Tag: Literature
The story “The Chrysanthemums” by John Steinbeck
Throughout history, women have been portrayed as the weaker sex. As a result of these unfair social assumptions, women have been working hard to...
The Moral Implications of The Pardoners Tale
During the Middle Ages, England was a nation in social chaos. Deception of every kind was rampart throughout the lands. Many people felt that...
The novel A Clockwork Orange
To leave out the final chapter of A Clockwork Orange is to change the entire meaning of the novel; as Burgess says in the...
Cry The Beloved Country: Book Review
"Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of it all. Let him not love the earth to deeply. Let...
Nora Helmer in a A Doll’s House
Nora Helmer in a A Dolls House is a women ahead of her time. In order to protect her children from a false life,...
The identities and relationships between Gilgamesh and Enkidu
In this paper, I seek to explore the identities and relationships between Gilgamesh and Enkidu in the epic poem of Gilgamesh, up through Enkidus...
The book A Tale of Two Cities
This paper is a literary analysis over the book A Tale of Two Cities, written by Charles Dickens. It contains information about the author,...
Handmaid’s Tale By Atwood
The creation of Offred, the passive narrator of Margaret Atwoods The Handmaids Tale, was intentional. The personality of the narrator in this novel is...
Faust as a Tragic Hero
In the story of Faust, written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust is whirled into an adventure of sin and deceit. The further Faust...
The Catcher in the Rye and The Stranger
Holden Caulfield and Mersault have both been alienated in their worlds as the authors have so clearly portrayed in both books. But as much...
The role of women in Shakespearean literature
It is curious to note the role of women in Shakespearean literature. Many critics have lambasted the female characters in his plays as two-dimensional...
Although Short, John Updike’s “A & P” is Big on Enjoyment
I enjoy stories that are long and involved. However, the short story "A & P" by John Updike is a wonderful exception to this...
“Flowers for Algernon”, by Daniel Keyes
The story "Flowers for Algernon", by Daniel Keyes, that we read in English was about a mentally retarded person, named Charlie who had an...
Chivalry is Yet, Not Dead
In some select stories of old/middle english, we can see that people have been fascinated by ideals of heroism, chivalry, and what we now...
A book report on A Voyager Out
Katherine Franks novel A Voyager Out tells the life story of Mary Kingsley. She talks of her childhood, her young adult life, and her...
Willy Loman: A Man With A Dream
A common idea presented in literature is the issue of the freedom of the individual in opposition to the controlling pressures of society. Willy...
Edith Whartons Ethan Frome
In novels, such as Edith Whartons Ethan Frome, imagery and theme play a large role in developing the novel and bringing it to the...
Barn Burning Analysis
William Faulkner presents several interesting characters in the story, Barn Burning. Sarty Snopes a lonely ten-year old boy is one of these characters. His...
Ethan Frome Failure
The main theme of the book Ethan Frome is failure. It is shown in three ways throughout the story: Ethan's marriage, him not being...
Jane Eyre – Fire and Water
In the novel Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte recounts the story of Jane and her lovers, Mr. Rochester and St. John Rivers. Critics such as...
The Reeve’s Rebuttal
The Reeve of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales I portrayed in the first as "old and choleric and thin"(605), choleric meaning short-tempered and yellow....
Catcher in the Rye Essay
Holden wanted to be the catcher in the rye. Holden wanted to catch children before they fell off the cliff and realized how the...
Elie Wiesel Night
Without a doubt, one of the darkest episodes in the history of mankind involved the systematic extermination of Jews, Gypsies, Slavs and gays by...
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Love is an amazing emotion. People spend much of their lives searching for true love. When true love is found, people will do everything...
Ethan Frome, a story of ill-fated love
Ethan Frome is a story of ill-fated love, set during the winter in the rural New England town of Starkfield. Ethan is a farmer...
Mind of a Child
Theodore Roethke writes a very simple poem called "My Papa's Waltz". Roethke will not let his characters communicate and reveal thier feelings and you...
The Alembic of Art of My Antonia
The Alembic of Art is the chapter of My Antonia The Road Home that will be discussed. This chapter suggests that Willa Cather uses...
The Advantures Of Huck Fin
Books are known for teaching lessons. In Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain satirically presents the situation of how people of different color were treated unjustly,...
Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice takes place in England during the 18th century, with an evident main them of courtship and marriage. The Bennet...
Death of Ivan Ilych
Peter Ivanovich (known from now on as PI) was Ivan's dearest friend. PI and Ivan have known each other all their lives yet at...
Canterbury Tales – The Knight
Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, written in approximately 1385, is a collection of twenty-four stories ostensibly told by various people who are going on a...
Are the pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales stereotypes, or fully developed characters
Though the characters in the Canterbury Tales are described vividly and often comically, it is not necessarily true that these characters are therefore stereotypes...
Canterbury Tales – Wife of Bath
The Wife of Bath is a very envious women, who desires only a few simple things in life. She likes to make mirror images...
William Faulkner A Rose for Emily
What story does the image of a strand of iron-gray hair resting on a pillow invoke? Many people could imagine a horrible ghost story...
To Kill A Mockingbird and A Rose For Emily
Reading To Kill A Mockingbird and A Rose For Emily I noticed several differences and likenesses. I would like to convey my thoughts to...
Pussy Farm Essay
Characters, items, and events found in George Orwells book, Animal Farm, can be compared to similar characters, items, and events found in Marxism and...
The plot of Much Ado About Nothing
The plot of Much Ado About Nothing is an elaborate network of schemes and tricks. This statement is confirmed throughout Much Ado About Nothing....
The Minor Characters of Jane Eyre
All the minor characters who appear in the novel, Jane Eyre are only sketched in, so to speak. They are "flat"; not developed in...
Wells story of the The Red Room
In the two stories that we have read each story explores the feeling of horror and fear. We are examining how each character in...
Death Of A Salesman – Analysis
Human emotions are something that we seldom find a way to express clearly: from simple hand gestures, to a disgusted face. To understand his...
Swift’s A Modest Proposal
In his lengthy literary career, Jonathan Swift wrote many stories that used a broad range of voices that were used to make some compelling...
Analysis, Themes and Issues – Lord of the Flies
Themes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work. Lord of the Flies is a thought provoking novel, the main...
Hamlet’s Madness Essay
Is Hamlet Madness Not Likely Madness is a condition of the mind which eliminates all rational thought leaving an individual with no proper conception...
The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
"You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ain't no...
The short story, “Araby”, by James Joyce
Her life was never easy. From the time she was born, Maya Angelou was subjected to racism, rape, grief and dehumanization. She beared enough...
Ethan Frome: Hidden meanings
Ethan Frome is the story of a family caught in a deep-rooted domestic struggle. Ethan Frome is married to his first love Zeena, who...
The Devil and Tom Walker: Human Intent and the Aftermath of It
Washington Irving, in writing "The Devil and Tom Walker", and Stephen Vincent Benet, in writing "The Devil and Daniel Webster" illustrate to the reader...
Victor Hugo’s novel, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
"Love is a universal language. " This popular quote from many movies and literary works describes the importance of love, and how there are...
The Catcher in The Rye: Unreachable Dreams
Many people find that their dreams are unreachable. Holden Caulfield realizes this in J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye. As Holden tells...
Neuromancer And Time Machine
A common tool of science fiction writers is the use of a character, to whom the reader can relate, placed in an alien setting....
