Essays on Literary Genres

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Anne Sexton’s Twisted Version of Sleeping Beauty

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Discussion of Symbols in The Poetry of Emily Dickinson

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Emily Dickinson wrote many poems throughout her life; however, very few were published. Emily wrote her poems to be encrypted and enigmatic for the reader. She valued her abilities to create a deeper meaning in her poems; she also loved to make not only small...

Emily Dickinson Poetry Symbolism

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Watchmen is an Innovative Piece of Literature

2 pages / 746 words

It is theoretically a comic book and many people call it a graphic novel. This comic book is far away different from the traditional comic. “Watchmen” is a twelve chapter graphic novel written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Dave Gibbons in (1986-1987). Graphic novels...

Novel

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"The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair

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The novel The Jungle by Upton Sinclair narrates the life story of Jurgis and the tortures that he suffers since his arrival in Chicago with his family. Throughout the story, Sinclair describes the hardships that Jurgis and his family face in this capitalist country. Sinclair,...

Novel The Jungle Upton Sinclair

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Conflict in The Yellow Wallpaper

2 pages / 1024 words

Introduction In Charlotte Perkins Stetson’s The Yellow Wallpaper, conflict plays a significant role in the narrator’s worsening physical and mental condition. The author has used a diary format to give readers incredible insight into Jane’s state of mind. Stetson inserts John’s voice into his wife’s...

Novel The Yellow Wallpaper

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Werewolves: Understanding Them All in Their Complexity

4 pages / 1997 words

A creature that has been drooled over in the human world, but despised in the magical world. Over the past couple of decades, werewolves have made many grand appearances in shows and movies such as Wolfman (2010), the Howling (1981), Stephen King’s Silver Bullet (1985)...

Fantastic Legend Mythology

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Final Exam Writing Assignment: The Jack-roller

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In Clifford R. Shaw’s novel, The Jack-Roller, the autobiography of a teenage boy named Stanley, who lives in Chicago, Illinois, during the late 1920s is discussed. In the novel, Stanley vividly details the abusive home he regularly runs away from, the delinquent acts he constantly...

Literature Review Novel

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A Fight for Freedom in The Light of Poems by Hughes and Larkin

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“Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains” is a quote by Rousseau from his book The Social Contract. The opening lines were meant to address an individual’s freedom narrowed by the government, however, the quote is perhaps heavily famous due to its...

Langston Hughes Literature Review Poetry

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Carnivalesque Interpretation of Pantomime

3 pages / 1442 words

Caribbean literature is a confluence of African, European and Indian cultures, languages and traditions. It emerged as a product of imperialism, indentureship and oppression and documents the internal conflicts of the writers as well as other postcolonial subjects. Derek Walcott was one of the prominent...

Book Review Novel Relationship

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A Review on Gabriel García Márquez’s Novel "The General in His Labyrinth"

1 page / 562 words

The historical fiction account of Simón Bolívar’s last seven months, “The General in His Labyrinth” written by Gabriel García Márquez was praised by the St. Petersburg Times as “the author’s most readable book… His words are lush and readers will come away with a sense...

Book Review Fiction Success