Essays on Literary Genres

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Consumerism in Fight Club and Brave New World

2 pages / 785 words

Chuck Palahniuk and Aldous Huxley make a vastly fascinating portrayal of the image of consumerism in their works. Miriam Webster, in her dictionary, defines consumerism as “the belief that it is good for people to spend a lot of money on goods and services.” Consumerism...

Brave New World Fight Club Novel

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Race Relations During The Era in The Autobiography of an Ex-colored Man

7 pages / 3129 words

Tailing the end of the Post Reconstruction era and in the wake of the Harlem Renaissance comes the emergence of literary genius. Although it would come across as an insult to neglect the musical and artistic movements of the era, for the purpose of this...

Novel The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

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Assignment: Multimodal Essay

1 page / 587 words

For this assignment, you will remediate your Fairy Tale Analysis essay into a multimodal essay to be presented on Medium.com. Given the changing nature of writing and the role that technology plays in shaping how we share and consume information, it is important that we...

Fairy Tale Research

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Loss of Innocence Through Lack of a Moral Compass and Parental Care

3 pages / 1473 words

In her novel, Lullabies for Little Criminals, author Heather O’Neill draws on the themes of neglect and addiction to poignantly depict Baby’s loss of innocence at a very early age. Raised by a heroin-addicted father without a stable place to live, Baby finds herself drifting...

Novel Songs of Innocence and of Experience

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Freudian Concepts of Masculinity in "The Talented Mr. Ripley"

7 pages / 1146 words

The Talented Mr. Ripley, a novel by Patricia Highsmith, follows the life of a young con artist turned psychopath. The novel is set in a period characterized by repression and depicts many Freudian ideas and concepts such as masculinity crisis, toxic masculinity, homosexual panic as...

Character Masculinity Novel

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The Story Free Fruit for Young Widows: Summary and Main Theme

1 page / 414 words

Nathan Englander’s “Free Fruit for Young Widows” is strong story full of morality. In the center of the story is Professor Tendler, who escaped from the concentration camp during the Holocaust to get back to his family home. He finds his babysitter with her family...

Fiction Short Story

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Another Last Chance

3 pages / 1526 words

We were in a hurry. I had less than an hour before the race and we were still stuck in Melbourne CBD traffic. Breathe. Sigh. My dad tried to get us through the gridlocked streets surrounding Albert Park. We were going to be late. Breathe...

Plot Short Story Writing Experience

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"On The Pulse of Morning" Analysis

2 pages / 781 words

One cannot discuss Maya Angelou’s “On the Pulse of Morning” without providing proper background concerning the context within which it came to be. The first emergence of the poem came in January of 1993 at Bill Clinton’s initial inauguration into the presidency. It was the...

Maya Angelou Poetry

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The Enigma of Ghosts: Fact Or Fiction?

2 pages / 850 words

Does ghost exist is most popular question that is been asked from everyone. There will be some people who will say ghost exist and other will argue there is no existence of ghost. In this argumentative essay, it will be clear who are ghost, why...

Ghost

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An Attitude of Elites Towards New Migrants in The Novel How The Other Half Lives

5 pages / 2253 words

With mass immigration from Central, Southern, Eastern Europe, and Asia into New York City and the Great Migration of Blacks from the South into Chicago and other Northern cities around the turn of the twentieth century, the Northern old-stock White Anglo-Saxon Protestant elite came into...

Novel Self Identity

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The Battle Against Substance Addiction in a Million Little Pieces, a Book by James Frey

2 pages / 709 words

Battling Drug Abuse in A Million Little Pieces A Million Little Pieces is the memoir of James Frey, a reformed addict of cocaine, alcohol, glue, and much more. This book served as a diary as he suffered through six weeks in the world’s best rehabilitation...

A Million Little Pieces Novel

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George Eliot’s Autibiographical Elements in His Book The Mill on The Floss

4 pages / 1814 words

The Mill on the Floss is regarded as the most autobiographical novel of George Eliot which reflects her early childhood memories and her own relationship with her father and brother Isaac. The reader is able to see many examples and similarities between Eliot’s own life...

Narrator Novel Plot

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Teachings of Terror and Optimism in The Theatrical Performance The Second Shepherds and Everyman

2 pages / 934 words

Fear in Morality Plays and Hope in Mystery Plays Both morality plays and mystery plays had important messages that the church hoped to teach the people. One of the most well-known mystery plays was The Second Shepherds’ Play while the most infamous moral play was...

Drama Literature Review

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Evaluation of The Conceptualized Tradition of Love Depicted in Medieval Writing and Arthurian Folk Tales

5 pages / 2149 words

Everyone has heard a story about a young, handsome, and virtuous man who sets out on a quest to either save or win the heart of a young and beautiful woman. This type of story is known as a tale of courtly love. The Theme...

Courtly Love

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Analysis of The Old Love Tradition Illustrated in Poems by Chaucer

8 pages / 3506 words

Chaucer’s literature was spread across many different spheres of interest throughout his life, often focussing on society and religion. An observer of his own social group, he wrote satirical interpretations of those surrounding him, subverting the traditional writing styles of Beowulf (900AD-1100AD), Sir Gawain and...

Courtly Love Geoffrey Chaucer Poetry

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Humanity as an Enemy of Itself in "Enders Game"

3 pages / 1326 words

Imagine the world has been invaded by an alien race that humans call “Buggers.” They have invaded twice and the third invasion is being anticipated. That is the idea behind the book “Enders Game” by Orson Card. In “Ender’s Game,” the main character Ender is...

Ender’s Game Science Fiction

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Ways of Loving Someone in Sonnet 43 by William Shakespeare

2 pages / 1094 words

In Sonnet 43, Elizabeth Barrett shows all the ways in which she is capable of loving someone and how great and strong love truly is. She presents all the possible ways in which she can love someone and also she presents the strength of the...

Sonnet William Shakespeare

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Complexity of Love in Sonnet by Elizabeth Barrett

2 pages / 699 words

“XXXV” is one of the Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning; written in first person narrative, and centralized based on the complexity that love involves such as loss and change. Browning writes this poem as if she is speaking to a person whose...

Literature Review Sonnet

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Black Boy: Richard Wright’s Autobiographical Novel

2 pages / 1156 words

Richard Wright’s “Black Boy” is a profound work that provides readers with an unvarnished look into the life of a young African American in the racially charged American South during the early 20th century. This autobiographical novel is a striking depiction of the struggles, injustices,...

Black Boy Novel Richard Wright