Essays on Literary Genres

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The Theme of Women's Mistreatment in "The Yellow Wallpaper"

1 page / 626 words

In “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, her personal experiences with postpartum depression was used to create powerful fictional short story which has broad importance for women. When the narrator recognizes that there is more than one trapped, creeping woman, Gilman indicates that the...

Short Story The Yellow Wallpaper

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The Robert Walton's Role in Frankenstein

1 page / 623 words

In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the novel is the view of Robert Walton. Walton uses his letters during his journey on the Pacific Ocean to allow the reader to understand the tragedy of both the Monster and Frankenstein from an unbiased perspective, giving mankind a ray...

Frankenstein Mary Shelley Novel

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Short History of Ringsend & Irishtown

3 pages / 1247 words

Irishtown lies a short distance outside the medieval city walls of Dublin. Dublin was originally a Viking city and after 1171, when an Anglo-Norman army took it, Dublin became the centre of English rule in Ireland. The native Gaelic Irish were therefore viewed as an...

Ireland Short Story

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Literary Analysis of Samuel Taylor Cleridge's Poem "Love"

2 pages / 930 words

The time old cliché “It is better to have loved and lost to have never loved at all” is the foundation for Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Love,” as the narrator tells a tale within a tale about the perplexing idea of love’s ever changing emotions that...

Poetry

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The Poem "Richard Cory" by Edwin Arlington Robinson

2 pages / 835 words

The poem “Richard Cory” by Edwin Arlington Robinson tells the readers about the gap in social class between people and that outward appearances are not always what they seem to be. In other word, what you see on the outside might just different from what...

Poetry

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"The Scarlet Ibis" by James Hurst

2 pages / 717 words

The Scarlet Ibis is a heartbreaking story by James Hurst about two brothers; one brother is physically fit (narrator), while the other is physically disabled (Doodle). The story focuses on the idea that the older brother’s greediness, arrogance, and self-consciousness led to the death of...

Short Story The Scarlet Ibis

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The Nature of Justice, Revenge, and Resolution in The Oresteia, a Trilogy of Greek Tragedies by Aeschylus

5 pages / 2140 words

“Sing sorrow, sorrow: but good win out in the end” (Oresteia, Agamemnon 121). Such is the chorus’ refrain in the opening lines of Aeschylus’ trilogy, the Oresteia. Written in the 5th century B.C.E., Aeschylus’ classic tragedy not only profoundly impacted the Athenians of his time,...

Justice Revenge Tragedy

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Friendship in a Separate Peace by John Knowles and The Movie Dead Poets Society

4 pages / 1764 words

One of the main elements in both the coming-of-age novel A Separate Peace by John Knowles, and the quirky movie Dead Poets Society, written by Tom Schulman and directed Peter Weir, is friendship. Friendship can involve many stages, and at times, can be very complex,...

A Separate Peace Dead Poets Society Poetry

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Evaluation of Brave New World, a Novel by Aldous Huxley

2 pages / 842 words

Through themes of depersonalization, scientific development and death; Aldous Huxley’s satirical novel ‘Brave New World’ critiques modern society. Brave New World is a totalitarian novel, free from war and greed, where Huxley manipulates many techniques to deliver the ideas that hypnopedia brainwashes society to control...

Brave New World Novel

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Analysis of Rona Jaffe’s Book, The Room-mating Season

1 page / 668 words

The Room-Mating Season, written by Rona Jaffe, is a novel of supreme quality, as it provokes thought and insists the reader contemplate their beliefs about relationships and their purpose in the world. It engages the reader by inviting them to think about love and how...

Book Review Novel

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The Life of The Poet Allen Ginsburg

9 pages / 4016 words

Ann Charters Ginsberg, Allen (3 June 1926-6 Apr. 1997), poet, was born in Newark, New Jersey, the younger son of Louis Ginsberg, a high school English teacher and poet, and Naomi Levy Ginsberg. Ginsberg grew up with his older brother Eugene in a household shadowed...

Biography Famous Person Poetry

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Assessment of The Role of Jimmy Corrigan as Depicted by Chris Ware in The Smartest Kid on Earth

6 pages / 2649 words

Jimmy Corrigan, The Smartest Kid On Earth, by Chris Ware, is about a meek and lonely man in his mid-thirties who meets his father for the first time in a Michigan town over Thanksgiving weekend. Jimmy is an awkward and cheerless character with an overbearing...

Literature Review Novel

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Review of John Green’s Novel, Paper Towns in Reference to The Role of Ben

1 page / 553 words

The elements from Paper Towns that need to be emphasized to make the film enjoyable are Ben’s personality and character growth and the road trip in ‘Part 3’ of the novel. Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay is customized to cater...

Book Review Novel

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"Blessing" by Imtiaz Dharker

1 page / 426 words

The poem “Blessing” by Imtiaz Dharker; an award-winning female British poet born in Lahore, Pakistan. The poem is an incident of a municipal pipe that bursts in the deprived slums of Mumbai and how people run with mugs and pots to collect the precious liquid....

Poetry

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"The Passing of Grandison" Analysis

2 pages / 853 words

“The Passing of Grandison” is told in the third person and primarily limited to the consciousness of Dick Owens, the cynical and lazy young heir to a large plantation in Kentucky. His desire to win the hand of his lover Charity Lomax leads him on...

Character Literature Review Short Story

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An Explication of a Passage in Hemingway’s "A Clean, Well-lighted Place"

2 pages / 1059 words

“Good night,” the other said. Turning off the electric light he continued the conversation with himself. It was the light of course but it is necessary that the place be clean and pleasant. You do not want music. Certainly, you do not want music. Nor...

Short Story

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Republic of Gilead

1 page / 635 words

The protagonist and narrator of the story is Offred please include at the very least the title. Author is useful too!, a handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. Republic of Gilead is a totalitarian and theocratic state that has replaced the United States of America....

Novel The Handmaid’s Tale

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The Farmer and The Cow Heart Touch Story

1 page / 468 words

Once upon a time, there was a farmer called Alvi. He was not a rich farmer but he was very happy. He worked in the fields with his only cow from dawn until dusk. This provided Alvi with vegetables to eat and extra crops which...

Short Story

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"An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" by William Butler Yeats

1 page / 630 words

In “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death,” William Butler Yeats’ poem, he focuses on man’s inner nature. He touches on many thoughts that must race through one’s mind at the point when they realize that their death is unavoidable. Main idea of this this poem...

An Irish Airman Foresees His Death Poetry William Butler Yeats