: The struggle between life and death consumes Hamlet.  He considers suicide, which is illustrated in many instances through the play....

Themes Of The Secret Sharer English Literature Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Joseph Conrad exists in history as an illustrious man of literature. His experiences as a sailor translate decorously in his various novels and short stories. “The Secret Sharer,” publishe...

Themes of Tradition in Literature
Example essay. Last modified: 4th Sep 2017
Introduction: Evolving Traditions Traditions are important because they transmit stories, shared values, and aspirations from generation to generation. Traditions offer guidance and assists in a group of people s...

Themes Shown In A Country Doctor English Literature Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: “A Country Doctor” is a narration in which the main character, Franz (the country doctor), faces a number challenges and frustrations some of which are beyond his control. In the whole tal...

Themes Within The Death Of King Arthur English Literature Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: “The Death of King Arthur” is one of the most renowned and successful books written by James Cable. The book focuses on the story of King Arthur and his last days. As the matter of fact, t...

Themes, Styles and Techniques of O.Henry
Example essay. Last modified: 2nd May 2017
Introduction: Themes, Styles and Techniques of O.Henry William Sidney Porter was born Thursday evening at Nine o’clock, September 11, 1862. He was born a few miles south of Greensboro, North Carolina, in Centre C...

Theories Of The Picturesque And The Sublime
Example essay. Last modified: 2nd May 2017
Introduction: Joseph Mallord Turner and John Constable are the two acclaimed giants of English landscape. They were both influential exponents of Romanticism, an artistic movement that emphasized an emotional respo...

Theory of gender performativity
Example essay. Last modified: 16th Jul 2019
Introduction: The theory of ‘Gender Performance’ or ‘Gender Performativity’ was first coined in Judith Butler’s 1990 book titled Gender Trouble. Butler’s theories on gender ident...

Thing Of Beauty Is A Joy Forever
Example essay. Last modified: 27th Apr 2017
Introduction: In his essay “A defense of poetry,” Percy Bysshe Shelley summarizes the role of the poet: “A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with swee...

Things Fall Apart | Okonkwo
Example essay. Last modified: 16th May 2017
Introduction: Chapter 1 “He was a man of action, a man of war...On great occasions such as the funeral of a village celebrity he drank his palm-wine from his first human head.” (Page 10) This quote introd...

Things Fall Apart By Chinua Achebe English Literature Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: I am doing my essay on Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. I choice this novel because it has interesting themes such as culture differences, kinship, and manliness. I also choose this novel because o...

Things Fall Apart Okonkwos Tragic Flaw English Literature Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Things Fall Apart is a tragic story about a man who comes into conflict against himself to prove himself worthy of his tribe. A tragic hero is the main character in a tragedy that normally makes a mis...

Things Fall Apart Summary English Literature Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe, depicts life among the Igbo society in Nigeria. Okonkwo is a wealthy and respected warrior of the Umuofia clan, a Nigerian tribe. He is constantly haunted by the a...

Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe | Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2017
Introduction: Things Fall Apart Things fall apart is a tragedy novel written by Chinua Achebe. Okonkwo, who is the protagonist of the novel and one of the most powerful men in the Ibo tribe often resorts to violen...

Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe: Loss Of Identity
Example essay. Last modified: 29th Jun 2017
Introduction: Research Question: how does male dominance, reputation, and responsibility lead to the downfall of Okonkwo’s and other character’s identity. My research paper has to do with the loss of id...

Things They Carried By Tim Obrien English Literature Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Tim O’Brien was born in 1946, on October 1st. His work mostly reflects his experiences in the Vietnam War. When reading his writings one can see the effect that the war had on him; however, the ...

This Book Is Among The Imposters English Literature Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: The title of this book is Among the Imposters. It is written by the author Margaret Peterson Haddix. The genre of this book is fiction, and it the second book in a series of seven. The story is based ...

This Comedy Of Manners English Literature Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Disclaimer: It should be noted that this paper gives a rough look at females in leading comedic roles. However, this paper is not all-inclusive and has no doubt left out other important key-texts. It ...

Thomas Hardy and Charles Dickens Comparison
Example essay. Last modified: 4th Sep 2017
Introduction: There is a typical subject of destiny in compositions of Thomas Hardy and Charles Dickens. The two creators are practically identical in the way that their characters they would state notions of dep...

Thomas Hardy Country Complex And Pessimistic Fatalism English Literature Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Thomas Hardy was born on June 2, 1840, in Upper Bockhampton, not far from Dorchester, in Dorsetshire, southern England. The son of Thomas Hardy, a master mason or building contractor, and Jemima Hand,...

Thomas Hardy Tess Of The D Urbervilles English Literature Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Thomas Hardy, the English poet and regional novelist, is famous for his works of depicting as the county "Wessex", named after the ancient kingdom of Alfred the Great. Hardy has a career as writer ove...

Thomas Hardy's Style Of Poetry
Example essay. Last modified: 2nd May 2017
Introduction: In this paper we are going to study Thomas Hardy´s life including some of his works. Then we are going to include an overview of the twenty century in the most important and influential events in Har...

Thomas Hardy’s The Return of the Native | Concepts of the Visible
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: “’The second half of the nineteenth century lives in a sort of frenzy of the visible’ (Jean Louis- Comolli). Discuss ideas of the visible and /or seeing in ‘Going to See a Man Hanged’ o...

Thomas More's Utopia Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 4th Sep 2017
Introduction: THESIS: In this essay, we will analyze Utopia’s role in the common laws, the religious freedoms, and dystopia/utopia similarities throughout More’s literature. Introduction Imagine yo...

Thornton Wilders view of epic drama
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: The aim of this essay is to analyze Bertolt Brecht’s version of epic dramatic form as well as that of Thornton Wilder taking into discussion the plays Mother Courage and Her Children, The Good P...

Those Winter Sundays Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 14th Jul 2017
Introduction: The poem, which I selected for analyzing and interpreting, is “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden. The question raised by the author has been attracting the readers for a long time, si...

Through The Tunnel: A Short Story
Example essay. Last modified: 1st May 2017
Introduction: However, the story can also be seen as a symbol for this young boys journey from childhood to adolescence or early manhood and Lessing does this very successfully by using effective language to convey...

Thrushcross Grange And Wuthering Heights English Literature Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Social Environment – The social environment in Wuthering Heights reveals the importance of socio-economic class of the time, as shown by the actions of Catherine, who picks Edgar Linton, a civil...

Tim Obriens The Things They Carried English Literature Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Tim OBrien, in an interview has given his definition of truth, You have to understand about life itself. There is a truth as we live it; there is a truth as we tell it. Those two are not compatible al...

Time To Celebrate The Last Fifteen English Literature Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: A Quinceanera is described in many ways. A Quinceañera is a party. A Quinceanera is a girl growing up to be a woman. A Quinceañera is a time to celebrate the last fifteen years of a young Hispani...

Time To Kill Film And Literature English Literature Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: For years people have been comparing film and literature. These two genres have been doggedly competing since the first book came out as a movie. John Grisham’s A Time to Kill is no different. T...

Times When Two Cultures Come Together
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2017
Introduction: Culture is defined as the historically transmitted and interrelated web of values, assumptions, norms, belief systems and behavioral patterns that differentiate one human group from another. Culture i...

Tinimbang Ka Ngunit Kulang | Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 16th May 2017
Introduction: When I first heard the title of this film, I wonder why the title is Tinimbang ka Ngunit Kulang. I knew that the title is based from a bible verse Daniel 5:27 saying “Tekel, you have been weighe...

Titus In Shakespeares Titus Andronicus English Literature Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: The Tragedy in its dramatic form comes from the poetic and religious traditions of Ancient Greece; it is an art-form that shows human suffering in order to conjure an intense feeling of pity in the au...

To Autumn by John Keats
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction:          John Keats (b. 1795-d. 1821) is probably one of the most important of the Romantic poets. Although he only lived to be about twenty-five, his writing surpasses the maturity and under...

To Build A Fire By Jack London English Literature Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: In Jack London’s “To Build a Fire,” he reveals how a man goes through a harsh winter in the forest facing multiple obstacles along the way. He has to depend on what he thinks he sho...

To Demonstrate The Theme Of Existentialism English Literature Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: In theory, existentialists consider that to rationalize mans existence is an absurd endeavor, because they believe that life itself is absurd.......

To His Coy Mistress And A Valediction English Literature Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used to create an expression of art and beauty. Many poetic writings are written individually and range from poetic drama, hymns, lyrics and prose...

To Kill a Mocking Bird
Example essay. Last modified: 9th Mar 2017
Introduction: Significance of the Study This book, To Kill a Mocking Bird, not only does it entertain us but it gives us a brief understanding about the issues in our society such as racial and social discriminati...

To Kill A Mockingbird
Example essay. Last modified: 27th Apr 2017
Introduction: To Kill a Mockingbird is a very popular American novel. The plot was loosely based on Harper Lee’s own family and neighbors when she was a child. (Castleman) The novels’ setting is during ...

To Kill A Mockingbird | Book Review
Example essay. Last modified: 10th May 2017
Introduction: Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird portrays an accurate reflection of people affairs in the southern United States during the 1930s. The story, which is set around a single-father househo...

To Kill A Mockingbird A Separate Peace English Literature Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: "When he gave us our air-rifles Atticus wouldnt reach us to shoot. Uncle Jack instructed us in the rudiments there of: he said Atticus wasnt interested in guns. Atticus said to Jem one day, Id rather ...

To Kill A Mockingbird Analytical Essay English Literature Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Humans are born with prejudice, as it is our way to remain on top of the social hierarchy, a modern day version of survival of the fittest. A great example of this is given in Harper Lee’s nove...

To Kill A Mockingbird English Literature Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: How does Harper Lee use minor characters in To Kill a Mockingbird to explore the main themes of the novel? Select two or three characters from the text to demonstrate your ideas, you may select from: ...

To Kill a Mockingbird Symbolism Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 20th Jul 2021
Introduction: The mockingbird shows symbolism because the mockingbird is innocent and all they do is sing beautiful songs. Killing a mockingbird is a sin. A mockingbird in To Kill a Mockingbird isn’t an actual bird, it represents innocent, nice, only could do good, easy target to people in the Book....

To Kill A Mockingbird Themes
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jun 2017
Introduction: One of Harper Lee’s strongest themes throughout the novel To Kill a Mockingbird is certain characters being judged by their external appearance rather than who they really are. This false judgem...

To Kill A Mockingbird; Atticus' Speech
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Jul 2021
Introduction:  In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus is a perfect example of the use of the Rhetorical Stance: pathos, ethos, and logos in a novel.  He illustrates these three things not only in the courtroom but throughout the novel....

To Kill A Mockingbird: Historical Accuracy
Example essay. Last modified: 5th Jun 2017
Introduction: To Kill a Mockingbird is based off the novel written by Harper Lee of the same title, telling the story of a young girl – Jean Louis Finch and her brother Jem growing up in Alabama during the Gr...

To Kill Mockingbird: Symbolism and racism
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: “I’d rather you shoot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill ...

To Lucasta going to the Wars and Dulce et Decorum Est
Example essay. Last modified: 27th Apr 2017
Introduction: The two poems, “To Lucasta, going to the Wars” by Richard Lovelace and “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen are both devoted to the subject of war. Lovelace’s poem was ...

Todd Strassers Novel Boot Camp English Literature Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Thematically the will and perseverance to survive will conquer all obstacles as Garrett, Paul and Sara were sent to Lake Harmony a boot camp for troubled teens. Lake Harmony run like a penitentiary, a...

Tom Sawyer Hypocrisy Of His Word English Literature Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Mark Twain’s has used his title character Tom Sawyer to highlight the hypocrisy residing in human nature, particularly in the adults within the rural area of St, Petersburg, in his novel The Adv...

Tom Wingfield Of The Glass Mengerie English Literature Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: The Glass Menagerie is an autobiographical play of Tennessee Williams that brought him his first great success. The prototype of Wingfield family was the Williams’s own family drama: a strict fa...

Tone And Diction In Poetry
Example essay. Last modified: 19th May 2017
Introduction: Analyzing poetry begins with carefully weighing the words and considering every nuance. Tone and diction are two poetic devices to take into account. Tone refers to the attitude or mood conveyed by t...

Toni Morison Analysis | Feminist Postcolonial Approach
Example essay. Last modified: 19th May 2017
Introduction: Although Toni Morrison is known for her epic themes, vivid dialogue and richly detailed characters but this essay focuses on her approach towards feminist post colonialism. At first I will give a brie...

Toni Morrison And Alice Walker
Example essay. Last modified: 18th Apr 2017
Introduction: Essentially, there is a line dividing the realm of literal and figurative language. Interpreting in a literal manner, in The Bluest Eye, Morrison is only talking about a house saying in her train of t...

Toni Morrison And Recitatif English Literature Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: It is the intention of this paper to look at Toni Morrison as a writer and how she expressed her political views through fiction. The short story by Ms. Morrison “Recitatif”, written in 1...

Toni Morrison Post Colonial Feminism
Example essay. Last modified: 12th Jul 2017
Introduction: The author is of the view that third wave feminism which includes black feminism is a speaking back to the white Westerns. The African American writers by writing back to the ideologies set by the col...

Toni Morrison's 'Beloved': Past and the Present
Example essay. Last modified: 28th Sep 2017
Introduction: Past and Present in “Beloved” The principal message of Toni Morrison, in her novel Beloved, is that the past should not be an impediment to the present. Slavery is an institution that dom...

Toni Morrison's Sula | African-American Literature
Example essay. Last modified: 12th May 2017
Introduction: Toni Morrison’s Sula is a novel in the tradition of African-American literature. Toni Morrison’s Sula is a novel in the tradition of African-American literature, exploring the legacy of the Africa...

Toomer Challenges Racial Identity English Literature Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Karintha, reapers and November cotton flowers, all have similar settings in rural Georgia which is located in the south where we see a lot of racism going on. The south for black Americans functioned ...

Topic Josquin Des Pres English Literature Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Josquin des Pres is a prodigy from the late 15th century who introduces a new level of quality into Western music. Little is known about him, with no certain dates of birth or death. He set new standa...

Totalitarian Tool Of Propaganda English Literature Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: In the words of Nelson Mandela, Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Whether or not the use of education is to change the world positively or negatively it is c...

Tracing The Development Of Indian English Writing English Literature Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Indian writing in English is primarily a result of the English colonial rule in India spanning almost two centuries. There is an undeniable relation between the literary work and the historical backgr...

Tradition and Individual Talent by T.S Eliot: Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 14th Dec 2017
Introduction: T.S Eliot Tradition and Individual Talent and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Tradition and individual talent Eliot’s essays actually map a highly personal set of preoccupations, responses a...

Tradition And Individual Talent T S Eliot English Literature Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: After studying both ‘Tradition and Individual Talent’ by T. S. Eliot, and William Wordsworth’s views in his Preface to ‘Lyrical Ballads’, it became apparent to me that th...

Traditional Adventure Stories in the Modern World
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Aug 2017
Introduction: This essay will critically examine the question ‘What is the place of adventure stories such as Treasure Island in the modern child’s world’. This essay aims to discuss about the l...

Traditional Chinese Marriage Rituals
Example essay. Last modified: 3rd May 2017
Introduction: Marriage has always been the most affecting story in human life. Each marriage is special and celebrates the marriage bond of the newlyweds. The wide variety of marriage customs represents the differe...

Traditional Chinese Wedding Customs
Example essay. Last modified: 18th Apr 2017
Introduction: This is the elaborate process on the grooms parents part to look for the right kind of bride for their family. Rich families will look for a bride who can take care of household finances and most impo...

Tragedy And The Tragic Hero English Literature Essay
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Introduction: Tragic heroes are described as a character in literature that the audience looks up to but has a tragic flaw that eventually leads to their death. One of the famous tragic heroes in literature is Jay ...

Tragedy in 'Death Of A Salesman'
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Introduction: Death of a Salesman is a tragedy play based on middle class salesman called Willy Loman. He lives in an old house middle of developed city with his wife Linda and two sons, Biff and Happy....

Tragedy in Romeo and Juliet Analysis
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Introduction: At the heart of the play’s themes of feuding families, ill-timing, and misfortune lies the true agent that defines Romeo and Juliet as a tragedy; the impulsive and reckless decisions of the youn...

Tragedy in Romeo and Juliet with Annotated Bibliographies
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Introduction: Romeo and Juliet (1595), is considered to be a tragedy play and was written in the early years of Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet is believed to have been written around 1595 and was written during a period when Shakespeare had found the strength of his writing....

Tragedy In The Stone Angel English Literature Essay
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Introduction: The story of The Stone Angel reveals that while the aging of life may slow some down, others such as Hagar strive and make bold steps towards freedom and independence. Hagar suffered a life governed u...

Tragic Hero And Tragic Flaw English Literature Essay
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Introduction: W. Hamilton Fyfe in his book “Aristotle’s Art of Poetry” highlighted that Aristotle was the first critic of literature to view the dissimilarity between moral and visual condition. H...

Tragic Hero In Oedipus King English Literature Essay
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Introduction: A tragic hero is the head character of a tragedy that enjoys all the trappings of power, fame and wit but through a major flaw of character fatally errs. The realization and will to concede also known...

Tragic Heroes In Things Fall Apart English Literature Essay
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Introduction: The purpose of this written task is to give the target audience a more flexible approach to think about Okonkwos status after he died for the reason that just because he dies tragically, does not mean...

Tragic Story Of Oedipus The King English Literature Essay
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Introduction: Sophocles Oedipus the King is a tragic play which discusses the tragic discovery of Oedipus that he has killed his father and married his mother. The story of Oedipus was well known to the athenian...

Trapped By Their Surroundings And Settings English Literature Essay
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Introduction: We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it said by Tennessee Wil...

Trauma Narratives in Post-War and Postcolonial Fiction
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Introduction: Trauma Narratives in Post-War and Postcolonial Fiction “There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.” Laurel K. Hamilton, Mistral’s ...

Travel Writers' Perspectives on India
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Introduction: CONCLUSION To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. Aldous Huxley The quote by Aldous Huxley stands relevant for all the travel writers, and it is not done consciously. ...

Travelling Makes People Explore The World
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Introduction: The story starts with the sentence “From time to time life sends you someone who is so unexpected that you wonder how you ever lived without them.”(Shah). Tahir is in search of this “...

Treatment Of Women In Anna Karenina
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Introduction: Women in Anna Karenina and One Hundred Years of Solitude are well characterized and shape the plot of the novels. Anna Karenina written by Leo Tolstoy is a nineteenth century novel tracing the lives o...

Treatment Of Women In His Poetry English Literature Essay
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Introduction: Women in the poetry of Wordsworth have always been the centre of interest. It cannot be denied that he was very much influenced by contemporary status of women in society. Women in his personal life, ...

Trifles by Susan Glaspell Essay
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Introduction: The play “Trifles” emphasizes the culture-bound notions of gender and sex roles, specifically, that women were confined to the home and that their contributions went unnoticed and were und...

Tristram Shandy An Immortal Autobiography English Literature Essay
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Introduction: The essay at hand briefly traces examples of Laurence Sterne’s refutation of temporal and epistemological conventions in his novel Tristram Shandy in particular in the first two volumes of the s...

True Diary Of A Part Time Indian English Literature Essay
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Introduction: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie is an amazingly well written work of fiction. It is a novel that tells a tale of great tragedy, heartbreak, but also one of joy and t...

True Love Never Ends English Literature Essay
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Introduction: As stated by Max Muller,” A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love”. The Great Gatsby is about a man and woman who fell madly in love but were separated b...

True Nature And Personality Of The Creature Frankenstein English Literature Essay
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Introduction: The creature experiences many rejections from society, the first time he was rejected was by his own creator himself, he was then rejected a second time in the forest where he meets a peasant or when ...

Truman Capote And In Cold Blood English Literature Essay
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Introduction: Ralph Waldo Emerson, an American essayist and poet, said that it is not length of life, but depth of life. Having in mind his words, a reader can definitely see what Truman Capote tried to achieve by ...

Ts Eliot As A Modernist Poet English Literature Essay
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Introduction: T.S Eliot is considered as one of the most important modernist poets. The content of his poem as well as his poetic style give elements of the modern movement that was famous during his time. In fact,...

Tuesdays with Morrie Analysis
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Introduction: In the Book Tuesdays with Morrie Mitch Albom asks the reader a continual question that reverberates throughout the book: a question that he wrestles back and forth with. His question is simple but dee...

Tuesdays With Morrie Book Review English Literature Essay
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Introduction: Mitch goes on to speak of how Morrie spoke words of life into his cynical soul and enlivened it towards betterment. It is as if you can hear his audible underlying tone say: you see he was a better pe...

Turn of the Screw Unreliable Narrator
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Introduction: There is a recurring theme of unreliability of perception. The governess is shown as an unreliable narrator preventing us from seeing more than just her......

Turning a Shakespeare Play into a Fairy Tale
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Introduction: Introduction  For my final project I wanted to re-imagine A Midsummer Nights Dream as a fairy tale/children’s story. Everyone is familiar with fairy tales and can relate to them ...

Twelfth Night Romantic Comedy English Literature Essay
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Introduction: In the opening scene, the protagonist Viola is shipwrecked on the shores of Illyria, losing contact with her twin brother, Sebastian. For the sake of her safety, Viola decides to disguise herself as a...

Twilight Samurai: A Film Analysis
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Introduction: This essay examines the image of the samurai created by director Yoji Yamada, as he tries to look at the qualities of the samurai through the biopic of Iguchi Seibei. This 2002 film chronicles Seibeis...

Twists And Turns Of The Great Gatsby English Literature Essay
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Introduction: The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a book about the downfall and corruption of even the most aristocratic people. Of the several main characters, Fitzgerald uses a character, named N...

Two And A Half Men | Analysis
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Introduction: Can you imagine a household without a woman? Well this is the case in “Two and a Half Men”. It is an American television sitcom, with Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer and Angus T. Jones as the mai...

Two Hands Commentary By Shanat Barua English Literature Essay
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Introduction: In the poem Two Hands Jon Stallworthy , the poet, compares his hand to his fathers hand and shows that many things may be similar at face value but one must view them from a deeper point to truly und...

Two Kinds by Amy Tan Essay
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Introduction: Amy Tan’s ‘Two Kinds’ is a short story about the relationship between a Chinese-American mother and her American daughter. Two Kinds is a chapter from Tans book, “The Joy Luck ...

Two Lovers But Different Religion
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Introduction: Samantha lives in the city of Winnipeg. She went to high school there. When she was in high school she fell in love with John, who belonged to a Philippine family. But Samantha is ”Christen̶...

Two Pieces Of Protest Poetry English Literature Essay
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Introduction: William Blake’s poem, “London”, was written in 1792 and is a description of a society in which the individuals are trapped, exploited and infected. Blake starts the poem by describi...

Two Tales Of Love And Tragedy
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Introduction: The story of Layla and Majnun, written one thousand years before Romeo and Juliet, has been repeatedly compared to William Shakespeare’s play because of the tragic love and death of the main cha...

Tyler Perrys Movie Colored Girls English Literature Essay
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Introduction: Thesis: Ntozake Shange uses her choreopoem to illustrate the struggles of working class black women within the context of the African Diaspora in the United States. The feminism of this poem exposes ...

Types of African Feminism
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Introduction: The primary reason for the difference in the African feminism and Western feminism is the fact that it has developed in a different cultural context. In today’s ever changing world, African wome...

Types Of Speech Acts In Harry Potter
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Introduction: Communication is the most important thing on the planet earth, no human being can deny it and be separated from this means in any way, because without communication we cannot convey what we want to sa...

Typical Stereotypes Of Males And Females
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Introduction: What defines males from females? Many times people can name off many physical characteristics that tend to be commonly known differences between males and females. For example: males tend to have some...

Ulysses And My Last Duchess
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Introduction: A dramatic monologue is defined as a poem written in the form of speech of an individual character to an imaginary audience. “Ulysses” and “My Last Duchess” are two poems that ...

Uncle Toms Cabin And American Romanticism
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Introduction: In Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe emphasizes that the effects of slavery are just as tragic for the slave as they are for the slave-holder. American Romanticism was a time period of in...

Uncle Toms Cabin And The Imagery English Literature Essay
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Introduction: In many ways the north may have been the starting point for many of the hard working religious, patient Individuals. Some might say that they may have bees somewhat like Harriet Beecher Stowe themselv...

Unconditional Love Between A Parent And Child English Literature Essay
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Introduction: Unconditional love requires the ability to love someone without any conditions or limitations. For parents, this would require them to accept their child regardless of what he or she does and without...

Understanding Hawthornes In The Thesis Statement English Literature Essay
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Introduction: In “The Minister’s Black Veil: A Parable” and The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the ministers, Arthur Dimmesdale and the Reverend Mr. Hooper, deal with a great deal of sorro...

Understanding J. Alfred Prufrock and Nick Adams
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Introduction: Understanding J. Alfred Prufrock and Nick Adams: Emotional Modern Men Comparing and contrasting two persons demand specific criteria whether they exhibit differences or similarities. J. Alfred Prufr...

Understanding The Mirror Stage Of Lacan English Literature Essay
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Introduction: Lacan’s model of the mirror stage allows one to understand the concept of the ‘I’ in the human psyche and also provides an opposition against Decarte’s famous philosophical sta...

Understanding The Terms Of The Metadrama English Literature Essay
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Introduction: Introduction: There was no term metadrama in the Elizabethan period but the practice of metatheatre was a phenomenon on the stage. The idea of metadrama is that it highlights the fictional status of a...

Understanding The True Meaning Of Heritage
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Introduction: Alice Walker illustrates the significance of heritage in material objects by contrasting the family members in the story “Everyday Use.” Walker uses Mamma and Maggie, the youngest of the t...

Unicorn Garden Thurber
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Introduction: Reading and writing about short fiction "Unicorn in the Garden" by James Thurber is а classic example of the existentialist philosophy of choice and subjectivity, as shown by the characterization ...

Unique Writing Style Of William Porter
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Introduction: William Sidney Porter was born September 11, 1862 in North Carolina, where he spent most of his childhood. He learned to love books when he was very young. Later on in his teenage years he became a li...

Unreliable First Person In Life Of Pi English Literature Essay
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Introduction: The narrator is the lifeline to storytelling. Without a trustworthy and reliable narrator, readers question what is being told. Novels that experience unreliable first person narrators that cloud fact...

Use Of Characterizations The Woman Warrior English Literature Essay
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Introduction: Culture ideas, symbols, norms and values play a significant role in the creation of women images and the differentiation of gender roles. In fact, women still combat traditional stereotypes of women&...

Use of Dramatic Techniques in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
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Introduction: Analyse the use of no fewer than three dramatic techniques in the depiction of human desire in William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Throughout the Renaissance period, playwright Willi...

Use of Irony in Young Goodman Brown
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Introduction: In the short stories Rip Van Winkle, Young Goodman Brown and The Cask of Amontillado, the authors made use of irony which indicated mockery of something or someone in different ways. Washington Irving...

Use Of Realism By Short Story Writers English Literature Essay
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Introduction: J.P Stern defined realism as being: ‘no more, and no less, than an undertaking to look all the relevant facts in the face’. [1] Literary realism is a trend that began in nineteenth centu...

Use Of The Characters In Perfume And The Outsider English Literature Essay
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Introduction: The idea of agnosticism proves oblivious to the existence of irregular occasions where man is delivered out of his troubles by a supernatural, in other words miracles. But, are these supposed miracles...

Use Of Tone In A Good Man Is Hard To Find English Literature Essay
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Introduction: Going through the writings of Flannery O’Connor, majority of readers will be hit by the cynicism that manifests itself in her writing, and more so in A good man is hard to find. She strongly com...

Uses Of Structure In The Metamorphosis And The Stranger English Literature Essay
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Introduction: Many of the readers are unaware of the importance of the structure of a novel. Indeed, it can convey many mysteries hidden by the authors. It represents how the protagonists progress throughout the no...

Uttersons Point Of View Increases The Suspense English Literature Essay
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Introduction: Author’s decision to tell the story mainly from Utterson’s point of view influenced the whole narration and was especially important to create the atmosphere of suspense. Dr. Jekyll was so...

V.S. Naipaul’s 'Mimic Men': Analysis of Identity Crisis
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Introduction: Abstract This article attempts to determine representation of identity crisis in V. S. Naipaul’s work Mimic Men. And this article attempts to relate how this novel is replete with the theme of ide...

Valentine By Carol Anne Duffy English Literature Essay
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Introduction: Romeo and Juliet is a well-known tragedy by the playwright William Shakespeare that was written in the late 16th century. It is a story of how the children of two rival families meet and instantaneous...

Vampire Diaries The Awakening Book Report English Literature Essay
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Introduction: Lisa Jane Smith is an American author. She lives in California. Her books are young-adult literature, horror, science fiction/fantasy and romance. She has written three trilogies, two series and two c...

Vanessas Maturing Process Theme Of Entrapment English Literature Essay
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Introduction: The theme of entrapment is a dominant theme in Margaret Laurence’s “A Bird in the House”. This is the theme that the author uses to shape most of his characters in the literary work....

Vengeance In Shakespeare And Literature English Literature Essay
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Introduction: Numerous dramas and works of literature by William Shakespeare are known for their intensely dramatic scenes. And because of violence enhancing the deaths of literature works, it is in favor for write...

Vengeance Theme in Shakespeare
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Introduction: Vengeance Theme Shakespeare “Sweet is revenge-especially to women” (Barlett, 1980, pg 460). Vengeance is not just a theme created by authors; it is seen throughout the world everyday. Vengeance...

Venus And Cupid Woman With A Parrot English Literature Essay
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Introduction: I recently visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art in an attempt to compare a Traditional piece with one from the Modern period. The painting that I chose from the Tradition is Lorenzo Lotto’s &...

Victims Or Agents Of Their Own Fate English Literature Essay
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Introduction: Romeo pronounces these words right after having mortally wounded Tybalt, guilty of having just killed Romeo’s friend Mercutio. In a fit of rage, Romeo takes his sword and attacks Tybalt ferociou...

Victor Frankenstein Or His Creature English Literature Essay
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Introduction: Frankenstein also known as the “Modern Prometheus” a famous gothic novel, first published in 1818 by Mary Shelley, born august 30th 1797 and married at sixteen to the well known poet: Perc...

Victor Frankenstein The Victim Or Monster English Literature Essay
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Introduction: Individuals in today’s society have the best of intentions at heart when setting extravagant goals to try and improve future generations to come, however, the outcome is often proven disastrous,...

Victorian Anxieties Bram Stokers Dracula English Literature Essay
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Introduction: Bram Stokers Dracula, in the midst of its gothic atmosphere, creates a space for accidental and involuntary motifs, transactions, and symbolic features, that not only give rise to psychological intere...

Victorian Era The Upper Classes English Literature Essay
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Introduction: In Wildes plays the importance of each characters morality and ideology is dependent on their tainted pasts. In A Woman of No Importance a past affair that resulted in an illegitimate child is reveale...

Victorian Sense Of Isolation In Fiction
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Introduction: Alfred Tennyson believed that a period of doom followed Romanticism, which aroused feelings of uncertainty concerning the future. With the publishing of Darwin’s ‘Origin of Species’,...

Views On The Joint Family System English Literature Essay
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Introduction: I shared her views on the joint family system. I had had first hand experience of living in a joint family. I could write a thesis on the subject. In a joint family there is no generation gap because ...

Violence and Conflict are Central Themes in Romeo and Juliet
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Introduction: Moreover, the vivid descriptions of violence that Shakespeare uses in many of the scenes add to the intensity of the drama surrounding the conflict. Therefore, it is clear from Act III scene 1 (and other scenes in the play) that violence and conflict are central themes of Romeo and Juliet....

Violence And Love In The Poem My Last Duchess English Literature Essay
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Introduction: The poem “My Last Duchess” was first published in 1842 and has since become one of the most popular poems by Robert Browning. It is written in the form of a dramatic monologue, and the cha...

Violence In The Flight Novel English Literature Essay
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Introduction: In the current essay I would like to describe the violence, reflected in the novel by Sherman Alexie – “Flight”. it should be noted that violence – is an effect without consent...

Violent Redemption In Flannery Oconnors Short Stories English Literature Essay
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Introduction: For most authors, spirituality flows through their writing in their own unique style. For Flannery O’Connor, her rich Roman Catholic background......

Virginia Woolf | A Modernist Perspective
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Introduction: Virginia Woolf’s novels incorporate the quintessential elements of the modern experience. I will explore the literary expression of these characteristics in relation to three of Woolf’s no...

Virginia Woolf | Femininity, Modernity And Androgyny
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Introduction: Showalter, Elaine, ‘Virginia Woolf and the Flight into Androgyny’, in A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Pres...

Virginia Woolf's Literary Themes Of Feminism
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Introduction: There are only a few authors who are as renowned as Virginia Woolf. For she was one of the first authors of her time to try to break the "Victorian grasp" on literary works and put imagination in almo...

Virginia Woolf's The Death Of The Moth
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Introduction: In Virginia Woolf’s The Death of the Moth, she wrote about a pathetic moth’s death process. Although its struggling and fighting against death moved her, the moth died in the end. The Deat...

Virtue and Virginity: “Honesty” in Shakespeare’s Othello
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Introduction: Shakespeare’s Othello is about a man threatened by the relationship he has with his wife. The only means by which Othello can quell his insecurity is through violence. This paper traces Shakesp...

Vladimir Lenin: “State and Revolution” Analysis
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Introduction: In August and September 1917, Vladimir Lenin wrote “State and Revolution.” This essay will analyze and examine an extract from this book. First, the document shall be placed into historical conte...

Voices Of History And Tradition Present English Literature Essay
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Introduction: The play Medea was written by Euripides and firstly played in 431 BC. Euripides was born in Salamis. His father was said to be a tradesman and his mother worked with herbs. When he was little suppose...

Volkswagen Blues And Indigenous Population Of America English Literature Essay
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Introduction: “Volkswagen Blues”, published in 1984, is a road novel written by French-Canadian author Jacques Poulin. During the novel, we follow the protagonist, a writer under the pen-name Jacques Wa...

Voltaire's Candide: Analysis of Tragedy and Humour
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Introduction: Tragic Humor: Realism and Comedy as Satirical Tools in Voltaire’s Candide There are few chapters in Voltaire’s classic satire Candide that are wholly comedic; in truth, it seems there are ...

Wag The Dog | Movie Analysis
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Introduction: The movie entitled Wag the Dog was directed by Barry Levinson in 1997 which was about the way in which media can divert the publics attention on the presidents sex scandal with a firefly girl. The cha...

Waiting for Godot and Dumbwaiter Comparison
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Introduction: Among the best plays which can be compared to one another in different ways are “Waiting for Godot” written by Samuel Beckett and “The Dumb Waiter” written by Harold Pinter. On...

Waiting for Godot and The Bald Soprano
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Introduction: Assignment 1: Comparative Study How does Ionesco and Beckett’s dramaturgy in ‘Waiting for Godot’ and ‘The Bald Soprano’ express the absurdist and existentialist view that life is...

Waiting For Godot Essay | Analysis of Waiting for Godot
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Introduction: It is tempting to view Samuel Beckett’s ‘Waiting for Godot’ as a play of nothingness, with no value or meaning but that of two men waiting for something or someone to arrive. However...