Essays on Literary Genres

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The Overcoat: Symbolism in "The Overcoat"

4 pages / 1687 words

In his short tale “The Overcoat,” Nikolai Gogol has unfolded tragedies as well as satirical jokes by imagining a wide range of roles an overcoat can fulfill within an oppressive, bureaucratic, and heavily materialistic society. Without loss of humor, he has shown his reader different...

Short Story

2396

Psychoanalysis of The Lancelot Character in T.h. White’s "The once and Future King"

4 pages / 1893 words

“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.” Vladimir Nabakov often told stories of men and women destroyed by unknowing forces and desires driving them to madness....

Fantasy King Arthur

2397

Strategies for Challenging The Patriarchy: "Fight Club" and "The Passion of The New Eve"

7 pages / 3344 words

Gender studies is the interdisciplinary study based around ideas of the masculine and feminine. It also looks at sexual differences and the more fluid definitions of gender which have arisen over time. This theory can also be broken down into three sub categories: Women’s studies,...

Dystopia Gender Novel

2398

Unreliable Narration in "The Moonlit Road" and "In a Grove"

2 pages / 1113 words

Both “The Moonlit Road” and “In a Grove” are murder mysteries that confront the reader with the question of truth in storytelling. The texts present the reader with several first person testimonies of a crime, or the witness’ involvement in it, but give it no...

Ghost Narrator

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Gogol’s Search for Greater Understanding in The Namesake

2 pages / 869 words

Introduction Jhumpa Lahiri eloquently points out in her novel, The Namesake, “For his [Gogol’s] father had a point; the only person who didn’t take Gogol seriously, the only person who tormented him, the only person chronically aware of and afflicted by the embarrassment of his...

Novel The Namesake

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Love in The Namesake

3 pages / 1480 words

Throughout Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake, themes of marriage, love, and intimacy are carefully woven into the lives of the Ganguli family; namely Gogol and his parents. The novel begins with Ashima and Ashoke, Gogol’s parents, and the beginnings of their arranged marriage, and follows for...

Novel

2401

Spielberg’s Interpretation of Minority Report

4 pages / 1886 words

The cinematic adaptation of Phillip K Dick’s thrilling science-fiction story Minority Report captures perfectly the futuristic noir feel of the original. However, the movie’s plotline, characters and central themes contain major dissimilarities. Its characters have different names, younger ages and greater free will. Its plot...

Science Fiction Steven Spielberg

2402

Comic Variations on The Unpredictability of Human Life: The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro

5 pages / 2191 words

In both Le Barbier de Seville and Le Mariage de Figaro, Beaumarchais uses a variety of comic techniques, such as the parodying of existing forms, comedy of intrigue, satire and farce. However, Beaumarchais’ comedy is interweaved with more serious, and often tragic overtones, which often...

Comedy Humor Literature Review

2403

The Role of Maid Marian in Robin Hood

3 pages / 1214 words

It is hard to evaluate and study the mythic character of Robin Hood without considering his significant other, the fair Maid Marian. Though Marian does not appear in the original legend, by the sixteenth century she becomes an essential part of the tale. One common...

Novel

2404

Gender Roles in The Mill on The Floss

4 pages / 1598 words

Mary Ann Evans, born in Warwickshire, England, wrote the novel The Mill on the Floss during the Victorian era of 1859 under the pseudonym George Eliot. In keeping the Victorian mindset, the novel encompasses many stereotypes of gender roles for its main characters. Evans received...

Novel Victorian Era

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Imagery in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

4 pages / 2064 words

Introduction When it came to modernist poetry, imagery was important to flesh out the lavish artistic style said poets loved to express, which in turn allowed them to declare themes and concepts clearer. T.S. Eliot, consider among the great poetic modernists, masterfully utilizes imagery through...

Poetry The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

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A Refreshing Analysis of T.s. Eliot’s "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

2 pages / 1082 words

To say that “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is a typical romantic ode to the wonders of love, as the title may suggest, is quite far from the truth. To the contrary, this poem enters the straggling mind of J. Alfred Prufrock, a...

Poetry T.S. Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

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Fear and Insanity Gothic Literature: Why ‘the Haunting of Hill House’ and ‘the Little Stranger Are not Your Typical Scary Stories

7 pages / 3237 words

Over the past three decades, films in the genre of horror and suspense have been among the top grossing movies with relation to volume of tickets and amount of movies made. According to a 2004 paper in the Journal of Media Psychology by Dr. Glenn...

Gothic Literature The Haunting of Hill House

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Analyzing The Character of The White Witch in The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

5 pages / 2184 words

When it comes to works of fiction, it is always most interesting to see where the author draws inspiration for the major characters from and what the underlying message of the story at hand. Disillusioned from faith as a child, C. S. Lewis would find...

Character Fantasy

2409

The Paradox of Consciousness in The Late Mattia Pascal

6 pages / 2635 words

Near the conclusion of The Late Mattia Pascal, after Mattia has returned from his two-year absence and reclaimed his name, he wonders what the point of his extraordinary life was. Mattia’s fellow librarian, Don Eligo, contends, “it proves that outside of the law, and without...

Novel

2410

Gotcha Last: Context and Analysis of "The Little School" by Alicia Partnoy

4 pages / 1699 words

A literary tour de force, Alicia Partnoy’s memoir The Little School is more than a memoir. It is an act of public and permanent revenge against not just the individuals who imprisoned, tortured, and humiliated her but against all the perpetrators of the Dirty War...

Novel

2411

The Intricacies of The Court and Lanval’s Desire to Escape

4 pages / 1618 words

In the Anglo- Norman lay Lanval, an eloquent and intricate account of the Arthurian courts, Marie de France develops an array of issues that include the hypocrisies and virtues of the court, the desire for escape, as well sex and gender. In this essay, I...

Poetry Renaissance

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The Use of Allegory in D.h. Lawrence’s ‘the Man Who Loved Islands’

3 pages / 1140 words

In D.H. Lawrence’s ‘The Man who Loved Islands’, the plot is used as a vehicle for an allegory about different ideals in life – ‘community, marriage and independence’ (Franks 121), as represented by the three islands. Through the use of an allegory, Lawrence delivers a...

Short Story

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Before It All Goes Wrong: Thematic Analysis of "Shooter"

2 pages / 905 words

One boy. One gun. That was all it took for the tragic events of April twenty- second. Author Walter Dean Myers explains all of the details leading up to the shooting incident in the novel Shooter. The story is made from mostly interviews with teenagers...

Novel