Essays on Literary Genres

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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

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Anne Sexton’s Twisted Version of Sleeping Beauty

3 pages / 1321 words

Parents often use fairytales as bedtime stories for their children. Anne Sexton takes these often light-hearted and whimsical tales and spins them into a creation of her own. According to Diana Hume George in “An Overview of Sexton’s Canon,” Sexton, “updated their contexts and language...

Fairy Tale Literary Criticism

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Petals of Blood by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o: Plot Summary

1 page / 475 words

In the light of the story, the reader discovers the relationship that would have strained and disturbed the lives of each of these four characters due to the investigation of Inspector Godfrey in the assassination of the personalities of Kimria, Choi and Zigu. Made-to-order essay...

Blood Novel

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The Values of The Patriarchal Culture of The 20th Century Society in The Trivia by Susan Glasper

5 pages / 2351 words

Susan Glasper, one of the major dramatists of the 20th century whose masterpiece “trivia” has always been considered a classic feminist drama. Although the performance of this one-act play was only half an hour, it described a thought-provoking murder case and analyzed the spiritual world...

Drama

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My Impression of a Message to Garcia

1 page / 415 words

Based on the contents of the short story “A Message To Garcia”. My thoughts are such as these, they correlate with each other. Let me explain, Rowan was summoned and given a letter contents are unknown for whom it was unknown he didn’t ask a...

Impressionism Short Story

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The Boy in The Striped Pajamas - The Holocaust Drama

2 pages / 1122 words

Ah, you just have to love little boys. They are a lot to handle. Moms stress a little because of their shenanigans. One thing they cannot do is ignore a chance to explore what is around them, not knowing that a little bit of exploring....

Drama Holocaust The Boy in The Striped Pajamas

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Lover Movie Review

1 page / 656 words

Raja Tarun, the young heroine who is struggling with successive flops, has come up with ‘Lover’. The film is directed by Dil Raju Banner and the film is set to become a director with Anish Krishna, who is the director of the hit film. Let’s...

Comedy Film Analysis Movie Review

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Analysis of She Walks in Beauty Poem by Lord Byron

2 pages / 939 words

“Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.” Manifested in music, and literature, beauty was very prominent in relation to humans and nature, 19th century poets were influenced and inspired by the romantic movements. By using...

Poetry

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The Gender in Nella Larsen’s Novella and Tennessee Williams’ Play

5 pages / 2320 words

The central female protagonists in Nella Larsen’s novella Quicksand and Tennessee Williams’ play A Streetcar Named Desire embrace material culture for a multitude of reasons. Helga Crane’s love of colour is both aesthetic in the clothing she adores and it serves as a metonym to...

A Streetcar Named Desire Gender Novel

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The Main Problems Arising in 21st-century Society in The Movie Sing Street

3 pages / 1342 words

This film is a story about a Dublin little love story of a Conor and Raphina, a teenage schoolboy and a teenage girl who is lost in a country which has nothing to offer for them. Conor is from a family who is in the...

Drama Film Analysis Society

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The Great Five Poets in Ancient Rome

7 pages / 3130 words

The five famous poets in ancient Rome were known for their magnificent works and poems that helped more people to understand the classical literature, and those five poets helped the Romanian culture to survive because of those subscriptions that they had left in the old...

Ancient Rome Poetry